The human body is the most familiar thing in the world to each of us, however, it remains one of the most mysterious organisms. Even today, taking into account all medical and scientific achievements, which have given us in-depth knowledge about our physical bodies, many experts are still puzzled by aspects of our bodies - how they work and why.
On this moment more than 7 billion people live on our planet. Although our cultures and personalities make us unique, we are all very similar in many ways. We all came from the same single-celled organisms in the distant past and turned into the bodies we know today. Each part of our body has specific functions and, beyond these functions, our bodies are capable of amazing things. Put every part of the human body together - from hair, skin to sneezes - and you realize the amazing natural strength that is inherent in us all. If you, like the rest of the world, take the simple fact of your own body for granted, we suggest you read the following list incredible facts and be amazed at what even the smallest parts of your body can do.
20. We can see up to 48 kilometers away
Our eyes will never be as sharp as an eagle's. However, the human eye is so sensitive that if the Earth were completely flat, we could clearly see the flickering of a candle up to 48 kilometers away.
19. Our nerve impulses travel at a speed of 402 kilometers per hour 
The sensation of pain is essentially immediate when you touch something hot or are pricked by a needle. Thanks to our highly developed nervous system we can react in less than a millisecond to things we should stay away from. Nerve impulses are so fast that electrical signals responsible for sensations travel to and from the brain with average speed 402 kilometers per hour.
18. There is an entire ecosystem in our navel 
We can't see them, but the human body contains trillions of tiny organisms, such as bacteria, millions of which live inside the belly button. Relatively speaking, there are so many bacteria in the human belly button alone that they could form an ecosystem the size of a rainforest.
17. There are more atoms in the human body than stars in the Universe
All matter is made up of molecules and molecules are made up of atoms. An adult human is made up of 7 octillion atoms (7 followed by 27 zeros). This is more than twice the known number of stars in the Universe.
16. Our bones are as hard as granite
We may think that human bones are fragile. However, the bones are as hard as granite. Just one piece of bone, the size of a matchbox, can support a weight of 8 tons.
15. We Share DNA With Fruits
You've probably already heard that humans differ from chimpanzees by only one chromosome. DNA is so precise that the slightest change can turn you into a completely different person. the new kind. As it turns out, humans share 50 percent of their DNA with the normal, ordinary, delicious banana.
14. Our cells never stop reproducing. 
Cells are the building blocks of the body. Every second the human body produces 25 million new cells. For comparison, every 13 seconds more cells are produced than the population of the United States.
13. We glow in the dark
As deep sea creatures, humans are naturally bioluminescent and we glow in the dark. However, the light we emit is incredibly weak. He is so weak that our human eyes cannot distinguish it.
12. Our skin never stops growing.
Considering that we produce 25 million new cells every second of time, we develop new layers of skin. Over the course of their lives, people lose up to 18 kilograms of skin.
11. Most of our cells are not human
Of the billions of cells that make up the human body, only about 10 percent are actually “human.” The remaining 90 percent consists of various fungi and bacteria.
10. We have more than five senses
Humans have five basic senses. We also have over 10 other important senses such as balance, temperature, pain and time. We have inner feelings suffocation, thirst and fullness. Unfortunately, we still cannot see dead people.
9. We have 1609 kilometers of capillaries in our lungs 
If you were to stretch the 300,000,000 capillaries in your lungs from end to end, the line would stretch from Seattle to San Diego, or approximately 1,609 kilometers.
8. Our tears know our emotions.
People produce differently structured tears depending on the reason we cry. Emotions such as grief, guilt, sadness or happiness lead to a dramatic change in the molecular structure of tears. Like a snowflake, no tear is alike at the molecular level.
7. Our brains don't feel pain.
The brain can perceive and process feelings of pain from other parts of the body. However, the brain itself is not capable of feeling pain. The brain does not have the same pain receptors as those in your arms, legs, or other parts of the body.
6. Our brain is mostly made of water.
Our brains contain less flesh and tissue than fluid. Our brain is 80 percent water. In fact, most of the human body is made of water.
5. We are completely covered in hair
In nature there is no such thing as a bald person. Every person, including women, has the same amount of hair per square centimeter of body as a chimpanzee. The hairs are so short, light and fine that most of them are almost impossible to see naked eye.
4. Our hearts are stronger than any other muscle in our body.
The human heart must be strong enough to pump blood through every vein in our body 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is so strong that it can generate enough pressure to spray blood up to 30 feet away.
3. Our sneezes are stronger than the wind
Sneezing has a practical function. It clears the nasal cavity and throat of any congestion. The force of a sneeze is so great that it exceeds a speed of 160 kilometers per hour.
2. We almost always have sex.
This fact applies to the human population as a whole rather than to the human body itself. Every day, sexual intercourse occurs approximately 120 million times around the world.
1. Our height changes every day, and several times.
The human body grows at night. Something like that. People are 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening. As the day progresses, the discs in our back begin to shrink and our body becomes shorter.
It would seem that we are adults, we graduated from school and have seen a lot in life. But life is still such an amazing thing that, despite our age and apparent wisdom, we do not know everything. And this is wonderful, because what’s the point in going further if you don’t learn anything new?
For your attention - 26 simple facts from Everyday life, which you will definitely be surprised to learn. Surely you didn’t even suspect such basic things.
1. If you fold a piece of paper 42 times, it will reach the moon.
2. Try breathing and swallowing at the same time. You can't.
3. It is also impossible to chuckle if your nose is pinched.
4. Coconuts are killed every year more people than sharks. It's the same with cows.
5. This is what poppy seeds look like under a microscope (photo above).
6. North Korea and Finland are separated by only one country.
7. New York is actually located south of Rome.
8. And Scotland is north of Alaska.
9. The probability that you are drinking water that contains a water molecule that was in the body of a dinosaur is almost 100%.
10. There are more tigers in Texas than in the whole world.
11. There are fewer atoms on Earth than there are ways to shuffle a deck of cards.
12. There is a unit of measurement butt load (butt translated as “barrel”), equal to almost 500 liters.
13. There is enough iron in our body to make a 7.5 cm nail.
14. When did the first film come out? Star Wars", people were still guillotined in France.
15. Anne Frank and Martin Luther King were born in the same year.
16. Shakespeare and Pocahontas lived at the same time.
17. And Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day, month and year.
18. The British have a name for the lint that accumulates at the bottom of your pockets - gnurr (“gne”).
19. Cambridge University is older than the Aztec Empire.
20. Beethoven and George Washington lived at the same time. Moreover, Beethoven was born when Washington was 38 years old.
21. The cartoon “Monsters, Inc.” was released closer to the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall than to 2016.
22. A million seconds is 11 days. A billion seconds is 33 years.
23. Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than to the construction of the Cheops pyramid.
24. Every two minutes we take more photographs than all of humanity did in the entire 19th century.
25. Diamond rains occur on Saturn and Jupiter.
26. Human DNA is 50% identical to bananas.
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Some men are allergic to their own sperm. After each ejaculation, they experience flu-like symptoms. The discomfort may last up to a week.
In 2000, physicist Andrei Geim was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for his experiments with diamagnetic levitation and the “flying frog.” 10 years later he received Nobel Prize in physics as the discoverer of graphene. Thus, Geim became the first and so far only winner of both the Ig and Nobel Prizes.
In 1979, a cloud of anthrax spores was accidentally released into the atmosphere at a military laboratory in Sverdlovsk. An epidemic began, most of the employees of this military enterprise died. The Soviet leadership denied the existence of a program to develop biological weapons, but in 1992 a team of experts was able to establish the real reason epidemic outbreaks.
How less people sleeps, the more his genes influence his weight. The more he sleeps, the less his weight is determined by his genes and the easier it is for him to control his own weight. In other words, if you want to lose weight, spend more time sleeping.
When a love affair ends, a person experiences a kind of withdrawal associated with the chemical dependency formed during the affair.
In 1969, US President Richard Nixon ordered readiness for a massive nuclear attack. Soviet Union, after which a squadron of 18 American strategic bombers with nuclear weapons took off on board and flew near the Soviet borders for three days. This so-called “Operation Big Pike” became the embodiment of Nixon’s “theory of madness” - the American president tried to make the Soviet leadership believe in their own insanity, so that they would be afraid to provoke him.
Keanu Reeves gave $75 million of his royalties from The Matrix sequels to the special effects team who worked on those films, and bought all the stuntmen a Harley Davidson motorcycle.
New York authorities are giving their homeless people free one-way tickets to almost anywhere in the world.
Glucose (sugar) has a mirror image isomer called “L-glucose”. This substance tastes identical to sugar, but is not digested like sugar and is safe for diabetics. One problem: “L-glucose” is 50 percent more expensive than gold.
Since 1991 percentage Russian population, which does not associate itself with any religion, decreased from 61% to 18%.
After Einstein's death in 1955, the Princeton doctor who performed the autopsy took the scientist's brain to his home for "research." Of course, he was immediately fired, especially since he flatly refused to return the stolen goods. Several decades later, this doctor drove a car all the way to California specifically to return Einstein's brain to his granddaughter.
The lion's share of the first edition of the Oxford Dictionary was compiled by a psychiatric patient who cut off his own penis.
In 1799, a boy from Northern California was playing by a stream and found a beautiful shiny stone weighing 7.7 kilograms. He brought the find to his parents and for the next three years the stone lay in front of the entrance to the house, serving as a door limiter. It was gold.
During a visit to Egypt in 2012, Hillary Clinton was pelted with tomatoes and shoes while protesters chanted “Monica, Monica.”
Richard Nixon was an excellent poker player. So much so that his first election campaign was almost entirely organized with money won at poker while serving in the navy.
The reason why dogs and cats love to lie in the sun is because it is the only way oily cholesterol in the animal's skin is converted into vitamin D3. This substance enters the body of animals when they lick their dense fur, and is not absorbed through the skin, as in humans.
In 1980, in New York, a neighbor of mafia boss John Gotti accidentally hit his 12-year-old son while he was racing down the street on a motorcycle. As a result, the boy died. Three months later, this neighbor went missing and was never heard from again.
A third of people involuntarily sneeze when looking at the sun.
In Alaska, there are tree frogs that freeze every winter, literally turning into ice. The frog's heart stops, the blood stops flowing, and even his eyes freeze, becoming completely white. And in the spring they thaw out and start jumping like new!
Neanderthals had a much larger brain than us, and their bodies were much stronger and more resilient. Not only that, they also mastered navigation several thousand years earlier.
The Aztecs performed ablution twice a day. They used the flowers to rinse their mouths and clean their teeth, and also to give delicate aroma to your skin. During the same period, the Spaniards generally tried to avoid water treatments of any kind, because they believed that water on the skin made them more susceptible to infectious diseases. They rinsed their mouths with their own urine.
The man who posted naked photos of Scarlett Johansson online received 10 years in prison.
The main cause of incidents with spaceships Columbia and Challenger became a phenomenon called “normalization of deviation.” This is a situation where people get used to perceiving “small” defects as something acceptable and even inevitable. In the long term, this leads to a gradual lowering of the bar they consider “normal” until it ends in disaster.
The inventor of radar, Watson Watt, was once caught speeding. The police were helped to record the crime of 64-year-old Watt by his own brainchild - a radar detector.
85% of obese married people who undergo gastric bypass surgery leave their husbands/wives within two years after surgery.
The phenomenon of “déjà vu” (“already seen”) has its opposite, which is called “jamais vu” (“never seen”). This is the feeling that you are experiencing something for the first time, although with your mind you realize that you have been in a similar situation many times before.
Even though the Soviet Union has been defunct for over 20 years, it still holds the second-highest number of Olympic medals of all time.
In Dubai, license plates are bought and sold, with prices reaching up to $14 million. The car number for local residents is an indicator social status- the closer to one, the more prestigious.
Breast cancer has the highest five-year survival rate compared to other types of cancer.
If a child wants something very badly, he may instantly forget how big his body is compared to other objects. Under the influence of this phenomenon, which is called “scaling error,” a child may, for example, try to fit into a toy car.
Bribes, kickbacks, stolen property, and money obtained from illegal activities are considered taxable income in the United States.
In the late 90s, Saddam Hussein ordered the Koran to be rewritten in his own blood. And now Muslim leaders are puzzling over what to do with this artifact - on the one hand, blood on the Koran is a sin, on the other hand, destroying or throwing away sacred texts is also prohibited according to Islamic law.
“Ping Pong” is the name of a company that produces tennis products. And the game itself is called “table tennis”.
One of the three founding fathers of Pixar, John Lasseter, was fired from the Disney studio for trying to create 3D cartoon characters. Lasseter's innovative ideas attracted the attention of Lucasfilm, where he was immediately given a job. Disney later bought both Lucasfilms and Pixar, paying several billion dollars for them.
Drug lords and passionate football fans Pablo Escobar and El Mexicano once made a two-million dollar bet: each of them recruited their own “dream team” of professional football players, after which a match was arranged in Escobar’s backyard.
For playing the role of James Bond, actor Daniel Craig was awarded by Aston Martin the privilege to receive any car he liked at any of its factories for the rest of his life.
85 percent of Belarusian children are considered victims of the Chernobyl accident. They are carriers of special “genetic markers” that can affect their health at any time and can be inherited.
The game of Tetris has an end.
The same parasympathetic system that signals when to go to the toilet also controls tears. It happens that these signals intersect. This is why some people shed tears while sitting on the toilet.
In the first half of the 20th century, the summer program Olympic Games competitions among painters, architects, sculptors, musicians and poets were included.
Close physical contact promotes more active production of the hormone oxytocin in men. The influence of this hormone (at least in part) can explain the fidelity and devotion characteristic of men in monogamous relationships.
American agronomist Norman Borlaug developed new varieties of grain, the yield of which was four times higher than usual. Borlaug's invention helped save the lives of more than a billion people, making it one of the most influential people in history.
According to NASA experts, a person can hold out for more than 30 seconds. outer space without a spacesuit without serious health consequences.
Ronald Reagan was once an FBI informant in Hollywood and regularly reported “to the right place” on actors whom he suspected of carrying out sabotage activities.
In the USA, a neurostimulator implant was developed, which, when implanted into a woman’s body, gives her the opportunity to experience an orgasm at any time - just press the button on the included remote control.
At the beginning collaboration Jobs deceived Steve Wozniak. The friends began developing the video game Breakout for Atari, and the agreement was to split the income 50/50. Atari paid Jobs $5,000 for this project. Jobs lied that the fee was $700 between them, leaving Wozniak only $350. He learned about the deception only several years later.
The Babylonians used the sexagesimal number system, thanks to which we divide an hour into 60 minutes, a circle into 360 degrees, etc.
On the body of some old or not very efficient worker termites, peculiar “backpacks” filled with toxic substances appear, which can “explode” if the insect senses danger. These termites essentially act as suicide bombers when the colony is attacked.
In England in the 18th century, pineapple served as one of the indicators of high social status. Often, hosts rented one pineapple for the evening to demonstrate their wealth to guests.
In 1989, while fighting for a puck, goalie Clint Malarchuk had his throat cut by an opponent's skate. As a result, the jugular vein was damaged and blood poured onto the ice in a stream. From this spectacle, 11 spectators lost consciousness, two had heart attacks, and three hockey players vomited right on the ice. Fortunately, Malarchuk was saved, and he returned to duty that same season.
Faktrum offers a collection of facts about how our brains and consciousness work.
1. You suffer from “inattention blindness”
Watch the following video. You need to count the number of passes made by people wearing white T-shirts. Watch the video BEFORE continuing reading.
This is an example of what is called "inattentional blindness." The idea is that we are often blind to what is happening literally “under our noses” if we are focused on some other task.
IN in this case, a man in a gorilla suit walks through a group of players, stops and walks away. Participants busy counting passes often simply do not notice the gorilla. Moreover, those who know about the gorilla's appearance become even more inattentive and miss other changes - such as the change in the color of the curtains and the departure of one of the girls.
2. You can only remember 3-4 items at a time
There is a rule " magic number 7 plus minus 2,” according to which a person cannot store more than 5–9 blocks of information at the same time. Most information is stored in short-term memory for 20–30 seconds, after which we quickly forget it unless we repeat it over and over again.
Although most people can retain about 7 digits for a short period of time, almost all of us have difficulty retaining 10 digits.
Recent research shows that we are able to store even less: about 3-4 blocks of information at a time. An example is a telephone number: it is divided into several digital blocks to make it easier to remember.
3. We do not perceive the combination of red and blue colors well.
Although these colors are used in many national flags, red and Blue colour difficult to perceive by our vision when they are next to each other.
This is due to an effect called "chromostereopsis", which causes some colors to "pop out" while others are removed. This causes irritation and eye fatigue.
This effect is most pronounced when combining red and blue, as well as red and green.
4. You see things differently than you perceive them.
According to a study from the University of Cambridge, “it’s not very easy to do in the same time period. Smaoe vaonzhe is chotby perevya and nesdyalya bkuva blyi na sviokh metsah.”
Even if the other letters are jumbled, you will be able to read the sentence. This happens because human brain does not read each letter, but the word as a whole. It constantly processes information from the senses, and the way you perceive information (words) is usually different from what you see (jumbled letters).
5. You are able to maintain rapt attention for about 10 minutes.
Even if you are in a meeting, you are interested in a topic, and the person presents the subject in an interesting way, then maximum time of your close attention- 7–10 minutes. After this, your attention will begin to wane and you will need to take a break to continue to maintain interest in the topic.
6. The ability to delay gratification begins in childhood.
Your ability to delay immediate gratification of your desires begins in early childhood. People who are with early years can delay gratification, perform better in school, and cope better with stress and disappointment.
7. We daydream 30% of the time
Do you like to be in the clouds? According to psychologists, we all like to daydream at least 30% of the time. Some of us are even bigger, but that's not always a bad thing. Researchers say that people who daydream tend to be more creative and better problem solvers.
8. It takes an average of 66 days to form a habit.
The more complex the behavior we want to reinforce, the longer it will take. Thus, those who wanted to develop the habit of regularly exercising often needed 1.5 times more time than those who developed the habit of eating fruit for lunch. Even if you miss a day or two, it won't affect the time it takes to get into the habit, but missing too many days in a row can slow down the process.
9. You overestimate your reaction to future events.
We are not very good at predicting the future. More specifically, we overestimate our reaction to future events, whether pleasant or negative.
Research has shown that people believe that positive events such as marriage or big win, will make them much happier than actually happens. Likewise, we believe that negative events, such as losing a job or having an accident, will make us feel much more depressed than they actually are.
10. You blame the other person, not the situation (and the situation, not yourself)
Remember a time when you were waiting for another person who was late for a meeting. Most likely, you attributed his delay to irresponsibility and lack of composure. In a similar situation, you would attribute your own lateness to external circumstances (traffic jams).
In psychology, this is called the “fundamental attribution error” - the tendency to explain the behavior of others by internal characteristics of the individual, and one’s own. external factors(“I had no choice”, “I was unlucky”).
Unfortunately, even when we are aware of our tendency to make unfair judgments, we still continue to make this mistake - a tendency towards it is inherent in all people from birth.
11. The number of friends you can have is limited.
Even if you can boast of several thousand friends in in social networks, in fact, you have much less of them. Psychologists and anthropologists have identified the “Dunbar number” - that is, the maximum number of close connections that a person can have, and it ranges from 50 to 150.
12. You can't help but pay attention to food, sex and danger.
Have you noticed that people always stop to look at scenes of accidents. But we cannot ignore the situation of danger. Every person has an ancient survival region of the brain that asks, “Can I eat this? Is it possible to have sex with this? Could this kill me?
Food, sex and danger are the most important things. After all, without food a person will die, without sex the race will not continue, and if a person dies, the first two points will not make sense.
13. You know how to do things that have never been done before.
Imagine that you have never seen an iPad, but they gave it to you and told you to read books on it. Before you even turn on your iPad and start using it, you'll already have ideas in your head about what the book will look like on the screen, what features you'll be able to use, and how you'll do it.
In other words, you have a “mental model” of reading a book from a tablet, even if you have never done it. It will be different from the model that the person who read before has e-books and someone who doesn't even know what an iPad is.
These models are based on incomplete facts, past experiences, and intuitions.
14. You want more choices than you can handle.
If you go to any supermarket, you will see a huge range of products because people “want a lot of choice”.
In one study conducted in a supermarket, researchers presented participants with 6 types of jam, followed by 24 types of jam. And while people were more likely to stop at a stand with 24 types of jam, they were 6 times more likely to buy jam from a stand with 6 types of jam.
This is explained simply: despite the fact that we think we want more, our brain can only cope with limited quantity elements at the same time.
15. You're happier when you're busy.
Imagine that you are at the airport and you need to pick up your luggage. It will take you about 12 minutes to get to the baggage claim area. When you arrive at baggage claim, you immediately collect your suitcase.
Now try to imagine a similar situation, but you get to the delivery lane in 2 minutes and wait for your suitcase for 10 minutes. Although in both situations it took you 12 minutes to get your luggage, in the second case you were probably more impatient and unhappy.
If a person has no reason to be active, he decides to do nothing. And while it helps us maintain energy, idleness makes us feel impatient and unhappy.
16. You make most decisions subconsciously.
Although we like to think that our decisions are carefully controlled and thought out, research suggests that Everyday decisions are actually subconscious and there is a reason for it.
Every second our brain is attacked by more than 11 million individual pieces of data, and since we cannot carefully check all this, the subconscious helps us make decisions.
17. You change your memories
We think of our memories as little “movies” that we play in our heads and believe that they are stored just like videos on a computer. However, it is not.
Every time you think back to an event, you change it because the neural pathways are activated differently each time. This may also be influenced by later events. and the desire to fill gaps in memory.
So, for example, you don't remember who else was at the family reunion, but since your aunt was usually present, you can eventually include her in your memory.
18. You can't multitask
If you think you're great at multitasking, you're wrong. Scientists have proven that we cannot do 2-3 things at once. Sure, we can walk and talk to our friend at the same time, but our brain only focuses on one priority function at a time.
The thing is that we can't think of two different things simultaneously.
19. Your most vivid memories are wrong.
Memories of exciting and dramatic events are called flashbulb memories in psychology, and they turn out to be full of errors.
Well-known examples of this phenomenon are the events surrounding 9/11. Psychologists asked participants to describe in detail what they did, where they were and other details immediately after the terrorist attack and 3 years later.
It turned out that 90% of later descriptions differed from the original ones. Many people can describe in detail where and what they were doing when they heard the news. The only problem is that these details are incorrect because powerful emotions memory-related, distort memories.
20. Your brain is just as active while you sleep as it is when you're awake.
When you sleep and dream, your brain processes and accumulates the experience of the whole day, creates associations from the information received, decides what to remember and what to forget.
Surely you have often heard the advice to “get a good night’s sleep” before an exam or important event. If you want to remember what you've learned, it's best to go to bed immediately after you've learned the material and give your brain time to sort the information into pieces.
Our ancestors can no longer be truly impressed. All the more attractive are the following 15 little-known places, the reality of which is difficult to believe.
1. Library building and Opera House Haskell
The public library and Opera House building is located on the border between Canada and the United States, cutting through the cities of Derby Line, Vermont, and Stansted, Quebec. The library has two separate entrances, for Americans and for Canadians, and in the middle of the hall there is a black line drawn, which is actually the border. That is, all library visitors can enter the library in Canada, and after taking a couple of steps, read books in America.
2. Burning city
In 1962 local authorities The city of Centralia hired volunteer firefighters to destroy a garbage dump located in an abandoned open pit mine. The firefighters, as usual, set fire to the garbage heaps, let them burn and extinguished them. However, the fire did not go out completely, deep deposits of garbage began to smolder and soon through an opening in the mine the fire spread to other coal mines.
After a short period of time, city residents began to complain of deteriorating health, and owners of underground gasoline tanks noted significant changes in temperature. In 1981, a child fell into a 45-meter earthen well, which suddenly formed under his feet. The boy was rescued, but the case brought attention to a local problem. In 1984, a decision was made to resettle the residents of Centralia to neighboring cities. Of the 2 thousand people, by 2013 only 7 remained in the city, most of the buildings were demolished, and the underground fire is still raging.
3. Tiny park
In our minds, a park consists of various trees, alleys and benches. However, there is a park in Portland that breaks all stereotypes. It is a circle only 0.6 meters long with a total area of only 115 square centimeters. According to the Guinness Book of Records, this is the smallest park in the world; on its territory there is only one miniature tree and a few flowers.
4. Bubble Gum Wall
An attraction whose history began in 1993, when theatergoers were bored in line for tickets and stuck chewing gum to the wall. Over the years, the wall has grown 15 meters in length and 4.5 meters in width. Due to sugar, the wall began to collapse in 2015 and it was decided to clean it. But tourists and local residents Once again we decorated the wall with colorful chewing gum.
5. Red Paperclip in Kipling
Paperclip Cottage Cafe is real story one guy's success. In 2005, Kyle MacDonald was living in a rented apartment, dreaming of moving to own house. Out of despair, the guy decided to play a children's game, the essence of which was to exchange one thing for another more valuable one. It all started with a red paperclip, which Kyle traded for a pen, a pen for door handle. The exchange took place in 14 stages, the last of which brought MacDonald a home. The house was sold, and a cafe appeared in its building, named after that very paper clip.
6. City of Staufen im Breisgau
A cute European town that is just falling apart today. Obvious destructive processes began back in 2007. Due to drilling errors, the ground began to diverge right under our feet, and cracks appeared in the walls of buildings. Experts don’t know how to stop the split, so over time this German town may simply disappear.
7. Narrow street
Germany has the narrowest street in the world. It appeared in 1727. The width of the passage between houses at the narrowest point reaches 31 centimeters, and at the widest it is only 50. For people with overweight and claustrophobia, it is highly recommended not to pass through this attraction.
8. No Man's Land
Bir Tawil - 2060 no man's square kilometers between Egypt and Sudan. The history of this area is quite banal; in 1902, Britain drew a new border between, giving Bir Tawil to Egypt, and the Halaib Triangle to Sudan. However, after gaining independence, Egypt demanded a return to the old borders, giving up rights to Bir Tawil. The Sudanese authorities, in turn, did not want to accept the alienated territory. Today Bir Tawil is a desert area where the cattle of the Ababde tribe graze.
9. Giant chest of drawers
One of the High Point landmarks is an enlarged replica of a 19th-century wooden chest of drawers with giant socks sticking out of the cabinet. This work of art tells tourists about two major industries in the city: furniture manufacturing and hosiery.
10. Sparsely populated village
The most sparsely populated village of Monowi is located in Nebraska. According to the 2000 census, only two people lived in it - a married couple, Rudi and Elsie Eyler. In 2004, Rudy passed away. Elsie remained the only resident of Monowi. She is also the mayor of the city, which allowed her to issue herself a drinking license.
11. Public restroom without walls
Not far from the geothermal plant in Krafla there is an unusual toilet without walls. It's called "Krafla Toilet". The bathroom drainage system is connected to a thermal spring, which is why the water in the pipes is always hot. Most recently, the toilet was dismantled, but the shower stall and sink remained.
12. Private property
In 1910, the government began expanding the 7th Avenue subway. To do this, it was decided to destroy several objects in Greenwich Village, among which was the Hess estate. In 1922, descendants noticed a small error in the calculations, which meant that they were the owners of a tiny piece of land. The area was paved and decorated with mosaics telling short story families.
13. Mysterious machine gun
In Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood there is a mysterious machine that sells cans of soda for 75 cents. The machine is over thirty years old, but to this day no one knows who owns it or who maintains it. Despite the lack of identification marks, the machine has its own Facebook page.
14. Toad tunnel
The tunnel was built specifically so that frogs could safely cross the road. It cost $14,000 to create the frog subway. Over time, it grew near the tunnel the whole city with small buildings for frogs.
15. Gates of Hell
In 1971, near the village of Darvaza, geologists discovered a large accumulation of underground gas. Due to excavations and drilling, it was formed big hole into which the drilling rig and all the equipment fell through. To harmful substances did not go outside, it was decided to set fire to the crater. According to geologists, the fire should have subsided in 5-6 days, but the crater is still burning to this day.