- Back at it again with the facts.
Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
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Fruits are the part of the plant that come from a flower
and the section that contain seeds.
The rest is considered vegetables such as stems,
leaves and even flower buds.
This means that avocados, beans, cucumbers
and tomatoes are actually fruits.
In 2012, Quebec police arrested four men for stealing
six million pounds of maple syrup with a total value
of over 18 million dollars from a warehouse.
Well someone likes pancakes.
The Luther Burger is a bacon cheeseburger served
on a Krispy Kreme donut bun
and is named after R&B singer, Luther Vandross.
There's a rumor that Vandross invented the burger
when he ran out of hamburger buns.
When a woman is breastfeeding, a nonthreatening lump
may form in her armpit.
This is because the glands in the breast
can become too full of milk and so the milk will overflow
into the surrounding area.
A plaque made for a 2002 Martin Luther King Day celebration
accidentally thanks James Earl Ray,
the man who pleaded guilty to assassinating King
in 1968 for keeping the dream alive
instead of actor James Earl Jones.
Stomach acid is very acidic with pH measurements
ranging from 1-3.
This means that stomach acid is
in the same approximate category as battery acid.
One drop of stomach acid could eat through a piece of wood.
In the NASA meatball design, the sphere represents
a planet, the stars represent space, the red chevron
is a wing representing aeronautics
and finally, there's an orbiting spacecraft
going around the wing.
The world's first commercial jumbo jet was built
in 1970 called the Juan T. Trippe jumbo jet
and is now being used as a high concept restaurant
in Seoul, South Korea.
When an ant dies, it lies where it fell for two days
before the rest of the colony carries it away
to a pile of other dead ants.
Coins are sometimes left on military headstones
to tell the deceased solder's family that someone stopped by
to pay their respects and different coins
have different meanings.
A penny means that you visited.
A nickel means that you and the deceased soldier trained
at boot camp together.
A dime means that you served with the soldier
and a quarter means that you were there
when the soldier was killed.
The Jagermeister logo represents Saint Hubertus,
a seventh century German hunter
and the patron saint of hunters.
Bono got his name when his friends started calling him
Bonavox after the neighborhood hearing aid store,
Bonavox which is Latin for good voice.
He's been known as Bono ever since.
There's a festival called the Montana Testicle Festival
that's five days long and has been happening
in Clinton, Montana ever since 1982,
the main event of which is the competitive eating
of bull testicles.
To show their support for marriage equality,
Ben & Jerry's banned Australians from buying two scoops
of the same flavor at its scoop shops across the country.
There's a species of spider in Australia named
the wraparound spider that have the ability
to wrap their bodies around small branches
to hide from predators like birds.
There was an instrument called the armonica
that was 37 glass bowls of different sizes threaded together
on an iron spindle and color coded with paint
to identify the notes.
People who played it reported side effects such as ringing
in the ears, disorientation and even madness.
To defend their territory, the grasshopper mouse stands
on two legs and produces a high pitched howl resembling
a wolf.
It's estimated that 60% of the construction done
at Machu Pichu was underground.
Much of that consists of deep building foundations
and crushed rock used as drainage.
In 2010, Merriam Webster's 10th Edition dictionaries
were removed from 4th and 5th grade classrooms
in Southern California due to the addition
of the definition of oral sex.
Squids squirt water out fast enough to propel themselves
through the air at up to 40.3 kilometers per hour.
The word usher contains four personal pronouns,
us, she, he and her.
Ophidiophobia is the abnormal fear of snakes
and actually affects about 1/3 of all adults.
2.8 million churros are sold at Disneyland
every single year.
Mm, churro.
In 2016, neuroscientist, Dr. Paul Zack,
checked the love hormone oxytocin levels
in both cats and dogs after playing with their owners
to see which animal cares more for their owners.
What he found is that the hormone increased by an average
of 57.2% in dogs and only 12% in cats.
The countries with the most public holidays
are Columbia and India who both have
about 18 days off a year.
M&M's were originally sold exclusively to the military
after the United States entered the war
as part of American soldiers' rations.
In 2009, a bird was blamed for the technical fault
at the Large Hadron Collider after dropping
a baguette on it.
That's about as random as you can get.
The Disney channel movie High School Musical
originally began as a script in 1999 entitled Grease 3.
Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake were supposed to star
as the children of Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson
from the 1978 film.
In 2010, a 20 year old man named Julian Berot
spent six months looking for the person
who killed his online character in a virtual knife fight
while playing Counterstrike.
When he eventually found the man living only
a few kilometers away, he went to his house
with a kitchen knife and stabbed him in the chest.
In an episode of the sitcom, Three's Company,
called The Charming Stranger, actor John Ridder
accidentally flashed his testicles on camera.
The episode originally aired on the 20th of December, 1983
but it played on television for 17 years
until a viewer alerted Nickelodeon in 2001.
Pope Francis has never been on the internet in his life
but his Pontific's Twitter account
has almost 18 million followers.
In Indonesia, electric blue fire streams down
the Kawah Ijen volcano at night.
The glow is caused by the combustion of sulfuric gases.
The president's wife was originally called
the presidentress until Zachary Taylor
referred to Dolly Madison as our first lady
while eulogizing her in 1849.
The world's largest type of peach
is the flame and fury PF24-007 peach.
It originated at Paul Friday farms
in Colome, Michigan and they measure up to 7.62 centimeters
in diameter at maturity.
That's a bigga peach.
Cats' eyes glow red in the dark because light reflects
on a layer of tissue called the tapetum lucidum
which is on the back of the eyeball behind the retina.
In May of 2017, a group of 40 scientists
from museums Victoria and the Australian government's
commonwealth scientific and industrial research organization
caught a fish in a Jervis Bay that had no face.
It turned out to be a typhlonus nasus A, a type of fish
that hasn't been seen in the area in over a century.
The inventor of stop signs, one way streets,
taxi stands, traffic circle and pedestrian safety islands,
William Phelps Eno, never learned how to drive
because he believed that it was a fad.
In 1999, musician Yo-Yo Ma forgot his 2.5 million dollar
266 year old cello in the trunk of a taxi.
Police actually managed to track it down
at a garage in Queens just in time
for the evening concert that night.
Some animals engage in locomotor play
which is similar to the play
of children sledding down a steep hill.
Ducks have been observed floating through tidal rapids
or fast moving sections of rivers
and when they've reached the end, they hurry back up
to do it all over again.
The human eye could detect a candle flame
to a distance of 2.75 kilometers away.
Research done in 2011 found that judges
make more lenient court decisions at the beginning
of the day than right after a scheduled break like lunch.
Male peacocks make fake mating noises to attract females.
This causes more sexually active females
to think the male is mating when he's really not.
This makes the females believe that males
are more genetically fit than others.
Drug lord, Pablo Escobar, was earning so much money
at one point that he wrote off 10% of it
because of rats eating it in storage.
If you add salt to pineapple, it causes it to taste sweeter.
This is because table salt is primarily made
of sodium chloride and sodium is very good
at reducing bitterness in food and in this case,
it reduces the bitterness in the pineapple.
When early trains were invents, some people believe
that women weren't meant to move at 80 kilometers
per hour because they thought that their uteruses
would fly out of their bodies.
While the Beatles were recording Hey Jude,
Paul McCartney hit the wrong note on the piano
and exclaimed, "Effing hell!"
which can actually be heard on the song
between 2:56 and 2:58.
John Lennon insisted that they keep it in the song
but bury it in the background because he thought
it would be funny that no one would hear it
but they knew that it was there.
In terms of per capita volume, Germany consumes
the most candy in the world eating an average
of 13 kilograms chocolate, sugar and gum.
At the French writer, Victor Hugo's funeral,
over two million people showed up in Paris
from the Arc de Triomphe to the Pantheon
where he was buried.
He shares the crypt in the Pantheon
with Alexandre Dumas and Emily Zola
and most large French towns and cities
have a street named after him.
Onions are actually toxic for dogs
because they contain a substance called thisulfate
which canines don't have the enzyme used to digest it.
All of the planets in the solar system could fit within
the average distance between the earth and the moon.
And that's it, now you're a little smarter
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