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Time for the facts!
Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
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There are more countries in the list of FIFA members
than there are in the United Nations.
There are currently 212 FIFA members,
while the members of the countries
in the United Nations sits at only 193.
In 2007, Saina and Adnan Cleric,
a couple in a loveless marriage in Zenica, Bosnia
were individually looking for someone
other than their spouse online.
Both found other users that they felt
could be their soul mates.
But when they went to meet in person,
they discovered they had set themselves up with each other.
Despite the unlikely coincidence and the love
that they shared online, each accused the other
of cheating, and the couple ultimately got divorced.
If your eyes were as good as the Wide Field
and Planetary Camera on the Hubble Space Telescope,
you would have the ability to read the fine print
on a standard newspaper that was over
1.6 kilometers away from you.
During the French Revolution of 1830, Louis Antoine
became King of France when his father,
King Charles X abdicated.
However, soon after, Antoine renounced the throne as well,
having been king for literally less than 20 minutes.
Only 10 people have been named honorary
Harlem Globetrotters, and that list includes two popes:
Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis.
Oh yes, times to get those holy baskets.
In 1883, mongooses were set loose
in sugarcane fields in Hawaii
in an attempt to control the growing rat populations.
However, since rats are nocturnal and mongooses are diurnal,
the new animals failed to make an impact.
Farmers quickly found they had issues
with large populations of both animals,
while the native bird populations plummeted.
Babies born in the Ache tribe in Paraguay
have multiple fathers, which are made up
of all the males who had intercourse
with the baby's mother during pregnancy.
Once born, the infant is looked after by all of these men,
who help feed and raise it.
Like many countries, India has an annual holiday
celebrating children.
But unlike other countries, their "children's day"
is on November 14th, exactly nine months
after Valentine's Day.
You know what that means, you know what I'm saying?
When they got busy.
For the brief appearance as a drugged out criminal
in the 1986 comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off,
Charlie Sheen stayed awake for 48 hours prior to filming
so that it would seem authentic.
Right, that's how Charlie Sheen made it authentic,
just by "staying up".
In the summer of 1962, American scientists
detonated a hydrogen bomb that was 100 times more powerful
than the one that was dropped on Hiroshima,
just outside the Earth's atmosphere,
just to see what would happen.
The act or practice of eating the flesh or meat of a horse
is called hippophagy.
Just eight months asfter purchasing DomiNick's,
a pizza restaurant, with his brother Tom for $500,
James Monaghan traded his share to Tom
for a used Volkswagen Beetle.
38 years later, Tom sold 93%
of what's now known as Domino's Pizza for $1 billion.
(groaning) That hurts.
On August 13th, 1941, Henry Ford unveiled his new car
at the Dearborn Days community festival
in Dearborn, Michigan.
Dubbed the soybean car, the vehicle was only two-thirds
the weight of the average steel car
and was made, in part, out of soybeans.
The longest hole of golf ever played was done so in 2017
by 28-year-old Adam Rolston and his caddie/friend,
42-year-old Ron Rutland.
Teeing off on June 29th at the most Western point
of Mongolia, the pair traveled through the country
for 2,011 kilometers, hitting a golf ball as they went.
It took them 82 days to reach their destination, Ulan Bator,
the nation's capital city, to complete the "course".
It was estimated to be a par 14,000,
but Rolston shot a 20,093.
The 1976 film Rocky was filmed in just 28 days,
with star Sylvester Stallone and the film's small crew,
that were driving around the city of Philadelphia in a van,
as well as hopping out whenever director John Avildsen
saw a colorful location.
For centuries, many Buddhist monks
practiced self-mummification,
in which they consume only water, nuts, fruits and seeds
collected from nearby forests as well as mountains,
and then seal themselves in a small tomb
with a breathing tube and a bell.
If the monk failed to ring the bell one day,
they would be considered dead,
the tube was taken out of the tomb
and was sealed for 1,000 days, leaving to a mummified body.
On February 19th, 1916, 28-year-old Marshall Mabey
was working on a new subway line in Brooklyn, New York
when a buildup of air pressure shot him,
as well as two coworkers, out of the tunnel,
up through the mud and water of the East River,
and over seven and a half meters into the air.
Though the other men died,
Mabey miraculously suffered no serious injury.
Although most of the population speaks Spanish,
as of 2009, the constitution of the country of Bolivia
recognizes 37 official languages.
In 1924, while imprisoned at Landsberg Fortress
in Bavaria, Germany after a failed attempt
to seize power in Munich,
Adolph Hitler wrote a letter to Jakob Werlin,
the owner of a Mercedes-Benz dealership.
In the letter, Hitler begged for a loan
so that he could buy a limousine
that he had his heart set on,
as the future dictator was, at the time, very broke.
In South Carolina in the United States,
the maximum penalty for first-time domestic abuse
is 30 days in jail, while the maximum sentence
for the abuse of a dog is five years.
On November 3rd, 1986, a 12-member jury
was on their way to a courtroom
to hear arguments in a lawsuit
filed against Otis, the elevator company,
when the elevator that they were in
broke down and got stuck.
The elevator was an Otis elevator.
Well that can't help your case.
In March of 2016, Barak Obama became the first president
in 88 years to officially visit the country of Cuba.
The last president to do this was Calvin Coolidge in 1928.
Frito-Lays Flaming Hot Cheetos product
was invented by a man named Richard Montanez,
who was working at one of the company's factories
as a janitor when he came up with the idea.
Today, that man is an executive vice president
with Pepsi-Co.
First introduced in Green Lantern
Volume II, number 188 in 1986, Dkrtzy RRR
is a bio-sentient mathematical equation
that's a genuine member of a superhero group,
the Green Lanterns.
Terville, a town in Normandy, is the only village
in all of France to not lose a single resident
to the last five wars that the nation has been involved in,
including World War I and II.
Every soldier who took part in them came home.
George Washington was the first and only
United States President to receive 100% of electoral votes.
That sounds sketch.
As an April Fools prank in 2014, National Public Radio
posted a link on their Facebook page
accusing Americans of not reading things anymore.
The post quickly got a slew of comments
from outraged people, but those who actually did read
the content in the link were congratulated.
NPR was proving that a huge number of people commented
without ever reading, even when the topic was reading.
There's a company in Essex, England
that allows people to hire actors
to attend their own funerals, so that they appear
to have been more popular than they actually were.
Known as rent-a-mourner, actors will even attend wakes
and tell stories about the deceased
as if they really knew them.
In 1994, a lawsuit was filed against Apple
over their new codename for the Power Macintosh 7100.
It was internally called Carl Sagan
after the famous astronomer,
but after learning of the lawsuit,
Apple changed the codename to BHA,
which stood for Butt Head Astronomer.
During the 44th annual Academy Awards in 1972,
comedian Charlie Chaplin received an honorary Oscar
for his achievements in film.
His appearance at the ceremony
marked the first time that Chaplin
had been in the United States in 20 years,
since being labeled a communist,
and he was greeted as he made his way on stage
with a 12-minute standing ovation
from the audience of his fellow filmmakers.
It still stands, no pun intended,
as the longest in Oscar history.
As of 2014, the country with the slowest
internet connections in the southeast Asian region
is the Philippines, with an average speed
of just 3.54 Mbps.
That while nearby Singapore has the second fastest,
with around 65 Mpbs.
Iquitos, the capital of the Maynas Province
and Lareto Region is the sixth most populated city in Peru.
Despite having a population of over 470,000,
Iquitos can only be accessed by the river or air.
It is the largest city on the planet
that cannot be reached by road.
Bonobos, endangered great apes
that happen to be the closest extant relatives
to human beings, are naturally bisexual
and don't seem to discriminate based on age or gender
when participating in sexual activity.
In Denmark, it's actually legal to burn
or otherwise desecrate the national flag,
called the Dannebrog,
But it's actually illegal to burn or desecrate
those from foreign countries, the United Nations
or the Council of Europe, because doing so
would be viewed as a threat.
Breatharians are a group of people
who believe that human life can be sustained
without food or even water, but simply by prana.
Prana is also known as life force,
which is in the air and light around them.
Despite many Breatharians claiming to go
extended periods of time without other nourishment,
others have lost their lives trying to follow their example.
Data collected in 2013 by the Venezuelan Prison Observatory
revealed that nearly 48,000 people
were incarcerated in the country's jails,
which were built to house a maximum
of only around 16,500.
That's nearly three times the number
that prisons can safely hold.
On March 28th, 2013, inmates of a Venezuelan prison
on Margarita Island opened a nightclub
inside the prison itself.
Friends and family of those incarcerated
attended the opening, which was complete
with professional lights, sound systems, and even strippers.
During photosynthesis, the process
which converts sunlight into energy,
plants emit a light called fluorescence.
It's invisible to the human eye
but can be picked up by satellites in the Earth's orbit.
Most of the dinosaurs that appear in Steven Spielberg's
1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park
were animals that lived in Earth's Cretaceous Period,
not the Jurassic, as the title suggests.
(screeches) Velociraptors were not
the slippery-skinned lizards depicted in Jurassic Park.
Quill knobs that were discovered on several fossil skeletons
have revealed that these animals were definitely feathered.
In 1925, a skilled conman named Victor Lustig
successfully sold the Eiffel Tower
to a scrap metal purchaser, accepting a large cash bribe
while impersonating a corrupt member
of the French government.
When the buyer went to claim the Paris landmark,
he found that he'd been scammed
and Lustig had fled to Austria.
Studies conducted in 2006 revealed that the Amazon River,
which flows from west to east today
used to flow the opposite way in prehistoric times
and, for a very brief period,
actually flowed in both directions.
Despite having nuclear bombs dropped on them,
the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
are no longer radioactive,
because the explosions occur high up in the air,
meaning that the radioactive fireball
did not touch the ground, and thus reduced
the amount of fallout created.
There are somewhere around 25,000 more genes
in a dry bowl of cornflakes
than in a human being's entire body.
Meanwhile, there are actually only 1,700 more genes
in a human being than in the body of an earthworm.
Scatomancy is a practice that's been around
for thousands of years, in which a person's fortune
is told through the examination of that person's poop.
The fortune tellers are called scatomancers.
The longest civil war in Earth's history
is actually still being waged.
Dubbed the Karen Conflict, the war began in 1949
in Karen State, Burma, which is now Karen State, Myanmar
and continues today with Karen nationalists
fighting the armed forces of Myanmar for independence.
In the summer of 2006, the Walt Disney company
quietly ended their cross promotion arrangement
with McDonald's in an effort to distance themselves
from the fast food giant's alleged contributions
to the childhood obesity epidemic that was sweeping America.
Named after the demigod, the Hercules beetle,
native to central and South America,
can lift over 100 times its own body weight.
The longest poem ever written is the Mahabharata,
a text that is used to teach the principles of Hinduism.
It contains around 1.8 million words in 74,000 verses.
If you tried to continuously recite it without breaks,
it would take two weeks to complete the poem.
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