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Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
Research conducted in Britain has revealed
that the average motorist spends
over two days per year simply waiting
for a red light to change green.
When former President of the United States,
Harry S. Truman, visited Disneyland
in 1957, he was offered a ride
on Dumbo the flying elephant,
but he politely declined.
A democrat throughout his political career,
Truman didn't wanna be seen riding an elephant
which is the symbol of the Republican Party.
According to legendary Canadian actor,
William Shatner, he and fellow Star Trek star,
DeForest Kelly, didn't speak for nearly two years
after Shatner laughed at Kelly's story
about his chihuahua, Emily, running
into a sprinkler head on and abruptly dying.
In 1949, the town of Molehill, West Virginia
officially changed its name to Mountain
simply for the humor behind making a mountain
out of a molehill.
When woodpeckers hit trees or telephone poles
with their beaks they do so with a force
that's 1000 times that of gravity.
Before being born many female aphids
are already pregnant and expecting
their own insect babies.
Called telescoping of generations,
this process allows the insects
to increase their numbers quickly.
Around 40% of meteorites that strike the earth
are said to originate from a single source,
Six Hebe, an asteroid in the main belt
that was discovered on July 1st, 1947.
During World War II there was a unit
at Auschwitz that's called Canada,
where valuables taken from prisoners were kept.
It was so named because the country
of Canada was at that time believed
to be the land of untold riches.
In the 1972 classic film, The Godfather,
the word mafia is never said due to threats
made by the real life mafia.
Producer Albert Ruddy eventually got the go ahead
to make the film from boss Joseph Colombo
after the filmmaker and Paramount Studios
agreed to remove every instance of the word mafia
from the script and give the proceeds
from the film's premier to the Italian American's
Civil Rights League hospital building fund.
Yeah, give the money to the construction people,
just construction, no mafia here,
just construction, thank you.
On January 9th, 1386, after being found guilty
of the murder of a child in a court of law in France
a pig was executed by hanging.
The pig had been formally arrested
after being found with the dead child,
served time in a human jail for the crime
and was given the death sentence
by a judge.
Yeah, that's what you get you dirty swine.
After Thomas Edison's declining health
forced him into a wheelchair
the inventor's dear friend,
business magnet, Henry Ford, brought
an extra wheelchair to his estate
so that the two could race them against each other.
On his death bed Edison's final breath
was captured in a glass test tube
by his son, Charles, and then sealed
with paraffin wax.
It was then given by Charles to Henry Ford
as the younger Edison was well aware
of how close the two men were.
It's actually now on display
at the Henry Ford Museum just outside of Detroit, Michigan.
Around 35% of female prisoners
in Saudi Arabia are still in prison
because no male relative will come and collect them.
In 1997, Iceland Foods Limited, a British
supermarket chain, released a line of products
called Wacky Veg in an attempt to get kids
to eat more healthy vegetables.
The range included chocolate flavored carrots,
baked bean flavored peas, cheese and onion flavored
cauliflower and pizza flavored sweet corn.
I'm not gonna lie to you, I would definitely try
all of those.
Your boy's got an inner fat kid waitin' to break out.
During the American Civil War disease took
nearly twice the amount of lives
than the actual fighting did.
One of the biggest issues among the soldiers
was acute diarrhea.
It was so common a problem that an unwritten code
was established that said that you couldn't
fire on or otherwise kill an enemy soldier
that was in the process of dealing
with the call to nature.
In 2014, scientists' research in chimpanzees
at a Zambian sanctuary noted that the primates
recognized their own fashion trends.
In one instance a number of them began putting
pieces of grass in their ears for no apparent reason
other than to seem included in the group.
Released on June 23rd, 2017, D.J. Khaled's
10th studio album, Grateful, features
his infant son, Assad, as an executive producer.
While producing the tracks on the album
Khaled looked to his baby boy to see
how he reacted to the music.
Apparently when Assad threw up on him
while listening to the song, Shining,
Khaled knew he had a hit on his hands.
In 1781 while living abroad as
the United States Ambassador to France,
Benjamin Franklin wrote an essay titled,
A Letter to a Royal Academy, about farting.
Better known as Fart Proudly, the essay was
Franklin's way of expressing his belief
that various academic societies in Europe were pretentious.
Yeah, that's right (farting).
During a press conference in June of 1943,
U.S. Congressman Andrew J. May, announced
that American submarines were good
at surviving Japanese attacks in enemy waters
because the depth charges being used
were set to explode at too shallow a depth.
Because of May's comments Japan made modifications
and around 800 American officers lost their lives.
A poll of 23,000 individuals in 22 countries
revealed that around 20% of the world's population
believe that aliens are among us
walking around while looking like regular people.
In India and China that number
is as high as 40%.
As of February 2015, Director, Stephen Spielberg,
has been named in Academy Awards
acceptance speeches 42 times
which is more than any other filmmaker.
He's been thanked more than twice
as often as God has.
For several decades villagers living
in central China were consuming
dinosaur bones dug up in the surrounding region
using them in soups and as medicine
as they believe them to be the bones
of magical dragons.
Who cares about archeology and history?
Delicious dinosaur soup.
Released on September 5th, 2000,
Christopher Nolan's neo-noir psychological thriller,
Memento, has been praised by a number
of experts in the field of neurology
who claim that the fictional film
is one of the most accurate depictions
of anterograde amnesia in the history of motion pictures.
A 1962 Looney Toons cartoon called Mexican Borders
featured Slowpoke, a cousin of Speedy Gonzales
and eluded that the much slower mouse
had a marijuana habit.
On April 19th, 1951, less than six years
after watching Hiroshima get obliterated
by an atomic bomb from a neighboring town
in Japan, 20 year old Shigeki Tanaka
went to the United States, the country
responsible for the explosion,
and won the Boston city marathon.
Released in 1997 to mark Apple's 20th birthday
the 20th anniversary Mac or TAM was
a limited edition computer that was marketed
to an executive market.
The futuristic looking Mac cost around $7500
and was hand delivered in a limo by an Apple staff member
in a tuxedo.
Some African giant pouched rats have been trained
to sniff out tuberculosis and they can do so
with more accuracy than many lab tests.
Argentina was given its name by European settlers
who believed that there were riches hidden
in the mountains.
In Italian Argentina loosely translates
to silvery and it was thought that there was
a legendary hidden mountain of silver in the region.
Saloop was a popular hot drink
and a less expensive substitute
for coffee or tea in the 18th and 19th centuries.
That is until a rumor began spreading
that it cured venereal diseases.
After that drinking saloop became shameful
and the beverage vanished from shops.
Why would that be shameful that you wanna clear up
your hoo ha, anyway, moving on.
According to the CDC America's National Health
Protection Agency, men are over five times
more likely to be killed by a lightning strike
than women are.
Data collected between 1968 and 2010 showed
that 3389 people died after being struck
by lightning and 85% of them were males.
When designing the character Yoda for Star Wars
Episode Five, the Empire Strikes Back,
Hollywood visionary, Stuart Freeborn,
modeled the wise green Jedi master's face
after his own mixed with that of genius inventor,
Albert Einstein.
During World War II the popular German
pharmaceutical company, Bayer, which is famous
for introducing aspirin to headache sufferers everywhere,
purchased a number of prisoners
from concentration camps and used them
as guinea pigs for new product testing.
Some of the last words of Wayne McClarin,
better known as the Marlboro Man,
a spokesman for the famous cigarette company,
before he lost his battle with lung cancer
on July 22nd, 1992, were take care of the children.
Tobacco will kill you and I am living proof of it.
On February 5th, 1958 while conducting
a practice exercise near Tybee Island
off the coast of Georgia USA, the U.S. Air Force
lost a Mark 15 nuclear bomb when an F86 fighter plane
and a B47 bomber collided in mid air.
The nuke was jenocent to avoid detonation,
but was lost in the Atlantic Ocean
and despite extensive searches
has never been located.
A study conducted by researchers at Ohio State University
in 2016, found that acetaminophen, a common pain reliever
found in products such as Tylenol, can actually
make people less empathetic meaning they
understand the pain others are experiencing
less than normal.
Honestly, I don't care.
When I'm feelin' sick your boy needs all
the flu drinks, make me feel better.
In 1967 after an ad campaign the citizens
of Piscataqua, a village in Ecuador,
elected Pul Vapes, a foot deodorant, as their mayor.
Well, I guess its competitor could
definitely smell defeat.
I'm sorry, I'll move on.
As much as 20% of people suffer from something
called white coat syndrome in which the patient's
blood pressure increases dramatically
only while in a doctor's office.
A December 2011 study revealed that around 92%
of all baby changing stations in the United Kingdom
had traces of cocaine on them, 92%.
From March 1952 until May 1956, Kent cigarettes
sold by Lorillard Tobacco Company featured
a micronite filter which contained carcinogenic
crocidolite, also known as blue asbestos.
Alarmingly, of the six recognized types of asbestos
experts consider crocidolite to be the most hazardous.
I get that, but it also sounds kinda like
a lovely name, crocidolite, delightful crocodile,
crocidolite, sorry.
According to National Geographic the amount
of space between New York, New York in the United States
and London, England, increases by about 2.5
centimeters each year.
The two cities are literally drifting apart.
Robert Chesebrough, the man who invented and sold
Vaseline, believed in his product so much
he ate a spoonful of the wonder jelly
every day until his death at 96 years old.
In early 2011, a super pack of over 400 wolves
began attacking Vircoyans, a village in Russia
killing more than 30 horses in just four days.
The local government sent out hunting parties
and brought in experts all of which were baffled
as to why the animals had formed
such an enormous pack.
Tetranitratoxycarbon is a hypothetical molecule
that was first theorized by a 10 year old
from Kansas City, Missouri in early 2012.
Fifth grader, Clara Lazen, was working
in Science class with a molecular model
when she found a configuration that hadn't been documented.
She is now credited as the co-author
of a scientific paper, along with her Science teacher.
During the 51-day siege on the Branch Davidian's compound
in Waco, Texas in 1993 one of the tactics
U.S. federal agents used in an attempt
to end the standoff was sleep deprivation.
Throughout the night they broadcast
loud noises through speakers aimed at the building
including jet engines, chanting, pop music
and even the screams of rabbits that were being slaughtered.
For the 1993 blockbuster, Jurassic Park,
the sounds used for the velociraptors
when they're barking at each other
was recorded by sound engineer, Gary Rydstrom,
at Marine World and are actually the sounds
being made by a tortoise while it was having sex.
One of Ireland's oldest festivals, The Puck Fair,
takes place annually between August 10th and 12th
in the town of Killorglin.
During the fair a wild goat is captured
and carried down from the mountain.
It's crowned King Puck, locked in a small cage
high up on a pedestal for the festival's duration
and then released back into the wild.
At the 1904 Summer Olympic Games in St. Louis, Missouri,
the marathon proved to be the most bizarre event
with one man traveling most of the way in a car,
another who used rat poison as a stimulant
and had to be carried off the track
and third who consumed rotten apples
in a orchard on the way got sick,
took a nap and then finished the race
in fourth place.
The Walt Disney Company is the second largest
purchaser of explosives in the world
behind only the United States Department of Defense.
Disney is also the largest consumer of fireworks on earth.
During a snow storm at Fort Keogh in Montana
in January of 1887, the largest snowflakes
ever recorded fell from the sky.
A local rancher declared they were bigger
than milk pans and measured one
which turned out to be over 38 centimeters wide.
The book that holds the record
for being the book most often stolen
from public libraries is in fact,
the Guinness Book of World Records.