15 facts that will expand erudition in 5 minutes

The site publishes a "branded" a compilation of facts from various fields, who share one thing - they are all terribly exciting! < 1. The star Lucy is a core of crystallized white dwarf at a distance of 50 light years from Earth. We can say that Lucy - the largest diamond known to mankind, its size - ten billion trillion carats.





2. In China, you can buy a small bug or a couple living fish swimming in a small, sealed package. This is nothing like an ordinary stick, its "shelf life" - about a week.



3. Embryos sand sharks are able to devour each other in the womb. This phenomenon is called "intrauterine cannibalism" and occurs when the embryo develops more than a shark can give birth.



4. In India, a soft drink made on the basis of cow urine. The cow is considered sacred since ancient times there is an animal, so for most Indians allegation that her urine has medicinal properties, can not be doubted.



5. If it was possible to spread the human brain, he would have been about the size of a pillowcase.



6. Age of sunlight that we can see - 30 000 years. That's how long it took to photons "break" from the center of the light to the surface. And before they reached the Earth, as we know, for 8 minutes.



7. American by the name of Adele Edwards is suffering from addiction ... eating sofas. She eats a pad of sofas for more than 20 years, and the beginning of this strange mania put the painful divorce of her parents.



8. A few centuries ago, in any state primary currency is not equal to 100 coins. The world's first detsimalizatsiyu held Russia - in 1704 the ruble was equated to 100 kopecks.



9. The Big Dipper - the so-called asterism visible star cluster is actually located very far from each other in different parts of the Milky Way. We see this Sozvezdia international thanks to a special arrangement of the Earth relative to asterism.



10. Elizabeth Taylor was born with a double row of eyelashes. This mutation has a scientific name - distichiasis. That explains the presence of her expressive look of the actress.



11. If your mouse to increase human growth and straighten a skeleton, it would appear that the joints of mice and men have the same structure, and the bones have an equal number of parts.



12. Fear of long words called ... gippopotomonstroseskvipedaliofobiya.



13. Anyone who has tried a fresh pineapple, we know that, if you eat too much, lips and tongue will get sick. This stems from the fact that the enzyme comprises pineapple bromelain. Bromelain has the property of destroying the protein so that it can be said that it literally eats away at the language.



14. From 1975 to 1977, the company Mattel released a doll with breasts growing. Doll called Growing Skipper "to grow" if breast lift her left arm. In addition to this, it becomes the waist, and she stretched, demonstrating the changes taking place with the body of the girls during adolescence.

15. The use of swear words in the body helps produce hormones of happiness - endorphins, which act on the body as a painkiller - the conclusion made by scientists after a series of experiments in 2011.



via factroom.ru

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