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Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
In Finland, speeding tickets are calculated
on a percentage of the person's income.
This causes some Finnish millionaires to face
fines of over $100,000!
Sometimes female lions can develop manes.
Such masculine females likely occur when
the embryo is disrupted either at conception
or while in the womb.
In 2002, a Hooters in Panama City, Florida,
offered employees a chance to win a Toyota,
but when the winning waitress Jodee Berry
was given a toy Yoda action figure as a prank,
she sued and won enough to pick out
whatever type of Toyota she wanted.
When their child was diagnosed with xeroderma pigmentosum,
a condition in which exposure to sunlight
causes third-degree burns and cancer,
a New York couple, Dan and Caren Mahar
founded Camp Sundown, a summer camp for kids
with the genetic disorder where all camp activities
are held after sundown.
Engineers in Canada receive an iron ring
to remind them to have humility.
It's in memory of a bridge that collapsed twice
due to incorrect calculations involving iron.
The your mother insult is found in nearly
all cultures and is as old as humanity itself,
with examples in Shakespeare and the Bible.
Mobile phone throwing is a sport in Finland.
Hatebeak is a black metal band whose
lead singer is a parrot.
While dogs operate under a strict heirarchy,
wolves will actually cooperate and communicate
with each other to make decisions as a group.
In 1990, disabled activists got out of their wheelchairs
and crawled up the steps of the Capitol,
inconveniencing senators to encourage a vote
on the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Thomas Jefferson proposed in 1784 to end slavery
in all the territories, but his bill was lost
in Congress by a single vote.
Adidas will cancel any sponsorship deal
that they have with a player if it turns out
he has anything to do with Scientology.
Puppy pregnancy syndrome is an illness
where the sufferer believes that they are
pregnant with puppies after being bitten by a dog.
Yeah, that's a real thing.
The Yakuza, Japan's largest organized crime syndicate,
provided food, water, blankets, diapers and more
during both the 1995 and 2001 Japanese earthquakes.
They even had a faster response time
than the Japanese government.
Doodlebug is an orphaned baby kangaroo
that was found abandoned on the side of the road
when he walked up to a human, held up his arms
and asked to be picked up.
The rescuer later gave him a teddy bear,
and he wouldn't stop hugging it.
Humans are the kings of the planet
when it comes to long-distance running.
We can outrun every animal on the planet
and run in conditions that no other animal can run in.
Forty-two-year-old Russian fisherman Igor Vorozhbitsyn
was brutally attacked by a bear, but he was
suddenly saved when his ringtone, that his
granddaughter installed on his phone, Justin Bieber's
Baby, went off, sending the bear
running back into the woods.
I don't really blame 'im.
His early stuff was pretty bad.
The word outlaw originally meant outside
the protection of the law, so you could rob
or kill them without legal consequences.
A typical Rhianna hit single costs around $75,000
to make, another million to promote it,
but the lyrics are usually written in about 15 minutes.
At the Marine Mammal Studies Institute in Mississippi,
dolphins were trained to turn in trash that
fell into the pools in exchange for fish.
One dolphin named Kelly was smart enough
to hide pieces of paper under a rock,
tearing off smaller pieces from the paper
in order to get more fish out of it.
That's a smart dolphin!
Awh-awh-awh-awh.
Nobody has died from a confirmed spider bite
in Australia since 1979.
Deaths by spiders actually occur more from being
surprised by them, like while you're driving.
Oh God, err!
Psychopaths are immune to contagious yawning
and are less likely to be startled, so next time
you yawn and the person beside you doesn't
even flinch, you know what's up.
Yunessun Spa House in Hakone, a southeastern
town in Japan, is now offering ramen noodle baths.
The bath, consisting of ramen pork broth
and synthetic noodles allegedly helps
improve patient's skin, and it's delicious!
Colonel Sanders would often make surprise
visits to KFC restaurants.
If he was dissatisfied with the food, he would
throw it on the ground and cursed at the employees.
Alzheimer's Disease does not effect emotional memory
as strongly as informational memory.
As a result, Alzheimer's patients, when given bad news,
will quickly forget the news but will remain
sad and have no idea why.
Philip A. Contos was a motorcyclist who died
at an anti-helmet rally after he flipped over his
handlebars and hit his head on the pavement.
The Incas measured their units of time by how
long it would take to cook a potato.
Yeah, okay brotha, I'll see you in like 3/4 of a potato.
Aw right.
MI-5 once had a plan to use gerbils to detect
terrorists and spies at airports.
This is because their sense of smell can
acutely detect increased adreneline in people,
but the project was scrapped when the gerbils
proved unable to tell the difference between terrorists
and those who were just afraid of flying.
Abraham Lincoln created the Secret Service
just hours before he was assassinated.
Shortly after returning from the moon and leaving
NASA, Buzz Aldrin had a failed career
as an Air Force test pilot.
He then started drinking, had an affair,
suffered depression, got divorced, got remarried,
got divorced again and became a Cadillac salesman,
where he failed to sell a car for six months.
Damn, that's actually incredibly sad.
In 2004, Google anonymously posted math equations
on billboards in Harvard Square and Silicon Valley
that, if solved, led to a website with another equation,
which in turn, allowed you to submit your resume.
I feel like if you get that far, you're just, you're in.
That's just, you're in.
In Sweden, it is illegal to name your baby
Metallica, Superman, Veranda, Ikea or Elvis.
Uh uh uh.
On August 16, 1996, at the Brookfield Zoo,
a three-year-old boy fell into a gorilla enclosure
and lost consciousness, but Binti Jua, a female
gorilla, guarded the young boy from other gorillas,
cradled him in her arms, and carried him
to an entrance where zookeepers could actually retrieve him.
A Chinese man bought and raised two puppies,
cared for them despite their frequent killing
and eating of chickens and discovered later
that they were bears.
Ruuuuh!
That was a bear.
Blowing smoke up your ass actually used
to be a common cure for many ailments.
Japan has a network of roads that actually
plays music as you drive over them at the correct speed.
A South Korean man named Woo Bum-kon,
committed a mass murder because he was enraged
from being woken by his girlfriend trying
to swat a fly on his chest.
(snoring) Must kill everybody.
Yokohama Japan has an annual festival
devoted entirely to Pikachu.
The Pikachu outbreak is a week-long festival
where masses of dancing Pikachus, along with countless
statues, completely take over the city.
The word dude was first used in the 1800s
as an insult towards young men who were
too concerned with keeping up with the latest fashions.
Huh, doth I see a dude, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh.
There's a New York City hot dog vendor named
Mohammad Mastafa who pays
$289,000 a year for his location.
Business must be boomin'.
John Cena, the WWE superstar, has granted
more than 400 Make-A-Wish requests,
more than anyone else in the charity's history.
Mathematician Paul Erdos could calculate in his head,
given a person's age, how many seconds that
they had lived, when he was four.
There are estimated to be nearly 14.5 million
cancer survivors in the United States.
Kinda gives you hope.
According to his brother, Vincent van Gogh's
last words were, "The sadness will last forever."
That's kinda haunting.
Believe it or not, coloring books for grownups
are a huge trend, and publishers actually
struggle to keep up with demand.
The books are used successfully to reduce
stress, relieve anxiety and as rehabilitation
aids for patients that are recovering from strokes.
Sam Griner from the Successful Kid memes,
used his success to start a GoFundMe page,
which raised nearly $100,000 for his
dad's kidney transplant.
Inmates at a Bolivia prison live as a society.
They have jobs, buy or rent their accommodation
and often live with their families.
There's a fish called the black dragon fish
that looks like the creature from the Alien movies.
In 1994, a 34 kilogram bag of cocaine fell
out of a plane and landed in the middle
of a Florida crime watch meeting.
A Chinese millionaire began selling cans of fresh air
for 80 cents a can in response to China's worsening
air pollution and made over $6 million.
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