7 little-known facts about Ukraine

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Here are 7 little-known facts about Ukraine:

1. Viva la revolution!

It's a well-known fact that during the years of independence two revolutions took place in Ukraine - the Orange Revolution and the Revolution of Dignity. However, the interesting fact is that the government always remain the same personalities. Where else have you seen such a revolution?

2. Chocolate bunny

The current President of Ukraine made billions selling sweets! Billions of dollars! Selling candies! Fuck you, Trump!

3. Camera! Action!

90 percent of Hollywood blockbusters (Titanic, Transformers, Harry Potter, Fast'n'Furious etc) are filmed with the help of the equipment of the Ukrainian company Filmotechnic.

For the contribution to cinema development, the company was awarded by two Oscars.

4. Game Ower

Natus Vincere, Na'Vi (lat. Born to Win) - Ukrainian eSports team, for the first time in the history of eSports won three major Championships (World Cyber Games, Intel Extreme Masters, Electronic Sports World Cup) in a single year (2010). This achievement was recorded in the electronic version of the Guinness Book of Records. No one has repeated their success.

5. The Arch

At the end of 2016 construction of NSA was completed. A New Safe Confinement was to be built in order to transform the shelter of reactor #4 of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant into a multifunctional eco-friendly complex. The New Safe Confinement consists of nineteen different substructures, including the most important protective arch with a special double casing.

It took seven years to build the arch. 5700 metal elements were used in construction: pipes (starting out from 800 mm in size), 4000 nodal connections, 650 000 bolts, 400 steel and 400 ferrocement piles. Overall the weight of the construction amounts to more than thirty-five thousand tons. 1200 people worked on it every day.

The height of the structure is 108 m (an equivalent of a building 30 storey high), its length is 162 m, the width is 257 m.!

The New Safe Confinement will be able to withstand F3 tornadoes on the Fujita scale, which statistically happen once in a million years, a strong (VI) earthquake on the MSK scale which happens once in ten thousand years and temperature swings within the interval of -43°С to +45°С.

The arch was built on the western side of the #4 reactor and then shifted on it on special rails.!

Today, it’s the biggest movable structure in the world.

6. Blockchain... Blockchain everywhere...

Ukraine has become the first country that already integrates the technology of blockchain into public administration. According to Forbes, Ukraine is even ahead of the United States.

7. Fuck you Zuckerberg!

The social network Nimses, created by Ukrainians, is the fastest growing network. Over 5 days, more than 1 million users were registered. And yes, they have their own cryptocurrency called nims.

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