11 useless curiosities that when you discover you will want to tell everyone
The know-it-all friend who knows more than the devil exists in every party, and is convenient for everyone when you just don't remember if ... but wouldn't it be more fun to have a know-it-all friend of completely useless notions? At least he would always have something funny to tell. Here are 11 curiosities that you can unhook at dinner to amaze your friends, and maybe to impress that cute boy ... and add a twelfth one, you can watch it in this video:
1. Paul Winchell, the voice of Winnie the Pooh's Tigger, invented an artificial heart.
Winchell was the first to patent an "idea for a mechanical artificial heart. The design was developed further at the University of Utah" and Dr. Robert Jarvik implanted the first successful permanent artificial heart in a human in 1982.
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2. Ketchup was sold as a medicine in the 1930s.
For a period, in the 19th century, ketchup was used as a medicine: this is how the president of the department of medicine at Willoughby University in Ohio (USA) saw it in 1835. He thought that tomatoes could cure diseases such as diarrhea, jaundice and indigestion.
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3. To travel from North Korea to Norway, you just have to cross one country.
The distance as the crow flies (airline route) from the geographic center of North Korea to the geographic center of Norway is 7.518 km (4.671 miles or 4.059 nautical miles). It is possible to reach it by crossing only Russia.
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4. Horses cannot vomit.
The motivation is all in the anatomical structure of the horse's digestive system. In general, the stomach of herbivores is not suitable for expelling food, and the horse then just cannot vomit because the valve that connects the stomach with the esophagus is very powerful and opens only in one direction, towards the 'indoor.
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5. The Argentine lake duck has a penis as long as its entire body.
In proportion to the length of the body, the primacy for the longest penis goes to the Argentine Oxyura Vittata, a small South American duck with a penis as long as its body, about 45 cm. And that's funny when you realize that most birds don't even have a penis.
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6. Honey is the only food that never expires: the same honey that was buried with the pharaohs in Egypt is still edible.
Like all African countries, the Egyptians appreciated honey so much that they even kept it in the tombs of the Pharaohs. After 4000 years, in fact, when the hermetically sealed honey jars were opened, it was discovered that their contents, although changed, could still be said to be edible.
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7. The "second" is so called because it is the second division of the hour, the first division is the minute.
The second minute is more commonly called the second (for ellipses of the correct term). The first minute, on the other hand, is what we commonly call the minute.
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8. The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
The Atlantic Ocean is on average saltier than the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Large rivers, such as the Amazon River, release huge amounts of fresh water into the sea which affects the amount of salt in the water.
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9. Mankind spent a total of 11,300 years watching the "Love the Way You Lie" music video on YouTube.
The music video produced for Love the Way You Lie was directed by Eminem. With over 1 billion views, it is one of the most viewed videos on YouTube.
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10. The pirates had one eye covered in black so that at least one eye would always be ready for darkness, allowing them to see in the dark under bridges, in an instant.
The human eye needs about 45 minutes to completely get used to the total or partial absence of light, and in this way the pirates guaranteed a better reactivity on every occasion.
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11. Medium stamp glue contains 5.9 calories.
The composition of the glue would be given by starch and sugar, plus some natural flavors for a result of 5.9 calories per stamp.
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