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Here are 50 Amazing Facts To Blow Your Mind.
Until 1984, women in Lichtenstein were not allowed to vote.
Out of 4,702 men who voted,
2,370 to them voted for women to have the right to vote,
which came out to 51.3%.
There's a species of fungus that looks like a sponge
and produces fruit bodies that have musky odor.
Mm, musky fruit.
In 2011 is was described as new to science,
and the scientific name for it was
Spongiforma Squarepantsii.
In case you didn't catch that
they named it after Spongebob.
According to the Colorado Department of Transportation,
the construction of wildlife bridges
and underpasses have significantly
reduced animal related car crashes
by up to 90% since 2006.
One of the first fake designer logos
in history came from the Viking period.
Ulfberht swords were made from an extremely
strong type of steel called crucible.
Each sword would have had the name Ulfberht
etched into them,
but some people would etch the name into regular swords
and sell them for high prices.
At San Diego Comic Con in 2014,
America's Top Model winner Adrianne Curry
dressed up as Catwoman and fought off
an attacker with her bullwhip,
who was assaulting her friend.
Gustav Gerneth is the oldest living man in the world,
originally born in Germany on October 15th 1905.
He was 12 years old when World War One occurred,
40 years old by the end of World War Two
and is still alive today at 113 years old!
All of the sweaters that Mr Rogers wore
during Mr Rogers' Neighborhood
were knitted by his mother.
At the height of the show's popularity in '85,
8% of US households watched the program.
According to a 2009 study by the American Chemicals Society,
90% of all US $1 bills have traces of cocaine on them.
The United States is the country
with the highest percentage of contaminated bills,
with Canada close behind at 85%.
China has the lowest with only 12%.
The natural red dye that's used in a lot of our foods
used to be made from thousands of crushed bodies
of little bugs called Cochineal insects.
Farmers in Central and South America harvested
and smashed these bugs together
to make a living for themselves.
The US state that has the youngest possible
age for parental consent to marry is Massachusetts,
with boys being able to marry at 14
and girls at 12 years old.
New Hampshire's youngest aged to marry
with parental consent is also 14 years old for boys,
but 13 for girls.
When former WWE wrestler Chris Masters mom
was stuck in a burning house,
he uprooted a three meter tall tree
from the ground so that he and police
could break a window that it was blocking to get her out.
According to US census data,
in the Simmons National Consumer Survey,
3.42 million Americans have eaten six jars
of pickles or more in 2018.
The popular children's cartoon, Arthur,
is still airing new episodes to this day
and is in its 21st season.
It's the second-longest running animated series
in the United States behind The Simpsons!
Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt's resting heart-rate
is 33 beats per minute.
For comparison, the average American's
is between 60 and 100 beats per minute
according to the National Health Institute.
Lyricist Sammy Cahn and Broadway songwriter
Jule Styne, wrote the popular holiday song
Let It Snow on the hottest day of the year in 1945.
The song also has no mention of Christmas.
In 2010 the remains of a widow named Julia Martha Thomas
were found in the backyard of famous naturalist
Sir David Attenborough's house.
It was discovered that she was killed
by her maid who buried her there in 1879.
There are hundreds of cities in China
that are fully modernized
with buildings, houses, skyscrapers and art.
However, there are no people living in them.
These cities were built for up to 300 million
of its citizens so that they could move
from rural areas and into Urban locations.
The clock on most microwaves uses more
power throughout its lifetime
than it does for actually cooking food.
This means that if you want a microwave
to cost the least amount of money,
then only turn it on when you need
to use it for heating food instead of using the clock.
Pedro Lascuráin served as the 34th President of Mexico
for less than an hour before he was overthrown
by General Victoriano Huerta.
This is known as the shortest Presidency
in the history of the world.
The famous Egyptian ruler Cleopatra
was not actually Egyptian.
She came from a line of Greek Macedonians
who descended from Ptolemy the first,
one of Alexander the Great's Lieutenants.
In 2015 a pigeon in India was arrested
after it was accused of being a Pakistani spy.
A 14-year-old boy found the bird
and gave it straight to the police.
It was even kept in custody and X-rayed!
The country of Ecuador changed
its currency to the US dollar in the year 2000.
A toilet is also called the head
because they were located on the bow
or front of sailing ships that carry the odor away.
Instead of thinking that the odor would travel to the back,
the wind that pushed the ship forward
would also carry the smell with it.
Hallmark channel Christmas movies
are usually filmed in the Summer.
Because of this, there's hardly any snow in the movies
because it's fake and would cost more money to produce.
Also, the budget for these Christmas movies
are also around two million dollars,
which is about the cost of most television show episodes.
According to the American Journal of Emergency Medicine,
coconut water can be used as a substitute
for blood plasma in an emergency.
The short-term use of coconut
in an IV hydration fluid drip
was first used on a patient in '99
and worked when nothing else was available.
US President Ronald Reagan had a White House
Chief-of-Staff named Donald Reagan during his Presidency.
He also became the CEO of Merrill Lynch and Company
in 1971 when the company went public.
The Disney movie, Lilo and Stitch, originally
had an airplane crash scene
but after the September 11th attacks in 2001
it was cut from the film
and changed to an alien ship crashing.
The scene went from a plane crashing into buildings
to being a spaceship that crashed into mountains.
On November 18th, 1977 the first interracial kiss
that was televised between two men
involved Bill Murray and the Legendary
NFL running back Walter Payton
on Saturday Night Live.
The Mars rover named Spirit
lasted 21.6 times longer on the planet
than what NASA initially expected.
It was supposed to last only about 92 Earth days,
but instead lasted 2,269 Earth days.
US Civil War veteran James Miller was shot in the head
at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863.
But not only did he survive,
but he lived with the open wound in his head
until his 70's when he finally passed away.
Pieces of the bullet would occasionally fall out
and he would pass out for several hours after.
Did they not have hospitals back then?
In Sebastopol California it's a misdemeanor
to have or use a nuclear weapon.
It's punishable for up to six months in jail
or a $500 fine or both.
Really, to use a nuke, six months in jail?
Okay, what's wrong with this world?
Famous composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
once composed an overture in three hours
the night before a premier.
He was also hung-over from being out drinking
earlier in the night.
The Boa Constrictor is the only living animal
that's English name is identical to its scientific name.
Additionally when these snakes begin
their shed cycle their eyes turn a blue or opaque color.
There are somewhere between 5,000
and 7,000 languages on planet Earth.
Also, according to researchers at the University of Lyon,
they determined that the language with
the best information rate was English.
French was close behind and Spanish was third.
According to the Atlantic,
a study in 1998 found that 54.4% of people
in Iceland believe in Elves.
Its citizens have protested the construction
of new roads because they believe
it would disturb these Elves.
According to Goldman Sachs,
the number of registered pets in Japan
outnumbers the amount of children under 15-years-old.
There are 21.3 million pets
compared to 16.5 million children under 15.
The reason why apples float is
because they are made of 25% air.
There are also about 10,000 different varieties of apples.
Police horses are extensively trained
to not be startled by loud noises,
such as fireworks, screaming mobs or firing guns.
It's also encouraged to have any domesticated horse
go through this training in order for it
to be easier to ride and care for.
Legendary NFL coach Mike Ditka
was the first Tight End ever to be inducted
into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
He was ranked number 90 on the Sporting News 100
Greatest Football Players of All Time in '99.
There are hundreds of man-made objects
that are left on the surface of the Moon.
Among these items are a bag of urine,
a monumental plaque, shovels and over 70 vehicles.
If you added up all these objects
it would come out to 400,000 pounds
of material that was made by us.
The Oakland Alameda County Colosseum
is the last remaining NFL and MLB shared Colosseum in use.
It hosts the Oakland Raiders and the Oakland Athletics.
However this is set to end in 2019,
when the Oakland Raiders move to Las Vegas,
effectively eliminating combined Colosseum's.
The first woman to serve in the United Sates Senate
was Rebecca Latimer Felton on November 21st 1922.
However, she served for only 24 hours.
She was also the oldest Senator to be sworn in
at 87-years-old.
She passed away in 1930 at the age of 94
in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Keep Calm and Carry On slogan
was a motivational poster that the British made in 1939.
The goal of this slogan was intended
to raise the morale of the public during World War Two.
Even though 2.45 million copies were made,
the posters were rarely displayed in public
and mostly forgotten about until one was found
in the year 2000.
Until 2009 the only three religions
you could put on an Egyptian identification card
were Muslim, Christian and Jewish.
Now people from other religions are allowed to simply
put a dash in that part of their identification card
if they do not practice those three specific religions.
In particular the Bihar religion as well as others
are still not recognized by the Egyptian government.
The number 666 in China does not mean anything satanic.
It actually means smooth or skilled.
In a livestream of the popular game
League of Legends, Chinese viewers
would comment the number six over and over again
which to them is the same as giving a round
of applause to the gamers.
Epona is a Celtic Goddess from the Gallo-Roman religion,
who is the protector of horses, donkeys, mules and ponies.
And if you've ever played Legend of Zelda
now you know why that horse is named that way!
In order to pay for her wedding dress in 1947,
Queen Elizabeth had to save up clothing ration coupons
after World War Two devastated the country economically.
It also took 350 women two months to make the dress.
Ella Harper was a girl who was born with
an unusual condition where her knees would bend backwards.
She preferred to walk on all fours
and was known as the Camel Girl.
She was later paid $200 a week to perform in the circus.
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