Facts from around the globe

During his life, we have time to learn a lot sorts of interesting things, but some of them unfortunately remain behind the scenes. I suggest you get acquainted with interesting and sometimes a little bit comical facts to make up a little store of knowledge. In fact, we constantly live in the past - about 80 milliseconds. That's how much time it takes our brain to process information.





The person who filed the largest number of lawsuits on various occasions, tried to plead with Guinness when there there was a note on his original record.



Age fish can determine roughly the same as the age of the tree. On its scales also formed "annual rings."



When a person is under the influence of an electric current drops at quite a distance - is the result of a sharp and strong muscle contractions, not a shock, as many think. In this regard, the question arises about the true strength and capabilities of the musculature of the human body.



Once a resident of Florida woke up with a terrible headache. Tablets did not help, and he went to the hospital, where doctors removed from his head ... a bullet. It turned out that his wife was trying to kill him during the night.



Residents of a Chinese city for a long time wondered how couples manage to work in his small family restaurant for 21 hours a day and look at this fresh and rested. It turned out that the restaurant were two couples. Both men and women - identical twins.



Albinos are even flies.



England 70% of the land is still owned by 1% of its citizens, the majority of which - the descendants of the soldiers of the army of William the Conqueror.



In the early 19th century, imprisoned fed lobsters - and it was considered cruel and sophisticated punishment.



Japanese macaques learned to steal purses and wallets, pull out the coins, throw them in vending machines, and produce so treat yourself.



Tomato ketchup is an example of a non-Newtonian fluid - that is, the viscosity is not constant and depends on the velocity gradient. This explains why he does not come out of a glass bottle at once. The more tryasёsh it, the more it becomes a liquid.



Bulletproof glass can be one-sided. This means that you can return fire and hit the target, while remaining safe (your bullet will leave only a small hole without damaging the rest of the glass).



Japanese aquarium fish koi named Hanako has changed in his life a few owners and died in 1977 at the age of 226 years.



Belarus - the only country where the most popular web browser is Opera.



Source: dymontiger.livejournal.com