Start the week well by feeding your brain with these 15 curiosities
1 - They say that the folds that exist in the chef's hats represent different ways of preparing an egg.
2 - In 1962, Volvo granted the patent for free three-point seat belts for the purpose of saving lives.
3 - Did you know that iconic aviator Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, US First Lady between 1933 and 1945, once escaped from an official White House event for a plane ride? The pair went from Washington to Baltimore just for adventure.
4 - Guinness Book staff - the Book of Records - estimates that 93, 000 liters of beer is wasted each year from dribbling in the United Kingdom.
5 - There is a term to refer to the habit of buying books and never reading any of them: "tsundoku".
6 - In 1908, the Russian delegation appeared for the London Olympics 12 days late because Russia was still following the Julian calendar instead of the Gregorian one.
7 - Captive crows can learn to "speak" even better than parrots.
8. During the years that Prohibition remained in force in the US, men known as moonshiners - who were dedicated to producing a corn-based brandy - wore shoes whose soles left foot-like footprints so they wouldn't get caught. by the police.
9 - In Sweden, each person who makes a blood donation is given a thank you card when their blood is used by someone.
It is estimated that around one million dogs in the US have been named as top beneficiaries by their humans in their wills.
11 - Neil Armstrong's astronaut application form arrived at NASA a week after the deadline. He just didn't miss the opportunity to become the first man to walk the moon because a friend of his stumbled and put the late form along with the others without anyone seeing.
12. And speaking of space travel, Russian cosmonauts used to carry pistols in their luggage in case they landed in Siberia on their return and had to drive away bears.
13 - The number of shark bite victims registered annually is 10 times lower than the number of people who are victims of shark bites in New York alone.
14 - After an online vote in 2011, car maker Toyota decided that the plural of the Prius car name would be Prii.
15 - Did you know that a solar eclipse in 586 BC helped end a six-year war? The conflict was between the Lydians and the Medes, who were fighting for a territory that today corresponds to a region of Turkey, but when the soldiers saw the day grow dark during the celestial event, they saw it as a sign that the battle should end.
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