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Interesting historical facts beckon with their diversity. Thanks to them, humanity has a unique opportunity to understand what happened in a particular period of development of a nation, society and states. Facts from history are not only what we were told in school. There are many secrets from this area of knowledge.

1. Peter the Great had his own method to fight alcoholism in the country. Drunkards were awarded medals, which weighed about 7 kilograms, and they could not be removed from oneself.

2. In the days of Ancient Russia, grasshoppers were called dragonflies.

3.The national anthem of Thailand was written by a Russian composer.

5. Those who urinated in the pond were executed during the time of Genghis Khan.

7. Braids were a sign of feudalism in China.

8. The virginity of English women in Tudor times was symbolized by bracelets on their hands and a tightly tightened corset.

9. Nero, who was an emperor in ancient Rome, married his male slave.

10. In ancient times in India, mutilation of the ears was used as a punishment.

11. Arabic numerals were not invented by Arabs, but by mathematicians from India.

13. Foot binding was considered an ancient tradition of the Chinese people. The essence of this was to make the foot smaller, and therefore more feminine and beautiful.

14. Morphine was once used to reduce coughs.

15. The ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun's parents were a sister and a brother.

16. Gaius Julius Caesar had the nickname "boots".

17. Elizabeth the First covered her own face with white lead and vinegar. So she hid traces of smallpox.

18. The hat of Monomakh was the symbol of the Russian tsars.

19. Pre-revolutionary Russia was considered the most non-drinking country.

20. Until the 18th century, Russia did not have a flag.

21.Since November 1941, there was a tax on childlessness in the Soviet Union. It was 6% of the total salary.

22. Help in clearing objects during the Second World War was provided by trained dogs.

23. Virtually no earthquake was recorded during large-scale nuclear tests in 1960-1990.

24. For Hitler, the main enemy was not Stalin, but Yuri Levitan. He even announced a reward of 250,000 marks for his head.

25. In the Icelandic "Saga of Hakon Hakonarson" it was said about Alexander Nevsky.

26. Fist fights have long been famous in Russia.

27. Catherine II abolished flogging for the military for same-sex contacts.

28. Only Joan of Dark managed to expel the invaders from France, who called herself the messenger of God.

29. The length of the Cossack gull, which we remember from the history of the Zaporizhzhya Sich, reached about 18 meters.

30. Genghis Khan defeated the Keraites, Merkits and Naimans.

31. By order of Emperor Augustus, in ancient Rome they did not build houses that were higher than 21 meters. This minimized the risk of being buried alive.

32. The Colosseum is considered the bloodiest place in history.

33. Alexander Nevsky had the military rank of "Khan".

34. In the days of the Russian Empire, it was allowed to carry edged weapons.

35. Soldiers in Napoleon's army addressed the generals as "you".

36. During the Roman war, soldiers lived in tents of 10 people.

37. Any touching of the emperor in Japan before World War II was blasphemy.

38. Boris and Gleb are the first Russian saints who were canonized in 1072.

39. A Red Army machine gunner with the name Semyon Konstantinovich Hitler, who was Jewish by nationality, participated in the Great Patriotic War.

40. In the old days in Russia, to clean pearls, they gave it to peck at a chicken. After that, the chicken was slaughtered, and the pearls were pulled out of her stomach.

41. From the very beginning, people who do not know how to speak Greek were called barbarians.

42. In pre-revolutionary Russia, name days for Orthodox people were a more important holiday than birthdays.

43. When England and Scotland came to an alliance, Great Britain was created.

44. After Alexander the Great brought cane sugar from one of his Indian campaigns to Greece, he immediately began to be called “Indian salt”.

45. In the 17th century, thermometers were filled not with mercury, but with cognac.

46. The Aztecs invented the first condom in the world. It was made from a fish bladder.

47. In 1983, not a single human birth was registered in the Vatican.

48. From the 9th to the 16th century in England there was a law that every man should practice archery every day.

49. When the Winter Palace was stormed, only 6 people died.

50. About 13,500 houses were destroyed in the great and famous fire of London in 1666.

ABOUT COUNTRIES AND PEOPLES

1. The flag of Alaska was created by a 13-year-old boy.
2. Military honor in no country is given with the left hand.
3. The international dialing code of Antarctica is 672.
4. Captain Cook was the first person to set foot on all the continents of the Earth except Antarctica.
5. The Matami tribe of West Africa plays football with a human skull.
6. In Australia, the fifty cent coin originally contained two dollars worth of silver.
7. Most often in English libraries the Guinness Book of Records is stolen.
8. The National Band of Monaco is bigger than its army.
9. In the Sahara desert once - February 18, 1979 - it was snowing.
10. Canada is larger in area than China, and China is larger than the United States.
11. The only country where no births were registered in 1983 is the Vatican.
12. The Nile froze twice - in the 9th and 11th centuries.
13. In Siena, Italy, you can't be a prostitute if your name is Maria.
14. In ancient Rome, a man taking an oath or taking an oath put his hand on the scrotum.
15. Tickling was forbidden by law in some ancient countries of the East, as it was considered a sinful exciting activity.
16. Las Vegas casinos don't have clocks.
17. In the Eskimo language, there are more than 20 words for the name of snow.
18. There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada.
19. In France, the law prohibits the sale of dolls with a non-human face, such as "aliens".
20. Canada has been declared the best country to live in by the UN 4 times in the last 5 years.
21. In ancient Rome, if a patient died during an operation, the doctor's hands were cut off.
ABOUT CULTURE
22. As the x-ray showed, under the “Mona Lisa” known to us, there are three more of its original versions.
23. John Lennon was inspired to create the song "I'm a Walrus" by the sounds of a police siren.
24. The most frequently performed song in the world - "Happy birthday to you" - is under copyright protection.
25. There is only one Western directed by a woman.
26. George Harrison's toilet seat sang "Lusy in the sky with diamonds."
27. During the Second World War, in order to save metal, Oscar statuettes were made of wood.
28. The original name of "Gone with the Wind" - "Be-be, black sheep."
29. In Cameroon's film Titanic, the most frequently spoken word is "Rose".

ABOUT THE LITTLE BROTHERS

30. A cat that falls from the 12th floor is more likely to survive than a cat that falls from the 7th.
31. When the Europeans first saw the giraffe, they called it the "camelopard", deciding that it was a hybrid of a camel and a leopard.
32. The animal with the largest brain in relation to the body is an ant.
33. About 70 percent of the living beings of the Earth are bacteria.
34. In their youth, the Black Sea perches are mostly girls, but by the age of 5 they radically change their sex!
35. The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.
36. The zoo in Tokyo closes for 2 months every year so that the animals can take a break from the visitors.
37. Anteaters prefer not to eat ants, but termites.
38. When a giraffe gives birth, her cub falls from a height of one and a half meters.
39. Despite the hump, the camel's spine is straight.
40. Female dogs bite more often than dogs.
41. Every year more people die from bee stings than from snake bites.
42. Sharks are immune to cancer.
43. Gorillas are affected by birth control pills.
44. A pig orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
45. A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.
46. The animal that can not drink for the longest time is a rat.
47. The only animals that suffer from leprosy, except for humans, are armadillos.
48. Hippos are born underwater.
49. Orangutans warn of aggression with a loud burp.
50. A mole can dig a tunnel 76 meters long in one night.
51. A snail has about 25,000 teeth.
52. A black spider can eat up to 20 spiders a day.
53. With a lack of food, a tapeworm can eat up to 95 percent of its body weight - and nothing!
54. Crocodiles are responsible for more than 1,000 deaths on the banks of the Nile a year.
55. The ancient Egyptians taught baboons to serve them at the table.
56. The St. Bernards, famous climber rescuers, don't wear brandy flasks around their necks at all.
57. It takes 4 hours to hard boil an ostrich egg.
58. Inside the lion pride, 9/10 of the prey to the "family" is supplied by lionesses.
59. Sloths spend 75% of their lives sleeping.
60. Hummingbirds can't walk.
61. A moth has no stomach.
62. Europeans, having arrived in Australia, asked the natives: “What are these strange jumping animals here?” The natives answered: “Kangaroo”, which meant: “We don’t understand!”
63. The easiest way to distinguish a vegetarian animal from a predator: predators have eyes located on the front of the muzzle to see the prey. Vegetarians - on both sides of the head to see the enemy.
64. The bat is the only mammal that can fly.
65. 99% of the living beings that lived on Earth became extinct.
66. To make a kilogram of honey, a bee must fly around 2 million flowers.
67. Grasshopper's blood is white, lobster's blood is blue.
68. The only animals that have sex for pleasure are humans and dolphins.
69. Over the past 4000 years, not a single new animal has been domesticated.
70. Penguins can jump up to a height of more than one and a half meters.
71. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
72. Chimpanzees are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror.
73. The word "orangutan" means in some African languages "man from the jungle"
74. Emu in Portuguese means "ostrich".
75. Elephants and humans are the only mammals that can stand on their heads.
76. Crocodiles swallow rocks to dive deeper.
77. Polar bears can run at a speed of 40 km/h.
78. Dogs have elbows.

ABOUT THE GREAT

79. "Thinker" Rodin - a portrait of the Italian poet Dante.
80. Singer Nick Cave was born with a ponytail.
81. Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day - April 23, 1616.
82. English. Virginia Woolf wrote most of her books standing up.
83. Sarah Bernhardt played 13-year-old Juliet at 70.
84. When Walt Disney was a child, he tortured an owl. Since then, he decided to bring animals to life in cartoons.
85. Beethoven was once arrested for vagrancy.
86. Buzz Aldrin, one of the astronauts who visited the Moon, has his mother's maiden name Moon (Moon).
87. When Einstein died, his last words died with him: the nurse did not understand German.
88. Julius Caesar wore a laurel wreath to hide his beginning baldness.
89. D. Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
90. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his mother and wife: they were both deaf.
91. Saint Patrick, the patron saint of the Irish, was not Irish.
92. Leonardo da Vinci invented an alarm clock that rubbed the sleeping legs.
93. Napoleon suffered from ailurophobia - the fear of cats.

ABOUT PEOPLE

94. The nose grows throughout a person's life.
95. Only one child in 20 is born on the day prescribed by the doctor.
96. The ancient Greeks believed that boys grow on the right side of the abdomen, and girls - on the left.
97. If you remove the space from all the atoms of the human body, then what remains can slip through the eye of a needle.
98. In the Middle Ages, in the dark spots of the Moon, people saw the figure of Cain, carrying an armful of brushwood.
99. Sperm is the smallest single cell in the body. The egg is the largest.
100. If a real woman had the proportions of a Barbie doll, she could only walk on 4 limbs.
101. Blond beards grow faster than dark ones.
102. In Russian and English there is no word for the name of the reverse part of the knee.
103. In the 15th century, it was believed that the red color heals. Patients wore red and surrounded themselves with red things.
104. The imprints of the tongue are individual for all people.
105. When you blush, your stomach turns red too.
106. The human body has enough body fat for 7 bars of soap.
107. 80% of the heat of the human body leaves the head.
108. A person has less muscles than a caterpillar.
109. At the time of death, Lenin's brain was a quarter of its normal size.
110. The world's highest IQs on standardized tests belong to two women.
111. Most people lose 50% of their sense of taste by age 60.
112. House dust is 70% shed skin.
113. A tooth is the only part of a person that is deprived of the ability to self-repair.
114. The brain is 80% water.
115. More living organisms live on the body of one person than people on Earth.
116. One hair can support a weight of 3 kg.
117. The average human head weighs 3.6 kg.
118. In his entire life, a person produces so much saliva that it would be enough for 2 large pools.

Well, Miscellaneous

Repellents don't keep mosquitoes away - they hide you. Substances contained in repellents block the receptors by which mosquitoes find their prey.
Dentists recommend keeping your toothbrush at least two meters away from the toilet.
No sheet of paper can be folded in half more than seven times.
Donkeys kill more people on earth every year than die in plane crashes.
You burn more calories while you sleep than when you watch TV.
The first product with a barcode was Wrigley's chewing gum.
The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is greater than the distance of the first flight of the Wright brothers.
American Airlines saved $40,000 by removing just one olive from salads served to first-class passengers.
Venus is the only planet in the solar system that rotates counterclockwise.
Apples help you wake up in the morning better than coffee.
The plastic pieces at the ends of shoelaces are called aiguillettes.
Marlboro's first owner died of lung cancer.
Michael Jordan received more money from Nike than all the workers in the company's factories in Malaysia.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on her feet.
All US presidents have worn glasses. Some people just don't like to wear them in public.
Walt Disney, creator of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice.
Pearls dissolve in vinegar.
Among people posting marriage ads, 35 percent are already married or married.
The three most valuable brand names on earth are Marlboro, Coca-Cola and Budweiser, in that order.
You can make a cow go up stairs, but you can't make it go down.
Duck croaking doesn't echo, no one knows why.
The reason American fire departments have spiral staircases goes back to the days when pumps and other heavy loads were lifted by horses. The horses crowded below, unable to figure out how to climb the straight-spanned stairs.
Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president to have all the letters of the word "criminal" in his name.
The second was Bill Clinton (William Jefferson Clinton).
On average, 100 people die each year from choking on a ballpoint pen.
90 percent of New York taxi drivers are immigrants.
The elephant is the only animal that cannot jump.
The chance to live to 116 years has one person in two million.
Women, on average, blink twice as often as men.
It is anatomically impossible for a person to lick his own elbow.
Indiana State University's main library building sinks one inch each year because engineers didn't take into account the weight of the books it contained.
Snails can sleep for up to three years.
Crocodiles can't stick out their tongues.
The lighter was invented before matches.
Every day, US residents eat 18 hectares of pizza.
Almost everyone who read this text tried to lick their elbow.
Learning that, according to Plato, Man is a biped without feathers, Diogenes plucked the rooster and, bringing it to the Academy, announced: "Here is Plato's man";)
If you scream for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, then the amount of acoustic energy that you generate will be enough to heat one cup of coffee.
If you fart continuously for 6 years and 9 months, then the amount of gas that you release will be enough to create an amount of energy equal to the explosion of an atomic bomb.
When pumping blood in the body, the human heart creates enough pressure to eject blood 10 meters forward.
You will burn 150 calories if you bang your head against a wall for an hour.
An ant can lift 50 times its own weight and pull 30 times its own weight. And when an ant is poisoned with chemicals, it always falls on its right side.
A cockroach is able to live 9 days without a head, after which it will die of hunger.
The male praying mantis is not capable of copulation when he has a head. Therefore, sexual intercourse in praying mantises begins with the fact that the female tears off the male's head.
Some types of lions can copulate up to 50 times a day.
Butterflies taste food with their feet.
Elephants are the only animals that are unable to jump.
Cat urine glows under ultraviolet light.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
The starfish has no brain.
All polar bears are left-handed.
Humans and dolphins are the only animal species that have sex for pleasure.
Cockroaches have existed on Earth for 250 million years and have not undergone any evolutionary changes since then.
Crocodiles have never lived in the Australian Alligator River.
Drinkers began to clink glasses in ancient times. It was believed that in this way they drive away evil spirits.
Thanks to gravity, a person weighs a little less when the moon is at its zenith.
Polar bears have black skin.
"Spain" means "land of rabbits".
In order for acorns to grow on an oak tree, it must be at least 50 years old.
Pacific Tiwi girls are married at birth.
In the 1970s, the issue of a sex tax was seriously discussed in the United States. The fee was supposed to be $2.
Bees have five eyes.
Peanuts are used in the manufacture of dynamite.
The first cologne in history appeared as a means of preventing the plague.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
Every second, 1% of the world's population is dead drunk.
The beard consists of 7-15 thousand hairs. And it grows at a rate of 14 centimeters per year.
The ant has the largest brain of all living creatures. In relation to the body, of course.
To commit suicide with coffee, you need to drink 100 cups in a row.
Hans Christian Andersen could not correctly write almost a single word.
On Mondays, there are 25% more back injuries and 33% more heart attacks.
Every day, an average of 33 new products appear in the world. 13 of them are toys.
The average person spends two weeks in their lifetime waiting for a traffic light to change.
A person becomes addicted to tea faster than to heroin.
Toilet paper was invented in 1857.
Every day, Americans throw away 20,000 televisions, 150,000 tons of packaging materials, and 43,000 tons of food in the trash.
Smoking a pack of cigarettes a day is equivalent to drinking a coffee cup of nicotine every year.
The ancient Egyptians used eye shadow to ward off conjunctivitis and trachoma.
The body of a sleeping person is half a centimeter longer than an awake one.
Mosquitoes are attracted to the smell of people who have recently eaten bananas.
A hockey puck can reach speeds of 160 kilometers per hour.
The Neanderthal brain was larger than ours.
Some public restrooms in Singapore have karaoke video boxes.
Yaks have pink milk.
The shortest river in the world is the Saginaw in the US state of Michigan.
The average ATM makes a mistake of $250 a year - and not in its favor.
Christopher Columbus was blond.
The penguin can jump up to three meters in height.
Multiplying 111.111.111 by 111.111.111 gives 12345678987654321.
In 1863, Jules Verne wrote the book "Paris in the 20th century", in which he described in detail the car, the fax machine and the electric chair. The publisher returned the manuscript to him, calling him an idiot.
Gasoline accounts for the largest turnover in the world. Second is coffee.
In South Korea, marriages between namesakes are prohibited.
The English nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty" is dedicated to King Richard III, who actually fell off the wall during the battle of 1485.
During the year, the human ribs make 5 million movements.
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
Michael Jordan receives more money annually from Nike than all the workers in its factories in Malaysia put together.
In the world, only 1 theft out of 7 is solved.
The 3 smartest dog breeds are the Border Collie, Poodle and German Shepherd, the dumbest are the Afghan Hound, Bulldog and Chow Chow.
Some types of toothpaste contain antifreeze.
Icelanders drink the most Coca-Cola, the Scots drink the least, preferring Irn-Bru to it.
If a person is put on soap, 7 pieces will come out of it.
No language in the world has a word for the back of the knee.
Only 55% of Americans know that the Sun is a star.
When a gorilla gets angry, it sticks out its tongue.
Most Rolls-Royces per capita are in Hong Kong.
Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.
The area of human alveoli is equal to a tennis court.
Over the past 4 thousand years, man has not tamed a single new species of animal.
The Speaker of the English House of Lords is forbidden to speak during the sittings.
The bee has two stomachs - one for honey, the other for food.
Every minute there are 2 earthquakes in the world.
It takes an average person 7 minutes to fall asleep.
The word "doctor" comes from the word "to lie." In Russia, healers often treated with conspiracies and spells. Mumbling, chatter until the beginning of the 19th century was called a lie.
There are about 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building skyscraper.
Most lipsticks contain fish scales. And every woman in her life eats an average of about 4 kilograms of this cosmetic product.
Watching color TV is less harmful than black and white: bright colors stimulate the color-perceiving apparatus of the eye, relieving some of the load from the accommodative muscles.
All swans in England are the property of the Queen.
On average, a person drinks 60560 liters of liquid during his life.
Before the eighteenth century, people did not use soap.
The elephant is the only mammal that cannot jump.
Humans and dolphins are the only animals that can have sex for pleasure.
The Republic of San Marino has the smallest army in the world (12 people).
Drinking vodka (and other strong drinks ...) is much more harmful than having a snack.
Las Vegas is visible from space as the brightest place on Earth.
Astronaut Neil Armstrong took his famous "small step of one man - and a huge step of all mankind" to the moon with his left foot.
Cholera bacilli die in beer within a few hours and the disease does not develop. The discoverer of cholera pathogens, Professor Koch, recommended beer as a medicine.
The mass of the human brain is 1/46 of the total body weight, the mass of the brain of an elephant is only 1/560 of the body weight.
Every year on July 4, more than 150 million hot dogs are eaten in the United States.
About 100 lightning strikes on Earth every second.
The human eye is able to distinguish between 130-250 pure color tones and 5-10 million mixed shades.
The eagle owl can turn its head 270 degrees.
Tooth enamel is the hardest tissue produced by the human body.
Full adaptation of the eye to the dark takes 60-80 minutes.
On his deathbed, Salieri repented of all sins, but his confession was considered the delirium of a dying person.
Australia has twice as many kangaroos as people.
The surface pattern of a cat's nose is as unique as a human fingerprint.
A man swallows an average of 21 milliliters of liquid in one gulp, and a woman 14 milliliters.
March 8 - International Day for Women's Rights and International Peace.
If someone wanted to count all the stars in the Galaxy - and began to count them at a rate of one star per second - then it would take the "astrologer" about 3000 years.
If you scream for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you will generate enough acoustic energy to boil a glass of water.
An ant poisoned with chemicals always falls on its right side.
The polar bear is left-handed.
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
The word "mouse" comes from the ancient Sanskrit word "mus", meaning "thief".
If someone annoys you and you make a face, there are 42 muscles involved.
You only need to use 4 muscles to hit someone in the head.
When you bang your head against a wall, you expend 150 calories per hour.
A flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a person jumping over a football field.
Catfish have over 27,000 taste buds.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue!
In one of the issues of the "Moscow Gubernskie Vedomosti" for 1848, one can read the following: "The tradesman Nikifor Nikitin will be exiled to the remote settlement of Baikonur for seditious speeches about flying to the moon"
In ancient Greece, women considered their age not from the day of birth, but from the day of marriage. By this they showed that only married life had meaning for them.
Over the past 200 years, 150 species of the animal world have become extinct. The next 600 animal species are on the verge of extinction.
To fill a half-liter suck with honey, the bees are forced to collect nectar from almost 2,000,000 flowers.
Boiling water extinguishes the fire faster than cold water, as it immediately takes away the heat of vaporization from the flame and surrounds the fire with a layer of steam, which makes it difficult for air to enter.
Today, the average person weighs 5 kg more than in 1960.
The Russian word "banya" goes back to the Latin "valneum" (bathing, bathing), which has another meaning - "the expulsion of sadness."
The Kwaktul Indians of British Columbia have a funny custom: if someone borrows money, he leaves his name as a pledge. Until the debt is repaid, the person remains nameless. At this time, other Indians call him with a movement of his hand or inarticulate cries.
In the movie Pulp Fiction, the word "fuck" is used 257 times (plus minus a couple for a gagged Marcellus).
Tickling was forbidden by law in some ancient countries of the East, as it was considered a sinful exciting activity.
In the Eskimo language, there are more than 20 words for the name of snow.
There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada.
In France, the law prohibits the sale of dolls with a non-human face, such as "aliens".
Canada has been declared the best country to live in by the UN 4 times in the last 5 years.
In ancient Rome, if a patient died during an operation, the doctor's hands were cut off.
King Louis XIX ruled France for a total of 15 minutes.
There are more cows in Nebraska than people.
In the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" by S. Kubrick, the astronauts used the enraged HAL supercomputer, if in the word H-A-L we change each letter to the one following it in alphabetical order, we get I-B-M.
Bulls do not distinguish colors, red is used for brightness, beauty and blood is less noticeable on it.
The web is stronger than steel
The most durable of all that nature has created is shark teeth.
A shark has about 1,000 constantly changing teeth.
The largest shark that ever lived could fit a full-length human in its mouth. (something hit me on the sharks)
Cats sometimes lay out dead mice in a strict semicircle with their tails out / in, and put another one in the center.
at dusk, red appears redder.
Some people are able to live for a long time in ice water.
In an unconscious state in the water, a person does not breathe.
From lack of air, a person falls asleep.
A person is immune to mad cow disease, which means that even Europeans, no matter how they boasted of good manners, traded in cannibalism.
Herbivores do not spread rabies.
Red cockroaches are not Russian (Prussians).
Animals dream.
Wasps kill more people than cars (old fact, could change)
Plastic almost does not decompose.
The spider is the only insect with eight legs.
In a jumping spider, intelligence is comparable to that of a small rodent, due to the "scanning" look.
Ruff has purple eyes.
Some frogs can change sex.
In an apartment with an open window, it is impossible to die from hydrocyanic acid.
The first condoms appeared under Tutankhamen.
Crabs and lobsters lack a central nervous system.
Gogol suffered from manic-depressive psychosis.
A shahid in the old concept is a great martyr and should not at all kill a crowd of innocent people at his own death.
octopus has 10 legs
goat and octopus have rectangular pupils.
The bite of vampire mice leaks more blood than she drinks.
It is anatomically inconvenient for a vampire to drink blood with fangs - they are designed to hold the victim, but they have hands for that. In order to drink blood, they need sharp incisors, not fangs (like bats)
there is only one species of crocodile that can run on land.
Crocodiles can't chew.
The yew grows out of itself.

For sure the most incredible facts shock you. After all, it is not every day that you have to hear what we are going to tell you right now. Of course, there are many more than in this article. But it is impossible to describe everything, but some of them will certainly make your leisure time enjoyable.

So here are the facts for you.

Surely you are well aware that since ancient times there have been legends that there are vampires on earth who want to drink your blood? So today, for suspicious people who believe in this, special sets are sold for hunting vampires. Yes, yes, there is everything you need to protect and counterattack the evil bloodsuckers!

An Englishman named Albert Marcantonio got into the Guinness Book of Records because he managed to grow the world's largest zucchini. Its length was 165 centimeters.

By the way, the most stolen book on the planet is the Guinness Book of Records. This fact will also be included in this book.

It is believed that the most trained dogs in the world are police dogs. They are capable of incredible endurance. We have collected everything in a separate article.

Animal gecko is a camouflage champion. No one knows how to hide from the eyes of a predator as cleverly as this type of lizard.

Flat-tailed Madagascar gecko

Did you know that the distance between and the USA is only 4 km? And this is not a joke at all! Between the Russian island of Ratmanov and the American island of Krusenstern is really only 4 km distance. So, on occasion, you can safely show off the knowledge of this incredible fact among your friends. It is also interesting that the difference in Greenwich Mean Time between these islands is exactly 21 hours!

Surely you have not heard anything about such an amazing plant as cardiocrinum, which translates as "Heart-shaped lily". It seems incredible, but this miracle of nature blooms only once in a lifetime. Moreover, all the forces of the plant go to this business, and immediately after flowering it dies.

Scientists have long noticed that a person, in any incomprehensible terrain, is more inclined to go to the right than to the left. This feature is successfully used by all marketers in the world. When you come to any hypermarket, pay attention to how the stands are located in it.

The world's largest production car is the Ford F650. Its weight is 12 tons, and the cost is relatively low: only 70-80 thousand dollars.

This fact may seem incredible to you, but it is absolutely true: more than half of the world's population uses rice as their staple food.

The most expensive tea in the world is Dahongpao - "Big Red Robe". It's a rocky Chinese tea. It can only be bought at an auction, and the cost can reach 70 thousand dollars per 100 grams.

Dubai is the largest city in the United Arab Emirates. It's no secret that it is one of the richest cities in the world. It is no coincidence that there are more than a hundred public transport stops equipped with air conditioning for a comfortable waiting for transport.

By the way, it is also located in Dubai. Its height is 828 meters.

This incredible fact will seem unpleasant for music lovers, which include the author of this article. The fact is that one hour of listening to music on headphones contributes to an increase in the number of ear bacteria by 700 times. Yes, sir, it would be better if I didn’t know this, because I still can’t refuse headphones!

Nature never ceases to amaze us with its "tricks". So, for example, in a shrimp, the heart is in the head. Poor thing!

In 1898-1910. cough medicine was made from ... heroin.

As you know, rats are one of the smartest animals in the world. They are also the only members of the animal kingdom capable of laughing. This is truly an incredible fact.

Among young people, buckwheat is rarely respected. However, it differs from many cereals in its unique properties and the presence of a huge amount of useful substances. It’s time to write a separate article about it, but now we’ll just say that it is buckwheat that can cleanse the stomach of chewing gum. Keep in mind!

It seems incredible, but bamboo can grow up to 3 meters in height in just 24 hours.

Iceland is different in that it has black beaches. And all because of the black gravel and black boulders. There are only a few such beaches on the planet.

A copy of the sequoia is considered evergreen. This unique tree grows in the USA and has its own name - Hyperion. The height of this giant is 115.61 meters, and the age is 700-800 years. Its exact location is not disclosed so that the flow of tourists does not disrupt the ecosystem that has developed there.

Pablo Escobar

This fact is so incredible that you might think it's not true. However, before you is a completely reliable fact. The fact is that one of the most famous drug lords of the 20th century was the Colombian Pablo Escobar. His daughter said that once, when they were hiding from the police, they had to spend the night in the open. Since she was cold, her dad made a fire.

But there was no firewood anywhere, so he burned about $2 million overnight. Despite the extreme cruelty and many bloody murders that lay on his conscience, he loved his family very much.

He owns the quote: "In this life I can find a replacement for any thing, but I will never find a replacement for my wife and children." At the time of 1989, his fortune was estimated at $ 3 billion.

Well, on this we will end. Of course, these are not all the most incredible facts. But we hope you enjoyed reading them.

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