10 little-known and very interesting facts about everything

Learning something new is always fun and not difficult! After all, it is not necessary to pass courses or spend days studying literature.

Some facts you didn't know before that can make you a little smarter today than yesterday. So read our selection and soak up knowledge.

This phenomenon is called Lightning, Catatumbo. It occurs in the place where the Catatumbo river empties into lake Maracaibo. The probability of lightning in this area — the highest in the world: lightning at 250 square kilometer per year! And during the peak of activity occurring on the time interval from 19: 00 till 4: 00, here you can watch up to 28 lightning in a minute.

Among the main arguments of the representatives of the company was that Smoking more people will die early, which will save millions in health care, pensions and social housing.

If put in one big bucket of crab, it is easy to get out. But if you plant to him several crabs, they will be trapped, as will all the time to cling to each other and thus pulling off the "friends" down.

The same thing happens with people when climbing the social ladder. Those who fail to achieve a certain height, will always interfere with the one who strives for success. This intolerance to other people's achievements and is called "crab mentality".

One of the founding fathers of the United States in his book fragments of Greek, English, French and Latin editions of the New Testament. However, in his version of the life of Jesus Christ are described in more realistic — after the crucifixion of Jesus buried. No resurrection, and ascension occurs.

May 15, 1932, a group of officers of the Imperial Japanese Navy with the support of allies shot and killed Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi, who tried to engage in dialogue with the radicals. Initially, their plan included the murder of Charlie Chaplin arrived in Tokyo — they hoped to create a rift in relations between Japan and the United States. But the actor was lucky as he was with the son of the Minister at the sumo match.

In the framework of the project for the study of the movement of birds, scientists from Novosibirsk attached to a 13-year eagles surveillance equipment. The data and their coordinates are archived and come in the format of SMS messages directly to the headquarters of the researchers, once the bird is in the coverage area.

Ornithologists believed that birds like to rest up first in Kazakhstan, then to return to Russia and then travel to Iran, but eagle named Min violated their plans. Somehow she managed to get to Iran that all of the information about her movements in the summer has not been sent. Now, scientists are coming pricey SMS with the coordinates of the location of an eagle. Because of this, they had to increase the budget of the project, because most of the money went to pay for roaming.

Thus, the screening of the film cost the state approximately 293 million dollars. In the same amount, the experts evaluated the losses associated with a reduction in labour productivity.

Born Maurice Meklit had become famous under the pseudonym Michael Caine. Under this name he was known by many fans. When he was making at the airport documents with other data, there are often problems. "The security officer said, "hi, Michael Caine", and then I suddenly showed him the passport in a different name. I could stay there for hours," the actor explains the reason for the name change.

"Zone Rouge," or "Red zone" holds the remains of hundreds of thousands who died during the First world war, unexploded bombs, mines, and traces of chemical weapons. It is believed that it will take another 300-700 years before this area is fully restored.

At the age of 43 years old famous French writer suffered a major stroke and was in a coma for 20 days. When he awoke, he found that his whole body paralyzed except for his left eye. The only way to communicate was a blink is when people pronounce the letter, Bobby blinked once for Yes and twice for no. Thus he was able to dictate the bestseller "the diving bell and the butterfly". The writer died two days after the book was published.