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Here’s an interesting paradox: wealthy British people are riding bikes in average 2.5-3 times more than the poor. But the poor prefer public transportation.
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The Brazilian stadium, Estadio Milton Correa, is also known as Zerão (from Portuguese, Big Zero). This name appeared due to the fact that almost in the middle of the playing field passes the equator - zero parallel. Therefore, football teams can play against each other, being in different hemispheres of the Earth.
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Twins can be born with an interval of several months. A medical record is registered in Germany. One of the two girls was born on the sixth month of pregnancy in 2018, with a weight of only 900 g, and the second of the twins was born 97 days later, already in 2019, with a weight of 3.7 kg, while breaking a record with a difference of 87 days between the twins from Ireland.
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If a lion takes control over a lion's pride, he kills all the offspring of the previous head of the pack.
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The dark-blue color is considered the most favorable for the interview; while orange color takes the last place in the list of recommended colors. Therefore, if you really want to wear something in the color of tangerine, save it for the weekend.
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With an average body size of 3 mm, a flea can jump up to 32 cm away. With such jumping ability, a person could jump over 2 football fields.
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The power of sneezing is so great that it exceeds a speed of 160 km/h. And this is stronger than the wind!
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More than 10% of all Xerox breakdowns in the world occur due to the fact that people sit on them to photocopy their buttocks.
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According to sociological studies, a man immediately draws attention to the lips when meeting a woman. According to statistics, women use 863 tubes of lipstick during their life, and eat an average of 5 kg of lipstick. By the way, a man eats 1/4 of this amount, that is, 1.25 kg.
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The world trade makes huge money practically "out of thin air" - thanks to unused gift certificates.
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The surface area of the tallest building in the world - the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai is approximately equal to the area of 17 football fields. Its height is 829.8 m. The glass of a 163-story building is washed daily, and it takes about three months to wash the entire surface.
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It’s not a secret that there is a lot of potassium in bananas. But they also contain the natural potassium-40 isotope. This means that bananas are radioactive. But if you eat 1 banana per day, this means that in a year you can get irradiation of 3.6 millibars, which does not exceed the permissible norm - 5 millibars per year. So one should not give them up.
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A horned sungem (hummingbird) flaps its wings 90 times per second during a flight. This is the maximum recorded among birds. At the same time, during the courtship of the male for a potential partner, he makes over 210 wing flaps per second.
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In a teaspoon with ordinary soil the number of living organisms is greater than the number of all people living on Earth.
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The USA is a world leader of people behind the bars. 5% of the world’s population live in the US and 25% of the whole numbers of prisoners stay in jail here - 2.2 million people. Russia - the country with the smallest number of acquittals in a civilized world occupies the second place - 1.5 million people. And China closes the top three with the number of 870 thousand imprisoned people.
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Astronomers found complex organic compounds in the center of the Milky Way and as a result came to the conclusion that the Universe “smells” of rum, and if it could be tasted, scientists suggest that it would be juicy raspberries.
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The heart is one of the most slowly regenerating organs of the human body. In a 25-year-old person, only 1% of heart cells are renewed annually, and this figure decreases with age. In a lifetime, less than half the heart cells are renewed.
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Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood. Besides that, they are perfectly masking by the color of the surface on which they dwell. And their females have the longest gestational age compared to other types of living organisms on Earth - 53 months (about 4.5 years).
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According to the researches, a couple who got acquainted during a dangerous situation is stronger than the one whose meeting happened in a cafe or at the party.
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During Beijing’s seven-year preparations for the Olympic Games in 2008, unemployment in the city dropped to zero, and average income rose for 89.9%.
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