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- The knowledge whale!
Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind!
Every December 25th, the inhabitants
of the Chumbivilcas Province in Peru
celebrate Takanakuy.
This is where men settle grudges
from the past year by calling each
other out and having a fist fight.
Then everybody goes drinking to
numb the pain and move on to a new year.
Brilliant!
There exists a set of 19 questions among
doctors such as do we have the
right patient and what operation
are we performing known as the
safe surgery checklist which has been
proven to reduce surgical deaths
by more than 40 percent.
The great pyramids in Egypt were
actually shiny like glass at one point
4,000 years ago.
Craftsmen were tasked to polish
the stone surfaces to perfection.
There is a statue of famed inventor
and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla
that radiates free wifi located in Silicon Valley.
Inside the statue, there's also a
time capsule that's to be opened
in the year 2043.
In 2010, Mattel made and sold Wonder Woman's
invisible jet as a collectible.
The package was an empty plastic shell
with nothing inside and the packaging
had weights to give the illusion
that there was actually something inside.
And people bought this.
Actor Don Johnson once asked famed
journalist Hunter S. Thompson what
is the sound of one hand clapping.
Hunter S. Thompson answered by
reaching up and slapping Johnson upside the head.
I guess that answers his questions.
Blind people forget many memories
since they don't have visual imagery
and can't look at pictures to reminisce.
A 3D printing company known as
Touchable Memories prints 3D objects
from old photos so that the blind can
touch them, feel, and relive their
cherished moments like never before.
Since 2010, at least five Americans
have shot off their penises by accident.
What?
Jamaica, Colombia, and Saint Lucia
are the only counties in the world
where a boss is more likely to
be a woman than a man.
A college student in 1979 only had to
work about 182 hours per year in
order to pay for tuition.
The average student in 2013 had
to work over 991.
That number is only growing.
Penguin One, an organic chemical compound,
got its name from the fact that its
molecular structure resembles a penguin.
George Aldrich has worked for NASA
for over 40 years and his job is to smell things.
This is to ensure that there are no unpleasant
smells on the International Space Station
and in the space shuttle.
In the 1896 US election, William Mckinley
won despite the fact that he campaigned
from the front porch of his home in Ohio
while his opponent traveled extensively
by railway speaking at over 600 events.
That's gotta suck.
The heaviest human ever recorded
was John Minnoch and weighed 635 kilograms,
or 1,400 pounds.
He later lost approximately 419 kilograms
or 924 pounds, the largest human
weight loss ever documented.
The idea for the film The Human Centipede
came from a joke made by the writer director
Tom Six on how child molesters should be punished.
Do not watch that movie.
Trust me.
Various studies have shown that coffee
prevents cancer, reduces risk of diabetes,
and can improve overall health.
John F. Kennedy's grandmother,
Mary Josephine Fitzgerald, not only
outlived her grandson, but she was
never told about his assassination.
In the early 1930s, Warner Brothers
began producing animated shorts
specifically for the purpose of promoting
music owned by the company.
They were called Looney Tunes.
When Google first announced Gmail
on April 1st with an unbelievable
one gig of free storage, back in 2004,
which at the time seemed impossible
with Hotmail only offering 2 megabytes,
people thought that it was an April Fools Day joke.
Believe it or not, outer space is
only an hour away if you could drive a car
straight into the sky at 96 kilometers an hour
or 60 miles an hour.
In the early 1800s, Napoleon demanded
a method of communication that
would not require light or sound.
It was called night writing and
was developed as a tactile military code.
Night writing became the basis for braille.
Niccolo Paganini, regarded by many
people to be the greatest violin
virtuoso of all time, was so good that in
the early 1800s, people began to
question if he had sold his soul
to the devil for his talent.
He was actually forced to publish
his mother's letters to him in order
to prove that he had human parents.
In 2008, the Japanese created a
silicon toy called Mugen Puti Puti
designed to mimic the sensation
of popping bubble wrap for an
infinite number of times.
I know a lot of you just got
real excited about that.
Mexican shamans began to use
Coca Cola in their religious rituals
to heal worshipers.
When Pepsi discovered this,
they offered commissions to Shamans
for using Pepsi instead.
Keiko, the orca who starred in Free Willy,
was released into the wild on July of 2002
in Iceland after being in captivity for 23 years.
A few weeks after his release he showed up
at a Norwegian inlet from the sea
looking to make human contact and
gave children rides on his back.
If you're looking for a job, the application
and resume are not nearly as
important as a reference.
In fact, knowing someone who works
at the company increases your chances
of getting an interview and makes you
40% more likely to get the job
over someone with a fancier resume.
Jim Wenqi , a blind man, and Jia Haixia
a double amputee, together planted
10,000 trees in Yeli Village located
in Northern China and plan on
planting another 10,000.
High school freshmen today were
not alive for any part of the 1990s.
I just made a few of you feel really old.
According to the world drug report
of 2014, Scotland had the highest
rate of cocaine use in the world.
While on his deathbed in 1778,
French philosopher Voltaire was asked
to renounce Satan to which he replied
"Now is not the time to be making new enemies"
which are thought to be his last words.
Some of the crew working on
American Horror Story Freak Show
would have to actually leave set at times
because Twisty the Clown was so
scary, others would complain of
nightmares after filming.
Famed writer H.G. Wells' last words
on his deathbed in 1946 were
"Go away, I'm all right."
A parking meter official in Salem, Oregon
got busted for stealing $90,000
in quarters in 2015.
Bank staff became suspicious because
he was regularly depositing large
amounts of coins into his personal
bank account while still wearing
his parking enforcement uniform.
Duh!
Research from the University of Chicago
concluded that people think more rationally
in their second language and make better choices.
Studies in the UK for automotive
accidents concluded that short female
drivers who sit close to the steering wheel
are the most likely to be killed by an air bag.
So if you're a short woman, just be very careful.
Actor Bradley Cooper begged his father
to send him to Japan until he was 21
so that he could train to become a ninja.
Jonah Hill was only paid $60,000
for his role in The Wolf of Wall Street
due to the fact that he wanted it so bad.
For that role, he received an Oscar nomination
for Best Supporting Actor.
The pink cherry blossoms in Washington DC
were actually a gift from Japan in 1912 as
a symbol of friendship between the two nations.
McDonald's in Hong Kong will soon
host cheap "McWeddings" for couples
at a cost of around $1,200 and will
actually provide food, drink, and
an apple pie for 50 people.
If you want your marriage to end
before it begins, do this!
A study conducted in 2013 by the
BBC found that 56% of pilots fell
asleep while flying and 29% had woken
up to find that the copilot was also asleep.
Cornelius Mike Anderson helped rob
a Burger King employee in 1999
and was ordered to serve 13 years in prison,
but nobody ever came for him, so he
went on living his life in Saint Louis
and 12 years later, the prison was
preparing for his release only to realize that
they had never arrested him in the first place.
A German engineering company
has created the world's first rope free
elevator system that uses a magnetic
technology which allows elevators
to travel sideways as well as up and down.
The test tower will be launched in 2016.
Economics professors at Emory University
found that those who spend below average
on their weddings and on their wedding rings
have lower divorce rates.
In 2010, musician David Grohl was
admitted into a hospital due to
a drug overdose.
The drug was that he had actually
consumed too much caffeine from
coffee while recording a new album.
Studies conducted by the University of Toronto
concluded that the more that one trusts
people, the better they are at spotting liars.
A Japanese solider was stranded on an
island for 30 years after the second
World War had ended.
He continued to stand his post
in uniform until his commander
came to the island to personally
dismiss him in 1974.
Some college students in Cleveland
are living rent free in a retirement home.
This unique living situation is
beneficial for both parties
as studies have shown that contact
with younger people helps beats dementia
while the students save on housing costs.
In 1978, Soviet geologists found a
family of six that survived in the
middle of Serbia who hadn't seen
another human since 1936.
Pumbaa was the first ever character
to fart in a Disney movie.
2015 was the first year in over 40 years
that McDonald's closed more stores
than it opened in the United States.
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