4 really interesting facts

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#1 -

Are there still tribes cut off from modern civilization? The answer is positive.

On the northern island of Sentinel in the Bay of Bengali (about a thousand miles south of Bangladesh), the Sentinel people live in absolute isolation from the world. This is a group of 40 to 500 men and women (the exact number unknown) who live as hunter-gatherers.

Attempts to get closer to the island and come into contact with these people encountered hostility: The Sentinels fired arrows and threw spears at those who came to their island, even when an attempt was made to help them in the wake of a tsunami in 2004.

In 2006, the Santes killed two fishermen who were approaching their island. Since then no attempt has been made to contact them.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sentinel_Island

#2 -

In Japan, there is a trend called the osoroi code ( おそろい in Japanese ) which is basically a dress code.
Osoroi in Japanese is "belong" / "complete" / "to be the same" and hence the name and meaning of the code.

This trend stems from the desire to express a sense of belonging to a partner or group of friends and expressed by appearing in a public place in matching costumes. When the relationship is strong and of high value, the outfit will be more complex and more invested.

If it's going out to a movie with friends, just a light dinner, a date with your partner or the place where the most common 'code' which is Disneyland, the dress will match from head to toe, which means the pair of socks to the hat.

Source: https://www.odigo.jp/articles/8330-matching-outfits-osoroi-code

#3 -

Did you know that there are people who sleep two hours a day?

There is a method of sleep called "polyphasia sleep" - a multi-part sleep, which is actually able to shorten the time of sleep a day.
The method works in such a way that every 4 hours the person slept only 20 minutes, and thus accustomed the body to sleep in the heart of the sleep cycle alone which is the most important part of the sleep. In this way you gain more waking hours but on the other hand every 4 hours you have to find conditions for a nap.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biphasic_and_polyphasic_sleep

#4 -

There is a Pizza Hut perfume that smells like a hot pizza box that opens

Source: https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/pizza-hut-perfume/


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All the facts were taken from the Public group "עובדות לא חשובות" (Unimportant facts) and translated from Hebrew to English.

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I think that there are more places cut off from civilization in the world.

It needs a further research.