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It is difficult to believe in the existence of some animals, and unexpected information about human body sometimes it just doesn't fit in my head. Our new facts are incredible, but 100% real.
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Carbonated drinks can be quickly cooled with ice and salt
Carbonated drinks in cans or glass bottles can be cooled more than ten degrees in just one or two minutes. Pour cool water into a bowl, add ice and two tablespoons of salt. After that, immerse a jar or bottle of drink in a liquid with ice, the water should completely cover the container. Why does a drink cool more than twice in two minutes? This is due to the endothermic reaction. Salt requires energy to dissolve, which it takes from heat. And since the warmest "body" in the container is a jar or bottle, the salt will draw heat through the shell from the contents of the container. Ice, which lowers the temperature of the water surrounding the salt, spurs the reaction, and as a result, cooling takes no more than two minutes.
Roundabouts are safer than intersections
For beginner motorists, roundabouts with multiple exits are more intimidating than intersections. But such forks are recognized as safer than traditional corner intersections. On average, there are 56 potential conflict points at a four-lane intersection - situations where a car could collide with another car or pedestrian. Roundabouts reduce the number of such points to 16. In addition, roundabouts optimize traffic, as drivers do not have to slow down at traffic lights or give way to pedestrians at crossings.
M&M's translates to "Mars and Merry"
These two names belong to the heirs of huge corporations that were and are engaged in the production of sweets. At the beginning of the 20th century, Forest Mars came up with a method of confectionery "casting", which allowed him to make a new generation of sweets: chocolate drops inside a hard glaze. In 1941, he opened a shop in New Jersey. For the first few years, high-end chocolate from Hershey's, then run by Bruce Merry, was poured into the icing. Alas, in 1949, the partners quarreled, and Mars completely bought out the rights to produce M&M's. He did not change the name of the sweet, as the public already fell in love with the new soft chocolate in hard glaze.
Bubble Packing - Failed Wallpaper
In 1957, a couple of enterprising engineers glued two shower curtains together so that dozens of air bubbles formed between them. Inventors tried to come up with textured wallpapers that would have high insulating properties. But their idea failed. They tried to sell glued curtains to greenhouse owners, presenting the invention as an insulating material. But here, too, the discovery turned out to be unclaimed. In 1960, IBM needed packaging material that would keep several very fragile processors intact during transportation. The air bubbles have finally found their purpose.
White eggs are no different from brown ones.
Sometimes in the store you can see brown eggs, which cost a little more than white ones. The first thing that comes to the mind of buyers is, perhaps brown eggs contain more nutrients and less fat? In fact, the color of the shell does not affect the contents in any way. Brown eggs are more expensive only because the laying hens eat more feed and require better care. As a result, farmers' costs are reflected in prices seen by consumers. The perceived benefit of brown is a common cognitive bias. After all, we know for sure that brown sugar is better than white, and whole grain bread with a brownish tinge is healthier than light wheat.
Strange furniture names IKEA - not just a publicity stunt
Typically, manufacturers give products identification numbers to quickly find them in the database. But at IKEA, not a single piece of furniture has a number. Instead, there are strange names that are given to a Russian-speaking person with difficulty. The founder of the company, who suffered from dyslexia, at the time of the birth of the furniture empire, wanted people to quickly remember the names of products. For this reason, IKEA beds are named after places in Norway, sofas after Swedish cities, kitchen tables- in honor of the sights of Finland, and the chairs - traditional male names. It seems to us that the new name of the table or chair is just another joke, but in reality, strange names help consumers navigate and remember products. Now, when you see the Fingal chair or the Fixhult sofa, you won't laugh.
Fans do not cool the air
In truth, the fans, on the contrary, heat the air a little due to the fact that the working parts of the device heat up during operation. You can put a thermometer in front of the fan and see for yourself. The devices that we so love to escape from the heat are not designed to cool, but to improve air circulation. However, there is an easy way to expand the functionality of the fan and make it cool you down. Spray water from a spray bottle in front of the working blades and get a cooling breeze. Only in this case the fan will cool you.
Cartographers have clever ways to protect copyright
The first creators of paper maps often encountered plagiarism when someone simply appropriated their many years of work. In response to theft, cartographers began to mark their work interesting way. They placed on the map ghostly settlements - cities that existed only on paper. Each map had its own ghost towns, which protected it from copying. Sometimes this way of copyright protection led to incidents. For example, once in the USA there was a store called Agloe General Store, which the owner named after the city next to which he was located. However, the city of Agloe never existed.
In pitch darkness, what you see is not black
The color that you see in a completely dark room has its own name - "eigenrau" (eigengrau). The word is translated into Russian as "speculatively gray" or "inner gray". The term first appeared in the 19th century, today scientists use this word less often. Color describes the phenomenon where you don't see a completely black color, but rather a transitional hue. For example, Eigenrau is lighter than a clear night sky, but much darker than the classic gray. Today in science this phenomenon is called "visual noise" or "adaptation to the background." The next time you find yourself in a dark room, remember that the color you see is called the amazing German word "eigenrau".
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Interesting facts about the solar system
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- On August 15, 1977, Jerry Ehman received a radio signal from space whose origin was widely considered to be potentially neither 'ethereal' nor 'non-solar'. Surprised by how closely the signal matched the supposed cosmic signal marker, Eiman circled it on the computer printout and wrote his comment: “Wow!”. It was this statement by Eiman that became the name of the signal.
- The strange flight of the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft
The space research stations Pioneer 10 and 11 (launched in 1972 and 1973) have long since completed their missions solar system, however, scientists still pay special attention to them. Although Pioneer 11 was completely lost, both research stations unexpectedly (and it is not clear why) changed the direction of their flights. However, the mysteries do not end there: both ships appear to be heading in the same direction.
The bewildered scientists cited a myriad of speculations about this: computer bugs, solar winds, fuel leak. However, this all remained only at the level of assumptions, nothing has been proven.
- female orgasm
Some scientists believe that the female orgasm is a rudimentary concept, that is, it does not have any obvious evolutionary function. In their opinion, the female orgasm in no way contributes to the fact that the chances of fertilization increase. Other researchers argue that this opinion is false, since the psychosocial aspects of a woman's orgasm were not taken into account.
- dark energy
Most physicists once believed that the expansion of the universe was gradually decreasing. But already in 1998 it became clear that this was not the case. On the contrary, our universe continues to expand. The explanation for this may be a phenomenon called dark energy, which supposedly makes up 3 quarters of our universe.
The general consensus is that dark energy rarely propagates, but interacts with other objects through gravity. Dark energy has a negative pressure that literally tears the universe apart. This is what explains the constant expansion of the universe.
- speed of light
According to Einstein's theory of relativity, there is nothing faster than the speed of light. Well, scientists had to try to do the impossible, and they succeeded. In 2000, scientists at Princeton University sent a small laser pulse through steam made from cesium gas. The researchers achieved their goal: the laser pulse traveled through the vapor space faster than light.
- Placebo effect
A placebo is a pill or medication that is essentially a drug but does not actually contain any active ingredients and therefore has no effect on the person taking the placebo. This mysterious phenomenon is called the placebo effect. How our psyche can affect health is still not completely clear to science, but scientists are working hard on this and, perhaps, soon the veil of secrecy will be ajar.
- Cold nuclear fusion
When the atoms collide with enough force, they can combine. Together with this merger, a huge amount of energy is released. All kinds of scientific theories tell us that this can only happen in an environment with incredibly strong energy, for example, in the solar core.
However, scientific experiments have shown that this can be achieved in a real environment. If you spend electrical voltage between palladium electrodes in water that contains deuterium and heavy hydrogen, an incredible phenomenon will occur before your eyes.
- Yawn
Yawning is usually perceived as a sign of fatigue or longing, but no one will deny the fact that a person yawns not only when he is bored or sleepy. Anaerobic athletes such as weightlifters or sprinters often find themselves yawning during the most intense workouts and competitions. Yawning is also inexplicably “contagious”: if someone around you yawns, you will certainly want to do the same.
One hypothetical function of yawning is the accumulation of carbon dioxide. However, this does not explain all aspects of yawning: for example, why it is still so contagious.
- Dark matter
All objects attract other objects to themselves, and the more objects an object can attract to itself, the greater its force of attraction. Everything is quite simple. However, the modern understanding of the concept of gravity does not give us an explanation of why visible objects move freely in the universe.
In order to decide this problem, modern physics created a special hypothetical substance - dark matter. The presence of dark matter can only be determined by its gravitational effect on larger objects. It is believed that dark matter makes up most of the mass of the universe.
- What happened before and what will happen after
There are a huge number of different theories describing what will happen if our universe does come to an end. But besides, it is full of different hypotheses of the origin of our world. Yes, in this case it is not at all necessary to be a specialist in quantum mechanics in order to say that any of these theories cannot be tested for veracity.
Some questions are simply impossible to answer. Where does a person go after death? What is the purpose of human life? These questions are still long time will not give rest to the curious mind of man.
A huge network of 36 caves that appeared over 2000 years ago. So you can safely exclude from the guesswork of the ancient Chinese Batman.
The entertainment portal site would like to tell you more about the ancient Chinese caves, but they do not know anything more about them. No documents, no artifacts - nothing to shed light on the truth of the underground structures. 900,000 cubic meters of cut rock and not a drop of information. This is especially strange, given that the ancient Chinese meticulously recorded absolutely everything. If we immediately rejected the Batman theory, then only one explanation remains - this is the place for the Predator to hunt.
Drill marks, ladders, support columns - all this cannot be the result of tectonic shifts. But true reason The appearance of these caves, as well as their purpose, is still unknown to anyone.
4. We can't read one of the most important languages in history. If we ask you to name the most important and influential civilization of the ancient world, you will probably point to the Romans or the Greeks. Just because they had a written language, architecture, philosophy and other shit. And only the most colorful botanists said "Etruscans". Yet, and they were not the most powerful guys.
In any case, the Etruscans were a small civilization in what is now Tuscany, creating aqueducts, urban planning, sewers, bridges, and metallurgy. In principle, everything that we mistakenly attribute to . But no matter how scientists understand the Etruscan civilization, we are still not able to decipher their language.
The problem with decoding an ancient language is that no one speaks it anymore. Moreover, famous modern researchers were only able to translate Egyptian hieroglyphs thanks to the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, a handy Egyptian-Greek travel dictionary that was created by King Ptolemy V. The reason for the appearance of this stone was the desire of the king to issue his decrees simultaneously in three languages.
We had no luck with the Etruscans. By the way, they wrote a lot, and none of these works was ever translated into the language of any other civilization known to us. As a result, we have several thousand inscriptions in the Etruscan language, but to this day only about a hundred words have been deciphered. At the same time, a lot of people know the Dothraki language - the language of a non-existent civilization from the series "".
5. "Peoples of the Sea". They destroyed almost every major city in the Ancient World... And we have no idea who they are.
1200 BC was a terrible period for people living around the Mediterranean. The main empires of that time - the Hittites, Mycenae and Egyptians - they all experienced a hard release, after the golden age. Huge armies of bloodthirsty barbarians poured salt on the wound, which appeared out of nowhere, burned, robbed and destroyed everything. We named these barbarians "Sea Peoples" but that's just a guess because we don't fucking know who they really are. Here is how they were portrayed by the ancient peoples:
The Sea People were so strong and aggressive that their invasion was akin to an attack by Hitler. The only ones who could hold them back were the ancient Egyptians. Prior to that, they had destroyed most of the ancient world. Scientists believe that the Sea Peoples could have come from Europe, or from the Balkans, or Asia Minor, or God knows where. The problem is that people were too busy dying to ask the Sea Peoples where they came from.
All this seems to be painfully reminiscent of the stories of Lovecraft, about the underwater civilization of lizard people who demolished the most powerful city in the world, on the eve of its 1000th anniversary.
In the age of the Internet, the reluctance of people to seek new knowledge seems a little strange, because when it was difficult to get a book, we sought to learn a lot, while trying to put our knowledge into practice. Now, when you can find out about everything in the world without raising your ass, no one wants to know anything. Not to mention the desire of the governments of some countries to loop the self-development of their people. We have become lazy, allowing progress to operate only in order to facilitate our existence. Our bodies produce fewer actions, and our brains are less and less able to cope with tasks. Useful stump to you!
People around the world are witnessing strange and sometimes inexplicable paranormal phenomena. Our country is rich not only in natural resources, but also in strange places and mysterious phenomena. Today I will tell you about 11 of the most interesting and famous of them.
Astronaut meeting with UFO
The pioneers of space exploration had a hard time: the technologies of the beginning of the space age of mankind left much to be desired, so emergency situations arose quite often, like the one that Alexei Leonov encountered, almost remaining in outer space.
But some of the surprises that lay in wait for the space pioneers in orbit were not related to the equipment at all. Many Soviet cosmonauts who returned from orbit spoke about unidentified flying objects that appeared near terrestrial spacecraft, and scientists still cannot explain this phenomenon.
Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, cosmonaut Vladimir Kovalyonok said that during his stay at the Salyut-6 station in 1981, he observed a bright, luminous object the size of a finger, rapidly enveloping the Earth in orbit. Kovalenok called the crew commander Viktor Savinykh, and he, seeing an unusual phenomenon, immediately went for the camera. At this time, the “finger” flashed and split into two objects connected to each other, and then disappeared.
It was not possible to photograph it, but the crew immediately reported the phenomenon to Earth.
Observations of unknown objects were also repeatedly reported by participants in the missions of the Mir station, as well as employees of the Baikonur Cosmodrome - UFOs appear quite often in its vicinity.
Chelyabinsk meteorite
On February 15 of this year, residents of Chelyabinsk and neighboring settlements observed an extraordinary phenomenon: a celestial body entered the Earth's atmosphere, which, when falling, was 30 times brighter than the Sun. As it turned out later, it was a meteorite, although various versions of the phenomenon were put forward, up to the use of secret weapons or intrigues of aliens (many still do not exclude such a possibility).
Exploding in the air, the meteorite split into many pieces, the largest of which fell into Lake Chebarkul near Chelyabinsk, and the rest of the fragments scattered over a vast territory, including some regions of Russia and Kazakhstan. According to NASA, this is the largest space object that has fallen to Earth since the Tunguska fireball.
The “guest” from outer space caused quite significant damage to the city: the glass in many buildings was shattered by the blast wave, and about 1,600 people were injured of varying severity.
The series of "space" adventures for Chelyabinsk residents did not end there: a few weeks after the meteorite fell, on the night of March 20, a huge luminous ball hovered in the sky above the city. It was observed by many townspeople, but there is no exact explanation of where the “second Sun” suddenly appeared from, and even at night. However, some believe that the ball arose due to the reflection of the lights of the city on specially located ice crystals in the atmosphere - that night Chelyabinsk was covered with thick cold fog.
Sakhalin monster
The remains of an unknown creature found by military personnel Russian army on the coast of Sakhalin Island in September 2006. According to the structure of the skull, the monster somewhat resembles a crocodile, but the rest of the skeleton is completely different from any reptile known to science. It also cannot be attributed to fish, and the locals, to whom the soldiers showed the find, could not identify in it any creature living in these waters. The remnants of animal tissues have been preserved, and, judging by them, it was covered with wool. The body was quickly picked up by representatives of the special services, and its further study took place "behind closed doors."
Now most experts are inclined to believe that these were the remains of some kind of cetacean, according to some versions, killer whales or beluga whales, but others object that the creature differs from both of them in its skeleton. As an alternative to the "accepted" point of view, one can name the opinion that the remains belonged to a prehistoric animal, which probably still survived in the depths of the oceans.
Seeing off the mermaid
Mermaids are one of the main characters of Russian folklore. According to legend, these spirits living in water bodies are born as a result of the painful death of women and children, and rumor has it that meeting with a mermaid does not bode well: they often seduce men, luring them into the abyss of a lake or swamp, steal children, scare animals and generally behave not too decently. According to tradition, in order for the year to be successful and fertile, the villagers brought various gifts to the mermaids, sang songs about them and danced in honor of these restless souls.
Of course, now such beliefs are far from being as common as in the old days, however, in some parts of Russia, rituals associated with mermaids still take place. The most significant of them is the so-called Mermaid Week (also known as Trinity Week or Seeing the Mermaid) - the week preceding the Trinity (50th day after Easter).
The main part of the ritual is the making and destruction of a stuffed mermaid, accompanied by fun, music and dancing. During the Mermaid Week, women do not wash their hair to protect themselves from spirits, and men, for the same purpose, carry garlic and walnuts. Of course, at this time it is strictly forbidden to enter the water - so as not to be dragged away by some bored mermaid.
Russian Roswell
A missile military range near the village of Kapustin Yar in the northwest of the Astrakhan region is often found in reports of the most strange and inexplicable incidents. Various UFOs and other curious phenomena are observed here with surprising regularity. Because of the most high-profile case of this kind, Kapustin Yar received the nickname Russian Roswell, by analogy with the city in the US state of New Mexico, where, according to some assumptions, an alien ship crashed in 1947.
Almost a year after the Roswell incident, on June 19, 1948, a silvery cigar-shaped object appeared in the sky over Kapustin Yar. On alarm, three MiG interceptors were raised into the air, and one of them managed to knock out a UFO. The "Cigar" immediately fired a beam at the fighter, and it crashed to the ground, unfortunately, the pilot did not have time to eject. The silvery object also fell in the vicinity of Kapustin Yar, and it was immediately transported to the bunker of the landfill.
Of course, many have questioned this information more than once, but some documents of the State Security Committee, declassified in 1991, indicate that the military has repeatedly seen something over Kapustin Yar that does not yet fit into the framework of modern science.
Ninel Kulagina
During the Second World War, then Nina Sergeevna Kulagina served as a radio operator in a tank and participated in the defense northern capital. As a result of her injury, she was commissioned, and after the blockade of Leningrad was lifted, she married and gave birth to a child.
In the early 1960s, she became famous throughout Soviet Union like Ninel Kulagina - a psychic and the owner of other paranormal abilities. She could heal people with the power of her mind, determine color with the touch of her fingers, see through the fabric that lies in people's pockets, move objects at a distance, and much more. Her gift was often studied and tested by specialists from various institutions, including secret scientific institutes, and many testified that Ninel was either an extremely clever charlatan or actually possessed anomalous skills.
There is no conclusive evidence for the former, although some former employees The Soviet research institute assures that when demonstrating "supernatural" abilities, Kulagin used various tricks and sleight of hand, which was known to the KGB experts investigating her activities.
Until her death in 1990, Ninel Kulagina was considered one of the most powerful psychics of the 20th century, and the inexplicable phenomena associated with her were designated the “K-phenomenon”.
Dragon from Brosno
Lake Brosno, located in the Tver region, is the deepest freshwater lake in Europe, but it is known to the whole world mainly because of the mysterious creature that the locals believe lives in it.
According to numerous (but, unfortunately, not documented) stories, an animal about five meters long, resembling something like a dragon, has been seen more than once in the lake, although almost all observers describe it differently. One of the local legends says that a long time ago, the "dragon from Brosno" was eaten by the Tatar-Mongolian warriors, who made a halt on the shore of the lake. According to another story, in the middle of Brosno, an "island" suddenly appeared, which disappeared after a while - it is assumed that it was the back of a huge unknown beast.
Although there is no reliable information about the monster supposedly living in the lake, many agree that some oddities do sometimes occur in Brosno and its environs.
Space Defense Troops
Russia has always sought to protect itself from all possible external (and internal) threats, and more recently, the defense interests of our Motherland include the security of its borders. To repel an attack from outer space, the Space Forces were created in 2001, and in 2011, the Space Defense Forces (VKO) were formed on their basis.
The tasks of this branch of the military include mainly the organization of missile defense and the control of military satellites coordinating it, although the command is also considering the possibility of aggression from alien races. True, in early October of this year, answering the question of whether the East Kazakhstan region was ready for an alien attack, Sergey Berezhnoy, assistant head of the German Titov Main Test Space Center, said: “Unfortunately, we are not yet ready to fight extraterrestrial civilizations” . Let's hope the aliens don't know about it.
Ghosts of the Kremlin
There are few places in our country that can compare with the Moscow Kremlin in terms of mystery and the number of ghost stories that are found there. For several centuries it has served as the main stronghold of Russian statehood, and, according to legend, the restless souls of the victims of the struggle for it (and with it) still roam the Kremlin corridors and dungeons.
Some say that in the Ivan the Great Bell Tower you can sometimes hear the weeping and groaning of Ivan the Terrible, atoning for his sins. Others mention that they saw the spirit of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in the Kremlin, moreover, three months before his death, when the leader of the world proletariat was seriously ill and no longer left his residence in Gorki. But the most famous ghost of the Kremlin is, of course, the spirit of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, who appears whenever shocks await the country. The ghost is cold, and sometimes he seems to be trying to say something, perhaps warning the leadership of the state against mistakes.
Black bird of Chernobyl(although not Russia, but also worthy of attention)
A few days before the infamous accident of the fourth power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, four plant employees reported seeing what looked like a huge dark man with wings and glowing red eyes. Most of all, this description resembles the so-called Mothman - a mysterious creature that allegedly repeatedly appeared in the city of Point Pleasant in the US state of West Virginia.
The workers of the Chernobyl station who met the fantastic monster claimed that after the meeting they received several threatening calls and almost everyone began to have vivid, incredibly scary nightmares.
On April 26, the nightmare happened not in the dreams of the employees, but at the station itself, and the amazing stories were forgotten, but only on a short time: while extinguishing the fire that raged after the explosion, survivors of the flames said that they clearly saw a 6-meter black bird that flew out of the clubs of radioactive smoke that fell from the destroyed fourth block.
Well to hell
In 1984, Soviet geologists launched an ambitious project to drill an ultra-deep well on the Kola Peninsula. The main goal was to satisfy scientific research curiosity and verify the fundamental possibility of such deep penetration into the depths of the planet.
According to legend, when the drill reached a depth of about 12 km, the instruments registered strange sounds coming from the depths and most of all resembling screams and groans. In addition, voids were found at great depths, the temperature in which reached 1100 ° C. Some even reported a demon flying out of a well and a flaming "I have conquered" sign appearing in the sky after terrifying screams were heard from a hole in the ground.
All this gave rise to rumors that Soviet scientists drilled a "well into hell", however, many of the "evidence" does not stand up to scientific criticism: for example, it is documented that the temperature at the lowest point reached by the drill was 220 ° C.
Perhaps David Mironovich Guberman, one of the authors and project managers of the Kola Superdeep Well, spoke best of all about the “well”: “When I am asked about this mysterious history, I do not know what to answer. On the one hand, stories about the "demon" are bullshit. On the other hand, as an honest scientist, I cannot say that I know what exactly happened here. Indeed, a very strange noise was recorded, then there was an explosion ... A few days later, nothing of the kind was found at the same depth.
In myths about Ancient Greece a legend is told about lustful forest nymphs-temptresses who lured travelers into the thickets and arranged a real sexual feast, after which, returning home, these men were no longer able to have fun with an ordinary woman. Not in vain, Herodotus exclaimed: "Whoever tasted the love of a nymph, he will never be able to forget her caresses."
It is believed that it was the forest harlots who taught people the art of sexual positions, and this legend became the reason that hypersexuality in women was called nymphomania. It is rather unfair that polygamy and sexual activity in men have not caused almost any surprise for a long time, but for some reason it is still not possible to explain such behavior in women.
Who are nymphomaniacs
Alfred Kinsey, a well-known researcher of sexual relationships, for example, gave the following definition to a nymphomaniac - this is "one who wants more sex than you." Since ancient times, mankind has known cases of increased sexual desire in men and women. However, the term nymphomania (from the Greek nymph - bride, mania - passion) is a type of hypersexuality only in women, and in men it is satyriasm (from the Greek satyr - a lustful goat-legged demon of the forest).
Interestingly, the scientific literature describes the case of a nymphomaniac who had sexual intercourse with men 10-15 times in a row and continued to feel the need and desire for further copulation. The nymphomaniac is always haunted by an uncontrollable desire to have sex with everyone, while she is completely illegible in choosing her partners.
This is explained by the fact that in the blood of nymphomaniacs the concentration of sex hormones is quickly restored - reaching that critical point when sexual intercourse becomes extremely desirable. The very attempts to get at least some pleasure are reduced to absolute zero, since true nymphomania does not entail sexual pleasure.
Statistics show that for every 2.5 thousand women there is always one true nymphomaniac, which should be distinguished from temperamental women with a free attitude to sex. Nymphomania can be divided into two types: the desire to have as many orgasms as possible or the desire to have as many partners as possible.
Nymphomania can develop against the background severe stress caused by cruel punishments in childhood, violence. Interestingly, it can also be provoked by such seemingly far from sex diseases as encephalitis, meningitis, tumors and vascular lesions of the brain, drug intoxication, hyperfunction of the adrenal cortex. Often, nymphomania is preceded by difficult childbirth, abortions with complications, abuse of oral contraceptives, menopause.
Carol Groneman, professor of history, in her book called "Nymphomania" draws a connection between a developed occiput, cerebellum and excessive sexual activity in women. However, this fact has not found scientific confirmation, and thus it is impossible to determine the nymphomaniac "by eye".
It is interesting that the most tireless nymphomaniacs are not crazy aged ladies, but girls aged 14-16. At this age, a woman's personality has not yet been fully formed, and youthful maximalism and infantilism do not allow her to resist increased sexual desire.
The most famous nymphomaniacs
The names of the most famous nymphomaniacs in history have become household names. It was not beauty and not their great deeds that made these women famous all over the world, but unbridled passion.
Cleopatra
Cleopatra was distinguished not only by her obstinate disposition, but also by her violent temperament. To satisfy her sexual desires, Cleopatra had a whole harem of young handsome men. Interestingly, according to legend, after a night with the queen, the young lover was expected to die imminently. Perhaps this was just a ploy to ensure that men were given love "like the last time."
Valeria Messalina
Valeria was the wife of Caesar Claudius. It is known that she slept with the entire legion of guards and had fun with clients in a brothel, pretending to be a prostitute. There is a term "Messalina complex", which is synonymous with nymphomania.
Known for changing favorites like gloves. Rumor has it that her insatiability is due to the fact that even in her early youth, Catherine played with artificial phalluses, constantly increasing their size: up to 9 cm in diameter. Perhaps that is why no man could satisfy her.
