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We offer you a selection of the most beautiful places our capital. Stunningly beautiful churches, estates, parks, architectural ensembles - it’s worth seeing at least once in your life with your own eyes!

1. Church of the Sign in Dubrovitsy

The white stone church of the late 17th century amazes with its architectural decoration, completely uncharacteristic for Orthodox churches in Russia... The church is famous unique architecture, unusual for Russian architecture, as well as its mysterious history. The time of construction of the temple was from 1690 to 1704.

This film city appeared thanks to the historical serial detective “Notes of the Forwarder of the Secret Chancellery,” which was filmed here in the summer of 2010. We tried to make the scenery as natural as possible. And the result was a European city of the mid-to-late 18th century. Filming is over, but the city remains! And now it is available to everyone.

3. Arkhangelskoye Estate

The territory of the estate is huge, most of it is occupied by a forest park area. One of the main buildings of the estate is the Grand Palace.

4. Church in honor of the icon of the Vladimir Mother of God in Bykovo

The village of Bykovo, Ramensky district, Moscow region, is a beautiful, quiet place not far from the Mother See, where there is an amazingly beautiful church in honor of the icon of the Vladimir Mother of God.

5. Village "Falcon"

If you want to get to a beautiful village without leaving the city, I advise you to visit the village of Sokol. This amazing place is located 15 minutes by metro from the center of Moscow.

Until recently, there was not a single high-rise building in the village - all its small streets were lined with cute wooden houses surrounded by greenery. In the spring there is generally grace :)

6. Yard, Sadovaya-Chernogryazskaya, 13

Courtyard with interesting sculptures. Here you will see a girl with an umbrella, a cast-iron gentleman unknown to me sitting on a bench, and a peeing dog. This wonderful place is located just a few meters from a noisy street filled with the hum of cars. It's nice to come here and spend a few minutes in silence. The entrance to the door is open. There are two smiling lions near the arch. There is also a beautiful round clock here (on the wall of the house to the left of the entrance to the arch).

7. Petrovsky Travel Palace

Travel palaces were built along the road from Moscow to St. Petersburg, so that royalty could stop and rest in them along the route. The Moscow Travel Palace was erected on the Tver (Petersburg) highway by order of Catherine II after the end of the Russian-Turkish War of 1768-1774.

8. Krylatskie Hills

“Krylatskie Hills” is a picturesque balcony from which you overlook the city. A wonderful, spacious space, immersed in greenery, rolling along the inclined planes of the banks of the Moscow River and ravines, creating an amazing feeling of floating away from the city. This landscape reserve is perfect for studying numerous representatives of flora and fauna - here you can even “look through” the Red Book.

9. Catholic Church on Malaya Gruzinskaya Street

An amazingly beautiful sight will be revealed to your eyes if you walk along Malaya Gruzinskaya Street one evening. The Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary standing there is incredibly beautifully illuminated at night.

10. Kuskovo Estate

The Kuskovo estate is an architectural and artistic ensemble of the 18th century. Located in the east of Moscow in the Veshnyaki district. The center of the ensemble is the Palace, in which the layout and decorative decoration of the interiors, consisting of first-class works of Russian and Western European fine art, have been preserved; a unique collection of paintings of the 18th century, gift portraits of Russian emperors and several generations of the owners of the estate - the Sheremetevs.

11. Vvedenskoye Cemetery

Vvedenskoye Cemetery is one of the oldest in Moscow. It was founded in 1771 during the plague epidemic and was originally intended for the burial of Lutherans and Catholics. Like the necropolis of the Parisian Père Lachaise, the Vvedenskoye cemetery is decorated with many ancient sculptures, and contemplating the architecture of the chapels and tombstones, you forget that you are in Russia.

12. Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo Estate

Address: Moscow, Voikovsky 5th Ave., 2A

13. Greenhouse of the Main Botanical Garden named after N.V. Tsitsina

From polluted Moscow you can get to the tropics by visiting the Greenhouse of the Botanical Garden.

The greenhouse is a repository of living collections received initially from botanical gardens in Germany and supplemented as a result of exchanges and purchases in various botanical institutions around the globe, as well as collected by GBS employees during expeditions in various tropical regions (Vietnam, Madagascar, India, Cuba, Brazil and etc.).

14. Architecture of Ostozhenka and Prechistenka

If you choose Ostozhenka Street and neighboring Prechistenka Street as your walking route, you will not regret it, because there is something to see there. Many buildings with unusual appearance will surprise and destroy any preconceptions about the banality of Moscow architecture.

15. Apple orchards

There are two wonderful places in Moscow where you can admire blooming apple trees in the spring. These are apple orchards in the Konkovo ​​area and a park on Kutuzovsky Prospekt. The beauty and aroma of apple trees are simply indescribable...

16. Business center "White Square"

Contrast of architectural styles.
The White Square business center was built in 2009 and forever changed the appearance of this area, where the highest church domes were, as in all of old Moscow. On the one hand, the Old Believer church looks very strange and absurd next to modern glass office buildings. But this is a symbol of modern Moscow: it is like this everywhere, it’s just that the contrast is not so strong.

17. Park "River Station"

One of the wonderful places where you can enjoy blooming lilacs is the River Station Park. Ships, a beautiful river station building with a spire and blooming lilacs go together perfectly. In conclusion, you can complement the day with a trip on a motor ship on a short or long voyage.

18. Magical Kolomenskoye

Anyone who has ever visited Kolomenskoye will never forget its unique spirit and will never confuse it with anything else.
The territory is full of unique charm: enchanting meadows between winding apple trees, picturesque banks of a large river, relict ravines as places of power, selectively controlled plant species, secluded bush thickets, many winding paths.

19. Silver Forest

An oasis of almost untouched nature in the west of Moscow is located on an island in a bend of the Moscow River. The name Serebryany Bor most likely comes from the silvery shine of dew drops on pine needles observed in summer at dawn.

20. Tsaritsyno Estate

Among the vast residential neighborhoods in the south of Moscow is located one of the most extraordinary places in the capital, and, one might say, in all of Russia. About two hundred years ago, an eyewitness, A.F. Raevsky, wrote about him: “Everything that nature has that is graceful, that art has that is beautiful, you will find everything in Tsaritsyn.”

There is a surprising number of squirrels in the shady park with old trees. They rush between the trees, play with each other, and take nuts from visitors with pleasure.

21. Temple of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in the village of Yaropolets

The unique temple of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God is located not far from Volokolamsk. The temple is indeed very unusual, but, unfortunately, it is completely abandoned, a little more and it will completely collapse.

22. Palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich in Kolomenskoye

Kolomensky Palace (also the Palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich) is a wooden royal palace built in the village of Kolomenskoye near Moscow in the second half of the 17th century. It was a very complex system of separate wooden rooms (cages) connected by passages. Being exceptionally richly decorated, it aroused admiration among foreigners who saw it and earned the nickname “the eighth wonder of the world.”

23. Churches and cathedrals of the Kremlin

How long have you been in the Kremlin? Let me remind you which churches and cathedrals are located within its walls. The organization of excursions in the Kremlin has already reached the European level. For example, free posters in different languages ​​have appeared at the entrances to churches, which clearly describe the entire interior decoration.

24. Novodevichy Convent at night

The best views will open if there is a pond between you and the monastery: a fairy tale on the ground and in an inverted reflection in the water.
Near the monastery there is a square with many benches. In the evening, round white and yellow lanterns are lit among the trees, which create such an amazing picture: the poles on which these lanterns are held are not visible, and it seems as if these round luminous balls are simply hanging above the ground. It’s so mysterious and somehow magical :) An ideal place for dates and for leisurely walks with children.

25. Zaryadye

Today the editors of “I and the World” have prepared for you 15 real facts about life on our earth, which are the absolute truth, but may surprise you a little with their unpredictability!

Some of them are historical, scientific and even tricky. Want to learn something new? Then enjoy your viewing!

1. Your body today is made up of 98% new atoms compared to last year.

Thus, we can say that every year you become a completely different person.

2. The Great Pyramids were more ancient to Cleopatra than Cleopatra is to us.

They may appear to be from approximately the same era, but in fact they are 2,500 years apart.

3. You were once the youngest person on the planet

Even if it's only for a few seconds.

4. There are more options for shuffling a standard deck of cards than there are atoms on earth.

If there are 52 cards in the deck, then the number of options is: 52!=1*2*3*4*5*…*51*52. “52 factorial” is a lot; it will be approximately a number consisting of an eight and 67 zeros.

5. Everything in the Universe can be divided into potatoes and non-potatoes

Can not argue with that!

6. The person closest to you on the right is the person farthest from you on the left.

The magic of the round Earth.

7. People who study atoms are just a bunch of atoms trying to understand themselves.

8. If bees were paid the minimum wage for their work, one liter jar of honey would cost 127 million rubles

The average honey bee makes about 1/12 teaspoon of honey during its life, which is usually 120-150 days. Bees are only active during certain periods, and they begin collecting nectar only 22 days after birth. Having calculated all this, you can understand that honey would have cost, to put it mildly, much more if the bees had not worked for free.

9. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire and the first printing press.

The education of students at this university began in 1096; the Aztec Empire appeared 100 years later. And the printing press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg in 1439, while Oxford students had been learning from handwritten books for 350 years.

10. If you think about it, it turns out that the brain gave itself a name. What a sly one!

11. Two children born simultaneously in Kaliningrad and Vladivostok may have different dates of birth, and one will be older than the other

All due to the difference in time zones.

12. We never really touch anything.

Because of the structure and composition of atoms, the laws of quantum physics, and the fact that electrons have a negative charge, electrons in our bodies never “touch” other electrons, they just become very, very, very, very, very close to each other.

13. Over the course of a lifetime, a person secretes so much saliva that it could fill two swimming pools.

The achievement, of course, is not pleasant, but it is so!

14. The difference between one million seconds and one trillion seconds is almost 32,000 years!!! One million seconds is 11 and a half days.

One billion seconds is 31 and 3/4 years. And one trillion seconds is already 31,710 years! Wow!

15. The fact that the Sun and Moon appear to be exactly the same size from Earth at the moment of a solar eclipse is just an incredible cosmic coincidence

The Moon has a certain size and is at a certain distance from the Earth, which is fantastically combined with the size of the Sun and its distance from us, so during an eclipse they look like this. Unthinkable!

John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin from the British TV show “Quite Interesting”, as part of their duties, know an incredible amount of a wide variety of information and facts. Some facts surprised even them, scientists and researchers of our wonderful world. When a lot of facts accumulated, John, John and James collected them together and published a book - “1227 facts that will blow your mind.”

“Ten years of joint application of the QI Research Method can be summed up in one line. Here it is: “Read everything, including footnotes, but write down only what you personally find interesting.” This approach not only reduces the scale of the generally infinite information in the universe by several orders of magnitude, but also produces the delightful effect of “learning something new every day.”

• Uranium is 40 times more abundant than silver and 500 times more abundant than gold.
• If one vampire fed once a day and turned his victims into vampires each time, the entire population of the planet would turn into vampires in just over a month.
• White rhinos and black rhinos are the same color.
• Female plant aphids give birth to female aphids that are already pregnant with female aphids.
• 40% of bottled water sold in the world is tap water.

• Between 1838 and 1960, more than half of the photographs featured babies.
• In the 19th and early 20th centuries, removing all teeth and replacing them with false teeth was a popular 21st birthday gift.
• In the 18th century, the French navy buried its dead in its holds.
• 40% of humanity does not live to see its first birthday.
• The human brain receives 11 million bits of information per second, but is only aware of 40 bits.
• At least 99% of all species that have ever existed have left no trace in the fossil record.
• Gerbils smell adrenaline, and that's why airport security keeps them - to identify terrorists.

• Aerosmith made more money from the Guitar Hero video game than from any of his albums.
• The first London Underground trains were called "sewer trams".
• British retail generates £250 million a year in unmerchandised gift vouchers.
• In Arabic, words are written from right to left, and numbers are written from left to right. Those who speak Arabic, when reading texts replete with numbers, are forced to read in both directions at the same time.
• The screwdriver was invented a hundred years before the screw. It was originally used to pick out nails.
• Aborigines, whose culture goes back as far as the Ice Age, can name (and locate) mountains that have been underwater for the last 8,000 years.
• A coal-fired power plant releases 100 times more radioactive waste into the air than a nuclear power plant - while producing the same amount of energy.

• 90% of crimes in Afghanistan's Helmand province are committed by local police.
• Human saliva contains the painkiller opiorphin, which is six times more powerful than morphine.
• In French, Hungarian, Spanish, Gaelic, Italian, Portuguese, Latvian, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin and Tagalog, the words “weather” and “time” are the same.
• A regular microwave uses more electricity keeping the electronic clock running in standby mode than it does heating food.
• There are no cubes in Cubism. According to the theory of post-impressionist Paul Cézanne, any object can be visually divided into cylinders, spheres and cones.
• 10% of the electricity in the US comes from dismantled Soviet atomic bombs.
• There are almost 250,000 individual patents behind smartphone technology.
• Chemotherapy is a by-product of mustard gas used in World War I.
• Caffeine is made up of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen - just like cocaine, thalidomide, nylon, TNT and heroin.
• Since 1990, the percentage of people in China living in poverty has fallen from 85 to 15.
• Spiritual seeker and vegetarian Sir Charles Isham invented garden gnomes in 1847. He hoped that they would attract real gnomes to his garden.
• Typewriters were once called "literary pianos."
• Lord Byron's correspondence often included curls sent to him by female admirers. He answered them with similar messages, but the curls contained in them came from Bosun, Byron's Newfoundland.

• In 1811, offenses punishable by death included stealing a sheep, impersonating a British Army pensioner, being "severely malicious" in children aged 7-14, living with gypsies for a month and stealing cheese.
• By age 18, the average American child has already seen 200,000 murders on television.
• The London Underground made more money from its famous card than from its services.
• Before the Renaissance, three-quarters of all books in the world were in Chinese.
• The average bird's feathers weigh more than twice as much as its skeleton.
• Over the past 60 years, more than 23,000 North Korean citizens have defected to the South. Only 2 Koreans did the opposite.
• In 2011, Nobel laureate economist Daniel Kahneman conducted a study of the top 25 traders on Wall Street and found that their success was no more consistent than that of a chimpanzee flipping a coin.
• Nearly half of Americans today are considered “living in poverty” or “borderline poverty.” 46.4% do not pay income tax.
• After the 2004 smoking ban, mackerel became the main currency in American prisons.
• The gypsy word for “television” is “dinilo’s dikkamengro”, which means “fools’ eyeball box”.
• The Finnish word for “pedant” is “pilkunnussija”, which literally means “fucker of commas”.
• In Irish, the jellyfish is called "smugairle róin", which literally means "seal snot".

• In French, cotton candy is called "barbe à rara" ("daddy's beard").
• Zeus had five wives. One is his aunt, the second is his older sister, and the third he ate.
• Research involving experiments on rabbits has received 26 Nobel Prizes in physiology or medicine.
• In 1875, the king of Fiji, during an official visit to Australia, contracted measles, brought it to the island and thereby killed a quarter of his subjects.
• 90% of everything written in English uses only 1000 words.
• Beavers have transparent eyelids so they can see underwater with their eyes closed.
• In 1187, as a sign of friendship between the two countries, Richard I the Lionheart, King of England, spent the night in the same bed with Philip II, King of France.
• In 1999, a gang of thieves were forced to do community work along a highway in Rotherham. The following spring, the daffodils planted along the road bloomed and formed the words “shag” and “bollocks.”
• In 1915, millionaire Cecil Chubb bought Stonehenge for his wife. She did not like the gift, and Chubb gave it to the British people in 1918.
• The first crossword puzzle published was called Word Cross.
• Seven times more people visit UK museums and galleries each year than attend Premier League football matches.
• Half of the world's species live in the canopy of tropical forests.
• The opposite of plankton are nekton, creatures that move through the water at random, rather than simply drifting. Fish, dolphins and people are nekton.
• Every five days a new skyscraper is built in China. By 2016 there will be four times more than in the United States.
• Three quarters of the French vacation in France.
• The MI5 Secret Service kept special kettles on hand to steam sealed envelopes.
• Within a mile, a carrier pigeon is faster than a fax machine.
• 46% of American adults believe the Earth is less than 10,000 years old.

1. It is still not clear why Lake Hillier in Western Australia is pink.

2. To protect against evil spirits, people of the Akha tribe living in northern Laos nail wooden models of Kalashnikov assault rifles and hand grenades to gate posts. People are sure that not a single evil spirit will dare to pass through such a gate.
3. The driest place on earth is the Dry Valleys of Antarctica, where there has been no precipitation for two million years.
4. The population of Africa speaks the largest number of languages ​​- the number of African languages ​​exceeds two thousand. The rarest of them is the Bikya language. In 1998, only one 87-year-old woman from a village on the border between Cameroon and Nigeria spoke this language.
5. Holland is a province within the Netherlands, which in the 16th–18th centuries was the political and economic core of the state. Since then, the history of this province has merged so much with the history of the entire country that the Netherlands began to be called Holland.

6. At the geographic poles (North and South), time can be chosen at your discretion since all meridians converge at one point, and therefore the concept of geographic longitude loses its meaning. Since calculating the time of day at any place on Earth is related to the geographic longitude of that place, the uncertainty of longitude at the geographic poles leads to the uncertainty of the time of day at them.
7. Istanbul, Turkey, is the only city in the world that is located on two continents.
8. The oldest city in the world is Damascus, the capital of Syria. It flourished for several thousand years until the founding of Rome in 753 BC.
9. The largest building in the world is the Burj Dubai skyscraper (Dubai Tower). Its height is 828 meters (164 floors).
10. Costa Rica does not have a regular army.

11. Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.
12. The smallest states: Vatican - approximately 0.44 square meters. km. Population 770 people; Monaco - approximately 1.9 sq. km. Population - 32,000 people; Nauru - approximately 21 sq. km. Population 13,000; Tuvalu - approximately 25 sq. km. Population - 12,000 people; San Marino - approximately 61 sq. km. Population: 29,000 people.
13. Streets in Japan have no names.
14. Persia changed its name to Iran in 1935.
15. Austria became the first country to use postcards.

16. 10 percent of the Russian government's revenue comes from the sale of vodka.
17. Japan is 70% mountains.
18. All 14 mountains that are higher than 8000 meters are in Asia.
19. The tallest mountain in the world with its base on the ocean floor is Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Its height is 10203 m, but only 4205 m are above sea level.
20. In Korea, it is considered tactless to keep your hands behind your back or in your pockets.

21. In Brazil, pulling down the lower eyelid of the right eye means that the listener doubts what you are saying.
22. The full name of Los Angeles is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be shortened to 3.63% of the original size: "LA".
23. In 1980, there was only one country in the world where there were no telephones - Bhutan.
24. The character Donald Duck was banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
25. In Saudi Arabia, a woman can get a divorce if her husband does not give her coffee.

26. 7% of Americans do not know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem.
27. 5% of Canadians don’t know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but they know the first 9 words of the American anthem.
28. The West African Matami tribe plays football with a human skull.
29. The state of Papua New Guinea includes the islands of New Britain and New Ireland.
30. The capital of Vermont, Montpelier, is the only state capital in the United States that does not have a single McDonald's.

31. Montpelier (Vermont) is the smallest state capital in the USA. Its population is only about nine thousand inhabitants.
32. Several buildings in Manhattan have their own zip code. And the World Trade Center even has several of them.
33. The Weddell Sea in Antarctica is considered the cleanest sea on Earth.
34. The point farthest from all oceans on Earth is in China.
35. In France, Italy and Chile, the existence of UFOs is officially recognized.

36. In May 1948, two New Zealand volcanoes, Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe, erupted simultaneously.
37. Unlike most African nations, Ethiopia was never a European colony.
38. Lebanon is the only state in the Middle East without deserts.
39. The city of Hong Kong ranks first in the world in the number of Rolls-Royce cars.
40. There are only two countries in South America that do not have access to the ocean: Bolivia and Paraguay.

41. Amsterdam and Antwerp each have 26 islands, St. Petersburg - 101, and Venice - as many as 118.
42. In the town of Calama, located in the Chilean Atacama Desert, it never rains.
43. The widest street in the world is located in Brasilia (Monumental Axis street, width - 250 meters).
44. The inhabitants of the island of Lesbos are called lesboians and lesbosians, not lesbians and lesbians.
45. The Red Sea is the warmest sea on Earth.

46. ​​Indonesia is located on 17,508 islands.
47. There is not a single river in Saudi Arabia.
48. The Ob River has about 150,000 tributaries.
49. The Greek national anthem has 158 versions. No one in Greece knows all 158 versions of their country's anthem.
50. In Malaysia, they believe that by bathing a child in beer, you can protect him from all sorts of troubles and illnesses.

51. The 7 most numerous peoples in the world: Chinese (Han), Hindustani, US Americans, Bengalis, Russians, Brazilians and Japanese.
52. The highest extinct volcano on Earth is Aconcagua, located in Argentina. Its height is 6960 meters.
53. Several buildings in Manhattan have their own zip code. And the World Trade Center even has several of them.
54. There is only one river in the world that originates at the equator and flows into a temperate climate zone: the Nile. For some unknown reason, the remaining rivers flow in the opposite direction.
55. The center of Europe is located on the territory of Ukraine in the Transcarpathian region between the cities of Tyachev and Rakhiv, near the village of Delovoye, and the center of Asia is in the city of Kizyl, Tuva Republic.

56. In Thailand it is still considered indecent to use a fork when eating. The fork is used only to transfer food from the plate to the spoon.
57. Despite the fact that Delhi and Novosibirsk are almost at the same longitude, their time differs by an hour and a half. This is due to the fact that India has special maternity hours.
58. 23 of the 50 American states have access to the ocean.
59. On February 18, 1979, it was snowing in the Sahara Desert.
60. There are 17 active volcanoes in Japan.

61. The first capital of the Russian state was Ladoga.
62. Cuba is the only Caribbean island with railways.
63. Nauru is the only state in the world that does not have an official capital.
64. Largest ports world: Rotterdam, Singapore, Kobe, New York, New Orleans.
65. The last eruption of the Japanese volcano Fuji occurred in 1707.

66. 336 rivers flow into Lake Baikal, but only one flows out (the Angara).
67. Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia) is considered the coldest capital in the world.
68. Until almost the end of the 1980s, there was not a single telephone in Bhutan.
69. Of the 25 highest peaks in the world, 19 are in the Himalayas.
70. Less than 1 percent of the Caribbean islands are inhabited.

71. In the USA there are 3 cities in Peru and 9 more in Paris.
72. The Ganges has the largest delta of all rivers.
73. Japan includes more than 3,900 islands.
74. In the state of Togo, a man who compliments a woman is obliged to marry her.
75. In the central square of the Canadian town of Glendon stands its official symbol - a dumpling 9 meters high and weighing 2700 kg.

76. The eruption of the Mexican volcano Paricutin lasted 9 years (from 1943 to 1952). During this time, the volcano's cone rose 2,774 meters.
77. There are 5 states in Europe that border only one other state - Portugal, Denmark, San Marino, Vatican City and Monaco.
78. The 7 largest countries in the world (Russia, Canada, USA, China, Australia, Brazil and Argentina) occupy half of the planet’s total land area.
79. The inscription Allah Akbar is repeated 22 times on the flag of Iran.
80. The Philippines archipelago includes 7,107 islands.

81. The Trans-Siberian Railway crosses exactly 3901 bridges.
82. The Kingdom of Tonga is the only monarchy in Oceania.
83. The first draft of the Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper, and the first American flag was woven from hemp paper.
84. House numbering was first adopted in London in the 18th century, before which the address was determined by the name of the owner.
85. In 1991, a monument to an ax was erected in Canada on a concrete pedestal. The weight of the monument was 7 tons.

86. Italy contains 60% of all cultural values ​​of Western Europe. Any Italian city is an open-air museum.
87. In the city of Tegazi (Sahara) there are houses with walls made of rock salt. This is one of the driest places on Earth.
88. In Finland, Italy, Germany, England, France and Spain, the number of cell phones exceeds the number of regular phones.
89. Visitors to the museum in Wupperteil are given identical postcards and asked to send them from their city. They make up the exhibition.
90. In the city of Tombsoun, men and women over 18 years of age are prohibited from smiling if they are missing more than 1 front tooth.

91. The Ecuadorian postal service stamps envelopes: Pyramid, located on the equator and dividing the world in half.
92. In England, 12 million old cell phones and 2 million televisions are thrown into landfill every year.
93. In London, a true Cockney is considered to be one who was born in the East End, within earshot of the bells of St Mary-le-Bow.
94. During the construction of the Palace of Parliament in Bucharest, there was such a demand for Romanian marble that even tombstones throughout the country were made from other materials.
95. The cities of Makhachkala and Buinaksk are named after the Dagestan revolutionaries Magomed-Ali Dakhadaev (Makhach) and Ullubiy Daniyalovich Buinaksky.

96. The Russian city of Armavir received its name in honor of the ancient capital of Armenia - Armavir. Now they are sister cities.
97. Canada has been declared the best country to live by the UN 4 times over the past 5 years.
98. There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada.
99. There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
100. The only country where not a single birth was registered in 1983 is the Vatican.

101. If all the steel cables of the largest Akashi-Kaikyo suspension bridge were stretched out in length, they could encircle the Earth as many as seven times.
102. The windiest place is Victoria Land, located in Antarctica. The wind speed here reaches 215 kilometers per hour.
103. Andorra is the only country in the world with free postal services.
104. Scrolling your finger at your temple means “I think” in Argentina and Peru. In other countries, the same gesture means “crazy.”
105. In Japan, it is considered very indecent to kiss in front of witnesses.

106. The equator passes through 13 countries of the world.
107. In Iceland, tipping is considered an insult.
108. The United Nations University is located in Tokyo.
109. Venice in Italy is built on 118 islands and connected by 400 bridges. She gradually sinks into the water.
110. In Paraguay, registered blood donors can legally duel.

Most of the knowledge acquired at school will never be useful to us. Most of this we will never even remember. And yet some crumbs of “useless” information will remain in memory. Paradoxically, it is thanks to them that we feel educated people. The luxury of keeping in mind not only vital information, but also “information surplus” increases self-esteem and gives a feeling of intellectual competence.

And “unnecessary information” surprisingly turns out to be the most interesting. This interest can become for children a magic key to the vast world of science, which is often hidden behind boring formulas and incomprehensible definitions.

In this article, we have collected nine scientific facts that can be used in mathematics, physics, geography, chemistry and biology lessons to clearly show: science is not something abstract from real life, but situations that we encounter every day.

Fact No. 1. On average, an ordinary person travels a distance equal to three Earth equators in his life

The length of the equator is approximately 40,075 km. Multiplying this figure by three, we get 120,225 km. With an average life expectancy of 70 years, we get about 1,717 km per year, which is a little more than five kilometers per day. Not that much, but it adds up to a lifetime.

On the one hand, this information has no practical application. On the other hand, it is much more interesting to measure the distance traveled not in meters, steps or calories, but in equators. And calculating the percentage of the length of the equator will attract attention not only to geography, but also to mathematics.

The following two facts may also be useful in mathematics lessons. Using the first, you can calculate the number of children in a parallel or even in an entire school born on the same day.

Fact #2: If there are 23 random people in a room, then the probability that two of them will have the same birthday is more than 50%.

And if you bring 75 people together, then this probability reaches 99%. There can be a 100% chance of a match in a group of 367 people. The probability of a match is determined by the number of pairs that can be made from all the people in the group. Since the order of the people in the pairs does not matter, the total number of such pairs is equal to the number of combinations of 23 by 2, that is, (23 × 22)/2 = 253 pairs. Thus, the number of couples exceeds the number of days in a year. The same formula calculates the probability of coincidences for any number of people. This way you can estimate the number of children born on the same day in a parallel school or even in the entire school.

Fact No. 3. The number of living organisms in a teaspoon of soil is greater than the entire population of our planet.

One square centimeter of soil contains billions of bacteria, fungi, algae and other organisms. About 60 million bacteria live in just one gram of dry soil. There are significantly fewer nematodes, or roundworms (the most famous of which are roundworms and pinworms) in the same amount of soil - only 10 thousand. A figure incommensurate with the human population, but no less unpleasant for that.

Practical application of information: Wash your hands thoroughly after caring for your indoor plants, as well as after working in the garden or vegetable garden. An area of ​​increased bacterial danger is the sandbox on any playground.

Fact #4: The average toilet seat is much cleaner than the average toothbrush.

The bacteria on your teeth live at a density of about 10 million per square centimeter. The amount of bacteria on the skin varies depending on the part of the body, but in any case it is much less than in the mouth.

But there are no bacteria on the skin of frogs at all. The reason for this is the mucus secreted by the frog and containing strong antibiotics. This is how frogs protect themselves from the aggressive bacterial environment of the swamps in which they live.

A person is much less adapted in this regard, so it is recommended to change toothbrushes every couple of months.

Fact No. 5. In the evening, a person becomes 1% shorter compared to his “daytime” height

Under load, our joints tend to compress. With a normal lifestyle, by the evening a person’s height decreases by 1-2 cm, which is approximately 1%. The decrease is short-lived.

The maximum reduction in height occurs after weightlifting. Changes in height can be three or more centimeters. This is due to compaction of the vertebrae.

Fact #6: Diamonds can be produced from peanut butter using very high pressure.

Scientists from the Bavarian Research Institute of Geophysics and Geochemistry tried to simulate in the laboratory the conditions of the Earth's lower mantle, where at a depth of 2,900 kilometers the pressure is 1.3 million times higher than atmospheric pressure. During the experiment, some innovative ways of producing diamonds were discovered. According to one hypothesis, diamonds are formed from carbon under the influence of very high pressure. Carbon is found in almost all foods. And since the researchers only had peanut butter on hand, they tried it. Unfortunately, hydrogen, which is bound to carbon in peanut butter, slows down the process significantly, taking several weeks to produce even a small diamond. Thus, scientific thought proves that the most incredible transformations are quite possible.

Fact No. 7. The height of the Eiffel Tower can change by 12 centimeters depending on the air temperature

An iron rod 300 meters long lengthens by 3 mm with increasing temperature environment by one degree.

This is exactly what happens with the Eiffel Tower, which is approximately 324 meters high.

In hot sunny weather, the iron material of the tower can heat up to +40 degrees, and in winter in Paris it cools down to approximately 0 degrees (severe frosts are rare there).

Thus, the height of the Eiffel Tower can fluctuate by 12 centimeters (3 mm * 40 = 120 mm).

Fact #8: A typical microwave oven uses much more energy to keep its built-in clock running than it does to reheat food.

While in standby mode, a modern microwave uses approximately 3 watts per hour. Already 72 W per day comes out, and if we multiply this number by thirty days, we get an energy consumption of 2160 W per month.

If we assume that we use the microwave every day for 5 minutes, we get 150 minutes or 2.5 hours per month. Modern stoves consume about 0.8 kW/hour in heating mode. It turns out that with this use, the energy consumption directly for heating food is 2000 W. If you purchase a more economical model that consumes only 0.7 kW/hour, we get only 1.75 kW per month.

Fact No. 9. The first computer mouse was made of wood

Sometimes we are just curious to know the fate of the objects that we use every day.

A computer mouse in our usual design was introduced to the world in 1984 by Apple. Largely thanks to her, Macintosh computers became incredibly popular. But my true story this small but such a necessary device starts 20 years earlier.

In 1964, engineer Douglas Engelbart from Stanford developed a manipulator to work with the oN-Line System (NLS) operating system. Initially the device was a wooden box self made with two wheels inside and a button on the body. After some time, the device appears with a third button, and a couple of years later Engelbart receives a patent for his invention.

Then Xerox comes into play, but its modification of the computer mouse costs about $700, which does not at all contribute to its mass distribution. And only Steve Jobs’ company is able to develop a similar device with a cost of 20-30 dollars, which has become part of the everyday life of billions of people.