Just unnecessary facts, but interesting.

Recently I found 118 facts on one site, after reading them all I decided to post them as my first blog, I hope people will appreciate it.

ABOUT COUNTRIES AND PEOPLES
1. Alaska flag https://greenplaycasino.co.uk/mobile-app/ created by 13-year-old boy.
2. Military honor in no country is given with the left hand.
3. The international dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
4. Captain Cook was the first person to set foot on all the continents of the Earth except Antarctica.
5. West African Matami tribe plays football with a human skull.
6. In Australia, the fifty cent coin initially contained two dollars’ worth of silver.
7. Most often the Guinness Book of Records is stolen from English libraries.
8. The National Orchestra of Monaco is bigger than its army.
9. Once upon a time in the Sahara Desert – February 18, 1979. – it was snowing.
10. Canada is larger in area than China, and China is larger than the United States.
11. The only country where not a single birth was registered in 1983 is the Vatican.
12. The Nile froze twice – in the 9th and 11th centuries.
13. In Siena, Italy, you can’t be a prostitute if your name is Maria.
14. In ancient Rome, a man taking an oath or making an oath would place his hand on the scrotum.
15. Tickling was prohibited by law in some ancient countries of the East, as it was considered a sinful arousing activity.
16. There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
17. In the Eskimo language there are more than 20 words for snow.
18. There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada.
19. In France, the law prohibits the sale of dolls with non-human faces, such as “aliens”.
20. Canada has been declared the best country to live by the UN 4 times in the last 5 years.
21. In ancient Rome, if a patient died during an operation, the doctor’s hands were cut off.

ABOUT CULTURE
22. As X-rays have shown, under the “Mona Lisa” we know, there are three more of its original versions.
23. John Lennon’s song "I’m a Walrus" was inspired by the sound of a police siren.
24. The most frequently performed song in the world, “Happy birthday to you,” is protected by copyright.
25. There is only one Western directed by a woman.
26. George Harrison’s toilet seat sang "Lusy in the sky with diamonds".
27. During World War II, in order to save metal, Oscar figurines were made from wood.
28. The original title of "Gone with the Wind" is "Be-Be, the Black Sheep".
29. In Cameroon’s film Titanic, the most frequently spoken word is “Rose.”.

ABOUT THE LITTLE BROTHERS
30. A cat falling from the 12th floor is more likely to survive than a cat falling from the 7th floor.
31. When Europeans first saw a giraffe, they called it a “camelback,” thinking it was a hybrid of a camel and a leopard.
32. The animal with the largest brain in relation to its body is the ant.
33. About 70 percent of living things on Earth are bacteria.
34. When young, Black Sea perches are mostly girls, but by the age of 5 they radically change sex!
35. The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.
36. The Tokyo Zoo closes for 2 months every year so that the animals can take a break from visitors.
37. Anteaters prefer to eat termites rather than ants.
38. When a giraffe gives birth, her baby falls from a height of one and a half meters.
39. Despite the hump, the camel’s spine is straight.
40. Female dogs bite more often than male dogs.
41. Every year, more people die from bee stings than from snake bites.
42. Sharks are immune to cancer.
43. Birth control pills work on gorillas.
44. Pig orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
45. A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.
46. The animal that can go the longest without drinking is the rat.
47. The only animals other than humans that suffer from leprosy are armadillos.
48. Hippos are born underwater.
49. Orangutans warn of aggression with loud burps.
50. A mole can dig a 76 meter long tunnel in one night.
51. The snail has about 25,000 teeth.
52. The black spider can eat up to 20 spiders a day.
53. When food is scarce, a tapeworm can eat up to 95 percent of its body weight—and nothing!
54. Crocodiles are responsible for more than 1,000 deaths on the banks of the Nile per year.
55. Ancient Egyptians taught baboons to serve them at table.
56. St. Bernards, famous climber rescuers, don’t wear a brandy flask around their necks.
57. It takes 4 hours to hard boil an ostrich egg.
58. Within a pride of lions, 9/10 of the prey is supplied to the “family” by lionesses.
59. Sloths spend 75% of their lives sleeping.
60. Hummingbirds can’t walk.
61. A moth has no stomach.
62. The Europeans, having arrived in Australia, asked the aborigines: “What are these strange jumping animals you have here?”?“The Aborigines answered: “Kangaroo,” which meant: “We don’t understand.”!»
63. The easiest way to distinguish a vegetarian animal from a predator: predators have eyes located on the front of the muzzle to see the prey. For vegetarians – on both sides of the head to see the enemy.
64. The bat is the only mammal that can fly.
65. 99% of living creatures that lived on Earth became extinct.
66. To make a kilogram of honey, a bee must fly around 2 million. flowers.
67. The grasshopper’s blood is white, the lobster’s blood is blue.
68. The only animals that have sex for pleasure are humans and dolphins.
69. No new animals have been domesticated in the last 4,000 years.
70. Penguins can jump more than one and a half meters in height.
71. The only pet not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
72. Chimpanzees are the only animals that can recognize themselves in the mirror.
73. The word "orangutan" means "jungle man" in some African languages
74. Emu means "ostrich" in Portuguese.
75. Elephants and humans are the only mammals that can stand on their heads.
76. Crocodiles swallow rocks to dive deeper.
77. Polar bears can run at a speed of 40 km/h.
78. Dogs have elbows.

ABOUT THE GREATS
79. “The Thinker” by Rodin – a portrait of the Italian poet Dante.
80. Singer Nick Cave was born with a ponytail.
81. Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day – April 23, 1616.
82. English. Writer Virginia Woolf wrote most of her books standing.
83. Sarah Bernhardt played 13-year-old Juliet at 70.
84. When Walt Disney was a child, he tortured an owl. Since then, he decided to bring animals to life in cartoons.
85. Beethoven was once arrested for vagrancy.
86. Buzz Aldrin, one of the astronauts who walked on the Moon, has his mother’s maiden name Moon (Moon).
87. When Einstein died, his last words died with him: the nurse did not understand German.
88. Julius Caesar wore a laurel wreath to hide his bald spot.
89. D. Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
90. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, never called his mother and wife: they were both deaf.
91. Saint Patrick, patron saint of the Irish, was not Irish.
92. Leonardo da Vinci invented an alarm clock that rubbed a sleeping person’s feet.
93. Napoleon suffered from ailurophobia – fear of cats.
ABOUT PEOPLE
94. The nose grows throughout a person’s life.
95. Only one baby in 20 is born on the day prescribed by the doctor.
96. The ancient Greeks believed that boys grew on the right side of the abdomen, and girls on the left.
97. If you remove space from all the atoms of the human body, then what remains can be threaded through the eye of a needle.
98. In the Middle Ages, in the dark spots of the Moon, people saw the figure of Cain carrying an armful of brushwood.
99. Sperm is the smallest single cell in the body. The egg is the largest.
100. If a real woman had the proportions of a Barbie doll, she would only be able to walk on 4 limbs.
101. Blonde beards grow faster than dark beards.
102. In Russian and English there is no word for the name of the back of the knee.
103. In the 15th century it was believed that red color heals. Patients wore red and surrounded themselves with red things.
104. Tongue imprints are different for every person.
105. When you blush, your stomach turns red too.
106. There is enough body fat in the human body to make 7 bars of soap.
107. 80% of human body heat leaves the head.
108. A human has fewer muscles than a caterpillar.
109. At the time of his death, Lenin’s brain was a quarter of normal size.
110. The world’s highest IQ scores on standardized tests belong to two women.
111. Most people lose 50% of their sense of taste by age 60.
112. House dust consists of 70% shed skin.
113. The tooth is the only part of a person that lacks the ability to repair itself.
114. The brain is 80% water.
115. There are more living organisms living on one person’s body than there are people on Earth.
116. One hair can support a weight of 3 kg.
117. The average human head weighs 3.6 kg.
118. Over the course of his entire life, a person produces so much saliva that it would be enough for 2 large swimming pools.