17 interesting facts that will add to your knowledge base (17 photos)

It is absolutely impossible to know everything in the world, but many inquisitive comrades strive to expand their horizons every day. In this post you will learn facts that may come as a surprise to you.





Listerine was invented as a surgical antiseptic, then a floor cleaner, used to treat gonorrhea and finally as a mouthwash



Amsterdam has a garbage collection program where the authorities hire alcoholics to clean the streets and pay them in beer





Regular onions contain 40 calories, but a dish of onion rings with special sauce is already 1954 calories



China tried to build a replica of Paris and now it's a ghost town



Bill Haast was a man who injected himself with small doses of snake venom throughout his life. He lived to be 100 years old and survived 172 snake bites



Television inventor Philo Farnsworth did not allow his children to watch television because he was afraid they would become stupid.



All millionaires' mansions in London have underground shelters in case of any climate disaster or war



America's first female millionaire was Sarah Breedlove. She achieved her fortune by selling hair products to women of color



In Stockholm there is a transit lottery where a law-abiding driver can win the paid fines of violators



Students who take notes by hand retain more information than those who take notes on a laptop.



Tutankhamun was the only Egyptian king to be mummified with an erect penis.



The Egyptians had a method for determining pregnancy: a woman urinated on the seed, if it germinated, then pregnancy was confirmed



The last car to have a cassette player was the Lexus SC430 in 2010



More than 1 million euros are thrown into the Trevi Fountain in Rome every year. Money used to fund homeless shelters



Usain Bolt demands that the commercials he does be recorded in Jamaica so his country can also profit



Most toilets in Hong Kong use seawater to save drinking water