Amazing events. The most unusual in the world

In the long history of mankind there are many such events that did not fit into any ideas, and therefore people remembered for a long time. Many people know the Guinness Book of Records, which records a wide variety of human achievements, but even it was impossible to collect the most incredible facts in the world.

1. About our planet

Every schoolchild knows that the highest peak in the world is Chomolungma or Everest. But there is a mountain on the planet that is much higher. This is the Hawaiian volcano Mauna Kea, which rises above the ocean level by only 4205 meters, but from its base on the ocean floor it perched 10203 meters.
Between Russian Chukotka and American Alaska are the Diomede Islands, which are also divided between these countries. They are located only 4 km from each other, and along the line separating them, there is also a date dividing line. Therefore, the time difference between them is 24 hours.
The purest water can be found in Finland, but the most dangerous is in Italian Sicily, where 2 sources of rather strong sulfuric acid beat in a volcanic lake. But in Azerbaijan there is a source of "combustible water" - it is worth bringing a lit match to it, as the "water" flares up with a blue flame.
In fact, there are so many diamonds on the planet that each of its inhabitants would get a full cup of this form of carbon.

2. About the plant world

The plant cardiocrinum is so strange and rare that it is almost never described. It blooms once in a lifetime with large flowers, which take all the strength of the plant. As a result, the plant immediately dies.
Bamboo can grow up to 75 centimeters per day.
The tallest tree in the world today is the evergreen sequoia, which, like its relatives, has its own name Hyperion. For 700 or 800 years, it managed to grow up to 115.6 meters and continues to grow. Scientists deliberately concealed the exact location of the record holder in order to protect him from crowds of tourists.

3. About people

A person who finds himself in an unfamiliar environment in most cases will turn right. This property of the psyche is successfully used by marketers.
Macedonian crime reporter and journalist Vlado Taneschi was also a serial killer who often described his own crimes. But in the end, he slipped when he published information that until that moment could not be known to anyone except the killer.
Australian truck driver Bill Morgan is a real lucky man, and not only because he survived a 14-minute clinical death after a heart attack. Shortly thereafter, he won a large sum in the lottery. The TV people decided to shoot a story about him and asked him on camera to erase the protective layer from the instant lottery ticket. And guess what - he won $250,000 again!
40% of people did not live to see their first birthday.
The culture of the Australian aborigines is no younger than the ice age, so they remember the location and names of the mountains, which have been hidden under the waters of Bass Strait for 8,000 years.

4. About food

The German statistical company Jacdec has compiled its authoritative ranking of the safest airlines in the world for 2018. The authors of this list...

The owners of American vineyards during the Prohibition period adapted to concentrate grape juice to a semi-solid state - the so-called "wine bars". They warned customers not to leave the resulting liquid in the closet for three weeks after adding water to them, otherwise it would turn into forbidden wine. The hint was obvious.
The IOC has banned caffeine, so if an athlete drinks too much coffee or tea before the start, he will be disqualified.
In Thailand, the most expensive coffee in the world is made, the beans of which have passed through the digestive system of elephants. A kilogram of the Black Tusk drink is valued at $1,100, and a cup of tea will cost a daredevil who wants to try a rare delicacy $50.
When buying bottled water, you should not rely too much on it, since 40% of it is from the tap.

5. About countries

In 1781, among the articles of the American Confederation, an entry appeared that if Canada suddenly wanted to become part of the United States, it would be immediately accepted.
The annual maintenance of a prisoner in a British prison costs the treasury £45,000. Isn't it easier to send him to study at Eton, which costs 1.5 times cheaper?
Arabs write texts from right to left, but the numbers are written in the opposite direction. Therefore, when reading Arabic texts abounding in numerical data, one has to drive one's eyes here and there.
After the division of Korea into two countries, more than 23,000 Koreans fled from north to south, and only 2 people fled in the opposite direction.

6. About the animal world

For the sake of sex, male Australian marsupial mice go to martyrdom - they are ready to mate for 14 hours without a break, completely giving all their energy and dying of exhaustion. Biologists have called this behavior "suicidal mating."
Have you ever seen baby pigeons? Probably not, but all because they do not leave their nests for the first month, and after that they are already indistinguishable from adults.
In female plant aphids, already fertilized new females are born.
Beavers have transparent eyelids, so they can easily swim underwater with their eyes closed.
Rats are known to be very intelligent animals, moreover, they are the only animals besides humans that can laugh.

7. About astronauts

The Trans-Siberian Railway or the Great Siberian Way, which connects the Russian capital Moscow with Vladivostok, until recently bore an honorary title with ...

In weightlessness, the astronauts' spine straightens out, as a result of which, immediately after landing, they are several centimeters taller than themselves before takeoff.
A person stops snoring in weightlessness, because weightlessness removes the load that presses down on his airways. We snore because the soft tissues of the throat and tongue sink in during sleep, especially when lying on our backs. During breathing, sunken parts of the body and emit unpleasant snoring. Astronauts can only be envied, at least during sleep!

8. About diseases

At the turn of the 19th-20th centuries, on the 21st anniversary, it was fashionable to remove all the teeth of the birthday man and insert artificial ones.
The inhabitants of the Kazakh village of Kalachi have a strange sleeping sickness - from time to time they plunge into a deep sleep, in which they stay up to 6 days. Recently, this disease has been associated with exposure to abandoned uranium mines.
Having made an official visit to Australia in 1875, the king of Fiji became infected with measles, which he brought home, because of which he lost a quarter of his population.
At the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, they tried to treat cough with heroin.

9. About society

On average, American children see 200,000 murders on TV by the age of 18.
Homeless people in Japan and Hong Kong have learned to use the round-the-clock mode of McDonald's and live in these catering establishments, for which they are nicknamed "Mcrefugees".
British galleries and museums receive 7 times more visitors per year than Premier League football matches.
If vampires existed and drank the blood of one person every day, then in 13 days the entire population of the planet would turn into vampires.
The name of the most cruel Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has become known to the whole world. But he was also a loving father - his daughter recalled that when they had to hide from the police and freeze at night, Escobar, in order to warm his daughter, made a fire from banknotes. A night of such "heating" cost him more than 2 million dollars.

10. About sports

Most people want to get a window seat on an airplane so they can enjoy the views below, including takeoff and d...

Objects resembling primitive skittles were found in an Egyptian tomb - does it mean that in the country of the pharaohs they played bowling 5200 years ago?
In 1958, Jay Foster, who was only 8 years old, became the winner of the Jamaican Table Tennis Championship.
One Detroit newspaper was able to determine that 68% of professional hockey players lost at least one of their teeth during their career.
The 1920 Olympic Games in Sweden made history by producing the world's oldest Olympic champion, 72-year-old shooter Oscar Swan.

Incredible Facts

No matter how much knowledge you have, there is always something interesting in the world that you could learn about today.

6. The biggest wave ever ridden was as high as 10 storey building.

7. Rumor - the fastest of feelings person.

8. Since the rotation of the Earth's axis has slowed down, daywhen dinosaurs livedlasted approximately 23 hours.

9. On Earth more plastic flamingos than real ones.

10. To cook scrambled eggs on the sidewalk, its temperature should reach 70 degrees Celsius.

11. 54 million people alive today will die within a year.

12. Charlie Chaplin once participated in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike competition and took 3rd place there.

13. Most records off-screen laughter in comedy shows was recorded in the 1950s. So many of that audience are no longer alive.

14. Antarctica - the only continent where no corn is grown.

15. Lighters were invented before matches.

16. Napoleon was not short. His height is 170 cm, which was considered the average height for the French in those days.

17. Best time for daytime sleep between 13:00 and 14:30 because at this time the body temperature drops.

18. Children do not taste salty until 4 months.

19. Male pandas perform handstand, when they urinate to mark a tree.

20. If only The earth would be the size of a grain of sand, The sun would be the size of an orange.

21. The Dead Sea is not completely dead. Microbes halophiles live in its salty water.

22. The first horses were the size of Siamese cats. These were the smallest horses that ever lived.

23. Only about 100 people in the world can speak fluent Latin.

"Terrible interesting
All that is unknown."

(song of talking animals
from the cartoon "38 parrots")

“Yesterday, in short, I read on the Internet ...”

(talking on a bench in the yard)

A white crow, a camel girl, an aquarium-toilet bowl, a cake in the form of a laptop, a lady with a frigate haircut, and that's not all. Tetris tie, ghost towns, x-rays, false teeth abduction and many more ideas for unusual gifts, events and travel - that's what a cabinet of curiosities.

Curious and odious, shocking and attractive things, phenomena and people are collected from the crazy world one by one and sorted into more than 450 articles, each of which neatly flaunts on its page. Most often, they find us when they are looking for something about, or .... Fear of death and love still, like two flocks of hounds, haunt every person.

Heavy and high hairstyles in the form of ships were overthrown along with the monarchy in France by the incorruptible Robespierre and the tongued Danton. It turned out that hairstyles and outfits are nothing compared to the highest way of human self-expression, revolutionary activity. Who is the greatest revolutionary in our memorable history? That's right, this is a nice guy Che. In this treasure-trove article, our eyes are opened to the star and the death of the eternally young idol of youth, who himself did not live to be 40. We will learn about how Guevara fell away from the army in his youth, and then became a major and signed "Stalin II". Or how the future Cuban minister Ernesto, on the orders of the police who detained him, coached and led the rural football team to victory in the inter-district cup.

Science, nourishing progress, turns the unusual into the ordinary. Creating a wide range of miracles, she changes the old boredom of life for a new one, one whim for a second, a third and a hundredth. More specifically, a cell phone. Nowadays, to be unique, if not smart, it is enough to buy an outstanding device, for example, a mobile phone with an ultrasonic mosquito repeller. Or on one SIM card, a phone in the form of a matchbox, and on the second - a la a pack of cigarettes. The materialchik will help you choose a fateful gadget.

Another plane of human individuality is what our distant ancestors called "shame", and our children called "bikini zone". Masterpieces of hidden unusualness, intimate hairstyles became popular in the last century, the fashion for shaving and decorating one place flourished in the late 1980s and does not wither to this day. You can read about the most unusual intimate hairstyles, for women and men, in. We warn you to be careful - there are waiting for you ... a clubfoot bear (s) and curly Frank Farian, peeking out of ladies' panties.

If the career does not go beyond the universal notions of success, then you will most likely have to wear a neckerchief, called a tie or “cravat” (the second name, oddly enough, is born from the word “Croat”). In order to stand out from the office crowd, you need an original tie. If the main and main thing in your work is a lunch break, then feel free to knit a “noose” around your neck in the form of a hot dog with mustard. You need to hypnotize the client - there is a tie with a crossword puzzle, nowhere to put a small pink player - get an accessory with a special pocket. A complete overview of men's crazy-style neck jewelry is presented on the page.

Or maybe you hate the office and do not like the soul in nature? Yes, many computer and Internet users are indifferent to nature. They will never go to hot Asia to see how an elephant swims, stretching its spine and escaping from the heat. But happy to see pictures. And about the elephant, and about the deer, whose horns in the dark mingled with the shadows of bushes and trees. About two bears, one of which is up to its neck in water, the other is only ankle-deep. About how the arctic fox looks when it comes, and something else about something alive and beautiful is told and shown in the article.

To the unusual beauties of living nature and sleeping stones one cannot but add (to complete the bouquet of beauties) the aesthetic power of death. Not his own, but the one that happens in the small world of insects. If you look at the “predator-prey” relationship among insects through a macro lens, you will see fascinating pictures of the meeting of a black fly with a light praying mantis, for example. Or a dragonfly and a bug it caught. The article is called -. If these wonderful insects were at least a third of the size of a person, we would not have survived on planet Earth.

A variety of skills, tricks and mechanisms help the living to avoid a beautiful death. As in humans, in the fauna, defense mechanisms are determined hormonally - if adrenaline enters the nerve, it leads to anger, if noradrenaline - to fear. Therefore, at the moment of danger, some opossums plunge into a reversible coma, the larva of the Colorado potato beetle is covered with poisonous hemolymph, and the bombardier beetle pours boiling water over the oncoming one from its own backside. About how different animals protect themselves in different ways, it is written and photographed in the article.

A false sea maiden is a piece goods, a relic, but a place for mermaids is not only on the shelves of museums, but also in private collections. Remember the gun millionaire from the movies who collected the body parts of stars and celebrities? Such eccentrics exist in reality. The demand for outlandish chimeras creates an outlandish supply. In a series of articles, an unusual site introduces Russian-speaking consumers and hobbyists to the achievements of North American taxidermy. The art of making stuffed animals and dummies presents us with a huge number of outstanding gifts and souvenirs. Do you want to use the skull of the Soviet socialist Chikatilo as an ashtray “just like a real one”? There you are! Need the severed hands of those stray cheaters who cheated in poker? In a jar with a warning label? Let's do it! After all, everything terrible is charming for someone. And vice versa…

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On our planet, there are heaven and hell, seamounts, against which the Himalayas seem like a toy. In this land there are cities whose area is larger than Austria or Belgium, and states that do not have an official capital. The strangest, most interesting and amazing facts about the world are included in today's selection.

Chongqing is called the second capital of China, and it is famous for the fact that it occupies an area larger than the whole of Austria or Belgium. The metropolis is home to 30 million people - a number that makes it the absolute champion of the planet.

And this is not the limit, because Chongqing is growing and expanding. You can't call the city beautiful even with a stretch - narrow cramped streets, heaps of ugly buildings, gloomy alleys, dozens of automobile factories and chemical industries. In Chongqing, as many houses, buildings, bridges and other structures are built in a year as in Moscow in 20 years.

Perhaps in a few years the appearance of the largest metropolis will change, because the old quarters are being actively demolished, and modern skyscrapers are growing in their place. But this is unlikely to make Chongqing any more comfortable.

Countries without railways

There are many such states not only in Asia, but also in Europe. In Iceland, the transport infrastructure is well developed - passengers are served by buses, planes, ships, but there are no railways here.

In Qatar, where the population exceeds 800 thousand people, there is also no railway connection. It is absent in Guinea, Bhutan, Nepal, Afghanistan.

This list also includes the European countries Liechtenstein, Malta, Andorra. They, like Iceland, occupy a small territory. The lands in the states are expensive, there is a shortage of them, and the terrain is mountainous, so the construction of railway lines is impractical.

There are no trains in the Caribbean, except for Cuba. It is the only island in the region with a railroad.

E, O, I, Yu

These are not vowels of the alphabet, but the names of cities. E is located in France, on the coast of the Bresle River. It is home to about 8 thousand inhabitants. The indigenous people are called Eytsy.

In Norwegian Lofoten, tourists can hear how one local invites another to fish in O. This is not a joke, but an unusual name for a fishing village. It comes from the word "A", which in Old Norse meant "river".

Mentions of the settlement date back to the middle of the 16th century. It attracts tourists not only with its short name, but also with museums of fish and the history of the village that work here.

Ypsilonians - this is how the inhabitants of the French commune I, located 100 km from Paris, call themselves. Its number is less than 100 people, but even in such sparsely populated places of our world there are amazing facts.

Yi, for example, has a sister village with the unpronounceable name of Llanfairpullgwingillgogeryhverndrobulllantysilyogogogoh. One can only guess how customers pronounce it when they order tickets at railway stations.

In the Swedish city of Yu, 8 thousand people live permanently. The medieval town is popular with travelers because most of the buildings in it are wooden. And these are not only residential buildings, but also churches and public institutions.

It seems that residents are satisfied with short names, although the authorities of the countries periodically raise the topic of their possible renaming. They believe that the renaming will make it easier for users to find information of interest on the Internet.

The resort that is usually sent to

In the southwestern part of Mexico is a beautiful resort with a pristine coastline. It stretches for almost 4 km along the Pacific coast. The beach areas are wide, sandy, secluded bays created especially for lovers. Green hills protect them from the wind, the sky is a transparent blue color.

In this resort place, anyone can buy a villa or an apartment in a condominium with a stunning view from the windows. A 2-room apartment costs 30-40 thousand dollars. And this place is called Nahui and looks very picturesque.

Nauru is a country without a capital

This state can be walked around in 2 hours - length 6 km, width - 4 km. Nauru is located on the coral island of the same name in the western part of Oceania and is considered the only country in the world that does not have an official capital. The compact territory is divided into districts.

The first people appeared in Nauru more than 3 millennia ago. When Captain Firn discovered the island in 1798, it was already inhabited by 12 tribes. They had no idea about the state system and way of life, they survived by fishing, growing coconuts and were able to do without the benefits of civilization.

Today, the tiny country barely survives - tours to the island are not popular due to the lack of local color, high humidity and heat of 40-42 degrees. Nauru is located almost on the equator. The state of ecology is deplorable - over the decades that phosphorites were mined here, instead of soil, a "lunar landscape" remained.

The longest mountains are at the bottom

Sometimes, to find the most amazing facts in the world, you have to go down to the ocean floor. In our case, to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, which is divided by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge into two almost equal parts - western and eastern.

The underwater mountain range is the longest world record. Its length is 18,000 km, its width is almost a thousand km, and its height is small for mountains - at peaks it does not exceed 3 km.

During the study of the relief of the mountain range, scientists discovered a curious pattern: the farther from the rift valley, the older the basalt rocks. Their age was determined by archaeologists and geologists - 70 million years.

Mississippi changed direction

In 1811, an earthquake hit New Madrid, and in 1812, another hit the town of Missouri. Seismologists rated the power of the elements at 8 on the Richter scale.

Those earthquakes were the most powerful in North America - as a result, huge sections went underground, and new lakes formed in their place. The Mississippi River changed course in a short time and flowed in the opposite direction. Its waters formed the Kentucky Bend.

There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia

They used to be, but dried up. During the rains, dry riverbeds are filled with water, but this water is stagnant, there is no current in it. The Saudis treat fresh water with care.

In total, there are 17 states in the world in which there is not a single river. In addition to Saudi Arabia, the list includes Oman, Kuwait, Yemen, the United Arab Emirates, Monaco, the Vatican and others.

There are no rivers in Monaco and the Vatican, because the territory of the states is small, there are no channels from which they could appear.

Sea without shores

The Sargasso Sea is the only one that has no shores. It is located in the western part of the Atlantic Ocean and is a mystery to mankind. The fact is that the water in the Sargasso Sea has unique properties that are not characteristic of oceanic waters.

The weather here is calm all year round, the sea never storms. For this property, the reservoir has gained notoriety as a ship cemetery. In the Middle Ages, sailing ships could not move when it was calm. The sailors also failed to row with their hands - numerous algae interfered. So, in anticipation of a tailwind, entire teams perished.

This highway is considered the longest railway in the world. The Great Siberian Way, as it was called in Tsarist Russia, connects Moscow and St. Petersburg with the largest cities in Siberia and the Far East.

The railway route stretches for almost 9.3 thousand km, crosses 3901 bridges, which is also an absolute record.

UFO exists

The fact of its existence was recognized by Chile, Italy and France. But the first was Japan. It happened on April 17, 1981. The crew of a Japanese cargo ship saw a disk rising from the ocean waters into the sky. It glowed blue.

Taking off, the UFO stirred up such a powerful wave that it completely covered the ship. After that, the luminous plate circled over the ship for about 15 minutes, either moving quickly or hovering in the air.

Then the UFO again went into the water, and the second wave damaged the ship's hull. As a result of the case, the coast guard press officer officially stated that the atypical damage was due to a collision with a UFO.

Uganda is the youngest country

Experts predict that 192.5 million people will live in Uganda in 2100.

It is curious that half of the inhabitants are children and teenagers under 15 years old. Uganda is considered the youngest country on the planet.

Hell and Heaven on earth

What Hell looks like, everyone can see. True, for this you need to come to Norway and get to the city of Trondheim. From there to Hell - 24 km.

Norwegian Hell has its own railway station, shops, and a blues music festival every September. The village inherited the unusual name from the Old Norse word "hellir", which is interpreted as "cave", "rock". But locals prefer the meaning of the homonym - "luck".

Earthly Paradise is located in the UK, 80 km from London. 4 thousand people permanently live in it. This compact town is built on a hill. Previously, it was surrounded by sea water, and now, when there is no sea, 3 rivers remain.

Paradise is an ancient city, the first mention of it is in the sources of 1024. It is surprising that its ancient streets, lanes, fortresses, houses, windows, roofs have been preserved almost in their original form. Paradise has several charming cafes and shops where you can enjoy delicious coffee, tea and desserts. A complete feeling that time has turned back - in the 16-17th century.