Zombie ants, food with arsenic and other various facts about everything (11 photos)

It is impossible to know everything, but this does not mean that you should stop there. That’s why you need to replenish your knowledge base with more fascinating facts about everything in the world.





If you think Santa Barbara is a long soap opera, you've never heard of Guiding Light, which ran from 1952 to 2009. In total, 18,262 episodes were released, which would take 594 days and 1 hour to watch continuously.



In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt was scheduled to give a campaign speech in Wisconsin, but an assassination attempt was made on his way. Careful preparation for the speech protected him from death, because the bullet hit the 50-page speech stored in his pocket.





In 1903, Marie Curie presented her doctoral dissertation on the topic of radioactive substances. True, her notebooks were so irradiated that they are still stored in lead boxes, because the half-life of the radium with which she worked is 1600 years. So Curie’s notes will languish in the dark for a long time.



Today, many actors are revered, but in ancient Rome they had a low social status and were considered little better than "moths."



Probably, residents of many countries believe that the state exercises total control over them. It’s hard to believe, but none of the cities in the world, oddly enough, will surpass the capital of India. There are around 1,800 cameras installed in Delhi over 1.6 km.



It's no secret that dogs have a phenomenal sense of smell, but few people know how their sense of smell works. If a smell signals danger, they sniff with the right nostril, while the left is reserved for pleasant smells, such as food.



Nobody wants to be poisoned by arsenic, unless you're from the Victorian era. At the end of the 19th century, products from Dr. James P. Campbell were sold on the market to get rid of freckles, acne and other “deformities” on the face. Among them, for example, there were safe waffles with arsenic.



Did you know that zombies exist? True, among ants, thanks to the tropical fungus Ophiocordyceps, which infects the central nervous system of insects and after nine days gains complete control over their movements. They cause ants to climb trees and fall into moist soil, where the fungi continue to thrive.

If you think that you are eating a lot of junk food, then know that the blue whale consumes about 500 thousand calories at one time.



It turns out that rats can also dream. They may dream about getting food or running through mazes. Most animals go through the REM sleep phase, in which dreams are observed.

The microwave is, without a doubt, a necessary invention. But Percy Spencer, who came up with it, received only a $2 bonus for his brilliant idea. It’s good that he won’t know how he was fooled.



Well, let's finish with a very funny fact about the British crown. It's no secret that members of the British royal family love to monopolize everything. In the 18th century, they even took ownership of pigeon droppings, which were then used to make gunpowder. I wonder how King George I controlled the use of this “property”?