For those who love to learn new things about the world we live in, the Internet will never disappoint. Here you can find a lot of interesting facts, some of which will help you see the surrounding reality in a new way, while others will be useful in a casual conversation in a company. Here is another selection of facts that will probably be of interest to you. 
The Guinness Book of Records was invented by the managers of the Guinness brewery. They decided that a book of verifiable facts would help prevent arguments from getting too heated in bars. 
Eugene Aldrin, father of moon landing astronaut Buzz Aldrin, witnessed the Wright brothers' first flight and years later saw his son land on Earth's moon. 
The figure in Munch's "The Scream" does not scream, but reacts to the scream. 
Corgi means "dwarf dog" in Welsh. In the Mabinogion, the Welsh book of myths and legends, corgis were fairy warhorses. 
Fax machine technology was invented in 1843. The feudal era in Japan ended in 1868, abolishing the samurai class. Abraham Lincoln lived until 1865. All this together means that theoretically, over a 22-year period, Abraham Lincoln could receive a fax from a samurai. 
There was a ghost turd during the Apollo mission. She floated around the ship until the very end of the mission, and none of the astronauts admitted that they had missed her. 
Australia is wider than the moon. 
Some birth control pills can cause vitamin B deficiency. Vitamin B is essential for the production of serotonin, the “happy hormone.” So. To avoid depression while using contraceptives, you should take vitamin B along with them. 
The patent for a fire hydrant burned out in a fire. 
Honey bees can be trained to detect mines in war zones! Dogs often do this, but they can accidentally set off a mine and die. But the bees, due to their small weight, are in no danger: they simply begin to swarm over the mine without detonating it, and at the same time clearly warning people about its presence. 
Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than to the construction of the pyramids. 
When a person undergoes a kidney transplant, the old kidneys are not removed, but simply moved aside and left in their place. 
When the Rubik's Cube was first released, a mathematician said that it would take the average person 30 years of working 8 hours a day to solve it, while it would take a month for a person with a master's degree in mathematics to solve it. 
90% of the world's population lives in the Northern Hemisphere. 
Gases and particles in the Earth's atmosphere scatter sunlight in all directions. Blue light scatters more than other colors because it travels as shorter wavelengths. That's why the sky is blue. 
This year, NASA discovered a planet outside the Milky Way for the first time in human history. 
Sharks appeared on our planet earlier than trees. 
Vending machines are more likely to kill people than sharks. 
There is a huge difference between a million and a billion. To fully appreciate it, you can use this example: a million seconds is more than 11 days. A billion seconds is just under 32 years. 
Komodo dragons are the largest animals in the world capable of asexual reproduction. 
For a short period of time, Picasso and Snoop Dogg were contemporaries. 
The shell is part of the turtle's skeleton. 
As a result of evolution, humans share genes with all living organisms. For example, 60% of your DNA is the same as a strawberry. 
Shaquille O'Neal has made over 12,000 baskets in his career. And only one of them was a three-pointer. 
If you stare at your reflection in dim light for several minutes, your face will begin to distort and you will begin to hallucinate. 
The platypus produces poison. 
Penguins buy sexual pleasures from females for beautiful stones. 
Butterflies and moths can drink not only nectar: the blood and tears of warm-blooded animals, including humans, are also nutritious for them. 
Easter Island idols have torsos. They learned about them not so long ago, but they were able to dig them up only in 2017, and then only from one figure. 
Stephen Hawking died on March 14, the day of pi and Albert Einstein's birthday.
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