15 interesting trivia for you to enrich your knowledge

It is incredibly rare for great white sharks to survive in captivity - and scientists believe this is because the electricity in buildings where fish are kept interferes with their electroreceptor systems that help them locate and locate objects in the environment. .

2 - The moais - those intriguing big-headed statues that exist on Easter Island - have bodies buried underground, you know?

3 - The city of Melbourne, Australia, created email addresses for its trees so that people could report plant-related problems. However, instead, trees began to receive messages of love from residents.

4 - There is a rare condition called Foreign Accent Syndrome that can arise as a result of brain trauma and cause those affected to speak their native language as if they were a person from another country.

5 - The smell of freshly cut grass is a result of the chemical elements that plants release in stressful situations.

6 - Fossils found on Seymor Island - which is part of the Galapagos - indicate that penguins as tall as humans existed (measuring about 1.8 meters and weighing over 110 kilograms) 30 or 40 million years ago.

7 - During World War II, soldiers used bacon to make explosives.

8 - Did you know that captive-bred crows can learn to "speak" even better than parrots?

9 - According to a 2015 study, sarcasm can promote creative thinking.

10 - Between the 5th and 16th centuries, a very popular custom in England and Scotland was that people faced each other in kinds of competitions in which they threw insults and shrewd verses against each other - much like today's “rap battles”. "

Originally, the modeling clay that children - and even some adults - love to play with was sold as wallpaper cleaners.

12 - The Guinness Book - the famous Book of Records - estimates that, annually, 93, 000 liters of beer are "wasted" on the drunken beards in the UK alone.

13 - The color of reindeer eyes changes throughout the seasons. They become more golden in summer and blue in winter.

14 - The oldest piano in the world still in existence is exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and was produced by an Italian named Bartolomeo Cristofori in 1720.

15 - Elvis Presley's agent sold brooches that read "I Hate Elvis" to earn money even on those who didn't buy licensed King of Rock products.