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10 small interesting facts useful for scholarship
Ah, these short-facts of history: only 5 minutes for a quick tumble ... or at least 5 minutes to kill these to good use! The site publishes another compilation of curious. < 1. Japanese military engineer who designed planes for the bombers of World War II (these machines were designed to bomb from a dive) was very sorry about his role in the last war and decided Enron used his skills for peaceful purposes. He has developed a draft "Shinkansen" (or "bullet train") - a network of high-speed rail, where until now there have been no fatal incidents.
2. Scandinavian explorer and discoverer of Erik the Red gave deliberately harsh Greenland is promising title (Norwegian word «grønland» translated as "green land") to attract potential immigrants. The trick worked.
3. A burglar stole diamonds virtuoso $ 100 million, to find the right code to the lock of 100 million combinations, beating infrared sensors, seismic detectors and security guards from a private company. Caught and convicted him on the DNA, which was removed from the crime scene left a half-eaten sandwich.
4. If the diameter of our planet was a 50 percent increase, we would not be able to launch a rocket into space because of the weight of fuel required for space flight.
5. Do lobster brain is located in the throat, the nervous system - in the abdomen, teeth - in the stomach and kidneys - in the head. In addition, the lobster hear feet, feel the taste of food and claws, like people, are righties and lefties.
6. Every year removed from the canals of Amsterdam from 12 to 15 thousand bicycles.
7. In 1999, Google almost sold for $ 750 thousand, because the founders of the project did not have enough time to study.
8. dictum known as "Hanlon's Razor" describes the tendency to suspect criminal intent that really explains the usual mistake. It reads: "Never attribute to malice what can be explained stupidity».
9. One man sold all his property (including clothing), traveled to Las Vegas and put all the proceeds as a result of money ($ 136,000) on a roulette game with a chance to win 50/50. < br />
10. During the Vietnam War, American soldiers have gradually adapted to the plastic explosive C4, to "zabaldet».
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2. Scandinavian explorer and discoverer of Erik the Red gave deliberately harsh Greenland is promising title (Norwegian word «grønland» translated as "green land") to attract potential immigrants. The trick worked.
3. A burglar stole diamonds virtuoso $ 100 million, to find the right code to the lock of 100 million combinations, beating infrared sensors, seismic detectors and security guards from a private company. Caught and convicted him on the DNA, which was removed from the crime scene left a half-eaten sandwich.
4. If the diameter of our planet was a 50 percent increase, we would not be able to launch a rocket into space because of the weight of fuel required for space flight.
5. Do lobster brain is located in the throat, the nervous system - in the abdomen, teeth - in the stomach and kidneys - in the head. In addition, the lobster hear feet, feel the taste of food and claws, like people, are righties and lefties.
6. Every year removed from the canals of Amsterdam from 12 to 15 thousand bicycles.
7. In 1999, Google almost sold for $ 750 thousand, because the founders of the project did not have enough time to study.
8. dictum known as "Hanlon's Razor" describes the tendency to suspect criminal intent that really explains the usual mistake. It reads: "Never attribute to malice what can be explained stupidity».
9. One man sold all his property (including clothing), traveled to Las Vegas and put all the proceeds as a result of money ($ 136,000) on a roulette game with a chance to win 50/50. < br />
10. During the Vietnam War, American soldiers have gradually adapted to the plastic explosive C4, to "zabaldet».
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