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1) The city of Pyatigorsk in Russian sign language is shown as two pistols, looking at each other. This is a direct reference to the duel between Lermontov and Martynov, which occurred here in 1841.





2) Since the days of the Israeli-Egyptian border wars in desert regions still remained the mined fields. Locals call this area "the edge of flying camels."



3) When the American writer and psychologist Timothy Leary was convicted of possession of drugs, to determine the place of detention, he was offered a standard test, which a few years ago was developed by Leary. He filled in the test so that its type has been identified as the most suitable for garden and field work. Based on the results, Leary was assigned to work as a gardener in prison soft regime, where he escaped six months later.



4) Before alarm clocks appeared in England and Ireland existed profession "budilschikov" who knocked on the window in the morning, long sticks or fired from the tubes dry red peas.



5) The Book of the standard format of 500 pages can not crush, even if you put it on 15 wagons loaded with coal.



6) September 27, 2010 the owner of Segway died during the trip on the Segway. 62-year-old Jimi Heselden rode his scooter on this estate, but lost control and fell off a cliff into a river.



7) The authorities of the Kursk region in 1935 for the shortfall in grain supplies renamed three kolkhoz - "Krasnaya Niva", "name of Nicholas Krupskaya "and" name SM Budyonny "- in" Slacker "," Slacker "and" saboteurs ". However, the superior court reversed that decision.



8) Only in 1992 the Vatican officially acknowledged that the Earth is not a fixed body and really revolves around the sun.



9) 1903. West Bengal (state of India). British merchant uses a local woman as transport.



10) Six-year Finnish girl Helga Hiltunen before Christmas wrote a letter asking God to give her 100 marks. In Findlyandii letters to the wrong address is entitled to open only the president of the republic.
So a letter addressed to "Mr. God" was read Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, successfully ruled the country from 1958 to 1982. Kekkonen girls decided to comply with the request, but the thought that such a small child is enough and 50 marks. He ordered her to bring the money and the letter "of God" in his car. Soon the office of the newly received a letter from Helga. She wrote that at the stop near her home machine Mr. President looked on the whole street. The girl also asked God not to transfer more money to anyone through the president, because he stole half.