This article contains curious and interesting facts about everything interesting to know, not only for children but also for adults.
1. You can buy frog juice in Peru
For more than 15 years, a restaurant in Peru has been selling frog juice, which is made from live frogs using a blender. Locals try to drink such a cocktail every day and believe that it gives them strength and energy for the whole day.
2. Cats don’t like beards
According to research, a good number of cats are aggressive towards men who wear beards.
3. In Brazil, geese ensure prison security
Due to overcrowding in prisons in Brazil, it was decided to “hire” geese. They are well trained, shout loudly, and are quite aggressive. Their advantage is that, compared to dogs, they are not able to seriously paralyze a person.
4. The Mona Lisa painting is written in four versions
After X-raying the canvas, it was found that three other original versions of the painting are contained under the final image.
5. Lightning is five times hotter than the sun
The temperature of a lightning discharge reaches an average of 30 thousand degrees, which is five times hotter than the temperature of the Sun. Every day, about 8 million lightning strikes the Earth. The chance of being struck by lightning is 1 in 600 thousand.
6. One of the most expensive pizzas in the world costs 1,000 dollars
The owner of a pizzeria in New York is sure that there will be people who want to taste an expensive pizza. He himself developed her recipe, the main ingredients of which are 4 types of caviar, lobster tail and wasabi.
7. Dried mouse brains were used as toothpaste in Ancient Rome
Such a paste was considered quite effective and contained many mysterious ingredients, including mouse brains, eggshells, animal bone powder, and crushed shellfish shells.
8. The two highest IQ scores are owned by women
It is officially recorded that the two highest IQ levels belong to women – an 11-year-old girl from Great Britain and a 10-year-old American girl.
9. It takes more than 1000 years to watch all the videos on YouTube
Over its 13 years of existence, the video hosting site YouTube has gradually acquired so many new users and content that, a person would need 1000 to 1700 years to view all the videos collected on it.
10. An average elephant weighs less than the tongue of a blue whale
11. The first place in the world for oxygen production belongs to Russia due to the Siberian forests.
12. Scientists have proven that the air in a coniferous forest is practically sterile (no more than 200-300 harmful bacteria per cubic meter). A walk in a coniferous forest relieves stress and nervous tension, tones the body, activates gas exchange in the lungs and, as a result, improves breathing. Such walks are vital for smokers and office workers.
13. Rats and giraffes can last longer without water than a camel.
14. Morocco is the only country in the world where goats, due to the lack of grass, climbtrees and graze in whole herds, enjoying the fruits of the argan tree,from which fragrant oil is made.
15. Gold is such a rare metal that more iron is found in the world in an hour than gold has been found in history.
16. Central Park in New York is twice the size of the Principality of Monaco and ten times the size of the Vatican.
17. In medieval Germany, there was a belief that kissing a donkey would relieve toothache.
18. In the 18th century, stylish women would shave off their eyebrows and put on fake ones made of mouse fur.
19. Google earns about $700 per second.
20. Interesting facts about how we destroy nature. The amount of garbage that is thrown into the seas of the world’s oceans every year is three times more than the fish caught there.
21. The chameleon’s tongue is twice as long as its body.
22. The heart of a white whale is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle.
23. The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backward.
24. To free yourself from the crocodile’s jaws, you must press your thumbs on its eyeballs.
25. Sharks can be dangerous even before they are born. Scientist Stuart Springer was bitten by an embryo while examining the inside of a pregnant shark.
