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Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
In 1977, stuntman Evel Knievel
attempted to hit a man with a baseball bat
because the man wrote a book about Knievel
and portrayed him as immoral.
So, did that just kinda prove him right?
There's a grade in the Japanese academic system
that's higher than an A, which is an S.
It's very rarely given out to students.
An unknown man has been held
in Canadian maximum security prison since 2013
because he refuses to identify himself.
Morgan's Wonderland in San Antonio, Texas,
is the first large amusement park
created for people with special needs.
A former real estate developer named Gordon Hartman
sold his business and opened the park for his daughter.
There's a Hawaiian creation myth
that says our universe was created
from the destruction of a previous universe
and that the only survivors were octopuses.
After gangster Frank Gusenberg was taken out
in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre,
he still did not reveal the identity of his killer.
His final words were, "I ain't no copper."
There hasn't been a single day
without a deadly car accident in the state of Texas
since November 7th, 2000.
Driving in a car for long periods of time tires you out
because your brain keeps your muscles engaged
from the small vibrations in the car.
This keeps your posture maintained,
and the constant work of your muscles
is what makes you fatigued.
After Franklin D. Roosevelt,
the United States hadn't had another president
who could speak a second language.
Even though 80% of the world's vanilla
is produced in Madagascar,
the vine is originally from Mexico.
The ancient Mayans cultivated it in the Yucatan Peninsula.
As of 2017, 26 states in the United States
do not require employers
to give rest breaks to their employees.
George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead
is the Internet Archive's most downloaded film,
with over 3.1 million downloads
because it's in the public domain.
In 2017, five nurses in Denver were suspended
for discussing and admiring a deceased patient's genitals.
A man in New Jersey was charged $3,750 for a bottle of wine
after the waitress told him it was $37.50.
Apollo Robbins is a legendary pickpocket
who once took the watches, badges, and keys
from Jimmy Carter's Secret Service detail.
In 2013, the Fresno chapter of the Hells Angels biker gang
waited in line outside of a Walmart for five days
in order to buy all of the bicycles inside
and donate them to charity.
The Apollo 11 spacecraft landed on the moon
only 66 years after
the Wright Brothers' first controlled flight.
There's a mythological creature in Pennsylvania
called the Squonk.
It's described as hideous, ashamed of its appearance,
as well as weeping most of the time.
If one's cornered,
it will dissolved into a puddle of liquid.
The glazed donuts at Dunkin' Donuts
surprisingly have less calories
than the old-fashioned donuts.
The Guano Islands Act enables citizens of the United States
to take possession of an uninhabited island
in the name of the United States
if it contains any guano deposits.
After winning the Nobel Prize in 1922,
Carlsberg Brewery gifted physicist Niels Bohr
a house with a pipeline
that connected to the brewery nextdoor,
which provided him with free beer for life.
Queen Victoria wrote around 2,500 words a day
during her adult life and her personal journal
came out to a total of 122 volumes.
During a 1969 television screening
about the royal family's life,
over 30 million people watched the program.
When the intermission came,
so many people flushed their toilets in England
that it caused a water shortage.
The Appalachian Mountains and the Scottish Highlands
are part of the same ancient mountain range
called the Central Pangean Mountains.
It was originally thought
that mammoths would burrow like moles
because their remains were always discovered underground.
In 2017, Iceland became concerned about a rise in murders
because there were four of them in the country,
which is more than double their typical number.
Tesla is the best-selling car brand in Norway
and 48% of all passenger vehicle sales in the country
are pure electric.
Actor Peter Falk's right eye was surgically removed
at the age of three because of cancer
and a glass eye was inserted.
His trademark squint comes from the side of his face
with the glass eye.
Our general knowledge of what potassium cyanide tastes like
comes from a man's note that he wrote to doctors.
He claimed that it tastes like acid
and it burned his tongue.
Ramen noodles are vegetarian,
but their seasoning packets are usually not.
One brand that is completely vegetarian, however,
is Top Ramen Oriental Flavor.
Loons are incapable of walking
because of the positioning of their legs.
They will sometimes confuse wet pavement
for bodies of water and become stranded
because they need a stretch of open water to take flight.
Geologists classify the Hudson River Valley as a fjord,
similar to the fjords in the country of Norway.
A goat from an extinct species was cloned back to life,
but it died shortly after due to breathing problems.
Even though the experiment failed, however,
scientists are hopeful that it could pave the way
for future returns of other species.
Not everyone has voluntary control
over their tensor tympani muscles in their ears,
which cause them to make a rumbling sound.
Reading while pooping has been a common practice
throughout human history.
Many bathhouses in ancient Rome
contained libraries with scrolls.
According to the Guinness World Records,
the most generations alive in a single family
was seven in 1989 by the Bunge family in the United States.
The great-great-great-great-grandparent was 109 years old,
followed by her daughter, who was 89 years old,
followed by her granddaughter at 70,
and then her great-granddaughter at 52,
followed by her great-great-granddaughter at 33,
and her great-great-great-granddaughter, age 15.
She gave birth to a great-great-great-great-grandson
on January 21st, 1989; whew!
Rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur was named after Tupac Amaru II,
who was the leader of the Andean uprising
against the Spanish in Peru during the 18th century.
He became a mythical figure
during the Peruvian War of Independence,
but was later executed by the Spanish
after he was defeated and captured.
The pink Chanel suit that Jackie Kennedy wore
during the assassination of John F. Kennedy
is locked away in the National Archives
and won't be shown to the public until at least 2103.
At that time, the Kennedy family descendants
will renegotiate the matter.
Rapper LL Cool J is one of 48 current members
of the Smithsonian National Board of Directors.
Japan has the highest ratio
of vending machines to people in the world.
Since there are 5.5 million vending machines in the country,
there is one machine for every 23 people.
According to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety,
Americans collectively spent over 70 billion hours
behind the wheel of a vehicle for each year.
In 18th-century gambling dens in England,
there was an employee whose only job was to swallow the dice
if the police raided the place.
Gamblers in ancient Greece would craft dice
from ankle bones and shoulder blades of sheep.
Even today, dice users still refer to them as bones,
as in, "Shake them bones."
Ball, the company known for their glass jars,
also has an aerospace division
where they develop spacecrafts and payloads.
The company was founded in 1880
and they employ over 17,500 people worldwide.
The mascot for Yuma High School
in Yuma, Arizona, is the Criminals.
They are the only high school in the United States
to have their mascot copyrighted.
The legendary musician Elton John
released his first greatest hits album in 1974.
It was his 11th official album release.
A brown dwarf star was discovered 75 light years from Earth
and it was no warmer than a cup of coffee.
The new candidate for coldest star
had a temperature around 100 degrees Celsius.
The 1996 Christmas comedy film Santa with Muscles,
starring Hulk Hogan, was produced by the real-life
Wolf of Wall Street stockbroker, Jordan Belfort.
The film is considered to be
one of the worst movies ever made
and it grossed only $220,198.
That amount was made at the box office
during its two-week run in theaters.
It's dangerous to ingest OxyContin tablets
after crushing or splitting them
because doing so releases all of the drug at once
instead of over a 12-hour period.
This will greatly increase the risk of oxycodone overdose.
One kick from martial artist Bruce Lee
took only about 300 milliseconds.
This means that he would be capable of delivering
three to four kicks a second!
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