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The U.S. Navy uses dolphins and sea lions to locate
and mark the locations of sea mines.
Dolphins have the most sophisticated sonar known to man
and sea lions have excellent low light vision
and underwater directional hearing capabilities,
which makes them the perfect animals for the job.
The grumbling you get in your stomach is called borborygmi.
It's caused by the movement of gas within the intestines.
The Galapagos iguana is the only iguana in the world
that feeds underwater.
They can hold their breath for up to half an hour
and dive up to 9.1 meters.
Since all mammals, including dolphins, require fresh water
in order to survive, it's believed that dolphins have
an advanced filtration system that allows them to extract
additional salt from their urine in order to separate
the salt from the saltwater that they consume.
There's a neurological condition called synesthesia
in which two or more senses are attached.
There are multiple types of synesthesia, but one of them
is called mirror touch synesthesia where people with it
feel exactly what others feel as pain and pleasure.
The Galapagos Islands are a chain of islands
created by volcanic activity and no animals
are actually native to the Galapagos.
Every specie of animal that's in the Galapagos
came from floating on ocean or air currents.
According to a study done by the Department of
Experimental Psychology at the University of Bristol
in 2010, caffeine makes men less but women more effective
as partners under stress.
There are utility tunnels lined with pipes
that run under most of the buildings on the
University of Ohio's campus.
They were created in the late 1800s as a way
to access the pipes in case of an emergency
without digging through the lawn
and they're still in use today.
China's population actually shrunk by one million people
in a period of only five years between 2010 and 2015.
In 1945, 25-year-old Beulah Hunter
gave birth to a healthy baby girl after being pregnant
for 375 days.
To put that into perspective, a normal pregnancy
is about 280 days.
The largest gem-quality diamond ever found
is the foxfire diamond.
It was found in August of 2015 at the Diavik diamond mine
above the Arctic Circle in Canada's northwest territories.
It is a whopping 188 carats.
Researchers are currently developing flexible
electronic skin for prosthetic limbs
that can help replicate the sensory capabilities
of real skin.
It can even feel temperature changes.
There's an artificial heart device known as a
simcardia that allows people to live temporarily
without a heart.
It's often used by people who are waiting for a heart donor.
On June 27th, 2015, Joseph Toedtling of Austria
beat the world record for the longest distance
pulled by a horse while fully engulfed in flames.
He traveled a half kilometer completely on fire.
Queen Elizabeth II is not only the longest serving
British monarch in history, but she's the longest serving
living monarch.
Many cats actually love olives because of the isoprenoids
found in olives that are structurally similar to the
active chemical in catnip.
Airports in the United States use peregrine falcons
to keep gulls and geese away from the runways
in order to reduce the risk of collision with planes.
Up until the 1990s, the halftime show at the Super Bowl
was just marching bands and drill teams
simply meant to fill in the time so that fans and
TV viewers could go to the concession stand,
get a favorite snack, go to the refrigerator
or just go to the bathroom.
Anheuser Busch InBev paid a whopping $1.4 billion
in order to renew it's contract as the official beer
of the NFL through to the 2022 Super Bowl.
They've been the official beer of the Super Bowl
since 2011 when they replaced Coors Light.
According to a study published by Vegetarian Times,
3.2% of U.S. adults, that's about 3.7 million people
follow a vegetarian-based diet.
There's a National Fancy Rat Society.
It was formed in 1976 by a group of people
who simply wanted to promote the rat as a pet
and an exhibition animal.
According to the Guinness World Records,
on June 7th, 2014, 1,416 Toyota cars were parked together
in airport Kuznetsova, Russia to create a giant Toyota logo
breaking the previous world record held by Subaru.
It was created to introduce a new Toyota dealership
in the area.
There are restaurants throughout Bangkok, Thailand
called Cabbages & Condoms where there is condom-themed
decor and instead of offering you and after dinner mint,
you get a condom on the way out.
During the making of Rocky IV, Sylvester Stallone was put
in the hospital by Dolph Lundgren.
Dolph hit him so hard in the chest during a fight scene
that the pericardial sack around his heart
swelled up, which impeded the beating of his heart
causing his blood pressure to skyrocket to 290.
He spent nine days in intensive care.
There's a tomato tree in Epcot's land pavilion in Florida
that holds the world record for the most tomatoes harvested
from a single plant in one year.
This tomato tree had a one year harvest
of 32,000 tomatoes, weighing in at a total
of 522.5 kilograms.
Only one in every 300 calico cats are male.
In February of 2017, NASA and the European Space Agency's
Hubble space telescope captured a rare image that shows
the death of a star.
It shows the dying star transforming from a red giant
to a planetary nebula called the Calabash Nebula.
It's known as the rotten egg nebula because it
contains so much sulfur that it would
smell like rotten eggs.
On September 12th, 2001, the day after the terrorist attacks
of 9/11, the queen broke with tradition during the
changing of the guard by having the guards
play the Star-Spangled Banner as a sign of the UK's
sympathy for all that the U.S. had to go through
and all of those that were killed.
Actor Michael Clarke Duncan who played John Coffey
in the movie The Green Mile was once the bodyguard
to Queen Latifah, Will Smith, Martin Lawrence,
and Jamie Foxx.
Greenland is the least densely populated territory
in the world with only .02 people per square kilometer.
The entire population is only about 56,000 people.
The first Super Bowl was officially called
the first AFL/NFL World Championship game.
There's actually no lead in a pencil.
The core of a pencil is made of a non-toxic mineral
called graphite.
On July 20th, 1944, an assassination attempt on
Adolf Hitler's life was attempted by
Colonel Claus Von Stauffenberg, Chief of the Army Reserve.
Stauffenberg planted a bomb in a briefcase
which he placed near Hitler under a table,
then left quickly.
Another Colonel inadvertently moved the bomb
further away from Hitler so that when it was detonated,
Hitler was injured but he survived.
The creator of the video game Minecraft,
Markus Notch Persson, sold the business in 2014
to Microsoft for $2.5 billion.
The chemical compounds that we emit when passing gas
varies depending on what we've eaten
and can vary from one person to another.
But in case you were wondering, the typical breakdown
of a fart is about 20 to 90% nitrogen,
zero to 50% hydrogen, 10 to 30% carbon dioxide,
zero to 10% oxygen and zero to 10% methane.
Lead singer of Aerosmith, Steven Tyler,
started Janie's Fund, named after his song,
Janie's Got A Gun, to support programs offered
at youth villages to help girls overcome deep trauma
of abuse and neglect.
President Lyndon B. Johnson was such a huge dog lover
that he tried to sneak his dog, Yuki,
into his daughter Luci's wedding.
In 1968, the crew of the Apollo 7 won a special
Emmy Award from the National Academy
of Television, Arts, and Sciences
for their live transmissions from space.
President Richard Nixon could play five instruments,
the piano, the saxophone, the clarinet,
the accordion, and the violin.
In 1980, Beatle Paul McCartney, was arrested
and then deported from Japan after a nine-day stint
in the Tokyo narcotics detention center for trying to
smuggle in nearly half a pound of marijuana in his baggage.
Those little round bugs that live under logs
called pill bugs, aka roly poly bugs,
that are not really bugs at all, are actually crustaceans.
They're actually related to shrimp and crayfish,
breathe with gills and need humidity
and moisture to survive.
The word Kia has origins in the Chinese language
with the first syllable Ki meaning to arise or come out of.
The second part of the word refers to Asia.
So, in other words,
Kia means to rise up or come out of Asia.
Lemurs have terrible vision
and can only see in black and white.
Llamas and alpacas can successfully interbreed
and their offspring is called huarizo.
Snakes actually used to be able to slither and walk
because they used to have legs, but they evolved
into legless creatures but the gene to grow limbs
still exists.
Both Muslims and Hindus, in some parts of India,
have a ritual that dates back 500 years
where they drop their babies from the roof of a temple
to a sheet held taut by men on the ground.
It's considered to bring good health and good luck.
On Valentine's Day during the Victorian era
and the early 20th century, people sent vinegar Valentine's
as well as the usual Valentine's cards.
Sold in the United States and Britain, the cards featured
an illustration and a short verse
of insult instead of love.
It was a way for them to insult someone without
actually doing it to their face.
Whale milk has such a high percentage of fat in it
that it is the same consistency of toothpaste.
The high fat content not only helps nourish the whale calf,
but it also keeps the milk from dissolving in the water.
A single gram of venom from the Bruno's casque-headed frog
is strong enough to kill 80 people.
Isn't he cute?
On February 10th, 2017, there was a full moon,
a lunar eclipse and a comet that could all be seen
in the same night.
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