British royal family banned from playing Monopoly

When Andrew - Prince Charles' younger brother - received a Monopoly board game as a gift in 2008, he said: "We're not allowed to play Monopoly at home. It makes people too aggressive.

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🥔 Chips are just a joke.

Chips were invented by a chef who decided to play a joke on a customer who asked for thinner and firmer potatoes. I think his joke is well appreciated by billions of people.

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The Dutch painter Piet Mondrian, one of the fathers of abstractionism, was a true workaholic.

Sometimes he kept working until his hands were covered with blisters from the brush.

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The most unusual and one of the most beautiful glaciers is located in the north of Greenland and is called - "Elephant's Footstep".

Its shape, indeed, very much resembles the footprint of a huge elephant.

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Diamonds are formed in the Earth's crust at a depth of more than 200 km.

Only thanks to volcanic eruptions are diamonds transported to depths accessible to man. The average age of any diamond is about 1.5 billion years.

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Knocker technology that allows you to recognize an object by tapping it with your smartphone

Knocker is based on machine learning, allowing the technology to analyze the smallest nuances of vibrations and distinguish characteristic patterns from them. Initially, the system doesn't know anything, and it needs to be taught, for example, to distinguish between a glass bottle and a plastic bottle. In theory, a smartphone with Knocker can recognize almost any object, but so far there are only 23 objects in its "memory".

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The first advertising messages appeared long before our era - back in the days of ancient Egypt.

Archaeologists discovered a papyrus left by the master of a slave. The document praised the physical endurance, excellent health and other qualities of a slave, so that he could find a buyer more quickly.

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Fish and seafood are digested in just 45 minutes!

It takes the stomach more than 5 hours to "process" pork and beef! This means that even fatty fish can be eaten at night and be sure to have a restful sleep. The combination of omega-3, fatty acids and vitamin D improves sleep quality.

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Albatrosses can sleep during flight. While one part of the brain sleeps, the other part remains active and helps the bird not to fall and crash into an obstacle.

Dolphins have the same ability to swim in their sleep.

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🌳 In modern science, radioactive radiation is used very widely.

Breeders, for example, irradiate cultivated plants to induce mutations in them. There is always a chance that out of thousands of mutations one or two will turn out to be useful and resistant, thus creating a new plant variety.

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In Africa's shallow freshwater lakes and ponds live unusual fish - protopters. If their body of water suddenly dries up, they can live without water for months simply by burrowing into the ground.
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With the onset of the dry season, the protopter begins to prepare for hibernation. During this time, it digs a nest, where it will stay for six to nine months, or even longer, until water returns. This fish digs its hole with its mouth, throwing crushed soil through the gill slits. When the "bedroom" is ready, the protopter climbs into it and stays there until the water completely recedes.

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Turtles with two or sometimes even three heads are a rare but true phenomenon. This is what happens when twins begin to develop in the egg, but for some reason the embryos do not separate completely.
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The double-headed turtle has two brains, four eyes, and two mouths. It can crawl, swim, reproduce and eat, but it eats twice as much as its congeners and grows much faster.

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A device for writing notes

Not so long ago in China they created a device that transfers text from electronic documents to notebooks, it all works like a typewriter, only electronics 'print' for you, just have time to change the pen.

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