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Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
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When jazz legend, Duke Ellington was a boy,
he and his friends would play baseball outside,
President Theodore Roosevelt would sometimes ride by
on his horse and watch Ellington and his friends play.
Culinary great, Julia Child helped in developing
shark repellent for downed soldiers in the ocean
during World War II.
Although sea otters forage for food alone,
they form rafts as a group by grabbing onto each other.
The largest of these rafts ever seen
was one that contained over 2,000 sea otters.
Speaking of sea otters, when sea otters mate,
the males bite the nose of the female,
which usually bloodies and scars it.
Johnny Gilbert, who's the announcer
for the television game show, "Jeopardy!"
is currently as of the time of this recording 95 years old.
In 1866, the entire US state of Mississippi
spent more than half of their total budget
on artificial limbs.
Since the beginning of the 20th century,
25 new islands have formed in the ocean,
because of vulcanism, erosion and glacial retreat.
Actor, Thomas Jane was first offered the role of Rick Grimes
in the television show, "The Walking Dead,"
however he turned it down in order to play the lead
in "Hung," where he played a male gigolo.
The comedy rock band, Tenacious D
featuring Jack Black and Kyle Gass
got their name from the term, tenacious defense,
this saying was used by sports broadcaster, Marv Albert
during NBA games.
Even though actor, Paul Newman quit smoking
30 years before his death,
he still passed away from lung cancer.
So yeah, if you smoke, just stop.
King George V of the United Kingdom
was euthanized in the form of injection
with 750 milligrams of morphine and one gram of cocaine.
Dracula has appeared in more films
than any other character in horror
with more than 200 appearances,
this number doesn't even include comedies and cartoons.
The total area of contact between a train's wheels
and the track is slightly larger than one silver dollar.
It is actually illegal not to vote in Australia,
if a citizen does not give a valid excuse
as to why they failed to vote,
they will be ordered to pay a $20 fine.
Actor and comedian, Seth Rogen
had an octopus named after him at the Vancouver Aquarium.
Its name is Seth Rogen, because octopuses are cephalopods.
Cartoonist and entrepreneur, Robert Ripley
from "Ripley's Believe It or Not"
became the New York State Handball Champion in 1926.
Since 1988, it's been illegal for blind people
to hunt in Wisconsin given that they have a hunting license.
The word, decal is short for decalcomania,
which is the technique that transfers engravings and prints
on to pottery or other materials.
When Dan Rather was a reporter,
he wanted to feel the effects of heroin
and write a story about it.
He convinced the police to give him a dose.
Tooth enamel is capable of repairing itself
by using minerals from saliva
as well as fluoride from toothpaste
and most of our water supply.
In 1945, US defense planners decided that it would take
204 atomic bombs to completely destroy the Soviet Union.
Major League Baseball Hall of Famer, Tim Raines
played with cocaine in his back pocket
and fell asleep in the dugout during games.
Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini
were all nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
at one point in their lives.
Because of a promotion by rival breweries
in Cameroon in 2005, bottle caps from the beer bottles
were used as a form of currency.
Most elevators ding once when they're going up
and twice if they're going down.
In 1937 the Antarctic Snow Cruiser
was a vehicle that was designed to help with transport
during the United States Antarctic Service Expedition
from 1939 until 1941,
however the tread less tires
caused the vehicle to have no traction in the snow
and it basically became useless.
The team ended up leaving the cruiser behind,
when they went back to America to focus on the war,
but it was discovered later in 1946.
In 1990, an elderly woman was admitted to the hospital
after she contracted lipoid pneumonia due to inhalation,
she sprayed herself with WD-40
in an attempt to ease her rheumatism,
this was apparently a practice
that used to be common with older people.
Comedian Phil Hartman was originally a graphic artist,
who received his degree from California State University,
Northridge in 1974.
Before he joined "Saturday Night Live,"
he created record covers for several rock and roll bands.
Santana's first album wasn't even released yet
by the time that they performed
at the Woodstock Festival in 1969.
Their debut album was released later that month.
An estimated 3% of the 1940 world population
perished during World War II,
it was the deadliest conflict in human history.
During the Middle Ages in Europe,
people who were caught selling fake saffron
were executed by law.
Disney World has a resort that's only open
to US military members and their families,
it's called Shades of Green.
King Charles II of England's favorite dish
was a serving of eggs with ambergris,
which is a substance that's produced
in the digestive system of a sperm whale.
The weapon that artist, Vincent van Gogh used on himself
recently sold at auction
for 144,000 pounds or $182,000,
it's considered by many enthusiasts
to be the most famous weapon in art history.
The birds in the Alfred Hitchcock horror film, "The Birds"
were fed a mixture of wheat and whisky,
in order for them to stand around
for a long period of time.
In addition one of the alternate endings
for the film "The Birds" was going to be a shot
of the Golden Gate Bridge completely covered by birds.
Lions are capable of roaring as loud as 114 decibels,
because their vocal chords are square-shaped,
instead of triangle-shaped like most species of animals.
Dipping your bread in olive oil and vinegar
was originally started in San Francisco, not in Italy.
Business was so good in the city of San Francisco
during the Great Depression,
that they constructed the Golden Gate Bridge
and the Oakland Bay Bridge at the same time.
Singer, Willie Nelson's first wife, Martha
once sewed him up in bedsheets
and beat him with a broomstick.
In 1958, the St. Louis Hawks were the last NBA team
to win the Championship
without an African-American player on their team.
In 2018, an elevator containing six people
in a Chicago skyscraper dropped 84 floors
and trapped them inside.
Oh, this is just a nightmare, oh!
Fortunately firefighters were actually able to rescue
the victims and none of them needed hospitalization.
In August of 2019, astronomers discovered
the largest known black hole ever observed,
it's at the center of the galaxy called Holmberg 15A
and is measured at 40 billion times the mass of our sun.
Before Walt Disney passed away of lung cancer in 1966,
the last words that he ever wrote
were Kurt Russell on a piece of paper,
at that time Kurt Russell was a child actor,
that had just signed a contract with the studio.
It remains a mystery to this day
what Disney meant when he wrote his name.
Dr. Washington Sheffield was a dental surgeon,
whose best known for inventing modern toothpaste,
he also invented toothpaste that comes in collapsible tubes
after his son went to Paris
and noticed artists preparing their paint palettes
with the same basic idea.
Jack Daniel learned how to distill whisky
from a black slave named Nathan Nearest Green.
Daniel made Green his master distiller,
which made him the first African-American master distiller
in the country, in fact three of Uncle Nearest's descendants
still work for the Jack Daniel's Distillery today.
Countess Elizabeth Bathory was a Hungarian noblewoman
and also the most prolific female serial killer ever
according to the "Guinness World Records."
When she was on trial,
more than 300 witnesses and victims gave testimonies,
it was reported during the trial
that the highest number of victims that she had was 650.
She was imprisoned in solitary confinement
and died four years later.
In 2017, 97-year old Harland Fairweather
was the oldest person recorded with a living parent,
his mother, Violet Brown was 117 years old
and five months after Harland passed away,
Violet did as well.
Mexican revolutionary General Poncho Villa
starred in a biopic film about himself in 1914
called "The Life of General Villa."
The film contained both staged combat scenes
and actual combat footage from the Mexican Revolution.
In the painting, "The Old Fisherman,"
the man shown has an unusual asymmetrical face,
however if you mirror the right side of the image,
you will see the Devil sitting in a coffin
with a rough sea behind him.
The entire work itself shows us
both the good and bad sides of being a human being.
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