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The first mention of sausages in the annals dates back to 1487, and their production began in Frankfurt am Main. Today, more than 240000 sausages are produced daily in the city and its environs.

Talisman - from the Arabic tilzam - a mirage, a magical picture.

The so-called House of Juliet is located in Verona on Via Capello, and the House of Romeo on Via Arc Scaligere.

In Russia, the title of generalissimo was first awarded in 1696 to the voivode A. S. Shein, commander in chief in the second Azov campaign.

In the Croatian city of Hum (Istrian peninsula) there are only 25 inhabitants. The city, first mentioned in the annals of 1102, arose on the site of an ancient Roman settlement. In the best of times, it had up to 300 inhabitants. It has had the status of a city since the 24th century. (4.07.2000 hours, Sofia, XNUMX)

Since July 1, 2001, the state standard for fresh bananas has been introduced in Russia. It is developed taking into account international requirements and norms established by the EU Commission.

The most complex mechanical watch in the world, the Caliber '89, was made by Patek Philippe. They have 33 complex functions and consist of 1728 parts.

Marlboro cigarettes were introduced in 1924. They were originally positioned as ladies and were of two types: with an ivory mouthpiece and with a red mouthpiece to hide traces of lipstick.

There were two attempts on the mummy of Lenin in the Mausoleum. On March 20, 1959, one of the visitors threw a hammer into the sarcophagus, and on September 1, 1973, the assassin detonated an improvised explosive device attached to the body. In both cases, the mummy was not injured.

Burmister - a special official, a collector of contract vodka, the position was introduced in Russia by the Tsar's Decree of 1681 on the creation of a system of state contracts for the supply of vodka to the state.

The very first carriage driver of the St. Petersburg tram in 1907 was the railway engineer G.O. Graftio, later academician.

From October 1912 until the end of his life, T. Roosevelt lived with a bullet in his chest, which was fired at him by the assassin, 36-year-old John Schrank. The surgeons did not dare to remove the bullet.

In 1908, there were 197 brothels in St. Petersburg, in which a third of the attendants were foreigners. (L. Lurie, Ulcers of Petersburg)

Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont-Durville - French navigator and oceanographer, who circumnavigated the world and sailed to the shores of Antarctica, the captain of the second Astrolabe (the first was at La Perouse) became a victim of one of the first railway accidents in France. He died with his wife and son in an accident at Bellevue Station on May 8, 1842.

When the commandant of Port Arthur, General Stessel, ordered to draw a cookie on the Japanese ultimatum on the surrender of Port Arthur and return it to the Japanese in this form, General Kondratenko, who knows the customs of the enemy better, dissuaded him, explaining that in this way a certain layer of Japanese ladies of not very difficult behavior beckons to your clients. (Boris Burda These funny cooks)

Housewives from Honolulu (Hawaii) wash octopuses in washing machines, but without powder. Not for cleanliness, but to somehow beat off tough meat. (Dima. Boris Burda These funny cooks)

In Norway, cows are given beer at weddings. There it is customary for everyone to be drunk at the wedding, and everyone mumbled something in honor of the bride and groom, and they do not make any exceptions for cows. (Dima. Boris Burda These funny cooks)

The use of batteries in audio players pays off in a few months, and the gain in price during the operation of one set of batteries in comparison with batteries is several dozen times. 

Batteries for an audio player during active use of it are best used in the amount of 2 sets - one works, the other is in stock or is being charged. The ratio of capacities of battery sets is 1:1,5-2 times.

Every working day reduces your life by 8 hours.

Modem is a compound word: MODulator + DEModulator. 

The Internet is the successor to NFSnet, an American network of scientists from the NFS (National Science Foundation), which collaborated, merged, and then absorbed the advanced defense network ARPAnet. (km.ru)

The Geneva test is a sign of the highest official recognition of watchmaking, approved in the Canton of Geneva in 1886. All Patek Philipe mechanical watches have been awarded the Geneva Hallmark.

Hollywood is located in the valley, which until 1897 was called Uihyunge.

Batman first appeared in 1939 in comics by artist Bob Kane. In 1943, the first mini-series was filmed in Hollywood, in which he and his friend Robin fought against the Nazis.

The first typewriter patent was issued in 1714 to the Englishman Henry Mill; the first successful mechanical model of it appeared in 1874, and the electric one in the 1930s.

Midshipman - from the French garde - guard and marine - sea, sea guard.

The day of the death of Francis Drake in 1596 was celebrated by the Spaniards as a national holiday.

In 1479, in Switzerland, the Bishop of Lausanne announced that there were no Maybugs in Noah's Ark and cursed them.

Translated from Chinese, the name lemon means good for mothers.

The word Papuans is translated into Russian as curly.

When climbing stairs, a man should go lower (relative to a woman), and not higher, as many believe. 

It should be noted that it is usually believed that the oldest pyramid is the step pyramid of Pharaoh Djoser (2nd pharaoh of the 3rd dynasty; 1st half of the 28th century BC), built under the leadership of his vizier Imhotep (later deified). (mega.km.ru)

According to the head of the British Naval Combat Training Directorate, Captain 1st Rank Chris Teffli, one in five recruits in the British Navy cannot swim, and many of them are generally afraid of water.

The famous German physicist Walter Nernst always kept a test tube with organic matter melting at 26 degrees Celsius on his desktop. If by 11 o'clock in the morning the substance melted, Nernst sighed: You can't argue against nature, and took the students away to row or swim. (ussr.to/Belarus/alesvsh/)

The New England Journal of Medicine recently published a study whose authors claim that men who look at women's breasts for at least 10 minutes a day have better health than those who do not. This is due to the fact that the excitement that occurs when looking at it speeds up the metabolism, which is similar in effect to doing physical exercises. So, the next time your boss catches you looking at pornography in the workplace, tell him that you are doing industrial gymnastics. (Encyclopedia of useless information, uselessinfo.newmail.ru/)

Traveler Cao Xin, who discovered Europe, describes the story of the conquest of Monaco by Julius Caesar. Once, on a campaign, Guy Julius fell asleep in his tent, near the border with Monaco. In a dream, he tossed and turned for a long time in a camp bed, and by morning Monaco was already under Caesar. (Monaco, user.cityline.ru/~kozak/index.html)

In the Czech city of Prsto there is a museum of light (up to 60 kg) athletics, which still has a functioning table relay from the time of Tutankhamor, many other relay attributes - up to modern sticks with a displaced center of gravity and rubber sticks to disperse unauthorized relay races. (Relay race, user.cityline.ru/~kozak/index.html)

The University of Rhode Island has purchased the world's fastest camera capable of taking 09.08.2000 million pictures per second. This unique tool will be used to study the fracture dynamics of various materials under the influence of shock waves. (Radio Liberty, Science News - XNUMX/XNUMX/XNUMX)

A nail grows about 0,1 mm in one day. (Encyclopedia of a young scientist)

The first sharks lived 350 million years ago, and their modern descendants have changed little in appearance. (Encyclopedia of a young scientist)

In 1890, a novel by the writer Henri-Georges Demart, Woman of the Future, was published in Paris. The action takes place in the year 2000: women become the ruling class of society. They walk around in top hats, with canes, and they smoke cigars. If a woman wants to marry this or that man, he has no right to refuse her. At the same time, a divorce at her request can be issued at any time. (Soire, Brussels, 20.12.99)

A group of the St. Petersburg special forces Typhoon cannot leave for Chechnya due to the lack of free wagons at the Ministry of Railways. Railway workers refer to the implementation of the President's order to provide vacationers with wagons Russia cannot be understood with the mind, it is incompatible with the mind. (news release 16.08.00)

Pyrobolist is one of the old names for an artilleryman.

The French king Henry IV, assuming the throne, expressed the hope of seeing chicken soup in a peasant pot every Sunday. Doesn't that remind you of anything?

Rastakuers (Spanish) - foreigners leading a wide lifestyle, whose source of income is unclear.

Chanticleer is a character in the medieval French satirical animal epic Roman about the Fox (Roman about Renard), which took shape in the XNUMXth-XNUMXth centuries.

Tennessee Williams is the pseudonym of Tom Lanier. Born in 1911 in the town of Columbus, Mississippi. In 1983, the writer was found dead in a hotel room - a cork from a vial of sleeping pills hit him in the throat, causing suffocation.

Why didn't the Chinese invade Europe? It is strange that no one has asked this question so far. If we proceed from the banal perception of history, according to which a developing culture with demographic growth should expand, suppressing scattered tribes, then it is surprising: why the Chinese aggression of the Han era (II century BC) and the Tan era (VII-VIII centuries) bogged down , so tragic that after them Northern China twice fell into the hands of the steppe peoples of Siberia and the Far East. (L.N. Gumilyov, Xiongnu)

In 1896, Mark Twain published Personal Memoirs of Joan of Arc.

In the city of Biysk, a model of the solar system was created (scale 1:220000000): Sun - diameter 6,3 m; Mercury - 22 mm; Venus - 53 mm; Earth - 58 mm; Mars - 31 mm; Jupiter - 650 mm; Saturn - 540 mm; Uranus - 220 mm; Neptune - 207 mm; Pluto - 58 mm.

A leech can suck out from 20 to 50 g of blood. (For the future)

Pleonasm - the repetition of words with a similar meaning, the definition of one through the other, for example, dark darkness.

Roman writer of the XNUMXst century AD Petronius, for his excellent taste, was nicknamed the Arbiter.

Apocalypse - literally - revelation.

Saint Louis IX, King of France from 1226 to 1270, was canonized by the Catholic Church for his participation in two crusades.

Tiara - the ceremonial headdress of the Pope: surrounded by three crowns, symbolizing the judicial, legislative and religious rights of the papacy.

Nyctalon - eye disease: loss of vision in artificial light.

Parselka is a latch of the reverse rotation spindle of the gripping mechanism of the mushroom harvester. (COOK)

In the White Mountains of Eastern California grows a pine tree that is about 4700 years old. Out of respect for such an honorable age, the tree received its own name - Methuselah. That was the name of the biblical character who lived 969 years.

The average person takes 8000 to 10000 steps daily.

The first international nudist federation was founded in 1953, although attempts to legalize nudity, including in Russia, were made much earlier; by the beginning of the 90s, the federation already united more than thirty countries.

The reward system in the United States differs markedly from those adopted in other countries. Even at the dawn of their history, they abandoned orders there, considering them a federal-monarchist attribute unacceptable for a democratic republic. They are still not there. Thus, all US awards are either medals or insignia. (E. Lozovskoy, Purple Heart of America, Collector's Shop, Samara)

According to experts, the 73-year-old Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, known for his ultra-conservative views, has the greatest chance of becoming the next pontiff. The names of the Milanese cardinal Martini and the black cardinal from Nigeria Francis Arinze are also called. (Spiegel, Hamburg, No 30, 2000)

Inmates at Wheeling Prison in Florence, Virginia are required to wear gauze masks. In order, as the head of the prison explains, not to infect the guards with infectious diseases.

The first trolleybus appeared on the streets of London in 1888. Its average speed was less than 11 km/h.

About seventy percent of all the water that mankind extracts from freshwater basins and underground sources is currently used to irrigate agricultural land. (Radio Liberty Science News - 15.08.2000)

The use of hops in England was either encouraged or prohibited. Henry IV banned the import and cultivation of hops, and Henry VIII, who ruled in 1485-1509, allowed it again. Under James I (1593-1625), the addition of hops to beer was banned by Parliament, and Anna (1702-1714) obliged brewers to use hops. (V. Dogan, Book about beer)

At Oxford and Cambridge, each college had its own brewery. (V. Dogan, Book about beer)

Officially, the term vodka, established by law and fixed in state legal acts, arose very late. For the first time it is found in the Decree of Elizabeth I Who is allowed to have cubes for doubling vodkas, issued on June 8, 1751. Then he appears only after almost 150 years in another decree issued in connection with the introduction of a state monopoly on the production and sale of vodka. (V. Dogan, Book about vodka)

The large imperial crown was commissioned by Empress Catherine II from the jeweler Pozier. It was finished with 58 very large and 2749 smaller diamonds, a large ruby ​​and 75 large pearls. Then this crown was somewhat expanded for the coronation of Pavel Petrovich. (Coats of arms of cities, provinces, regions and towns of the Russian Empire)

The first US President D. Washington opposed the creation of parties. However, by the end of the XVIII century. Two parties took shape in the country - the Federalists and the Republicans. However, after two decades, the Federalist Party left the political arena, and a one-party system was established in the country. From the 30s of the XIX century. The two-party system re-emerged in the United States. (I. Geevsky, N. Setunsky, American Mosaic)

Versions about the interpretation of the name Fujiyama are different. Japanese toponymists willingly decipher this name approximately in the following poetic way: The unique charm of an elongated slope soaring in the sky. (E. Vartanyan, History with geography)

Wizards in Madagascar take state aptitude tests.

For the first time during the reign of Alexander I, the issue of banknotes increased especially noticeably. Their number in circulation by the end of 1810 reached 579 rubles. For one ruble, only 373 silver kopecks were given in banknotes. (V. Tarankov, Securities of the Russian State)

Bruce Lee did 50 one-arm pull-ups. (Little D. Bruce Lee. The Art of Expressing the Human Body)

It is not enough for a people to love freedom in order to be free; first of all, they need the knowledge of freedom. Old ideas are decrepit and cannot get younger, we need new ones! (A. Saint-Simon, Letter to an American, 1817)

Highlander viviparous (polygonum viviparum) is not Duncan Macleod, but a small herbaceous plant. Found in the northern islands and coastal tundra.

Casuistry - resourcefulness in the defense of false, dubious provisions. Initially: the reception of medieval theology is an unlawful summing up of particular cases (casuses) under a general position taken for granted.

The word jeep, according to numerous sources, arose on the basis of the abbreviation GP (general purpose) - general purpose. The original and primary meaning of the word jeep is a small utility vehicle used by the armed forces. On the basis of this basic meaning, a fairly developed system of meanings arose. For example, the word jeep can be used in the sense of a soldier's girlfriend (V. Borisov, Abbreviation and acronym)

In the dictionary of ancient Russian names, collected by N.M. Tupikov, for 5300 male names, there are no more than 50 female ones. (A. Suslova, A. Superanskaya, About Russian names)

Govinda (lit. the head of the shepherds) is one of the epithets of Krishna, the incarnation of Vishnu.

Sarada is one of the names of the goddess of eloquence Saraswati, who was considered the patroness of sciences and arts.

The average duration of the sound of a syllable containing a consonant and a vowel phoneme is 0,05 seconds. But to recognize a syllable, our brain needs a longer time - about 0,12 seconds.

On board the Portuguese caravel with a crew of 120 people, heading for a long voyage, was immersed at the rate of 8 months. 21132 kg. biscuit, 14 100 kg. corned beef, 2400 pcs. salted fish, 38640 l. wine, 2520 l. vinegar, 280 kg. salt, 55 barrels of olive oil, dozens of bags and lentils, beans, onions and garlic. (V. Volovich, Face to face with nature)

The most expensive of the British coins was sold at auction in London in 1985. The rarest penny of the issue of 1833 cost one numismatist 18975 modern pounds sterling.

The most layered issue of a newspaper in the history of printing is the Sunday issue of the New York Times of April 7, 1963. This issue had a total of 702 pages. He weighed almost three kilograms.

In Berlin, despite the protests of numerous animal protection organizations, six elephant races were held in front of 40000 spectators, in which 12 elephants competed for the Maharaja Cup. They ran an average of 300 meters per minute.

The large brass band of the Swiss Army gave a concert on the top of Mount Mittelallalin (3500 m) in the canton of Valais. With the exclusive and achieved goal - to get into the Guinness Book of Records.

The most ancient domestic animals are dogs and deer. Their man tamed about 18 thousand years BC. The next in seniority are sheep, their experience is counted from the VIII millennium BC. Next come goats and pigs (6500 BC). And finally, cattle (about 5000 BC).

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