20+ incredible facts that are hard to believe, but absolutely true! (26 photos)

A person can turn to stone—would you believe it? Hardly! But it's true. Today's collection features 20+ similar facts that seem like fiction, but are absolutely real! You'll discover a lot after watching it, and you'll definitely want to surprise your friends by telling them about these incredible facts.





A person really can turn to stone: this happens to those who suffer from "stone man syndrome." In this condition, tendons, muscles, and ligaments gradually turn into bone. Fortunately, this condition is very rare.



Austrian psychiatrist Julius Wagner-Jauregg developed a strange but effective treatment for syphilis, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize. Syphilis patients were infected with malaria for this purpose.





With malaria, the patient's temperature would spike sharply, killing the syphilis bacteria—Treponema pallidum. Afterward, the patient would be treated with quinine for malaria.

Surprisingly, cheetahs can't roar. They meow like ordinary cats.



Modern calculators have far more computing power than the Apollo 11 manned spacecraft.



The wife of peasant Fyodor Vasiliev (1707–1782) in Shuya gave birth to 69 children, a record for the number of children born to a single woman. mother



This woman had 27 births, during which she gave birth to 4 sets of quadruplets, 7 sets of triplets, and 16 sets of twins.

Between 1613 and 1620, the samurai Hasekura Tsunenaga traveled to Mexico, after which he visited Madrid and then Rome. Hasekura was a diplomatic representative—an ambassador. He became the last Japanese to make an official visit to Europe before 1860.



A giraffe can eat not only plant foods, but also bones.



Someone calculated that if everyone on our planet started playing the children's game "rock: paper: scissors" in pairs, then the winners would play each other, then the remaining winners would play each other again, and so on, Then, to reach first place, the grand winner would only need to win thirty-three times in a row.



The longest interval between the birth of two sets of twins was 87 days.



Our contemporaries live many times closer to the very last of the dinosaurs than the first and last of them lived to each other. To my friend



Oxford University predates the Aztec Empire by two centuries



This fact is similar to the one that claims the existence of woolly mammoths at a time when the famous Egyptian pyramids were already built.

An interesting statistic: during World War II, more airliners were destroyed than the total number of aircraft currently in existence on the planet.



When Everest was first measured, it was 29,000 feet—no more, no less! Since this seemed implausible, a couple of feet were added.



During the Great Potato Famine in Ireland, which lasted from 1845 to 1849, the country's food exports exceeded its imports, despite the fact that the Irish were starving.



As bizarre as it may seem, a sparrow genocide was organized in China under Mao Zedong. To preserve the grain harvest, the Chinese began to exterminate these birds.



Both the military and civilians were engaged in exterminating sparrows and other small birds. But since these birds feed on insects rather than grain, the locust population increased sharply, destroying the harvest. Famine descended upon the country…

It has been calculated that of the last three thousand years, only 268 have been peaceful, without war.



Another striking fact: during World War II, more people died from V-2 rockets during their production than during their military use.



It's not for nothing that they say, "While the fat one is wasting away, the thin one will die." Indeed, an obese person can survive long periods of fasting (under medical supervision) and still feel quite well.



Research on this topic has been conducted since the 1960s. A case was described of one patient who, in 1973, began therapeutic fasting under the close supervision of doctors. For 382 days, he fasted, taking only mineral and vitamin supplements and always drinking water. His weight decreased from 207 to 88 kg. No side effects from the fast were noted. Five years later, his weight was 96 kg, meaning he had no longer gained excess weight.

There are more trees on our planet than there are stars in the Milky Way. According to Yale University scientists, there are over 3 trillion of them on Earth!



The sun makes an incredibly deafening sound! We don't hear it only because it's so far away—149.5 million km.



Scientists have calculated that, on a global scale, the gap between the nucleus of an atom and the electron orbiting it is sixteen times greater than the distance between Pluto and the Sun.



Linguists still haven't agreed on the difference between dialect and language. Therefore, to this day, it's unknown how many languages ​​exist on our planet, as there's no reliable way to count them.

Some believe the best way to estimate the number of languages ​​in the world is to count the number of Bible translations.



For the intellectually inclined: In a game of chess, after three moves, there are over nine million possible combinations. And after four moves, this number increases to 288 billion!



And in a full-fledged chess game, there are more variations than there are electrons in the universe.

If we imagine our planet the size of a basketball, then according to this scale, the Moon would be the size of a tennis ball and would be located 7.5 meters from Earth.



And another interesting comparison: if the nucleus of a hydrogen atom were imagined the size of a tennis ball, then the electron would be 2.5 kilometers away from it. At this scale, electrons would still be so small that there's no sphere to compare them to.

The year the famous Japanese video game company Nintendo was founded was 1889.