Man has lived on earth for so long that throughout the history of his existence, coincidences have become an integral part of the life of our species and they occur with enviable regularity. Most often, people take them for a divine plan, sometimes they simply don’t pay attention. One way or another, even scientists who are well versed in probability theory are surprised by the accidents that happen in our lives.

the site also admires some coincidences, for which you don’t want to look for explanations, so as not to spoil your impression of interesting facts.

1. The founders of Rome and the last emperor

Many people know that according to legend, Rome was founded by the brothers Romulus and Remus. Later, Romulus was recognized as the first ruler of Rome. Oddly enough, at the end of the Roman Empire, the last emperor was a man named Romulus Augustulus (Flavius ​​Romulus Augustus), who ruled in 475-476 AD. Coincidentally, the story greatest empire in the history of mankind began and ended thanks to people named Romulus.

2. Girl from Petrovka

In 1974, when the film “The Girl from Petrovka” was being filmed, Anthony Hopkins, who played one of the main roles in this film, wanted to read the original book by George Feiffer in order to form his own idea of ​​​​the image of the hero. But it so happened that not a single bookstore had the book. Already in despair, Hopkins suddenly found a forgotten volume of the novel right on a bench in the subway. The actor couldn't believe his luck.

Later, when filming began, Hopkins met George Feiffer, and the writer complained in a conversation that he himself did not have a copy of his own book. All because he lent it to his friend, and he lost it somewhere in the subway.

3. Curse of the family?

In Bermuda in 1975, an incident occurred that still remains an example of an eerie coincidence for which no one dares to explain. A young guy named Erskine Lawrence Ebbin was riding along the road on his moped when he was unexpectedly hit and killed by a taxi. The accident itself would have been quite ordinary, if not for one “but”. About a year ago, in 1974, the guy’s brother died on the same road. Moreover, he was hit by the same moped, by the same taxi driver, and according to rumors, the same passenger was sitting in the taxi.

4. Edgar Allan Poe and time travel

Edgar Allan Poe is considered one of the most mysterious writers. Moreover, some facts associated with it really raise questions. For example, one of his books, entitled “The Tale of the Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym,” tells the story of four sailors who survived a shipwreck. The victims tried to survive at any cost, so they had to eat their cabin boy, whose name was Richard Parker. Moreover, Poe himself actively argued that he wrote the book based on real events.

The coincidence is that a full 46 years after the publication of the novel, a ship actually sank on the high seas, part of the crew of which escaped. To survive, the sailors had to eat their young comrade, whose name was Richard Parker.

5. The first and last victims

By complete coincidence, these graves are located nearby, at a distance of only a few meters. In one of them the first British soldier to die during the First World War is buried, and in the other the last. This was not planned.

6. Two presidents and many coincidences

As often happens, after the death of a celebrity in her life, they begin to look for all sorts of coincidences with others historical events. US history fans have found several interesting facts, which coincided in the biographies of two presidents: Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy.

For example, both presidents were shot in the back of the head on Friday, and both had their wives with them when they died. Also, each of the presidents had a friend whose name was Bill Graham. Each had four children. On purpose or not, Kennedy hired a secretary for his administration whose last name was Lincoln, while Abraham Lincoln had a secretary named John.

7. Incredible accident

Car accidents are not uncommon these days. However, at the end of the 19th century, when practically no one had cars, no one could even think about collisions. However, in 1895, a car accident occurred in America, which is due to one fact: at that time in the state of Ohio, in which the cars collided, there were only two cars, and they somehow managed to find each other.

8. The Curse of the Hoover Dam

The Hoover Dam in the USA is famous throughout the world. This ingenious construction has become one of the symbols of the fact that man can at least somehow cope with nature. But few people know interesting fact about this dam.
People died during the construction of the dam, and one of the first was a man named George Tierney, who died during construction work on December 20, 1922. The public was shocked by the fact that the latest dead person Patrick Tierney, George's son, became the man at the Hoover Dam, and he also died on December 20.

9. The sinking of the Titanic was predicted in advance

Sometimes coincidences are so frightening that superstitious people get goosebumps. This is what happened with the sinking of the Titanic. The fact is that in 1898, the writer Morgan Robertson published a work called “Futility,” in which he described the death of a huge ship called the Titan. The coincidence would seem more random if not for other facts.

So, the writer described in detail technical specifications their ship, and they surprisingly turned out to be similar to the characteristics of the Titanic. The developers of both ships considered their ships unsinkable. Both ships collided with an iceberg in the northern part Atlantic Ocean. And on both ships, passengers did not have enough lifeboats to escape. The Titanic sank 14 years after the novel was published.

The inglorious death of a great genius

The great Dutch artist Van Gogh suffered from bouts of madness. During one of these attacks, he even cut off a piece of his ear. Shortly before his death, the artist decided to settle in Saint-Paul de Mausole, a French shelter for the mentally ill. Here he received an isolated room in which he could also paint from time to time. Van Gogh, accompanied by a doctor, was allowed to walk around the area and paint his masterpieces - landscapes. It was here that he met Anna Bosch, who bought the painting “The Red Vine” for 400 francs. By the way, this was the first and last time during the artist’s life that his painting was bought.

In 1890, one of the July days Van Gogh, having escaped, left his monastery. He walked for a while alone, and then wandered into a peasant farmstead. The owners were absent at the time. The artist, taking out a pistol, tried to shoot himself in the heart, but the bullet, catching a rib bone, missed. Then he, pressing his hand over the wound, slowly walked to his room and lay down.

When the minister saw Van Gogh bleeding, a doctor and police were immediately called from a nearby village. But, to their surprise, the doctor and policeman saw the artist lying calmly in bed and sucking on his pipe.

Van Gogh died that night.

The brain of all Russian literature

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev could easily be called “the brain of Russian literature.” After his death, pathologists determined that the weight of the writer’s gray matter was 2 kilograms, which is more than that of other famous personalities. And that’s probably why doctor Botkin said that the Almighty simply didn’t have enough materials for a head of that size. But every joke has a rational grain: the writer’s parietal bone was very thin. Turgenev himself, laughing at himself, said that one could feel the brain through it. It happened that, even after receiving a slight blow to the head, he fainted or remained in a semi-fainting state for some time.

One of distinctive features Ivan Sergeevich had excessive cleanliness and a love of order almost at a manic level. At least twice a day he changed into clean underwear, before wiping his entire body with a sponge soaked in cologne. Before sitting down to work at his desk, he always cleaned the room and folded all the papers. Sometimes he could jump out of bed in the middle of the night, remembering that some thing was out of place. He was also annoyed if the curtains on the windows were sloppily drawn. Each thing or piece of paper on the table had its own specially designated place.

Great Dictator Complexes

Hitler's father was married several times. When he was about to enter into a third marriage with Clara Pelzl (and they were related), Alois had to apply to the Vatican for special permission. The family had six children, among whom Hitler was the third. Knowing about incest in the family, he tried to avoid talking about his parents. However, this fact did not prevent him from demanding from others confirmation, and documentary evidence, about the origin.

In addition to the idea of ​​dominating the whole world, the Fuhrer was also very concerned about the issue of maintaining his health, so he took a lot of pills. Theodore Morell, Adolf's personal physician, recorded this fact in medical documents. The dictator's entourage considered Morell a charlatan, but Hitler himself trusted him immensely. In 1944, the doctor recommended the patient injections, which included an extract from the sperm and prostate gland of young calves - testosterone. Adolf really hoped that this medicine, essentially the “Viagra” of that time, would greatly help him during his close relationship with Eva Braun. Apparently, it was precisely his incomplete success in relationships with women, phobias and complexes that can explain Hitler’s perverted cruelty and his desire to subjugate the whole world.

Little prodigy

Mozart was a gifted child. At the age of four he had already written a concerto for stringed keyboard instruments. Moreover, this concert was very difficult, such that hardly any European musician could play it. The father, realizing this, took away from young Wolfgang the notes with notes that he had not yet managed to finish. The indignant young talent answered the parent: “This music is not at all difficult to perform; even a child, for example, can perform it.”

All of Mozart's childhood years were associated with musical studies and a large number speeches. Often performing in front of European sophisticated audiences musical works, the little genius surprised the audience: his father blindfolded him with a handkerchief, and the child played the clavier blindly, or covered the keys with a piece of cloth, and Wolfgang masterfully coped with the game. During one of the concerts, a cat suddenly entered the stage. And a child is a child - Mozart, leaving the instrument, forgetting about the audience, rushed to her, picked her up, stroked her, and then began to play with the animal. The angry father demanded to go back immediately, to which Wolfgang replied:

“The harpsichord will stand still, but the cat will now run away.”

Good psychologist with excellent memory

Stalin had an extremely rich, capacious and tenacious memory. Thus, D.V. Ustinov recalled that the leader always remembered to the smallest detail all the issues that were discussed, and never allowed even the slightest deviation from previously made decisions. He knew everyone who led the Armed Forces and the economy, commanded divisions and managed factories by last name, first name and patronymic. Moreover, he kept in his head the necessary data that characterized them as individuals, and knew almost everything about the state of affairs in the areas of work entrusted to them. Stalin had analytical mind, which allowed him to focus on the most essential from a large volume of information, facts, and data. He presented his conclusions and thoughts briefly, clearly, and accessiblely, so that there could be no objections. He himself did not like unnecessary verbosity and did not allow others to talk much.

Reproaching someone in your speech or during a discussion foreign figures, Joseph Vissarionovich looked at him very expressively and carefully, without looking away for some time. And it should be noted that the object to which he turned his attention did not feel entirely comfortable. Stalin's gaze pierced like arrows.

Great Avicenna

Born in Bukhara, he was both a grand vizier and a criminal, whose “atrocities” were debunked state power, and an eternal wanderer.

Avicenna lived for almost 57 years, but in such a short period he showed himself in 29 branches of knowledge, and his medical conclusions cannot be overestimated. And it is believed that the word “medicine” itself comes from the Latin version of “Madad Sina,” which translates as “cure from Sina.”

Avicenna did not study officially anywhere, but long before Louis Pasteur discovered pathogenic viruses, he concluded that fever could be caused by “very small creatures.” He also established the cause of most diseases - human experiences and nervousness; he was the first to draw attention to the contagiousness of infectious diseases, described the nature of meningitis, jaundice, stomach ulcers and many other diseases.

Just look at the diagnosis developed by Ibn Sina based on pulse beats. One day, a famous merchant from Bukhara’s daughter fell ill, and no one could help her. The father turned to Avicenna for salvation. The doctor, having felt the pulse, began to name the girl the streets of the city, and then asked her to list the names of those who lived on these streets. When the girl said one of the names, her pulse quickened and her face turned red. This is how the sage found out that she was in love, but her father would never allow her to marry this man. This is what caused fatal disease. The merchant was forced to bless his daughter, and Avicenna gained fame and respect among people.

A letter that found its addressee seven years later

Yuri Gagarin, getting ready to fly into space and not knowing how his expedition might end, wrote a letter to his wife Valentina, saying goodbye to her. Addressing his beloved and the mother of his children, the first cosmonaut said that technology could fail at any time. Therefore, no matter what happens, you need to live on, not lose heart, and most importantly, love, take care of and raise your daughters.

The letter found its recipient seven years later, when the plane carrying Yuri Gagarin fell and crashed.

The pilot met his future wife while a cadet at the Orenburg Pilot School at a dance. Valentina had luxurious floor-length hair. And she, the beauty, did not at all like the thin, short young man with a large head, short-cropped hair and sticking out. But Yuri was such a persistent gentleman that after some time the girl’s heart melted. After graduating from college, they got married, and soon Valentina gave her husband two wonderful, desired daughters.

Saying goodbye to his wife in his last letter, Gagarin also said that after his death she has the right to arrange her life as she wants, and he, in turn, does not impose any obligations on her. But his beloved wife, left a widow at the age of thirty-two, never remarried, sacredly preserving the memory of the man who was the first to conquer space.

The great philosopher despised women

Confucius, one of China's greatest philosophers, married early. Over time, he kicked his wife out of the house so that she would not interfere with his studies. And in general, the philosopher considered women to be mundane people, unable to comprehend heavenly wisdom. He said that an ordinary woman is endowed with the mind of a chicken, and an extraordinary woman is endowed with the mind of two such birds.

Such behavior and statements do not seem strange, because Confucius was not endowed with an attractive appearance from birth. Once, a queen, not endowed with chaste morality, having heard enough stories about the great wisdom of this man, explicitly invited him to her place alone, unaccompanied. The philosopher always walked surrounded by his students, but this time he decided to heed the requests of the royal person... And so Confucius was taken to his chambers. While the queen was away, the learned husband began to examine the room. A rustling sound was heard, and he turned to face the entering crowned lady. At this time, she wanted to say words of greeting, but she froze with her mouth open - she was so amazed by the appearance of the sage. When the queen's first shock passed, she looked contemptuously at Confucius and hastily left. But this did not surprise the great philosopher, because beauty and intelligence go separately.

The great tenor dreamed of becoming a football player

Luciano Pavarotti was born into a simple Italian family. The boy's father loved opera singing and bought a lot of records. In the evenings he listened to them with his son. Thus, Luciano became addicted to singing. But the parents did not support the young talent in this, because they believed that a man should master a serious craft.

Pavarotti's other hobby was football. Since childhood, he was the captain of the city's youth football team and saw himself as a professional goalkeeper in the future. But on his mother's advice he becomes school teacher, then works at an insurance agency. Still, over time, the craving for singing wins. An agreement was drawn up with his father that until he turned thirty, Luciano could occupy a room in his parents’ house and also eat here. Pavarotti promises his father that if after this period he does not achieve anything as an opera singer, he will be forced to earn a living by any means.

Only at the age of nineteen does the great tenor learn that he has perfect pitch. Soon his first success came: in 1961 he won the competition for young performers. Before this important performance, the mother put a rusty nail against the evil eye for her son. From then until the end of his days, Luciano Pavarotti cherished this talisman of his.

The great conqueror was a coward

It is no secret that Genghis Khan (real name Temuchen) was incredibly cruel to his enemies. His horde massacred everyone who resisted. The rest, of course, were taken prisoner. Then, if there was a need to storm fortresses or cities, these prisoners were placed in front of the troops as a human shield. It turns out that it was not for nothing that Muslim peoples considered Mongol the destroyer of their cultural heritage.

Despite all his cruelty, he himself was terrified of dying. Feeling the approach of old age, Genghis Khan searched for the elixir of immortality, but did not find it. Still, he managed to extend his life. For every warrior lost in battle, great conqueror took revenge mercilessly. It seemed that his life was many times more important than the lives taken by this man.

Genghis Khan gave no rest to the inhabitants of the cities destroyed and burned by his horde. During the Mongol invasion, people tried to escape by hiding in forests and mountains. After the army left, they returned back. Was created by the conqueror special squad, whose task was to return to the destroyed village and slaughter all the survivors.

A distinctive feature of Genghis Khan's attack was that he never led his horde into battle, but led it from afar. The Mongol was such a coward.

Lomonosov knew how to stand up for himself

At a time when Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was already an adjunct, his apartment was located on Vasilyevsky Island. The great scientist made it a rule to take walks in the evenings. One day in the fall, at the end of the day, he took a promenade along his usual route - from Bolshoy Prospekt to the bay. In those distant times, Bolshoi Prospekt, located on Vasilyevsky Island, was nothing more than a wide clearing cut through the forest. Lomonosov was returning back when night had already begun to fall over St. Petersburg. The area was deserted. And then three robbers jumped out of the bushes.

Mikhail Vasilyevich was endowed with extraordinary strength from birth, so he was not afraid, but began to fight back. One of the villains, not expecting resistance at all, took to his heels. Lomonosov managed to knock the second one to the ground with a strong blow. The third, seeing such a situation, began to ask for forgiveness, swearing that they only wanted to take clothes from a lonely passerby. Then the scientist decided to rob the robber: he ordered the villain to undress, tie his clothes in a bundle and give them to him. Putting the luggage on his shoulder, Mikhail Lomonosov himself delivered it home, and the next day he visited the Admiralty and reported there about the attack by robber sailors.

A genius among us

Grigory Yakovlevich Perelman, who owned the discovery of the millennium, now lives in St. Petersburg. It was this mathematician who solved the Poincaré conjecture, which they tried to prove for hundreds of years. Moreover, Grigory Yakovlevich did not publish his research in scientific works, but simply posted it on the Internet.

For such a brilliant discovery, the Clay Institute awarded the brilliant scientist a prize of one million dollars. But Perelman refused it, explaining his action by saying that he was not interested in money and that he had everything necessary for life.

Today Grigory Yakovlevich leads a solitary life, communicating with virtually no one.

Since childhood, he has been accustomed to training his brain. IN school years Perelman took part in the Mathematical Olympiad in Budapest, where he won a gold medal. The ability to think abstractly helped him in this.

Almost all of my scientific life the scientist worked on issues of three-dimensional construction of the Universe. The scale of his discoveries at the present stage is ahead of the achievements that science has made to date. That is why the intelligence services of many countries became interested in the activities of Grigory Perelman.

If a person is talented, then he is talented in everything

Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev had diverse interests. In addition to his life's occupation - research in the field of chemistry - his range of hobbies was very wide.

Famous discovery Periodic table At first, it brought him only ridicule, condemnation and accusations of plagiarism. True, fame came with time.

Whatever the great scientist undertook, he did it perfectly. So, in free time Mendeleev loved making suitcases. Dmitry Ivanovich bought the materials for their production in the same store, so the sellers selling the goods perceived the regular customer with a large beard and long, shoulder-length hair as a master in making suitcases. As a joke, he even wanted to make a business card with the inscription “D. I. Mendeleev is a master of suitcases.”

The scientist was also interested in meteorology. Already at an advanced age he flew hot air balloon. His achievement in metrology is the organization of the Chamber of Weights and Measures. He also proved himself in shipbuilding, taking part in the creation of Russia's first icebreaker. Well, and finally, it was Mendeleev who managed to establish the most optimal ratio of water and alcohol in the production of vodka - this is sixty parts to forty.

She made herself

One of the wealthiest women in the world, TV presenter, popular actress, public figure, the host of her own show - it’s all her, Oprah Winfrey. This woman came to the pinnacle of fame and success thanks to incredible hard work, the ability to communicate and, of course, enormous willpower.

After all, a girl was born into a very poor family. Her parents separated because her mother was not distinguished by her chaste behavior. Oprah was barely nine years old when she was raped by her maternal cousin, then by her uncle. Since the mother very often brought her clients home, the daughter also provided intimate services, receiving money for it. The mother most likely knew about this, but turned a blind eye to everything.

When Oprah found out she was pregnant at the age of fourteen, she wanted to take her own life. Finding herself in a hopeless situation, the girl drank detergents in an attempt to get rid of her unwanted child. And this “helped”: the child was born dead.

After returning to school, Winfrey completely immersed herself in public life: she participates in all events and heads the student council. And today the TV presenter is convinced that if it had become known then that she was pregnant, her fate would have been completely different.

Sigmund Freud has Ukrainian roots

Sigmund Freud, a famous psychologist, professor at the University of Vienna, founder of the method of psychoanalysis, has Ukrainian roots.

Jacob Freud - his father - was born in the city of Tysmenitsa, which is located in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. In this locality he lived for 25 years. Tismenitsa at that time was a multinational city: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians got along well with each other here. In this city he married and gave birth to Emmanuel and Philip, the elder brothers of the future professor. However, the Ukrainian roots of this surname are even deeper. Many generations of Freuds lived in the town of Buchach in the Ternopil region. Sigmund Freud's grandfather moved to Tismenitsa to continue his education and stayed here forever.

The mother of the famous psychoanalyst, nee Amalia Nathanson, was born in the town of Brody, Lviv region. Then she lived in Odessa for some time, and after some time she left for Vienna, where she met her future husband. Her siblings remained in Odessa, with whom Jacob Freud’s family maintained family relations.

When Sigmund Freud turned 27 years old, his father decided to found a own business and lived, engaged in commercial activities, in this city for some time. True, this activity did not bring much profit, and Jacob returned to Austria again.

The world-famous artist was also an inventor

God endowed Salvador Dali with more than just artistic talent. He also owns inventions that were brought to life, although at first they seemed strange.

For those traveling by car, the brilliant artist came up with multispectral glasses in case the landscape they contemplate becomes boring.

To create a good mood while walking and enjoy the process of walking, he created shoes with springs.

Salvador Dali did not deprive himself of his attention in terms of inventions and women. False nails with a built-in small mirror were invented for them, so that at the right time you could look at yourself. Another gift is a dress with various anatomical pads as accessories. They were designed by the artist, having previously carried out a series of precise calculations that corresponded to the ideal of female beauty, born in a man’s head as an erotic imagination. One of the unusual details of such a dress was the additional breasts, which should have been attached to the back. According to Dali, such an outfit was supposed to radically change fashion.

And for the paparazzi, the artist invented photo masks. They are especially relevant today, when many reporters are being summoned to court for interfering with privacy. And so - put on a photo mask with the face of a famous person - and look for the wind in the field.

Great Diva of Russia

When Alla Pugacheva was born, upon examination, doctors discovered a tumor on her throat. An operation was immediately performed to remove it. Perhaps that is why the singer had a special timbre of her voice.

As a child, a red-haired girl with thin pigtails loved to play in the yard, but only with boys. Alla had a thin build, and also wore glasses, as she had vision problems. After she gave birth to her daughter Christina, she recovered. I went on different diets many times, but it did not give the desired result.

Another hobby of Pugacheva is drawing. She has had this hobby since childhood. She painted several hundred paintings, which she gave to close friends. In the future, the Primadonna plans to take a pseudonym for herself and take up painting in some place where she can retire.

Once Alla Borisovna, having opened up, admitted that no man could sleep next to her in bed. As it turned out, she snores heavily at night. I did a lot to cure this deficiency, but no procedures brought results.

The diva wants to look good, so she undergoes plastic surgery from time to time. After one of them, carried out in Switzerland, she almost died due to an abscess that developed. A surgeon from Moscow barely saved the singer. As a token of gratitude, Pugacheva presented him with a gift - an apartment.

These two young men met at Stanford while studying at the university. At first they often argued, and at times even fought. And although both were absolute opposites, they soon became such friends that they could not take a step without each other.

After they created a system for searching information on the requested page at their home university, and the management was going to close it, Sergei and Larry had to think about how to save their brainchild. A search for sponsors began, but many wealthy people did not understand what this system was and did not want to invest money in the “dubious” project.

But fate was kind to the young men and sent them Andy Bechtolstein. Unable to listen for a long time to a story about the advantages of the new search engine, the businessman took out his checkbook. Having picked up a check issued for 100 thousand dollars, the stunned and surprised Brin and Page did not immediately notice that it was issued to Google. Inc., not Google. That's what they planned to call it. Googol is a unit followed by one hundred zeros, which means “an immeasurably large search system.”

To get this money, it was necessary to urgently found a company. Friends take academic leave and do what they love.

The difficult path to fame

At the age of eight, Yuri Kuklachev, a famous cat trainer, saw Charlie Chaplin perform on TV. The boy really liked how the great actor moved, and he asked his parents to send him to ballet school. For five years, Yura studied ballet, but when he graduated from school, he firmly decided to enter a circus school.

For seven years in a row, Kuklachev tried to become a student at the school, but he was not accepted, explaining that his face was not suitable and his height was short.

Then he began performing in the folk circus, and later even became the winner of the All-Union Festival. Once the folk circus gave a performance in a building on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, and the director of the school was present in the hall. After Kuklachev’s performance, he approached the artist and invited him to study at his institution.

Yuri took up cat training later. He couldn't help but wonder what he could do to differentiate himself from the famous clowns. While on tour in Cherkassy, ​​I came across a stray cat with smart eyes and adopted her. In Moscow I picked up another cat – Strelka, with whom I staged my first number. The success was unprecedented, because before him no one had ever entered the arena with such a number. This was the trick that Yuri Kuklachev was looking for.

The youngest of the boxer brothers

In his childhood, Vladimir Klitschko dreamed of becoming a doctor. At the end of the eighth grade, he even tried to enter a medical school to become a paramedic, but the attempt was unsuccessful. He was not accepted due to the fact that at the moment entrance exams he has not yet reached the age of fourteen.

Older brother Vitaly was already seriously involved in boxing at that time, and he invited Vladimir to attend a training session and try his hand at the sport. So, trying to be like Vitaly in everything, the younger brother ended up in the boxing section. And after six years of hard work in the gym during training, Vladimir won the title of Olympic champion.

Almost no one knows that the so intriguing meeting in the ring between the Klitschko brothers is long in the past. Back in mid-1992, secretly from the coach, despite his prohibitions, the brothers decided to compete. It was not possible to determine the strongest and best, since the round ended with an injury: Vladimir, for a reason unknown to both brothers, broke his leg. So that the parents would not worry again, Vitaly and Vladimir did not say a word about the fight that took place. Their coach, Vladimir Zolotarev, also helped them with this, and he immediately took the brothers to a training camp in Crimea.

Incredible facts

If you didn't wake up in better mood, and the day is not going well, smile and maybe everything will take on a different meaning.

Here are a few amazing facts about man, life and death, animals and countries which can please you and make you at least a little happier.

1. If you fake laughter long enough, you will start laughing for real.

2. The chances that YOU will be born are 1 in 40 million.

3. We are all made from stardust. The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, and the carbon in our apple pie are made of the same particles that make up stars.

4. The clitoris contains 8,000 nerve fibers, which is twice as large as a penis. This is the only organ that was formed purely for pleasure.

5. When we die, our body decomposes and our atoms go into the earth and are reused, receiving a second life.

6. Need 17 muscles to smile and 43 muscles to frown.

7. Neurologically speaking, watching someone smile makes us happier.

8. Every person for about half an hour there was one cell.

9. At the time of your birth, you for a few seconds were the youngest person on the planet.

10. Before death, the brain produces one of the most powerful psychedelics, dimethyltryptamine.(DMT). It expands our perception of time, allowing us to live hours and even days inside our psyche.

11. Blind people smile even though they have never seen a smile. It's just a natural human reaction.

12. Hugs promote production oxytocin, which speeds up wound healing.

13. Millions of trees are accidentally planted every year because squirrels forget where they buried their nuts.

14. U Adelie penguins only have one partner for life, and they “propose” by handing their chosen one the perfect pebble.

15. Cows have best friends.

16. Seahorses are loyal to each other all their lives and move around holding each other by the tails.

17. Butterflies can taste with their feet.

18. Rats are giggling, if you tickle them. Their voice is so high that they can only be heard with special equipment.

19. Pig orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

20. Male puppies are inferior to females in the game, allowing them to win.

21. While sleeping otters holding hands in order not to swim too far from each other.

22. Cows produce more milk when they listen to Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony."

23. Black swifts spend almost their entire lives in the air, feeding on insects that they catch in flight. They eat, drink, mate and even sleep on the fly.

24. In Norway there is penguin who was knighted. He bears the title Sir Niels Olav.

25. Worms communicate by hugging each other.

26. Famous group The Beatles uses the word "love" 613 times in his songs.

27. The last person to set foot on the Moon, astronaut Eugene Cernan wrote his daughter’s initials on its surface. They will remain on the Moon for at least 50,000 years.

28. In Bhutan it is used " gross national happiness" as the main indicator of the country.

29. Most children born in Europe in 2013 will live until 2100.

30. Costa Rica is considered the happiest country in the world.

31. No matter how long you live, there is always some new delicious dish that you can try.

32. Happiness is a skill that can be learned, and it is not difficult.

1. Napoleon was 26 years old when he captured Italy.

2. Baghdad University awarded Uday, the eldest son of Saddam Hussein, a doctorate in political science. Although he did not even have a secondary education. His dissertation was titled “The Decline of American Power by 2016.”
3. In 1938, Time magazine named Hitler “Man of the Year.”
4. While serving in the KGB, Vladimir Putin had the nickname “Mol.”
5. Hitler was a vegetarian.
6. The Egyptian queen Cleopatra tested the effectiveness of her poisons by forcing her slaves to take them.
7. Cleopatra married her brother - Ptolemy.
8. Cleopatra was not Egyptian. She had Macedonian, Iranian and Greek roots.
9. Lafayette became a general in the US Army at age 19. His full name is: Maria Joseph Paul Yves Rocher Gilbert de Motier, Marquis de Lafayette.
10. The Minister of Culture of the RSFSR in the 50s, Alexey Popov, was a famous swearer.
11. The Mongol conqueror Timur (1336-1405) played something like polo with the skulls of the people he killed. He created a pyramid of their severed heads 9 meters high.
12. At the time of Lenin's death, his brain was only a quarter of its normal size.
13. Napoleon was born not in France, but on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. His parents were Italian and they had eight children.
14. The national flag of Italy was invented by Napoleon.
15. One of Napoleon's drinking cups was made from the skull of the famous Italian adventurer Cagliostro.
16. The founder of the theory of communism, Karl Marx, never visited Russia.
17. The first American Chief Justice, John Jay, bought slaves to free them.
18. The first person in history to be hit by a train was Member of the British Parliament William Haskinson.
19. Winston Churchill's maternal ancestors were... Indians.
20. US President Andrew Jackson believed that the Earth was flat.
21. During the reign of Elizabeth I, there was a tax on men's beards. However, Peter the Great did not favor bearded men either.
22. Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar ordered the execution of her subjects if they appeared to her in dreams without her permission.
23. At her wedding, Queen Victoria was given a piece of cheese with a diameter of 3 meters and weighing 500 kilograms.
24. King of England Henry VIII executed two of his six wives.
25. The President of Uganda and one of the most ruthless dictators in the world, Idi Amin, served in the British Army before coming to power.
26. British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston died in 1865 on a billiard table, on which he made love to his servants.
27. At the court of King Alfonso of Spain, there was a special position - a gymnast. The fact is that the king had no ear for music at all, and he himself could not distinguish the anthem from other music. The anthem leader had to warn the king when the national anthem was played.
28. The Roman emperor Nero married a man - one of his slaves named Scorus.
29. The Roman emperor Nero forced his teacher, the philosopher Seneca, to commit suicide.
30. The height of Peter the Great was approximately 213 cm. Despite the fact that in those days the average height of men was significantly lower than today.
31. Sir Winston Churchill smoked no more than 15 cigars a day.
32. Tom Cruise entered seminary at age 14 to become a priest, but dropped out after a year.
33. U French king Louis XIV had 413 beds.
34. The Israeli king Solomon had approximately 700 wives and several thousand mistresses.
35. King Louis XIV of France, known as the “Sun King,” had over 400 beds.
36. Napoleon had ailurophobia - fear of cats.
37. Winston Churchill was born in the women's toilet of the Blenheim family castle. During the ball, his mother felt unwell and soon gave birth.
38. Physicist and owner Nobel Prize Niels Bohr and his brother, the famous mathematician Harald Bohr, were football players. Harald was a member of the Danish national team and even took second place at the 1905 Olympics.
39. The phrase “The King is dead, long live the King” was uttered by Catherine de Medici when she learned of the death of her son Charles IX.
40. Swedish King Charles VII, killed in 1167, was the first king of a state named Charles! Charles I, II, III, IV, V and VI never existed, and it is unclear where he got the prefix “seventh”. And after a couple of centuries, King Charles VIII (1448-1457) appeared in Sweden.
41. Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was an ophthalmologist by profession.
42. Attila the Barbarian died in 453 on his wedding night immediately after the wedding.
43. Beethoven always brewed coffee from 64 beans.
44. Britain's Queen Victoria (1819-1901), who ruled Britain for 64 years, spoke English with an accent. She had German roots.
45. In 1357, a dead woman was crowned Queen of Portugal. She became Princess Ines de Castro, the second wife of Pedro I. 2 years earlier, her father-in-law, Alfonso “The Proud,” who hated her for being a commoner, secretly ordered his men to kill her and her children. When Pedro became king, he ordered Ines's body to be removed from the grave and forced the nobility to recognize her as Queen of Portugal.
46. ​​In 1849, Senator David Atchison became President of the United States for only 1 day, and for most of this day he... slept.
47. The Grand Vizier of Persia Abdul Kassim Ismail (who lived in the 10th century) never parted with his library. If he went somewhere, the library “followed” him. 117 thousand book volumes were transported by 400 camels. Moreover, the books (together with camels) were located in alphabetical order.
48. The great Genghis Khan died while having sex.
49. Hannibal died in 183 BC. e. taking poison when he learned that the Romans had come to kill him.
50. Hans Christian Andersen could not write almost a single word without errors.
51. Henry IV often flogged his son, the future Louis XIII.
52. Danish king Frederick IV was a bigamist. He married twice while his wife Queen Louise was alive. His first lover died during childbirth, his second mistress was queen for only 19 days after the death of Queen Louise. All the children from both of his mistresses either died at birth or in infancy, as he believed for his sinful life. Later he became extremely religious.
53. Jack the Ripper, the most famous murderer of the 19th century, always committed his crimes on weekends.
54. Dr. Alice Chace, who wrote the book “Healthy Eating” and many books about proper nutrition, died of malnutrition.
55. Once the merchant Krasnobryukhov turned to Alexander I with a request to change his surname, and he allowed him to be called... Sinebryukhov. After this, the merchant, out of grief, left for Finland and founded the famous Koff brewing company there.
56. When Russian Queen Elizabeth I died in 1762, more than 15,000 dresses were discovered in her wardrobe.
57. Mozart began composing music at age 3.
58. There is not a single living descendant of William Shakespeare left on Earth.
59. Before composing music, Beethoven would pour a bucket of cold water on his head, believing that this would stimulate the brain.
60. While developing the electric light bulb, Thomas Edison wrote 40 thousand pages.
61. Felix Mendelssohn wrote “A Midsummer Night's Dream” at the age of 17. This became his most famous work.
62. Beria suffered from syphilis.
63. More than 100 descendants of Johann Sebastian Bach became organists.
64. In the group ZZ Top, only one member does not have a beard. And his name is Beard, which translated from English means... “beard”.
65. Since 1932, only Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush have not been elected to a second term as president.
66. Ilf and Petrov discarded ideas that came to both of their minds at once - in order to avoid cliches.
67. When Beethoven wrote the famous Ninth Symphony, he was completely deaf.
68. Composer Franz Liszt was the father-in-law of German composer Richard Wagner.
69. Paul McCartney's mother was a midwife.
70. The writer Rudyard Kipling could not write with ink unless it was black.
71. The writer Charles Dickens worked with his face turned to the north. He also always slept with his head facing north.
72. The Roman Emperor Commodus collected dwarfs, cripples and freaks from all over the Roman Empire to arrange fights between them in the Colosseum.
73. Roman Emperor Julius Caesar wore a laurel wreath on his head to hide his increasing baldness.
74. Russian composer Alexander Borodin was also a famous chemist in St. Petersburg.
75. The smallest American president is James Madison (1.62 m), and Abraham Lincoln is the tallest (1.93 m).
76. The shortest British monarch is Charles I. His height was 4 feet 9 inches (approximately 140 cm). After his head was cut off, his height became even smaller.
77. The body of Voltaire, who died in 1778, was stolen from his grave and was never found. The loss was discovered in 1864.
78. Balzac has a whole book dedicated to... a tie.
79. The British Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) had about 3,000 outfits.
80. American Pete Ruff knocks an apple off his own head with a boomerang.
81. American industrial tycoon and billionaire John Rockefeller donated more than $550 million. to various foundations and institutions.
82. American President Benjamin Franklin advocated for the turkey to be America's national bird.
83. In 1856, the English chemist William Perkin, while trying to obtain quinine from aniline, invented the first artificial dye, mauvais.
84. In the village of Lobovskoye, Saratov region. There lives a beekeeper who can withstand 40 hours in a hive with bees completely naked.
85. Between 1952 and 1966, 5 children were born into the family of Ralph and Carolyn Cummins, and all of them had a birthday on February 20th.
86. Galileo Galilei was the first person to propose the use of a pendulum to measure time.
87. Hannibal died in 183 BC after taking poison when he learned that the Romans had come to kill him.
88. Grover Cleveland was the only US president to get married in the White House.
89. James Madison was the smallest American president (1.62 m), and Abraham Lincoln was the tallest (1.93 m).
90. Dr. Alice Chace, who wrote the book Healthy Eating and many books about proper nutrition, died of malnutrition.
91. Over 35 years, Mozart created over 600 works. But after his death, the widow did not have money for a separate place in the cemetery
92. Famous bull fighter of the 19th century. Lagarijo (born Rafael Molina) killed 4,867 bulls.
93. When the German physicist A. Einstein died, his last words went with him. Nurse, ex nearby, did not understand German.
94. Maximum quantity crossword puzzles compiled by Andrian Bell. From January 1930 to 1980, he sent 4,520 crossword puzzles to The Times.
95. Robert Lincoln, son of President Lincoln, was rescued from a traffic accident by a certain Edwin Booth. As it turns out, Edwin is the brother of Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Father tried to kill father, and their children saved each other
96. First American President The person using the phone was James Garfield.
97. Concept negative number was first introduced by the Italian merchant Pisano in 1202, denoting his debts and losses.
98. The world's largest private collection of meteorites belongs to the American Robert Haag - from the age of 12 he collected 2 tons of celestial stones.
99. Thomas Edison had a bird collection of 5,000 specimens.
100. The French Jeanne Louise and Guy Bruti compiled a crossword puzzle on a sheet of paper 5 m long and 3 m wide, from 18 thousand words and 50 thousand cells.
101. Shakespeare mentioned roses more than 50 times in his poems.
102. Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States, was the only president to sew his own clothes.
103. Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the same day - February 12, 1809. The scientist lived almost 20 years longer than the politician.
104. Bill Clinton sent as many as two emails during his entire presidency, one of which was a test email to check that everything was working fine. I wonder who the second letter was to? Maybe Monica?
105. In 1759, Arthur Guinness leased St Gate's Brewery for 9,000 years at a rent of £45 per annum. The famous Guinness beer began to be brewed there.
106. In 1981, Deborah Anne Fontan, Miss New York, was disqualified for excessive use of cotton padding in a swimsuit competition.
107. George Washington did not shake hands when meeting - he preferred to bow
108. The only US president who is also the chairman of a union is Ronald Reagan, who heads the Screen Actors Guild.
109. If you remember a little school course physicists, then you know that there is temperature scale Richter. So this same Charles Richter was a malicious nudist, which is why his wife left him
110. If you read the works of the writer Stephen King, you should notice that most of the actions of his stories take place in Maine. Paradoxically, this state has the lowest crime rate in the United States.
111. The founder of psychoanalysis has many oddities. Freud was terrified of the number 62. He refused to reserve a hotel room with more than 62 rooms for fear of accidentally getting a room with number 62. He used cocaine, like many of his contemporaries.
112. The famous entrepreneur Henry Ford preferred to hire people with physical disabilities - among the workers of his factories in 1919, there was one disabled person for every four healthy people.
113. Louis Pasteur's research was sponsored by a brewery. They also paid for his ticket to the international congress. When Pasteur was given the floor at the congress, the first thing he did was hang advertising posters with beer on the stage. And he began his speech by saying that this beer is the best. And only then did he get down to business.
114. Madonna and Celine Dion are cousins ​​of Prince Charles's wife, Camilla
115. The father of the famous comedian Leslie Nielsen (“The Naked Gun”, etc.) served as a police officer in Canada, and his brother worked in the Canadian Parliament
116. Tennis player Andre Agassi's father represented Iran at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics. He was... a boxer

The ancient Mayans believed in the end of the world on December 21, 2012. They also believed in a corn god named Ah Moon.

In 1998, miracle tights were invented - with three legs - the third leg was supposed to be used if one of those the girl was wearing broke

The “@” sign was not invented for the Internet at all, but was used during the Renaissance - then it denoted a measure of weight equal to 12-13 kg

Male bowerbirds place objects around the nest so that they disrupt the females’ perception of perspective and the bowerbird itself inside the bower appears larger to the female.

The wandering albatross (record holder for wingspan - up to 3.5 meters) is in continuous movement - it may not touch the ground for many years

Croissant - this one national symbol France, was not invented there at all, but in Vienna, after the victory over the Turks, copying the months from the Turkish flags

IN Ancient Greece it was believed that a horse that stepped on the tracks of a wolf would no longer be able to neigh

The expression “pass with a red thread” came to us from England, where they began to weave a red thread into ropes to fight theft

In ancient times, the Japanese used wooden sticks instead of toilet paper, and sold toilet waste for a lot of money

The name Hyde Park comes from an ancient unit of measurement of an area sufficient to support one family of a free peasant.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist

Previously, in order to cure a patient with jaundice, the Czechs advised suddenly spitting in the patient’s face.

The full official name of the capital of Thailand is written in one word consisting of 152 letters

(Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintarayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Nopparat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Avatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit. In Thai it is written in one word consisting of 152 letters)

The lightning rod was invented by one of the founding fathers of the United States, Benjamin Franklin, in 1752.

People have known about nails for about five thousand years. Thus, in the ancient city of Ur in Mesopotamia (about 3000 BC), nails were already used to fasten sheet material.

The memory of an aquarium fish is 10 seconds. Two laps around the aquarium and a new life.

Alabama law prohibits using elephants to plow cotton fields.

Every year, donkeys kill more people on earth than die in plane crashes.

We owe the appearance of the Ferris wheel to Gustav Eiffel, since the American George Ferris, inventing the Ferris wheel, tried to outdo Eiffel with his tower.

In 1900-1920 tug of war was an olympic sport.

The steam engine was invented by Heron from Egypt (sometimes also called Heron (Heron) of Alexandria) - and about 1600 years before Thomas Newcomen's 1711 machine. Unfortunately (for Heron), no one saw the practical use of the invention, and therefore it was considered nothing more than an entertaining quirk.

Did you know that studies show that breastfed babies rarely have crooked teeth?

In 1911, a bill was introduced into the US Congress that equated flying in airplanes to an attempted suicide and provided for punishment of up to 5 years in prison.

Like many ingenious inventions, the tea bag was invented by accident. Tea magnate Thomas Sullivan, in an attempt to cut costs, began sending promotional samples of tea not in cans, but in bags and small bags.

There are more rabbits in Australia than people in China.

The letter "omega" must be pronounced with emphasis on the "a"

The idea of ​​combining a gun and bladed weapons came to the mind of an inventor who lived near the city of Bayonne in southwestern France around 1640. The name of the inventor has sunk into oblivion, only the place of invention remains - new look The weapon was called a “bayonet” (in Russian this device is called a “bayonet” - from the German Stick).

Italian laws equate drawing with chalk on asphalt to begging.

Cats are better at smelling than dogs.

The chance of an asteroid falling on your head is 1 in 20,000. This is more likely than dying from a flood, tornado or volcanic eruption.

Pink hippo milk

The study of soil is called paedology

At the beginning of the 20th century Orthodox Church a recommendation was given with the following content: “When naming a newborn baby, it should be borne in mind that Saints Inna and Rimma ... were men.”

Tarif is an island in the Mediterranean Sea where they first started charging for port parking.

In the 19th century, homosexuals were called “green” rather than “queer.”

The usual “bow” on which boots are tied is called a “reef knot” by sailors.

In Burma, for owning an unregistered computer you can be imprisoned for 15(!) years.

The first capital of the Russian state was Ladoga

In Windows you cannot create a folder called "Con"

The largest rabbit in the world is 1 m 20 cm tall. They call him Darius the Continental Giant

Hitler's mother seriously considered abortion, but the doctor convinced her otherwise

The most large number, which has a name - centillion. This is a one followed by 600 zeros. It was recorded in 1852

Streets in Japan have no names

Ludwig van Beethoven could not master multiplication until the end of his life

An oyster's eye is larger than its brain.

Sherlock Holmes never said: "It's elementary, Watson."

Around 6-7 months after birth, the baby can breathe and swallow at the same time. Older children and adults cannot do this.

Like most baby mammals, a human baby breathes only through the nose until 6-7 months of age.

Napoleon suffered from ailurophobia, the fear of cats.

Did you know that if you answered “Yes, I know” to all questions, then you are a liar?