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American novelist Cormac McCarthy writes all of his books on a 1963 Lettera typewriter. In 2009, he sold his typewriter at an auction for $254,500. He spent $20 to buy an identical replacement.

У каждого есть такие места забыть о которых невозможно, хотя бы потому, что там воздух помнит твоё счастливое дыхание.

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The red pigment in beetroot, called betalain, is difficult for the human digestive system to process. It's likely that when you use the restroom, you'll have beeturia, or red or pink p*e. It’s also quite a common reason for people to think they have blood in their stool and head to the doctor's office.

Originally built as only a hunting lodge for King Francois I, Chateau de Chambord contains 440 rooms and 365 fireplaces. It is so large that Loire, the longest river in France, was rumored to have been diverted to make room for it.

Out of the 101 oldest people who have lived/are still living, 95 of them are female.

In 1958, Canada set off one of the largest intentional non-nuclear explosions in history to remove a rock in the middle of a shipping lane between Vancouver Island and the mainland. A tunnel half a mile long was dug out under the ocean and filled with 2.75 million pounds of explosive.