"The facts on which you obaldeete"

In the new book "1227 facts on which you obaldeete" amazing collected information about our world. h3> John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin from the British TV show «Quite Interesting» on the debt service of its incredible amount of know a wide range of information and facts. Some facts have surprised even them, scientists and researchers of our incredible world. When the facts have accumulated a lot, John, John and James gathered them together and published the book "1227 facts on which you obaldeete."

"10 years of combined research methods« QI »can be described in one line. Here it is: "Read everything, including the footnotes, but record only that personally find interesting».

• In the world there are so many diamonds that everyone on the planet has got to be the full cup.
• Keep the person in prison in the UK costs 45 000 pounds a year - a half times more expensive than sending his study at Eton.
• In America, more than three times more PR than journalists.
• The first advertising jingles published in newspapers - readers were invited to sing on their own. < Victorian leadership advised women to travel by rail to keep the mouth pin as a means against unwanted kiss in the dark when the train passes through a tunnel.
• A female ferret die if she year have not had sex. li >
• Uranium occurs 40 times more silver and 500 - of gold.
• If a vampire fed once a day and always paid their victims into vampires, the entire population of the planet would become a vampire just More than a month.
• The white rhinos and black rhinos - one color.
• The female plant aphids give birth to female aphids are already pregnant female aphids.
• 40% is sold the world's bottled water is tap.
• Between 1838 and 1960 more than half of the photos featured babies.
• In the XIX and early XX century, the removal of all teeth and replacing them with the slide was a popular gift for 21 years.
• In the XVIII century the French fleet to bury their dead in the hold.
• 40% of mankind has lived up to the first birthday.
• The human brain receives 11 million bits of information per second, but is aware of only 40 bits.
• At least 99% of all that ever existed species have left no trace in the fossil record.
• Gerbils (hamsters) smell the smell of adrenaline, and for this they keep airport security - to calculate the terrorists.
• «Aerosmith» made more money on a video game "Guitar Hero" than on any of your album.
• The first train London Underground called "sewer tram».
• The British retail rescues 250 million pounds a year on neotovarennyh gift certificates.
• In Arabic, words are written from right to left, and the numbers - from left to right. Knowledge of Arabic reading texts teeming numbers, forced to read in both directions at the same time.
• A screwdriver was invented 100 years before the screw. She was originally picked out the nails.
• Aborigines whose culture is rooted as much in an ice age, may be called by the names of the mountains (and determine their location), has been 8000 years under water.
• Coal power plants emit into the air 100 times more radioactive waste than nuclear power - in the production of the same amount of energy.
• 90% of crimes in Afghanistan's Helmand province makes the local police.
• The human saliva contains analgesic opiorfin, which is 6 times more powerful than morphine.
• In the French, Hungarian, Spanish, Gaelic, Italian, Portuguese, Latvian, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin and Tagalog word "weather" and "time "are the same.
• A typical microwave oven consumes more electricity, supporting the work of the electronic clock in the standby mode than when heating food.
• In Cubism there cubes. According to the theory postimpressionist Paul Cezanne, any object can be visually divided into cylinders, spheres and cones.
• 10% of the electricity in the US is produced from dismantled Soviet nuclear bombs.
• For the technology of smartphones is almost 250 000 individual patents.
• Chemotherapy - a by-product of mustard gas use in the First World War.
• Caffeine is composed of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen - as well as thalidomide, Nylon , TNT.
• Since 1990, the percentage of people in China living in poverty fell from 85 to 15.
• The spiritual seeker and a vegetarian Sir Charles Ishem came up with garden gnomes in 1847. He hoped that they lure in his garden gnomes present.
• Typewriters once called "piano literature».
• In correspondence of Lord Byron often met curls, sent him admirers. He answered them similar messages, but the locks contained in them belonged to the boatswain, Newfoundland Byron.
• In 1811, an offense punishable by death, included the theft of sheep vydavanie himself for a pensioner of the British army, "serious manifestation of malignancy" children 7-14 years old, living with gypsies in the last month and stealing cheese.
• For 18 years the average American child has seen on TV 200,000 murders.
• London Underground to make more money on the publication of his famous card than on transport.
• Before Renaissance three-quarters of all the books in the world were in China.
• Feathers average bird weighs two and a half times greater than it skeleton.
• For the past 60 years, more than 23,000 North Koreans defected to the South. Total 2 Koreans make a return.
• In 2011, the Nobel laureate in economics Daniel Kahneman conducted a study of the 25 largest traders of Wall Street, and it showed that their success is not stable that of the chimpanzee, flip a coin. Li >
• Nearly half of Americans today is considered to be living in poverty or on the brink of poverty. 46, 4% do not pay income tax.
• After the smoking ban in 2004, the base currency of US prisons was the mackerel.
• gypsy "television» - «dinilo's dikkamengro», which means "Box fools for eyeing».
• In the Finnish "pedant» - «pilkunnussija», which literally means "e * apb commas».
• Irish jellyfish called «smugairle róin ", which literally means" snot sealskin ».
• In French cotton candy called« barbe à papa "(" daddy's beard »).
• Zeus had five wives. One - his aunt, the second - an older sister, and the third he ate.
• Research with the experiments on rabbits received 26 Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine.
• In 1875, the King of Fiji during official visit to Australia has picked up measles, brought her to the island and thus destroyed a quarter of its citizens.
• In 90% of all written in English is used in all 1000 words.
• Do beavers transparent eyelids - to see under the water with her eyes closed.
• In 1187, as a token of friendship between the two countries, Richard I of England, King of England, spent the night in the same bed with Philip II, King of France.
• In 1999, a gang of thieves were forced to perform community service along the route in Rotereme. Next spring planted daffodils blooming along the road and formed the word "fuck» (shag) and «garbage» (bollocks).
• In 1915, the millionaire Cecil Chubb bought his wife Stonehenge. The gift she did not like, and Chubb in 1918 peredaril his British people.
• The first published crossword puzzle called vordkrossom.
• Museums and galleries UK each year visited 7 times more people than football Premier League matches.
• Half of the species in the world live in the crowns of tropical forests.
• The opposite of plankton - nekton, creatures that move freely in the water, rather than just drift. Fish, dolphins and humans - nekton.
• Every 5 days, China is building a new skyscraper. By 2016, there will be 4 times higher than in the US.
• Three-quarters of French people a rest in France.
• The Secret Service MI5 use special kettle for steaming sealed envelope. Li >
• Within a mile pigeon faster than fax.
• 46% of adult Americans believe the earth is less than 10 000 years.
  
  
  
  
  
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