10 interesting facts for the curious

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Curiosity is not a sin, and a thirst for knowledge of the world. While around us remain the riddles, we try and seek answers to them. The website has in store for the reader top ten interesting facts from around the world!

• Only three people — engineers, Alex Ananenko, Valery Bespalov and Boris Baranov — were able to prevent a second accident at Chernobyl. When there was a threat of thermal explosion, they dove into the water containing a lethal dose of radiation, and opened the safety valves. The two men lived only a few days and died.
• Sheehan Grant — instructor of mixed martial arts has held one hundred matches for six hours to raise funds for the local hospital.

• American Hartwick College was established trust Fund, which could accumulate huge money through compound interest over hundreds of years. Many economists seriously thought that he eventually collapsed the entire financial structure of the United States.
• In fact, the famous actor VIN Diesel was mark Sinclair.

• In the seventies of the XX century, scientists have conducted research to explore how the dependence on drugs. They gave the rats that had lived in single cages in bad conditions, water with the addition of morphine, and pure water on the premises. All rats drank water with the drug and, ultimately, dying. Then the researchers conducted the same experiment on a group of rats living in comfortable cages with plenty of toys and entertainment. These rats chose water only and never tried the water with morphine.The inhabitants of the island
• Tanna worship is not some amorphous deity, and to present pilot during the Second world war, John Frum. They call him "the king of the fairy tale of America, descended on the earth malalasekara people with wonderful cargo". Admirers of John Frum bear the likeness of the American military uniform and erect a fake runway with dummy aircraft. They believe that one day God will return and bring with it a "miracle goods"- soda, a radio, and trucks with provisions.

• Scientists conducted a study, which found that feeding ducks bread in the parks causing them irreparable harm and can even lead to death of birds. Due to the fact that ducks don't receive the necessary substances from your usual food that they produce themselves, they have worse health.

via factroom.ru