Unusual facts about the world that you probably won't find in an encyclopedia
The world is an amazing place. It's just that when it seems that you have seen everything, he surprises you with something new. Even ordinary things sometimes turn our world upside down when we see them from an unusual angle.
We have collected some incredible facts about our world. They are so unusual that you can share them with your friends and family.
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1. Baby elephants use their trunks as a nipple.
2. 1/10 of the world's gold reserves belong to Indian housewives.
3. During Prohibition in the United States, vineyard owners produced a solidly concentrated grape juice called "grape bricks." In order not to go to jail, they had to make sure that the grapes were not used to make wine. This is why the bricks were sold with a notice on them that after the brick was dissolved in water, the mortar should not be stored in a dark, cool place for 21 days. A great marketing ploy, isn't it?
4. The apples we buy in stores were harvested 6-12 months ago. Before they reach stores, they are stored in special refrigerators with very low oxygen levels.
5. The void is 99.9999999% of the space. If you brought all the people in the world together and removed the empty space from them, humanity would be the size of an orange.
6. This is how the shape of Coca-Cola bottles has changed over the years. If you look at them from left to right, the first bottle was released in 1899, the second in 1900, the third in 1915, the fourth in 1916, the fifth in 1957, and the sixth in 1986.
7. Surprisingly, there are more bacteria in the human navel than in the bathroom. Scientists compared 10 of the volunteers' navels and compared them to germs found in the bathroom. Moreover, almost 1,500 species of bacteria found were unknown to science.
8. Very few people know that Elvis Presley was blond. When he was young, he dyed his hair and people remembered him as a dark-haired macho.
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