30 interesting but little-known facts (31 photos)

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1 Canadian Troy Hertubis Designed A Study Suit grizzly bears close up in nature. He tested it by making his friends hit him with an SUV or drive a truck into him



2. McDonald's in the Netherlands once fired an employee for that she sold a colleague a hamburger and then separately gave him a piece of cheese, claiming she should have charged more for the cheeseburger





The court sided with the dismissed employee, ordering the full payment of the remainder of her salary.

3. The City of Boring (Oregon, USA) established a relationship with the village of Dall (Scotland, UK) in 2012...



... A year later they merged with the County of Bland (New South Wales, Australia) to form the Emergency Communities League. All names translated from English mean "boring", "uninteresting".

4. During the Second World War, the indigenous people of Papua New Guinea helped the Australians in the fight against Japan



They worked as porters and guides, and transported 750 wounded along the Kokoda trail. They fed the wounded, built shelters, and not a single wounded soldier was left to die, even during heavy fighting. The Australians called them Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels.

5. The moment Michael Jackson's "Beat It" reached number 3 on the charts in Australia, a parody of her "Eat It" from Weird Al Yankovic came in first place



6. In the early 1930s, Cadillac refused to sell cars to blacks, that was their policy.



In 1933, Nicholas Dreishtadt, a middle manager in General Motors, disrupted the meeting of the executive committee of GM and convinced them abandon this policy and start selling your products blacks. Sales increased by 70% in a year.

7. Unlike most animals, African wild dogs follow an age-based food distribution system.



Puppies are given immediate access to prey, while older ones must wait their turn.

8. The world record for the deepest dive (332.4 m) was installed by Egyptian diver Ahmed Gabr in 2014 in Dahab



It took him almost a decade to prepare for this dive. While the descent took only 15 minutes, the ascent to surface took more than 13 hours.

9. Solomon Islander Jacob K. Wuza during the Second world war was captured by the Japanese on the island of Guadalcanal. His tied to a tree, pierced with a bayonet and left to die



He gnawed through the ropes with his teeth, got to the positions of the Americans and warned them of an impending enemy attack. He survived.

10. The Roman physician Galen used wine as a disinfectant for all types of wounds and even impregnated with it spilled entrails before returning them to the body



Thanks to skillful healing under his supervision, only 5 gladiators died.

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12. There is a Pizzly bear, a polar bear/grizzly hybrid. This hybrid species is not sterile and can breed



13. Pika is a small rodent that collects plants and dries them in the sun to save them for the winter.



14. How to make sure that violators do not climb over fence? Paint it with a special non-drying oil paint. Such paint was developed in the 1960s



It can take more than 3 years to dry out. It is used for prevent intrusion and designate intruders, since its very difficult to remove.

15. In the 2006 movie Idiocracy, everyone wears crocs because the costume designer was on a shoestring budget.



And he decided that cheap rubber slippers, invented small startup company Crocs, look quite futuristic, but too stupid to ever become popular in real life.

16. At the court of King Charles I of England, there was a man named Geoffrey Hudson, whose height was only 45 cm



Hudson challenged a man of normal height to a duel on pistols because of the insult. His opponent went to the duel, armed with a water pistol. Hudson shot him in the head with real gun and killed him.

17. Hamsters in Vienna, Austria, have learned to survive harsh winters, feeding on oily candles left by mourners on graves



18. Ginkgo trees in Japan are a symbol of hope and perseverance. Because they survived the Hiroshima bombing



19. King Charles III and Prince William always travel in different aircraft. If there is a crash, some of them will remain in alive



20. After the fires that followed the earthquake in San Francisco in 1906, many insurance companies tried to avoid cover losses



The exception was the insurance company Lloyd's of London, stating: “We pay all our policyholders in full, regardless on the terms of their policies. This strengthened the company's reputation in the US.

21. The first official U.S. coin in circulation has Fugio Cent, was the motto "Mind your own business" instead of "We trust in God"



22. The famous tikka masala dish is British, not Indian. and it was invented in the 70s, and not a long time ago, as it seems many



23. There is a painkiller called opiorphin in human saliva, and it is stronger than morphine.



24. In 2000, the cast of Friends demanded a salary of $1,050,000 per episode.



Television producer Garth Ansier of NBC has produced commercials in which which said: “You loved them for seven years, look at how all this ends on the Friends series finale this Thursday." After that, the cast agreed to a pay cut.

25. Madame Tussauds skill in making wax copies of people saved her from the guillotine of the French Revolution.



26. One in five German parents regrets having children and would rather live their life without them.



27. Kit Kat bars come in over 200 flavors.



Soy sauce, matcha, orange, blueberry, lemon vinegar, mandarin yuzu, red orange, salt, banana, fruit parfait, melon, nutmeg, maple syrup, red bean soup, cherry blossom... and that just a small part.

28. One-night stand cough syrup was sold in the late 1800s and contained alcohol, cannabis, chloroform and morphine.



This mixture was available without a prescription and promised to eliminate your cough overnight so you could sleep.

29. Mount Top on Baffin Island, Canada - the highest vertical slope on the planet (1250 m)



You can take one step from the top and fall down a whole kilometer before you hit anything.

30. 13% of people who receive CPR outside the hospital are still alive a year later

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