Stockholm lottery, cat indifference and other interesting facts about the world around us (10 photos)

There are a lot of amazing and interesting things around us, however, sometimes we don’t have enough time to study it all. However, 5 minutes is enough to broaden your horizons a little with another selection of interesting facts about everything in the world.





Not everyone likes to give rides to voters from dear people. Especially on government vehicles. But in Cuba, the latter are required to do this if there is free time inside.



If you've watched The Sopranos, you've probably noticed how realistically the mafia is depicted in it. The real mafiosi also paid attention to this and decided that they were being followed. This became known thanks to telephone conversations wiretapped by the FBI. Members of the mafia were perplexed where the scriptwriters got their information, believing that there were probably many moles in their ranks.





Researchers have come to a very interesting conclusion on how to recognize smart people. In their opinion, they are prone to disorder, go to bed late and often resort to swearing. So, perhaps the person is not dirty and a redneck, but simply too smart.

It's no secret that sometimes fat people are considered kind. This opinion arose in the times of Rus', when “good” meant “wealth.” Then people’s property was called “good,” and a person who became fat from eating “fat.” It was only with the advent of Christianity that “good” began to be used more often in its usual meaning today.



Pablo Escobar is one of the most cunning criminals. This can be judged by the way he served his prison sentence. In 1991, he managed to agree with the leadership of Colombia that he would not be extradited to the United States, but in return he would surrender and serve 5 years in prison. Escobar kept his promise, although he served his sentence in his own prison, which had a football field, a bar, a jacuzzi and a waterfall.



European culture is full of amazing things. For example, until the 20th century, they believed that red hair was a sign of Jews. At least, that’s exactly what they believed in the Spanish Inquisition. That is why many writers, including Shakespeare and Dickens, made their characters red-haired, hinting that they were Jews.

If you are already over 30 and it seems like you don’t have to think about a wedding, feel free to go to Ireland. It is in this country that people get married later than everyone else in the world. The average age of marriage there is 35 years.



Surely many have noticed during twilight a dark blue stripe visible on the horizon. So, this is nothing more than a shadow cast by the Earth on its own atmosphere.



The fate of lion cubs in the wild is very unenviable, because 80% of them do not live to be two years old. This is due to fierce competition for food, as well as attacks by hyenas and jackals. In addition, lion cubs may die if another male takes the main place in the pride, since he, first of all, kills the offspring of his predecessor.



Probably everyone has suffered from doomscrolling at least once. This word appeared recently, in 2020, so not everyone is familiar with it. This means a process in which a person continuously absorbs a large amount of negative news on the Internet. Despite the fact that psychologists recommend cutting yourself off from this, many people themselves admit that they cannot stop doing this.



If you think that global warming has nothing to do with you, then you are deeply mistaken. Scientists have found that because of this process, people began to sleep less. It turns out that the climate crisis is robbing us of about 44 hours of sleep per year.

If you have noticed that cats willingly communicate with those who are unpleasant to you, then know that this is all due to evolution, in which they have not developed the skill of a negative attitude towards the enemies of their owners. This was discovered during the experiment. Dogs refused to take food from people who showed aggression towards their owners, while the behavior of cats did not change at all. So only the first ones will truly support you.



Surely there are many people who have at least once neglected traffic rules while driving. However, it is unlikely that you would want to violate in Sweden. It is there, in Stockholm, that cameras record law-abiding drivers and automatically enter them as participants in a cash lottery, the prize in which is formed from the fines of violators.