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From time to time we all want to know what is being sung in a particular foreign song. But language knowledge is not always enough to translate the lyrics of your favorite artist. The website of the language laboratory "Amalgama" erases all language boundaries for music lovers and sympathizers. More than 100,000 translations of songs into Russian are collected here. It is important that all translations are checked before publication, so the quality is always at the highest level.

The site “Moscow that doesn’t exist” will be of interest not only to Muscovites, but also to everyone who loves history and wants to learn something about one of the oldest cities in Russia. Here you can learn the history of many houses, streets, and see the city as it was a hundred years ago. Here you can get acquainted with the ancient plan of the city, read the most interesting city stories and travel around the city that no longer exists.

No matter what time you were born, this site will allow you to learn many interesting things from the history of the USSR. The creators of the my-ussr resource have lovingly collected filmstrips, postcards and posters of that time, which will help both to feel nostalgic and to discover new milestones in the history of a large country.

The Discoveric website contains attractions and simply beautiful places most countries on the planet. The site contains interesting and relevant information about all countries of the world, their attractions, historical and simply interesting places on earth, natural and architectural monuments. This resource will be useful not only for those planning a trip, but also for anyone who wants to get into the spirit and traditions of other countries.

The culinary site “I taste good” will be useful to everyone who is learning to cook or who has run out of imagination. Most of the recipes have been tested by site visitors themselves, which means it’s definitely not easy. beautiful pictures. Here you can choose a recipe just by noting the products that are in the refrigerator right now. You can also choose by cooking time, recipe complexity, and exclude unloved foods.

Dedicated to all music lovers. On the resource you can learn a lot of interesting and little-known things about your favorite or simply familiar songs and performers. The authors of the site have collected not only the stories of compositions, but also some unusual, funny or unexpected moments associated with Russian and foreign popular music.

An excellent resource for fans of unconventional cinema, created by an American screenwriter and director. The shortest films are posted on the 5secondfilms website, the duration of which is no more than 5 seconds. Three seconds for the credits and a couple of seconds to tell the story. Every week a new short film appears online.

In this selection of interesting and incredible facts, we have collected for you the most interesting, unexpected, educational and funny facts from around the world.

Morocco- the only country in the world where goats, due to a lack of grass, climb trees and graze in whole herds, feasting on the fruits of the argan tree, the nuts of which are used to make a fragrant place.

We can change jobs, spouses, or religions, but until we change inside, we will attract the same people and the same circumstances.

April 11, 1909. About a hundred people cast lots to equally divide the 12 acres of purchased sand dunes. Then it will become Tel Aviv.

This photo shows a rally of Hitler supporters, which took place in 1937.

Hitler supporters rally - 1937

No rally in the history of mankind has brought together such a number of people. After 8 years (in 1945) they will say that they never supported Hitler’s ideas.

Saint Petersburg
The only European capital that has never, at any time in history, been captured by the enemy.

For the cartoon “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” Walt Disney was awarded a special prize in 1937 "Oscar"– one large figurine and seven small ones.

In 1975, Academician Sakharov received Nobel Prize peace.
That is, the man who invented the hydrogen bomb received the Peace Prize named after the man who invented dynamite... Peace to the world.

The executioner bird impales mice on the thorns of bushes, thus making provisions for a rainy day.

The English Mastiff is the largest living dog on earth. Antique English breed of Great Dane, the largest Great Dane in Europe and the largest of mastiffs.

The world's smallest private library belongs to Hungarian Jozsef Tari and contains more than 4,500 items.

If a person under the influence of hypnosis is told that a cigarette will touch his hand, the brain will send impulses and burn marks will appear on his hand.

Helicopter flights are banned over Antarctica because short-necked penguins try to look at them and fall over like dominoes.

Box with the blood of poets, 1965-1968.
In 1965, Eleanor Antin (a conceptual artist) began collecting blood samples and within 3 years she had collected samples from 100 poets.
She was inspired to do this by Jean Cocteau with his 1935 film “The Blood of a Poet.”
Among the poets who donated their blood were such personalities as Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jerome Rothenberg and others. Now this box is in the Tate Gallery (American Foundation). Hence the question. For what?

Monument to a woman's handbag, Italy
The sculpture was first presented in Italy at the exhibition “Thoughts. Space. Dialogue between nature and imagination”, Piedmonte in the province of Cuneo, in 2013. Women's handbag a very important wardrobe item. Psychologists say that a handbag can determine the character, hobbies and much more about its owner.

Guardian of the Royal Chair
This was the most coveted and honorable position at the court of monarchs. The duties of this courtier included nothing more than wiping the royal buttocks after fulfilling their natural needs. Oddly enough, the guardians had enormous power at court, and the expression “licking ass” came to mean: “moving up the career ladder.”

Until the twentieth century, the position of “Groom of the King’s Close Stool” was highly valued at the British court. He was a courtier responsible for assisting the monarch in fulfilling his natural needs. Considering the fact that the king’s body was considered almost sacred, only representatives of noble blood could touch it. It is worth noting that lords and counts very willingly became Guardians of the Royal Chair, despite the fact that they literally had to wipe the king’s ass.

Under King George III, his courtier John Stewart, Earl of Bute, performed his duties in the dressing room so well that he rose to the rank of Prime Minister of England.

1. A mole can dig a 300-foot tunnel, always in one night.

2. A cockroach can live for several weeks without its head and will die of starvation.

3. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

4. Earth is the only planet not named after a god

5. A hard working adult produces up to 4 gallons of sweat per day.
and does not notice how most of it evaporates!

6. A hedgehog’s heart beats almost 300 times a minute!

7. A hippopotamus can open its mouth so much
that a child 4 feet tall could fit in there!

8. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

9. A blink is actually 1/100 of a second.

10. A piece of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be rolled out to the size of a tennis court.

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12. After eating, the housefly regurgitates its food and eats it again!

13. Apples are much more effective at energizing people in the morning than caffeine.

14. Bulls do not distinguish colors, and are angry with matadors only because of the movement of a rag,
which they wave in front of their faces - it doesn’t matter whether it’s red or acid yellow!

15. Camels have three eyelids that protect them from sand flying into their eyes in the desert.

16. Cat urine glows under ultraviolet light.

17. Cats and dogs, just like people, are left-handed or right-handed.

18. Every time you lick the stamp, you consume 1/10th of a calorie!

19. Human teeth are harder than stones.

20. Human femurs harder than concrete!

22. Most lipsticks contain fish scale extract.

23. No part of a dry square piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.

24. One ambrosia plant can produce up to one billion pollen particles!

25. More than 10,000 thousand birds a year die due to crashing into windows!

26. More than 2,500 left-handed people die each year due to
that they use products for right-handed people!

27. Porcupines swim in the water!

28. Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands so often when typing.

29. Sniffing bananas and/or green apples (sniffing, not eating!)
may help you lose weight.

30. Average weight iceberg 20,000,000 tons.

31. Due to gravitational effects, a person weighs slightly less when the moon is directly above him.

32. The average person has 1,460 dreams per year.

33. The earth weighs more than 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

34. A crocodile always grows new teeth instead of old ones.

35. The longest flight of a chicken so far is 13 seconds.

36. The most used letter in English is E , and the most unused one is Q.

37. Opposite sides of the dice always add up to the number 7!

38. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny and cannot walk.

39. The location of a donkey's eyes on its head allows it to see all 4 sides at the same time!

40. The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2,200 people.

41. Sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog" uses all letters of the alphabet.

42. The US state of Florida is larger than England.

43. The Sun is 330,330 times larger than the Earth.

44. All the termites in the world outweigh all the people in the world by 10 times!

45. There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.

46. ​​Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb, was afraid of the dark.

47. Windmills always spin counterclockwise. Except Irish mills!

48. Your heart beats 100,000 times a day.

49. A person is born with 300 bones, but an adult has only 206 left.

50. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only Disney figures
who have both parents, and who also do not die during the course of the film.

51. Human birth control pills also affect gorillas.

52. The mollusk has the largest penis,
than any other animal in the world in relation to its body size.

53. The lifespan of a dragonfly is 24 hours.

54. The sounds that ducks make do not echo. Nobody knows why.

55. Human nails and hair do not stop growing after death.

56. The first toilet dates back to 2000 BC.

57. A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed
It will take at least 20 minutes to stop.

58. From the age of 30, a person’s body begins to “shrink.”

59. A lion's roar can be heard from a distance of 5 miles.

60. Pregnant goldfish called "reproach".

63. One species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.

64. A “ten gallon” hat can hold three quarters of a gallon of water.

60. A pregnant goldfish is called a "reproach"

61. A rat can survive without water longer than a camel.

62. Rhinoceros horn is compacted hair.

63. George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.

64. After the death of a person, rigor mortis begins from the head to the feet
and leaves the body in the same direction: from the head to the toes.

65. Scissors were invented by Leonardo before Vinci.

66. "Dog" is the name of a whale's penis.

67. According to the Bible Old Testament 1:20-1:22 the chicken came before the egg.

68. Actor Tommy-Lee Jones and Vice President Al Gore shared the same room at Harvard.

69. Months starting on Sundays will definitely have "Friday the 13th"

70. Actor Albert Brooks' real name is Albert Einstein.

71. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, never called his mother or wife.

72. Alexander the Great was an epileptic.

73. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was removed when it was stitched up after one operation.

74. To all officers Confederate States of Americaduring the Civil War
were given copies of the book Les Miserables by Victor Hugo and were ordered to carry it with them at all times.

75. An ostrich's eye is larger than its brain.

76. Previously, drunkards, in order to protect themselves from the devil, clinked their cups.

77. Ancient Egyptians shaved their eyebrows to mourn their cats.

78. Anteaters prefer termites rather than ants.

79. Medieval knights raised their visor
and thus greeted the king as he passed by.
This tradition has been adopted by modern troops when saluting.

80. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before their flight.
since bad air can ruin spacesuits.

81. Children are born without kneecaps. They only appear between 2-6 years of age.

82. The full name of the Barbie doll is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

83. The volumes of Barbie’s figure if she were alive are 39cm/23cm/33cm.

84. Bela Lugosi died while filming Plan 9 from Outer Space.
Director Edward D. Wood Junior hired his next of kin,
to take close-up shots. So he was able to complete the film.

85. Blondes' beards grow faster than brunettes'.

87. Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.

88. Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmermann.

89. Men leave their hotel rooms tidier than women.

90. Most American car horns make an "fa" sound.

91. Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.

92. Boys with unusual names are more likely to have mental problems
than for boys with ordinary names. Girls do not have this problem.

93. Brazil got its name from the nut and only from it.

94.Bruce Lee's movements were so fast that the filmmakers
we had to SLOW DOWN the movie so we could see his movements.

95. You won't get caught in quicksand if you slowly move your body to a supine position.

96. Every Swiss citizen is required by law to have or have access to an air-raid shelter.

97. Elvis had a twin brother who died at birth
which is the reason why Elvis's middle name is Aaron - in memory of his brother.

98. The word Catgut comes from sheep, not cats:)

99.Cats can make more than 100 different sounds, while dogs can only make 10!

100. At the factory " Chrysler built the B-29, which bombed Japan.
Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot him down.
And now both companies work in the joint plant "Diamant Star", where they build cars together.

Before alarm clocks appeared, in England and Ireland there was a profession of “alarm clocks,” who knocked on windows in the morning with long sticks or shot dried peas from tubes.

The Japanese have invented robots that warn people that they smell bad. One is in the form of a bulldog, which sniffs the feet and gives one of four possible reactions depending on the intensity of the odor. If everything is good, he will bury his nose in his legs, and if everything is really bad, he will pretend to lose consciousness. The second robot is made in the form of a woman’s head - breathe, and she will honestly tell you everything as it is.

The oldest vineyard in existence today was planted in the 17th century. They still harvest 35-55 kilograms of grapes from it and make wine.

Millions of Chinese people post statements on social media that they do not intend to commit suicide. It began after police ruled the death of one woman a “suicide,” despite persistent rumors that she had been killed.

Dacryphilia is the tendency to get sexual arousal from a partner's crying. Such people often deliberately bring their partners to tears in order to get into the right frame of mind.

French writer Victor Hugo is revered as a saint in the Vietnamese Cao Dai religion.

Leonardo DiCaprio's first agent tried to convince the actor to take the pseudonym Lenny Williams because he thought his real name sounded too ethnic.

In Japan, 90 percent of adopted people are adults 20-30 years old. Often, influential businessmen who do not have sons of their own look for smart young people who they could entrust with the reins of their enterprises.

On the outskirts of Shanghai (China) there is a ghost town, which is a copy of the central part of Paris with its own Eiffel Tower.

Smells coming through the right and left nostrils are interpreted differently by the brain.

When Ashton Kutcher was preparing to play Steve Jobs, he tried to adhere to the latter's diet and, as a result, ended up in the hospital due to problems with his pancreas. Steve Jobs died of pancreatic cancer.