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Here are 50 Amazing Facts to Blow Your Mind.
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The hooded pitohui bird from Papua New Guinea
was the first documented venomous bird.
Its feather and skin contain the same poison
that is commonly found in poison dart frogs.
It's the most powerful natural toxin known to man.
Army ants in the forests of Central and South America
have been documented building living bridges
by linking their bodies to get over gaps
and to create shortcuts in the rainforest.
They can maintain that bridge
even as large numbers cross,
due to their ability
to carry 20 times their own body weight.
Alabama was the last state in the United States
to lift the ban on interracial marriages.
The government didn't remove it until the year 2000,
over 30 years after the Supreme Court
ruled that such a ban was unconstitutional.
86-year-old nun Madonna Buder
gained the nickname the Iron Nun,
due to her amazing endurance.
She's completed over 40 Iron Man races,
which consist of a 180-kilometer bike ride,
3.9-kilometer swim, and a 42.2-kilometer run.
She was the oldest Iron Man triathlon competitor.
According to a Harvard study
that was published in the New York Times,
if you were born on September 16,
you share a birthday with more people
than anyone who wasn't.
Research scientists working alongside Facebook,
who were studying a sample of 160,000 Facebook users,
discovered that people who preferred dogs to cats
had more online connections on average,
and were more likely to be in a relationship
than users who preferred cats.
There's an island in the Thousand Island chain
separating Canada and the United States
in the St. Lawrence River
that's officially called Just Enough Room Island.
It was purchased by the Sizeland family in the 1950s,
and has just enough room on its surface
for a house, a tree, and a couple of chairs
to sit on the outside.
As of June 2018, there are only three Northern White Rhinos
left in the world, one male and two females,
all of which live in captivity in Northern Kenya.
And disturbingly, despite the male being on death watch,
these creatures are still sought after
for their horns by poachers.
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.
The ostrich is the fastest animal on Earth
that travels on two legs.
These flightless animals are capable of running
as fast as 64 kilometers an hour for brief periods,
such as when escaping a predator or other danger,
and 48 kilometers an hour
if they need to travel long distances.
Between 1934 and 1938,
while serving time for tax evasion in Alcatraz,
gangster Al Capone racked up some good behavior points
with the warden
and was permitted to play the banjo
in the prison band that he helped form.
The Rock Islanders performed every Sunday
for the prison's other inmates.
From 1733 to 1755, all lawyers were banned
from the state of Georgia.
They were considered pests and the scourge of mankind.
It was believed that every person
was perfectly capable of pleading their own case
when required.
The peridot gem is the only gemstone
that's literally not of this world.
They've been spotted on comets, in large formations on Mars,
and inside certain meteorites that have fallen to Earth
from deep space.
Queen Victoria's doctor gave her marijuana to relieve pain
when she was experiencing menstruation cramps.
The capybara, a native of many South American countries,
is the world's largest rodent.
These web-toed creatures can grow over 1.3 meters long,
and weigh as much as 65 kilograms.
On August 3, 2016, IBM scientists in Zurich, Switzerland
announced that they'd created a neuron
out of germanium antimony telluride,
which replicates a biological neuron.
It could be the first step in creating an artificial brain.
For the first time ever,
the United States government
has approved a private company to land on the moon.
The Florida-based Moon Expresshas been given permission
for their planned robotic lunar landing,
the first of several missions to visit the moon
and harvest resources from it.
The opossum is known to play dead
when in danger or frightened.
The reaction is actually involuntary,
as the animal enters a comatose state
as a defense mechanism.
Whenever would cause the fear is gone, they wake up again.
In 1919, the Stanley Cup final in Seattle
was canceled due to a Spanish flu outbreak.
Never before or since
have the finals themselves been canceled.
The space between your thumb
and your extended forefinger has a name.
It's called a purlicue.
Believe it or not,
fish can actually drown or suffocate while in water.
They get their oxygen directly
from the water through their gills,
and if that water runs out of oxygen for whatever reason,
they drown just like an air-breathing animal would.
On July 4, 2016, Egypt announced
it was ending the practice of daylight saving's time,
three days before it was due to start.
The provincial government in Alberta, Canada
claims that the province has been rat-free
for over 50 years.
Though the rodents do enter
on board trucks, trains, and on foot,
they are almost always alone
and thus cannot breed to create more.
Ireland has a theme park
which is owned by and named after a potato chip brand.
Tayto Park is located right cross the street
from the company's manufacturing plant.
And whenever a guest enters or leaves,
they're given a small packet of Tayto crisps.
Mercury's orbit brings it so close to the sun
that its surface temperature
can get as hot as 427 degrees Celsius.
However, due to the fact
that there isn't much of an atmosphere there
to keep all that heat trapped,
as soon as night comes
temperatures become substantially colder,
falling as low as -173 degrees Celsius.
According to a study conducted by TDG Research,
the average Netflix subscriber
spends over 550 hours every year using the service.
On multiple occasions, hippopotamuses,
which are normally vegetarians,
have been documented cannibalizing one of their own dead.
Well, one of these facts was bound to be disturbing.
For 11 years in the '70s and '80s,
skateboarding was banned in Norway,
due to the country's environment ministry
overreacting to the dangers the hobby put children in.
Owls have three eyelids.
The upper lid closes when the owl blinks,
the lower one closes when the owl sleeps,
and the third one is a thin layer of tissue
that closes diagonally from the inside-out
to clean and protect the surface of its eye.
Since they're unable to sweat,
wood storks and vultures will often urinate
down their own legs to keep cool.
Over 2,500 decommissioned New York subway cars
have been dropped into the Atlantic Ocean,
to help create an underwater reef for crustaceans and fish.
In parts of Pakistan and other areas of Southern Asia,
people will actually smoke dried-up dead scorpions
to get high.
Female spotted hyenas,
which are significantly larger than their male counterparts
and are the more dominant of the species,
don't actually have a vagina.
Instead, they actually have a type of pseudo-penis.
The fastest man on Earth, Usain Bolt,
has a condition called scoliosis,
which creates a curvature of the spine
and gets worse as the body ages and grows.
There's a yoga practice called kechari mudra,
where you roll your tongue up in your nasal cavity.
It's supposed to help you overcome thirst,
hunger, decay, and death.
I don't know, I'm pretty hungry right now.
It's not working.
Though they're often only the size of small cities,
the force of gravity inside a neutron star
is nearly two billion times stronger
than the gravity here on Earth.
These collapsing sun cores have a mass
that's 1.4 times the mass of our own sun.
Ireland, New Zealand, Iceland, and Newfoundland
are all places that have no snakes native to them.
The world's largest airship, the Airlander 10,
is 92 meters long.
It's filled with almost 37,000 cubic meters of helium
and can reach an altitude of 4.8 kilometers.
Nicknamed the flying bum,
the ship is shaped like a posterior
and can remain in the sky for up to five days.
Food Ink is the world's first 3D printing restaurant.
In the restaurant, all the food, all the utensils,
and all the furniture are produced through 3D printing.
The edible art is prepared by the finest chefs
with fresh, natural ingredients.
Nike's slogan, Just Do It,
was actually inspired by the final words
of murderer Gary Gilmore.
His final words before being executed by firing squad
were let's do it.
Advertising executive Dan Wieden altered it
and pitched it to Nike,
who ended up making Just Do It their iconic slogan.
The Greenland shark
is the longest living vertebrate known on Earth.
Scientists have estimated one shark to be 400 years old.
The giant pyrosome is a rare bioluminescent sea creature
that is made up of dozens of smaller creatures
that reproduce through cloning.
They can regenerate injured or missing body parts,
and live extraordinarily long lives.
The antechinus is a little mouse-like mammal
that mates so much it actually kills itself.
Males live less than a year,
frantically mating like crazy,
until their bodies literally start to fall apart.
Engineers at the University of Washington
have developed a way of communicating
that would allow contact lenses and brain implants
to send signals to your iPhone.
Interscatter communication works
by converting Bluetooth signals into Wifi signals.
Orangutans build a brand new nest
to sleep in every single night.
Each one is 11 to 12 meters off the ground,
and is made from leaves, branches, and sticks.
The nests have to be sturdy,
as the average orangutan weighs 38 kilograms.
Yet still, the animals rarely reuse
or even improve an old one,
opting instead to start from scratch.
Actor Tom Hanks has an asteroid named after him,
the 12818 Tomhanks.
There's a cave in Australia
called Well It Wasn't There Last Year Cave.
In the 1980s, Robert L. Crandall,
the head of American Airlines at the time,
decided to remove a single olive
from each salad served in first class
on-board every plane.
And it saved $40,000 that year.
According to a survey released by Travelzoo,
64% of Americans confess to peeing in the pool
or ocean while on vacation.
Think about that next time you get some water in your mouth.
Chinese checkers wasn't actually invented in China,
and actually has no connection
to any country in Asia whatsoever.
The star-shaped marble game originated in Germany in 1892,
and it only became known as Chinese checkers
when it reached the United States
and companies wanted to take advantage
of the popularity of oriental imports.
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