Learning something new is always interesting and not at all difficult! After all, for this, it is not necessary to take courses or study literature all day long. A few facts that you did not know before can make you a little smarter than yesterday. So read our selection and absorb the knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a river in Venezuela where lightning strikes between 70 and 200 times a year<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This phenomenon is called Catatumbo Lightning. It arises at the place where the Catatumbo River flows into Lake Maracaibo. The probability of a lightning strike in this area is the highest in the world: 250 lightning strikes per square kilometer per year! And during the peak of activity, which falls on the time interval from 19.00 to 4.00, up to 28 lightning per minute can be observed here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 1999, Philip Morris tried to convince the Czech government that smoking was extremely good for the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In 1999, Philip Morris tried to convince the Czech government in a intersting way. Among the company’s main arguments was that more people would die prematurely from smoking, saving millions in health care, pensions, and social housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In psychology, there is the concept of “crab mentality”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If you put one crab in a large bucket, it will easily get out. But if you add a few more crabs to it, they will all be trapped, as they will cling to each other all the time and thus pull their \u201ccomrades\u201d down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The same thing happens with people as they climb the social ladder. Those who fail to achieve certain heights will always interfere with those who strive for success. This intolerance for other people’s achievements is called the “crab mentality”. Thomas Jefferson created his own version of the Bible called the Jefferson Bible<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the founding fathers of the United States combined in his book passages from the Greek, English, French, and Latin editions of the New Testament. However, in his version, the life of Jesus Christ is described more realistically – after the crucifixion, Jesus is buried. There is no resurrection or ascension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Charlie Chaplin was planned to be killed during an attempted military coup in Japan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n On May 15, 1932, a group of officers of the Imperial Japanese Navy, with the support of the Allies, shot dead Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi, who tried to enter into a dialogue with the radicals. Initially, their plan included the assassination of Charlie Chaplin, who then arrived in Tokyo – they hoped in this way to cause discord in relations between Japan and the United States. But the actor was lucky because at that moment he was with the minister’s son at a sumo match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steppe eagle named Ming ruins Novosibirsk scientists<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n vAs part of a project to study the movement of birds, scientists from Novosibirsk attached tracking sensors to 13 eagles. Data with the \u0422\u0435ir coordinates is archived and sent as SMS messages directly to the research headquarters as soon as the bird is in the coverage area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n US premiere of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace causes more than 2 million employees to miss work<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Thus, the screening of the film cost the state about $293 million. This is the amount the experts estimated the losses associated with the decline in labor productivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Actor Michael Caine changed his first and last name due to constant delays at the airport<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Born Maurice Micklewhite managed to become famous under the pseudonym Michael Caine. It was under this name that many fans knew him. When he presented documents with other data at the airport, problems often arose. \u201cThe security officer says, \u2018Hi, Michael Caine,\u2019 and then I suddenly show him a passport in a different name. Because of this, I could stay there for an hour, \u201dthe actor explains the reason for the name change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is a place in France that resembles the exclusion zone in Chernobyl<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The “Zone Rouge” or “Red Zone” contains the remains of hundreds of thousands of those who died during the First World War, unexploded \u0422\u0435 bombs, mines and traces of chemical weapons. It is believed that it will take another 300-700 years before this area is fully restored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jean-Dominique Bauby wrote a book with his left eye<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n At the age of 43, the famous French writer suffered a severe stroke and fell into a coma for 20 days. When he woke up, he found that his entire body was paralyzed, with the exception of his left eye. The only way for him to communicate was blinking – when a person pronounced a letter, Bobby blinked once if \u201cyes\u201d, and twice if \u201cno\u201d. In this way, he managed to dictate the bestseller The Space Suit and the Butterfly. The writer died two days after the book was published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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