10-ka interesting facts

1. The first drawing of the famous lottery "Sports Lottery" was held October 20, 1970. Lottery instantly gained immense popularity and weekly draws millions of people participated. If the ticket price of 60 cents, fees from the lottery in 1980 reached more than 470 million rubles and amounted to about 70% of the budget of the Moscow Olympics-80. Playing two systems - 5 out of 36 and 6 out of 49. The latter was replaced in 1986 by 6 out of 45, which increased the probability of winning is 30%. Nevertheless, the history of the 6 lottery numbers were guessed only twice, and the maximum gain is 9057 rubles.
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2. Fred Bor - a chemical engineer company Procter & Gamble, established in 1968 for metal can of potato chips Pringles, so imbued with love for their offspring that preferred to remain in it even after death. In accordance with the will of Bohr, his ashes were buried in one of these cans.



3. Inherent domestic cats meow is actually a way to alert people of its presence. Similarly beckon kittens adult cats. And communicating with each other, no pets or wild cats never meow.



4. July 23 1983 Boeing 767-200 airlines Air Canada, flying from Montreal, went down in history of aviation as "Gimli Glider". In the middle of the flight at an altitude of 12 500 meters from the aircraft suddenly ran out of fuel. With the failure of both engines at once, turn off all power, except for a small emergency turbine. However, the commander of the ship owned by Robert Pearson technique of piloting gliders and managed to land the plane with 60 passengers and 8 crew members on a closed air base in Gimli, Manitoba. The investigation revealed a number of violations, but the main miscalculation was a mistake in translation from the British imperial system of measures (gallons and pounds) per metric (liters and kilograms), which began to be used in the Boeing 767 series. As a result, the fuel in the plane just Nedolya. And after 16 years of such an error led to the death of Mars Climate Orbiter.



5. Popular in Tunisia soda Boga Russian owes its name to "water". Local residents have developed the delivery of supplies and fresh water for the passengers and crew with the remnants of the army of Baron Wrangel, dropped anchor in the port of Bizerte in Tunisia autumn of 1920. People lived on ships 4 years, as the French authorities were not allowed ashore. The resulting water is poured into the vessel's tanks with the word "water," which Tunisian traders apparently read in Latin transcription.



6. In 1889, the outstanding figures of French culture, among them Alexander Dumas, Charles Gounod, Guy de Maupassant, Leconte de Lisle, and many others, have written "Letter of 300" with a categorical protest against the construction of the Eiffel Tower, which, in their opinion It was this monstrosity.



7. Guinness Record in the category "the longest length of service in one place," set Thomas Stoddard, who was born in 1912. He began working in the Speakman Company, based in Wilmington, Delaware in the United States, February 16, 1928 as a courier and he worked until his retirement in 2008 as a member of the board of directors. Thus it was the experience of 80 years.



8. Oct. 17, 1814 in London at the brewery Meux and Company Brewery with beer tank exploded, and then the rest of the tanks also collapsed due to the domino effect. As a result, nearly half a million liters of beer spilled onto the streets, swept people and filled with numerous cellars. The number of victims amounted to 9 people, 8 of whom were drowned and one died from alcohol poisoning.



9. In 2005, eight years after the death of Mother Teresa was beatified by the Catholic Church. All her life she devoted to the poor and needy, and has received worldwide acclaim, numerous awards and prizes, including the Nobel Peace Prize. However, in private Mother Teresa complained that suffered for fifty years until his death, a sense of loss of faith and inner emptiness.



10. For centuries, pickled oysters in France and in England were considered food of the poor, and replaced meat. Over time, uncontrolled fishing of oysters led to a sharp decline in their numbers and in the end of XIX century, oyster rose so much that it became a delicacy.

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