Top unusual facts about the surrounding world that sound weird

With "fake news" quickly becoming the norm on various social media platforms, it's hard to tell what's true. But not everything that is hard to believe is false. Sometimes our minds apply logic and won't let us believe something is true, even if it's a fact, because it sounds weird.

For example, would you believe us if we told you that a cheetah can't roar and can only meow like cats, or that most ground coffee shouldn't be drunk by those who are allergic to cockroaches? What if we told you that there is an art museum on the moon? There are facts in the world that seem completely made up, but they are real.

• 1. You can save a knocked out tooth by putting it back in your mouth. It will reattach eventually.

  Even if you're an adult, you can save your broken tooth; and no, you don't need a tooth fairy to do it. Dentists refer to knocked-out teeth as "pulled out." If you take some care and act quickly when your tooth falls out, you can replant it and it will reattach to the bone eventually. First, take your tooth and try to place it back into the socket with light pressure.

  If it is dirty, clean it with milk - never use tap water. In addition, you need to keep the tooth moist during the whole time you go to the dentist (try to get to the dentist within thirty minutes, as the entire replantation process should be completed within an hour).

  If the tooth does not fit into the socket easily, place it in a cup of milk. Try not to touch the roots of the tooth and hold it only by the crown area. The dentist or endodontist will transplant the tooth and in three to four weeks it will reattach to the bone.

• 2. Shortly after Saddam Hussein became President of Iraq in 1980, he was given the key to the city of Detroit, USA

  When Rev. Jacob Yasso of the Chaldean Church of the Sacred Heart congratulated Saddam Hussein on his election to the presidency of Iraq in 1979, he had no idea that his church would receive a $250,000 donation in return.

  A year later, the reverend and two dozen other people traveled to Baghdad as guests of the Iraqi government when they were invited to Saddam Hussein's palace.

  It was then that the Reverend, acting on behalf of the then Mayor of Detroit, Coleman Young, handed Hussein the key to the city.

  In response to this gesture, Hussein donated another $200,000 to the church, asking the reverend, “I heard that your church is in debt. How much is it?" In 2003, the same reverend called Hussein "an American puppet."

• 3. Most Koreans don't give off any body odor.

  Body odor is known to have a strong genetic basis, and most Koreans do not have the body odor gene. The non-functional ABCC11 gene is predominant in most East Asians, mainly Koreans. This gene affects not only the smell of a person's body, but also the type of earwax that the ear produces.

  While most people in the world have wet-type earwax, Koreans have dry-type earwax. But they do sweat; they just don't produce an odor.

  Many travelers talk about how hard it is to find deodorants in Seoul since most Koreans don't use them. About 2% of Europeans also do not have the body odor gene.

• 4. Cheetahs do not roar, but meow like domestic cats.

  Only 4 representatives of the world of big cats know how to roar: these are lions, tigers, leopards and jaguars. All of them belong to the Panther clan and have very long vocal cords and thick elastic tissue in the larynx, which allow them to make such sounds. The rest of the cat's larynx is arranged a little differently. Therefore, the voices of cheetahs, despite the fact that we associate them with large and fast animals, actually sound just like those of domestic cats.

• 5. Giraffes eat bones.

  Most often, these long-necked charming creatures are represented as peacefully plucking leaves from tree branches. However, sometimes they can be caught in a rather frightening activity - sucking on the bones of other animals. This is a forced measure that giraffes resort to in order to get the extra calcium and phosphorus they need for their own skeleton.

• 6. A day on Venus lasts longer than a year.

  To understand this, you need to remember that a day is how much time the planet spends on a rotation around its axis, and a year is how much time it takes to rotation around the Sun. Thus, a day on Venus is 243 Earth days, and a year is 225 Earth days. Can you imagine what would happen to you if you worked on Venus on a 5/2 schedule? You won’t wish this even to your enemy.

• 7. The electrician hit the lottery twice in a year.

  In 2002, 51-year-old electrician Mike McDermott won the lottery twice in a year. And what is even more incredible, he bet on the same numbers both times: 15, 16, 18, 36, 49 and 28. The first time the Briton won $ 194 501, in the second - $ 121 157. According to one publication, the probability of such an outcome of events is 1:5.4 trillion.

• 8. Humans are bioluminescent and glow in the dark.

  The human body glows in the visible range. The radiance is very ghostly and weak: 1,000 times less intense than our eye can catch. At the same time, the brightness of the human glow is not a constant value: the most dimly human body “shines” at about 10:00, and the peak falls at 16:00. Researchers attribute this to metabolism.

• 9. There are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the galaxy.

  NASA estimates that there are between 100 and 400 billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy. At the same time, according to scientists, there are many more trees on Earth - more than 3 trillion.

• 10. If a man takes a pregnancy test, in some cases the result may be positive.

  2 lines on the test may indicate that a man has testicular cancer. A pregnancy test detects the presence of chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) in a person's urine or blood. This hormone begins to be produced immediately after the fertilized egg attaches to the wall of the uterus. In men, this hormone can also be produced, in particular, in certain types of testicular cancer. It is worth noting that this does not work in the opposite direction and a negative result does not always indicate that there is no disease. In any case, such things are best left to the doctors.

• 11. Honey can last forever.

  The main factor in the longevity of honey is its ideal chemical composition. Natural honey has extremely low moisture content. In such an environment, only a few bacteria and microorganisms can survive. This is an important point that contributes to the longevity of honey: in order for it to go bad, it must have something in it that can spoil it. And the environment in a honey jar is so inhospitable that it's hard to live long enough to spoil the product.