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Random fun fact: What is paprika? Real pepper comes from a plant that has the scientific name Piper Nigrum. But many other types of pepper are obtained from plants of completely different families. For example, there are red capsicums. They belong to the genus of legumes. There are also Cayenne pepper and Tabasco pepper. another type of pepper is called pimienthos when preserved in oil. "Pimientos" is the Spanish name for the pepper plant. And finally, there is paprika - it's red pepper. Ripe paprika is red and pungent, but milder than other peppers. Therefore, paprika is more often eaten than other types. Pepper is considered the most important spice in the world. After salt, it is the most consumed food additive. In ancient and medieval times, only the rich could afford to eat pepper. Caravans brought it from the Far East, and therefore it was so expensive that a kilogram of pepper was considered a royal gift. In other words, the pepper was like gold. People could pay taxes with pepper, and it was given as a tribute to the rulers. When the army defeated the enemy and the warriors received trophies, pepper was considered the best reward they could receive. The Portuguese wanted to buy pepper at lower prices and tried to find a sea route to India. When they found a way through the Cape of Good Hope, the cost of pepper in Europe plummeted. Today, pepper is so cheap that we don't even think about the price when we buy it. Peppers are obtained from the fruit, or seeds, of the climbing shrub. Black pepper is harvested unripe and dried black berries. White pepper is obtained by removing the skin before grinding.

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Anatomy, physiology, psychology

• Are there prophetic dreams?
• What is the best time of day to study?
• In what part of the human body are the plumbing, the beak, the worm, and the toes of the seahorse?
• What is the survivor bias?
• Is it true that the average person uses only 10% of their brain capacity?
• Does weather affect health?
• Do all people lie?
• Where is blood produced?
• Where do Siamese twins live, who are connected by brains in the thalamus?
• Where is the driest place on earth?
• Where are the muscles that allow you to move your ears?
• What are we eating for?
• Why do we need calcium?
• What are hormones for?
• Why does the body need vitamin C?
• What are teeth for?
• Why does a person need an appendix?
• Until what age did one American live, in fact, remaining a one-year-old baby?
• Are there identical fingerprints?
• How does a person live who has no pulse at all?
• Why is there mucus in the nose?
• Why do we need oxygen?
• Why do we need eyebrows?
• Why do we need a skeleton?
• Why does the body need water?
• How many cells does the human body consist of and how quickly do they renew themselves?
• What are nails made of?
• What is the eye made of?
• How does alcohol affect brain cells?
• How fast does hair grow?
• How fast do nails grow?
• How does oxygen enter our body?
• How does hunger affect us?
• How does excessive alcohol consumption affect brain cells?
• How does color blindness occur?
• How do our kidneys work?
• How do joints work?
• How long does it take for a person's nails and hair to grow after death?
• How long can a person live?
• How long can a person go without food?
• How does the effectiveness of placebo tablets depend on their quantity, color and cost?
• How exactly does the human brain perceive colors?
• How do calories affect our weight?
• How is body temperature controlled?
• How does coffee affect people?
• How can you count calories?
• How can you lose your memory?
• How can you literally break a person's heart?
• How does the brain communicate its commands to the body?
• How does the brain store information?
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Archeology, Ancient world

• Were there pirates in antiquity?
• At what age did Heinrich Schliemann take up archeology?
• Is it true that the Egyptian pyramids were built by slaves?
• Did the weather influence the course of history?
• Where were the first fossils found?
• Where did people live in the Stone Age?
• Where and when in the theater were real murders committed on stage in accordance with the script?
• Where and when was it necessary to suck the king's nipples to demonstrate devotion?
• Where and when did people take shelter from bad weather in armadillo shells?
• Where can you see multi-color and three-dimensional cave paintings of ancient people?
• Where was the temple built for bald Venus?
• Where did the first barbarians appear?
• Why did a clown walk behind the coffin at an ancient Roman funeral?
• Which Roman emperor's wife ran a brothel and worked there as a prostitute herself?
• Why was Socrates sentenced to death?
• Why was the horse stripped of honors?
• Why did the Roman Septumuleus remove the brain from the head of Gracchus and pour molten lead into it?
• How do archaeologists know what they find?
• How were the Egyptian pyramids built?
• How did ancient Rome forget about the atrocities of criminals?
• How did ancient Greek prostitutes use shoes to advertise their services?
• How did ancient warriors deal with the cowardice of war elephants?
• How did the Egyptians learn to preserve mummies?
• How did the remains of ancient Egyptian mummies get into paintings?
• How did cavemen make their tools?
• How did cavemen make fire?
• How did the Inca empire die?
• How did the rulers of Sparta deal with the soot that smeared their chairs?
• How was the divination performed by the Delphic oracle?
• How did a French engineer save the Great Pyramids from dismantling for building materials?
• What army accompanied the first Chinese emperor to the afterlife?
• What war made Rome an ally of Carthage?
• Which war formally lasted over 2000 years?
• What was the longest living empire in human history?
• What lie detectors were used by the ancient Chinese and Arabs?
• What fires were extinguished in ancient times with milk?
• What was a Cro-Magnon?
• What was Tutankhamun's curse?
• What gesture did the ancient Romans order to kill a defeated gladiator?
• What color was the pyramid of Cheops originally?
• Which ancient building is the most famous?
• What was the original meaning of the word idiot among the ancient Greeks?
• What saying of Plato was Diogenes trying to refute by bringing him a plucked rooster?
• What prediction of the oracle became disastrous for the king, who did not understand its meaning?
• Which traditional view of ancient Greek statues is wrong?
• What wonder of the world could be seen in just 50 years?
• How old is the Shroud of Turin?
• What stone, according to the ancient Greeks, protects a person from intoxication?
• What shortcoming of the Scythians led to the collapse of their hegemony in Asia Minor?
• Which pharaoh built the largest pyramid?
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Astronomy

• Is the universe infinite?
• Was Pluto a satellite of Neptune?
• In what area of ​​space can a person see his back without the aid of instruments?
• In what range is the Earth comparable in brightness to the Sun and many times greater than all the other planets of the solar system combined?
• In which month is the Earth closest to the Sun and in which month is it farthest from it?
• In what respects Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune do not fully fit the classical definition of a planet?
• What is the order of the planets in the solar system?
• What did Johannes Kepler see as the purpose of astrology?
• What is the significance of the neutrino from the point of view of astrophysics?
• What is the source of stellar energy?
• What is the uniqueness of the astronomical knowledge of the African Dogon tribe?
• What unfortunate space explorer is the lunar crater named after?
• Do planets affect our climate?
• How many times is a modern telescope sharper than the human eye?
• How many times larger is the Sun than the Earth?
• Do other planets rotate?
• Has the Earth always been at the same distance from the Sun?
• Where in the sky is the Funny Star located?
• Where is the oldest observatory located?
• Where is the center of mass of the Earth-Moon system?
• Where are the largest reserves of water in the solar system?
• Where is the comet's tail?
• Is it far from the stars?
• Is it far from the sun?
• Are other planets moving?
• Does gravity act on the moon?
• Is there life on Mars?
• Are there seas on the Moon?
• Are there channels on Mars?
• Do other planets have moons?
• Why did the asteroid Aten get its name?
• Why did people need astronomy?
• What is the earth made of?
• What is the sun made of?
• What are stars made of?
• What are meteors made of?
• Does the universe have an end?
• How would you fly through the asteroid belt?
• How was the light year discovered?
• How was the planet Pluto discovered?
• How fast is Charon moving over the surface of Pluto?
• How was historical justice restored to the name of the planet Pluto?
• How big is the age of the Universe and on the basis of what data is it determined?
• How big is our galaxy?
• How dense is the Orion Nebula?
• How big is the solar system?
• How long are the orbital periods of binary stars?
• How big is the solar mass loss due to radiation?
• How big are the stars?
• How far is the nearest fixed star?
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Biology

• Are groundhogs harmless?
• By what chance was Gregor Mendel deservedly recognized as the founder of the theory of heredity?
• Are elephants afraid of mice?
• In the body of which animals analogues of gears were found that form a gear train?
• What is the main benefit of bees?
• What animal are the Canary Islands named after?
• Do dogs dream?
• Is it possible for mammals to be born from the genetic material of two males without the mother's genes?
• Do polar bears go into hibernation?
• Do any birds hibernate in the winter?
• Do all mosquitoes carry diseases?
• Do all cats purr?
• Are all monkeys equally intelligent?
• Do all fish spawn?
• Do ants always live in colonies?
• Do porcupines shoot with their quills?
• Where is more bacteria - in the ocean or in city sewers?
• Where are the most wild camels?
• Where does a shark live that has switched to a vegetarian diet?
• Where do most tigers live?
• Where does the largest crocodile live?
• Where do sharks live?
• Where do bacteria live?
• Where do squirrels live?
• Where do vampires live?
• Where do rhinoceroses live?
• Where do penguins live?
• Where do bees live that are able to kill hornets by overheating?
• Where do fish live that like to walk on the bottom instead of swimming?
• Where do termites live?
• Where did the most famous bachelor in the world live?
• Where did dinosaurs live?
• Where do the snakes winter?
• Where can you catch candlefish?
• Where can you see pink dolphins?
• Where do blue whales live?
• Where do ants live that can count the number of steps taken?
• Where do spiders live that can move like acrobats performing somersaults?
• Where do the slowest sharks live and what do they prey on?
• Where was the monument to the moth?
• Where do rheobatrachus frogs develop and where do they come from?
• Where is the birthplace of canaries?
• Where are eels born?
• Where do gorillas sleep?
• Where is the snake's heart?
• Where, besides Australia, can you find kangaroos in the wild?
• Does a rattlesnake rattle before attacking?
• Which butterfly caterpillars are forced to hibernate for up to 13 winters before turning into a chrysalis?
• Can cats really see in the dark?
• Does an ostrich really hide its head in the sand in case of danger?
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• See all interesting facts of the section Biology, 850 articles

Botany

• What is the difference between fruits and vegetables?
• Is all rice white?
• Where do buns grow on trees?
• Where was the first rice grown?
• Where was the tomato shown in The Simpsons actually grown?
• Where did oranges first appear?
• Where do jumping beans live?
• Where did watermelons originate?
• Where did bananas originate?
• Where did grapefruits originate?
• Where did the first watermelons appear?
• Where did peanuts originate?
• Where did potatoes originate?
• Where did the coconut originate?
• Where did sugar come from?
• Where does an orchid grow, which spends its entire life cycle underground?
• Where do nuts grow?
• How long has a person been growing vegetables?
• Does wood act as an air filter?
• Why did red pepper become so hot as a result of evolution?
• Why does corn have a silk strand?
• Do cacti have leaves?
• Are there flowers that are fragrant at night?
• For what green revolution did Norman Borlaug win the Nobel Peace Prize?
• Why do sunflowers follow the sun?
• Why do trees need bark?
• Why are cranberries and many other berries sour?
• What wood was the Kon-Tiki raft made of?
• How fast do trees grow?
• How do seeds propagate in nature?
• How big is the world's largest rose bush?
• How do seeds come about?
• How does a new flower grow?
• How is tobacco grown?
• How deep do plant roots penetrate?
• How did the grapefruit get its name?
• How can mushrooms change the weather in their habitats?
• How long and why were Europeans afraid to eat tomatoes?
• How can an albino tree survive?
• How did carrots help find a ring that was lost many years ago?
• How did a cucumber and an orange grow on the orbital station?
• What are the actual names of flowers that are commonly considered mimosas?
• What is garlic called in China?
• How do some plants help bats find themselves?
• How to determine the age of a tree?
• How do plants eat?
• How did pitted oranges come about?
• How do seeds germinate?
• How do weeds spread?
• How do plants get their food?
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Geography, ecology

• Has there been global warming before?
• Which cities are colder or hotter than others?
• Where are two places in the world where you can visit glass beaches?
• In which countries can you drive on the music road?
• What time of day does most of the world's population sleep?
• Which river has salt water?
• In which direction does the water in the bath drain?
• What is the difference between an underground spring and an artesian well?
• What is the difference between a hurricane and a tornado?
• Is it getting warmer everywhere due to global warming?
• Do planets affect weather and climate?
• Have diamonds always been considered precious?
• Is it always hot in the desert?
• Where did a 20-meter high volcano grow in the middle of a farmer's field in the 424th century?
• Where is the wind strongest?
• Where does water boil faster?
• Where does the most precipitation fall?
• Where are the biggest raindrops?
• Where and when was a tsunami over 500 meters high recorded?
• Where and when did a spontaneous natural nuclear reactor operate?
• Where and when did the most devastating earthquake in human history occur?
• Where can one observe elongated cylindrical clouds up to a kilometer long?
• Where can you see and taste natural watermelon snow?
• Where on Earth are the highest tides and tides?
• Where was the highest and lowest atmospheric pressure observed?
• Where are the highest and lowest temperatures on Earth?
• Where is the Eastern Garbage Continent located?
• Where is the lake located, which every year hides a whole park under water for a while?
• Where is the lake that is teeming with jellyfish?
• Where is the lake, consisting of pure liquid asphalt?
• Where is an island located in a lake larger than the lake itself?
• Where is the highest mountain?
• Where is the world's largest coral reef located?
• Where are the highest and where are the lowest places on the territory of the former USSR?
• Where are the three adjacent lakes that periodically change color?
• Where does Antarctica begin?
• Where do most earthquakes occur?
• Where is the longest sea route that can be sailed without changing direction?
• Where is the steepest coast?
• Where is the cleanest air?
• Where is it colder - at the North or at the South Pole?
• Are the continents moving?
• What are weather satellites used for?
• If molecules are moving, why don't we see things change?
• Is there life in the Dead Sea?
• Why did the Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator get his nickname?
• Is the climate changing as a result of human activities?
• Does the number of cyclones and anticyclones change?
• How fast has the world's population grown?
• How big is the Grand Canyon?
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State

• Why did the ancient Greek laws of Zalevka last 300 years almost without amendment?
• Where was the first election held?
• What are fingerprints for?
• Why conduct a population census?
• How did the jury trial come about?
• How did the civil service originate?
• How did democracy come about?
• How did the United Nations come about?
• How did the postal service originate?
• How did cities originate?
• How did our laws come about?
• How did prisons originate?
• How did trade unions appear?
• How were the US constitutional amendments made?
• How, according to the first consul Napoleon Bonaparte, should the constitution be written?
• What is the oldest constitution?
• What passed law in the USA can come into force only after the next elections to the House of Representatives?
• When were the first animal protection laws passed?
• When did the first police appear?
• When did civilization appear?
• When did the first pension fund appear?
• Who was the first to create a code of laws in the world?
• Where did the vote come from?
• Why is it possible to become president in the USA with only 22% in the popular vote?
• What is the United Nations?
• What is civilization?
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Food and drink

• What advertising gimmick helped American Orville Redenbacher become the King of Popcorn?
• In what alcoholic drink is one of the main components of female saliva?
• At what restaurant did Colonel Sanders eat the worst chicken of his life?
• In what era was beer the most popular drink in Europe?
• What city is Philadelphia cream cheese named after?
• Who is the Caesar salad named after?
• Does coloring vegetables affect health?
• Where else is there caffeine besides tea and coffee?
• Where and how did croissants originate?
• Where and when did the first coffee house appear in Europe?
• Where is the Ice Cream Cemetery located?
• Where is the fast food restaurant that advertises itself as the most unhealthy in the world?
• Where is the restaurant where customers eat in complete darkness?
• Where is the restaurant, whose tables are placed between the graves of the old cemetery?
• Where does Baltika beer cost more than Guinness?
• Where is black vodka produced?
• Why is water added when cooking pasta and potatoes?
• What is a sandwich made of?
• How does our diet affect us?
• How did fast food originate?
• How were fire cutlets invented?
• How to distinguish a boiled egg from a raw one?
• How did coca-cola come about?
• How did the sandwich come about?
• How does a Coca-Cola manufacturer acquire coca leaf extract?
• How did the hot dog get its name?
• Which inscription on vegetable oil packages is meaningless?
• What is the most important food?
• Which fish is the most delicious?
• What foods can be stored longer than others?
• Which chips were unsuccessfully demanded by the company that made them not to be considered chips?
• To what creatures is the consumption of wine lost due to shrinkage attributed?
• What taste and nutritional properties do white eggs differ from brown ones?
• What does the brand of soda water Boga, popular in Tunisia, have to do with Russia?
• What does tobacco chicken have to do with tobacco?
• What delicacy is produced in Sardinia, subjected to rotting and decomposition?
• What is the healthiest fat?
• What drink did the Germans invent, having lost the supply of ingredients for Coca-Cola?
• What is the most popular drink in the world?
• What food product is real tree bark?
• What product is often sold in Russian stores under the guise of asparagus?
• What traditional salad was originally prepared with caviar, hazel grouse and crayfish?
• What color is the most expensive caviar?
• What rule, derived by Leonardo, obeys the trunk and branches of trees?
• When and where did tea bags for disposable tea leaves appear?
• When and how did chewing gum originate?
• When was ketchup invented?
• When did the first recipe appear?
• Who was originally going to be treated with doctor's sausage?
• Who and when taught the whole world to eat in restaurants according to the Russian system?
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Inventions and discoveries

• By what accident did Linux actually come about?
• In what scientific journal was the first report of the Wright brothers on their achievements published?
• Which household appliance was first advertised for the idea of ​​a hair dryer?
• What, according to the American proverb, is the merit of Colonel Samuel Colt to mankind?
• Where was the candle invented?
• Where was the first newspaper printed?
• Where was the wheel patented at the beginning of the 21st century?
• Where and when did the ribbon (package) appear on cigars?
• Where and when did cricket and baseball appear?
• Where and when did crossword puzzles appear?
• Where and when was aviation born?
• Where was the guillotine invented?
• Where was the lightning rod invented long before Franklin?
• Where did the first real map come from?
• Where did candy originate?
• Where did the first mirror appear?
• Where did the very first flush toilet appear?
• Where did you come up with glasses with temples?
• What was the purpose of the world's first puzzle?
• What was the purpose of the first street light?
• What should we thank Thomas Crapper for?
• Why was the kaleidoscope invented?
• Why was the pager invented?
• How was the modern method of shot production invented?
• How was the telephone invented?
• How was Teflon invented?
• How was coffee discovered?
• How was dynamite obtained?
• How was the calendar invented?
• How was vulcanization discovered?
• How were antibiotics discovered?
• How was the glass opened?
• How was the American Edison's phonograph received in France and Russia?
• How did the numbers come about?
• How was rubber first made?
• What did the first guns look like?
• How is ice cream made?
• How and who discovered coffee?
• What was the original name of the saxophone by its inventor?
• How did people learn to use scales?
• How did you start wearing gloves?
• How did imperfect knowledge of English help discover a sugar substitute?
• How was the hole in the sewing machine needle transferred to a sharp end?
• How did the pins come about?
• How did forks come about?
• How did dentures come about?
• How did the first lamps appear?
• How did fire come about?
• How did the first condom come about?
• How did chess originate?
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History

• Was Columbus the discoverer of America?
• Was Tsar Ivan the Terrible a great ruler?
• In what authorities of Belarus were 13 of the 15 first leaders shot?
• In what battle of World War II did Germans and Americans fight on the same side?
• In which war was one of the rounds of negotiations devoted to limiting the size of flags?
• In what war did war camels help the Russian army?
• In which war did the most British soldiers die - if counted as a percentage?
• In what century did the last execution on the guillotine take place, and Swiss women received the right to vote?
• In what institution of besieged Leningrad did employees die of hunger, having access to bread and potatoes?
• Which French city was ruled by popes for almost 70 years?
• What did the people of Kiev reproach their Grand Duke Svyatoslav Igorevich for?
• During which war was the United States the only power friendly to Russia?
• Where were aluminum spoons valued more than gold ones?
• Where did the British fight the French during World War II?
• Where did the first and last British soldiers killed in World War I meet?
• Where and why did two million people line up in a 600 km long chain?
• Where and when were 150 people shot by soldiers dressed as Santa Claus?
• Where and when did the fighting stop every day to feed the ducks?
• Where and when was a bicycle race organized to escape to another country?
• Where and when did the warring parties conclude a truce in order to exterminate the wolves attacking both armies?
• Where and when was a day divided into 10 hours, an hour into 100 minutes, and a minute into 100 seconds?
• Where and when did the children organize a series of demonstrations against the increase in the price of sweets?
• Where and when did Baron Munchausen live?
• Where and when were the Crusaders convicted of cannibalism?
• Where and when did the raisin bombers fly?
• Where and when could one get a job as a hermit on the estate of an aristocrat?
• Where and when did a giant wave of molasses hit the city streets?
• Where and when did the Russian troops win the first victory over the Golden Horde?
• Where and when did the state of Bizonia exist?
• Where and under what conditions can I buy a license to shoot horned hares?
• Where were mammoth bones revered as the relics of a Christian saint?
• Where was the carrier pigeon promoted to colonel?
• Why did the rebellious Parisians in 1789 need to take the Bastille?
• Why were ropes pulled tight in London's bunkhouses for the homeless?
• Why did the Catholic Church classify the beaver, capybara and muskrat as fish?
• Why did the Chinese women of Jiangyong county use a script hidden from men for a long time?
• Why is there a sledgehammer at the combat post of the commander of the duty forces of the Strategic Missile Forces?
• What are chastity belts for?
• Why did the Japanese use nightingale floors?
• For whose self-defense was a laser pistol created in the USSR in 1984?
• For what merits was A. V. Suvorov promoted to field marshal general?
• What state did the winged hussars fight for?
• How many years did Alexander the Great create the largest power of the Ancient World?
• Why did A.V. Suvorov receive the title of Count of Rymnik?
• Why was King Richard I of England nicknamed the Lionheart?
• Why did the Moscow prince Ivan I Danilovich get the nickname Kalita?
• Why did the British build a hedge across India in the 19th century?
• Why did the British spread the belief that carrots directly improve eyesight?
• Why did English women at the end of the 18th century give false reports that they were victims of a maniac?
• Why, in 1813, did wealthy German women gladly exchange gold jewelry for iron ones?
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Culture, art, fashion

• Did children have toys in ancient times?
• Which writer's house-museum has more than 50 cats, half of which have extra fingers?
• In which countries is Khoja Nasreddin a folklore anti-hero?
• In which group did Alla Pugacheva unwittingly become a backing vocalist?
• In which fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm do all the animal characters die?
• Which country produces the most movies?
• What movie was the first to use stunts?
• In what magical film, released before the books of J.K. Rowling, does the main character Harry Potter act?
• At what point in the Irony of Fate can you see Oleg Basilashvili?
• At what point in the Matrix can you see the smile of the Cheshire Cat?
• What style is played by a band whose vocalist is a parrot?
• In which theater were audiences encouraged to sleep?
• What band took a guitarist mainly so that he could buy alcohol for the rest of the musicians?
• In how many Soviet films did the bronze statue of Pegasus, which he examined in the Gorbunkov store, play?
• What is the secret of Antonio Stradivari?
• What was special about the Academy Award received by Walt Disney in 1937?
• In whose honor is the Alexandrinsky Theater in St. Petersburg named?
• Where was the first theater?
• Where and when did coughing lead to charges and convictions?
• Where and when were critics impressed by the avant-garde paintings that the chimpanzee painted?
• Where and when could you buy a rocking bath?
• Where and when could you watch Romeo and Juliet with a happy ending?
• Where and when did men attach the pubic hair of their lovers to their hats?
• Where and when did women's casual wear allow a blouse with an open chest?
• Where and when was a concept book sold with only blank pages?
• Where and when was the first international film festival held?
• Where and when Tolkien's Hobbit was published with drawings of a lion and emus on the cover?
• Where is the theater located, in which the payment for the performance depends on the number of smiles of the audience?
• Where did the dolls originate?
• Where is the regular World Guitar Imitation Championship held?
• For which categories of men are special men's bras produced?
• Which album requires four audio systems to listen to?
• For what merits are musicians admitted to Club 27?
• For which cartoon was its author awarded 8 Oscar statuettes at once?
• Why did Marvel create a new hearing aid-wearing superhero?
• Why did the Van Halen band in their rider demand M&M's but take away all the browns?
• Why did the village old-timer from Eugene Onegin crush the flies?
• Why did Reason once send out an issue with a personalized cover to every subscriber?
• Why did Elvis Presley's manager distribute I hate Elvis badges?
• Why did the Mint of England mint a series of coins for the guitarist of Queen?
• Why was the lion Vasya killed on the set of the film Striped Flight?
• Why did medieval ladies wear marten and ermine furs?
• What were Cinderella's shoes made of?
• What are woodwind instruments made of?
• What are violin strings made of?
• The famous portrait of which president is only 1/8 written off from himself?
• What legend caused the death of William Burroughs' wife?
• Why did director John Ford lose the services of a weather forecaster?
• Does techno have anything in common with rock music?
• What is the date of the famous Ring-a-ring o'roses?
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Medicine

• By what accident did Louis Pasteur discover vaccination?
• What is the main cause of death after a shipwreck?
• What are the benefits of quitting smoking?
• Where is more caffeine - in a cup of tea or in a cup of coffee?
• Where and when did Bayer intentionally sell drugs that could be contaminated with HIV?
• Where can you buy baby condoms?
• Due to what is the therapeutic effect achieved when using medicinal leeches?
• How did Louis Pasteur's bacterial theory affect human lifespan?
• How to deal with diphtheria?
• How did medicine originate?
• How did a thieving servant help Dutch doctor Christian Eijkman win the Nobel Prize?
• How long ago did prosthetics appear?
• How long has craniotomy been practiced?
• How long has body temperature been considered one of the indicators of human health?
• How does ether work?
• How do antibiotics work?
• How does the duration of a walk affect its effectiveness?
• How are Mendel's laws used in paternity tests?
• How did Captain Cook become the first navigator to avoid the loss of personnel from scurvy?
• How is a broken bone treated?
• How can you determine the blood type?
• How do glasses correct vision?
• How can a malignant retinal tumor be preliminarily diagnosed from a photograph?
• How did the hospital come about?
• How did the prejudice of farmers in the English county of Gloucestershire lead to the victory of medicine over smallpox?
• How does a lie detector work?
• How do blood banks work?
• How should you behave when measuring blood pressure?
• How should one live in order to live as long as possible?
• How can a false pregnancy manifest itself in women?
• How are deaf people taught to speak?
• How does shaving frequency relate to a man's health?
• Which woman gave rise to the immortal cell line?
• What fishing bait is successfully used for wound healing?
• What accident led to the invention of Viagra?
• How do the achievements of modern civilization harm man as a biological species?
• What are the causes of baldness?
• What disease did a 19-year-old American cure by shooting himself in the head?
• What medicine has a side effect that can cause an orgasm?
• What crime did Burke and Hay commit?
• What choice did Gandhi make for himself and his wife between Western and Indian medicine?
• Which famous admiral suffered from seasickness all his life?
• What drug was originally marketed as a cough medicine for children?
• Which surgical technique has been improved in the 21st century under the influence of Leonardo's work?
• What disease did the French call Italian and what did the Italians call French?
• When was surgery first used?
• When and how did aspirin appear?
• When and who initiated cardiac surgery?
• When did you start doing a heart transplant?
• When did dentistry appear?
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Mythology

• At what age did Hercules accomplish his first labor?
• Where did Odysseus spend most of his time returning from Troy to his homeland?
• Why was Alectryon, servant of Ares, turned into a rooster?
• Why did Theseus and Pirithous descend into the underworld?
• Why did Hercules have to fight the Amazons?
• How did Amphitrion make sure which of the twins born to Alcmene was his son?
• How did the Argonauts manage to get hold of the Golden Fleece?
• How did the world originate, according to Homer and the Orphics?
• How did the universe come into being according to the Olympian creation myth?
• How did Hephaestus take revenge on his mother, who threw him from Olympus immediately after birth?
• How did Dionysus punish the daughters of King Minius who did not want to participate in the Bacchic processions?
• How did Zeus punish people for Prometheus stealing fire?
• How did the golden fleece end up in Colchis?
• How and why did Ariadne help Theseus defeat the Minotaur?
• How did Odysseus get Penelope, the daughter of a powerful Spartan king, as his wife?
• How did Paris manage to kidnap Helen?
• How did Perseus manage to kill Medusa, who can turn a person into stone with just a glance, and what did he need for this?
• How did Achilles, the greatest Greek hero of the Trojan War, die?
• How did the famous singer Orpheus die?
• How was the goddess Athena born?
• How was the Minotaur born?
• How was the god Dionysus born?
• How, according to the views of the Pelasgians, did the universe come into being?
• What animals were the inhabitants of the Augean stables?
• What animals in mythology are not just animals?
• What was the Greek island of Delos like before the birth of Apollo and Artemis?
• How did Daedalus and his son Icarus escape from Crete?
• What condition did Hades set for Orpheus, who descended for his wife into the kingdom of the dead?
• What question did the Sphinx ask the passing Thebans, and who taught her this question?
• What role did moira play in the life of gods and people?
• Who was Oedipus the king?
• When were traditional myths and legends first written down?
• Whom did the ancient Greeks consider to be the progenitors of modern mankind?
• Who was Theseus' father?
• Who was born of the Immaculate Conception?
• Who led the rebellion of the Olympian gods against Zeus?
• Who led the Trojans in their fighting against the Achaeans?
• Who is the main god in the Slavic pagan pantheon?
• Who lived on Olympus, and who lived on Parnassus?
• Who swam to Colchis and why?
• Who is Elena Troyanskaya?
• Who are the Amazons?
• Who are the gnomes?
• Who are the graces?
• Who are centaurs?
• Who are the Muses?
• Who are mermaids?
• Who are the titans?
• Who is Achilles?
• Who is Hercules?
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Science and education

• After whom did scientists name the gene whose deletion makes mice smarter?
• Who were tropical cyclones named after in the late 19th century?
• Where did the first schools originate?
• Where and when was printing invented?
• Where is the largest textbook?
• Where were experiments on crossing chimpanzees and humans carried out?
• Why do people need schools?
• Why do we need grammar?
• How did science originate?
• How did libraries originate?
• How did units of measurement come about?
• How did all the students in the same stream manage to get the highest score on the exam without taking it?
• How long have letter blocks been widely used to introduce children to the alphabet?
• How did Cardinal Richelieu feel about universal education?
• How do some Wikipedia authors play tricks on readers?
• How did contemporaries assess the merits of Hypatia, the last luminary of Alexandrian science?
• How did arithmetic come about?
• How did the Incas store and transmit information?
• How did a person learn to write?
• How did the Pauli effect prevent Pauli from being played?
• What science was the exception to Socrates' I know I know nothing?
• What discovery helped to recognize the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs?
• What is the difference between chronicle and chronicle?
• Which father and son received Nobel Prizes for different research on the same particles?
• What grades in mathematics did Einstein get in school?
• What is the probability of winning in Freecell Solitaire?
• What is the probability of getting identical decks of cards after shuffling?
• What is the plus sign used by students in Israeli schools?
• Which famous physicist said that his engineer son was working on a more difficult problem?
• Which mathematician comprehended the basics of science from the wallpaper in the room?
• Which mathematician accurately predicted the day of his death using an arithmetic progression?
• What mathematical law is revealed in the two policemen theorem?
• What scientist took a fee from those who wanted his autograph?
• Which scientist and for what purpose cut the skin from his fingers?
• Which scientist measured the speed of electric current on living people connected in a circuit?
• Which physicist failed to win the Nobel Prize despite being nominated 84 times?
• How did Bill Gates benefit from writing a school timetable program?
• What science is often called the science of sophomores and white rats?
• What grade did the teacher give at school for the design of the current US flag?
• What role did Johannes Gutenberg play in the development of printing?
• When did writing originate?
• When did the schools start?
• When did the first university appear?
• Who gets the Darwin award and why?
• Who at the university was given a letter of recommendation with the line: Is he a math genius?
• Who graduated from university and wrote 12 books while being blind and deaf and dumb?
• Which famous person dropped out of high school before finishing their studies?
• Who has both the Nobel and Ig Nobel Prizes?
• Who first came up with the alphabet?
• Who invited the physicist Hans Bethe to co-author of a scientific work just for the beauty of the list?
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Sport

• What made football referees red and yellow cards?
• In what competitions is an urn with ashes used as an unofficial trophy?
• In which sport the rules have remained unchanged for more than two millennia?
• In what form did an athlete under the modern tricolor fight against an athlete under the Soviet flag?
• At what age can weightlifting records be set?
• In what popular sport can women compete alongside men?
• What is the main difference between the title of Olympic champion and the title of world champion?
• Where did card games first appear?
• Where and when was the first FIFA World Cup held?
• Where and when did the tennis match take place, which lasted more than 11 hours?
• Where and when did a skirmish between sports fans lead to a riot and the deaths of 35 people?
• Where and when did the football commentator make a full radio broadcast, although he could not see anything on the field because of the fog?
• Where and when did hockey goaltenders receive a fine during a game?
• Where did golf originate?
• Where did ice hockey originate?
• Where was baseball invented?
• Where are most of the world's soccer balls made?
• Where did the Olympic Games take place, on the emblem of which the year of the event was indicated by five digits?
• Where are marathons in which people compete at the same time as horses?
• Where were the first modern Olympic Games held?
• Are there games that do not require sports equipment?
• What makes football fields look striped?
• Why were the winners of the 2000 Paralympics basketball tournament stripped of their medals?
• Why did Brazilian soccer player Giovane Elber once tape his mouth shut?
• Why was a newspaper published in which almost all the words were replaced by bla bla bla?
• Why did golfer Tiger Woods make a video about him being able to walk on water?
• How many parts are soccer ball tires made from?
• How did an American swimmer make the entire Soviet team wear mustaches?
• How did basketball get its name?
• How fast are runners?
• How have the rules of basketball been changed in North Korea?
• How did the ball game originate?
• How did American football start?
• How is baseball played?
• How has the likelihood of brain injury changed since the introduction of boxing gloves?
• How did the cards get their names?
• How can you castle vertically in chess?
• What did the Everton football club call its store, joking with the main rival?
• How did the game of bridge originate?
• How did the idea of ​​the teardrop of the Olympic bear shown at the closing ceremony of the 80 Olympics come about?
• How did skis come about?
• How did swimming come about?
• How did the sport come about?
• How is the World Team Racing Championship held?
• How are sailing regattas held?
• How did Real and Barcelona adapt their badges for the Arab countries?
• What war started after losing a football match?
• What game got a second life thanks to color TV?
• Which company recycles old sneakers into material for new sports fields?
• Which Olympic team was forced to sell coffee to raise funds for the Games?
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Countries, peoples, languages

• In which countries are they afraid not of Friday the 13th, but of Tuesday the 13th?
• In which countries do tick marks mean an incorrect answer?
• In what countries are some girls raised as boys?
• Which countries require participation in elections?
• Which languages ​​contain words that contain only consonants?
• Which languages ​​do not distinguish between blue and green?
• In which Asian country is marijuana use legal?
• Which army has a dog sled unit?
• In what European country can a woman live a man's life only by keeping her virginity?
• In which country was an MP elected who promised more tailwinds on bike lanes?
• Which country passed the first animal rights law in the world?
• In which country was the underwater hockey team created solely for the purpose of emigration?
• In which country in 2002 did the prime minister train to play football right in his office?
• In which country was the culprit of the accident sued for the fact that the victim after the accident became gay?
• In which country is a fictitious deputy officially considered a member of parliament?
• In which country do cities differ in the predominant colors of buildings and houses?
• In which country can citizens freely find out the income of any other citizens?
• In which country are two halves of a torn bill equal in value to a whole bill?
• In which country were children forced to pretend to be grazing sheep?
• In what country do children get to school by crossing a river on steel cables?
• In which country does the groom give the bride white slippers?
• In what country did a homeless person live who left more than a million dollars in his will?
• In which country do people bake bread by burying it in the ground?
• In which country can prisoners shorten their sentences by reading books and working out on exercise bikes?
• In which country is it forbidden to work for too thin top models?
• In which country is it illegal to burn any flag other than your own?
• In which country did viewers choose the reality show contestant who would get a donor kidney?
• In what country did one in five people attempt suicide?
• In which country was the Catholic Church involved in kidnapping thousands of children?
• In which country were suicide dogs massively trained to destroy enemy tanks?
• In which country can you see commercials that have become a television series?
• In which country can you evade military conscription by lottery?
• In which country at Christmas is it customary to resolve the conflicts that have accumulated over the year in a fistfight?
• In what country are phalluses depicted on the walls of many houses?
• In which country is the oak that has its own postal address located?
• In what country was the national sign language invented by deaf children?
• In what country did the bells of the St. Danilov Monastery live between 1931 and 2007?
• In what country could a person sentenced to death escape punishment by outrunning an executioner in a race?
• In what country is the official Twitter account maintained by ordinary citizens, replacing each other?
• In which country is jailbreak per se not punishable by law?
• In which country can older people increase the green time at a traffic light?
• In which country are souvenirs with the slogan No kangaroos here?
• In which country is a separate concrete bunker built for each family?
• In which country did the word selfie originate?
• What country invented Chinese fortune cookies?
• Which country manufactures weapons with different rifling than the rest of the world?
• In which country did they try to prevent the development of color television due to fears of social stratification?
• Which country drinks the most milk?
• In which country is the custom of groom kidnapping common?
• In which country is it common practice to sleep while working in a seated position?
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Technique, technology, transport

• Biofuels - good or bad?
• Was the first computer bug a real insect?
• In what year was the first hacker ever discovered?
• In which state are underground cables most rarely damaged and why?
• What was the difference between Apollo 10 and Apollo 11, which landed on the moon?
• Which company's owner died after losing control of his product?
• How many horsepower can one horse develop power?
• How many times larger is a standard Japanese keyboard than a European one?
• Have driving licenses always existed?
• Where were gas lamps installed at the end of the 19th century where you could buy hot coffee?
• Where can you find antimacassar on an airplane?
• Where was gold first mined?
• Where does a woman live who swims with an artificial mermaid tail?
• Where and for how much can you clone your favorite dog?
• Where and when were beer boilers converted into armored vehicles?
• Where and when did you start renting cars?
• Where and when were screenings of the film in cinemas accompanied by scents?
• Where and when were video record players sold?
• Where and when did they try to deliver mail using rockets?
• Where and when did they try to deliver mail using rockets?
• Where and when was the flying tank designed and tested?
• Where and when were nuclear explosions used for peaceful economic purposes?
• Where is left-hand traffic used?
• Where can you ride the underground trolleybus?
• Where is the world's deepest subway station located?
• Where is the most powerful wind farm located?
• Where is the electric light bulb that has been working continuously for over 100 years?
• Where, in parallel with the construction of Baikonur, was a false wooden spaceport built?
• Where did the transition to the metric system almost lead to a plane crash?
• Where is gold produced from sewage waste?
• Where did the accident at the nuclear power plant take place a few days after the release of a film describing similar events?
• Where did the train crash happen due to the language barrier?
• Where is the railway laid, in the train cars of which oxygen is supplied?
• Where is the airport with sandy runways located?
• Where did ceramic restoration become an art form using gold powder?
• Where was the first windmill located?
• Where were aircraft carriers built from ice?
• How long has weaving been around?
• How far can a motorcycle jump?
• Is it possible to fly far using only muscle strength?
• Which toy part was used in the first electrocardiograph?
• What was the purpose of zebra-patterned ships in World War I?
• To communicate with what objects may it be necessary to use the Earth's core as an antenna?
• Why was the first steam engine built?
• How long will the most dangerous precipitation of the Chernobyl zone decay by half?
• Why did the Americans put about 1963 million needles into orbit in 500?
• Why are deep wells drilled?
• Why do watches need stones?
• Why did the drivers of the first trucks need an assistant?
• Why did Lotus in the 1960s come with instructions for dismantling cars?
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Traditions

• In which Abrahamic religions do women have the right to receive holy orders?
• What funny day is Internet Day?
• In what religion are Lenin, Shakespeare and Joan of Arc considered saints?
• Have people always lived in families?
• Where and when were foxes domesticated?
• What are guinea pigs used for?
• How did magic originate?
• How did duels originate?
• How did the major religions originate?
• How did laundries originate?
• How did cutlery originate?
• How did time zones originate?
• How did the concept of Santa Claus come about?
• How did the handshake come about?
• How are holidays related to dogs?
• How did people sew in ancient times?
• How did cooking start?
• How is Easter celebrated?
• How did the measure of the weight of precious stones come about?
• How did ads and advertisements come about?
• How did fairs come about?
• How did the horoscope come about?
• How did the custom of giving gifts for the wedding come about?
• How did slang (jargon) appear?
• What game is associated with the number of the devil?
• What is the oldest religion?
• Which gnomes often travel the world without the knowledge of their masters?
• What vegetables were originally the basis of Halloween lanterns?
• What holiday decorations were originally sweet and edible?
• What are the similarities between a calendar and a deck of cards?
• What fruits grew on the biblical tree of the knowledge of good and evil?
• What is the original meaning of the expression The exception proves the rule?
• What animal was first domesticated by man?
• What myth gave rise to the popular expression meaning window dressing?
• What moment of the ringing of the clock on the Spasskaya Tower corresponds to the onset of the New Year?
• When was gold discovered?
• When were gems discovered?
• When were dry pretzels first baked?
• When did furniture first appear?
• When was wine first introduced?
• When were tombstones first made?
• When did people start eating eggs?
• When did people start using baths?
• When did you start cooking?
• When did you start smoking?
• When did you start collecting honey?
• When did the first houses begin to be built?
• When was one moment equal to one and a half minutes?
• When did the ad appear?
• When did the first announcements appear?
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Physics

• Is there a thermometer without mercury?
• In what liquid can a coin float and a cork sink?
• In what environment can light be completely stopped?
• How many times is the temperature of a thermonuclear reaction higher than the temperature of the visible surface of the Sun?
• Where is the coldest place in the universe?
• Is there any weight near the air?
• What causes champagne to foam?
• How does an airplane take off?
• How big is the nuclear test yield record?
• How big is the density of an atomic nucleus?
• How fast is the speed of light in a vacuum?
• How does water turn into ice?
• How did the kite help Benjamin Franklin strengthen US independence?
• How do colors come about?
• How was the finiteness of the speed of light propagation first discovered?
• How durable are atoms?
• How is humidity measured?
• What did the Celsius scale originally look like?
• How is carbon-14 used to determine the age of objects?
• How did Ernest Rutherford classify the sciences?
• How can ice flow?
• How can the flame be extinguished?
• How do insects walk on water?
• How are infrared and ultraviolet radiations, which are invisible to the eye, detected?
• How is heat and cold formed?
• How do objects move in space?
• How was electricity theft legally assessed 100 years ago?
• How does light travel?
• How did Roentgen discover the radiation later named after him?
• How can you use a wall and a newspaper to open a bottle of wine without a corkscrew?
• How does a bullfinch look in the lens of a night vision device in a cold winter?
• Which liquid has sufficient viscosity to be walked on?
• What fraction of the volume of an atom is contained in its nucleus?
• What human bone inspired Eiffel to design the Eiffel Tower?
• What deeds immortalized Magdeburg burgomaster Otto von Guericke?
• What color noises are there besides white noise?
• What particles can rise from the core of the Sun to its surface for a million years?
• What elementary particles are named after the cry of ducks?
• How was the atom considered before Rutherford?
• What is the speed of sound?
• What is the normal state of the glass?
• What color is the water?
• What is the size of an atom?
• What material trace can lightning leave in the ground?
• What metal can get plague?
• What metal is the best conductor?
• What scientific result of William Gilbert the great Galileo called astonishing?
• What kind of memory can metal alloys have?
• What familiar object helps to see through opaque frosted glass?
• What physical law helped to convict speculators of illegal insider trading?
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Химия

• How big is the mass of a water molecule?
• How did a Hungarian chemist catch canteen workers reusing food leftovers?
• How was pure crystalline iodine first obtained?
• How was smokeless powder invented?
• Which village gave the name to four chemical elements?
• What is the main ingredient in air?
• What is the total mass of the content in the earth's crust of the rarest chemical element?
• What are the sizes of the molecules?
• Which chemical element is the densest?
• What metal is most abundant in the earth's crust?
• What metal is liquid at room temperature?
• What chemical element was obtained as a side effect of trying to isolate gold from urine?
• What chemical element got its name from the poisoning of rodents?
• Which famous physicist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
• What positive role did alchemy play?
• When did chemistry appear?
• Who was the only inhabitant of the Earth whose postal address could be made up of the names of chemical elements?
• Is it possible to weigh a molecule?
• Why is D. I. Mendeleev the authorship in the discovery of the periodic law of chemical elements?
• Why does iron rust?
• Why does silver tarnish?
• Why was the Swedish chemist Scheele supposed to become a count, but did not?
• Why is the element promethium named after the titan Prometheus?
• Why are brass doorknobs better than steel?
• What explains the smell emanating from the coins?
• What is the danger of using dihydrogen monoxide?
• What is written on the blackboard?
• What is the chemical composition of rubies and sapphires?
• What is nitrogen?
• What is ammonia?
• What is air?
• What is helium?
• What is oxygen?
• What is acid?
• What is metal?
• What are detergents?
• What is neon?
• What is radium?
• What is alcohol?
• What is carbon?
• What is uranium?
• What is chlorine?
• What are elements?
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Economics and finance

• Thanks to whom did stores stop selling goods to different customers at different prices and introduced price tags?
• Where do huge stones serve as money?
• Where is money made from plastic instead of paper?
• Where and when did wine labels serve as money?
• Where and when was money backed by opium issued?
• Where and when was the lottery invented?
• Where are the architectural objects depicted on euro banknotes located?
• Where they pay and greet with rain?
• Why did Bulgaria issue a coin with a face value of 1,95583 leva?
• Why in the 1930s did American flour manufacturers sell flour in colorfully patterned sacks?
• Why did billionaire Peterffy need a robot that could type on a keyboard in the 1980s?
• Why did the Argentine government try to artificially lower the price of the Big Mac?
• How did stock markets originate?
• How long ago and under what circumstances did the penny appear?
• How can an effective strike be organized without interrupting the production process?
• How did the coins get their name?
• How is the financial pyramid organized?
• How did Monopoly come about?
• How to check the authenticity of a euro banknote by serial number?
• How did the Chinese company, which was sued for cloning Segways, solve the problem?
• How is the former Procter & Gamble logo related to Satanism?
• How is English wages related to salt?
• What is the connection between the SQL code airport and the nearby Oracle headquarters?
• How are chess, rice and ruin related?
• How did tobacco companies use feminism to promote smoking among women?
• How did Hewlett and Packard choose the name for their company?
• What currency began to be denoted by the sign $ before the dollar?
• What company keeps several empty planes in the air and why?
• Which company put their logo on the inside of football players' jerseys?
• Which company poured hard liquor through the breasts of Playboy models?
• Which company paid off its debts at the dawn of its existence by winning at a casino?
• Which company is the world leader in the production of tires in terms of finished products?
• For every pair of shoes sold, which shoe company gives away another pair to poor children?
• What plastic card allows you to buy goods with any price?
• What is the difference between income and profit?
• What is the difference between registered and preferred shares?
• What is the difference between management and marketing?
• What is the difference between VAT and excise?
• Which currencies evolved from the Chinese yuan, changing their names to suit the local language?
• What was the first bank?
• What money did the Aztecs use?
• What is the value of an orange dollar bill?
• What law of distribution of numbers allows you to check the reliability of financial data?
• What marketing ploy allowed Alkaseltzer to significantly increase profits?
• Which electronics manufacturer is named after a winged horse?
• What was the return on the investment portfolio compiled by the circus monkey?
• When were the first coins made?
• When were taxes started?
• When did banks appear?
• When and how was income tax started?
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The stereotype that women prefer "bad boys" has long been widespread. However, recent research conducted by British scientists from Monash University offers a new perspective on this issue. They looked at how women responded to men's emotional responsibility and willingness to help others. The study's findings could change our understanding of what makes men attractive to women. A study conducted by scientists from Monash University leads to new findings about men's attractiveness to women. In the experiment, women were shown photographs of men with brief stories about their behavior in various situations, including their reaction to an encounter with a homeless person. Some of the men ignored the homeless man, while others helped him, such as buying him food. A study found that men who showed empathy and kindness were more attractive to women compared to men who showed empathy and kindness. ... >>

Random news from the Archive Balloons with GLONASS 01.07.2013 From 9 to 15 June, the 18th International Meeting of Balloonists was held in Velikiye Luki. For the first time in the history of the competition, balloons are equipped with the GLONASS system, and it was possible to watch the flights of the crews online. This year 50 teams from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tula, Nizhny Novgorod, Omsk, Perm region, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus took part in the competition. Several cups were raffled off at the competition, including: the Cup of Russia in aeronautics, the Friendship Cup among all pilots of the competition, the Cup of Velikiye Luki, the Cup of Princess Olga, which will be awarded to the best female pilot. Equipping the balloons with the GLONASS monitoring system is a technical innovation this year. FORT navigation equipment was installed on 15 aircraft. With the help of terminals, the speed of the balloon, its height and location are measured. Vladimir Makarenko, Development Director of Fort-Telecom, the manufacturer of the FORT GLONASS monitoring system, notes that, as a rule, navigation terminals are used to monitor the operation and movement of vehicles, and it is connected to the vehicle's electrical circuits. “In the case of monitoring balloons at the International Meeting of Balloonists, we used terminals with a built-in rechargeable battery that holds a charge for up to 12 hours. This charge is enough for one flight, after which the battery is recharged,” Makarenko explained. He said that in any monitoring system, data about the controlled object is transmitted to the server through stationary GSM cell towers, and there were fears that the horizontally directed antennas of the towers would not be able to provide proper signal reception at a height. Therefore, it was originally planned to install FORT navigation terminals on the balloons, supporting data transmission both via GSM networks and Wi-Fi technology. It was planned to deploy mobile "points" of data transmission along the routes of the balloons. But before the start of the competition, tests were carried out, during which it turned out that for flights at an altitude of up to 500 meters, ordinary FORT navigation terminals transmitting data via GSM networks are quite enough.

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