Some more interesting facts about everything

If it seems to you that interesting facts will ever end, you are mistaken. Sometimes it is interesting to replenish the treasury of knowledge and learn something new that we had not suspected before - after all, no one has canceled our natural curiosity and desire for knowledge. Let's take a look at a few facts from a variety of fields that may reveal something previously unknown to you.

• 1. Crocodiles really "cry". But not from pain or depression, as some believe. Tears come from the air trapped in their sinuses after eating their prey. The tear fluid also removes salt from their body.
• 2. If the Earth were left without the Moon, the day would last eight hours and the year would have more than a thousand days.
• 3. Both monogamy and polygamy occur among deer.
• 4. In the movie "The Godfather" they never say the word "mafia". This happened due to a real conflict between the studio management and the Italian mafia - after many protests, threats, and even shots in the car of the main producer.
• 5. The longest hangover recorded in the world lasted four weeks –in a resident of Scotland, who drank 28 liters of beer.
• 6. In Japan, there are 23 vending machines per inhabitant.
• 7. The ancient Romans dipped a piece of bread into a glass of wine during feasts. This was done to soften the strong drink, and promised good health. And yet, while the wine was saturated with the aroma of bread, they made speeches - they say, this is how toasts appeared.
• 8. Over 90 percent of films made in the US before 1929 are lost forever. Not even copies of them exist.
• 9. Tsundoku (Japanese term) - a practice in which a person buys a lot of books, but then does not read them. Unlike bibliomania, when books are bought for the collection, in the practice of tsundoku there is still a “potential” for further reading of books.
• 10. According to the statistics of scientists, at any given time, 0.7% of the world's population is in a state of intoxication. That is, now somewhere 50 million people are drunk.
• 11. From the beginning of 2022, supermarkets in France are prohibited from disposing of unsold food before the expiration date. Stores can donate food to charities in advance.
• 12. In 2007, a Bosnian couple divorced after discovering they were having an online affair with each other under fictional names.
• 13. There is a Starbucks coffee cup in a lot of scenes in Fight Club movie.
• 14. A paper cut so painful is not from the paper itself. According to scientists, it's all about the delicate nerve endings at the fingertips - there are many more pain receptors there than in many other parts of the body.
• 15. Studies have proven that dogs enjoy hearing the gentle "high" voice that their owners use to talk to them.
• 16. The most expensive movie in the world is Pirates of the Caribbean. More than $375 million was spent on filming. By comparison, the average budget for a studio film is $65 million.
• 17. If you hold your nose, you won't be able to "mumble" a melody.
• 18. The chaunax fish (Chaunax pictus) has legs. They live deep at the bottom of the ocean, and have unusually shaped fins with which they can move along the bottom.
• 19. One study found that 4-year-olds, on average, ask up to 300 questions a day. By the time a child is 5 years old, they will have asked about 40,000 questions.