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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.
The French magazine C'EST LA VIE published statistics on how the average European spends his life (conventionally, its average duration is 70 years). It is estimated that during his life he spends: 30 years on my feet 23 years lying 17 years sitting 16 years old - on the go, 8-9 - at work, 6-7 years - for food, from 3 to 6 years, depending on the distance of housing from work, - in public transport (and 170 days - waiting for it at a bus stop, if we assume that each trip is not complete without 10 minutes of waiting), 2 years - in conversations, 2128 days (that is, more than 6 years) - in front of the TV screen, 623 days - laughing, 560 days - for cooking, 500 days - in a cold. 504 days he (or she) flirts, 440 days studying (except school), 420 days ill with something more serious than a cold, spends 405 days at school 375 days celebrates national or family holidays, 305 days filling out various forms, 250 days of reading 180 days hanging on the phone, 177 days (if it is a man) or 531 days (a woman) - dresses, 140 days standing in line, the same amount of time shaving (of course, if it's a man), 117 days (man) or 531 days (woman) takes a bath or shower, 110 days making love 108 days of combing, brushes teeth for 92 days 50 days of crying from 8 days (if he is a village shepherd) to 30 years (if he is a doctor or a priest) spends on greetings to acquaintances, parishioners and patients, 3 - 6 days to complete tax returns, 3 days looking at the clock. This is how life goes. Source: Science and Life The capsaicin contained in red peppers gives the hot taste to red peppers. Professionals measure pepper strength in Scovilles. These units were invented in 1911 by the chemist Wilbur Scoville. He diluted equal amounts of pepper with sweetened water and let the tasters taste it. If, when diluted, for example, 1000 times, none of the tasters no longer feel a burning taste, the strength of the pepper corresponds to 1000 scovilles. Now the hotness of pepper is measured using liquid chromatography. The strength of pure capsacin is 16 million scovilles. The hottest of the red capsicums is the South Indian Nago Yolokiya, which reaches 800000 scoville pungency. For comparison, Tabasco peppers have a spiciness rating of 30000-50000 scovilles, cayenne peppers have 35000, and paprika has 0. Finnish scientists examined about 27 men and determined that a glass of beer drunk daily reduces the risk of kidney stones by 40%. But don't go on a binge - if something is good for the kidneys, it is not necessarily good for the liver. The time it takes to wash dishes every day for 70 years is 9 months. A person makes 700 breaths throughout his life. During a lifetime, a man inhales 317 liters of air. 54% of men and 61% of women are sure that it is better to be alone than to live with the wrong person for you. The average single man is 2,5 cm shorter than a married man. The percentage of hair growing on the head in relation to the hair of the whole body is 2. Herostratus - a Greek from the city of Ephesus (Asia Minor), who in 366 BC. burned the temple of Artemis of Ephesus, considered one of the seven wonders of the world. He did this only in order (as he confessed during the torture) so that his name would reach posterity. Although the inhabitants of Ephesus decided not to pronounce his name, Herostratus was mentioned by the ancient Greek historian Theopompus (4th century BC). According to legend, the temple burned down on the very night when Alexander the Great was born. The name of Herostratus has become a household name for people who are trying to gain Herostratus fame at the expense of cultural and natural monuments. The temple of the Greek goddess Artemis in the city of Ephesus, in Asia Minor, was considered the third wonder of the world. The greatest ancient Greek masters depicted Artemis in marble, bronze and paint. Artemis was considered by the Greeks as the ideal of female beauty: she was so beautiful that she did not even need to participate in the well-known competition between Athena, Aphrodite and Hera. The temple took almost 120 years to build and was completed around 550 BC. The sanctuary was huge: 110 meters long and 55 meters wide. Around it rose two rows of stone columns up to 18 meters high. The gable roof was not made of tiles, as in ancient temples, but of marble slabs. Four gigantic marble bulls were placed at the corners of the roof. From the inside, the temple was lined with marble slabs, and in the center of the main hall stood a statue of Artemis 15 meters high, covered with gold ornaments and jewels. The pediment of the temple, the top of which was 25 meters from the ground, was luxuriously decorated with a majestic sculptural composition of marble. How do you like it? Tell me, how could this temple be burned down? What was there to burn? Don't you think that for 2400 years people have been hung noodles on their ears with the story of Herostratus and the Temple of Artemis? In my opinion, some of the construction management wanted to hide the large shortage of gold and jewelry allocated for the decoration of the temple. The fool Herostratus confessed to everything, because under torture people confess not to this. Atilla is one of the most famous villains in history. His army conquered all of Asia in 450 AD - from Mongolia to the edge of the Russian Empire - destroying villages and plundering the countryside. In 453 Attila married a young girl named Ildico. Despite his ferocity on the battlefield, he liked to eat and drink a lot at large banquets. On his wedding night, he really loaded up on food and liquor. During the night his nose bled, but he was so drunk that he paid no attention to it. He drowned in his own blood and was found dead the next morning. Aeschylus (Aeschylus) - Greek playwright in 500 BC. Many historians consider him the father of Greek tragedies. According to the legend, the eagles pick up the turtles and try to crack them by dropping them onto the rocks. The eagle mistook Aeschylus's head for a stone (he was bald) and dropped a tortoise on him. The US Senate approved a bill banning unlimited donations to political parties. The struggle for its adoption lasted 7 years. In 2000, the amount of investment in campaign funds amounted to about half a billion dollars. Under the new rules, donations from a single source in a single state cannot exceed $10. An example is Ros Pero, a participant in the penultimate presidential campaign (net worth $000 billion) and new New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg (net worth $3,3 billion). . Both became record holders for the number of millions swollen in the campaign. The first one invested an unprecedented amount of $4 million for the USA, the second beat this achievement too, paying $53,5 million for the seat. Cologne, or, in French, eau de Cologne, literally means Cologne water. And it was invented in 1709 by the Italian Giovanni Maria Farina, who kept a shop with various goods in Cologne. The first pizza was made by the Neapolitan Raffaele Esposito in the wake of the patriotic upsurge over the unification of Italy in 1871. With the help of basil, mozzarella cheese and tomatoes, he decided to depict the tricolor (green-white-red) Italian flag. Later, the municipality of Naples issued a law in which, in the dry language of legal terms, the recipe for the canonical pizza was laid out. Sausage, mushrooms and tuna were dismissed as heretical additions. And the dough, according to the city authorities, should have been rolled out without a rolling pin - with one hand skill. The first sneakers were developed by Rudolf and Adolf Dassler in 1946. They used canvas and rubber soles made from tires from abandoned military vehicles. The brothers soon parted, and in 1949 Adolf registered his sneakers under the name ADIDAS. The name is composed of a diminutive form of the name Adi and the first three letters of the surname. Rudolph at this time founded his company - Puma. Leonardo da Vinci sketched contact lenses in 1508. But it wasn't until four centuries later that the idea was put into practice. The first lenses were made in 1936 in New York from plastic. Soft lenses, which preserve the access of oxygen to the eyes, appeared only in the early 70s. Most likely, the word ketchup was borrowed from Chinese (ke-tsiap) and meant a marinade for fish or shellfish. The oldest surviving recipe included anything but tomatoes - anchovies, walnuts, mushrooms, beans. The history of ketchup, familiar to us, begins with Henri Heinz, who in 1876 produced the first can of tomato sauce. The world's first travel agency was founded in 1841 by the Englishman Thomas Cook, who organized tourist trips from Laforbo to Leicester by train. Cook considered tourism an effective means of combating bad habits - drinking and smoking. The first version of instant coffee was created in 1901 by Chicago chemist Satori Kato. The first mass production of instant coffee was founded by George Constant Washington, an English chemist who worked in Guatemala. Men's Health Information Our linguists are forced to write Genghis Khan in one word. But, according to Lev Nikolaevich Gumilyov, it's like writing Academician Ivanov in one word along with the name and patronymic: for example, Ivanovivanpetrovich. After all, it's easy to understand: Genghis is a title, and Khan is a position. Europeans consider people belonging to the Mongoloid race (Mongols, Japanese, Chinese, etc.) to be cross-eyed. And those, in turn, consider Europeans long-nosed. The impression of a slanting eye cavity in Mongoloids is caused by the epicanthus, i.e. characteristic skin fold on the upper eyelid, covering the inner corner of the eye. In addition, the impression of slanting is usually enhanced by the wide bridge of the nose and cheekbones. Venice is not a bridge champion at all. There are 398 of them in it, while in Amsterdam - 1281, and German Hamburg - 2123 bridges. Hamburg and holds the unofficial title of European champion in the number of bridges. It is generally accepted that having seized power in Russia, the Bolsheviks renounced all royal debts. But it's not. Vladlen Sirotkin, Chairman of the Expert Council on Russian Foreign Property, in his interview to the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper reports: In fact, they recognized them (the royal debts) anyway, and this is recorded in the materials of the Genoa Conference. By 1927, the Bolsheviks had paid off the tsarist debts to major creditors: for example, the builders of the Trans-Siberian Railway, the banks of Credit-Lyon, Saucete Generale. In exchange for this, the USSR again received a huge loan - for 62 years Shiperke (in Flemish - little captain) - square dogs with a fox muzzle, participated in the first specialized dog show in 1690 in the Grand Palace of Brussels. The legend associated with Schipperke says that the custom of cutting off the tails of dogs began in 1609, when a shoemaker, angry that the neighbor's dog was dragging something from him all the time, chopped off her tail. At the same time, her appearance improved, and tail docking became fashionable. Moskovsky Komsomolets, March 3, 2002 The Pekingese Cherkh can rightfully be considered the most expensive dog in the history of mankind. In 1907, Clarissa Ashton Cross from Ascot, Great Britain, turned down an offer from the American financier and industrialist J. Morgan to sell him her dog for 32 pounds (000 at the current exchange rate, that is, almost one and a half million dollars!) Having been refused, Morgan invited her to set the price herself, leaving her checkbook, but was again refused. English newspapers joked that there were three things in England that even Morgan could not buy: good weather, a British policeman, and Mrs. Ashton Cross's Pekingese. Moreover, not a single person could say why the dog was so unusually remarkable. Moskovsky Komsomolets, March 865, 3 Internet addiction is scientifically called Internet Addiction Disorder (something like an unhealthy addiction, craving for the Internet), in other words - IAD. The term is already widely used not only in the scientific literature, in addition, for several years the American Psychiatric Association (American Psychiatric Association) has included a test to determine this type of addiction in a mandatory questionnaire that is offered to patients with various disorders. MEMBRANA. Internet addiction is equated to drug addiction and alcoholism. There are many secrets and mysteries connected with two US presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. One of them is amazing coincidences, so incredible that you simply marvel. So, Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States in 1861, and John F. Kennedy - exactly 100 years later - in 1961. As you know, both presidents fell victim to assassins: Lincoln was killed at the Ford Theater, and Kennedy was driving at the time of the fatal shot in a Lincoln company car Ford. Both presidents were succeeded in their post by vice presidents with the same last name, Johnson. Lincoln assassin actor John Booth was born in 1839, and Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was born in 1939! And finally, Lincoln's private secretary was called Kennedy, and Kennedy's private secretary was called Lincoln! Based on the materials of the newspaper Secrets of the XX century No2-2002 Bear The brown bear, the American grizzly, the Alaskan bear (the largest is 480 cm in size and weighs up to 1400 kg) and the small Balkan bear (only 160 cm in size) are not different species, but only subspecies of the brown bear. They differ in magnitude (according to Bergman's rule) - the closer to the equator, the less, the closer to the polar regions, the more. The brown bear is not only brown, but has a variety of colors: from completely black to radiant yellow. When a bear walks, it steps simultaneously with both paws located on one side of the body. Because of this, he has a waddling gait. But it cannot be called clumsy: when a bear sneaks for prey, not a single twig crunches under its heavy paws. Moving on four legs, the bear can reach speeds of up to 55 km / h. If a bear attacks, it never stands up on its hind legs (as can sometimes be seen in films), but, standing on all four legs, bites with very strong teeth. Bears are fairly easy to scare. This is known to hermits living in the forests, who surround their homes with red rags, buckets and leaky pans. It is enough to suddenly sound the alarm, and the bear may have a bear disease - uncontrolled excretion of excrement. It is generally accepted that a bear sucks its paw in a den because it wants to eat. There is also a version that this process helps him somehow pass the winter. However, neither the first nor the second versions are true. The thing is that the feet of the bear's paws, devoid of hair, are covered with thick and rough skin. When a bear is active, the skin on the paws wears out on the outside and grows on the inside. In the den, the outer layer of the paws does not wear out, but the inner one continues to grow. Therefore, the bear has to take care of the outer layer itself. Sucking on his paws, he moisturizes the hard skin, tears off shreds and eats them. If he did not do this, then in the spring he could not stand on his paws. There are more than two hundred states in the world, and only twenty of them do not brew beer. These are: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Brunei, Bhutan, Vatican City, Guinea, Djibouti, Qatar, Kiribati, Comoros, Kuwait, Mauritania, Maldives, Micronesia, Nauru, United Arab Emirates, Somalia, Saudi Arabia and Tuvalu. Bochkarev: Academy: Geography The largest number of atoms currently known contains a molecule whose formula is: C 1320 H 3963 BO 663 Si 660 (total: 6607 atoms) Over 400 million years of evolution, spiders have become perfect little predators. One of the smallest inhabitants of the earth, they are nevertheless among the most dangerous. The black widow has the strongest poison of all poisonous animals. The venom of one of the spider species prevents human blood from clotting and causes the decomposition of living tissues. Source: Discovery 22.03.2002/XNUMX/XNUMX. Complete guide. Spiders. Built on the world's largest man-made island in Japan's Osaka Bay, Kansai International Airport is sinking into the soft sea floor at a rate of about 30 cm per year. Despite the forecasts of engineers that over time the airport may be completely submerged, its management plans to build another such facility that can withstand even deeper sea waters. Source: Discovery 24.03.2002/XNUMX/XNUMX. Grandiose buildings. Airport at sea.
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