Oh, it's time once again for everybody
to jump aboard the facts train. Woo!
Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
Santa Claus's bones. Some of St.
Nicholas or Santa Claus's bones were once gifted
to a New York City church by Nicholas
II, the last tsar of Russia.
Both the church and the bones
were unfortunately destroyed on 9/11.
Number of billionaires there are 84 billionaires
living in San Francisco, 112 in Hong
Kong, and 136 in New York.
Amount of chicken eaten last year for the first time,
the average American ate 100 pounds, or over 45kg chicken.
Vinyl records.
50% of people who buy vinyl records in the United States
don't actually own a record player to play them on.
King cobras.
King cobras are not even actual cobras.
Despite their name, they are, in
fact, the world's longest venomous snakes.
Different nativity stories.
The nativity story only appears in the gospels of
Matthew and Luke, and they both give different accounts.
Luke mentions the adoration of the shepherds, while
Matthew mentions the arrival of the Magi, which
leads to the massacre of the innocents.
The no body odor gene.
Some people carry a gene called the ABCC11
or the no body odor gene.
This produces odorless armpit sweat, and dry earwax.
The rich minister Kenneth Copeland,
the christian minister who preaches
prosperity theology, is worth $750,000,000.
Narcissistic athletes.
Narcissistic athletes have been shown to perform
better in high stakes, highly competitive situations
and worse in low stakes situations.
Conversely, non narcissistic athletes perform
worse in high stakes situations.
The big reveal.
Marlon Brando, who played a human in
the movie the island of Dr.
Moreau, had a demand where he wanted to remove
his hat at the end of the movie and
reveal that he was a dolphin all along.
But the director refused.
Cigarette breaks.
A marketing company called Piala in Japan gives
employees who don't smoke six extra days vacation
to make up for the cigarette break.
The company found the new policy gave a
lot of employees the push to quit smoking.
Cold filming while filming Dirty Dancing in October
of 1984, the virginian cold weather caused the
temperatures to drop to 40 degrees fahrenheit, or
four degrees celsius, during the swimming scene.
Jennifer Gray later described the water as horrifically cold
and said that she might not have gone into
the lake, except that she was young and hungry.
The practice of teeth brushing.
Americans didn't brush their teeth regularly
until after World War II.
American gis were required to brush their teeth
and brought the practice home with them.
The resilient president.
In 1912, Teddy Roosevelt was shot on
his way to his presidential campaign.
Instead of seeking medical attention, he continued on to
give his speech, starting by saying, friends, I shall
ask you to be as quiet as possible.
I don't know whether you fully understand
that I have just been shot.
Banned from the space station since
2011, chinese astronauts are officially banned
from visiting the International Space Station.
The refusal of M&Ms while making E. T.
The extraterrestrial Mars, Inc.
The company that owns M&Ms, refused to
give the director, Steven Spielberg, permission to
use the candy in the movie.
As a result, Spielberg used Reese's pieces,
and sales for Reese's pieces jumped by
85% following the film's release in 1982.
By the way, notice I said
Reese's pieces, not Reese's pieces.
If you say Reese's pieces, I'ma... work related
dreams according to a 2019 study that interviewed over
a thousand employed Americans, 80% reported that they habitually
experienced work related dreams, with over 50% confirming that
they'd had at least one nightmare about work cacao
trees in 2007, two Americans rediscovered pure Nacional cacao
trees thought to have been completely wiped out by
disease in the early 20th century.
The ancient Nacional varietal was cultivated more than
5000 years ago and is thought to produce
the world's most exquisite and expensive chocolate.
The master of puppets Metallica's master of puppets reached both
the billboard hot 100 number 40 and the UK top
40 number 22 for the first time ever in July
2022, after the 1986 metal classic was prominently featured in
the season four finale of Stranger Things. Master.
Master okay, sorry.
Lunar temperatures the lunar temperature was 93
degrees celsius, or 200 degrees fahrenheit, at
the landing site of Apollo eleven.
The War of Independence during the American War
of Independence, more Americans died as prisoners of
war on british prison ships than all of
the Revolutionary War engagements combined.
Short website domains there are only three one letter .com
domains in existence, q.com, X.com and Z.com.
Yeah, I said that right?
They were registered before 1992 and grandfathered in.
But ICANN banned any corporation from being able to own
any of the other 23 letter one letter domains.
The evolutionary leap the evolutionary leap from egg
laying to placental birth may have been helped
by DNA from an ancient retrovirus.
It coded for a protein allowing cells around
the placenta to fuse, blocking the exchange of
maternal fetal blood and preventing the mother's immune
system from harming the fetus.
The cartel versus anonymous the hacker group Anonymous
tried to hack a mexican cartel and had
to back down after the cartel hired counterhackers
to hunt them down close to nuclear war.
Able Archer 83 was a war exercise conducted by
NATO in 1983 that panicked the Soviets into thinking
that they were really being attacked, and so nearly
launched a nuclear retaliation in response.
It's now considered to be the nearest that mankind
went into nuclear war since the cuban missile crisis.
Spanish built buildings because earthquakes
kept destroying spanish built buildings
like churches, houses and settlements.
In colonial era Philippines, a new agricultural style
was created solely to withstand the tremors.
Called earthquake baroque.
The presidential income requirement.
There's an annual income requirement of 2000 pesos to
become the president of Argentina, placed in 1853.
However, since it's not adjusted for inflation, it's
the equivalent of $2.50 today, instead of the
original 3.3kg of gold, which is about $220,000.
Baby boys names in America in 1940, the top 100 boys names
were used to name 74% of all baby boys born, while the
top 100 names in 2021 were only used for 36%.
In fact, just 250 boys names were used to
name 86% of all babies born in 1940.
Today, the top 250 boys names only account for 55%.
The Oak island mystery FDR, until his death, investigated
the Oak island mystery, a collection of lost treasure
in Canada that has been rumored for centuries.
The money pit was said to contain artifacts
from the Knights Templar or Captain Kid.
There have been several investors over
the years, including John Wayne.
The huge explosion there was a twelve
megaton explosion that happened over the Tonguska
river in Russia on June 30 1908.
It was caused by a meteor airburst about 5 miles,
or 8 km above earth, and about 60,000 mph, or
over 96,000 km/hour it flattened an estimated 80 million trees
over an 830 square mile area of forest.
It was the largest impact event on
earth in recorded history, though much larger
impacts occurred in prehistoric times.
The Orson Wells appearance the last onscreen appearance Orson
Wells ever made was on the tv show Moonlighting,
where he read an introduction to assure audiences that
the sudden shift to black and white is not
a sign that there's something wrong with their televisions.
The real city many people are not sure
if Scranton, Pennsylvania, is a real city.
The US version of the office leads more than 400
british per month and 110 Americans per month to Google.
Is Scranton a real place?
Sunny Philadelphia.
It's always Sunny in Philadelphia is the wordiest
show on television, with 176.2 words per minute,
which makes the Rob McElhenney created FX sitcom
the hardest show to follow.
If you're watching with subtitles.
The Lego airplane in 1961, Lego created
its own airport and airline just to
fly its employees around the world.
Today, the airport is Denmark's second biggest, and it's
roughly the size of Anchorage Airport in Alaska.
Just enough room there's an island in New
York called just enough room where there's just
enough room for a tree and a house.
The decline in Christmas island after noticing a
decline in the Christmas island pipistrelle, a type
of bat, permission was given to the australian
government to capture and breed wild specimens in
August 2009, scientists found only one instance of
the bat through echolocation.
After four weeks, it later went silent that same month.
The valuable guitar Kurt Cobain's guitar, a 1959
Martin acoustic used during the MTV unplugged performance,
sold at auction in 2020 for $6 million.
This makes it not only the most valuable
guitar, but also the most valuable piece of
rock music memorabilia of all time.
The spelling of Linkin Park Linkin Park originally
wanted to be called Lincoln park with a
c, but ultimately changed their name so that
they could register LinkinPark.com with a k.
The donated tree Rockefeller center tree is
donated to Habitat for humanity every year
since 2007 to help build a home.
Colorblind whales whales are colorblind and see
the world only through black and white.
This includes the knowledge whale.
The spring equinox the earliest source that stated December
25 as Christmas Day was based on the assumption
that the conception of Jesus Christ took place at
the spring equinox or March 25, so that his
birth had to take place nine months after.
On December 25.
The Animal Planet series the Animal Planet
reality series river monsters ended because star
Jeremy Wade was able to catch essentially
every exceptionally large freshwater species on Earth,
leaving no remaining content for the show.
The obsessed fan Robert Pattinson dealt with an obsessed
fan who had been camping outside his apartment by
taking her out on a dinner date.
He said, I just complained about everything in
my life, and she never came back.
Millennial dads millennial dads are spending three
times as much time with their kids
as their fathers spent with them.
Back in 1982, 43% of fathers admitted
that they'd never changed a diaper.
Today, that number is down to about 3%.
The money generating show the cast of friends each made $1
million per episode in the final two seasons and now makes
20 million per year per cast member for reruns.
The show still generates $1 billion
a year for Warner Bros.
All thanks to David Schwimmers encouraging the
cast to negotiate as a team.
The price of a hot dog Costco's hot dog has remained
$1.50 since it was first introduced in 1984.
After the company president complained that they were losing
money on it, CEO Jim Senegal put his foot
down and said, if you raise the price of
the effing hot dog, I will kill you.
Murder over a hot dog?
The lucky ticket a waitress was tipped
a lottery ticket and won $10 million.
She was then sued by her colleagues for their share.
Then she was sued by the man who tipped her the ticket.
Then she was kidnapped by her ex
husband and shot him in the chest.
Then she went to court against the IRS. Good Lord.
The eradication of smallpox Dr.
Donald Hopkins helped eradicate smallpox and is on
the verge of killing another disease right now.
He's taken guinea worm disease down from 3.5 million
cases a year to just 28 cases last year.
Dogs burials.
Romans were known to create tombs for their dogs
and gave them epitaphs to remember them by.
One such inscription read, I am in tears
while carrying you to your last resting place.
As much as I rejoiced when bringing you home
with my own hands 15 years ago Friday, productivity.
Microsoft tried a four day work week in
Japan as part of a work life choice
challenge by shutting down offices every Friday.
Productivity, measured by sales per employee,
increased by almost 40% compared to
the same period the previous year.
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