30 interesting facts

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author of the text - voffka
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1. In Moscow, at the corner of Rustaveli and vegetable directions monument processed cheese "Friendship". On the pedestal sit heroes fable - The Fox and the Crow, together hold a huge cheese and hugging each other.





2. In 1896 one of the American railway companies put on a show - a deliberate collision between two trains at full speed. On the show it has sold 40,000 tickets, while tickets purchased spectators was built a temporary village. However, the engineers miscalculated the force of the explosion, and the crowd was not assigned a sufficiently safe distance, leaving three people dead and several injured.



3.Militsionery got the nickname "garbage" is not household waste. The fact is that before the revolution the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department was called Moscow criminal investigation. From abbreviation of the ICC and was insulting nickname.



4. In one of the first editions of a glossary Ozhegova decided not to include the name of the inhabitants of the cities, to once again not to increase its size. An exception was made only for the word "Leningrad", but not a sign of special respect for the residents of Leningrad. Just had to divide the word "lazy" and "Leninist", who stood close by, so as not to denigrate the image of the young Leninists.



5.Ranshe in Russia was spread alternative name the constellation Ursa Major - The horse laid up (meaning grazing horse, tied a rope to a peg). A North Star, respectively, called Trick-star. 6. In feudal China often practiced by revenge suicide, which is driven to despair a man committed in the courtyard of the offender. The Chinese believed that the soul of the suicide are not ascend to heaven, and remains in this case, the offender's home and brings him and his family misfortune.



7.Nadpis "no cholesterol" on the packaging of vegetable oil - it's just a gimmick, because cholesterol is only contained in animal fat.



8.Do not despite the fact that the Netherlands has legalized marijuana smoking, its level of consumption of the Dutch one of the lowest in Europe. Also in the Netherlands, one of the lowest mortality rates associated with taking drugs - eight cases per million inhabitants (for example, in the UK the figure is 50).



9.Vo the war against Russia Emirate of Bukhara in 1868, Corps General Golovachev in front of the enemy to his chest in the water crossed the river Zarafshan and bayonet attack took height Chapan-Ata. The maneuver was swift, take off one's shoes and pour the water it once. Therefore, the soldiers stood on his hands, and comrades while shaking their legs. A month later, in the battle of the front rows Zarabulake Bukhara, coming up on gunshot, he got up on his hands and rear steel in good faith to shake their legs. They were firmly convinced that unraveled the Russian ritual that brings victory.



10. In 2005 Sony BMG released a compilation of musical 'Electric 80s'. In the design of the album cover was used a large barcode. Some supermarkets have suffered losses after their salesmen read by the scanner is the barcode instead of the usual, which is located on the back side of the disc. Scanners recognize the code other items that cost less. In the second game drive cover was changed.



11.Po According to statistics, the average American police officer for the career service weapon uses time in 27 years. And in the television series Medium police to shoot to kill at least 10 times.



12.Ispanskaya royal family and the nobility were proud of the fact that, unlike ordinary people, they are descended from the West ready and never mingled with the Moors, penetrated into Spain from Africa. Unlike smuglokozhih commoners, pale skin representatives of the upper class blue veins stood out, and so they called themselves the sangre azul, which means "blue blood." From this expression to describe the aristocracy has penetrated into many European languages, including Russian.



13.Frantsuzskaya singer Edith Piaf during the occupation acted in POW camps in Germany, after which photographed for memory with them and the German officers. Then in Paris face cut and pasted prisoners in false documents. Piaf went to camp with repeated visits and smuggling of these passports, which some prisoners managed to escape.



14.Kishechnik normal human contains approximately one kilogram of bacteria. The number of cells of these bacteria on the order exceeds the number of cells in the human body. 15.Turisty like to take away with them pieces of ancient buildings "in memory". Worried about the fate of the Parthenon, Athens authorities have hired specialized workers who are scattered around the temple at night specially brought back pieces of marble.



16.When multiple daily intake exceeding the usual table salt is poison. For a person weighing 80 kg would be a lethal dose of a quarter of a kilogram. 17.Zoloto pure without additives is so soft that it can be scratched with a fingernail. Therefore, gold jewelry is always alloyed with copper or silver.



18.Slovo "teacher" comes from Greek and literally means "master of the child." But they do not call the teacher, and the servant, who led off the child to school and brought back. Usually teachers chosen slaves, unsuitable for any other job, but differs fidelity home.



19.Termin "brevity" is derived from the name of the ancient Greek region of Laconia, whose inhabitants were distinguished and laconic brevity. In Laconia and the city was Sparta. A classic example of laconic Spartans refers to the letter of the king of Macedonia, Philip II, conquered many Greek cities, "I advise you to surrender immediately, because if my army will go down in your land, I will destroy your gardens, enslaved people and destroy the city." In this Spartan ephors responded with one word: "If."



20.Flag Philippines consists of a white triangle, which concluded the sun and the stars, and two bands - blue and red. This is the only flag that has two equal options: in peacetime blue bar on top and bottom is red, and when the state of war in the Philippines, on the contrary.



21.V of ancient Russia rolls baked in the shape of the castle with a round bow. Citizens often bought rolls and ate them on the street, holding the bow, or a pen. For reasons of hygiene in food handle itself did not use, and give it to the poor, or thrown to be devoured by dogs. According to one version, about those who are not averse to eat it, saying he reached the pens. Today, the expression "get to grips" means absolutely down, losing human form.



22. In "Lay" you can find the line: "Bojan prophetic, if someone wanted to lay down a song, I flowed mysiyu on the tree, a gray wolf on the ground, bluish eagle under the clouds." Translated from the ancient Russian "mys" - a protein. And because of mistranslation in some editions of "Words" appeared playful expression "spread the idea of ​​the tree," which means to go into unnecessary details, to be distracted from the main point.



23.Pantera - this is not an individual animal, and the name of the biological family, which includes four species: lions, tigers, leopards and jaguars. Black Panther Party - this is not a separate species, and genetic variant of coloring of some female leopard or jaguar, very rare.



24.V prerevolutionary alphabet letter D called "good." Flag corresponding to that letter in the code signals of the Navy is set to "yes, I agree, are resolved." This was the cause of the expression "to the good." Derived from this, the expression "Customs gives good" first appeared in the film "White Sun of the Desert".



25. In the fable of Krylov "Ant and the Grasshopper" is the line: "The Grasshopper dragonfly summer red sang." However, we know that dragonflies are not making a sound. The fact is that while the word "Dragonfly" served generalized name for several insect species. A hero of the fable is actually a grasshopper.
By the way, just immediately clear why "Grasshopper!»



26. In 2000, the International Hydrographic Organization formally adopted the division into five oceans. It is already known to the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian and Arctic added the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica.



27.Religiozno-philosophical doctrine, Jainism preaches the renunciation of earthly interests and doing no harm to any living beings. Jain monks live in extreme asceticism, wear gauze masks, filter drinking water, not to accidentally inhale or swallow some insect, and sweep the road in front of you a special whisk, so that no one crush. Now India and other countries, there are 8 million followers of Jainism.



28.Mnenie that the Roman Coliseum in the audience to choose life or death for the loser, thumb pointing up or down, by mistake. It arose after the appearance of the painting «Pollice Verso» artist Jean-Leon Gerome, who wrongly translated the Latin text. In fact bent in either direction (up or down) the thumb meant death for the loser, symbolizing the naked sword. And in order to give life, the audience showed a clenched fist, alluding to the sword hidden in the sheath.



29.Vo World War II, the Germans occupied the Netherlands, and the royal family was evacuated to Canada. There acting Queen Juliana was born the third daughter Margaret. Chamber in the hospital where the birth took place, the special decree of the Canadian government was declared a Canadian jurisdiction. This was done to Princess Margaret in the future could claim the throne of the Netherlands, after having received foreign citizenship at birth, she would have lost that right. In gratitude to Canadians returning home after the royal family of the Netherlands sends every year thousands of tulip bulbs to Ottawa, where the annual Tulip Festival.



30. In the composition of the plastic parts designer for "Lego" is barium sulfate. This salt is not soluble in water, which makes it non-toxic to the body, and can be clearly seen on X-rays. Thus, if a child swallows a piece, it will be easy to find in these pictures.

All. Thank you for attention. Successful Tuesday



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