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1. Napoleon was 26 years old when he captured Italy.

2. Baghdad University awarded Uday, the eldest son of Saddam Hussein, a doctorate in political sciences. Although he did not even have a secondary education. His dissertation was titled “The Decline of American Power by 2016.”
3. In 1938, Time magazine named Hitler "Person of the Year."
4. During his service in the KGB, Vladimir Putin had the nickname "Moth".
5. Hitler was a vegetarian.
6. The Egyptian queen Cleopatra tested the effectiveness of her poisons by forcing her slaves to take them.
7. Cleopatra married her own brother - Ptolemy.
8. Cleopatra was not an Egyptian. She had Macedonian, Iranian and Greek roots.
9. Lafayette became a general in the US Army at 19. His full name is: Mary Joseph Paul Yves Rocher Gilbert de Motier, Marquis de Lafayette.
10. The Minister of Culture of the RSFSR in the 50s, Alexei Popov, was a well-known swindler.
11. The Mongol conqueror Timur (1336-1405) played something like polo with the skulls of the people he killed. He created a pyramid of their severed heads 9 meters high.
12. At the time of Lenin's death, his brain was only a quarter of its normal size.
13. Napoleon was not born in France, but on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. His parents were Italian and they had eight children.
14. The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon.
15. One of Napoleon's drinking bowls was made from the skull of the famous Italian adventurer Cagliostro.
16. The founder of the theory of communism Karl Marx has never been to Russia.
17. The first American Chief Justice, John Jay, bought slaves to free them.
18. The first person in history to be hit by a train was British MP William Huskinson.
19. The ancestors of Winston Churchill on the maternal side were ... Indians.
20. US President Andrew Jackson believed the Earth was flat.
21. During the reign of Elizabeth I, there was a tax on men's beards. However, Peter the Great did not favor bearded men either.
22. Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar ordered the execution of her subjects if they appeared to her in dreams without her permission.
23. Queen Victoria was presented with a piece of cheese with a diameter of 3 meters and a weight of 500 kilograms at the wedding.
24. King Henry VIII of England executed two of his six wives.
25. President of Uganda and one of the most ruthless dictators in the world, Idi Amin, served in the British Army before coming to power.
26. British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston died in 1865 on a pool table where he was making love to his servants.
27. At the court of the King of Spain, Alfonso, there was a special position - a hymnal. The fact is that the king had no musical ear at all, and he himself could not distinguish the anthem from other music. The hymnal had to warn the king when the national anthem was played.
28. The Roman emperor Nero married a man - one of his slaves named Skorus.
29. The Roman emperor Nero forced his teacher philosopher Seneca to commit suicide.
30. The height of Peter the Great was approximately 213 cm. Despite the fact that in those days the average height of men was significantly lower than today.
31. Sir Winston Churchill smoked no more than 15 cigars a day.
32. Tom Cruise at the age of 14 went to study at the seminary to become a priest, but left it after a year.
33. The French king Louis XIV had 413 beds.
34. The Israeli king Solomon had about 700 wives and several thousand mistresses.
35. King Louis XIV of France, known as the "Sun King", had over 400 beds.
36. Napoleon had ailurophobia - fear of cats.
37. Winston Churchill was born in the women's room of the Blenheim family castle. During the ball, his mother felt unwell and soon gave birth.
38. Physicist and Nobel Prize winner Niels Bohr and his brother, renowned mathematician Harald Bohr, were football players. At the same time, Harald was a member of the Danish national team and even took second place at the 1905 Olympics.
39. The phrase “The king is dead, long live the king” was uttered by Catherine de Medici when she learned about the death of her son Charles IX.
40. The Swedish King Charles VII, who was killed in 1167, was the first king of the state with the name Charles! Charles I, II, III, IV, V and VI never existed, and it is not clear where the prefix "seventh" came from. A couple of centuries later, King Charles VIII (1448-1457) appeared in Sweden.
41. Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was an ophthalmologist by profession.
42. Attila the Barbarian died in 453 on his wedding night immediately after the wedding.
43. Beethoven always brewed coffee from 64 grains.
44. British Queen Victoria (1819-1901), who ruled Britain for 64 years, spoke English with an accent. She had German roots.
45. In 1357, a dead woman was crowned Queen of Portugal. She became Princess Inés de Castro, the second wife of Pedro I. 2 years before, her father-in-law, Alfonso "Proud", who hated her for being a commoner, secretly ordered his people to kill her and her children. When Pedro became king, he ordered the removal of Inés' body from the grave and forced the nobility to recognize her as Queen of Portugal.
46. ​​In 1849, Senator David Atchison became President of the United States for only 1 day, and most of that day he ... overslept.
47. The Grand Vizier of Persia, Abdul Kassim Ismail (who lived in the 10th century) never parted with his library. If he went somewhere, the library “followed” him. 117 thousand book volumes were transported by 400 camels. Moreover, the books (together with the camels) were arranged in alphabetical order.
48. The great Genghis Khan died while having sex.
49. Hannibal died in 183 BC. e. taking poison when he learned that the Romans had come to kill him.
50. Hans-Christian Andersen could not write almost a single word without errors.
51. Henry IV often flogged his son, the future Louis XIII.
52. The Danish king Frederick IV was a bigamist. He married twice while his wife Queen Louise was alive. His first lover died in childbirth, his second lover was only queen for 19 days after the death of Queen Louise. All the children from both of his mistresses either died at birth or in infancy, as he believed for his sinful life. He later became extremely religious.
53. Jack the Ripper, the most famous killer of the 19th century, always committed his crimes on weekends.
54. Dr. Alice Chase, who wrote the book "Healthy Eating" and many books on proper nutrition, died of malnutrition.
55. Once the merchant Krasnobryukhov turned to Alexander I with a request to change his surname, and he allowed him to be called ... Sinebryukhov. After that, the merchant went to Finland with grief and founded the famous Koff brewing company there.
56. When the Russian Queen Elizabeth I died in 1762, more than 15,000 dresses were found in her wardrobe.
57. Mozart started composing music at the age of 3.
58. There is not a single living descendant of William Shakespeare left on Earth.
59. Before composing music, Beethoven poured a bucket of cold water on his head, believing that it stimulated the brain.
60. Thomas Edison wrote 40,000 pages while designing the light bulb.
61. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Felix Mendelssohn wrote at the age of 17. It became his most famous work.
62. Beria suffered from syphilis.
63. More than 100 descendants of Johann Sebastian Bach became organists.
64. In the ZZ Top group, only one member does not have a beard. And his name is Beard, which in English means ... "beard".
65. Since 1932, only Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush have not been elected to the United States for a second term as president.
66. Ilf and Petrov discarded ideas that came to both minds at once - in order to avoid clichés.
67. When Beethoven wrote the famous Ninth Symphony, he was completely deaf.
68. Composer Franz Liszt was the father-in-law of the German composer Richard Wagner.
69. Paul McCartney's mother was a midwife.
70. Writer Rudyard Kipling couldn't write in ink unless it was black.
71. Writer Charles Dickens wrote with his face to the north. He also always slept with his head to the north.
72. The Roman emperor Commodus gathered dwarfs, cripples and freaks from all over the Roman Empire to arrange fights between them in the Colosseum.
73. The Roman emperor Julius Caesar wore a laurel wreath on his head to hide his growing baldness.
74. Russian composer Alexander Borodin was also a well-known chemist in St. Petersburg.
75. The smallest of the American presidents is James Madison (1.62 m), and Abraham Lincoln is the tallest (1.93 m).
76. The shortest British monarch is Charles I. His height was 4 feet 9 inches (about 140 cm). After his head was cut off, his height became even smaller.
77. The body of Voltaire, who died in 1778, was stolen from the grave and was never found. The loss was discovered in 1864.
78. Balzac has a whole book dedicated to ... a tie.
79. The British Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) had about 3,000 outfits.
80. American Pete Ruff knocks an apple off his own head with a boomerang.
81. American industrial tycoon and billionaire John Rockefeller donated over $550 million. to various foundations and institutions.
82. American President Benjamin Franklin advocated that the national bird of America was the turkey.
83. In 1856, the English chemist William Perkin, while trying to obtain quinine from aniline, invented the first artificial dye, mauveine.
84. In the village of Lobovskoye, Saratov Region. there lives a beekeeper who is able to withstand 40 hours in a hive with bees completely naked.
85. In the period from 1952 - 1966, 5 children were born in the family of Ralph and Carolyn Cummins and all of them have a birthday on February 20th.
86. Galileo Galilei was the first person to propose using a pendulum to measure time.
87. Hannibal died in 183 BC after taking poison when he learned that the Romans had come to kill him.
88. Grover Cleveland was the only US president to marry in the White House.
89. James Madison was the smallest of the American presidents (1.62 m), and Abraham Lincoln was the tallest (1.93 m).
90. Dr. Alice Chase, who wrote the book Healthy Eating and many books on proper nutrition, died of malnutrition.
91. For 35 years, Mozart created over 600 works. But after his death, the widow did not have money for a separate place in the cemetery
92. Famous 19th century bullfighter Lagarijo (born Rafael Molina) killed 4867 bulls.
93. When the German physicist A. Einstein died, his last words went with him. The nurse who was nearby did not understand German.
94. The maximum number of crossword puzzles was Andrian Bell. From January 1930 to 1980 he sent 4,520 crossword puzzles to The Times.
95. Robert Lincoln, son of President Lincoln, was rescued from a car accident by one Edwin Booth. As it turns out, Edwin is the brother of Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. The father tried to kill the father, and their children saved each other
96. The first American president to use the telephone was James Garfield.
97. The concept of a negative number was first introduced by the Italian merchant Pisano in 1202, denoting his debts and losses.
98. The world's largest private collection of meteorites belongs to the American Robert Haag - from the age of 12 he collected 2 tons of heavenly stones.
99. Thomas Edison had a collection of birds in 5000 copies.
100. Frenchmen Jeanne Louise and Guy Bruty made a crossword puzzle on a sheet of paper 5 m long and 3 m wide, from 18 thousand words and 50 thousand cells.
101. Shakespeare mentioned roses more than 50 times in his poems.
102. Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States, was the only president to make his own clothes.
103. Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the same day - February 12, 1809. The scientist lived almost 20 years longer than the politician.
104. Bill Clinton sent two emails during his entire presidency, one of which was a test to check that everything was working properly. I wonder who the second letter was to? Maybe Monica?
105. In 1759, Arthur Guinness leased St. Gate's brewery for 9,000 years at a rent of £45 a year. The famous Guinness beer was brewed there.
106. In 1981, Deborah Ann Fontan, Miss New York, was disqualified for excessive use of cotton stuffing in a swimsuit competition.
107. George Washington did not shake hands when meeting - he preferred to bow
108. The only president of the United States, concurrently being the chairman of any union - Ronald Reagan, who heads the Screen Actors Guild
109. If you remember a little school physics course, then you know that there is a Richter temperature scale. So this same Charles Richter was a malicious nudist, because of which his wife left him
110. If you read the works of the writer Stephen King, you should notice that most of the actions of his stories take place in Maine. Paradoxically, this state has the lowest crime rate in the United States.
111. The founder of psychoanalysis has a lot of oddities. Freud was terrified of the number 62. He refused to book a hotel room with more than 62 rooms for fear of accidentally getting a room with the number 62. He used cocaine, like many of his contemporaries.
112. The famous entrepreneur Henry Ford preferred to hire people with physical disabilities - among the workers of his factories in 1919, there was one disabled person for four healthy people.
113. Research Louis Pasteur sponsored a beer factory. They also paid him a ticket to an international congress. When Pasteur was given the floor at the congress, the first thing he did was to hang advertising posters with beer on the stage. And he began his speech with the words that this beer is the best. And then he got down to business.
114. Madonna and Celine Dion are cousins ​​of Prince Charles's wife, Camilla
115. The father of the famous comedian Leslie Nielsen (The Naked Gun, etc.) served as a policeman in Canada, and his brother worked in the Canadian Parliament
116. The father of tennis player Andre Agassi represented Iran at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics. He was... a boxer

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1. According to statistics, chronic alcoholics live 15 years longer than people who work without vacation. Rest, more, gentlemen, but do not abuse alcohol!
2. 25% of our compatriots think about sex while stuck in a traffic jam. Oddly enough, only 6% think about work.
3. Blue-eyed people are less likely to suffer from visual impairment than brown-eyed and gray-eyed people.
4. Brown-eyed people are more adapted to everyday difficulties.
5. An interesting fact of life: the more often a man makes love, the lower his risk of a heart attack. Consider this a guide to action! Unfortunately, this does not apply to women.
6. In the morning we are about 1 centimeter taller. During the day, the joints are compressed, which makes us a little lower in the evening.
7. No person in the world can sneeze with their eyes open. Want to check it out? Please! Just don't do it while driving. According to statistics, 2% of all accidents occur due to the fact that the driver sneezed and lost his vigilance for a couple of seconds.
8. Women speak 13,000 more words per day than men. All men will agree with this fact, but women may be outraged!
9. Interestingly, in a cold bedroom, nightmares are more common.
10. Swearing can dull the pain for a while. Probably, Russian builders feel it on an intuitive level!
11. The more you overeat, the worse your hearing gets.
12. Cats' taste buds are not sensitive to sweets. By the way, read in a separate article.
13. Men's hair is coarser and thicker than women's. However, there are twice as many hairs on a woman's head!
14. If a woman periodically listens to an audio recording of a baby crying, her breasts can increase by 2 centimeters in a week.
15. There is a small pocket on men's jeans that designers came up with in order to hide a condom there. In fact, it is designed for hours. Recommended reading.
16. The best cleaner for kettles, bathtubs, toilets and ovens is regular Coca-Cola!
17. Unpainted Coca-Cola is green.
    
18. Flavored cigarettes contain urea.
19. The timbre of the voice of women who work in a male team is much lower than that of ladies who work side by side with other women.
20. Regular sex relieves headaches. Interestingly, not all women use this fact in their lives. But men can take it into service as an argument!
21. It is more convenient for left-handers to chew food with the left side of the jaws.
22. You can stop yawning by touching your tongue with your finger.
23. When talking to a person we like, our pupils involuntarily dilate.
24. When there are many cows, it is a herd. Many horses are called a herd. A large group of sheep - a flock. But when there are a lot of frogs - this is ... an army! At least that's what zoologists call them.
25. A 4-5 year old child asks about 400 questions a day.
26. Fear of Friday the 13th is considered a disease and is successfully cured by psychotherapists.
27. A clear fact from life: the average person eats 35 tons of food in a lifetime.
28. Turtles can breathe through their anus.
29. OK (okay) is the most frequently used word in most languages ​​of the world.
30. 95% of emails sent by email are spam.
31. A champagne cork can jump up to a height of 12 meters.
32. Interestingly, in the entire history of the Earth, there were no two identical snowflakes. However, like people. Even twins have slight differences.
    
33. In 2 years, a pair of rats can give birth to more than a million cubs. For comparison, a domestic cat gives birth to no more than 100 kittens in a lifetime.
34. The first president, George Washington, in his spare time loved to admire the lush cannabis bushes that grew in his garden.
35. Do not microwave grapes or they will explode!
36. The cow is not able to go down the stairs.
37. Incredible, but true: the largest eyes on Earth belong to a giant (colossal) squid. They are about the size of a soccer ball.
38. Humpback whales scream louder than all animals on Earth. The cry of these mammals is louder than the roar of an airplane and is heard in the open ocean for more than 500 kilometers.
39. Believe it or not, a caterpillar has more muscles than a human.
40. People in white swimsuits and swimming trunks are more likely to become victims of sharks on beaches.
41. The nostrils of a shark are an organ of smell, but not of breathing. Sharks breathe with gills.
42. Babies have more bones than adults.
43. The lighter the beard, the faster it grows.
44. An interesting fact from life: the smartest woman (according to the results of the IQ test) was ... a housewife.
45. Over 1,000 people die each year from lightning strikes.
46. Initially, cologne was used to treat the plague.
47. Koalas sleep 22 hours a day. Eh!..
    
48. Domestic injuries and heart attacks peak on Monday.
49. Every day, 13 new varieties of children's toys appear in the world.
50. The most common tree in the world is the Siberian larch.
51. And this fact is terrible, despite the fact that it is about life. Some sharks eat their siblings while still in the womb. Truly, the fittest survive!
52. Contrary to popular belief, anteaters do not eat ants. Their main food is termites.
53. The Indians and Aztecs used cocoa beans instead of money.
54. A quarter of our skeleton is made up of leg bones.
55. Dogs are able to guess the intentions of the owners. Pay attention to .
56. The heart of a shrimp is located in the head, in the back of the head. Nearby are the genitals.
57. The tongue of a giraffe reaches a length of up to half a meter.
58. Blue can not breathe for 2 hours.
59. Surprisingly, it is a fact: the female nightingale cannot sing.
60. A postage stamp contains one tenth of a calorie.
61. Tongue prints, like fingerprints, are unique and unrepeatable.
62. Purple clothes are worn as a sign of mourning in Turkey. In all other Muslim countries, white is considered mourning.
63. In the late 19th century, cocaine was used to treat insomnia and the common cold.
64. If you chew gum while peeling onions, it is impossible to cry.
65. Ticks can go 10 years without food.
66. Until the end of the 19th century, it was possible to buy vodka in Russia only in a 12-liter bucket. People knew the measure once! By the way, we recommend reading where we have put together a very interesting selection.
67. There are more color blind people among men than among women.
68. This fact from life may surprise you. The fact is that some men are terribly afraid of virgins. Psychologists call this phenomenon parthenophobia.
69. The hibernation period in snails can last 3 years.
70. Vinegar can dissolve pearls.
71. 99% of the living things that ever lived on Earth are now extinct.
72. Every day on Earth, 3 people undergo a sex change operation.

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1. If you want to burn more than 150 calories in an hour, bang your head against the wall.

2. Did you know that eating pies in the UK at Christmas is illegal.

3. Pteronophobia causes people to panic from being tickled by bird feathers.

4. Did you know that hippos sweat? And their sweat, when they're upset, is red.

5. A flying flock of crows is very dangerous for life, it is better to avoid meeting with them.

6. On average, a woman puts so much lipstick on her lips in 5 years that if they are folded into one tube, its length will be equal to the height of a woman.

7. Herophobia is an inexplicable fear of pleasure (fun).

8. Have you heard that human saliva exceeds the boiling point of water by as much as three times.

9. If you raise the tail of a kangaroo, then he will not be able to jump.

10. Ed Hendrick was the man who invented the Frisbee (flying saucers) and was cremated after his death. Plates were made from his remains, which were given to relatives as a token of his memory.

11. A person in his entire life produces so much saliva that it can fill a whole pool.

12. An eagle can grab a young deer and even kill it.

13. A polar bear can eat as many as 86 penguins in one sitting.

14. King Henry VIII took a giant ax with him at night.

15. You imagine that women's tampons and bikinis were invented by a man.

16. Doctors have found that on Monday a large number of people have heart attacks.

17. Beans, corn, bell peppers, cauliflower, cabbage and milk, these foods will turn your gut upside down.

18. Hobo Spider, here is another type of spider recently discovered by scientists.

19. "Fencing on penises" is a scientific term that denotes the beginning of a mating ritual between flatworms. It consists in the one who “pricks” the other more, he won. Prize - the winner becomes a uterus.

20. A toaster uses almost half the energy that full-size ovens use.

21. The child of a spider is called Spiderling.

22. A person cannot snore and dream at the same time.

23. Baby octopus, born the size of a flea.

24. A duck, a sheep and a rooster were the first passengers to take to the air in a balloon.

25. In Uganda, 50% of the population are minors, their age reaches 15 years.

26. Arab women can file for divorce only because their husbands didn't make them a cup of coffee.

27. Dog feces diluted in vinegar help relieve itching and swelling from an insect bite.

28. Catfish is the only animal that has an odd number of antennae.

29. Facebook, Skype and Twitter are banned in China.

30. 95% of people cannot say in person their opinion about any thing.

31. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

32. In Poole, England, the Pound of the World store went bankrupt, just because a store across the street called 99p. sold the same goods, but only 1 pence cheaper!

33. Approximately 8,000 Americans are injured on musical instruments every year.

34. Nearly 3% of the ice in Antarctica consists of penguin urine.

35. Sea otters, when sleeping, hold on to each other so as not to move away during the current.

36. A small child can swim through the veins of a blue whale.

38. The name of Hewlett-Packard was chosen by lot.

39. The total number of steps on the Eiffel Tower is 1665 steps.

40. The Pokémon Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan were the "children" of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.

41. Toothpaste "Colgate" in Spanish translates as "go and hang yourself!".

42. Pirates wear earrings because they think their eyesight will improve.

43. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Porjuncula."

44. Dr. Kellogg introduced Kellogg corn flakes in the hope that it would reduce masturbation.

45. Octopus testicles are in his head!

46. ​​In England, in the 1880s, "Pants" was considered a dirty word.

48. Each person spends about half an hour looking at one point.

49. If you leave everything to the last moment ... it will only take a minute.

50. Itifallophobia means fear of erection.

51. The first alarm clock can only ring at 4 am.

52. Birds don't pee.

53. The word "ejaculation" is translated from Latin as "throw away"

55. A slug has 4 noses.

56. Potato, apple and onion all taste the same when you eat them with your nose closed.

57. George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.

58. A company in Taiwan makes tableware from wheat, so you can safely eat your own plate for lunch!

59. The Bible is one of the most stolen books in stores.

60. Marco Hort set the world record for placing 264 straws in his mouth at once!

61. Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, suffered from an allergy to carrots.

62. In California, driving licenses were seen for 6 drivers whose name was Jesus Christ.

63. Genesis 1:20-22 says the hen came before the egg.

64. In the Caribbean, there are oysters that can climb trees.

65. Worms drink their urine.

66. Over 1,000 birds die each year from window smashing.

67. The inventor of the waffle iron hates waffles.

68. George Bush was once an amateur.

69. In Japan, it is quite acceptable to call your child "Asshole" or "Hooker".

70. Every year, there are more than 40,000 toilet injuries in the US.

71. Madonna suffers from gamophobia, this is the fear of entering into marriage.

72. More people speak English in China than in the US.

73. Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday the 13th!

74. Kleenex provided their filter fabrics for gas masks.

75. In 1998, Sony sold over 700,000 camcorders that filmed people through their clothes. These cameras had special lenses that used infrared light, which allowed them to see through multiple layers of clothing.

76. When the monkeys finish fighting, they begin to masturbate.

77. In Japan, Ronald McDonald is called "Donald McDonald" because it is easier to pronounce in Japanese, and in Singapore he is known as "Uncle McDonald".

78. American archer Matt Stutzman, who had no arms since birth, set a Guinness record and plans to compete at the Olympics.

79. Scientists in Germany have released candies that do not cause tooth decay.

80. In 1964, Randy Gardner, who was 17 years old at the time, set a wakefulness record of 264 hours and 12 minutes. He then slept for 15 hours.

81. Close to 4 billion years ago there was oxygen on the planet Mars.

82. Astronauts in space can't burp.

83. Such a fruit as an avocado for birds is poison.

84. Any spacecraft must move at a speed of 7 km/s.

85. An elephant does not have a single bone in its trunk, but there are 4,000 muscles.

86. Rodent teeth never stop growing.

87. On average, a person spends 3 years of his life “reading a newspaper” on the toilet.

88. In 2006, a woman farted on a plane and tried to hide the smell, as a result, an emergency landing was made and an FBI investigation was underway

89. In the Russian army during the march, instead of the anthem, soldiers sing a song from the cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants.

90. Most people who read the word "yawn" begin to yawn.

91. 99 hours is the record time for playing Monopoly.

92. Men who kiss their wives in the morning live 5 years longer than those who don't.

93. Statistics prove that Australian women have sex on the first date.

94. More than 30% of Chinese adults live with their parents.

95. Harvard scientists believe that if you eat chocolate regularly, you can live longer.

97. The ancient Romans, when they took the oath, put their hands on their heads.

98. During the gold rush in 1849, only $100 was paid for a glass of water.

99. The can opener was invented 48 years after the invention of the can.

100. Nearly 150 people die every year from coconuts.

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6. The biggest wave ever ridden was as high as 10 storey building.

7. Rumor - the fastest of feelings person.

8. Since the rotation of the Earth's axis has slowed down, daywhen dinosaurs livedlasted approximately 23 hours.

9. On Earth more plastic flamingos than real ones.

10. To cook scrambled eggs on the sidewalk, its temperature should reach 70 degrees Celsius.

11. 54 million people alive today will die within a year.

12. Charlie Chaplin once participated in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike competition and took 3rd place there.

13. Most records off-screen laughter in comedy shows was recorded in the 1950s. So many of that audience are no longer alive.

14. Antarctica - the only continent where no corn is grown.

15. Lighters were invented before matches.

16. Napoleon was not short. His height is 170 cm, which was considered the average height for the French in those days.

17. Best time for daytime sleep between 13:00 and 14:30 because at this time the body temperature drops.

18. Children do not taste salty until 4 months.

19. Male pandas perform handstand, when they urinate to mark a tree.

20. If only The earth would be the size of a grain of sand, The sun would be the size of an orange.

21. The Dead Sea is not completely dead. Microbes halophiles live in its salty water.

22. The first horses were the size of Siamese cats. These were the smallest horses that ever lived.

23. Only about 100 people in the world can speak fluent Latin.

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1. The only part of the body that does not have a blood supply is the cornea of ​​the eye. It receives oxygen directly from the air.
2. The human brain has a capacity of over 4 terabytes.
3. Up to 7 months, a baby can breathe and swallow at the same time.
4. Our skull is made up of 29 different bones.
5. The nerve impulse from the brain moves at a speed of 274 km/h.
6. One human brain generates more electrical impulses in one day than all the phones in the world combined.
7. The average human body contains enough sulfur to kill all the fleas on the average dog; carbon - to make 900 pencils; potassium - to shoot from a toy gun; fat - to make 7 bars of soap; and enough water to fill a 50 liter barrel.
8. The human heart pumps 182 million liters of blood in its lifetime.
9. 50,000 cells in your body are dying and being replaced by new ones while you are reading this sentence.
10. The fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of 3 months.
11. Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
12. A man named Charles Osborne hiccupped for 68 years.
13. Right-handed people live an average of 9 years longer than left-handed people.
14. Approximately 2/3 of people tilt their heads to the right when kissing.
15. A person forgets 90% of his dreams.
16. The total length of blood vessels in the human body is about 100 thousand km.
17. In spring, the respiratory rate is on average 1/3 higher than in autumn.
18. By the end of life, a person remembers an average of 150 trillion bits of information.
19. 80% of the heat of the human body leaves the head.
20. When you blush, your stomach turns red too.
21. The feeling of thirst appears with a loss of water equal to 1% of body weight. A loss of more than 5% can lead to fainting, and more than 10% can lead to death from dehydration.
22. At least 700 enzymes work in the human body.
23. Humans are the only creatures that sleep on their backs.
24. On average, a 4-year-old child asks 450 questions a day.
25. In addition to humans, koalas also have unique fingerprints.
26. Only 1% of bacteria cause disease in humans.
27. All people on the planet can be comfortably placed in a cube with a side of 1,000 meters.
28. The scientific name for the navel is umbilicus.
29. The tooth is the only part of the human body that is not capable of self-healing.
30. The average person needs 7 minutes to fall asleep.
31. The right-hander chews most of the food on the right side of the jaw, the left-hander - on the left.
32. There are only 7% left-handers in the world.
33. The aroma of apples and bananas helps to lose weight.
34. The length of hair on the head, grown by a person on average during his life, is 725 km.
35. Among people who can move their ears, only 1/3 can move one ear.
36. The average person swallows 8 small spiders in their lifetime.
37. The total weight of bacteria living in the human body is 2 kg.
38. 99% of all calcium in the body is in the teeth.
39. Human lips are hundreds of times more sensitive than fingertips. A real kiss increases the pulse to a frequency of 100 or more beats per minute.
40. The absolute strength of the masticatory muscles on one side is 195 kg.
41. During a kiss, 278 different cultures of bacteria are transferred from one person to another. Luckily, 95% of them are harmless.
42. Parthenophobia is the fear of virgins.
43. Tooth enamel is the hardest tissue produced by the human body.
44. If you collect all the iron contained in the human body, you get only a small screw for the clock.
45. There are over 100 different viruses that cause the common cold.
46. A kiss of sufficient duration is much better than chewing gum, normalizes acidity in the mouth.
47. Banging your head against a wall can lose 150 calories an hour.
48. Man is the only representative of the animal kingdom capable of drawing straight lines.
49. During a lifetime, human skin is replaced approximately 1,000 times.
50. Every person has dimples on the lower back, only in some they are pronounced, while in others they are less noticeable. The dimples are located where the pelvis fuses with the sacrum, so their appearance is quite reasonable.
51. Women blink about 2 times more often than men.
52. The composition of the human body includes only 4 minerals: apatite, aragonite, calcite and cristobalite.
53. A real passionate kiss causes the same chemical reactions in the brain as skydiving and firing a gun.
54. Men are considered dwarfs when they are under 130 cm tall, women are under 120 cm.
55. Fingernails grow about 4 times faster than toenails.
56. People with blue eyes are more sensitive to pain than everyone else.
57. Nerve impulses in the human body move at a speed of about 90 meters per second.
58. In the human brain, 100 thousand chemical reactions occur in 1 second.
59. Children are born without kneecaps. They appear only at the age of 2–6 years.
60. If one of the identical twins is missing one or another tooth, as a rule, the same tooth is missing in the other twin.
61. The surface area of ​​human lungs is roughly the size of a tennis court.
62. On average, a person spends 2 weeks kissing in his entire life.
63. Blondes grow beards faster than brunettes.
64. Leukocytes in the human body live 2-4 days, and erythrocytes - 3-4 months.
65. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
66. The size of a human heart is approximately equal to the size of his fist. The weight of an adult heart is 220-260 grams.
67. From the moment of birth, 14 billion cells already exist 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 the age of 40, brain degradation accelerates sharply, and after 50, neurons (nerve cells) dry out and the volume of the brain shrinks.
68. At birth, there are about 300 bones in the body of a child; in adulthood, there are only 206 of them.
69. The human small intestine during life has a length of about 2.5 meters. After his death, when the musculature of the intestinal wall relaxes, the length reaches 6 meters.
70. The right lung of a person holds more air than the left.
71. An adult person takes about 23 thousand breaths (and exhalations) per day.
72. The smallest cells in a man's body are sperm cells.
73. There are about 40,000 bacteria in the human mouth.
74. There are about 2,000 taste buds in the human body.
75. The human eye can distinguish 10 million colors.
76. The chemical compound responsible for the ecstasy of love (phenylethylamine) is present in chocolate.
77. The human heart creates pressure that is enough to raise the blood to the level of the 4th floor.
78. A person burns more calories while sleeping than while watching TV.
79. Children grow fastest in spring.
80. Every year, more than 2,000 left-handers die due to errors in the operation of mechanisms designed for right-handers.
81. It turns out that every 300th man has the opportunity to satisfy himself orally.
82. A person uses 17 muscles when he smiles and 43 when he frowns.
83. By the age of 60, most people have lost half of their taste buds.
84. While flying in an airplane, a person's hair growth rate doubles.
85. 1% of people can see infrared and 1% can see ultraviolet.
86. If you are locked in a completely enclosed room, then you will die from carbon dioxide poisoning, not from lack of air.
87. According to statistics, only 1 person in 2 billion crosses the threshold of 116 years.
88. The average person speaks 4,800 words in 24 hours.
89. The retina inside the eye covers about 650 square meters. mm and contains 137 million light-sensitive cells: 130 million rods for black and white vision and 7 million cones for color vision.
90. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
91. In the morning, a person is about 8 mm taller than in the evening.
92. The focus muscles of the eye move 100,000 times a day. In order for the muscles of the legs to make the same amount of contractions, you need to walk 80 km a day.
93. Cough - an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 100 km / h.
94. According to German researchers, the risk of a heart attack is higher on Monday than on any other day of the week.
95. Bone is 5 times stronger than steel.
96. You can't sneeze with your eyes open.
97. Ingrown nails are a hereditary trait.
98. A normal person will die from complete lack of sleep faster than from starvation. Death will occur in about 10 days without sleep, while starvation will occur in a few weeks.
99. The average life expectancy is 2,475,576,000 seconds, we speak an average of 123,205,750 words in a lifetime, we have sex 4,239 times.
100. To get dimples on the cheeks, it is not necessary to resort to surgery. For this there is