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The largest meteorite and largest piece of iron
ever found is the Hoba meteorite.
It was discovered in 1920 in Namibia,
by a farmer who was plowing his field.
The meteorite weighs 66 tons and measures 8.9 feet long
and 8.9 feet wide,
and about three feet thick.
Experts estimate that it fell to earth
about 80,000 years ago.
Cows, sheeps and goats all have a tough dental pad
below there top lip instead of front teeth.
This dental arrangement helps ruminants gather
great quantities of grass and fibrous plants.
When the Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia
erupted in 1883,
the sound it made could be heard thousands of miles away
in Australia and the island of Rodriguez.
It was the loudest sound ever recorded on the planet.
The microscopic tardigrade, also known as water bear,
or moss piglet, is one of the worlds toughest creatures.
It can go a decade without water,
and can withstand temperatures
as low as -459 degrees Fahrenheit,
and as high as 304 degrees Fahrenheit.
Adult rats can fit through a hole as small as a quarter,
or a gap less than one inch wide.
This is how rats can infest
your home without your knowledge.
According to researchers
at the National Hansen's Disease Program
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
the armadillo is one of the few mammals
that harbor the bacteria that causes leprosy.
There is a musical road in Lancaster, California.
It was created as a TV ad for Honda.
The road is cut into groves
that when traveling about 50 miles per hour,
it will actually play William Tells Overture.
From 1956 to 1958 Chrysler offered a record player
in its new cars called the Highway HiFi.
But it was short lived
because they had a tendency to, you know, break.
Author, American sex therapist,
and media personality, Dr. Ruth,
was trained as a sniper when she was just 16 years old
by the underground Jewish military organization,
Haganah, in Israel.
Crocodiles can hold their breath underwater
for up to two hours if they need to.
The colder the water, the longer that they can stay under
because a cold crocodile uses less energy
and oxygen than a warm one.
The 1925 released film, Ben Hur,
was the most expensive silent film ever made.
Costing between four to six million dollars at that time.
Actress Margaret Hamilton,
who is most remembered for her scary portrayal
of the wicked witch in The Wizard of Oz,
and terrifying children everywhere,
was actually a kindergarten teacher
before she got into acting.
In Spain and France the tooth fairy is a mouse.
Known as the la bon petite souris ,
the tiny mouse will procure teeth left under pillows
replacing them with either cash or sweets.
In 1985, Lynette Woodard became the first woman
to play for the Harlem Globetrotters.
Since then, she has played in the WNBA
and has been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame
and Women's Basketball Hall of Fame.
If you have delusions where you think you're a wolf
or another wild animal,
you suffer from what's called lycanthrope.
India has 23 official languages.
While Hindi is the official language
of the central government in India,
with English as a provisional official sub language,
individual state legislatures
are free to adopt any regional language
as the official language of that state.
There's an annual sidewalk egg frying contest
on the Fourth of July in Oatman, Arizona.
Contestants are given 15 minutes to fry two eggs
using only solar power.
They can use mirrors, magnifying glasses, and aluminum
to help speed up the process.
Pablo Picasso's full name was, brace yourself for this,
Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan
Nepomuceno Crispin Crispiniano María
Remedios de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso.
The library of Congress is the largest library in the world.
It has more than 162 million items,
over 838 miles of bookshelves,
more than 38 million books and print materials,
3.6 million recordings,
14 million photos, 5.5 million maps,
7.1 million pieces of sheet music,
and 70 million manuscripts.
The Philippines hangs the flag upside down when it's at war.
This actually caused great confusion and tension in 2010
when the flag was displayed upside down
behind the president at the time
when he met with President Obama
and other leaders of the assembly
of Southeast Asian nations.
Everyone kind of thought it was an act of war!
Baby hedgehogs are born with quills
but they are soft and flexible.
In the early days of the Indie 500,
most of the cars had two seats.
One for the driver and one for the onboard mechanic.
The mechanic monitored the gauges,
made repairs, and sometimes would even massage
the drivers arms and neck.
The onboard mechanic was mandatory from 1912 to 1922,
and then again from 1930 to 1937.
On November 14, 1969, the Apollo 12
was struck by lightning just 36 seconds after lift off.
And moments later, it was struck again.
The second strike tore through the ship,
and wiped out many of it's electrical systems.
One of the flight controller's
remembered how to switch the spacecraft's
signaling conditioning equipment to auxiliary,
and the Apollo 12 was able to actually continue on
to successfully land on the moon.
Actress Megan Fox suffers from papyrophobia,
which is the fear of dry paper.
In the 16th century, up until the 1960's,
Egyptian mummies were actually ground up
and used to produce a brown paint color
called Mummy Brown.
The powder was mixed with white pitch and myrrh
to produce a rich brown pigment.
During the Vietnam War,
US Fighter jets would drop their external fuel tanks
over Vietnam when they were empty
or the pilot needed more maneuverability.
Vietnamese farmers would then repurpose them
and use them as canoes.
A 68 year old grandmother from West Wales
had her car followed and swarmed
for two days by 20,000 bees.
They were actually trying to rescue their queen bee,
which unbeknownst to her,
had hitched a ride in her Mitsubishi Outlander.
Beekeepers were brought in to safely remove them.
The hood ornament on a Rolls Royce car
is actually called the Spirit of Ecstasy.
In 1974, Gerber baby products tried marketing singles
by Gerber, which were meals in a jar
like creamed beef and beef burgundy.
Marketing was aimed to college students and young adults.
But, believe it or not, the product failed!
In 1965, Mattel released Slumber Party Barbie.
Apparently, one of her slumber party essentials
was a pink scale that was permanently set to 110 pounds.
Makoto Igarashib from Tokyo
developed a Hizamakura Lap Pillow,
which is a cushion shaped like a woman's legs
wearing a mini-skirt,
that you can lay your head down on for maternal feelings.
During World War II, Germany used guns
that had a curved barrel device that was clamped
onto the end of an MP 44 rifle that allowed soldiers
to shoot over obstacles without exposing themselves
to return fire.
Sea scallops have about 60 eyes.
They can be a bright blue color
and help the scallop detect light, dark, and motion.
Think about that next time you order them at a restaurant.
Yum yum!
Boxer Muhammad Ali's star on the Walk of Fame
is on the wall, not on the pavement
because he didn't want the name of Muhammad
to be stepped on.
Writer and director Oliver Stone
received a Purple Heart and Bronze Star
for his services in the Vietnam War.
Breast fed babies poop more than formula fed babies
because breast milk contains immunoglobins,
substances produced the body's immune system
which works like a natural laxative.
According to the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, or the CDC,
as of 2014, one in 68 children, or more specifically,
one in 42 boys and one in 189 girls,
has autism spectrum disorder,
which includes a wide range of symptoms,
skills in different levels of disability.
In 2014, scientists discover the earliest evidence
of human footprints.
These were outside of Africa on the Norfolk coast
in the east of England.
The footprints were found on the shores of Happisburgh
and were more than 800,000 years old.
Every single Spring, Sweetwater, Texas,
has a rattlesnake round-up.
For three days, snake hunters bring in their catches,
which end up being 1000's of snakes,
for which they're paid five dollars for every pound.
The junior Chamber of Commerce began the tradition
back in 1958 to address the over population of snakes.
In Indonesia, whole smoked bats are considered a delicacy.
When important Vikings died, they were put
into a burial ship along with their clothes and jewelry,
where they were either buried
or set on fire and pushed out to sea.
In Victorian times, children as young as five years old
were used as chimney sweeps.
They were sent up the chimney,
some of them as narrow as 12",
to clean out soot and debris.
And if they got stuck,
the master chimney sweeper would light a fire
to encourage them to continue working.
But some of them just got stuck and died of suffocation.
Between 1347 and 1350, the Bubonic Plague,
also known as Black Death,
killed 20 million people in Europe.
That was 30% of the continent's population at the time.
Balut is a national delicacy in the Philippines.
It's a fertilized duck egg or duck embryo
that is boiled and eaten from the shell.
The boot laced worm is the largest species of ribbon worm.
They can grow up to 197 feet in length,
which is longer than a blue whale.
The proper medical term for burping
or belching is eructation.
On March 26, 1997, 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult
committed mass suicide because they believed
that their souls would be transported to a space ship
that was following the Hale Bob Comet.
The Satere-Mawe Indians initiate their boys
at the age of 13 by making them wear gloves
made of bullet ants for 10 minutes.
They are repeatedly bitten, which is incredibly painful,
but must not cry out if they want to be declared a man.
The Komodo dragon is the national animal of Indonesia.
The distance from Mars to the Sun
is 128 million
437 thousand
425 miles at it's closest point.
And 154 million, 845 thousand,
701 miles at it furthest.
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