“Shameless” finger,” life-saving joke and other interesting facts about everything (9 photos)

If you don’t know how to pass the evening, it’s best to keep yourself busy learning something new and interesting. As always, a selection of amazing facts about everything in the world will help you expand your horizons.





We are all used to drinking a lot of water on a hot day, however, no matter how strange it may sound, it is better to give preference to a cup of hot spicy soup. The thing is that spicy food contains capsaicin, which has an irritating effect on the mucous membrane. The body sends signals to the brain that it is overheating, causing the glands to produce more sweat and thereby lowering body temperature.



Beavers' incisors are orange because they contain iron, which strengthens the teeth. This explains their ability to easily gnaw through the trunks of even massive trees. By the way, beavers can also hold their breath underwater for 15 minutes, and their eyelids are transparent, which allows the animals to use them as goggles.





Quite a funny historical fact. King Francis I of France had a court jester, Nicholas Ferrial. The latter forgot himself during his speech and slapped the king on the ass, for which he was about to be executed. Later, the king cooled down and promised to forgive Ferrial if he could come up with an even more offensive joke.



He said: “Forgive me, king! I took you for a queen." So the royal jester successfully escaped death.

It's no secret that Jackie Chan is blacklisted by all insurance companies. However, the stuntmen participating in his productions also ended up there. That is why the famous actor created the Stuntmen Association, in which he personally teaches his students a dangerous craft and pays their medical bills from his wallet.



The University of Cambridge conducted a study to find out which groups of people perform worst on intellectual tasks. It turned out that those who hold radical extremist views experience the greatest difficulties with this.

Today the middle finger is often referred to as the "facus", but the ancient Romans called it "shameless". This is due to the fact that it symbolized the phallus, and the fingers bent at the sides represented the testicles.



The Japanese have a rather interesting practice that other countries should adopt. The fact is that non-smoking employees of enterprises are given 6 additional days of vacation, compensating for smoking breaks.

A little about the phenomena. Surely, many of you have resorted to “strategic incompetence” at least once. This is what they call a method of avoiding tasks under the pretext of not knowing how to do it.



There is such a thing as a “thumb error.” This is what is called an erroneous keyboard input or mouse click while working in financial markets, which can lead to losses. For example, this happened in 2001, when UBS sold 610 thousand shares at 6 yen, instead of 6 shares at 610 thousand. The stock exchange did not close trading, which is why it had to buy back securities at the market price, which led to loss of 100 million dollars.



A person cannot walk straight without a visual reference. Even if it seems to you that you are walking straight while blindfolded, you are mistaken. In fact, you will walk in an uneven spiral due to the fact that there is an error in the sense of the location of parts of your own body in space.



A rather strange story happened in France in 2012. There, a local resident received a telephone bill in the amount of 11,721,000,000,000,000 euros, which is 6 thousand times the country's GDP. But the company said that they could not do anything about it and offered to pay the debt in installments. After several nervous days, it turned out that she had to pay 117.21 euros.

Well, let's finish with a slightly creepy fact about rats. If you are afraid of their bite, it is not in vain. True, they only bite if they are driven into a corner. But with what power! Their jaw is similar to that of alligators, so they can even bite through human bone.