30 fascinating facts from different areas of our lives (31 photos)
In our age, you can discover something new for yourself, at least everyone day. In this collection - curious facts about everything in the world that you, maybe you don't know yet. To replenish the treasury of knowledge a little - always healthy. 
1. Many consider the Egyptian pyramids to be the largest in the world. But the Great Pyramid of Cholula in Mexico is considered the largest in terms of volume. famous pyramid 
2. The Amazonian leech Haementeria ghilianii is one of the most largest species of leeches in the world. They grow up to 45 cm in length and 10 cm in width 
3. The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn 
4. Pineapple is essentially an inflorescence, which consists of a bunch of "blinded" berries 
5. Keanu Reeves was on a strict diet of oranges and water for a scene in Little Buddha. 
7. Wombats are the only animals with square shaped feces. 
8. Yang Gyeongjong - Korean soldier who allegedly served in the Japanese imperial army, the Red Army, and during World War II - in armed forces of Nazi Germany 
9. Experts have proven that sleeping with a pillow under your knees is healthy. It redistributes pressure and promotes normalization blood flow in the legs 
10. The first gums were made from birch tar and other natural substances. One such piece of stone gum centuries discovered in Denmark - it is 5700 years old 
11. The closest star to the Earth after the Sun is Proxima Centauri. It is located at a distance of about 4.24 light years from our planet. 
12. February 23, 2001 one and a half year old Erika Nordby from Canada is frozen in snow. She had no pulse for two hours, and her temperature body was 16°C, but she was saved 
Despite clinical death, the girl survived. Scientists They called this case a miracle, but explained it with oxygen starvation. For increasing the "survivability" of the body in such cases can occur attenuation of biological processes.
13. Weight of the Earth - somewhere 5,972,200,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg 
14. The Anglo-Zanzibar War, which took place on August 27, 1896, lasted only 38 minutes. 
15. The wingless mosquito Belgica antarctica is endemic to Antarctica and the largest true land animal in Antarctica 
16. Kim Peek - a famous savant (a person with deviations in development, demonstrating unusual abilities) with a phenomenal memory, which memorized up to 98% of the information read 
Peak could read one spread of the book in 8-10 seconds, reading two pages at once.
17. The total length of the Parisian catacombs is up to 300 km 
18. New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Tenzing Norgay 70 Everest was the first to climb years ago. It happened in 1953 
19. If you shave a tiger, the stripes will be on his skin - due to the remaining hair follicles 
20. Bees enjoy playing. To this conclusion came scientists who placedthem in a box with several wooden balls. The bees began to play, rolling the balls back and forth 
21. If you put hamster wheels in the wild, mice will run in them - for fun 
22. When a dog goes to the toilet in a big way, it is inseparable looks at the owner - to make sure that everything is in order, at the very her vulnerable moment 
23. In a kidney transplant, the patient is left with his own, unless there is a reason for their removal (cancer, infection) 
24. In Switzerland, the president is not the head of state or government. All these functions are performed by the Federal Council of seven Human 
25. Humans smell rain 4 times more than sharks smell blood. 
26. Manatees are not fat. They are just round! And also, they able to eat a tenth of their weight in 24 hours (their weight is from 400 up to 550 kilograms) 
27. Prior to 1913, US law allowed children to be mailed. 
28. Onyx is the longest river in Antarctica, and it flows only two months a year 
29. While hunting, ducks can dive to a depth of 5-6 meters. 
30. Giraffes have seven cervical vertebrae - like humans. The vertebrae of a giraffe, however, are much larger than ours - 25.4 cm in length 
