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15 small interesting facts about everything that you will entertain and amuse
The site offers a selection of very curious facts of which you've never heard of. < 1. In 1970 was conducted a psychological experiment: the participants were blindfolded and asked to play tug of war with "the other team." As a result, participants who said that they pull the rope together three more human, have made 18 percent less effort, than those who think that pulling the rope alone. This effect is known as "social sloth».
2. Sussex researcher gave the task to develop a computer program the chip, using the principle of natural selection. The result is an incredibly effective chip, the internal mechanisms which can not be understood.
3. In Norway, there is an island located at 68 degrees north latitude (ie, inside the Arctic Circle), with amazing natural anomaly: in the summer is warm, even in winter the temperature rarely drops below zero degrees Celsius. < br />
4. very few bought a Lamborghini with a manual transmission. And every time this happens, the plant several times pepeproveryayut, whether there was an error and someone really made such an order.
5. Pickled ginger served with sushi to "cleanse" the taste buds between different types of retirement homes nn * delicacy. Snack sushi ginger - an insult to the chef.
6. American Joan Ginther has won four times in the lottery since 1993. As a professor of statistics at Stanford University, she expected the algorithms that determine the sequence numbers of the winning tickets in each case. They say she now spends about two months a year, trying to crack the riddle of the next lottery.
7. dimples - is actually a genetic defect. They mean that muscles grow properly and between depressions formed.
8. In 2014, in Wichita (Kansas), three people were killed during a training "flight" in the aviation simulator, when the building of the training center of the crashed plane.
9. drowning man can not wave their arms to attract attention. Instinct, in this situation the sinking unconsciously pulls his hands apart and tries to push off from the water, throwing back his head, the mouth remains above the surface, and could breathe.
10. The film "The Scorpion King 4" - a sequel to the sequel, which, in turn, is based on the sequel to the remake of which are now decided to make a trilogy.
11. American serial killer Dennis Rader worked for the installation of security systems. Many customers turned to this company specifically to protect your home from wield in the district maniac. They did not even know that was assigned to the installation of signaling that same maniac.
12. During the Battle of Tsushima the Russian fleet signaled surrender, but the Japanese were not able to decrypt the message and continued to shoot, because in their codebook concept of "surrender" does not mean.
13. «UVB-76" - a mysterious Russian radio (operating on a frequency of 4625 kHz). For nearly 40 years, the station aired buzzing. From time to time it stops and sound radiogram as a series of Russian letters and numbers. In 2013, for the first time it was given to more or less sensible radiogram. Its content was as follows: "MDZHB ANNOUNCED THE TEAM 135».
14. The specialists at Stanford University have found a close relationship between hiking and creative thinking. Compared to a sitting position, while walking ability for creative thinking increases by about 60 percent. It does not matter where a person goes: in the park, on the treadmill or just from one corner of the room.
15. The recent earthquake in South Asia has shown that tectonic forces are slowly but surely pushing the continents together, and after about 250 million years, they again "merge" together.
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2. Sussex researcher gave the task to develop a computer program the chip, using the principle of natural selection. The result is an incredibly effective chip, the internal mechanisms which can not be understood.
3. In Norway, there is an island located at 68 degrees north latitude (ie, inside the Arctic Circle), with amazing natural anomaly: in the summer is warm, even in winter the temperature rarely drops below zero degrees Celsius. < br />
4. very few bought a Lamborghini with a manual transmission. And every time this happens, the plant several times pepeproveryayut, whether there was an error and someone really made such an order.
5. Pickled ginger served with sushi to "cleanse" the taste buds between different types of retirement homes nn * delicacy. Snack sushi ginger - an insult to the chef.
6. American Joan Ginther has won four times in the lottery since 1993. As a professor of statistics at Stanford University, she expected the algorithms that determine the sequence numbers of the winning tickets in each case. They say she now spends about two months a year, trying to crack the riddle of the next lottery.
7. dimples - is actually a genetic defect. They mean that muscles grow properly and between depressions formed.
8. In 2014, in Wichita (Kansas), three people were killed during a training "flight" in the aviation simulator, when the building of the training center of the crashed plane.
9. drowning man can not wave their arms to attract attention. Instinct, in this situation the sinking unconsciously pulls his hands apart and tries to push off from the water, throwing back his head, the mouth remains above the surface, and could breathe.
10. The film "The Scorpion King 4" - a sequel to the sequel, which, in turn, is based on the sequel to the remake of which are now decided to make a trilogy.
11. American serial killer Dennis Rader worked for the installation of security systems. Many customers turned to this company specifically to protect your home from wield in the district maniac. They did not even know that was assigned to the installation of signaling that same maniac.
12. During the Battle of Tsushima the Russian fleet signaled surrender, but the Japanese were not able to decrypt the message and continued to shoot, because in their codebook concept of "surrender" does not mean.
13. «UVB-76" - a mysterious Russian radio (operating on a frequency of 4625 kHz). For nearly 40 years, the station aired buzzing. From time to time it stops and sound radiogram as a series of Russian letters and numbers. In 2013, for the first time it was given to more or less sensible radiogram. Its content was as follows: "MDZHB ANNOUNCED THE TEAM 135».
14. The specialists at Stanford University have found a close relationship between hiking and creative thinking. Compared to a sitting position, while walking ability for creative thinking increases by about 60 percent. It does not matter where a person goes: in the park, on the treadmill or just from one corner of the room.
15. The recent earthquake in South Asia has shown that tectonic forces are slowly but surely pushing the continents together, and after about 250 million years, they again "merge" together.
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