It's a new year.
Can I get a hooooooya?
Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
Better call Saul was nominated for 53
primetime Emmys without winning a single one.
Apple Watch sales in 2020 amounted to approximately $30.6
billion compared to the whole swiss watch market.
Exports of approximately $16 billion. In 2018
mean engineers with the New Jersey Department
of Transportation had to reverse engineer a
steel bridge for a rehabilitation project.
They did this because the files with
the original plans were destroyed in the
collapse of the World Trade center.
On 911. Avril Levine recorded the
chorus for girlfriend in several different
languages to appeal to foreign markets.
It was recorded in Spanish, French, italian, Portuguese,
german, japanese, and Mandarin, as well as a
version in Hindi that was ultimately scrapped.
India has a vast and rich
dinosaur fossil bed that remains unexplored.
Hundreds of fossilized dinosaur nests have been
found in India, and exploration of them
could expand our understanding of them.
Unfortunately, the country does not have a facility that
can do the deep cleaning the fossils require.
In 2006, the movie Blazing Saddles, the
1974 american satirical comedy western, was found
to be culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant
by the Library of Congress.
It has since been preserved
in the National Film Registry.
In the 1890s, the US government created the
Alaska Reindeer service in an attempt to persuade
alaskan natives to become reindeer herders.
Reindeer were imported from Siberia, and Sami herders were
brought from Norway to teach the alaskan natives.
The photo of Salvador Dali jumping and painting
while water and live cats fly through the
air took 5 hours and 26 tries.
Because they couldn't get the timing right.
The floating objects hung from wires
were held up off camera.
Dali's canvas frame was empty in
the pic he painted it in
later. Clovers used to be part of every lawn,
as it was cheap and easy to maintain.
After World War II, pesticide companies declared
it as a weed, and up until
recently, it's been removed from lawns.
The black hole TON 618 is so big at 66 billion solar
masses, a new term had to be invented to describe it.
The ultramassive black hole.
Darwin, Australia, at 17 per 10,000 people, is
the broken jaw capital of the world.
Prior to making a beautiful mind, Ron Howard developed
a different film about a man overcoming schizophrenia.
Laws of Madness was an inspirational
film about Michael Laudor, a Yale
law student graduate living with schizophrenia.
But the film was called off
when Laudor murdered his girlfriend.
While worker ants only live about one year,
queen ants can live up to 30 years.
A mule always has a donkey father and a horse mother.
An offspring of a horse father and
a donkey mother is called a hinny.
Amateur radio operators are able to speak directly
to astronauts on the International Space Station.
Low power radio equipment and small antennas can
be used to establish communications to the ISS.
This mostly takes place during
their scheduled evening free time.
Gingering is a practice of making an old horse appear
young and lively by inserting a sprig of ginger into
its anus, which makes it carry its tail high.
Does this work for humans? Like if I did it in the
morning instead of my cup of coffee. What?
Sierra Leone has only had one elected
muslim president since its independence, despite being
a country with a muslim majority.
E equals MC squared is not the full Einstein
equation and only works for objects that aren't moving.
The full equation is e squared equals Mc squared
equals plus p times c squared, where p represents
the momentum of the object in question.
What does that mean?
I don't know, but it's a fact.
Teflon, used in nonstick pans was accidentally
discovered by a 27 year old engineer
at DuPont while researching refrigerants in 1938.
After receiving two arrows to the face at the
Battle of Neville's Cross, King David of Scotland fled
and tried to hide under a bridge.
When he was eventually spotted by enemies, he managed to
fight back and knocked out two of his captor's teeth.
He actually survived and lived 25 more years.
I used to make YouTube videos till
that took an arrow to the face.
See, we're changing the meme. That's an old meme.
It's dead, okay? Let's just leave it dead.
Metallica's first album, Kill them All, was originally to be
titled metal up your ass, with a picture of a
hand clutching a dagger emerging from a toilet.
In World War II, the British, with the
help of a professional magician, tricked the Germans
into thinking that a british double agent had
successfully sabotaged an airplane factory.
The original tale of Aladdin was set
in China, and he was actually chinese.
Oliver Sipple was the man who stopped an assassination
attempt on us president Gerald Ford in 1975.
However, the news also told that this man was
gay, and because of that, it generated great controversy.
So much so that the president only wrote a
note thanking him and his family disowned him.
The irish flag is green and white
and orange because green represents Roman Catholics
in the country, orange represents Protestants and
white representing the peace between them.
Roman consular Manius Aquilius was executed by
Mithradates of Pontus in 88 BC by
having molten gold poured down his throat.
Kenny G's song Going Home is a mega hit
in China, played at the end of tv broadcasts
and during the closing of shopping malls, food courts
and train stations to symbolize finishing one's activity and
wrapping up for the day.
Season five of Big Brother Germany lasted for 365
days and had a total of 60 house guests
competing for a grand prize of €1 million.
This season also holds the Guinness
World Record for being the longest
uninterrupted live television broadcast.
In 2014, planning permission was granted to turn
a disused victorian building in London's east end
into a museum of women's history.
However, locals were shocked the next year when
the museum was unveiled as the Jack the
Ripper Museum, leading to numerous protests.
You can actually pay to bathe in radioactive
Water in Japan, radium Onsen is one of
the oldest bathhouses in Osaka, dating back to
1952, which provides low, radium baths to people.
This has been seen as a healthy thing by
many in the country for a long time.
The ocean contains 352,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons
of water in metric. That's.
That's a lot of water.
Jabba the hut was depicted as a yellow walrus looking
man in Marvel Comics adaptation of a New Hope.
This was before Disney bought both properties.
The Cold War was partially prompted by an
event in Ottawa when a soviet cipher clerk
working at the soviet embassy to Canada defected
and exposed the soviet spy network in Canada.
This led to allied countries discovering soviet
spies and informants within their own governments.
The world's largest Michael Jackson memorabilia collection
is in Equatorial guinea, bought by the
reigning dictator's son with stolen government funds.
You know, you might call him a smooth criminal. Even
though they're only 2.4 miles, or almost 4 km apart.
Yesterday and tomorrow islands are 21
hours apart due to the international
date line being located between them.
There's a man with the surname innocent
on the FBI's most wanted list.
Vitel home Innocent has a reward of
$2 million being offered for information leading
to his arrest or conviction.
English law, when discussing trademark infringement, uses
the moron in a hurry standard.
It was famously used in Apple Corp.
Versus Apple computer, where it was ruled that
even a moron in a hurry wouldn't confuse
the Beatles label with apple computer.
The grand niece of China's last emperor is
an artist who opened a gallery in Vancouver's
Chinatown, where she sells her paintings and displays
works dedicated to explaining the qing dynasty.
In order to host the Super bowl, host cities must
provide the NFL exclusive access to three top quality 18
hole area golf courses at no cost so it can
host a tournament on Super bowl weekend.
The sun takes 225,000,000 earth years to make one
full orbit around the center of the Milky Way.
This is called the galactic year.
Iggy Azalea got her stage name from the what's
your prawn star name game, the name of your
first pet and the street you grew up on.
Before his career took off, Patrick Swayze
and his wife had a carpentry business.
Though Swayze didn't know much about carpentry at
first, he learned a lot through books, and
their business ended up being very profitable.
At one point, they even renovated
the kitchen of actress Jacqueline Smith.
Hi, baby.
The rare Sansa sighting. Hi, sweetie.
I love you, baby girl.
My little ginger kitty. Happy New Year, sweetie.
Wanna say hi to everybody? Okay, you go down.
That's my baby.
Actress Catherine O'Hara, that you likely know best
from home alone has situs inversus, a rare
condition where organs are mirrored from the typical
left right position in humans.
During the COVID pandemic, several airlines offered
flights to nowhere where the airplane would
start and land in the same airport.
Roman Emperor Claudius wrote a now lost
book on the art of playing dice.
The ball corporation, famous for their mason jars,
became a defense manufacturer in aerospace engineering.
Their products had been used on the
f 35 Joint Strike Fighter and the
James Webb Space Telescope, among other projects.
They no longer directly produce glass jars.
Pepsi and Coca Cola have been involved
in a Cola war since the 1970s.
It came to a head during Super Bowl 53 in
Atlanta, where Coca Cola's hq is, when Pepsi was one
of the main sponsors and even ran a campaign with
the slogan, hey, Atlanta, thanks for hosting.
We'll bring the drinks.
Driving certain vehicles on certain days in the Philippines
is banned, depending on the number that the license
plate ends with determines which day that car is
not allowed to be driven on public roads.
There's a volcano on Mars that's about 2.5 times as
tall as Mount Everest and about the diameter of France.
On September 11, 2001, Washington based
lawyer Frank Rosano was staying at
the Marriott World Trade Center Hotel.
It was located at the base of the
towers, and he awoke to the first plane
crashing, but actually went back to bed.
He then got up, turned on the news, took
a shower, packed his things, and only decided to
evacuate when the south tower collapsed onto the hotel.
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