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The United States has over 90,000 metric tons
of nuclear waste and nowhere to properly dispose of it.
The waste is mostly stored where it's generated
at 80 sites in 35 different states,
and it's expected to increase to around 140,000 metric tons
over the next several decades.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who is also known as the man
who assassinated John F. Kennedy, Jr,
was a U.S marine but defected and joined
The Soviet Union in 1959,
where he also met his wife and had a child.
However, after deciding that he made a mistake
moving to Russia, Oswald immigrated back to the U.S.
with his family in 1962.
We're not only polluting Earth but Mars, as well.
In 2012 NASA discovered a bright object on the surface
of Mars, and became intrigued as to what it could be.
Then they later found that it was just a piece of plastic
from the Curiosity Rover.
There's a competitive international league
for the popular game Tag You're It
and it's called Globe Chase Tag.
Feel free and play tag in the comments.
You're it!
The five year cost to support a heroin addiction
in The United States is $318,500.
The five year cost to support an Oxycodone addiction
is $132,405.
The average adult produces anywhere from one to three
pints of gas a day that's passed through the anus
14 to 23 times a day.
According to Vocative, there are 328 girls
in The United States with the name ABCDE as of 2018.
The name is pronounced Abcede.
The world's most popular fruit is the tomato.
I personally completely disagree.
Tomatoes are disgusting.
In 1998 Mcdonalds invested in the now popular
burrito restaurant, Chipotle.
By 2015, Mcdonalds owned 90 percent of Chipotle stake,
but parted ways and sold their portion a year later
because it was considered a distraction.
According to BSOS, the weight of all the electrons
in motion that make up the internet at any given time
is equal to 50 grams.
This means that the internet is estimated to weigh
about the same as a medium sized egg or a strawberry.
The famous gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona
in 1881 between the Earp Brothers,
along with Doc Holiday against the cowboys
lasted only 30 seconds.
In 21012 a Nebraska woman sold a three year old
chicken Mcnugget from Mcdonalds on Ebay
for $8,100 because it apparently resembled
George Washington.
A Florida man wrestled a 2.1 meter long long
bull shark in 2001 after it attacked his nephew
and bit off his arm.
The uncle dragged the shark to the shore
where it was shot by a park ranger.
He was also able to retrieve the arm back
where doctors successfully attached it back to the boy
who later recovered.
The classical Greek term for the word tragedy
is Goat Song because scholars believe
that the main prize in competitions of dancing or singing
during that time was a goat.
Soldiers with mentally low IQ's were drafted
into the military for the Vietnam War
to boost numbers.
Unfortunately these soldiers were three times
more likely to die than any other soldiers.
According to astronomers, Una Cormaya
of the Carnegie Institute For Science
and Shawn Raymond of the Laboratory du Astophysice
du Bordeaux, the moons of moon are called sub moons.
However, other scientists are using the term moon moons.
There are no known moon moons in our solar systems.
The Beatles wanted to make a live action movie
of Lord of the Rings in 1969.
Paul McCartney was to play Frodo Baggins.
Ringo Starr was to be Samwise Gamgee.
George Harrison was to be Gandalf,
and John Lennon was to be Gollum.
They even approached Stanley Kubrick to direct the film
but he didn't take the offer.
Eventually author J.R.R. Tolkien decided
not to make a film.
The planet Uranus was originally named
The Georgium Sidus after King George the third
of England.
German astronomer Johann Elert Bode
proposed the name Uranus and it did not become
the common name for the planet until 1850.
A giant Sequoia in California's King's Canyon National Park
measuring 91 meters was name the country's
national Christmas tree in 1925.
The hardest wood in the world is the Australian Bull Oak
which requires 2,295 kilograms of force
to embed a steel ball into it.
In contrast, the softest wood in the world
is the Cuipo, which only requires around 10 kilograms
of force to embed a steel ball inside of it.
A fecal transplant is the procedure
of transferring stool from a healthy donor
into a gastrointestinal tract of a patient.
This is performed when antibiotics kill off
too many of the good bacteria in the digestive system.
According to health experts, getting red eyes from swimming
is not a result from contact with too much chlorine.
They say that it's actually the result
of being exposed to bodily fluids in the water,
such as urine, feces and sweat.
Gut Microbiota can cause a change in one's mood
or personality by communicating with the brain.
A state law in Kansas requires that pedestrians
crossing a highway at night must be wearing tail lights
on themselves.
Agoge was the training program that was mandated
for all male citizens in Ancient Sparta,
except for the firstborns of the ruling houses.
Some of the training consisted of being underfed
to encourage stealing.
But if the students were caught then they would be punished.
The reason that this was implemented was because
their master wanted them to become fit soldiers,
not fat ones.
King Frances the first of France in the 1500's
bought the Mona Lisa from Renaissance artist,
Leonardo de Vinci.
The powerful drum reverb entrance in the song
"In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins,
was an accident when the reverse talk back was activated
and left on while Collins was playing drums
for another song for Peter Gabriel's
third solo album.
The one ounce gold American Eagle coin is legal tender
and is worth $1,295 U.S. dollars each.
The one ounce silver American Eagle coin is the only
silver bullion coin that's authorized as legal tender
and is worth about $17.50 U.S. each.
The chemical that's used to flavor grape Kool Aid
is called methyl anthranilate.
It's other uses are protecting crops
such as corn, rice and sunflowers
as well as golf courses.
It's also used as a bird repellent.
According to Thomas Gregor,
an anthropologist at Vanderbilt University,
an extra two point five four centimeters in height
correlates with earning $800 more a year.
If you take this amount and compound it
over a 30 year period, then it would equate
to earning hundreds of thousands of dollars more
than someone that's only two point three four
centimeters shorter.
King James the first of England wrote ad published
a three part book about necromancy and demonology in 1597.
It would take you about 31,709 years to count to the number
one trillion.
Using that fact as a reference, the galaxy called M87
is so massive it contains around one trillion stars
according to Neal Degrasse Tyson.
There was a referendum to ban alcohol in Sweden in 1922
but it failed with 51 percent of the voters
choosing against it.
The decision was split between the sexes
with 63% of women voting for the prohibition
and 63% of men voting against it.
Jerry Seinfeld turned down five million dollars
an episode and more than 100 million dollars overall
for Seinfeld, just to run a tenth season.
At the time it was three times more
than anyone on television had ever been offered.
Aeroflot flight 593 was a passenger flight
from Moscow to Hong Kong that crashed into a
mountain range killing everyone on board.
The pilot let his children temporarily fly the plane
but his 16 year old son unknowingly deactivated
the auto pilot controls.
The pilots ended up over correcting and crashed the plane.
When astronauts cry in space their tears congeal
in their eyes and end up stinging because
of the lack of gravity.
In 2011 astronaut Andrew Feustel got some anti fogging
solution stuck in his eye and tears weren't going
to get it out,
so he rubbed his eyes on the foam inside of this helmet.
Lemurs in Madagascar were so huge at one point in time
that they were the size of today's male gorillas.
According to the American Association
For the Advancement of Science, patients who have
a view of trees and natural scenery in hospitals
recover faster than those who do not.
They gathered this information by observing patients
who stayed in a particular suburban Pennsylvania hospital
between the years of 1972 and 1981.
And eight year old girl was orphaned in 2014
when her entire family died from the fumes
of rotting potatoes in their cellar.
Each family member checked on the other
by walking into the cellar but died instantly
when they entered inside.
The scene in the film "Pulp Fiction"
where John Travolta gives the adrenaline shot
to Uma Thurman's chest was shot in reverse
with the actor pulling the needle away.
Director Quentin Tarantino bought a fake chest
from a special effects company
but decided just to use that trick instead.
Chuck E. Cheese's full name is Charles Entertainment Cheese.
The first known human to be killed by a robot
was Robert Williams on January 25, 1979.
He was tragically killed by an industrial robot arm
while working for the Flat Rock Assembly plant
in Detroit, Michigan.
The theme song for the game Tetris
is a Russian folk song from the 19th century
about a meeting between a peddler and a young girl.
He offers the girl his wares and goods
in exchange for a kiss.
According to Men's Journal, it's completely a myth
that balding comes from the mother's side of the family.
It actually comes from the genes
from both sides of the family.
It's also a myth that wearing hats will make you go bald.
It's true, I almost every wear a hat.
Look at me.
The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
was so powerful that it caused the entire planet
to vibrate as much as one centimeter.
It also remotely triggered earthquakes
on the other side of Earth in Alaska.
In addition to these facts, it was also
the longest lasting earthquake every recorded
between eight and 10 minutes.
NBA superstar, Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors
and LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers
were both born in Akron, Ohio.
The colonists on the Mayflower decided to settle
at Plymouth in 1620 after 64 days at sea
because they ran out of beer on the ship.
However the beer was relatively low alcoholic formula
and was drank because it was boiled purer
than regular water.
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