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The number of deaths in the boxing ring has increased dramatically with the advent of boxing gloves. As long as they were not, boxers beat each other with bare knuckles. Blows to the head (the most dangerous) often ended in broken arms, so they almost nobody used.

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One tiger bitten 430 people.

This is more than the victims of shark attacks in the past 300 years.

That's more than were killed by snakes, bears, wolves and poisonous spiders together for the last 100 years.

It was Champawat Tiger, who hunt in Nepal and India Kumaon region. In 1911 it had shot the legendary hunter Jim Corbett.



3600 years ago, mammoths walked across Siberia. And the Egyptians built the pyramids about 4000 years ago.



There is a planet covered with burning ice. Do not dry but incredibly hot. On this planet, called Gliese 436 is b, the temperature is kept at 300 degrees Celsius, but the ice melts. The point is the force of gravity - it is so powerful that compresses the water and keeps it in the solid state.



Radiation exposure can be measured bananas. It is called "banana equivalent dose." The fact that the nature of the radioactive bananas because they contain potassium-40. Banana equivalent is defined as the activity of a substance introduced into the body by eating a banana. A dental X-rays, for example - it is about 50 banana equivalents.



Anosognosia - is when a person after a stroke or any other damage to the brain becomes disabled (for example, loses the ability to move his hand), but can not recognize their illness, telling others that he's all right and categorically refusing treatment.



Grandchildren tenth US President John Tyler (born in 1790) are still alive.



For 14 years prior to the death of "Titanic," Morgan Robertson's book appeared, entitled "Futility". It tells the story of the largest ship of its time with the lack of lifeboats, which crashed into an iceberg and sank. The ship was called "Titan" and was like "Titanic", trёhvintovym liner.



On the second anniversary of family life was marked for 25-year-old Theodore Roosevelt two tragic events: first on his hands from his mother died of typhoid fever. An hour later, having said goodbye to his mother, Roosevelt climbed to the second floor of his house and witnessed the death of his wife in childbirth.



Venus day is longer than a year.



Tropical rain forests of the Amazon periodically receive fertilizer from the Sahara. The wind carries sand particles with nutrients across the ocean to the tropics, where they fall and help the prosperity of forest vegetation.



In the center of "Sword of Orion" is not a star, and nebula. This is the only nebula, which can be seen from Earth with the naked eye. It is so great that if the distance from the Earth to the sun would be equal to an inch (2, 54 cm), the width of the nebula was to 12 miles (19 312 km).



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