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20 facts about Ukraine
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1. Most of the words in the Ukrainian language starts with the letter "n." The most frequently used letter of the Ukrainian alphabet - "o". Less often used the letters "f" and "Ohno».
2. One of the most famous songs in the world -Summertime - George Gershwin wrote inspired by a lullaby, "Oh go sleep vіkon Kolo" performed by the Ukrainian National Choir.
3. The third most visited in the world of McDonald's - in Kiev, near the train station. This institution has always falls in the top five of the world's most crowded McDonald's.
4. Metro station "Arsenal" in Kiev - the deepest in the world and it goes underground for 105 meters. The station was built one of the first, in 1960, in the immediate vicinity of the Parliament building. According to some reports, in the tunnels near the "Arsenal" is a secret refuge for the political elite.
5. The Ukrainians - the fifth most-drinking nation in the world. They get completely drunk only Moldovans, Russians, Hungarians and Czechs. The average Ukrainian aged over 15 drinks per year 15, 6 liters of alcohol - per liter more than the Irish and nearly two Norwegians.
6. Ukrainian national anthem consists of only six lines - four verses and two chorus. The remaining verses of the hymn by the poet Paul Chubinskoe and composer Mikhail Verbitsky, were not approved because it does not quite politically correct ("let us take in the bloody battle of the Xiang to the Don" implies claims on the territory of Russia and Poland).
7. In Europe reveal 30-40% of crimes in Ukraine the same - 90%. Human rights activists explained that this unnatural rainbow statistics is the result of reluctance to fix the "hopeless" cases (for example, theft of mobile phones) and extract confessions from suspects.
8. In Ukraine - the largest reserves of manganese ore in the world, 2.3 billion tonnes, or about 11% of all deposits of the planet. More a lot of iron ore - 7% of world reserves.
9. The Ukrainians, namely the Antonov Design Bureau, the aircraft developed with the largest carrying capacity in the world - An -255 "Mriya". It was originally designed for the transport of the spacecraft. Now "Mriya" makes commercial shipping.
10. Ukrainian Hetman Pylyp Orlyk in 1710 introduced a "Pact and Constitution of the rights and liberties Zaporizhia Army" at the time the super-Progressive document, which meant the separation of powers into three branches, as well as regulate the rights and duties of the authorities and citizens. In fact, it was an agreement between the hetman, the Cossacks and the entire Ukrainian people. Some researchers believe this document is one of the first constitutions in the world.
11. One of the world's most famous Christmas songs - a "Shchedryk" folk song recorded by Ukrainian composer Nikolai Leontovich. The world knows it as Carol of the Bells or Ring Christmas Bells. On Youtube different versions "Shchedryk" gaining millions of views.
12. Ukraine on its own initiative declined from the third world's largest arsenal of nuclear weapons. In response, Ukraine has received the money for the disarmament, plus security guarantees from nuclear powers. (Gee-gee)
13. Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko found about 1,200 sites around the world, most of them located in western Ukraine.
14. The Ukrainian Nikolai Syadristy, though not a lefty, but shod flea, just like in a fairy tale. Bloch can be seen in the Kiev Museum of Miniatures.
15. In Ukraine, in contrast to the rest of the world, the batteries are not disposed of separately. And they contain toxic elements that heavily pollute water and soil.
16. At the time of independence, Ukraine was inhabited by 19, 4 million pigs, today they are twice less - 8, 3 million. Despite its reputation saloeda, average Ukrainian eats only 18 kg of pork per year. This is three times less than the usual German.
17. Ukrainian powerlifter Dmitry Khalaj declared a Guinness Book of Records as the author of more than two dozen records. For example, he passed the "devil's forge" - lying on a bed of nails, and put on top of the 700-pound slabs, which smashed with sledgehammers.
18. Ukrainian "Pivdenmash" (Dnepropetrovsk) produces the most environmentally friendly launch vehicles in the world. With them into space send commercial goods in the international project "Sea Launch».
19. The oldest known map of the scientists, as well as the most ancient settlement of Homo Sapiens found in the Ukraine, in the village of Rivne region Mezhireche. They are 14, 5 - 15 thousand years. Map knocked on the bones of the mammoth, of the same material and the settlement.
20. The official Guinness World Record: Ukrainians recently made the world's largest champagne glass - to 56.25 liters.
Source: www.kyivpost.ua
via factroom.ru
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