Vengeful Jew, poisonous old women and other curious facts about everything

Surely, many at least once dreamed of regeneration. At least the one that flatworms have can only be envied. After all, they can grow a new head, keeping all the old memories in it.

When eating a watermelon, no one wants to eat the hard white part of it. But in vain, because it contains the same nutrients as the red pulp.

Few people know that the author of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien, was a close friend of the creator of The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis. That is why they were the very first to get acquainted with the new eyes of each other’s cult works.

The culture of behavior in the cinema suggests that people should sit in their place from the beginning to the end of the film. The audience owes this rule to Alfred Hitchcock, who ensured that cinemas did not let people into the hall after the beginning of the movie “Psycho” to maintain suspense. Since then, it has become the norm for everyone.

The first flush toilet was patented in 1775. Alexander Cumming’s device had an S-shaped siphon, which is also used in modern toilets. And it was made in such a shape to prevent sewer gases from entering the house.

Let’s talk a little about dangerous things that at first glance do not seem so. For example, excessive lighting, which can cause headaches, fatigue, stress, and even agoraphobia, which is the fear of open spaces.

Rust is also a danger, which can even kill a person. This is due to the fact that rusty metal absorbs oxygen abundantly. For example, in 2007, three people suffocated one after another in the anchor compartment of a ship, as rust absorbed all the oxygen.

No one serves revenge as coldly as the Israeli historian Ephraim Zuroff. For 40 years he has been tracking down former Nazis who have escaped justice. He collects evidence of their guilt, exposes and achieves imprisonment. So it was with a certain Dinko Shakic, who killed about 2 thousand people when he was the commandant in one of the Croatian death camps.

For 50 years after the war, he was in hiding in Argentina, but Zuroff tracked him down and got him sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Speaking of Jews. Probably everyone has seen cartoons with a big hooked nose at least once. So this is exactly how the representatives of this people were seen in Europe in the 13th century. It was this caricature that formed the basis of the stereotype that lives to this day.

In the 1950s, Anna Declos was told that no woman could write more explicit erotica than the Marquis de Sade. That is why she set about creating an obscene sadomasochistic novel, for which the French authorities tried to bring to justice. Luckily for her, The Story of O was published under the pseudonym Pauline Reage, so the punishment was avoided. Deklo hid her authorship for 40 years.

Do you know where the phrase “scapegoat” comes from? Thanks to the biblical description of the Hebrew rite. On the day when the sins of all the people were forgiven, the high priest put his hands on the goat’s head and laid on it all the bad things that the people did. After the animal was taken to the desert and released. This is where the well-known expression comes from.

What is the difference between female and male orgasm? It turns out that the first lasts longer, at least 2 times longer. Women – from 20 seconds, while men – no longer than 10. True, the former experience it only in 50% of cases, while the latter reach a peak of 90%.

Well, let’s finish with a very funny fact about older women in the Middle Ages. At that time, it was believed that food deposits harmful substances in the body, which in men come out through body hair and sweat, and in women through menstruation. Since they stopped in old age, people believed that nothing came out of older ladies, which means that they literally became poisonous.

Medieval doctors seriously believed that this “poisonousness” was reflected in the female character, because of which the old women were considered envious, treacherous and evil.