Amazing and incredible facts. The most interesting historical facts about different things

In this collection of interesting and incredible facts, we have collected for you the most interesting, unexpected, educational and fun facts from all over the world.

Morocco- the only country in the world where goats, due to a lack of grass, climb trees and graze in whole herds, feasting on the fruits of the argan tree, the nuts of which are used to make a fragrant place.

We can change jobs, spouses, or religions, but until we change inside, we will attract the same people and the same circumstances.

April 11, 1909. About a hundred people cast lots to equally divide the 12 acres of purchased sand dunes. Then it will become Tel Aviv.

This photo shows a rally of Hitler supporters, which took place in 1937.

Hitler supporters rally - 1937

No rally in the history of mankind has brought together such a number of people. After 8 years (in 1945) they will say that they never supported Hitler’s ideas.

Saint Petersburg
The only European capital that has never, at any time in history, been captured by the enemy.

For the cartoon “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” he awarded Walt Disney in 1937 special award "Oscar"– one large figurine and seven small ones.

In 1975, Academician Sakharov received Nobel Prize peace.
That is, the man who invented the hydrogen bomb received the Peace Prize named after the man who invented dynamite... Peace to the world.

The executioner bird impales mice on the thorns of bushes, thus making provisions for a rainy day.

The English Mastiff is the largest living dog on earth. Antique English breed of Great Dane, the largest Great Dane in Europe and the largest of mastiffs.

The world's smallest private library belongs to Hungarian Jozsef Tari and contains more than 4,500 items.

If a person under the influence of hypnosis is told that a cigarette will touch his hand, the brain will send impulses and burn marks will appear on his hand.

Helicopter flights are prohibited over Antarctica because penguins short neck, try to look at them and fall down like dominoes.

Box with the blood of poets, 1965-1968.
In 1965, Eleanor Antin (a conceptual artist) began collecting blood samples and within 3 years she had collected samples from 100 poets.
She was inspired to do this by Jean Cocteau with his 1935 film “The Blood of a Poet.”
Among the poets who donated their blood were such personalities as Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jerome Rothenberg and others. Now this box is in the Tate Gallery (American Foundation). Hence the question. For what?

Monument to a woman's handbag, Italy
The sculpture was first presented in Italy at the exhibition “Thoughts. Space. Dialogue between nature and imagination”, Piedmonte in the province of Cuneo, in 2013. A woman's handbag is a very important wardrobe item. Psychologists say that a handbag can determine the character, hobbies and much more about its owner.

Guardian of the Royal Chair
This was the most coveted and honorable position at the court of monarchs. The duties of this courtier included nothing more than wiping the royal buttocks after fulfilling their natural needs. Oddly enough, the guardians had enormous power at court, and the expression “licking ass” came to mean: “moving up the career ladder.”

Until the twentieth century, the position of “Groom of the King’s Close Stool” was highly valued at the British court. He was a courtier responsible for assisting the monarch in fulfilling his natural needs. Considering the fact that the king’s body was considered almost sacred, only representatives of noble blood could touch it. It is worth noting that lords and counts very willingly became Guardians of the Royal Chair, despite the fact that they literally I had to wipe the king's bottom.

Under King George III, his courtier John Stewart, Earl of Bute, performed his duties in the dressing room so well that he rose to the rank of Prime Minister of England.

It turns out that it took an engineer 22 years of work to develop a modern zipper.

In Norway, income tax is halved in December. This is done so that people can buy more gifts for the New Year.

The biggest catch ever made in the world. This fish was caught in Kazan in 1921.

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No matter how much knowledge you have, there is always something interesting in the world that you could learn about today. 6. The most a big wave , which we rode on, was height with.

10-story building 7. Hearing - the fastest of feelings

8. Since the rotation of the Earth’s axis has slowed down, dayduring the time when dinosaurs lived,lasted approximately 23 hours.

9. On Earth more plastic flamingos than real ones.

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

11. 54 million people alive today they will die in a year.

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

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

14. Antarctica – the only continent where corn is not grown.

15. Lighters were invented before matches..

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

17. Best time For nap between 1 and 2:30 p.m., since at this time the body temperature drops.

18. Children do not feel salty taste 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 Latin fluently.

"Terribly interesting
All that is unknown."

(song of talking animals
from the cartoon "38 Parrots")

“- Yesterday, in short, I read on the internet...”

(conversation on a bench in the yard)

A white crow, a camel girl, an aquarium toilet, a cake in the shape of a laptop, a lady with a hairstyle in the shape of a frigate, and that's not all. Tetris tie, ghost towns, X-rays, theft of dentures and many more ideas for unusual gifts, events and travel - this is the Kunstkamera.

Curious and odious, shocking and attractive things, phenomena and people are collected from the crazy world one by one and sorted into more than 450 articles, each of which is neatly displayed on its own page. Most often they find us when they are looking for something about, or.... Fear of death and love still, like two packs of hounds, pursue every person.

Heavy and high hairstyles in the shape of ships were overthrown along with the royal power in France by the incorruptible Robespierre and the tongue-tied Danton. It turned out that hairstyles and outfits are nothing compared to in the highest way human self-expression, revolutionary activity. Who is the greatest revolutionary in our memorable history? That's right, this is a nice guy Che. In the treasury article, our eyes are opened to the star and death of an eternally young youth idol, who himself did not live to see 40. We learn about how Guevara abandoned the army in his youth, and then became a major and signed himself “Stalin II.” Or how the future Cuban minister Ernesto, on the orders of the police who detained him, coached and led a rural football team to victory in the interdistrict cup.

Science, fueling progress, turns the unusual into the ordinary. By creating a wide assortment of miracles, she exchanges the old boredom of life for a new one, one whim for a second, third and hundredth. More precisely, a cell phone. Nowadays, to be a unique person, if not a smart one, it is enough to buy an extraordinary device, for example, a mobile phone with an ultrasonic mosquito repeller. Or for one SIM card a phone in the form matchbox, and on the second - a la pack of cigarettes. This material will help you choose the life-changing gadget.

Another plane of human individuality is what our distant ancestors called “shame”, and our children called the “bikini zone”. Masterpieces of hidden unusualness, intimate hairstyles have become popular in last century, the fashion for shaving and decorating one place blossomed in the late 1980s and continues to this day. You can read about the most unusual intimate hairstyles, women's and men's, in. We warn you to be careful - there you will find... a clubfooted bear(s) and curly-haired Frank Farian, peeking out of ladies' panties.

If your career does not go beyond universal ideas of success, then to work you will most likely have to wear a neckerchief, called a tie or “kravatka” (the second name, oddly enough, is born from the word “Croatian”). In order to stand out from the office crowd, you will need an original tie. If the main and main thing in your work is the lunch break, then feel free to tie a “noose” in the form of a hot dog with mustard around your neck. You need to hypnotize the client - there is a tie with a crossword puzzle, there is nowhere to put a small pink player - buy an accessory with a special pocket. Full review men's neck jewelry in the "crazy" style is presented on the page.

Or maybe you hate the office and don’t like nature? Yes, many computer and Internet users are indifferent to nature. They will never go to hot Asia to see how an elephant swims, stretching its spine and escaping the heat. But they will be happy to look at the photos. And about the elephant, and about the deer, whose antlers in the darkness mixed with the shadows of bushes and trees. About two bears, one of which is neck-deep in water, the other only ankle-deep. The article tells and shows what the arctic fox looks like when it comes, and some other living and beautiful things.

To the unusual beauties of living nature and sleeping stones one cannot help but add (to complete the bouquet of beauties) the aesthetic power of death. Not your own, but what happens in the small world of insects. If you look at the “predator-prey” relationship among insects through a macro lens, you will see enchanting pictures of a meeting between a black fly and a light-colored praying mantis, for example. Or a dragonfly and a bug it caught. That's what the article is called -. If these wonderful insects were even the size of a third of a person, we would not survive on planet Earth.

A variety of skills, tricks and mechanisms help the living to avoid a beautiful death. As in humans, in fauna defense mechanisms are determined hormonally - if adrenaline enters the nerve, it leads to anger, if norepinephrine - to fear. Therefore, some opossums, at the moment of danger, plunge into a reversible coma, the larva of the Colorado potato beetle is covered with poisonous hemolymph, and the bombardier beetle pours boiling water on the oncoming person from its own backside. How different animals defend themselves differently is written and photographed in the article.

A fake sea maiden is a one-piece, relic item, but mermaids have a place not only on museum shelves, but also in private collections. Remember the gun millionaire from the movies who collected body parts of stars and celebrities? Such eccentrics exist in reality. The demand for outlandish chimeras gives rise to outlandish supply. In a series of articles, an unusual site introduces Russian-speaking consumers and amateurs to the achievements of North American taxidermy. The art of making stuffed animals and dummies presents us with a huge number of extraordinary gifts and souvenirs. Do you want to use the skull of the Soviet socialist Chikatilo as an ashtray “just like a real one”? There you are! Do you need the severed hands of those swindlers who cheated in poker? In a jar with a warning label? Let's do it! After all, everything terrible is charming for someone. And vice versa…

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Story human civilization reliably keeps many secrets, many of which will never be solved. But the last two centuries have presented the world with many mysteries that researchers are puzzling over. The most mysterious incidents in the world of the XX-XXI centuries - today we’ll talk about ten secrets modern history humanity.

Crop Circles

The most mysterious incidents in the world include mysterious ones. It's varied geometric figures formed by crushed plants in agricultural fields. The drawings are created perfectly smoothly and can form complex pictograms. Their size varies: they can be small or huge, fully visible only from an airplane. Much attention they began to be called in the 1970s in England. In 1972, in the south of the country, two eyewitnesses moonlit night Those watching the sky in the hope of seeing a UFO noticed how the grass in the field lay down, forming a circle. The peak of interest in the mysterious phenomenon occurred in the 1990s. The earliest mentions of the appearance of such pictograms (drawings) in the margins date back to the 17th century.

The most varied hypotheses for the origin of crop circles are put forward: the activities of an alien civilization, micro-tornadoes, ball lightning and hoaxes of interested parties. Thus, the Englishmen David Chorley and Douglas Bauer admitted in 1991 that the appearance of the first circles was their doing. They claim that they have created about 250 pictograms since 1978. But many continue to believe that the mysterious phenomenon of amazing drawings in the fields is not a hoax, but unsolved messages from mysterious forces. Crop circles are in 10th place among the most mysterious incidents on Earth.

The fall of the Tunguska meteorite

June 30, 1908 at 7 a.m. in the Podkamennaya Tunguska area (right tributary of the Yenisei, Central Siberia) local residents witnessed the flight of a celestial body, which left a trail behind it, like a falling meteorite. The sound of the fall was heard at a distance of more than a thousand kilometers from the crash site. A powerful shock wave knocked down trees within a radius of 30 kilometers. This mysterious incident became known to the world as. But what kind of object exploded in the Podkamennaya Tunguska area, and whether it was really a meteorite, is still unknown. Thousands of researchers have been working on the solution to this phenomenon for over years. Many hypotheses have been put forward, none of which have received documented confirmation. Famous Tunguska meteorite, the mystery of which has never been solved, is in 9th place on the list of the most mysterious incidents in the world.

It is also associated with space, causing a huge resonance in the world. In 1947, a catastrophe allegedly occurred near the city of Roswell - the fall of a cosmic body of artificial origin. This incident became one of the most mysterious incidents in the world. There is still fierce debate over the nature of the fallen object. The authorities, represented by the country's air force, claim that a weather balloon crashed, which local residents mistook for the wreckage of a UFO. The Roswell incident is number eight on our list.

The mysterious disappearance of the ship's crew is in seventh place among the most mysterious incidents in the world. In 1872, the sailing ship was found by an English brig. From the trajectory of its movement it was clear that no one was controlling it. Not a single crew member or passenger was found on board. Things were untouched, as were the supply of water and provisions. From the entry in the logbook it followed that the ship reached almost the point where it was found. What happened to the crew is still unknown. The commission that investigated the case suggested that the crew for some reason abandoned the ship, leaving behind all their belongings and provisions. There was simply no other explanation for what happened.

Many mysterious incidents are associated with crimes. The most famous story– the Jack the Ripper case, which was never solved. The 20th century made its contribution to the history of serial killers. From 1918 to 1919, a criminal nicknamed "The Woodman" operated in New Orleans. The murder weapon was an ax, with which the maniac broke open the doors of the victims' houses. Like Jack the Ripper, the Woodcutter wrote letters to newspapers reporting future murders. The crimes suddenly stopped, and the Woodcutter's identity was never established. The New Orleans murder mystery ranks sixth on the list of the most mysterious incidents in the world.

To the very mysterious stories in the world there is a criminal case about the discovery in 1948 of the body of an unidentified man on the beach of Adelaide (Australia). The case received a great public outcry for a number of reasons: it was not possible to establish either the identity of the unknown person or the cause of death. In addition, a piece of paper with a strange inscription “Taman Shud” was found in a secret trouser pocket. As it turned out, the paper was torn from a rare edition of the works of Omar Khayyam. Mysterious story, which occurred on the beach in Somerton, is in fifth place as the most mysterious incidents in the world. This incident inspired Stephen King to write "The Colorado Boy."

In fourth place among the most mysterious incidents in the world is history "Kyshtym dwarf". In 1996, an elderly woman in a village near Kyshtym discovered a living creature of an unknown nature. biological species. Outwardly, it looked like a small humanoid - about 30 centimeters in length. The woman named him Alyoshenka and nursed him for about a month. Then the creature died. His mummified remains were later discovered by the police. Then the body of the “Kyshtym Dwarf” mysteriously disappeared.

- in third place on the list of the most amazing and mysterious incidents in the world. Since the 1970s, a search program began operating in the United States. extraterrestrial civilizations. For this, a radio telescope was used to scan different parts of the sky. With its help, scientists were able to detect signals from other civilizations. In 1977, at a frequency at which no earthly transmitter operates, a signal was received from the constellation Sagittarius. It lasted 37 seconds. Its origin is still unknown.

Ship "Marlboro"

History - new " Flying Dutchman"ranks second among the most mysterious incidents in the world. The ship left a port in New Zealand in 1890 with a cargo of frozen lamb. He did not reach his destination, disappearing in the area of ​​Cape Horn. There were 23 crew members and several passengers on board. It was decided that the sailboat sank during a storm. But 23 years later he appeared off the coast of Tierra del Fuego. It was well preserved, and skeletons in rotting clothes were found on board. True, there were ten fewer of them than were listed in the logbook. What happened to the crew, why people died and where ten people disappeared from the sailing ship is unknown. Due to bad weather, the ship could not be brought to port. The Marlboro still plows the seas.

The most mysterious incident in the world is the mystery of the death of the Dyatlov group. This tragic story is known to everyone and haunts those who want to reveal the truth about what happened more than 50 years ago. In 1959, a tourist group led by Igor Dyatlov died mysteriously in the mountains Northern Urals. The causes of the terrible death of nine people have not yet been established.