Time to replenish your knowledge: interesting facts from different areas (18 photos)

During the New Year holidays, most of us rested our bodies and minds. Therefore, now is the time to replenish your rested brain with a small portion of interesting facts. Some of them will definitely remain in your knowledge base and expand your horizons.





Let's start with facts closely related to past holidays. For example, did you know that “The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath,” which has become a classic, has been decorating the New Year’s TV broadcast for more than 40 years.



The film is still popular today. And so much so that even Indian Bollywood made a remake of it.





We are all accustomed to the fact that New Year is celebrated on the night of January 1st. The long-standing tradition took root thanks to Peter I, because before that the holiday was appointed on the first day of autumn. Peter moved the beginning of the year by decree of December 20, 1699, that is, the year 1700 became the first year to begin on January 1. A few months before the imperial decree, Rus' celebrated the 7209th year from the creation of the world. By the way, until 1492 from the Nativity of Christ (aka the 7000th from the creation of the world), in Rus' the New Year began on March 1, and among our pagan ancestors - on the day of the winter solstice (December 21).



While the snow is still lying outside the window, it's time to tell you that it is actually translucent. It appears white to us only because the ice crystals that make it up refract light in a special way.



Have you ever noticed where those annoying city mosquitoes disappear in winter? In fact, they are still awake, just surviving the cold in the basements of residential buildings. As soon as it gets a little warmer, you will again hear an infuriating squeak in your apartments.



Why do they even drink blood? Exclusively for the purpose of reproducing. Without our blood, female mosquitoes do not receive enough amino acids that affect egg development.



Some facts from different parts of the world. For example, in the USA, namely in the suburbs of New York, there is a farm where human depression is treated by hugging cows.



And in Japan there is a job that we can only dream of. There is a specialty there as a toilet guide. That is, you will be paid for escorting a person to the nearest bathroom.



Many people dream of vacationing on the islands. But out of the existing 500 thousand islands, only 2% of them are inhabited by people.



Let's move on to the animal world. People have long been accustomed to using racehorses, which develop quite a lot of speed. It’s just that giraffes can run faster than them, but they don’t do this, because, as a rule, they have nowhere to rush. And no one is pushing it.



Speaking of hoof owners. Anatomically, they are considered overgrown nails.



Why are pesky flies so difficult to kill? The thing is that they perceive the world around them four times slower, so to speak in “slow motion”.



Some people mistakenly think that the small pocket in jeans was invented to carry condoms. However, it was intended to hold pocket watches.



And now a few facts about the human body and thinking. For example, did you know that every kilogram of excess fat causes the body to create 22 kilometers of new blood vessels.



Have you ever faced the fear of looking people in the eye? If yes, then you have ommatophobia.



Our memory must store many things. But we just can’t remember them all at once. The maximum our brain can recreate is up to four memories at a time.



Well, let's finish with dreams. It happens that when we wake up, it seems to us that we have seen a person unfamiliar to us, who has never caught our eye before. But in reality this is not the case. Our brain is not capable of creating faces, so if you met some stranger in a dream, it means that you have come across him at least once in your life. You just didn't attach any importance to it.



What facts became a discovery for you?