interesting facts!

Want to add a few unnecessary facts to your brain? Read this! (Please write your interesting facts in the comments, which will be included in the next part!) I'll warn you that the facts will most likely be unrelated.

1. Where did the phrase "to idle away one's time" come from? In the old days in Rus', logs were sawn, quartered, and trimmed. "Baklushki" were blanks for wooden spoons. Since any idiot from the village could do this, it was a piece of cake.
2. Where does the phrase "the game is not worth the candle" come from? Imagine you're going out with the guys to play cards in the evening. Light hadn't been invented yet, so they bought candles for the game. So, you show up, sit down, and your winnings are so small that they don't even cover the cost of the candles.
3. Even if you lie down all day and stare at the ceiling, doing literally nothing, you will burn about 1500 kcal.
4. When you make the sound "hmm" (well, when you think about something), you do it not through your mouth, but through your nose. Try pinching your nose and repeating this. (You won't succeed.)
5. The Internet weighs the same as a tennis ball.
6. Most white beaches are made of parrotfish poop. They bite off pieces of coral, digest everything organic, and everything else that can't be digested comes out. Live with it now.
7. Australia is wider than the Moon. (Australia is 4,020 km wider than the Moon, 3,476 km wider)
8. When someone nearby yawns, our mirror neurons (cells responsible for imitation) are activated. This is a manifestation of empathy.
9. The worst advice that can lead you to a better life is: "If you can't do something, do it poorly."
10. In Austria, there's a small village called "fucking." The villagers were really fed up with the fact that road signs with their name were constantly being stolen, so they changed the name to "Fugging."
11. Black cars are prohibited in Turkmenistan.
12. In Cameroon, during the Great Depression in the United States, they decided to raise money to help the people. They raised $3.77.

Thank you for your attention, my little stars!