10 short of interesting facts about this and that and

Facts of this collection is absolutely not linked thematically and collected only by one feature - they were great and we did not know about them. < Website hopes that they will bring the reader a pleasant moment and increase general knowledge. So ...

1. Sewer manholes made round so that they cover could not fall inside.

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2 We parasites infest their parasites - they are called second-order sverhparazitami or parasites. But these sverhparazity arranged to ensure that the start of its own parasites (that is, it turns out, this is a third-order parasites). It is not difficult to guess that the latter are not immune to the same problem ...



3. Co-founder of «Google» search engine, Larry Page suffers from a rare disease of the vocal cords, because of which he gradually loses the ability to speak.



4. When the group on the development of British arms led by Michael Foot, in «The Times» published an article under the title «Foot Heads Arms Body», which, according to the author, was read as "Foot led the army unit." Ironically, every word of the name refers to more and part of the body. The result here was such a "dismemberment»: «Leg, head, hands, body,»

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5 In the 18th century many outstanding minds were preoccupied with "epidemic" spread rapidly among young people -. They spent too much time reading books. This "disease" quite seriously considered dangerous, calling it "the reader's fury," "reader fever", "reader mania" and even "lust reader».



6. In Chicago, once the duration of the yellow light burning traffic lights in the city illegally reduced to 0, 1 second, so that the proceeds of fines for six months increased by $ 8 million .



7. During the Battle of Stalingrad, German soldiers came up to defend himself, pulling on the window ordinary wire mesh, from which the grenade just spring out. Then Soviet soldiers began to mount to grenades fishing hooks that get stuck in the networks.



8. If you randomly choose two residents of Papua New Guinea, with the probability of 99%, they will be carriers of two different languages.

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9 With age, it seems that time flies faster and faster for two main reasons: 1) in adulthood memorable events is becoming less and less, and 2) the biological clock gradually slow down.



10 The characteristic smell of the pool -. It is not chlorine and chloramines, formed from the combination chlorine, human sweat or urine

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