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- Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
Canada still has 91% of forest cover
that existed at the beginning of European settlement.
The car manufacturer Audi had to design their horns
in the Indian market to be louder and more durable
because of the amount of times Indians honk their horns.
There is currently no existing antivenom
for a blue-ringed octopus bite,
but you can survive with no effects
if you are hooked up to a ventilator after being bitten.
While filming the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark"
in Tunisia, most of the cast and crew
had came down with dysentery, including Harrison Ford.
However, director Steven Spielberg did not
because he brought suitcases of Spaghetti-Os with him
and ate those instead.
An Arizona man found a letter addressed to Santa Claus
that was attached to a popped balloon while he was hiking.
He read the letter and fulfilled the wishlist
for the little girl, who lived in Mexico.
Alexander Fleming warned the public
about the dangers of antibiotic overuse
when he was accepting his Nobel Prize award
for the discovery of penicillin in 1945.
According to Stanford magazine,
a reusable shopping bag will have to be used
at least 131 times in order to be beneficial to the planet
and lower plastic bag production.
Radiotrophic fungi was discovered
growing inside the Cherynobyl nuclear power plant in 1991.
This fungus feeds on the gamma radiation
and converts it into chemical energy for growth!
Female Atlantic right whales lower their voices to a whisper
when they communicate with their young
to prevent predators from eavesdropping on them.
Teachers in ancient Egypt used red ink
to correct their students' spelling mistakes,
similar to teachers today.
Citizens in Singapore who do not sign up
to donate their organs are put on a lower priority
to receive an organ transplant than those who do sign up.
The ashes of Clyde Tombaugh,
the man who discovered Pluto in 1930,
are aboard the New Horizon spacecraft
and passed by the planet in 2015.
In the entire 50-plus years
of the Japanese bullet train system,
there's never been a single passenger fatality
or injury due to train accidents.
In 1746, King Gustav III of Sweden
wanted to prove that coffee was unhealthy,
so he ordered an experiment that used identical twins.
One twin would drink large amounts of coffee a day
and the other would drink large amounts of tea every day.
Ironically, both of the twins outlived the king
and the doctors who were studying the experiment.
Two Buddhists were trying to buy crustaceans
and releasing them into the ocean,
which caused damage to the ecosystem
because they were non-native species.
According to the University of West England,
an additional 20 minutes of commuting to work each day
is the equivalent to a 19% annual pay cut.
When the arcade game Tron was released after the movie was,
it ended up making more money
than the movie did while it was in theaters!
The roar of Godzilla was created over 60 years ago
from a leather glove coated in pine tar resin.
The glove was then used to rub along a string
of a double bass.
The inside of the Great Pyramids of Giza
always have a temperature
of 20 degrees Celsius all year round.
Every night at 10 p.m., students in Uppsala, Sweden,
let out a collective scream
to deal with the demands of university life.
This is know as the Flogsta scream.
Even though the pyramids are associated with Egypt
or ancient Mayan culture,
Sudan has the most numerous extant pyramids
in the world with 220.
During the 1970s, North Korea purchased
thousands of Volvo cars, tractors,
and buses from Sweden on credit.
They still have not paid them off
and many of the cars, tractors, and buses
remain in use today.
Algae oil is low in saturated fats and high in healthy fats.
It also has a higher smoking point than olive oil.
The Adirondack chair is a slanted seat
because it was designed to be upright
when placed facing down on a steep hill.
The chair was designed in the summer home of Thomas Lee
in the Adirondack Mountains in 1903.
The song "Rock Your Body" was originally intended
to be on Michael Jackson's 2001 album "Invincible",
but he rejected it.
The song went to Justin Timberlake,
who featured it on his debut album, "Justified".
When Denny's locations closed for the first time ever
on Christmas in 1988,
many of the stores did not have locks on their doors
because they were always open.
Speaking of Denny's the famous Grand Slam at Denny's
was introduced in 1977 in Atlanta
in honor of baseball great Hank Aaron,
who retired that year.
Singer Ke$ha was born with a quarter-inch vestigial tail.
She says that it was chopped off
and that she's very sad about the story.
Actor Colin Firth spent two years
in the Canadian wilderness in 1988,
where he worked as a carpenter and lived in a cabin
with his then-wife Meg Tilly.
Looking back on the move,
Firth said that he wouldn't recommend it as a career move.
Human meat is not nearly as nutritious
as other forms of animal protein, based on the studies
at the University of Brighton in England.
Boar meat has more than double the amount of calories
in the same serving size.
Because MLB uniforms were made out of wool,
many of the players would get hot and uncomfortable
during the mid-summer months.
To combat this issue,
Hall of Fame great Babe Ruth wore chilled cabbage leaves
under his hat during games to keep his head cool.
He would change them every couple innings!
Even though Babe Ruth was not extensively educated,
he spoke German very well
because his mother and father had German roots.
Historian Fred Lieb once tried to talk to Ruth's teammate,
Lou Gehrig, in German,
but Babe kept cutting in and interrupting them.
Marie Antoinette never said, "Let them eat cake."
According to historian Lady Antonia Fraser,
the quote would've been highly uncharacteristic
of Marie Antoinette.
The Food and Drug Administration
does not consider Palmer chocolate,
commonly sold at Dollar Tree stores, to be real chocolate.
The FDA lists 15 different subcategories
under the main category 'cacao products'.
Polygamy is legally allowed
in 58 out of about 200 countries,
including much of Africa and many Middle Eastern states.
Extreme ironing is a sport
where people travel to remote locations
with ironing boards and iron clothing.
The sport was created by Tony Hiam in 1980
in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in England
while he was camping.
Palm trees are known to grow in the western part of Scotland
because of the effects of the Gulf Stream
bringing warmer tropical water to the area.
However, palm trees are extremely difficult to grow
in the eastern part of Scotland because it's much colder.
Physicist Richard Feynman had synesthesia,
which meant that he saw different colors
in equations he would teach or solve.
There are more cheerleading injuries
every year in high schools
than lacrosse and rugby injuries combined.
The most common sport in high schools
where injuries occur is basketball with ankle sprains.
There was a small leprechaun house
at the roots of a tree at Disneyland
next to the Indiana Jones ride.
The leprechaun is known as the Little Man of Disneyland
from the book of the same title in 1955,
the same year the theme park opened.
Black lemurs in Madagascar catch huge red millipedes
and rub themselves with them to get high
and deter themselves from most predators.
They're also used as a pesticide
to stave off malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
The millipedes are then able to crawl away mostly unharmed
until they're caught again by another lemur.
Actress Winona Ryder is named after Winona, Minnesota,
where she was born on October 29th, 1971.
Her hometown is Petaluma, California, however.
According to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition,
regularly drinking coffee reduces one's risk
of developing kidney stones.
Guinness has estimated that 93,000 liters of beer
are wasted in facial hair every year
in the United Kingdom alone.
That equates to about 160,000 pints of beer,
which is around $536,000 of wasted Guinness a year.
Actor Bela Lugosi, famously known for playing Count Dracula
in the 1931 film, was buried in the full Dracula costume
when he passed away in 1956 in Culver City, California.
Lugosi also played Dracula
in a Broadway production of Bram Stoker's novel
before the film was produced.
About one million dogs have been named primary beneficiaries
in their owners' wills in the United States.
However, pets cannot inherit wills
because they're considered personal property by the law
and not a person.
The country of Russia arrived 12 days late
to the 1908 Olympics in London, England,
because they were still using the Julian calendar
and not the Gregorian calendar.
On May 7th, 2005, an MIT student
held a time-traveling convention
in hopes of meeting time travelers from the future.
Unfortunately, no one from the future showed up,
even though 300 people attended the event.
The convention also featured lectures
from notable MIT professors and faculty.
The event also inspired the musical
called the Time Travelers Convention.
As of August 2019, there are only two psychiatrists
in the entire country of Liberia,
which has a population of more than four million people.
The ancient Romans used to ground up mouse brains
combined with bicarbonate sodium
as a form of toothpaste to clean their teeth.
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