33 mistakes of mass destruction (33 photos) Bashny.Net

1. Big Ben - a clock tower in London

You would be offended if he knew what the English call chimes police in Red Square, in the New Year that someone beat? Certainly. And the residents of London no longer a frown when they hear from tourists "tower of Big Ben." Although in reality Big Ben - is the largest of the six bells of the clock tower of Westminster Abbey. Time beats he, hence the confusion. We christened it as May 31, 1859, the day of the launch clock. The name chosen parliament. The loudest at a meeting on the hour, shouting curator forestry Benjamin Hall, a straightforward man and vociferous. Anecdotes about him passed around more than about Putin, but for the eyes of the Hall was called "Big Ben". After another particularly stupid replica Hall came a voice from the audience: "Let's have the Big Ben bell is said to disperse and go home!" The audience burst into laughter, but the nickname stuck. That's it. A tower, where the bell hangs by the way, is called Steven September.



2. Cirrhosis of the liver - the lot of alcoholics

not only. Cirrhosis caused by intoxication generally - e.g., if the body gets much copper (which, inter alia, cod liver). And cirrhosis often occurs as a complication of all forms of hepatitis, and with a shortage of protein in the diet.

By the way, did you know that: delicacy foie gras - a cirrhotic liver of geese. But the geese on the whole do not drink.

3. Having sex on a water mattress - cool

So usually say those who never was not engaged. However, we can authoritatively say: not cool, no. The water mattress is too soft, it is almost impossible to fix even the simplest pose. In addition, the mass of water under you go back and forth because of its inertia do not allow to keep the rhythm. Especially temperamental individuals, this water may even lose momentum on the floor. This sex occupies in our ranking last place. Worse than just sex in an anthill. All the other kinds of sex in 1378 with verified indisputably better.

4. Galileo was burned for the phrase "And yet it moves!»



Let's order. The first person to have made a major contribution to the school textbook of astronomy was Nicholas Copernicus. He lived in the XVI century, it is often looked to the sky and one day realized that the Earth revolves around the sun. He died of natural causes at age 70, because they do not shout in the squares: 'The earth moves, boys! "- And silently deduced in a notebook no one clear formula. But the poet and mystic Giordano Bruno, who was next, just burned. Of the works of Copernicus, he knew only that the Earth - small planet, in the universe of any set, and this idea is well-rested on religious doctrine invented them. In 1584, Bruno began to tour the city with sermons, and burned for eretizm 16 years. Galileo was the third. Famous scientist, he discovered mountains on the moon and sunspots. In 1632 th he wrote a book in which developed the doctrine of Copernicus, and a year later was summoned to court. There, he admitted that was wrong, and was released under house arrest.

"And yet it moves!" - The old man did not speak, otherwise I would not return to his villa in Florence in good health. The phrase at the end of XVII century wrote the portrait of Galileo, one of his disciples. So there was confusion.

5. Fish Day in the Soviet canteens were introduced for reasons of health



Yes, health care often taken in the USSR rampant. However, the fishing day is not associated with it. In the 30 years in the country because of collectivization began to decline pig. September 12, 1932 narkomsnab Mikoyan signed a decree shortfall of meat by fish, because the lake and the sea happily escaped dispossession. All dining was introduced fish day: hake and capelin on Thursday replaced the meat. Dine fish was unusual. Most of all he suffered Caucasian Mikoyan, according to his memoirs: "In the beginning was disgusting even to touch her, but then he liked it." However, to deny the benefit of the fish will be only a man with a phosphorus deficiency in the brain. So some Healthy Effect still was.

6. Some mobile phones keeping in touch better than others



"I have one bar!" - "And I have two!" Such dialogues like to keep each other not only girls in the period of delay, and people with cell phones, sit in the basement cafe. Why it is considered that the phones of different manufacturers have different sensitivity to signals of base stations. The whole Internet forums devoted to the choice of model, which is better "keeps in touch". Meanwhile, according to a test phone Eldar Murtazin, at the GSM-phones in general there is no concept of sensitivity: they all hold the same signal, or, at least, have to keep. "Just us different stitch their devices, and therefore the signal of 20 dB one phone will be evaluated in two strips, and the other - in three. But they take it to be the same. So tell your readers. " So said.

7. "Lone White Sail" Lermontov came up, and the "pure beauty" - Pushkin



In fact Decembrist Bestuzhev wrote a string that then borrowed Lermontov (presumably out of respect, or maybe just because of envy):

Lone White Sail,

Like a swan wing,

And sad traveler yasnooky;

At the feet of the quiver, in the hands of the paddle.

Well, V. Zhukovsky invented:

Ah! Not with us dwells

The genius of pure beauty;

Only sometimes he visits

Us from on high.

Pushkin once wrote the phrase in italics, indicating that it is a quotation. From the late edition of the course disappeared.

8. Mustangs - a beautiful and graceful horse



Before Columbus horses in America did not exist. A Mustangs - a wild and degenerate descendants of horses, imported by the Spaniards. And so they do not have medalists and wild, steel and all undersized, bearded and awkward. So were the cowboys - illiterate shepherds, day and night worried grazing cows on the prairie. So carefree guys along the Harz saloons riding elite breeds - fiction writers and filmmakers. The Indians on the Mustangs in general almost did not go. They ate them.

9. "Molotov Cocktail" invented Molotov



In fact, a Molotov cocktail started using the Finns in 1939. And they called it "Molotov cocktail", as believed that Russian-Finnish war unleashed the evil USSR People's Commissar. The British, who liked the mixture, do not understand that someone is designed and threw the word "for».

10. Food of commercials delicious



This is not food. Rollers do not cook, and filmmakers. With products they do not like to work, because chocolate melts under the lights, caramel sticks to the white background, and the ice cream is not willing to keep the shape. Therefore, instead of them in advertising removed by professional actors: brown paint, wax, and mashed potatoes. Plus elements of computer graphics that you have not noticed fraud. and it is right. Everyone must do his own job: paint - shine on the screen and chocolate - melt in your mouth.

11. Cactus saves from harmful radiation computer



There is no accounting, which the inmates would not put your computer near a cactus, that he protected them from the radiation. Anyone who opened a physics textbook, appreciate the absurdity of the situation: it is impossible to create in the dark room with the help of things, "absorbent" light. Invisible radiation also can not absorb. Myth spawned physics students (including the now famous Alex Young) in the years of perestroika. They wrote about psevdostatyu protective properties of cactus. Opus angrily rejected everywhere and a "worker" trustingly publish it. Dispel the myth could not even public recognition of humorists made three years ago.

12. Ostriches bury their heads in the sand



So it seemed to the Roman scholar Pliny the Elder, and he made the fact of the encyclopedia. His works do not very accurate, but the myth handed the longest. But the ostrich does not bury our heads in the sand - can not, and will suffocate. But often he lies down and puts his neck on the ground to give it a rest. Sensing danger, he, too, falls and presses his head to the ground - listening to someone talking. So safely scare ostriches in cages with concrete floors; they did not.

13. frigid women - is the one that does not experience orgasm



Lack of orgasm - nonsense, it happens like Carlson said Bok (but quite another occasion). Many women do not experience it (mostly because of the lack of experience), but this does not prevent them to enjoy sex. Their problem is called anorgasmia and nothing to do with frigidity has. Sometimes a simple change of consulting friends or partner helps women cope with anorgasmia.

Another thing - frigidity. It's pretty serious mental disorder to be treated. Frigid women do not enjoy sex and are not interested in them. Previously, these came to the monastery, and now go on reception to the sexologist.

14. Jihad - a holy war



If you do not take into account a handful of fanatics, the Arabs - the people quite relaxed and prone to contemplation. To indicate paranormal states, and there is the word "jihad". Literally "to strain efforts." Build a house, plant a tree - all of this Jihad. If the word was in the Russian language, we would say: "Without the jihad does not take out the fish from the pond," "patience and jihad little effort," "Who is not jihad, neither shall he eat", "Jihad time, fun time." And any foreigner, knowing only about our class jihad for the cause of communism, still be swallowed validol heard that saying.

15. Othello strangled Desdemona, and stabbed a dagger

This fact love to show off those who mastered Shakespeare, to those who have not mastered. Meanwhile, Desdemona Othello slaughtered only in the translation of Pasternak, who all loved classics tweak to your liking. In the original Othello stifles his wife, and that at all times meant "choke." So right, those who have not read Shakespeare. And the moral of that: the less you know the details, the more likely your knowledge of the essence.

16. Guys do not have to cry

But why? In the body, all natural mechanisms are triggered not just. Timely tears output excess corticosteroids - hormones of stress. If you do not cry (at least sometimes), lost sleep and appetite. Remember, in ancient Rome was a saying "Slaves do not cry." Crying it was considered a privilege of a free man. And in the pages of Caucasian heroic epic "The Knight in the Panther's Skin" horsemen quite often shed tears, and it does not deprive them of their masculinity. The main thing - not to be confused with hysterical tears. That's really not a man's job.

17. In the USSR, the door opened into the apartment, the KGB was easier to break them



International construction regulations prescribe build door so that they can easily and quickly clear - but inside, in case of fire. And only in Russia, doors open inwards. This tradition vain associated with the work of Soviet secret services: it is much older than the Soviet Union. The point here is only in the features of the Russian winter. If the doors swung open to the outside peasant huts, the first serious snowstorm shut them until the spring, no matter how much Mahai shovel in the hall. Soviet designers of high-rise buildings maintained this tradition only out of habit and thoughtlessness. And as the Cheka, the NKVD and the KGB, it is not difficult to guess that for them the doors of apartments is never a problem.

18. You can not pee in the cold



It is possible and necessary. Otherwise, the body without you urinate in his pants that the cold will lead to a resounding impact. Do not be afraid for the health: a couple of minutes you can not freeze even a finger, the more powerful body with blood flow and internal heating. You can not urinate on the electric cable, but that's another story, and time of year is not important here.

19. In many Swedish families, whether their wives, or husbands

This misconception walks not only in Russia, but where it came from, do not remember anywhere. In Europe, however, 60 years ago, there was the phrase "marriage Swedish" denotes an unregistered cohabitation. But this notion has become synonymous with group sex, etymologists do not know. Swedes themselves, people are quiet and faithful, come as a shock, when asked whether it was true they love group sex and deal with them directly at the buffet.

20. soup to eat every day



"Not that it is necessary - crumpled dietitian Alexei Pospelov. - In general, we recommend it is, because people today drink very little water, preferring her soda or beer. As a result, the body is dehydrated, and just this problem is intended to fight the soup. " And itself broth vegetables rather useless: all the vitamins in it decompose. So if you drink a lot, you do not choke soup.

21. Beer - good sleeping pills

Yes, it is clouding the mind and makes you want to lie down for a minute. However, after a night's sleep of beer you will not succeed. Firstly, contained in beer putrescine inhibits the nerve center of sleep, and, secondly, an hour after bedtime brain will dream of you to wake up quickly and went to the toilet.

22. Soda good thirst quencher



It could be, if not the main component of any pop - phosphoric acid. By stimulating the taste buds, it stimulates the production of saliva, which quenches the thirst. But it is worth salivation bounce back - and thirsty again. Therefore, although soda quenches thirst, but does so badly. Much worse is usually water.

23. If a person grits her teeth - he means worms

In fact, it means that a person has bruxism - a syndrome associated with the work of little-studied areas of the brain. Unless, of course, is not a child in front of you - they do grind their teeth during sleep, to form a bite. So do not wake a person screaming in terror. Especially as bruxism sometimes goes away.

24. Magnetic storms can be predicted



You can not. At the Institute of Applied Geophysics we were told that the last device capable of it, sank along with the orbital station "Mir". The forecasts of magnetic storms in the newspapers - a kind of horoscopes.

25. Monkey guessed the first to pick up a stick



On our planet, and now lives a few hundred entities, including the primates who use tools like sticks. For example, chimpanzees, crows and sea otters - sea otters. They are generally used from time immemorial, sticks and stones to open the shells of sea urchins. But that still did not make their people and, most likely, never will do. Of course, the question of what made from monkey man is still open. But the fact that it was not a stick, the scientists agreed. This thesis was just a figure of speech from books Engels.

26. Poem "Luke Mudischev" wrote Barkov

When there was no internet, we are all under the desk copied bawdy poem. And I think that it was written by Barkov - unprintable classic literature. Yes, he wrote many other awful horror, but not "Luka." After he died in 1768, and in the poem there are clear indications of the XIX century: at first, the summary Matrona lives Polyanka (street appeared in Moscow until 1801); secondly, in the payment of her widow he gives four "Rainbow paper", which is the name of vulgar hundred ruble banknotes issued in 1843 after the reform of the Ministry of Finance Kankrin. So either Barkov brilliant visionary, a poem written yet he is not.

27. 25th frame - a dangerous thing

No more dangerous than the "radiation" monitor. Jokes about the 25th shot came up American film distributors. They published the alleged results of experiments which showed that one can force a person to buy popcorn, inserting the frame every 24 plate with the slogan "Eat popcorn!". This news shocked the inhabitants so that even after the jokers around the admitted confusion continues to live. In various countries, including ours, even adopted a law against 25th frame. This is particularly funny when you consider that the world still do not have any clips to the 25th frame, no evidence of that mythical technique generally works.

28. Monkey looking in each other's fur flea

The spectacle is so unpleasant that look into it closely enough at whom it turns out. Hence the confusion. After all, people watch the monkeys at least half an hour must have noticed that they are too sparse coat that it could live fleas. So actually primates looking in each other's hair salty sweat crystals, which are considered a delicacy (monkeys).

29. Belka and Strelka - the first dog in space



Dogs in space was like a dog nerezanyh. Some died in the accident, another lucky anymore. The flight was three decades, and the first to a height of 100 km (formal space) rose in July 1951 mutts dezik and Gypsies. But in the real space orbit first came Laika November 3, 1957. Return ships from orbit did not yet know how, so that Laika capsule roasted. Because, probably, of this shameful fact prefer not to remember.

30. Mice are crazy about cheese



Mice are crazy about anything edible. Oil, corn, ham, sausage - mice will eat any organic material with the same gusto. Just in the old days, cheese is most often kept in the storerooms open and use this mouse. So the myth.