30 interesting facts from different areas of our lives (31 photos)

In our information age, you can learn something new and expand your knowledge every day. This collection contains interesting facts from a variety of areas that were shared on the Reddit forum. Let's replenish our knowledge base about everything in the world.





1. In the Red Sea, moray eels were observed hunting in tandem with coral groupers. Groupers swim up to moray eels and shake their heads - this is an “invitation” to hunt together



2. Buttons from old British pilot uniforms. If you put one button on top of another, you get a real compass





Two radioluminescent dots on the top button point north and one points south.

3. In 2015, an Australian woman bet on a horse race and won $825. She posted a photo online, and someone scanned the code and took her winnings for themselves.



4. The dogs and wolves that were filmed in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) wagged their tails too often - so the tails had to be edited in the program



5. Skater Mabel Fairbanks, who was banned from skating as a child because she was African-American, later became a coach to great skaters.



She coached such great skaters as Scott Hamilton, Kristi Yamaguchi and Debi Thomas, and became the first African-American woman to be inducted into the Figure Skating Hall of Fame.

6. On March 10, 1945, the United States carried out a series of bombings of Tokyo - they turned out to be even more destructive than the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki



Operation Meetinghouse on the night of March 9–10, 1945, claimed the lives of more than 100,000 people. During the bombing, 267,171 buildings were destroyed.

7. Some urban birds, finches and sparrows, use cigarette butts to control pests in their nests. Nicotine helps ward off parasites



8. By 400 BC. e. The Persians created yakhchal - an ancient refrigerator. Some food and ice were stored in them



9. Louisiana Farmers One Day Started Raising Crayfish in Rice Fields and Developed a Crawfish Farming Industry



Farmers realized that they could grow crayfish all year round without harming their rice. This became an additional source of income for them.

10. In 2015, in San Francisco, a lamppost as tall as a three-story building became so rusty from urine that it broke and fell onto a nearby car.



11. In South Korea, service dogs that were trained were cloned. Surprisingly, cloned dogs passed the exam at a significantly higher than average rate



12. 45 years ago, tuna was not eaten, but was ground into pet food. In Japan, tuna was called "neko-matagi", which means "a fish that even a cat wouldn't eat."



13. Animal Planet's reality series "River Monsters" ended because its star Jeremy Wade was able to catch almost every major species of freshwater fish.



14. Iceland was once covered with trees. Later the Vikings came and cut them down to make way for sheep



15. The mother of the last Comanche chief was a white woman. She was kidnapped at the age of 9 and assimilated into the tribe. She then married the leader and bore him three children



When she was found at the age of 33 and returned to her family, she never accepted the society of white people. She starved herself to death and died.

16. Michigan police once caught a group of local drug dealers: they were invited to a fake wedding of two regular clients of the dealers, who were actually undercover cops



17. Freshwater snails are one of the deadliest animals in the world. They often carry schistosomiasis, a tropical parasitic disease that kills about 200,000 people every year



18. Since 1992, New York has allowed women to appear topless in public.



19. Smokers whose central lobe of the brain was damaged by a stroke were able to easily quit smoking one day after the stroke.



These smokers were able to quit without any urge or relapse. This suggests that the central (insular) lobe of the brain may play a role in nicotine addiction.

25. During a murder trial in 1994, an English jury got drunk and used a Ouija board to identify the killer.



This led to a retrial.

21. Pennsylvania passed a law in 1896 requiring the driver of a horseless carriage to dismantle it when encountering livestock.



If the driver encountered livestock on the road, he had to not only stop, but also dismantle the cart as quickly as possible and hide it in the bushes - until the cattle calmed down.

22. In 1429, King Charles VII of France exempted the city of Domremy from paying taxes “forever” at the request of Joan of Arc



During the French Revolution, taxes were reintroduced.

23. Cancer scorpions are extinct arthropods that lived 510-248 million years ago. Sometimes the length of these scorpion-like creatures reached more than 2 meters



24. Frida Kaplan built a successful business in the 1960s by promoting products that were then little known in the United States: mangoes, shallots and kiwis.



The New Zealand fruit was originally called "Chinese gooseberry", but Kaplan christened it "kiwi".

25. Rio de Janeiro was once the capital of Portugal. After Napoleon's conquest of Portugal, the Portuguese royal family fled to Brazil (1808-1821)



26. People brought dingoes to Australia about 4,000 years ago. This is an ancient breed of domestic dog



27. On November 29, 1900, the terrible “Thanksgiving Day Disaster” occurred during a college football game in the United States.



Many people gathered on the roof of a glass factory to watch a football match for free. The roof collapsed and fans fell onto the stove. 23 people were killed and more than 100 more were injured, but the game continued.

28. Australian ibises have surprisingly learned to eat the invasive and poisonous cane toad.



Ibises have developed the following algorithm: they take a toad, shake it so that it releases its poison and empties its poison sacs, and then washes off the poison with water.

29. Detectives solved a 4-year-old murder by accidentally noticing a tattoo of a gang member: it depicted the location and entire process of the crime



30. Korean astronauts eat special kimchi that was treated with radiation to kill all microorganisms