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27/09/2022

Ten fun facts about Georgia
Fact 1:
The deepest known cave in the world is the Voronya Cave in Georgia.

Fact 2:
The country reached its peak politically and culturally in the 12th and 13th century AD as “ The Kingdom of Georgia”.

Fact 3:
Georgia is considered a transcontinental country.

Fact 4:
The capital of Georgia is T'bilisi.

Fact 5:
One of the famous historic traditions in Georgia is; wine making.

Fact 6:
Georgia has a Jewish community that is considered one of the oldest in the world.

Fact 7:
Georgia gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.

Fact 8:
The country is divided into 2 halves; west and east by a chain of mountains called The Likhi Range of mountains.

Fact 9:
Georgian is the most spoken language, follows is Russian.

Fact 10:
Georgia is partially located in Eastern Europe and partially in Southwest Asia.

27/09/2022

Ten fun facts about River Raid
Fact 1
The game was also made for Atari 5200, Intellivision and Atari 8-bit.

Fact 2
A sequel was created by a different programmer, but still has similar gameplay. The game is harder than the first.

Fact 3
The game is viewed from a top-down perspective, as the player flies a fighter jet.

Fact 4
In this shooter game, there is hardly any enemy fire. The jet can also only move left and right, not up and down.

Fact 5
This game relies on 'random number generation', hoping to make enemy moves unpredictable since the game game world comes up every time the game is played.

Fact 6
River Raid was the first video game to be banned for minors in Germany.

Fact 7
The game was republished for the PlayStation 2 in the "Activision Anthology". It was rated free for all ages.

Fact 8
In 2010, the game was also republished for Microsoft's Game Room.

Fact 9
In the same year, a sequel titled River Raid 2 was released.

Fact 10
The game was designed by Carol Shaw, one of the first female video game designers.

27/09/2022

24/09/2022

Ten fun facts about Matt Dillon
Fact 1
He began acting in the late 1970s.

Fact 2
He gained fame as a teenage idol during the 1980s.

Fact 3
He has appeared in films such as Little Darlings (1980), My Bodyguard (1980), Tex (1982), Rumble Fish (1983), The Outsiders (1983), Drugstore Cowboy (1989), Singles (1992), Beautiful Girls (1996), There's Something About Mary (1998), Wild Things (1998), Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005), Crash (2005),You, Me and Dupree (2006), and Armored (2009).

Fact 4
In 2002, he wrote and directed the film City of Ghosts.

Fact 5
On Sept. 29, 2006, Dillon was honored with the Premio Donostia prize in the San Sebastián International Film Festival.

Fact 6
In 1990, he won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead for Drugstore Cowboy and in 2006 won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for Crash and the San Sebastián International Film Festival Donostia Lifetime Archievement Award.

Fact 7
Dillon contributed his voice as the narrator, Sal Paradise, in an audiobook version of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road.

Fact 8
In 2011 he received the special "Tomislav Pinter Award" at Avvantura Festival Zadar (Croatia) upon his presence at the filmfestival.

Fact 9
His paternal grandmother was the sister of comic strip artist Alex Raymond, the creator of Flash Gordon.

Fact 10
He has Irish, and some Scottish and German, ancestry.

22/09/2022

BASIC GORILLA FACTS
1) Gorillas are primates, an order of mammals that also includes monkeys, apes, tarsiers, lemurs, and humans. In fact, they are considered the largest primates in the world. Despite often being referred to as monkeys, they are not. They are great apes. Amongst various other differences, monkeys have tails while apes do not.

2) There are two gorilla species: Eastern and Western. The scientific name for Eastern Gorillas is Gorilla berinngei, and the scientific name for Western Gorillas is Gorilla gorilla. There are four gorilla subspecies. Western Lowland (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and Cross River (Gorilla gorilla diehli) are the two western species. Eastern Lowland (Gorilla beringei graueri) and Mountain (Gorilla beringei beringei) are the two eastern subspecies. Western gorilla subspecies tend to be brownish-gray, while eastern gorilla subspecies tend to be blacker.
3) After chimpanzees and bonobos, gorillas are the closest primate to humans (or any animal, for that matter) in terms of their genetic make up. Gorillas are very intelligent, and often prove it with their ability to laugh, express sadness, and convey other emotions.

4) Gorillas can learn sign language, utilize rudimentary tools, and even make some of their own tools. Gorillas’ hands even have unique fingerprints, like humans (and koalas).

5) Though gorilla size varies by species, most adults measure somewhere between four and six feet tall when standing on their hind legs. Gorilla weight also varies by species: The smaller Western Gorilla weighs 150 to 400 pounds, whereas the biggest gorillas (Eastern Lowland) can weigh up to 550 pounds in the wild.

6) Gorillas’ arms are longer than their legs, which makes it easier for them to walk on all fours. They usually walk on the knuckles of their hands, which is appropriately referred to as “knuckle walking.” Though they are capable of walking on two legs, they can only do so for short distances, up to about 10 feet.

20/09/2022

Unknown Facts about Lionel Messi's Life
1) Lionel Andrés Messi’s father Jorge Messi was a steelworker, and he also coached the local youth football team.

2) Messi shares his birthplace with the Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevera.

3) At the age of four, he joined local club Grandoli, where he was coached by his father, though his earliest influence as a player came from his maternal grandmother, Celia, who accompanied him to training and matches.

4) He was greatly affected by her death, shortly before his eleventh birthday; since then, as a devout Catholic, he has celebrated his goals by looking up and pointing to the sky in tribute of his grandmother.

5) At a tender age of 11, Messi was diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency which was stopping his normal growth rate.His parents could not afford his treatment, which was $1000 a Month.

6) In September 2000, First team director Charly Rexach of Barcelona immediately wanted to sign him, but the board of directors hesitated; at the time it was highly unusual for European clubs to sign foreign players of such a young age.

7) Messi’s first contract with Barcelona was detailed out on a paper napkin!

8) At the age of 17, he made his league debut against RCD Espanyol and became the third youngest person ever to play on Barcelona. At that time he was also the youngest player to ever score for Barcelona.

9) Barcelona was so impressed with Messi’s foot skills that they offered to pay his medical bills and move the family to Spain just to sign him when he was 13. That probably explains why the contract was first signed on a napkin.

10) His son, Thiago, was born on November 2, 2012. "Today I am the happiest man in the world, my son was born and thanks to God for this gift!" he wrote on his page.

11) Messi holds two passports - Argentina’s and Spain’s. He became a Spanish citizen in September 2005.

12) His 2005 international debut lasted 47 seconds when he received a red card after coming on as a substitute.

13) Messi inherited the No. 10 Barca jersey from another great footballer Ronaldinho in the summer of 2008.

14) At the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing, along with the Argentinian football team, he won an Olympic gold medal.

15) At 22, Messi got his first FIFA World Player of the Year award. After that, he made efforts to keep that award in his possession by winning the award for the next 3 years.

16) At the age of 25, Messi scored 200 goals in the Spanish La Liga making him the youngest player to achieve such.

17) Messi is the only player (Along with England’s Vivian Woodward) to have scored 25 goals in a calendar year during international competition with both his club and his country.

18) Messi was once offered a place in Spain’s National Team which he didn’t accept.

19) Messi is the sixth youngest soccer player to score a goal in a World Cup games.

20) One of Messi’s nicknames is “The Flea” due to his speed and agility.

21) If for whatever reason, Barcelona decides to cancel their contract with Lionel Messi, they will have to cough up over $330 million for a breach of contract.

22) According to Forbes, Messi has a Net worth of $180 million and is currently the second the richest player in the world with Cristiano Ronaldo beating him to the first spot.

23) According to Complex.com, He Makes up to $128,000 per day which included contracts and endorsements.

24) He is the first football player in the World to win three European Golden Shoe Awards.

25) He is the first footballer in the world to win three European Golden Shoe award.

26) He has scored most Hat-Tricks in Barcelona.

27) Messi scored 91 goals in 2012. Which is a world record for most goals in a year.

28) He has been dating his Argentine-born girlfriend and mother of his child - Antonella Roccuzzo - since 2009.

20/09/2022

Королівство Іспанія відправило до України п'ятий транспортний літак з боєприпасами для великокаліберних артилерійських систем. Усі ці поставки є прикладом пості....

20/09/2022

Снежные вершины Анд

17/09/2022

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT SNOW
World’s Largest Snowflake
The world’s largest snowflake was reported to be 15 inches across and 8 inches thick. The Guinness Book of World Records states that this giant snowflake was found at Fort Keogh, Montana on January 28, 1887.

#2 = Snow is Not White
“The complex structure of snow crystals results in countless tiny surfaces from which visible light is efficiently reflected. What little sunlight is absorbed by snow is absorbed uniformly over the wavelengths of visible light thus giving snow its white appearance.” – National Snow and Ice Data Center

#3 = 100” in 24 Hours
The town of Capracotta in Southern Italy is reporting that they received 100 inches of snowfall in 18 hours on March 5th, 2015.

What’s crazy is that Capracotta, Italy isn’t even in the Alps – it’s in Southern Italy. The town sits at only 4,662-feet and has been known to receive enormous one-day snowfalls. The town is home to about 1,000 residents.

#4 = World Record Snowfall
Mt. Baker ski area in Washington State has the world record for snowfall at 1,140 inches of snow in the 1998/1999 winter season. Mt. Baker ski area is located near but not on the real 10,781’ Mount Baker. You can just imagine what the snow totals were on the real Mount Baker that year…

#5 = Earth’s Fresh Water is Frozen
80% of all the fresh water on earth is frozen as ice or snow. This accounts for 12% of the earth’s surface.