- And from the waters of knowledge,
the knowledge whale appears, slap, slap.
Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
78% of all former NFL players become bankrupt
or under financial stress
after they've been retired for two years.
For NBA players 60% of them become broke
within five years of retirement.
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics
consumer price index,
a $100,000 a year salary in 1950,
is equal to over $1 million salary in 2019
when adjusted for inflation.
Taller people are at a greater risk
to be diagnosed with cancer
because they have more cells in their bodies
with mutations to occur.
But that's good, your boy's safe I'm only five six.
Captain James T. Kirk's famous saying, "You have the conn"
in the original Star Trek series
refers to the conning towers of battleships
as far back as the 1860's.
A conning tower was a raised platform on a ship
where officers were in charge to shout orders from.
The canyon that was shown in "Star Wars: A New Hope"
where R2D2 was abducted by the Jawas was the same place
that was used for "Raiders of the Lost Ark"
where the Ark of the Covenant was opened.
The canyon is located in Tozeur,
which is an oasis city in the southwestern part of Tunisia.
George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch in the San Francisco Bay area
has its own fire brigade where 14 firefighters
work full time.
In the 1998 film "The Truman Show" starring Jim Carrey,
there's a scene where Truman is eating breakfast
with a bottle of vitamin D supplements on the table.
since there's no real sunlight in his constructed world,
he must take these vitamins to counteract deficiencies.
The Japanese term tsundoku is an act of acquiring
reading materials or books and letting them pile up
in one's home without ever reading them.
The Faery Investigation Society was a secret occult group
that was devoted to collecting evidence about the existence
of fairies and organized documented fairy sightings.
The group was founded in 1927 in Britain
by Captain Sir Quentin C.A Crawford,
and one of its most notable members was Walt Disney.
According to National Geographic,
a different language dies every 14 days
and half of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken on earth
will most likely be gone in the next century.
More communities are starting to abandon
their native tongues in favor of
Mandarin, English and Spanish.
It's possible to boil water in a paper cup
by holding it over a stove at an approximate distance
from the flame.
In 2017, the California Department of Motor Vehicles
made a rule against putting the number 69
on drivers license plates.
The only exception to this rule
is if the vehicle's year model is 1969.
You should never put a raw steak or any raw piece of meat
on a black eye.
Even though you've seen much of those
in movies and television.
The bacteria on the meat could very well cause an infection
and there's no scientific basis
of meat treating a black eye.
A total of 1,828 kilometers of film
was used for Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
The film was edited down to 686 minutes,
which is 11 hours and 26 minutes
of the extended edition's running time.
The 1996 family adventure film "Rainbow"
was the first movie to be shot digitally
and in high definition.
The magician Teller from Penn and Teller
began performing in silence.
After doing shows at college fraternity parties
in his youth.
He found out that if he stayed quiet throughout the act
that he was least likely
to get beer poured on him or heckled.
Penn Jillette never knew how to play poker until eight days
before his appearance on the show
Celebrity Poker Showdown in 2004.
Legendary Western movie star John Wayne
who was known as Marion Morrison at the time
had a football scholarship to USC
but injured his shoulder while body surfing.
In 1927 He quit school and was hired as a prop guy
at Fox Studios with the help of his former football coach.
Three years later,
he was given his first leading role in front of the camera
in the movie "Big Trail".
in 1997, a man in Frankfurt, Germany reported his car stolen
to the police.
20 years later, the police tracked down his car
and found out the man simply forgot where he parked it.
He just assumed it was stolen.
The singer Sia is the only woman over 40 years old
to have a number one song and Billboard Hot 100 chart
as a lead artist.
The song was "Cheap Thrills".
The last woman to do so was Bette Midler in 1989,
with the song "Wind Beneath My Wings"
when she was 43 years old.
There was a family of slaves
working in rural Louisiana until as late as 1961,
decades after slavery was abolished
in the United States in 1865.
The assassination attempt of President Theodore Roosevelt
in 1912 came to be after a saloon owner named John Shrank
had a strange dream.
He said that he saw President William McKinley
sit up in his coffin
and point at a man wearing a monk's attire.
The man he saw was Theodore Roosevelt.
McKinley then told Shrank in the dream,
this is my murderer, avenge my death.
Shrank shot Roosevelt with a revolver
while he was giving a speech and not only survived
but finished the speech.
The news of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination
took 11 days to reach London, England.
Thomas Jefferson is credited with having the first recipe
for ice cream by an American.
He also helped popularize ice cream in the United States
after he visited France.
He enjoyed the desert so much
that he had it in all of his kitchens
for the rest of his life.
The character Edna Mode from the 2004 Pixar film,
"The Incredibles" is voiced by the movie's writer
and director Brad Bird.
NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal was considered for the role
of the prisoner John Coffee in the 1999 drama,
"The Green Mile" starring Tom Hanks.
The role eventually went to Michael Clarke Duncan.
Gorillas have a pregnancy time of nine months,
similar to humans,
but their babies usually weigh less than human babies
around 1.81 kilograms.
However, their development is around twice as fast.
The oldest continuously operated Chinese food restaurant
in America is the Pekin Noodle Parlor in Butte, Montana.
The restaurant was founded by immigrants in 1911
and has been owned by Danny Wong since the early 1950s.
The longest tunnel in the world is the Delaware Aqueduct
that travels from upstate New York into Manhattan.
The tunnel is 4.1 meters wide,
and stretches 136.8 kilometers long.
According to sixwise.com,
there are about 40,000 unclaimed loved ones in morgues
across the United States.
Some of them do not have families or the family members
aren't able to afford the cost of burials or cremation.
It was illegal for women to wear pants in Paris, France
until the year 2013 when the law was broken.
In 1892 and 1909 the rule was amended
so that women could wear trousers
if they were holding a bicycle handlebar
or the reins of a horse.
If you were driving to the sun in a car
that was going in a constant speed
of 96.6 kilometers per hour,
it would take about 176 years to reach your destination.
Dozens of people in Russia are killed every winter
by falling icicles from buildings and hundreds more injured.
You are more likely to find icicles
on the south side of a building
because they're partly made from the sun
and the rays are the strongest
when they shine from the south.
Icicles can only form if the sun is shining.
Hummingbirds can only be found in the Western hemisphere,
and about half of them live around the Equator.
Only 5% of Hummingbird species live north of Mexico
and about two dozen species
live in the United States and Canada.
Speaking of hummingbirds,
a hummingbird's brain makes up 4.2% of its entire weight.
This is proportionally the largest of any other bird.
According to studies they're capable of
remembering migration routes as well as every flower
that they have ever visited.
Even though the island country of Iceland
has about 1,300 different types of insects,
there are no mosquitoes at all.
The neighboring countries of Greenland, Scotland and Denmark
all have mosquitoes however.
From 1896 until the 1930's,
entertainers would crash two trains in head on collisions
in front of thousands of spectators.
Two locomotive engineers would wait for the signal
from the event organizer,
and on his mark, they would pull the throttles back as far
as they could and then jump off while it was moving.
People who wished to witness these crashes and explosions
paid a few dollars for admission.
According to a study done by Biology Letters,
the duration of time it takes for an animal to yawn
predicts the size of its brain and number of neurons
in its cortex.
The longer the yawn is, the bigger the brain is.
After drive-in movie theaters began to suffer from closures
and stagnation in the 1960's and 70's,
the Rustic Tri View Drive-in in Rhode Island
decided to combat this issue by showing X-rated movies.
Their licensing fees subsequently went up from $160
to $18,000 a year
and the owner sold the theater
to a more family oriented group.
Marsupials made their way into Australia from South America
by traveling through Antarctica
about three million years ago when it was ice free.
Public schools in Texas are legally allowed
to charge parents a $15 administrative fee
if their child's phone is confiscated.
Oscar the Grouch was inspired by a mean waiter
at a restaurant called Oscar's Tavern
in Manhattan, New York.
Jim Henson and John Stone would have lunch there
and became amused by how grouchy the waiter was.
The Springfield Armory in Massachusetts
was founded by George Washington in 1794.
It manufactured weapons for every major war in US history
from the war of 1812 until the Vietnam War in 1968.
In 1991, a man named Steve Feltam quit his job,
sold his house and left his girlfriend
to look for the Loch Ness monster full time.
He bought a 1970 camper van
and has been living in it by Lake Loch Ness ever since.
He's also the current Guinness world record
for the longest time spent
looking for the Loch Ness Monster.
Marvel Comics owned the rights to the name Hulk Hogan
from 1984 until 2004.
The pro wrestler Hulk Hogan had to pay them royalties
for all of his merchandise that he sold.
To avoid this he changed his name
to Hollywood Hogan in 1996.
In 2015, the US Army conducted urban warfare training
in abandoned buildings in Flint, Michigan.
They set off explosions and staged simulated assaults
with unaware residents being notified last minute
or after it was done with.
The sun loses around six million tons of mass every second
from nuclear fission and solar winds.
However, over the last 4.5 billion years,
it's only lost about 0.05% of its original mass.
The last conviction in United States for blasphemy
came in 1928 in Little Rock, Arkansas to atheist activist,
Charles Lee Smith.
A sign in the storefront window read,
"Evolution is true, the Bible is a lie, God's a ghost."
He was sentenced to 90 days in jail
and had to pay a fine of $100.
Rigatoni con la pajata is the classic dish of Roman cuisine
that contains the intestines of an unweaned calf
that was only fed on its mother's milk.
When they're cooked,
the intestines become a thick and creamy cheese-like sauce.
This dish is then served with tomato sauce and rigatoni.
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