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Money is an idea that was aimed at solving the issue of exchange of goods and services for humanity, which ultimately became the main problem and the cause of most tragedies and misfortunes. Curious events about money around the world “Dirty Money”...

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In the history of mankind, there are facts and cases that remain in people’s memory for a long time and do not fit into our usual framework. The most interesting and unusual achievements are collected in one book - the Guinness Book of Records. But even she is not able to accommodate the most incredible facts in the world that you can hear about.

Bird Girl

Scientists cannot answer the question of why people with completely unusual anomalies are periodically born in the world. Few of these people become famous precisely because of their unforgettable appearance. But the girl, who was born in 1880 in Georgia, became not only famous throughout the world, but even starred in films.

Minnie Woolsey (that was the girl's name) was born with Seckel syndrome. This rare condition causes dwarfism, developmental delays and a small head with a nose like a bird's beak. As a result of her illness, Minnie was also left bald, and it seemed that nothing good lay ahead for the girl. But thanks to one showman who had a so-called “circus of freaks,” Minnie was saved and even became famous.

But the turning point in the life of the bird girl was the filming of the film “Freaks” in 1932. Dressed in a bird costume, Minnie became the highlight of the film and was forever given the nickname "Koo Koo". According to some reports, Minnie participated in an exhibition of abnormal people until she was 72 years old.

The oldest impound lot in the world

Among car enthusiasts there are hardly people for whom impound parking evokes positive emotions. But many would want to see such a parking lot. She is located in Naples. The King of the Two Sicilies, Ferdinand of Bourbon, wanted to build a tunnel at a depth of 45 meters. This happened in 1853. The monarch was worried about his safety, since revolutionary sentiments were strong in Naples at that time. But he died a natural death, and the tunnel was abandoned unfinished.

There are many pre-war cars and motorcycles buried right under the central part of Naples. After World War II, the tunnel was sealed for almost 60 years.

Betty Butler – age is no barrier to extreme sports

Every person has a secret dream that he carries throughout his life. But many still lack the courage to bring it to life. The same cannot be said about the 95-year-old resident of the US state of Indiana. It turns out that the woman had dreamed of jumping with a parachute all her life, but somehow it didn’t work out. Caring children and grandchildren decided to give Betty a gift for her 95th birthday. And the brave pensioner did not refuse and still fulfilled her wish, despite such an advanced age.

Indonesian traditions

On the island of Sulawesi, there has been one very unusual tradition since 1905. It turns out that in order to show respect to deceased relatives, Indonesians dig them out of their graves every year. There are even original competitions among local residents: whose relative is better dressed is the winner. But it doesn’t end there either – a mandatory end to the ceremony of respect is a family photo as a souvenir.

Mikaela - Instagram star

This girl has an unusual appearance, which exactly repeats the facial features of the character in the famous computer game. This attracted thousands of subscribers to her page, including even such famous personalities as Justin Bieber. There is still debate among her subscribers about such a phenomenal similarity, and the reason has not been found out. But this secret only adds to the girl’s popularity.

Giant from West Java - Arya Permana

The fattest boy on the planet lives in Indonesia. His weight is more than 190 kilograms, and he is only 10 years old. He suffers from severe obesity and his daily diet would be enough to feed 10 adults. Because of his size, he is unable to choose clothes for himself, so he covers his hips with a large piece of sarong. He is unable to attend school, and simply moving around is very difficult for him. The boy simply lies in the pool all day long. What caused this anomaly is unknown, because until the age of 2 he developed like an ordinary normal child.

Rama Haruna - a girl with a baby's body

In the Nigerian city of Cana there lives a girl suffering from a rare disease. Her body stopped growing at 6 months and her limbs are non-functional. Moreover, Rama’s head is of completely normal size for her age. According to her mother, at six months the girl began to writhe from severe attacks of abdominal pain, which was accompanied by a high fever. There are other children in the family, and all are quite healthy.

Nigerian doctors are at a loss as to what could have caused such a strange anomaly. Some locals even claim that the girl’s illness is a consequence of the genie’s curse. But this has nothing to do with reality. The only thing this Nigerian woman is very lucky in is her family. Despite the fact that caring for the seriously ill Rama costs the family a pretty penny, her parents did not give up on the girl and are trying their best to earn money to support her.

Shi Bao - a dog on two legs

In the Chinese province of Shanxi there lives a dog that lost two legs after being hit by a train. Surprisingly, despite such a severe injury, the animal survived and learned to walk on its two front legs. And just recently, Shi Bao became a mother. The railway station workers who adopted the dog claim that she is a wonderful mother who never leaves her babies for long.

Emma Lyman – diagnosis is not a death sentence

This 21-year-old girl has a whole bunch of serious illnesses. This includes mild autism, Down syndrome, and deafness. But this did not stop her from becoming a full-fledged member of society. And the fact that she cannot write or read did not prevent her from becoming a successful businesswoman. It all started with the fact that her mother sent out the girl’s resume to the company, trying to find at least some kind of work for her.

She was taken to the office of a credit institution to destroy secret documents. It turned out that Emma perfectly tears paper into small pieces, and does it with amazing speed. And today she has her own company and regular clients who happily use her services.

The most incredible facts in the world may concern various areas of our lives, but one logical conclusion can be drawn. You should never despair even in the most difficult situations and look forward to tomorrow with optimism.

"Terribly interesting
All that is unknown."

(song of talking animals
from the cartoon "38 Parrots")

“- Yesterday, in short, I read on the internet...”

(conversation on a bench in the yard)

A white crow, a camel girl, an aquarium toilet, a cake in the shape of a laptop, a lady with a hairstyle in the shape of a frigate, and that's not all. Tetris tie, ghost towns, X-rays, theft of dentures and many more ideas for unusual gifts, events and travel - this is the Kunstkamera.

Curious and odious, shocking and attractive things, phenomena and people are collected from the crazy world one by one and sorted into more than 450 articles, each of which is neatly displayed on its own page. Most often they find us when they are looking for something about, or.... Fear of death and love still, like two packs of hounds, pursue every person.

Heavy and high hairstyles in the shape of ships were overthrown along with the royal power in France by the incorruptible Robespierre and the tongue-tied Danton. It turned out that hairstyles and outfits are nothing in comparison with the highest way of human self-expression, revolutionary activity. Who is the greatest revolutionary in our memorable history? That's right, this is a nice guy Che. In the treasury article, our eyes are opened to the star and death of an eternally young youth idol, who himself did not live to see 40. We learn about how Guevara abandoned the army in his youth, and then became a major and signed himself “Stalin II.” Or how the future Cuban minister Ernesto, on the orders of the police who detained him, coached and led a rural football team to victory in the interdistrict cup.

Science, fueling progress, turns the unusual into the ordinary. By creating a wide assortment of miracles, she exchanges the old boredom of life for a new one, one whim for a second, third and hundredth. More precisely, a cell phone. Nowadays, to be a unique person, if not a smart one, it is enough to buy an extraordinary device, for example, a mobile phone with an ultrasonic mosquito repeller. Or on one SIM card a phone in the form of a matchbox, and on the second - a la pack of cigarettes. This material will help you choose the life-changing gadget.

Another plane of human individuality is what our distant ancestors called “shame”, and our children called the “bikini zone”. Masterpieces of hidden unusualness, intimate hairstyles became popular in the last century, the fashion for shaving and decorating one place blossomed in the late 1980s and does not fade to this day. You can read about the most unusual intimate hairstyles, women's and men's, in. We warn you to be careful - there you will find... a clubfooted bear(s) and curly-haired Frank Farian, peeking out of ladies' panties.

If your career does not go beyond universal ideas of success, then to work you will most likely have to wear a neckerchief, called a tie or “kravatka” (the second name, oddly enough, is born from the word “Croatian”). In order to stand out from the office crowd, you will need an original tie. If the main and main thing in your work is the lunch break, then feel free to tie a “noose” in the form of a hot dog with mustard around your neck. You need to hypnotize the client - there is a tie with a crossword puzzle, there is nowhere to put a small pink player - buy an accessory with a special pocket. A full review of men's neck jewelry in the "crazy" style is presented on the page.

Or maybe you hate the office and don’t like nature? Yes, many computer and Internet users are indifferent to nature. They will never go to hot Asia to see how an elephant swims, stretching its spine and escaping the heat. But they will be happy to look at the photos. And about the elephant, and about the deer, whose antlers in the darkness mixed with the shadows of bushes and trees. About two bears, one of which is neck-deep in water, the other only ankle-deep. The article tells and shows what the arctic fox looks like when it comes, and some other living and beautiful things.

To the unusual beauties of living nature and sleeping stones one cannot help but add (to complete the bouquet of beauties) the aesthetic power of death. Not your own, but what happens in the small world of insects. If you look at the “predator-prey” relationship among insects through a macro lens, you will see enchanting pictures of a meeting between a black fly and a light-colored praying mantis, for example. Or a dragonfly and a bug it caught. That's what the article is called -. If these wonderful insects were even the size of a third of a person, we would not survive on planet Earth.

A variety of skills, tricks and mechanisms help the living to avoid a beautiful death. As in humans, in fauna defense mechanisms are determined hormonally - if adrenaline enters the nerve, it leads to anger, if norepinephrine - to fear. Therefore, some opossums, at the moment of danger, plunge into a reversible coma, the larva of the Colorado potato beetle is covered with poisonous hemolymph, and the bombardier beetle pours boiling water on the oncoming person from its own backside. How different animals defend themselves differently is written and photographed in the article.

A fake sea maiden is a one-piece, relic item, but mermaids have a place not only on museum shelves, but also in private collections. Remember the gun millionaire from the movies who collected body parts of stars and celebrities? Such eccentrics exist in reality. The demand for outlandish chimeras gives rise to outlandish supply. In a series of articles, an unusual site introduces Russian-speaking consumers and amateurs to the achievements of North American taxidermy. The art of making stuffed animals and dummies presents us with a huge number of extraordinary gifts and souvenirs. Do you want to use the skull of the Soviet socialist Chikatilo as an ashtray “just like a real one”? There you are! Do you need the severed hands of those swindlers who cheated in poker? In a jar with a warning label? Let's do it! After all, everything terrible is charming for someone. And vice versa…

For those who won’t risk giving themselves or a friend/companion unnatural boobs made from artificial materials this New Year, but crave fame, we recommend the digest. It tells the story of who and what eats from the Kremlin feeder for the holiday, why Santa Claus and his reindeer poop candy, as well as how much an inflatable Christmas tree costs these days and what happens to the psyche of a person who is given the corpse of a hare hit by a car on December 31st.

Let us hope that after becoming acquainted with the Unusual site, no dramatic changes will occur in your psyche, your mood will improve, your erudition will deepen, your creativity will deepen. Stay tuned!

Many people would agree that cats are their favorite pets. Both children and adults love them. Everyone can tell their own story about them, they think they know a lot about them, but they can surprise and we have something to tell about them. An example is the belief that cats heal by lying on the sore spot. This rumor is true. We'll tell you a lot more interesting things later...

• 04 Apr 2019 09:13

Rice is the basis for the preparation of many tasty and healthy dishes that have already become firmly established in our diet, although it appeared in Russia only in the 18th century. At the same time, rice is an amazing plant, many of whose properties are unique. Below we present a selection of the most interesting facts related to it...

• 03 Apr 2019 09:03

A door is not just a necessary attribute of a modern home. Today, a door can create a certain atmosphere, comfort, and add zest to the interior. Choosing the right, harmonious door is not as simple as it might seem. Our selection can help you choose exactly the door that will satisfy even the most demanding consumer...

• 03 Apr 2019 06:17

The prevailing opinion is that the floor should not attract attention, thereby distracting it from other elements of the interior. That is why most floor coverings are made in nondescript brown or gray tones. However, there are other solutions where the floor plays the role of the most important element or even the basis of the decor of the interior decoration of the room. It is about such unusual floors and flooring..

• 03 Apr 2019 02:57

Few people know that the history of the envelope begins in ancient times, as soon as writing came into use. Initially, it performed a security function when particularly important documents needed to be hidden from prying eyes. The first envelopes were made from hides and fabric, and in some regions from reed. In Babylon, the message was covered with a thin layer of clay, then they waited for it to harden under...

• 03 Apr 2019 12:07

Choosing any door, be it an entrance door or an interior door, seems like a simple task only at first glance. The difficulty of choosing lies in the huge assortment presented in modern stores. Endless options can completely confuse the buyer. We have prepared a top list of interesting facts about doors that can not only surprise, but also, perhaps, help in choosing a door...

• 03 Apr 2019 10:01

CBS reports that 34-year-old Clifford Williams and his 18-year-old nephew Hubert Myers were prime suspects in a 1976 murder and attempted murder case in Florida and were sentenced to life in prison in 1977. But now, 42 years later, the court has overturned the convictions...

• 02 Apr 2019 09:27

We see dishes as part of the furnishings, an everyday detail of our everyday life. We perceive its shape as unchanged, not realizing that just 100 years ago, about 70% of kitchen utensils looked different. Not to mention millennia. We have collected the most interesting facts to look at dishes from a new angle...

• 02 Apr 2019 08:54

A grinding machine is a power tool that can be used to grind surfaces, clean or cut products made of various materials (steel, plastic, stone, etc.). This instrument began to be sold on the domestic market in the 1970s...

• 02 Apr 2019 08:45

Many people are faced with the problem of having too little bright natural light. This depends on various reasons: tall buildings in front of the windows, cold and dark seasons, poor location of the apartment. To make sunlight as enjoyable as possible, glass partitions were invented...

In the long history of mankind there are many such events that did not fit into any ideas, and therefore were remembered by people for a long time. Many people know the Guinness Book of Records, which records the most diverse human achievements, but even in it it was impossible to collect the most incredible facts in the world.

1. About our planet

• Every schoolchild knows that the highest peak in the world is Chomolungma or Everest. But there is a much higher mountain on the planet. This is the Hawaiian volcano Mauna Kea, which rises above sea level by only 4205 meters, but from its base on the ocean floor it has perched 10203 meters.
• Between Russian Chukotka and American Alaska are the Diomede Islands, which are also divided between these countries. They are located only 4 km from each other, and the line dividing them also runs along the date line. Therefore, the time difference between them is 24 hours.
• The purest water can be found in Finland, but the most dangerous is in Italian Sicily, where 2 sources of fairly strong sulfuric acid flow from a volcanic lake. But in Azerbaijan there is a source of “flammable water” - as soon as you bring a lit match to it, the “water” breaks out with a blue flame.
• In fact, there are so many diamonds on the planet that every inhabitant would have a full cup of this form of carbon.

2. About the plant world

• The Cardiocrinum plant is so strange and rare that it is almost never described. It blooms once in a lifetime with large flowers, which consume all the plant’s energy. As a result, the plant dies immediately.
• Bamboo can grow 75 centimeters per day.
• The currently tallest tree in the world is the evergreen sequoia, which, like its relatives, has its own name Hyperion. In 700 or 800 years, it managed to grow to 115.6 meters and continues to grow. Scientists deliberately hid the exact location of the record holder to protect him from crowds of tourists.

3. About people

• A person who finds himself in an unfamiliar environment will in most cases turn right. This mental property is successfully used by marketers.
• Crime reporter and journalist Vlado Taneski from Macedonia was also a serial killer who often described his own crimes. But in the end he made a mistake when he published information that until that moment could not have been known to anyone except the killer.
• Australian truck driver Bill Morgan is a real lucky man, and not only because he survived a 14-minute clinical death after a heart attack. Soon after, he won a large sum in the lottery. The TV crew decided to film a story about him and asked him to erase the protective layer from an instant lottery ticket on camera. And guess what - he won $250,000 again!
• 40% of people do not live to see their first birthday.
• Australian Aboriginal culture is as old as the Ice Age, so they remember the location and names of mountains that have been hidden under the waters of the Bass Strait for 8,000 years.

4. About food

The Trans-Siberian Railway or the Great Siberian Route, which connects the Russian capital Moscow with Vladivostok, until recently bore the honorary title of...

• During the Prohibition period, owners of American vineyards adapted to concentrating grape juice to a semi-solid state - the so-called “wine bars”. They warned buyers not to leave the resulting liquid in the cupboard for three weeks after adding water, otherwise it would turn into forbidden wine. The hint was obvious.
• The IOC has banned caffeine, so if an athlete drinks too much coffee or tea before a race, he will be disqualified.
• Thailand produces the most expensive coffee in the world, the beans of which have passed through the digestive system of elephants. A kilogram of the Black Tusk drink is estimated at $1,100, and a cup of tea will cost a daredevil who wants to try the rare delicacy $50.
• When buying bottled water, you should not rely too much on it, since 40% of it comes from the tap.

5. About countries

• In 1781, among the Articles of the American Confederation, a note appeared that if Canada suddenly wanted to become part of the United States, it would be immediately accepted.
• The annual cost of keeping a prisoner in a British prison costs the treasury £45,000. Isn't it easier to send him to study at Eton, which costs 1.5 times less?
• Arabs write texts from right to left, but numbers are written in the opposite direction. Therefore, when reading Arabic texts replete with numerical data, you have to move your eyes here and there.
• After the division of Korea into two countries, over 23,000 Koreans fled from north to south, and only 2 people in the opposite direction.

6. About the animal world

• For the sake of sex, male Australian marsupial mice go to martyrdom - they are ready to mate for 14 hours without a break, completely devoting all their energy and dying from exhaustion. Biologists call this behavior “suicidal mating.”
• Have you ever seen baby pigeons? Surely not, but all because they do not leave their nests for the first month, and after that they are already indistinguishable from adults.
• In female plant aphids, new females that are already fertilized are born.
• Beavers have transparent eyelids, so they swim calmly with their eyes closed underwater.
• Rats are known to be very intelligent animals; moreover, they are the only animal other than humans that can laugh.

7. About astronauts

Most people want to get a window seat on an airplane to enjoy the views below, including take-off and landing views...

• In zero gravity, the astronauts' spine straightens, as a result of which, immediately after landing, they find themselves several centimeters higher than themselves before takeoff.
• A person stops snoring in zero gravity, because weightlessness relieves the pressure on his airways. We snore because the soft tissues of the throat and tongue fall inward during sleep, especially when lying on the back. During breathing, the sunken parts of the body produce unpleasant snoring. One can only envy the astronauts, at least during sleep!

8. About diseases

• At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, on the 21st birthday, it was fashionable to remove all the teeth of the birthday boy and insert artificial ones.
• Residents of the Kazakh village of Kalachi experience a strange sleeping sickness - they periodically fall into deep sleep, in which they remain for up to 6 days. Recently, this disease has been linked to exposure to abandoned uranium mines.
• Having made an official visit to Australia in 1875, the king of Fiji contracted measles, which he brought back to his homeland, due to which he lost a quarter of his population.
• At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, they tried to treat coughs with heroin.

9. About society

• On average, American children have seen 200,000 murders on television by the age of 18.
• Homeless people in Japan and Hong Kong have learned to take advantage of 24-hour McDonald's and live in these public catering establishments, for which they are nicknamed "Mcrefugees."
• British galleries and museums receive 7 times more visitors per year than Premier League football matches.
• If vampires existed and drank the blood of one person every day, then after 13 days the entire population of the planet would turn into vampires.
• The whole world has learned the name of the most brutal Colombian drug lord of the last century, Pablo Escobar. But he was also a loving father - his daughter recalled that when they had to hide from the police and were freezing at night, Escobar lit a fire of banknotes to warm his daughter. A night of such “heating” cost him more than 2 million dollars.

10. About sports

• Objects resembling primitive skittles were found in an Egyptian tomb - does this mean bowling was played in the land of the pharaohs 5,200 years ago?
• In 1958, the winner of the Jamaican table tennis championship was Jay Foster, who was only 8 years old at that time.
• One Detroit newspaper was able to establish that 68% of professional hockey players lost at least one tooth during their careers.
• The 1920 Olympic Games in Sweden went down in history by giving the world its oldest Olympic champion, 72-year-old shooter Oscar Swan.