For all those who want to learn something new, and a little broaden their horizons, I offer a selection of curious facts about everything in the world.
- The human brain does not process even 10% of the information that comes into it.
- On the desk, in the sink in the kitchen, the cart to the supermarket, on the smartphone, on the restaurant menus and on the banknotes, there are more bacteria than in your home toilet.
- Your feet give off about 20 liters of sweat per year.
- According to the theory of probability, your chances of dying along the way to the kiosk of lottery tickets are higher than your chances of winning the lottery.
- If the lion takes power over the lion pride, he kills all the offspring of the previous head of the pack.
- In Asia, the poisonous plant Oenanthe crocata grows, which at the time of death arouses a smile on his face.
- Since ancient times, sweat has been an indispensable ingredient in spirits and love potions.
- The amount of garbage that is annually dumped and merged into the oceans in the world is three times the weight of the fish that they catch there.
- The heart of a white whale has the size of a Volkswagen Beetle.
- The rubber armrest of the escalator in the subway moves at another speed so that the passenger does not fall asleep on the escalator.
- The tongue of a chameleon is twice as long as his body.
- Hummingbirds are the only bird that can fly backwards.
- Between the slabs of the pyramid of Cheops it is impossible to slip a blade.
- A rat can fall from a five-story building without any damage.
- A fully loaded tanker, going at medium speed, needs about twelve minutes to completely stop.
- The distance between Russia and the United States is less than 4 kilometers.
- Throughout life, a person passes a distance equal to 5 equators of the Earth.
- Since 2003, officially there is a kind of sport uniting boxing and chess - Shakhboks.
- There are more living organisms on your skin than people on Earth.
- Every minute 2,500 tons of garbage are created in the world.
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It will never be superfluous to learn something new about everything that surrounds us. Appreciate life and our planet Earth. Be happy every day and enjoy life.
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