Every day we get new knowledge and skills, some of which may be extremely important for us, and some of them are simply cognitive and interesting. You can expand your horizons and replenish your stock of erudite by reading a few interesting facts.
1. Fredrik J. Baur, an organic chemist at Procter & Gamble, is the developer of the Pringles Chip Tubes. He was so proud of his invention that after his 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. Every year more than 2,500 left-handed people die from accidents associated with the use of various equipment designed for right-handed people.
4. Sherlock Holmes is one of the world's most famous literary characters in England. However, a 2008 poll found that 58 percent of British teens considered him to be a real person, while 20 percent considered Winston Churchill to be fictional.
5. Famous American rock singer Janice Joplin bequeathed to her friends 2500 dollars so that they would arrange a “ball” of her departure.
Janice Joplin Photo: Elliot Landy / Wikimedia Commons
6. Four men who appeared on cigarette advertisements in the form of "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 birth dates of twins is 87 days.
9. Currently, more people in the world suffer from obesity than hunger.
10. Michael Jordan makes more money annually to participate in Nike advertising than all the employees of the contractor 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, sight and taste, a person has 15 “other senses”. These include temperature, pain, time, internal feelings, suffocation, and others.
12. In 30 minutes, the human body generates enough heat to bring about 4 liters of water to a boil.
13. An adult human consists of 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms. For comparison, there are 300,000,000,000 (300 billion) stars in our galaxy.
14. During the flight, our sense of smell and taste is reduced by 20-50 percent. Therefore, the 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. Originally, bubble wrap was designed as a wall paper.
18. Gold mined throughout history would fit in a 20x20x20 meter cube.
19. The world's longest piece of music lasts 639 years.
20. Most of the world's population, namely 90 percent, lives in the Northern Hemisphere.
