- Hmm, you know, there was an animal sound
I used to do at the beginning of these.
Oh yeah. (clears throat)
(barks and bleats)
No, that's not right.
Here are 50 Amazing Facts to Blow Your Mind.
According to the National Severe Storms Laboratory,
the part of lightning that we can see
actually comes from the ground up, not the sky down.
Out of all the cicada in the world,
only males can produce this famous sound.
(cicadas chirping)
Their organs have something called tymbals
and their muscles pop the tymbals in and out,
which creates that famous sound.
State health department records over the past decade
show that Hawaii's visitor drowning rate
is 13 times higher than the national average
and 10 times the rate of the number of its own residents.
In 2011, a cafe opened in Istanbul called the Down Cafe.
They only hire staff between the ages
of 18 to 25 with Down Syndrome.
In 1891, Dr. James Naismith from Almonte, Ontario, Canada,
invented the game of basketball.
He cut out the bottom of a peach basket
and hung it 10 feet in the air, and thus the game was born.
In 2014, the International Space Station
had to be moved three separate times
in order to avoid being hit by lethal-sized space debris.
Oregon's Mount Angel Abbey Museum
houses the world's largest pig hairball.
It's the size of a football. (gags)
That's gross.
Inventor Joey Stein of Genius Ideas in New York City
has invented a device that can communicate with fireflies.
At the push of a button, it sends out a come hither message
that attracts fireflies
and lets users observe them up close.
According to the New England Journal of Medicine,
a 30-year-old man from India
developed an unusual flower-shaped cataract with 10 petals
after sustaining a concussion from a bike accident.
Kangaroos have three vaginas!
Two of them are on the outside and are for sperm
and lead to two uteruses
and the middle one is for giving birth.
In March of 2012, Israel adopted
a law called the Photoshop Law,
stipulating that fashion and commercial models
should have a body mass index, or BMI, of at least 18.5.
For context, a healthy BMI is between 18.5 to 24.9.
The praying mantis can actually camouflage itself
by changing color.
It can vary from dark brown to green
to blend in with tree bark and leaves.
This enables it to hide from predators
and also sneak up on prey.
Gangster Al Capone started
one of the very first soup kitchens in Chicago in 1931.
Steven Spielberg named the shark prop
used in the 1975 movie Jaws "Bruce" after his lawyer.
Hello, my name's Bruce. (chomping)
The original Hollywood sign was erected in 1923
and was conceived as an outdoor ad campaign
for a suburban housing development called Hollywoodland.
However, it was refurbished
and shortened to just Hollywood in 1949.
Back in the 1920s, there were beach police
that actually went around measuring women's swimsuit lengths
to ensure that no one was wearing
a swimsuit with a questionable length.
If a woman was found violating the code,
they would be forced to cover up or sent home
or, in some cases, actually arrested.
Pinball machines were actually banned
in New York City back in 1976.
Research from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
shows that people who ate spicy foods
six to seven times per week
had a 14% lower risk of premature death for all causes,
rather than people who ate spicy foods
less than once a week.
There's a Burger King in Finland with an in-house sauna.
The 10-person sauna can be rented
for $285 US for three hours
and can be used for birthday parties or work events.
A koala sleeps for around 20 hours a day.
KFC in Hong Kong is offering lickable
edible fingernail polish in two different flavors,
original and hot and spicy.
Get it, 'cause it's finger-licking?
Like, "Mmmm, my fingernails."
That's not unsanitary at all.
Amsterdam has a houseboat
that is a sanctuary for rescued cats.
It's actually become a tourist attraction
that receives about 4,500 visitors a year.
According to the World Health Organization, worldwide,
up to 5 million people are bitten by snakes every year.
However, don't fear because the majority of these
occur in Africa and Southeast Asia.
Unless you live in those places, in which case, worry.
According to the World Health Organization,
the number of people with diabetes
has risen from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014.
September 10th, 1977, was the very last time
that someone was executed by a guillotine.
Uruguayan architect Rafael Vinoly
designed a ring-shaped bridge on Uruguay's southern coast,
called the Laguna Garzon Bridge,
to encourage people to slow down and take in the view.
There are some turtles,
such as the Australian Fitzroy River turtle
and the North American eastern painted turtle,
that can breathe through their butts
as well as their mouths.
Someone give that turtle a breath mint.
The Vermont Novelty Toaster Corporation
introduced the toasted selfie.
All you have to do is send it a selfie
and they'll print it for you
on a selfie toast-producing gadget in just 10 days.
Chocolate Avenue is a street in Hershey, Pennsylvania,
that runs past the original Hershey's Chocolate factory.
The streetlights are shaped like Hershey Kisses.
Only female mosquitoes bite humans and animals.
Male mosquitoes only feed on flower nectar.
Up until the late 1960s,
long-haired male visitors to Disneyland
were actually turned away
because they didn't meet the unwritten dress code.
In 1952, Albert Einstein was actually offered
the presidency of Israel.
However, he politely declined the offer.
All surface water of the Atlantic Ocean
is significantly saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
Unifi, a manufacturer in Greensboro, North Carolina,
recycles plastic bottles into polyester yarn
to make t-shirts, shorts, or even graduation gowns.
In fact, approximately 400,000 college students
will actually accept diplomas this year
while wearing these gowns.
During the first three years,
a child's brain triples in weight
and established about 1,000 trillion nerve connections.
Two University of Washington undergraduates,
Navid Azodi and Thomas Pryor, have actually created gloves
called SignAloud that can convert sign language
into spoken word via BlueTooth.
Road traffic crashes are the leading cause of death
among children ages 10 to 19.
So, please be careful out there;
your life is precious, baby!
A survey done by Oxford University
found that the average Facebook user has about 155 friends,
but is only close enough with about four
that they would be willing to turn to in a crisis.
Omphalophobia is the fear of the bellybutton.
Sufferers of this are actually afraid
to have their bellybuttons touched
or to touch another person's.
Motorized self-balancing scooters, AKA Hoverboards,
are actually illegal in New York City.
Some baby whales are actually born with hair.
Most species born with hair usually lose it
over the first several days or weeks of birth,
especially knowledge whales.
According to a study done by Nick Wolfinger,
a sociologist at the University of Utah,
people have a better chance of not getting divorced
if they get married between the ages of 28 and 32.
Abu Dhabi has the largest falcon hospital in the world.
In fact, it houses over 6,000 falcons.
North Yungas Road in Bolivia has the nickname, "Death Road,"
because it's estimated that between 200 to 300 people
per year die on it.
There is a 30-foot replica of a 1951 Canadian nickel
in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
At birth, baby kangaroos or joeys
can be as small as a grain of rice or as big as a bee.
Either way, that's super small.
3.5 billion years ago, a mega-asteroid
that was likely 30 miles across
slammed into Earth in Australia.
The impact caused tsunamis and craters
bigger than many US states.
On May 15th, 2016, doctors announced
that they had performed the first penile transplant
in the United States.
The recipient was 64-year-old
Thomas Manning from Massachusetts.
The operation took 15 hours
and they used the penis from a deceased donor.
That's, that's zombie dick.
As of May 10th, 2016, the Endangered Species Act of 1973
listed 1,367 species of animals
and 901 species of plants as endangered or threatened.
License plates in the Northwestern Territories in Canada
are shaped like polar bears.
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