30 facts you probably didn't know about
We bring to your attention a selection of interesting facts from a variety of fields of knowledge.
How does our body react to sneezing? Where did feng shui come from? Who can fly backwards and what is the name of the fear of erection? You will find answers to these and many other questions that you might not even have asked in this issue. Interesting facts from various spheres of life. Be curious, interested and enlightened!
1. Parallel lines intersect in space.
2. Feng Shui was originally the art of decorating graves.
3. When sneezing, all body functions stop, even.. heart.
4. Duck quacking does not echo.
5. The maximum number of push-ups at a time is 46001
6. The snake can sleep for 3 years
7. The length of the hair on the head grown by an average person during his life is 725 kilometers.
8. Gold is such a rare metal that more iron is found in the world in one hour than gold has been found in the entire history.
9. The heart of a white whale is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle.
10. 100,000,000 sexual acts occur every day all over the world. Of these, only 910,000 end in fertilization.
11. Lizzomania — the need to listen to music all the time.
12. Isifalophobia — fear of erection.
13. One billion seconds is about 37 years.
14. The chameleon's tongue is twice as long as its body
15. Michael Jordan was not accepted to the basketball team in his second year of college because of his small stature.
16. In Kenya, the cost of bribes is one third of the household budget.
17. A runner is able to outrun a racing car in the first 10 meters from the start.
18. Acne can be removed with a mixture of ground tablets of any antibiotic, aspirin and suprastin (one at a time), with the addition of a drop of water.
19. The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
20. Giant Komodo lizards attack even deer and wild boar.
21. Every fourth American was shown on TV.
22. Half of men do not wash their hands after going to the toilet.
23. If a yellow canary is fed with red pepper, the color of its feathers will turn bright orange.
24. To accurately maintain the balance and aerodynamic properties of the eagle, when a feather falls out of one wing, it loses the same feather from the other wing.
25. In the 18th century, soldiers who fought against Frederick's armies brought cockroaches to Moscow and St. Petersburg. There were no cockroaches before that.
26. To crack a nut, it is enough to put it in hot water for 48 hours.
27. It is impossible to put a blade between the slabs of the pyramid of Cheops.
28. In Finland, there is a championship for dragging wives. The winner receives the number of beers equivalent to the weight of the spouse.
29. Eagles mate in flight.
30. Drivers kill more deer than hunters.