10 interesting facts about everything all over the world
1.American mathematician George Dantzig, when a university graduate student, was late for class and being mistakes he wrote down the equations written on the board as a homework task. It seemed more difficult than usual, but a few days later he was able to solve them. It turned out that he had solved two “unsolvable” problems in statistics that many scientists had struggled with.
2.Only in Russian and some languages of the former Soviet republics is the @ sign called a puppy. In other languages, @ is most often called a monkey or a snail, and there are also such strange variants as strudel (in Hebrew), marinated herring (in Czech and Slovak) and moon ear (in Kazakh).
3.The tea bag was invented by an American Thomas Sullivan, in 1904 by accident. He decided to send customers tea in silk bags instead of traditional tins. But, customers thought they were offered a new way to brew tea directly in these bags and found this method very convenient.
4.To successfully master the difficult phrase “Я люблю вас” the English use the mnemonic “Yellow-blue bus”.
5.Kangaroos and emus are widely believed to be unable to walk backwards. That’s why these animals are depicted on the Australian emblem as a symbol of progress and movement forward.
6.An ordinary book of standard format with 500 pages cannot be crushed even if 15 wagons loaded with coal are placed on it.
7.Apples help you wake up faster than coffee in the morning.
8.The charm of Elizabeth Taylor’s gaze was explained not only by her natural beauty, but also by a rare genetic mutation – the actress had a double row of eyelashes.
9.The original title of “Gone with the Wind” was “Baa-baa black sheep”.
10.There is such a sport: chessboxing is a combination of chess and boxing.
Aylar Begjikova,
A teacher of Russian and Literature,
Pedagogical school named after Beki Seytakov.
