15 interesting facts that will make you unprintable wonder out loud

There are things in the world that no one thinks about. But when a person comes across such facts, he usually freezes in amazement. We have collected for you more than a dozen interesting facts that will definitely raise your eyebrows, and an exclamation of amazement or something stronger will break from your lips. After all, we live in an amazing world!

Today, your body is almost entirely made up of completely different atoms than a year ago

It only takes about a year for 98% of the atoms in your body to be replaced by others. So, in fact, every year you become a completely different person.

Once you were the youngest in the universe

If you think about it, for a split second you were the most newborn of all newborns in the world.

The number of possible combinations of a standard 52-card deck exceeds the number of atoms on Earth

Our planet, including everything on it, consists of about 1050 atoms. But there are 8,0658 e+67 possible combinations of a card deck, which significantly exceeds the number of atoms on Earth. This is such a large number that the analogy with the number of grains of sand that are placed in the Grand Canyon is not even partially able to express it.

The person closest to you on the right is the person farthest from you on the left

If we take into account only the surface of the Earth and count it in a circle, this is actually a true statement.

Former US President Barack Obama has more Grammy Awards than singer Katy Perry

Yes, Obama has two Grammy wins (in the category "Artistic Speech" for his memoirs), and the singer Katy Perry had many nominations, but she never received a single award. Even Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton have more Grammys than Katy Perry.

A person who studies atoms is just a cluster of atoms trying to become aware of themselves

Strange, isn't it?

The concept of "mad hatter" was born from the fact that mercury was previously used in the production of hats, the poisonous fumes of which caused hatters to behave strangely

There is no exact information from which moment the expression "mad hatter" (mad hatter) firmly entered the English language, but it is known that many who were engaged in the manufacture of hats in the XIX century used mercury in the process. Due to the fact that the hatters were constantly and for a long time exposed to this poisonous substance, they showed symptoms of mercury poisoning, which included muscle cramps, decreased cognitive function and other signs that could be mistaken for insanity. The phrase was used long before the publication of "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, so he did not invent it.

If bees received the American minimum wage for their work, a jar of honey would cost $ 182 thousand

The average bee produces about 1/12 teaspoons of honey during its life, which usually lasts 120-150 days. The activity of bees occurs only at a certain time of the year, and they begin to collect nectar only 22 days after birth. If the bees received money for their work, honey would cost an unaffordable amount of money.

If you think about it, it turns out that the brain called itself that

The brain is an impostor.

In fact, we never touch anything

Because of the structure and composition of atoms, the laws of quantum physics and the fact that electrons have a negative charge, the electrons that make up our bodies never really touch other electrons: they only get very, very close to each other.

If two children are conceived at the same time, but one of them was born prematurely, this baby will be older than the second

And this is even despite the fact that they developed simultaneously in the womb. Similarly, if two children were born in the US and in the UK at the same time, they may have different dates of birth.

The difference between 1 million seconds and 1 trillion seconds is almost 40 thousand years

One million seconds is 11.5 days. One billion seconds is 31 and 3/4 years. One trillion seconds is 31,710 years. Brain explosion.

The fact that the Moon, when viewed from Earth, seems almost equal to the Sun in size during a solar eclipse is a completely random cosmic coincidence

John Tyler was the 10th president of the United States. He was born in the XVIII century. Now two of his grandchildren are still alive

John Tyler had a son at the age of 63. This son had children at an even later age, so it so happened that two of Tyler's grandchildren are still alive, and this despite the fact that Tyler himself was born about 20 years after the signing of the US Declaration of Independence.

In a lifetime, a person produces enough saliva to fill two swimming pools

On average, the human body produces about 20 thousand liters of saliva during its life. This can be used to fill two standard swimming pools or 53 baths.