12 short of interesting facts about which you had no idea

Our editorial staff has collected another "brand" selection lyubopynyh facts about everything! < 1. Magic Fruit (synsepalum dulcificum), has the ability to "cheat" our taste buds so that the taste of food is perceived quite differently . With these small red berries, with a view reminiscent of grapes, you can drink beer with the taste of chocolate, and hot sauce is sweet as icing.



2. avid Ku * ilschik Samuel Bratt used his last wish merely for the purpose of revenge. Since the life of his wife would not let him smoke in his will he left her 330,000 pounds with one condition: to obtain a widow inheritance is obliged to smoke 5 cigars a day.

3. One of the 19th century rather plump woman died of yellow fever. After the funeral, the fat from her body turned into a corpse wax, which reacted with the chemicals contained in the soil. As a result, the body has become a big bar of soap. "Soap Woman" exhibited in a museum in Philadelphia Mutter.



4. Anhedonia - a disorder in which a person is unable to experience pleasure and joy. Whatever the people suffering from anhedonia, they still do not feel any positive emotions.

5. Man - the only creature that has whites of the eyes. Even the monkeys eyes completely black. This makes it possible to determine the eyes of others intentions and emotions exclusively human privilege. Monkey's eyes is quite impossible to understand not only her feelings, and even the direction of her gaze.

6. Despite the fact that social advertising displays and numerous pictures illustrating the difference between the lungs ku * ilschika and light Neka * yaschego, no external differences between them. No pathologist could not without other symptoms such as yellowing of the fingers and teeth, a condition of the bronchi and so forth., Only light, confidently determine ku * yl whether a person during his lifetime.

7. If you want to - believe it or - no, but about 1 in 5,000 people are born without a mustache *. This is called "non-perforated and * mustache." With men it happens a little more often than women.

8. Forest Stewart Mudzhimba Australia holds the world record for the set of all the numbers from one to one million words (not numbers). This titanic and perfectly useless work took seven manual typewriters, 1000 ink ribbons, 19,890 pages, 16 years and 7 months.

9. Most psychologists believe that such a phenomenon as "crying with happiness" does not exist. In fact, we cry because disappeared unpleasant feelings, that is relief. Even before that, we did not realize there was a problem.

10. A resident of the German Karl Friedrich Lenz invented a machine for straightening ... bananas. Such fruits he calls «banana-cigar» - «banana cigars." The technology is fairly simple: bananas are cut into pieces of which are made direct fruit and again glued biologically safe plaster. Unnecessary pieces also not released, they are dried and used in fruit salads. Brilliant, what to say.

11. In the Chinese province Dunja spring - time eating "virgin egg". The main ingredient of dishes (excluding eggs) - urine immature boys, which is collected on the primary schools of the city. When cooking use cracked eggs to the broth could penetrate the egg itself.



12. In 1915, the director of one of the suburban theaters was a young girl rather unusual appearance with a letter. The letter was signed by a close friend of the director, entrepreneur Moscow Sokolovsky.

"Dear Vanya, - he wrote - I send you this lady, just to get rid of it. You better myself somehow delicately hint, in parentheses, to tell her what to do it on the stage there is nothing, that there were no prospects of it does not. I myself, really, to make it uncomfortable for many reasons, so that you, my friend, somehow dissuade her from acting career - and it would be better for her and for the theater. This is the perfect mediocrity, all the roles it plays exactly the same way, the name of her Ranevskaya ... »
Fortunately, the director of the theater did not listen Council Sokolowski and diamond saw Faina Ranevskaya!



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