Interesting facts from my life. Fun facts from people's lives

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 the patient died during the 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. Original title " 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, maiden name Mother 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 up in right side abdomen, and girls - in the left.
97. If space is removed from all atoms human body, then what remains will be able to crawl through the eye of the 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 back 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 are killed every year on earth more people 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 from Nike more money than all the workers in the factories of this company 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 spirit.
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 the same family 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 Rus', healers often treated with conspiracies and spells. Mumbling, chatting all the way up early XIX centuries have been called lies.
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 film "2001: A Space Odyssey" by S. Kubrick, the astronauts used the enraged HAL supercomputer, if in word H-A-L change each letter to the one following it alphabetically, 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 in a mouth full height Human. (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 Tutankhamun.
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.

1. The candy wrapper was invented by Thomas Edison, the one who created the typewriter, the phonograph, the electric meter and the movie camera.

2. The total length of the circulatory system of the human body (arteries, veins, capillaries) can reach 100,000 kilometers, which is more than twice the length of the earth's equator.

3. The multiplication table for nine can always be checked on ... fingers. If you want to multiply nine, for example, by four, then bend the fourth finger from the left. It turns out that on the left side of the bent finger, straightened - three, and to the right of it - six, thirty-six. Want to multiply by eight? Please, to the left of the eighth bent finger - seven straightened ones, and to the right - two, seventy-two. And why is this useful way not taught in school?

4. A 12-year-old girl named Donna Griffiths (England) suffered from an attack of sneezing for 977 days (from January 1981 to September 1983). At first, she sneezed every minute, but after about a year and a half she began to do it much less often - every five minutes.

5. Inna and Rimma are old Russian MALE names.

6. The word "robot" was coined by the Czech writer Josef Capek and presented by him to his brother, writer Karel Capek, who used it in one of his plays. Initially, robots were not mechanical, but biological beings that lacked the ability to fall in love. Dead people take note.

7. Doctors of the Middle Ages, if they doubted the diagnosis of the patient, they diagnosed him with “syphilis”.

8. Nature has rewarded us with osteochondrosis because we are upright creatures. In the position in which we move, the earth's gravity acts more strongly on our musculoskeletal system, which gradually leads to back pain. It can be seen that the first people who descended from monkeys did not want to be like them, proudly straightened their backs, straightened their shoulders and ... earned us this disease.

9. Stockings were originally part of the men's wardrobe. They were worn exclusively by representatives of the strong half of humanity back in Ancient Greece. In medieval Europe, men's stockings were not hidden under clothes, but were put on public display - reaching the length of the hips, they were fastened to a short jacket. Beautiful, is not it?

10. Radishchev, in his essay “Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow”, described a village beauty during the reign of Catherine II. Moreover, he paradoxically compared her teeth with ... coal. It turns out that sweets at that time were a luxury and the black, spoiled teeth of the young woman testified to the prosperity in her family, and therefore were a source of pride.

11. In Ancient Egypt plowmen began to attach an elevation under the heel to their shoes, so that it would be more convenient to move on loose earth. This is how heels came about.

12. Full name famous artist Pablo Picasso sounds like this - Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuseno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Martir Patricio Ruiz and Picasso.

13 In psychiatry, the syndrome, accompanied by depersonalization, impaired perception of time and space, one's own body and the environment, is OFFICIALLY called "Alice in Wonderland".

14. Somehow, in 1850, the first batch of sparrows was brought from Europe to America. The Americans were so overjoyed that they fed them all to death.

15. The first geisha in Japan were men. They performed the functions of toastmaster, entertained visitors to the tea house with songs and playing on musical instruments. “Geisha” (artist) became “Geisei” (artist) in the second half of the 18th century, after a woman took on the role of toastmaster. Soon geisha women became so popular that they completely replaced men. Still would! After all, the regulars of tea houses were much more to the taste of tea and sake, brought by an elegant white handle, and dances performed by delicate beauties in luxurious kimonos.

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 Rus', 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 Tutankhamun.
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.

1. Napoleon was 26 years old when he captured Italy.

2. Baghdad University awarded Uday, the eldest son of Saddam Hussein, a doctorate in political sciences. Although he did not even have a secondary education. His dissertation was titled “The Decline of American Power by 2016.”
3. In 1938, Time magazine named Hitler "Person of the Year."
4. During his service in the KGB, Vladimir Putin had the nickname "Moth".
5. Hitler was a vegetarian.
6. The Egyptian queen Cleopatra tested the effectiveness of her poisons by forcing her slaves to take them.
7. Cleopatra married her own brother - Ptolemy.
8. Cleopatra was not an Egyptian. She had Macedonian, Iranian and Greek roots.
9. Lafayette became a general in the US Army at 19. His full name is: Mary Joseph Paul Yves Rocher Gilbert de Motier, Marquis de Lafayette.
10. The Minister of Culture of the RSFSR in the 50s, Alexei Popov, was a well-known swindler.
11. The Mongol conqueror Timur (1336-1405) played something like polo with the skulls of the people he killed. He created a pyramid of their severed heads 9 meters high.
12. At the time of Lenin's death, his brain was only a quarter of its normal size.
13. Napoleon was not born in France, but on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. His parents were Italian and they had eight children.
14. The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon.
15. One of Napoleon's drinking bowls was made from the skull of the famous Italian adventurer Cagliostro.
16. The founder of the theory of communism Karl Marx has never been to Russia.
17. The first American Chief Justice, John Jay, bought slaves to free them.
18. The first person in history to be hit by a train was British MP William Huskinson.
19. The ancestors of Winston Churchill on the maternal side were ... Indians.
20. US President Andrew Jackson believed the Earth was flat.
21. During the reign of Elizabeth I, there was a tax on men's beards. However, Peter the Great did not favor bearded men either.
22. Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar ordered the execution of her subjects if they appeared to her in dreams without her permission.
23. Queen Victoria was presented with a piece of cheese with a diameter of 3 meters and a weight of 500 kilograms at the wedding.
24. King Henry VIII of England executed two of his six wives.
25. President of Uganda and one of the most ruthless dictators in the world, Idi Amin, served in the British Army before coming to power.
26. British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston died in 1865 on a pool table where he was making love to his servants.
27. At the court of the King of Spain, Alfonso, there was a special position - a hymnal. The fact is that the king had no musical ear at all, and he himself could not distinguish the anthem from other music. The hymnal had to warn the king when the national anthem was played.
28. The Roman emperor Nero married a man - one of his slaves named Skorus.
29. The Roman emperor Nero forced his teacher philosopher Seneca to commit suicide.
30. The height of Peter the Great was approximately 213 cm. Despite the fact that in those days the average height of men was significantly lower than today.
31. Sir Winston Churchill smoked no more than 15 cigars a day.
32. Tom Cruise at the age of 14 went to study at the seminary to become a priest, but left it after a year.
33. The French king Louis XIV had 413 beds.
34. The Israeli king Solomon had about 700 wives and several thousand mistresses.
35. King Louis XIV of France, known as the "Sun King", had over 400 beds.
36. Napoleon had ailurophobia - fear of cats.
37. Winston Churchill was born in the women's room of the Blenheim family castle. During the ball, his mother felt unwell and soon gave birth.
38. Physicist and owner Nobel Prize Niels Bohr and his brother the famous mathematician Harald Bohr were football players. At the same time, Harald was a member of the Danish national team and even took second place at the 1905 Olympics.
39. The phrase “The king is dead, long live the king” was uttered by Catherine de Medici when she learned about the death of her son Charles IX.
40. The Swedish King Charles VII, who was killed in 1167, was the first king of the state with the name Charles! Charles I, II, III, IV, V and VI never existed, and it is not clear where the prefix "seventh" came from. A couple of centuries later, King Charles VIII (1448-1457) appeared in Sweden.
41. Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was an ophthalmologist by profession.
42. Attila the Barbarian died in 453 on his wedding night immediately after the wedding.
43. Beethoven always brewed coffee from 64 grains.
44. The British Queen Victoria (1819-1901), who ruled Britain for 64 years, spoke English with an accent. She had German roots.
45. In 1357, a dead woman was crowned Queen of Portugal. She became Princess Inés de Castro, the second wife of Pedro I. 2 years before, her father-in-law, Alfonso "Proud", who hated her for being a commoner, secretly ordered his people to kill her and her children. When Pedro became king, he ordered the removal of Inés' body from the grave and forced the nobility to recognize her as Queen of Portugal.
46. In 1849, Senator David Atchison became President of the United States for only 1 day, and most of that day he ... overslept.
47. The Grand Vizier of Persia, Abdul Kassim Ismail (who lived in the 10th century) never parted with his library. If he went somewhere, the library “followed” him. 117 thousand book volumes were transported by 400 camels. Moreover, the books (together with the camels) were arranged in alphabetical order.
48. The great Genghis Khan died while having sex.
49. Hannibal died in 183 BC. e. taking poison when he learned that the Romans had come to kill him.
50. Hans-Christian Andersen could not write almost a single word without errors.
51. Henry IV often flogged his son, the future Louis XIII.
52. The Danish king Frederick IV was a bigamist. He married twice while his wife Queen Louise was alive. His first lover died in childbirth, his second lover was only queen for 19 days after the death of Queen Louise. All the children from both of his mistresses either died at birth or in infancy, as he believed for his sinful life. He later became extremely religious.
53. Jack the Ripper, the most famous killer of the 19th century, always committed his crimes on weekends.
54. Dr. Alice Chase, who wrote the book "Healthy Eating" and many books on proper nutrition, died of malnutrition.
55. Once the merchant Krasnobryukhov turned to Alexander I with a request to change his surname, and he allowed him to be called ... Sinebryukhov. After that, the merchant went to Finland with grief and founded the famous Koff brewing company there.
56. When the Russian Queen Elizabeth I died in 1762, more than 15,000 dresses were found in her wardrobe.
57. Mozart started composing music at the age of 3.
58. There is not a single living descendant of William Shakespeare left on Earth.
59. Before composing music, Beethoven poured a bucket of cold water on his head, believing that it stimulated the brain.
60. Thomas Edison wrote 40,000 pages while designing the light bulb.
61. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Felix Mendelssohn wrote at the age of 17. It became his most famous work.
62. Beria suffered from syphilis.
63. More than 100 descendants of Johann Sebastian Bach became organists.
64. In the ZZ Top group, only one member does not have a beard. And his name is Beard, which in English means ... "beard".
65. Since 1932, only Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush have not been elected to the United States for a second term as president.
66. Ilf and Petrov discarded ideas that came to both minds at once - in order to avoid clichés.
67. When Beethoven wrote the famous Ninth Symphony, he was completely deaf.
68. Composer Franz Liszt was the father-in-law of the German composer Richard Wagner.
69. Paul McCartney's mother was a midwife.
70. Writer Rudyard Kipling couldn't write in ink unless it was black.
71. Writer Charles Dickens wrote with his face to the north. He also always slept with his head to the north.
72. The Roman emperor Commodus gathered dwarfs, cripples and freaks from all over the Roman Empire to arrange fights between them in the Colosseum.
73. The Roman emperor Julius Caesar wore a laurel wreath on his head to hide his growing baldness.
74. Russian composer Alexander Borodin was also a well-known chemist in St. Petersburg.
75. The smallest of the American presidents is James Madison (1.62 m), and Abraham Lincoln is the tallest (1.93 m).
76. The shortest British monarch is Charles I. His height was 4 feet 9 inches (about 140 cm). After his head was cut off, his height became even smaller.
77. The body of Voltaire, who died in 1778, was stolen from the grave and was never found. The loss was discovered in 1864.
78. Balzac has a whole book dedicated to ... a tie.
79. The British Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) had about 3,000 outfits.
80. American Pete Ruff knocks an apple off his own head with a boomerang.
81. American industrial tycoon and billionaire John Rockefeller donated over $550 million. to various foundations and institutions.
82. American President Benjamin Franklin advocated that the national bird of America was the turkey.
83. In 1856, the English chemist William Perkin, while trying to obtain quinine from aniline, invented the first artificial dye, mauveine.
84. In the village of Lobovskoye, Saratov Region. there lives a beekeeper who is able to withstand 40 hours in a hive with bees completely naked.
85. In the period from 1952 - 1966, 5 children were born in the family of Ralph and Carolyn Cummins and all of them have a birthday on February 20th.
86. Galileo Galilei was the first person to propose using a pendulum to measure time.
87. Hannibal died in 183 BC after taking poison when he learned that the Romans had come to kill him.
88. Grover Cleveland was the only US president to marry in the White House.
89. James Madison was the smallest of the American presidents (1.62 m), and Abraham Lincoln was the tallest (1.93 m).
90. Dr. Alice Chase, who wrote the book Healthy Eating and many books on proper nutrition, died of malnutrition.
91. For 35 years, Mozart created over 600 works. But after his death, the widow did not have money for a separate place in the cemetery
92. Famous 19th century bullfighter Lagarijo (born Rafael Molina) killed 4867 bulls.
93. When the German physicist A. Einstein died, his last words went with him. The nurse who was nearby did not understand German.
94. The maximum number of crossword puzzles was Andrian Bell. From January 1930 to 1980 he sent 4,520 crossword puzzles to The Times.
95. Robert Lincoln, son of President Lincoln, was rescued from a car accident by one Edwin Booth. As it turns out, Edwin is the brother of Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. The father tried to kill the father, and their children saved each other
96. The first American president to use the telephone was James Garfield.
97. The concept of a negative number was first introduced by the Italian merchant Pisano in 1202, denoting his debts and losses.
98. The world's largest private collection of meteorites belongs to the American Robert Haag - from the age of 12 he collected 2 tons of heavenly stones.
99. Thomas Edison had a collection of birds in 5000 copies.
100. Frenchmen Jeanne Louise and Guy Bruty made a crossword puzzle on a sheet of paper 5 m long and 3 m wide, from 18 thousand words and 50 thousand cells.
101. Shakespeare mentioned roses more than 50 times in his poems.
102. Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States, was the only president to make his own clothes.
103. Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the same day - February 12, 1809. The scientist lived almost 20 years longer than the politician.
104. Bill Clinton sent two emails during his entire presidency, one of which was a test to check that everything was working properly. I wonder who the second letter was to? Maybe Monica?
105. In 1759, Arthur Guinness leased St. Gate's brewery for 9,000 years at a rent of £45 a year. The famous Guinness beer was brewed there.
106. In 1981, Deborah Ann Fontan, Miss New York, was disqualified for excessive use of cotton stuffing in a swimsuit competition.
107. George Washington did not shake hands when meeting - he preferred to bow
108. The only president of the United States, concurrently being the chairman of any union - Ronald Reagan, who heads the Screen Actors Guild
109. If you remember a little school physics course, then you know that there is a Richter temperature scale. So this same Charles Richter was a malicious nudist, because of which his wife left him
110. If you read the works of the writer Stephen King, you should notice that most of the actions of his stories take place in Maine. Paradoxically, this state has the lowest crime rate in the United States.
111. The founder of psychoanalysis has a lot of oddities. Freud was terrified of the number 62. He refused to book a hotel room with more than 62 rooms for fear of accidentally getting a room with the number 62. He used cocaine, like many of his contemporaries.
112. The famous entrepreneur Henry Ford preferred to hire people with physical disabilities - among the workers of his factories in 1919, there was one disabled person for four healthy people.
113. Research Louis Pasteur sponsored a beer factory. They also paid him a ticket to an international congress. When Pasteur was given the floor at the congress, the first thing he did was to hang advertising posters with beer on the stage. And he began his speech with the words that this beer is the best. And then he got down to business.
114. Madonna and Celine Dion are cousins of Prince Charles's wife, Camilla
115. The father of the famous comedian Leslie Nielsen (The Naked Gun, etc.) served as a policeman in Canada, and his brother worked in the Canadian Parliament
116. The father of tennis player Andre Agassi represented Iran at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics. He was... a boxer

1. The candy wrapper was invented by Thomas Edison, the one who created the typewriter, the phonograph, the electric meter and the movie camera.

2. The total length of the circulatory system of the human body (arteries, veins, capillaries) can reach 100,000 kilometers, which is more than twice the length of the earth's equator.

5. Inna and Rimma - old Russian MALE names.

6. The word "robot" was coined by the Czech writer Josef Capek and presented by him to his brother, the writer Karel Capek, who used it in one of his plays. Initially, robots were not mechanical, but biological beings that lacked the ability to fall in love. Dead people take note.

7. Doctors of the Middle Ages, if they doubted the diagnosis of the patient, they diagnosed him with syphilis.

9. Stockings were originally part of the men's wardrobe. They were worn exclusively by representatives of the strong half of humanity back in ancient Greece. In medieval Europe, men's stockings were not hidden under clothes, but were put on public display - reaching the length of the hips, they were fastened to a short jacket. Beautiful, is not it?

10. Radishchev, in his essay "Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow", described a village beauty during the reign of Catherine II. Moreover, he paradoxically compared her teeth with ... coal. It turns out that sweets at that time were a luxury and the black, spoiled teeth of the young woman testified to the prosperity in her family, and therefore were a source of pride.

11. In ancient Egypt, plowmen began to attach an elevation under the heel to their shoes, so that it would be more convenient to move on loose ground. This is how heels came about.

12. The full name of the famous artist Pablo Picasso sounds like this - Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuseno Maria de los Remedios Cypriano de la Santisima Trinidad Martir Patricio Ruiz and Picasso.

13 In psychiatry, a syndrome accompanied by depersonalization, a violation of the perception of time and space, one's own body and the environment, is OFFICIALLY called "Alice in Wonderland".

14. Somehow, in 1850, the first batch of sparrows was brought from Europe to America. The Americans were so overjoyed that they fed them all to death.

15. The first geisha in Japan were men. They performed the functions of toastmaster, entertained visitors to the tea house with songs and playing musical instruments. "Geisha" (master) became "Geisei" (master) in the second half of the 18th century, after a woman took on the role of toastmaster. Soon geisha women became so popular that they completely replaced men. Still would! After all, the regulars of tea houses were much more to the taste of tea and sake, brought by an elegant white handle, and dances performed by delicate beauties in luxurious kimonos.