Every day we gain new knowledge and skills, some of which may turn out to be extremely important for us, and some simply informative and interesting. You can expand your horizons and replenish your supply of scholars by reading some interesting facts.
1. Fredrik J. Baur, an organic chemist at Procter & Gamble, is a developer of the Pringles Chip Packaging Tube. He was so proud of his invention that after death he bequeathed to bury his ashes in one of them.
2. On average, a four-year-old child asks more than four hundred questions a day.
3. Annually, more than 2, 500 left-handed people die from accidents involving the use of various equipment designed for right-handed people.
4. Sherlock Holmes - one of the most famous literary characters in the world in England. However, a 2008 survey showed that 58 percent of British teenagers consider him a real person, while 20 percent considered Winston Churchill to be fictional.
5. The famous American rock singer Janice Joplin bequeathed to her friends $ 2, 500 so that they would arrange a "ball" of her departure.
Janice Joplin Photo: Elliot Landy / Wikimedia Commons
6. Four men appearing on a cigarette advertisement in the guise of a “Marlboro cowboy” died of lung cancer.
7. Each of us has 1 out of 200 probabilities that we are related to the great commander and founder of the Mongol Empire Genghis Khan.
8. The biggest difference between twin birth dates is 87 days.
9. Currently, more people in the world are suffering from obesity than from hunger.
10. Michael Jordan earns more money every year to participate in Nike advertising than all the employees of the contracting company in Malaysia combined.
Michael Jordan Photo: DOD photo by D. Myles Cullen / Wikimedia Commons
11. Along with the five traditional senses of smell, touch, sound, vision and taste, a person has 15 “other senses”. They include temperature, pain, time, inner feelings, strangulation, and others.
12. In 30 minutes, the human body releases enough heat to bring about 4 liters of water to a boil.
13. An adult consists of 7, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 (7 octillion) atoms. In comparison, there are 300, 000, 000, 000 (300 billion) stars in our galaxy.
14. During the flight, our sense of smell and taste are reduced by 20-50 percent. Therefore, food on the plane does not seem very tasty.
15. Cotton candy was invented by the dentist.
16. In Los Angeles, the number of cars exceeds the number of people living in the city.
Los Angeles Photo: Thomas Pintaric / Wikimedia Commons
17. Initially, bubble wrap was designed as wall paper.
18. Gold mined throughout history would fit in a 20x20x20 meter cube.
19. The longest piece of music in the world lasts 639 years.
20. Most of the world's population, namely 90 percent, lives in the Northern Hemisphere.
