10 short facts about students who do not even know themselves

The site offers a selection of interesting facts about those right now checks on the authenticity of the statement that the student years - the best in life! < 1. Japanese students take with them to the examination of chocolate and put it in front of a teacher during response. It is believed that chocolate brings good luck.

2. At one university in the city of Nantes has a special room for sleeping. "Sleepy room" was opened to students are not sleeping on the pairs. Now, anyone can go there and relax, when he wants.

3. Frankenstein - this is not the name of a terrible monster. Writer Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus" is a monster called the "monster", as Victor Frankenstein in the product's name was a young student-scientist.

4. of entrants we used to call those who are planning to enter the university. In fact, the word translated as "go" and also refers to graduate. In most countries, the word kept its "correct" value.

5. 200 years ago in the nineteenth century Russian students in the restaurants and taverns wrote on the back of their address. This point is even described in the work of Anton Chekhov.





6. The strange tradition of the "primeval scream" is popular in many foreign universities. The student can go out and publish a wild scream lasting 5 to 10 minutes. It is believed that this exercise helps to relieve stress during the session.

7. The word "student" was first used by the Roman poet Ovid. Translated from the Latin word "student" - a person who works hard and diligently engaged.

8. The longest crib in the world - 600 m. The students spent 16 hours on its production.

9. The most succinct letter of recommendation from the University received mathematician John Nash, the prototype of the hero of the film "A Beautiful Mind." It read: "This man is genius!»

10. The most popular superstition relating to the examination not wash before the test, ask that you cursed, put the coin in the boots.



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