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Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
There's a muffin shop in San Francisco
called Double Or Muffin
that will actually double your muffin order for free
if you flip a coin and it lands on heads.
Twice the chub.
Adventurer Bear Grylls named his sons
Jesse, Marmaduke, and Huckleberry.
When Mick Jagger was a teenager,
he actually bit off the tip of his tongue
when he collided with another player
during a basketball game.
From that point on, he spoke and sang
with a less posh accent and more of a street accent.
Chickens can detect and see light
in color shades better than humans.
Chickens also have a better motion sensing ability
than we do, which is actually important for farmers to know
because artificial lights need to be avoided as they flicker
and it may cause a flock to start
actually fighting each other.
Oh the lights again.
(imitating chicken)
In Japan, May 9 is officially recognized
by the Japanese Anniversary Association as Goku Day.
May, because in Japanese the number five is pronounced go
and the number nine is pronounced ku.
The giant red spot on Jupiter is a storm
that has been going on for 150 years or longer
and is twice as wide as Earth.
The largest and most powerful hurricanes
ever recorded on Earth spanned over 1000 miles across
with wind speeds gusting up to around 200 miles per hour
and that is dwarfed by the giant red spot,
which has wind speeds twice as fast.
In 2005 an avid computer gamer from China
with the nickname Snowy died of fatigue
after playing World of Warcraft for three days straight.
But amazingly over 100 gamers visited a virtual cathedral
inside the game where a service was held for her.
She actually holds the Guinness World record
for the most people at a virtual funeral.
Serbian woman Bojana Danilovic
has a rare brain condition
called Spatial Orientation Phenomenon,
which causes her to see everything upside down.
She uses a special inverted computer screen
and keyboard at work as well as special work forms
that are easier to fill upside down.
And yes, at home she watches an upside down TV.
There are 173 known moons in our universe.
However, if we open that up to dwarf planets
that have objects orbiting them, the number climbs to 182.
It is actually possible for a man to fracture his penis.
It's extremely painful and will actually cause
a loud cracking sound.
Folks, please be careful when you're doin' the nasty.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was president of Mexico
11 times from 1833 to 1855.
During the 2007 writer's strike, David Letterman
paid the Late Show staff out of his own pocket.
In 2014 a massive underground city was discovered
in the Cappadocia region of Turkey.
It's the size of 65 football fields
and housed about 20,000 people.
It contained everything from churches, waterways,
fountains, kitchens, and even wineries and oil presses.
There's a company called Hangover Helpers
that, for $20 a person, will bring you Gatorade,
cook you a homemade burrito for breakfast,
completely clean the room that your party was held in,
and do all the dirty dishes.
Okay, let me get that number, I'm need that.
According to the American Kennel Club, as of 2015,
the Labrador Retriever has been America's most popular dog
for the last 25 years consecutively.
What about a pug, Americans?
Y'all ain't got not love for the pug?
Hashtag pug love.
The longest engagement on record lasted 67 years.
Octavio Guillen and Adriana Martinez, both 82,
finally tied the knot in June of 1969 in Mexico City.
Uh, what was they waitin' for, I'm just curious.
The United Kingdom is the only country
that doesn't features its name on its stamps.
But, all UK stamps do have a picture of the monarch's head.
In 2000, 19 year old Kathy Summers paid
$1,025 on eBay for Justin Timberlake's
leftover French toast.
After he finished a breakfast interview
at the studio of New York area radio station, Z100,
the DJ put it on eBay and the rest was history.
According to the Guinness World Records,
the smallest adult of all time is Chandra Bahadur Dangi
from Nopal.
He was only 1.79 feet tall.
Damn, that even makes me feel talk, it's nice.
There's a pipeline beneath the cobbled streets
of Belgium City that can pump 1,057 gallons of booze
an hour, or the equivalent of 12,000 bottles.
It runs 1,864 miles from a brewery into the center
of Bruges, to a bottling plant on the outskirts of the city.
There are 150 billion red blood cells
in one ounce of blood.
There are 2.4 trillion red blood cells
in one pint of blood, and while under stress,
the human body can produce 119 million red blood cells
per second.
The Welwitschia plant that grows in the Namib Desert
can live for 1000 years.
In fact there are some species that exist right now
that, through carbon dating, are shown to be
1500 years old.
That plant has seen it all.
The United States capital subway system in Washington
is an exclusive transit system used only
for members of congress and capital hill staff members.
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis invented a diaper
that is equipped with a waterproof baby
wipe holding compartment.
She actually spent a lot of time caring for children,
meaning that she's docked a lot of hours changing diapers,
so it's not much of a surprise that this on the go mom
thought that the conventional diaper system
could use some tweaking.
Yeah, traditional diapers are pretty crappy.
In 1996, Kermit the Frog delivered the commencement address
at Southampton College to 245 graduates.
Life is hard, get over it.
7 Up was originally called
Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda.
It was invented in 1929 by Charles Leiper Grigg,
who has included lithia in it, a naturally occurring
substance found in minute quantities of bubbling waters
fed by underground springs.
Lithia is better known as lithium, a drug
used to even out mood swings.
A skunk can spray a victim as far as 10 feet away.
So if you smell it, run.
There's an olive tree located in the village
of Al Walaja within the Bethlehem district of Palestine
that is over 4,000 years old.
It was named Al Badawi after a wise villager
who lived in Al Walaja over 200 years ago.
The tree is 39 feet tall and 82 feet in diameter
and is compared to that of 10 average sized olive trees
put together.
Strong, Maine is considered the toothpick
capital of the world because up until 2003,
they manufactured 90% of the US supply of toothpicks,
producing 20 million toothpicks a day.
How many times can I say toothpicks?
Toothpicks.
The senior crayon maker at Crayola, Emerson Moser,
who worked at Crayola for 37 years, made an
announcement when he retired that he is,
in fact, colorblind.
Huh, must've got those Logan Paul sunglasses.
Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland,
wasn't actually Irish.
His exact birth place and date is not known,
however it is believed that he was born around
375 AD in Scotland, and his real name is believed to be
Maewyn Succat and he took on the name Patrick
upon becoming a priest.
The Peregrine falcon can dive bomb their prey from above,
going up to 199 miles per hour.
St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City
is the world's largest cathedral.
It's 610 feet in length, has an inside area
of over 163,000 square feet,
and the main dome is 446 feet high.
It can accommodate 20,000 prayers at one time.
The planet Uranus has 27 moons.
Five of the moons are large and the rest are much smaller.
The five large moons are called Miranda, Ariel,
Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon.
The growth cycle for eyelashes in only three months,
which is one reason they don't grow very long.
They actually fall out daily.
In fact, anywhere from one to five
will drop out of your face every day.
The term mayday is used internationally
as a distress signal.
It was derived from the French "Venez m'aider"
which means "Come help me."
Singultus is another name for hiccups.
More than 180 languages and dialects are spoken
in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
In fact, Toronto is the most multicultural city
on the planet, with half of its population
born outside the country.
Musician Frank Zappa had a quilt made entirely
out of unwashed panties that were thrown on stage
by women as his shows.
Heh, that's gross.
In 2012, Costa Rica became the first Latin American
country to ban hunting as a sport.
People who broke this law could face up to
four months in prison or a fine of $3,000.
If you purchase a new car in Denmark, you have
to pay a registration tax on the new vehicle of 150%.
Believe it or not, this was actually reduced
by the Danish government from 180%.
This was all part of its 2016 budget.
Black Friday of 2016 was a record breaking day
for gun background checks in America.
The FBI processed 185,713 background checks,
400 more than 2015.
Black Friday is usually the biggest day of the year
for gun sales because of the deep discounts offered.
Yeah, that's wanna hear now that I live in LA.
Guns are cheap and available everywhere.
Makes me feel safe.
The world's largest gold nugget ever found
was near Denali, Victoria, Australia
on February 5, 1869.
It weighed in at a whopping 159 pounds
and measured two feet by one foot.
It was melted into ingots and shipped
to the bank of England.
The tusks of an elephant can weigh up to 200 pounds
and grow up to 10 feet long.
Cows have over 800 blood types.
105 year old Swedish woman, Dagny Carlsson,
is the oldest blogger in the world.
At the age of 99, she took a course in infomatics
and has been blogging ever since.
At the time of this video, she's still alive and kicking.
The fist drug law in America was put into place
to prohibit Chinese opium dens.
Koalas rarely drink water.
The majority of their water comes from gum leaves
or from dew or rainwater on the surface of the leaves.
They receive over 90% of their hydration
from the eucalyptus leaves that they eat
and only drink when ill or at times
when there isn't enough moisture on the leaves,
like during very dry weather.
Tokyo subway system transports 3.1 billion people a year.
According to astronauts that have been to the moon,
moon dust smells like spent gun powder.
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