Be careful, after reading these revelations, you risk losing touch with reality.
One user of “Reddit” rashly asked the others to throw in the facts, in which they believed, but in fact it all turned out to be sheer fiction. In response, I received about ten thousand statements. MAXIM studied them all and chose the best, popular and more or less decent ones so that no one could fool you. Which of these did you believe in?
Scientists could test some of these claims with new research, but they are currently studying 10 obscene-sounding words with perfectly decent meaning. Therefore, we can only believe that the facts presented below cannot be trusted. Yes, these are, in general, no facts. But we would very much like to believe in some of them.
1. The human body produces enough saliva in one life to fill a submarine.
In fact, by the way, scientists devoted a whole study to this topic in 2009 and found that the average person without pathologies produces one liter of saliva per day. If you take an average life expectancy of 30 thousand days, you get about 30 thousand liters. And according to the Quora service, the volume of a submarine can reach 500 thousand cubic feet (just over 14 million liters). So in your life you would not be able to fill a full-fledged submarine even by 1%. But with a mini-submarine of the Ocean Pearl type, it would be fine. Well, this is so, in case you decide to go on the weirdest underwater trip at the end of your life.
2. A flock of butterflies is called a kaleidoscope .
No, a flock of butterflies is called a flock of butterflies.
3. Marilyn Manson had his ribs removed so that he could give himself a blow job.
This bearded bike has been around since at least the late 90s. Probably the source of the rumor was a case in Florida in December 1994. Then the musician was arrested by the police, who believed that Manson was giving a blowjob to a man during a concert. In fact, he feigned oral sex with Jack Off Jill's vocalist, who was wearing a prosthetic penis. The artist himself was so often asked the anatomical question about the number of ribs he has that he answered it in his autobiography, saying that if this were true, he simply would not have time for everything else.
4. Dinosaurs had big ears, but everyone forgot about that, because there are no bones in the ears of dinosaurs .
Dinosaur skulls had small bones that carried sound from the eardrum to the areas of the brain responsible for hearing. But dinosaurs did not have ears in the general sense. The “ears” of a dinosaur were small holes on the sides of the head. The ears of modern lizards look the same.
5. Each armpit is unique – it has an individual fingerprint, just like the fingers.
If there is something unique in the armpits, it is the smell – it really is different for each person, individual. But the prints … In the end, now we have thrown you a curious idea for playing in a noisy and not the most sober company. Add it to the list of 18 alcohol games to get drunk with imagination and excitement.
6. There are no numbers on the prow of Norwegian warships. Instead, they have barcodes printed on them.
Usually, there are three inscriptions on the bow of the ship – the name of the vessel, the home port and the number of the International Maritime Organization. This number is assigned to a ship once and for its entire life. The vessel can change the owner, flag, port of registration, can go under a different register, but the number will not change. And by this number you can trace the entire history of the vessel. But there were no devices that would read bar codes from the bow of the ship.
7. US postal workers are technically allowed to stop and fine motorists for speeding. Moreover, if a police car, an ambulance, a fire engine, and a mail van arrive at the stop sign at the same time, the mail van will be given preferential right of way.
Postmen in the United States are held in the same esteem and respect as firefighters and police officers. Only a US citizen can get a job as a postman (because a postman is a civil servant). And first they will take on a part-time job. This trial period may last for several years. Only then does the applicant have the right to count on a full-time job. Firing a postman is almost impossible – only if he throws something completely out of the ordinary. Assaulting a postman on duty is a federal crime and will be investigated by FBI agents. But stopping and fining motorists is a lie.
8. Some candies have a groove in the center to prevent death by suffocation. The idea is that if the lollipop gets stuck in the throat, there will be a small hole in the center through which air can pass.
This is just a feature of the production of this or that candy. Let's say the lollipop is stuck in your throat. It is unlikely that you will remain calm, and such: “The main thing is not to panic, now everything will resolve by itself.”
9. If you add a decimal to your percentage, people are 72.8% more likely to believe.
People are unlikely to believe you, even if you say it's 146% true.
10. In a decompression chamber for diving, hair and nails stop growing when you go below 40 meters.
The only time your hair and nails stop growing is if your body starts to lose moisture and literally dry out. Accordingly, the volume of soft tissues – muscles, fat, internal organs and bones – will decrease, and everything hard – bones, nails and hair – will remain at its size. This situation is called death. But definitely not diving to the bottom.
11. Tetris was inspired by the scarcity of carpets in the Soviet Union. The only thing people could get were carpet scraps carved where the cupboards were. Because of this, people had to figure out how to cover the floor with these scraps. Then one worker came up with the idea to make a game out of it. The decoration was inspired by the usual shape of the rug scraps.
The idea of “Tetris” to Alexei Pajitnov (the creator of the puzzle) was prompted by a game of pentominoes – five-cell polyominoes, that is, flat figures, each of which consists of five identical squares connected by sides. And no carpets.
12. If your hand is larger than your face, you have cancer.
Cancer does not affect the size of the hands or face in any way.
13. Technically, a coconut is a mammal. Because he grows hair and produces milk.
Coconut milk is also used to make butter and curd shavings, which are sprinkled on the slippery Milky Way. Coconuts live on the islands of Africa, Oceania and India, where they feed on fish washed ashore. They do not risk going far into the sea water because of the numerous nutophile predators. However, some coconuts, breaking away from the mother palm, become pirates-kakamora and can stand up for themselves (this is described in detail in the scientific animation project “Moana”). With the help of coconuts floating on the waves, coconuts managed to colonize vast territories in the tropics. Like any animal, the coconut organism needs salt. One coconut eats 1.34 kilograms of salt per year, which helps it grow 450 nuts annually. Without salt, the coconut dies quickly, so it settles as close to sea water as possible. All this – according to the “Absurdopedia”, an encyclopedia, which is as much as possible divorced from reality.
14. Every 100 years, the giraffe's neck increases by one centimeter.
It is strange that so far not a single giraffe has been recorded whose neck wraps around the globe.
15. If you fully unfold the French horn, it will stretch to the Moon.
While this is actually not the case, it is possible to calculate the likelihood that such a statement will be true. We take a French horn weighing 2.6 kilograms. The density of brass is 8.6 g / cubic centimeter, which gives a volume of 300 cubic centimeters. The distance to the moon is 400 thousand kilometers. If you melt a French horn into a thread with a diameter of 1 micrometer, it really stretches from the Earth to the Moon. It's just who will undertake such a melting, it is difficult to imagine. For comparison, a human hair is about 50-75 micrometers thick.
16. 10% of the ice in Antarctica is penguin urine.
First, there are no scientists who could divide the ice of Antarctica into penguin urine and everything else. Secondly, by roughly estimating the penguin population, you can collect a maximum of 3% of frozen urine from the total ice volume. But this ratio is far from a fact.
17. Goldfish are named not because of their color, but because in Asia they are often found in streams where gold can be found.
The first aquarium fish of red-golden color with a metallic sheen, cultivated from the common goldfish, is a representative of the carp family, which was named “goldfish”.
18. Achilles had a brother who was also a hero, but little was said about him. His name was Bofades. Just as Achilles had an Achilles' heel, so Bofades had his weakness. It was called Bofad nuts.
Achilles was the only child in the family.
19. The term “gaslighting” was originally coined by a former schoolteacher who suffered from a rare form of early dementia. She believed that her husband turns on the gas stove and then asks her why she keeps forgetting to turn it off in order to play a trick on her.
This is only half true (or even less). The concept of “gaslighting” refers us to the play “Gaslight” by Patrick Hamilton, where stable psychological manipulation is modeled. In the story, the husband of a young woman rearranges small furnishings in the house and hides things in order to give his wife the impression that she is losing her memory and mind.
20. Cats always land on their feet. The sandwich will always fall butter down. If you glue a sandwich to the cat's back (butter up), you get a perpetual motion machine. More precisely, an endlessly rotating cat. It remains to wait for him to fall from a height.
To check this, you will have to make a rather weighty sandwich and correctly calculate the ratio of bread and butter. But even so, it is clear that the experiment will end in failure.
21. Clicking fingers causes arthritis.
While there hasn't been extensive research on this topic, some studies have found nothing wrong with this for joints. The only time you need to worry is if, after clicking, your joint is swollen and severely ill.
22. Glass is not hard. It's actually liquid. But its viscosity is so high that it behaves like a solid.
Unlike particles in ordinary liquids, glass particles are tightly bound together by strong chemical bonds. Therefore, they cannot flow at room temperature. The analogy is untenable, if only from the point of view of fluidity.
23. Ostriches kill a thousand people a year.
In fact, ostriches kill about five people a year. According to official statistics.
24. John Lennon once said, “Ringo is not the best drummer in the world. He's not even the best drummer for the Beatles. “
John Lennon didn't really say that. These are the words of some comedian. This was a joke, not a direct quote.
25. One ravioli is called raviolus. One tortellini – tortellino.
If all this is fiction, then the only number for spaghetti is spaghetto. And this is one of 27 facts in the amazing collection “The most useless and funny facts from around the world and in the entire history of mankind.”
Well, since you've read to the end, here's a bonus fact for you, in which there is absolutely no catch – it turns out that how you keep your hands on the steering wheel depends on whether you get injured in an accident.
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