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1. The eye of an oyster is bigger than its brain.

2. 97% of people who are offered a new pen will write their name first.

3. Before World War II, there were 22 Hitlers in the New York phone book... and not a single one after..

4. Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian.

5. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucous every two weeks or it will digest itself.

6. In China now live: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.

7. To avoid the danger of being crushed in the mouth of a crocodile, experts advise piercing thumbs his eyes, and he will immediately let you out.

8. In the Czech Republic, Margaret Thatcher is called Malgorzata Thatcherova.

9. If the statue of a horse rider has both front legs raised, this means that the person died in battle. If the horse has only one leg raised, then the person died from wounds received in battle. If the horse has all 4 legs on the ground, then the person died a natural death.

10. Everyone knows that English is very poor. It is especially hard for poets. It turns out that not a single word rhymes with the words: "month" (month), "orange" (orange, orange), "silver" (silver, silver), and "purple" (purple).

11. Men commit suicide three times more than women. However, women attempt suicide three times more often than men.

12. As you know, people are animals too. However, we are the only ones who can copulate face to face.

13. The most common name in the world is Muhammad.

14. Catholic priests who died during sex: Leo VII (936-9) died of heart attack, John VII (955-64) - beaten to death by the husband of the woman with whom he was at that time, John XIII (965-72) was also killed by a jealous husband, Paul II (1467-71) died during an outrage with a boy - pageboy.

15. The first bomb dropped on Berlin during World War II only killed an elephant at the Berlin Zoo.

16. Approximately 10% of people in the world are left-handed.

17. Sherlock Holmes never said: "It's elementary, Watson."

18. Soldiers in the First world war were the first to use the prototype of the modern barrel flush toilet. Unbelievable, but it is a fact!

19. Be careful not to ride donkeys. Every year more people die because of this than in plane crashes. If you fall from a donkey, you are much more likely to break your neck than if you fall from a horse.

20. In Israel, it is forbidden to speak cell phone while driving.

21. It takes an average person 7 minutes to fall asleep.

22. In 1880, cocaine was freely sold to treat colds, neuralgia, headaches, and insomnia.

23. Each time you lick a postage stamp, you gain 1/10 of the calories.

24. A chameleon's tongue is twice as long as its own.

25. Ants never sleep.

26. In psychiatry, a syndrome accompanied by depersonalization, impaired perception of time and space, own body and the environment, officially (!) Is called "Alice in Wonderland".
Small intestine a person during life has a length of about 2.5 meters. After his death, when the musculature of the intestinal wall relaxes, its length reaches 6 meters.

27. Man is the only animal that can draw straight lines.

28. The shortest war in history was the war between Great Britain and Zanzibar on August 27, 1896. It lasted exactly 38 minutes.
Under Peter I, a special department was created in Russia to receive petitions and complaints, which was called ... racketmaking.

On June 29, 1888, the New York State Congress passed a bill abolishing the hanging. The reason for this "humane" act was the introduction of a new method death penalty- electric chair.

30. Only in 1947 in England was the post of a person who had to fire a cannon at the entrance to England of Napoleon Bonaparte (!) Was canceled.

31. One of the American aircraft in Vietnam hit itself with a missile.

32. Abdul Kassim Ismail - the great vizier of Persia (10th century) was always near his library. If he went somewhere, the library "followed" him. 117 thousand book volumes were transported by four hundred camels. Moreover, books (i.e. camels) were arranged in alphabetical order.

33. The Thai national anthem was written in 1902 by the Russian (!) composer Pyotr Shchurovsky.

34. Until 1703, Chistye Prudy in Moscow was called ... Filthy Ponds.

35. The population of the world in 5000 BC. was 5 million people.

36.B Ancient China people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.

37. In 213 BC. Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huangdi ordered to burn all the books available in the country.

38. Until 1361, legal proceedings in England were conducted exclusively in French.

39. The inscription "Allah Akbar" is repeated 22 times on the flag of Iran.

40. Japan has over 3,900 islands.

41.Less than 1 per cent of the Caribbean islands are inhabited.

42. The first capital of the Russian state was Ladoga.

43. The center of Europe is located on the territory of Ukraine in Transcarpathian region between the cities of Tyachev and Rakhiv, near the village of Delovoe, and the center of Asia - in the city of Kizyl, Tuva Republic.

44. Several buildings in Manhattan have their own zip code. And the World shopping center there are even several of them.

45.7 most numerous peoples of the world: Chinese (Han), Hindustanis, US Americans, Bengalis, Russians, Brazilians and Japanese.

46. ​​Residents of the island of Lesvos are called lesbians and lesbians, not lesbians and lesbians.

47. In Moscow there is a river Elk, and the largest of the streams flowing into it is called ... Losenok.

48. Unlike most African nations, Ethiopia has never been a European colony.

49. In France, Italy and Chile, the existence of UFOs is officially recognized.

50. Apple vodka is called Calvados.

51. In Ukraine, varenukha is called alcoholic drink from vodka boiled together, honey, dried apples, pears, cherries.

52. The Hungarian artist M. Munkacsy has a painting "Desert Storm", written in ... 1867.

53. Leonardo da Vinci spent nearly 12 years painting the Mona Lisa's lips.

54. Impressionism got its name from the painting by Claude Monet "Impression" (Impression).

55. Just one drop of oil makes 25 liters of water unfit for drinking.

56. In addition to fingerprints, each person's tongue print is also unique.

57. In the Roman Catholic Church, the highest bishops are called ... primates. It is for this reason that the first classification of the animal world, created by Carl Linnaeus, was anathematized.

58. Chinese sages claimed that saints sleep on their backs, sinners sleep on their stomachs, kings sleep on their right side, and wise men sleep on their left.

59. The # symbol, often referred to as the "pound sign", "number sign" or "pound sign" actually has official name- octotorp.

60. The Greek philosopher Anacharsis divided all people into three kinds: those who died, those who are alive, and those ... who swim in the sea.

62. The usual "bow", on which boots are tied, is called by sailors nothing more than a "reef knot".

63. Most popular in the world woman's name- Anna. Almost 100 million women wear it.

64. The millionth resident of Moscow was born in 1897.

65. Two of the most high rates The IQ's ever recorded on Earth are those of women.

66. Every second over 200 lightnings sparkle on Earth.

67. Over the past 500 years, the mass of the Earth has increased by a billion tons due to cosmic matter.

68. The world's largest planetarium is located in Moscow.

69.Most big number, which has the name - centillon. It's a one followed by 600 zeros. It was recorded in 1852.

70. The University of Baghdad awarded the eldest son of Saddam Hussein Uday, who does not even have a secondary education, a doctorate in political science. His dissertation was titled "The Decline of American Power by 2016".

From the moment of birth, there are already 14 billion cells in the human brain, and this number does not increase until death. On the contrary, after 25 years it is reduced by 100 thousand per day. In the minute you spend reading a page, about 70 cells die. After 40 years, brain degradation accelerates sharply, and after 50 neurons ( nerve cells) shrink and the volume of the brain shrinks.

Most Psychedelic Writer

Did you know that the most psychedelic writer of all time is Lewis Carroll, the shy British mathematician who wrote the tales of Alice. His compositions inspired the Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, Tim Burton and others. Lewis Carroll's real name is Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He had the church rank of deacon, and in personal diaries Carroll constantly repented of some sin. However, these pages were destroyed by the writer's family so as not to discredit his image.

Edgar Allan Poe's source of horror

Did you know that Edgar Allan Poe was afraid of the dark all his life. Perhaps one of the reasons for this fear was that in childhood the future writer studied ... at the cemetery. The school where the boy went was so poor that it was not possible to buy textbooks for children. The resourceful math teacher held classes at a nearby cemetery, among the graves. Each student chose a tombstone for himself and calculated how many years the deceased lived, subtracting the date of birth from the date of death. It's no surprise that Poe grew up to become what he became - the founder of world horror literature.

unexpected guest

Did you know that in 1857 Hans Christian Andersen came to visit Dickens. Andersen met Dickens back in 1847, they were completely delighted with each other, and now, 10 years later, the Dane decided to take advantage of the invitation given to him. The trouble is that over the years in Dickens' life everything has changed and become more complicated - he was not ready to accept Andersen, and he lived with him for almost five weeks! “He does not speak any languages ​​other than his Danish, although there are suspicions that he does not know it either,” Dickens told his friends about his guest in this vein. Poor Andersen became the target of ridicule from the numerous offspring of the author of Little Dorrit, and when he left, Papa Dickens left a note in his room: “Hans Andersen spent the night in this room for five weeks, which seemed to our family for years.” And you still ask why Andersen wrote such sad tales?

About love for our smaller brothers

Did you know that the great poet Byron was very fond of animals. The romantic poet adored animals and even kept a menagerie in which a badger, monkeys, horses, a parrot, a crocodile and many other living creatures lived.

About birth and death

Did you know that William Shakespeare was born and died on the same day (but, fortunately, in different years) - on April 23, 1564, he was born and, 52 years later, died on the same day.
On the same day as Shakespeare, another great writer, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, died. The author of Don Quixote died on April 23, 1616.

Nobel Laureate

Do you know that in 1925 Nobel Prize on literature
awarded to Bernard Shaw, who called this event "a token of gratitude for the relief he brought to the world by not publishing anything this year."

The Sad Childhood of Dickens

Did you know that Charles Dickens had a very difficult childhood. When his dad went to debtor's prison, little Charlie was sent to work ... no, not at a chocolate factory, but at a wax factory, where he stuck labels on jars from morning to evening. Dusty, you say? But glue them from morning till night instead of playing football with the boys, and you will understand why Dickens' images of unfortunate orphans turned out so convincing.

Stendhal syndrome

Did you know that the French writer Stendhal, after a visit to
Florence in 1817 he wrote: “When I left the Church of the Holy Cross, my heart began to beat, it seemed to me that the source of life had dried up, I walked, afraid to collapse to the ground ...”. The masterpieces of art that have excited a writer can have a similar effect on other people, causing rapid heartbeat and dizziness is psychosomatic disorder called Stendhal syndrome. The person who “hooked” it experiences extremely heightened emotions from contemplating the pictures, as if being transferred to the space of the image. Often the feelings are so strong that people try to destroy works of art. In more broad sense Stendhal's syndrome can be caused by any observable beauty - for example, nature or women.

Death of a pseudonym

Did you know that in the 1970s American publishers considered it undesirable for authors to publish more than one book a year. Stephen King, who wanted to publish more, began to write some works under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. In 1984, a bookstore clerk suspected a similarity in the authors' literary styles and found a record in the Library of Congress that King was the author of one of Bachman's novels, notifying King's publishers of his find. The writer himself called this seller and offered to write a revealing article, agreeing to an interview. It resulted in a press release announcing the death of Richard Bachman from "pseudonym cancer".

cat lover

Did you know that Ernest Hemingway had a weakness for cats and He constantly kept several pets in his house. Once he was presented with a Maine Coon named Snowball, who, due to genetic mutation He was polydactyl, meaning he had extra toes on his paws. Today, over 50 cats live in the Hemingway House Museum, half of which are also polydactyls, as many are descendants of Snowball. A significant part of tourists visit this museum primarily because of cats, and not in order to join the writer's legacy.

About the strange story of Jekyll and Hyde

Did you know that Stevenson's wife burned the first manuscript of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Biographers have two versions of why she did this: some say that she considered such a plot unworthy of a writer, others that she was unhappy with the incomplete disclosure of the topic of a split personality. Nevertheless, Stevenson, ill with tuberculosis, rewrote this novel in three days, which became one of his most commercially successful works and allowed his family to get out of debt.

The shortest correspondence

Did you know that Victor Hugo in 1862, while on vacation, wanted to know about the reaction of readers to the newly published novel "Les Misérables" and sent a telegram to his publisher from one character "?". He sent a telegram in response, also from the same character - "!". It was probably the shortest correspondence in history.

Alias ​​Twain

Did you know that the origin of Samuel Langhorne Clemens' pseudonym, "Mark Twain", is due to his work on steam ships on the Mississippi River.
The safe water depth was considered to be a mark of 2 phantoms (3.6 m), which the boatmen measured using a marking stick. In those days, the word "twins" (then in English it was written as "twain") usually meant "two", so the boatmen shouted, reaching a safe depth: "Two on the mark" (which in English sounded like "by mark twain" ).

addiction

Did you know that Charles Dickens drank half a liter every day champagne. To raise his popularity to a new level, he decided to give lectures. And where there is a lecture, there is a subsequent meeting with readers! How is it without champagne! Besides, personal life Dickens was extremely disorderly

From 15 pages to 200

Did you know that the film Misterious story Benjamin Button (2008) was based on the short story of the same name by Francis Scott Fitzgerald? An interesting fact is that the filmmakers liked the story so much that they turned a few page work into a 200 page script describing 80 years of Benjamin's life.

The science of love

Did you know that the world-famous book "Kama Sutra" includes not only a description of sexual positions (to which only 15 chapters out of 64 are devoted), but also reflections on the relationship between a man and a woman and life in general? Much of the book is about love in general, about girls, about men, about relationships between the sexes, about courtship and charm. The word "kamasutra" is translated as "instruction on kama", that is, on all aspects of love. For scientists, it is of another value: the book describes Interesting Facts about life in India at that time.

"In the mountains of my Scotland..."

Do you know that one of the ancestors of M.Yu. Lermontov was legendary Scottish mystic poet The poet always knew that his father, Yuri Petrovich Lermontov, traced his lineage back to the Scottish officer George Lermontov. He served as a mercenary in the Polish army, and in 1613, defending the White Fortress, he was captured and went over to the side of Russia, where he became the ancestor of numerous descendants. But about his most famous ancestor - Thomas Lermont, the poet of ancient Scotland, who lived in the XIII century, M.Yu. Lermontov, most likely, did not guess. Only a few poems by Thomas Learmonth have survived to this day, often framed as predictions, much more legends about him have been preserved. They say that on the ancient Eildon Hill, where, according to legend, King Arthur and his knights rest, there was an Eildon oak, in which there was an entrance to the realm of the fairies. In his youth, Thomas fell in love with a fairy, and she took him to her kingdom for 7 years. There he received his prophetic gift, and, returning, prophesied about the outcome of wars, about the fate of kings and cities, and then again went to his fairy - forever.

The most extraordinary book.

Did you know that one of the most unusual books in the world is Dante's Divine Comedy, written on a sheet of paper measuring 80 by 60 cm by the Benedictine monk Gabriel Celani. All 14,000 verses can be easily read with the naked eye, and if you look at the sheet from a distance, you see a colorful map of Italy. Chelani spent four years on this work.

Baby books.

Did you know that the twelve smallest books in the world fit in one tablespoon. Among them there is a miniature edition of the Koran, a dictionary of English language 12 thousand words and the Constitution of France.

You can't strangle this book, you can't kill it...

Did you know that an ordinary standard format book of 500 pages cannot be crushed, even if you put 15 wagons loaded with coal on it.

The longest piece.

Do you know that the longest artworkis the novel "People good will» Romain Jules. It was published in 27 (!) volumes in 1932-1946. The volume of the novel was 4959 pages, and there are approximately 2,070,000 words in it (for example, the number of words in the Bible is approximately 773,700).

Most prolific writer.

Did you know that one of the most prolific writers is José Carlos Ryochi de Alpoim Inue from Brazil. He wrote 1,046 science fiction novels, westerns and thrillers that were published between 1986 and 1996.

Most popular book.

Did you know that the Bible remains the most popular book. Between 1815 and 1999, 3.88 billion copies were sold.

Lead Writer.

Did you know that Agatha Christie has been the absolute leader among the most popular writers for several decades now. 78 of her detective stories have been translated into 44 languages ​​and published in more than 2 billion copies.

About the name Svetlana...

Do you know that the name Svetlana is not originally Slavic. It was invented and first used by the poet Vostokov in the romance "Svetlana and Mstislav", and gained wide popularity after the publication of Zhukovsky's ballad "Svetlana" in 1813.

The fictitious address of the detective.

Did you know that at the time of writing the stories about Sherlock Holmes, the house with the address Baker Street, 221b did not exist. When the house appeared, a flood of letters hit this address. One of the rooms of this building is considered the room of the great detective. Subsequently, the address of Baker Street, 221b was officially assigned to the house, which houses the Sherlock Holmes Museum. And for this even had to break the order of numbering houses on the street.

Hot Italian Othello.

Did you know that Shakespeare's hero had a real prototype Italian Maurizio Otello. He commanded the Venetian troops in Cyprus and lost his wife there in highly suspicious circumstances. The diminutive name Mauro in Italian also means "Moor", which led to Shakespeare's mistake in assigning such a nationality to the hero.

F rankenstein - a simple student?!

Did you know that Frankenstein is not the name of the famous monster at all. In Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein or Modern Prometheus”, which first saw the light in 1818, this very monster was simply called “Monster”. Victor Frankenstein was the name of a young scientist student from Geneva who created a living being from non-living material.

Terrible continuation of the legend

Did you know that the American writer William Burroughs was inspired by the legend of the medieval Swiss archer William Tell, who, for disobedience to the German governor, was forced to shoot an apple on the head of his own son, and Tell did not miss. Interested in this story, Burroughs at one of the parties wanted to surprise the guests. The writer put a glass on the head of his wife Joan Vollmer and fired a pistol - from a hit in the head, the wife died.

Jules Verne card file

Did you know that Jules Verne spent many hours a day studying scientific literature, writing out facts of interest to him on special cards. The scientific community could envy the card index compiled by him: there were more than 20 thousand cards in it.

Life is like a novel

Did you know that Danielle Steele's life is like one of her many stories. She was married five times, her second husband robbed a bank, and was later convicted of rape, the third was a drug addicted burglar. Everything, as in the song of the Via Gra group - “But my fifth one is not at all like that, in his hands I melt like ice ...”

The thorny path to fame

Did you know that Nora Roberts, the author of hundreds of romantic novels and a New York Times top writer for several years, long time tried to get some publisher to publish her novel. One of the publishers, Harlequin, refused the future celebrity on the grounds that "they already have an American writer" with whom they collaborate.