* Vanuatu is the country with the highest linguistic density in the world. * No other animal has a longer gestation period than the elephant: 20 to 22 months. * Cologne Cathedral (Kölner Dom in German) was built in 632 years and 2 months. * Chickens are more numerous than humans on Earth. * The first liberating soldiers of Paris to enter the capital in the evening of August 24, 1944 were not American, but mainly Spanish * A young Chinese man divorces and sues his wife for giving birth to a little girl he considered too ugly. * In Saudi Arabia, oil costs less than drinking water. * Louis XIV was 1m 67. He wore a padded wig to look taller. * Paul Kern, a Hungarian soldier, lived 40 years without sleeping, following a head injury during the First World War. * Mary Mallon, also known by her nickname "Typhoid Marry" is the 1st person identified as a healthy carrier of typhoid fever. * Doctors have discovered in the womb of an 82-year-old Colombian a fetus who has been dead for 40 years. This rather rare phenomenon is called "lithopedion". * Atlanta Airport in Georgia is the largest terminal in the world, with 95,500,000 passengers passing through each year. * After 14 years of pregnancy, a young Nigerian girl gave birth on June 7th, 2014 to a girl. * There is a light bulb that has been shining for 113 years in Livermore, California (USA). * The 52 card games are based on the Gregorian calendar: there are 4 colors for the four seasons of the year, 12 figures for the 12 months, 52 cards for the 52 weeks and the sum of all the points of a game 52 cards plus the wild card is 365 for the 365 days of the year. The total of each color gives 91 points (valets, ladies and kings worth respectively 11, 12 and 13 points), which gives four times 364 points, to which we add a wild card. A classic game comes with 2 jokers, giving a total of 366 for leap years. * We often say shit to wish each other good luck. This comes from the time when one moved in cab, especially to go to the theater. The more the coachmen were coming in front of it, the more there was dung in front. It was a sign of success in a play, and that's why the comedians wanted each other shit. * On bank checks, each of the lines you are writing on includes text written in lower case (visible only with a magnifying glass). This is part of Robert Schuman's statement of 9 May 1950, the founding text of what will become the European Union. It says 'Europe will not happen at once, nor in an overall construction: it will be done by concrete achievements first creating a solidarity of fact.' Team note: To prove it, we scanned a check from our own LCL checkbook. * The famous colorful puzzle "Rubik's Cube" was originally far from a puzzle. Indeed, when his inventor, the Hungarian sculptor and architect Ernö Rubik imagined it in 1974, he offered it to his architectural students as an exercise and asked them to find out how the internal mechanism worked. The faces were also originally all the same color. [sources web: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubik's_Cube - http://www.playnetcube.fr/culture-cube/104-tout-savoir/145-histoire-invention-erno-rubiks-cube.html ] * The Tarantula takes its name from the city of Taranto, Italy. People suffering from tarantulism had a profound state of lethargy that could lead to death, the cause of which was wrongly attributed to a spider bite, the Lycosis of Taranto. To cure this evil, the belief was that you had to dance a dance called the tarantella. The evil described at the time is today rather attributed to bites of black widows of Europe. * Cryptozoology is a disputed discipline that consists of the study of animals whose existence has not been proven. Thus, even today, cryptozoologists study clues about the existence of Nessie (Loch Ness monster), mythological kraken or yeti. Cryptozoology being a science discussed, there is no school or scientific institute dedicated to it [ sources web: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptozoologie - http://cryptozoo.pagesperso-orange.fr/ - https://motherboard.vice.com/fr/article/ypbdgb/la-cryptozoologie-a-le-potentiel-detre-serieuse ] * It is possible to see the shadow of the Earth morning and evening, just before sunrise and just after sunset. It is a dark blue band, directly visible above the horizon, which is followed by a pink band. [ sources web: http://autourduciel.blog.lemonde.fr/2017/07/30/soir-et-matin-admirez-lombre-de-la-terre-et-la-ceinture-de-venus/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_shadow ] * During a total lunar eclipse, it can become red-orange. Indeed, the eclipse occurs when the Moon is aligned with the Earth-Sun axis, and is found in the shadow of the Earth. It is then lit only by long-wave (red) rays of the Sun that cross the atmosphere and are diverted to the Moon by the particles (dust, pollution) it contains. This phenomenon is observable about twice a year with the naked eye, during a full moon night and lasts only a few hours. Depending on the number of particles in the atmosphere, dust, pollution and clouds, the color of the moon may vary from light orange to red blood. It is the same phenomenon of wavelength which explains that the sunset of the Sun is red orange: the light of the Sun crosses the atmosphere on a much greater distance than when this one is at the zenith. * Many fruits of the Rosaceae family (apple, pear, apricot, almond ...) contain traces of arsenic or cyanide. Fortunately, these poisons are present in very low doses in the nuclei or seeds, and are dangerous only ingested in large quantities. The ingestion of fifty bitter almonds by an adult could for example have serious consequences, because it would be equivalent to 0.2g of cyanide. [sources web : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosaceae]

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