25 interesting facts that will add to your knowledge base (26 photos)
You can learn something new and interesting in our lifetime every day. There are tons of resources and information freely available. And in this collection - briefly and to the point, several interesting facts from all areas of our lives for a small replenishment of the treasury of knowledge. 
The first sharks appeared on Earth more than 100 million years before the first tree appeared. 
If we held a moment of silence for every Holocaust victim, the world would remain silent for 11.5 years 
While Elizabeth 2 lived, there were 12 prime ministers in Great Britain, and 7 popes in the Vatican. 
In 1943, a group of German sailors on a submarine set up a weather station on the Canadian coast to check the weather before military operations. It was marked with fake signs as if it were a Canadian military installation. 
The station was discovered and “declassified” by Canadians in 1977.
We live closer in time to the tyrannosaurs than the tyrannosaurs to the stegosaurs. The last ones lived 150 million years ago 
Saturn's rings are made up of billions of pieces of ice and rock. They come in different sizes - from the size of a grain of salt to a small mountain. 
In 1942, Malta was awarded the Cross of St. George "For courage and heroism." This island was bombed for 157 days. The cross is still on the flag of Malta 
British King George III was known as the "Mad King". He suffered from mental illness most of his life. He was tied to chairs, gagged, bled, and left in the freezer to try to “cure” him. 
In 2005, DNA testing revealed extremely high levels of lead and arsenic in his body. The many medications he was given drove him crazy and doomed him to a slow death.
The ancient Mayans developed medicine and astronomy. But at the same time they did not know, for example, what a wheel is 
In the 16th-18th centuries, ships with slaves from Africa raided Mediterranean countries along the way - mainly the coastal cities of Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, and England. Up to a million people were enslaved in this way 
The head of German military intelligence provided intelligence to the Allies during World War II 
The construction of the Cheops pyramid took 2.3 million limestone blocks, each weighing more than 2 tons. They were mined in quarries on the Nile coast, and then dragged on wooden “sleighs” to the construction site 
In the 90 years from 1841 to 1930, Ireland's population halved, from 8.4 million to approximately 4 million. This is all due to hunger and emigration. The population only began to grow in the 1960s 
The Great Wall of China is about 2,700 years old, but a third of it has already disappeared due to improper maintenance and negative environmental influences. 
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel, but he refused. The scientist explained the refusal by saying that he did not have the experience necessary for this position. 
From the beginning of the 19th century to the present, 7 cholera pandemics have been recorded. 
The fax machine, or facsimile machine, was invented in 1843, long before the advent of the telephone. 
During the 20th century, 300-500 million people died from smallpox. Between 70 and 85 million people died in World War II 
The last execution by guillotine was carried out in the 1970s 
Our Universe is still young - it is only 13.8 billion years old 
When American President Theodore Roosevelt gave a speech in 1912, he was shot at point-blank range. The bullet hit the chest, but did not hit the lung - as Roosevelt himself determined. Refusing help, he ended his speech by standing with blood on his shirt for 90 minutes. 
In 1919, a molasses flood occurred in Boston when a giant molasses tank exploded and a wave rushed through the streets at 60 km/h. The incident left 21 people dead and 150 in hospital 
On February 3, 1972, a severe snowstorm began in Iran. It raged for 6 days and killed more than 4,000 people 
Human space flight, laptop computers and mobile phones all predate the invention of the rolling suitcase. 
