25 interesting facts that will open up something new for you (26 photos)

You can learn something new from different areas of life every day - especially in our age of endless flow of information. It is important to sometimes feed that same curiosity and thirst for knowledge with a portion of something new. Let's learn some interesting facts about everything in the world.





A stray dog ​​named Rip participated in rescue efforts in Great Britain during World War II. The dog was not particularly trained in rescue work, but he sniffed out more than 100 victims who were trapped under the rubble of buildings



The dog was even awarded the Mary Dickin Medal, Britain's highest military award for animals.

While trying to study the behavior of birds in Australia, scientists put special belts with tracking sensors on several birds. As a result, the study of birds failed - the birds helped each other remove these belts





In the fresco "The Last Judgment" Michelangelo depicted one critic of his work, the papal master of ceremonies Biagio da Cesena. During an inspection of the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel, he said that there is too much nudity in Michelangelo’s works



In response, Michelangelo dressed the master of ceremonies as a snake, which bites him on the wound.

Queen guitarist Brian May uses banjo strings on his guitar. They are thinner than regular ones and easier to clamp. It is thanks to them that his “signature” sound is obtained



65% of people who beat cancer admitted that friends and family turned away from them after the diagnosis



Valery Khodemchuk is the first person to die as a result of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. He is believed to have died instantly under the rubble. His body was never found



Tasmanian devils can give birth to 20-30 cubs, but no more than four of them survive - those that managed to attach to the four nipples in the pouch. The mother eats all the other babies



Twin sisters married twin brothers and now have sons. Although the babies are cousins, genetically they can be called siblings



In 2013, a climber found a box of rubies, sapphires and emeralds on the Mont Blanc glacier. Scientists have determined that the jewelry was left behind after the crash of an Indian plane in 1966



As a reward for his honesty, the climber was given half of the jewelry—worth $169,000.

Maggot therapy is a recognized method of cleaning open wounds with maggots. Fly larvae remove remnants of dead tissue on the wound, and at the same time disinfect living tissue, releasing a natural antibiotic, seraticin.



In the US state of New Jersey, criminals are prohibited from wearing a bulletproof vest while committing a crime.



The New Zealand Army was involved in the production of the Lord of the Rings films. They played soldiers and orcs



The Finnish Natural History Museum in Helsinki is infested with recluse spiders, Loxosceles laeta. This spider is considered the most poisonous in its spider family. No one knows how a spider from South and Central America could get into the museum



Church followers have claimed that Benjamin Franklin's invention, the lightning rod, caused the 1755 Cape Ann earthquakes. According to them, these newfangled "heretical rods" prevented God from "expressing anger" with lightning



In 1933, the yo-yo toy was banned in Syria. Superstitious locals believed that their use caused a severe drought.



Steve Jobs offered Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, a job at Apple - on the condition that Torvalds would leave work on his product. Torvalds immediately rejected this offer... and he was right



A resident of China constantly consumed raw beef for several years and became infected with bovine tapeworm. The six-meter worm lived in his small intestine for about two years.



In most people, the navel is depressed. Only 4% have it convex



There are about 40 thousand muscles in an elephant's trunk. There are approximately 639-850 muscles in the human body alone



During the filming of Poltergeist (1982), real skeletons were used (they were cheaper than props)



On the site of the Sahara Desert 6 thousand years ago there was a tropical forest



Laos is the most bombed country in history. Over nine years, 55 bombs were dropped on it per minute.



Between Spain and France there is an island on the Bidasoa River, the administration of which changes every six months between both countries



Albert Goering, brother of Nazi German military leader Hermann Goering, was an opponent of Nazism and helped Jews and German dissidents escape



In our solar system there is an egg-shaped dwarf planet, Haumea. Its shape is due to its incredibly fast rotation. And she also has two companions