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To help the erudite. Database on the history, geography, biology, science, technology, sport, culture, traditions of the peoples of the world. According to the materials of the press and the Internet.
Cockroaches have existed on Earth for 250 million years and have not undergone any evolutionary changes since then. Polar bears have black skin. A person becomes addicted to tea faster than to heroin. Michael Jordan receives more money annually from Nike than all the workers in its factories in Malaysia combined. The Neanderthal brain was larger than that of modern humans. In South Korea, marriages between namesakes are prohibited. In the world, only 1 theft out of 7 is solved. The smartest dog breeds are the Border Collie, Poodle and German Shepherd, the dumbest are the Afghan Hound, Bulldog and Chow Chow. Most Rolls-Royces per capita in Hong Kong. No language in the world has a word for the back of the knee. The total area of human alveoli is equal to a tennis court. Napoleon liked to puzzle his generals with confused charades. For many years, not a single issue of the Mercure de France magazine, popular throughout Europe, could do without them. To be on the list of those who guessed correctly (which was printed in every issue) was considered extremely prestigious. A wave of indignation swept across France when the magazine published a charade to which there was no answer. litcenter.spb.ru/courier/5/grigoriev.html The following anecdote was told about Alexei Tolstoy in Leningrad: Soviet power in Leningrad fell, the city was in the hands of the whites. On this occasion, there is a parade on Palace Square. And suddenly, breaking the solemnity of the moment, the writer Alexei Tolstoy rushes across the procession. He hugs the muzzle of the general's horse and, sobbing, says: Your Excellency, what was there without you ... Capricorn and tit - so Tolstoy designated two female types. Tit is a clear and merciful femininity. Capricorn - uneasy, pride, all sorts of difficulties. kariera.orc.ru/10-01/Lovek080.html It was called the apostle stone and was considered a stone dedicated to the Evangelist Matthew. It was believed that it protects against drunkenness, and its very name comes from the Greek word for non-drunk. This stone is an amethyst. American astronaut Michael Collins once said: According to statistics, a man speaks an average of 25 thousand words a day, and a woman - 30 thousand. But the trouble is that when I come home from work, I have already used up my 25 thousand, and the wife keeps ready her 30! The Ket myth connects their appearance with the male genital organs that have died in the forest. In North America, it is believed that they are born from thunder, in the upper Missouri they are associated with the stars, and the Toba tribe with the rainbow. In Tajikistan, they say that the Great Mother shakes out lice from her clothes, which, when they fall to the ground, turn into mushrooms. According to the memoirs of contemporaries, at dinner, Hitler used to tell a story about a dead old woman whose body was thrown into the river by relatives as bait for crayfish. He called the meat broth cadaveric tea. But eels, according to Hitler, are best caught on dead cats. In Aramaic, this word means an adversary in court, in a dispute or in war, obstructing, contradicting, accuser, earphone, instigator. This word is Satan. Rolando Ancillotti, a lecturer at the University of Pisa, said: This hero is immortal. As long as human life continues, he will also exist. So he spoke of Pinocchio. All sciences can be divided into two groups: physics and stamp collecting, said Ernest Rutherford. The Nobel Prize in 1908, to the greatest amazement of the scientist, was awarded to him in chemistry. Alphabet, No 35, 2001 Every 20 years of smoking ages your skin by an additional 14 years. This conclusion was made by researchers from the English Institute of Dermatology in London. So, someone who started smoking at the age of 15 looks like he is 35 by the age of 49. Science and Life, No 10, 2001 Recently in the United States, after the statute of limitations, sensational documents on the landing of a man on the moon were declassified. It turned out the expedition was on the verge of collapse, and Nixon was about to read an obituary while the astronauts were still alive. The astronauts were ready to be left to the mercy of fate and cut off communication with them. Ogonyok, November, 2001 The European Space Agency intends for the first time in history to carry out a landing of a spacecraft on the nucleus of a comet. This is stated in the ESA report, published on Sunday in Austria. As noted in the report, the automatic interplanetary station Rosetta-Lander, built in Germany, will be launched to comet Virtanen with the help of the Agency's funds. Rosetta-Lander is scheduled to launch in January 2003. After 10 years of flight, the probe should land on the nucleus of a comet, the diameter of which is 1 km. A Swedish court has ordered a sperm donor who helped a lesbian couple give birth to three children to pay a cash allowance for their upkeep. With the help of artificial insemination, one of the women gave birth to three children in 8 years. However, the family union of two women broke up last year. And one of them sued the donor, who had been a friend of both women for a long time. The court ordered him to pay $265 a month for child support. Lenta.ru (lenta.ru/ oddly/ 2001/12/10/papa/) According to data published by the UN, small arms have recently been surpassed in potential and real danger even by AIDS. Every day it claims the lives of more than 1000 people, and this is without taking into account local wars. Recently, a book was published in France that explains in detail how a modern lady should behave in different situations. The title of the book is eloquent: How to attract the man of your dreams and what to do with this scoundrel It has been established that regular consumption of cocoa helps to get rid of stomach and duodenal ulcers, as well as prevent their occurrence. It turned out that the fatty acids that make up cocoa have a detrimental effect on bacteria that can cause these diseases. The Greek millionaire eccentric Yanis Katsanis played a cruel joke with the inhabitants of the town of Afytos, from which he comes from. He bequeathed them 5,28 million dollars for the construction of the hospital, but in return he demanded that certain facts (mostly intimate) from the life of his numerous relatives living in this town be made public. Soviet Russia, No 130, 2001 The English word allusion comes from the Latin ludere, to play. From him came the English word allude, meaning a game with words. John Fox in the Book of Martyrs (1536) writes that Christ used this technique when he called St. Peter a stone (in Latin petra). express.irk.ru/1000/symbol/diction/i/i1 .htm It is impossible not to smile when you see the name of the mollusk Abra cadabra or when you meet in one article (Kearfoot, 1907) such a series of species names of butterflies: Eucosma bobana, E. cocana, E. dodana, E. fofana, E. hohana, and so on up to E. vovana. Often a taxonomic pun is formed by a combination of generic and specific epithets: Panama canalia, Mozartella beethoveni, Bobkabata kabatobobbus (in honor of a man named Bob Kabata). Sometimes the generic name itself is unusual: Anonymos, Anticlimax, Chaos, Clitoria, Longiphallus, Paratype, Problema, Provocator, Sepsis. When measuring the pyramid of Cheops, scientists found that the perimeter of the pyramid, divided by double the height, gives the exact number Pi, with an accuracy of one hundred thousandth. It is no less interesting to note that the sacred measure of the length of Egypt, i.e. the pyramidal inch (coincidentally equal to modern English) is one billionth of the Earth's orbit passed by it in 24 hours. Another linear measure of the pyramid - a cubit, equal to 25 inches, or 635,66 millimeters, when multiplied by 10 million, gives the value of the polar radius of the earth with great accuracy. kemet.ru/articles/other/anomaly/1.htm Loving Ramses shared his bed with his closest relatives. At least one of his sister and two daughters were legally married to him. And the daughter of Mary-tamun, apparently, after the death of her mother, Nefertari took her place as the Great Queen. kemet.ru/articles/vsv/05-98/1.htm The Marquis de Sade (Donatien-Alphonse-Francois) ended his will with the following line: I flatter myself with the hope that my name will also be erased from the memory of people. privatelife.ru/1999/Os99/n8/3.html In the past, in Bashkiria, there was a special holiday on the occasion of laying a child in a cradle (bishek tuyi), to which only women and children were invited. The midwife laid the child in the cradle and scattered on the floor under the cradle the sweets that the children had collected. Bikbulatov N.V., Fatykhova F.F. Family life of the Bashkirs of the XIX-XX centuries. M., 1991. In the old days, the newspaper Jin Pao was published in Beijing. In the editorial office of this newspaper there was a form for the return of unaccepted manuscripts by the author. Glorious brother of the Sun and the Moon! Your servant is prostrated at your feet. I kiss the ground before you and beg you to let me speak and live. Your esteemed manuscript honored us with its contemplation, and we read it with delight. I swear by the remains of my ancestors that I have never read anything so sublime. With fear and trembling I send her back. If I had dared to print this treasure, the President would have commanded that it forever serve as a model and that I never dare to print anything that would be inferior to it. With my literary experience, I know that such pearls come across once every ten thousand years, and therefore I return it to you. I beg you: forgive me. I bow to your feet. Servant of your servant, editor (signature). dalryba.ru/rp/Arhiv/1998/N35/KUR.htm Whip - in everyday life - a sign of power for a full-fledged married military Cossack. She was given to her son-in-law as a father-in-law at the wedding and hung in the house on the left jamb to the door to the bedroom. As a sign of complete humility and respect, it could be thrown at the feet of the offended, who was obliged to return it, and kiss the one who left it. If they stepped over the whip, then this meant that humility was not pleasing, and the offense or sin of the offender was not forgiven. Earring (for men) - meant the role and place of the Cossack in the family. The only son of his mother wore one earring in his left ear. The last in the family, where there are no male heirs besides him - an earring in his right ear. Two earrings - the only child of the parents. In addition to the symbolic, sacred meaning of the pagan ancient amulet, earrings also played a utilitarian role. The commander, when aligning to the left and to the right, saw who should be protected in battle. radiant.ru/~vkaz/ksz.htm To protect themselves from evil spirits, the people of the Akha tribe living in northern Laos nail wooden models of a Kalashnikov assault rifle to the gate posts. Hand grenades carved from wood are also used. Not a single spirit will dare to pass through such gates. The Japanese company Matsushita-Kotobuki began producing computer disk drives capable of recording 3,5 megabytes of information on a regular 32-inch floppy disk, out of a total of 1,44 megabytes. The Japanese national anthem has only four lines, while the Greek has 158 verses. If global warming continues at the same rate as before, then by 2055 the ice sheet of Antarctica will almost disappear. During its lifetime, the average solar battery produces 9 to 17 times more electricity than was spent on its manufacture. According to German doctors, every year in Germany about twice as many people die from the side effects of medicines than from road accidents. 30% of the European Parliament's budget, that is, about 2 billion French francs, is spent annually on the translation of speeches and documents from and into each of the 11 languages of the EU members. In ancient China, the spirits of dead people were considered evil and dangerous. The Chinese were sure that such ghosts appeared in the same clothes in which they were killed. The appearance of a ghost was preceded by a shapeless cloud, gradually the head and legs of the ghost loomed out of it, and only then a body was formed. A shimmering green glow emanated from it. x-libri.ru/elib/plesh000/00000059.htm#a78 In the XIII century, the Frenchman Jean-Pierre wrote a book, while writing the book, he, by his own admission, was guided by divine prompts. So, according to the author, birds can fly because the air is warm. The book also says that after the death of a person, his blood returns back to the rivers and seas. dobroe.utro.ru/ news/culture/ 2000/10/31/ 20001031192217 .shtml?2000/10/31 African Matthew Boy, playing golf, made a good shot, but accidentally touched a bird. Further events developed as follows: the bird flew into the air intake of a military jet. The plane lost control and crashed into the parking lot, where all the other 4 aircraft of the Benin Air Force were parked. Thus, the air force of the whole country was completely destroyed by hitting the golf ball. The word machine was coined in 1534 by the French writer Francois Rabelais. Horses never get diabetic. The 1920 Nobel Prize winner Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun, in a burst of drunken generosity, tried to hand his prize check to the hotel attendant, and then left it in the elevator. Boiling water extinguishes the fire faster than cold water, as it immediately takes away the heat of vaporization from the flame and surrounds the fire with a layer of steam, which makes it difficult for air to enter. Do you know physics?, Ya.I. Perelman Since the Fahrenheit thermometer became widespread in England and America, and Celsius - in France, many are accustomed to considering Fahrenheit an Englishman, and Celsius a Frenchman. In fact, Fahrenheit is a German who lived in Danzig, Celsius is a Swedish astronomer, Réaumur is a French naturalist. Do you know physics?, Ya.I. Perelman A dot of typographic font or manuscript weighs approximately 0,00000013 grams. Do you know physics?, Ya.I. Perelman Paramecium infusoria divides in half every 27 hours (on average). If all the ciliates born in this way remained alive, then after 147 days the offspring of one paramecium would occupy a volume equal to the volume of the Sun. Entertaining algebra, Ya.I. Perelman Cleopatra loved to tease those around her. A case is known when, in order to play a trick on Antony, who surprised the fish from the ship, she ordered the diver to hang salted fish on Antony's hook. And she laughed wildly with happiness when the great triumvirator stared in bewilderment at his strange prey. aurora.ru/rp_uhist2.htm Fast forward to the 1587th century. In Europe, among the nobility, the fashion for dwarf spaniels reached its apogee. Across the English Channel, at the court of Elizabeth I, the ladies hid their favorites, toy spaniels, in the folds of skirts under the guise of heating pads! In 440, after the execution of Mary Stuart, who was beheaded by order of the Virgin Queen, the executioner had to forcefully tear off the little dog clinging to the dress of her unfortunate mistress. zooclub.ru/dogs/porod/XNUMX.shtml Repair - replenishment of the loss of horses in the troops. Remonter - in the pre-revolutionary Russian army - an officer assigned to purchase horses for repairs. Dictionary of foreign words. M., 1954. Today, the average person weighs 5 kg more than in 1960. But excess weight is a threat not only to our health. American geologists expressed the fear that if humanity continues to get fat like this, in a few years the earth's crust may not be able to withstand it. Work that requires mental effort is better done by one who eats anything, without caring about his figure. fido.sakhalin.ru/kroll/thto.html The Russian word banya goes back to the Latin valneum (bathing, washing), which has another meaning - the expulsion of sadness. Chemistry and Life, 1980, No 4. Winston Churchill affectionately called his wife Clementine Mrs. Cat (Kitty), and she called him Mr. Pug (Pug). Over the years, when he grew fat and flabby, Clementine began to tease him as a joke, Mr. Pig (Boar). Belousov R. S. Private life of celebrities. M., 1999. In ancient Egypt, there was a curious custom: an image of the enemy was painted on the soles of sandals, thus every day his dignity was trampled. The Kwaktul Indians of British Columbia have an amusing custom: if someone borrows money, he leaves his name as collateral. Until the debt is repaid, the person remains nameless. At this time, other Indians call him with a movement of his hand or inarticulate cries.
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