- Ooh, it's time once again to get slapped
in the face by the flippers of knowledge,
because here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind!
Human bone is ridiculously strong.
A cubic inch of it can bear the weight of five standard
pickup trucks, making it four times as strong as concrete.
According to research done in 2014,
people who are perfectionists are at an
increased risk of experiencing suicidal thoughts
because of the strong social pressure that they feel.
Guys, it's okay to make mistakes,
it's cool, just everyone chill.
The ITT Technical Institute in the United States
went under investigation in 2011 for
inflating their students grades in order to
get more money from the government.
In fact, in one such instance, a student received
100% on a computer forensics assignment,
even though all that he handed in was a noodle recipe.
Cerro Rico in Bolivia is known as the mountain that
eats men because of the large number of men
who have died there while working in the mines.
In fact, historians have estimated that about
eight million men have died in the mines
since the 16th century.
That's one hungry mountain!
In 2013, Google established a company called
Calico that focuses on health, well-being, and longevity.
However, what's weird about it isn't that
its goal is to extend human life,
but that it's to cure death.
(evil laughter) That's creepy.
Scotland has the most concentrated pattern of
private ownership in the entire world.
Only 432 people owned half of the private land there.
It's like a game of Monopoly, just with more kilts.
After visiting Cambodia in 2002, Angelina Jolie
bought a sprawling area of land in the northern province of
Battambang, which was infamous for being poached
and turned it into a nature reserve.
She was awarded citizenship in response to
her actions in 2005.
The extinct Dodo bird got its name from the Dutch.
They called the bird dodoor ursine,
which loosely translates to fat asses.
Bird need to diet!
April 11th, 1954 is known as the most boring day in history.
Literally, not a single memorable thing happened
that day on the entire Earth.
No one significant died, no major events occurred,
and the only interesting thing that actually happened on
that day is that nothing happened on that day.
In the Meiji era in Japan, there was a custom called
ohaguro where people dyed their teeth black.
It prevented tooth decay, and during the time,
was actually seen as beautiful.
Tigers are nicer than lions.
Lions fight to the death over a kill,
but tigers that come across other tigers
while hunting often share their meals.
Oh, and male tigers often wait for females
and their cubs to eat first.
See, chivalry isn't dead!
(growls)
Researchers have found that for a century,
female students have consistently earned
higher grades than male students.
And, although fewer women choose to
pursue science, technology, engineering,
and math careers, they excel in these subjects.
Watermelon contains high levels of vitamin B6,
so eating it can actually help relieve stress and anxiety.
It is dangerous to feed moose, don't do that.
Moose that are fed by humans become aggressive
if the next human doesn't feed them,
and may actually end up attacking them.
North Korea doesn't have a law against marijuana.
In fact, people can smoke pot openly in the country
and not be criminalized for it.
There's an animal called the Kashmir musk deer,
or vampire deer, that was spotted for the first time
in over 60 years last November in Afghanistan.
These creatures are extremely rare because poachers
sell their scent glands for more money than gold.
People have actually begun putting QR codes on
their loved one's gravestones.
Scanning them will lead you to online tributes to
the dead, where you can read their obituaries.
Technology has gone too far!
At only 9.75 meters, this is reportedly the
shortest international bridge in the world
connecting Canada and the US in the St. Lawrence River.
Ah, however, although this seems to be
a well-known fact, it's actually a myth.
The two islands that the bridge connects are
actually both in Canada.
See? Don't trust everything tour guides tell you.
Ancient Babylonians took beer brewing extremely seriously.
Anyone found brewing bad beer was punished in
one of two ways: death by drowning in
that barrel of beer, or by drinking their
crappy beer until they died.
Harsh!
Tokyo has its own superhero.
His name is Mangetsu Man, a self-made hero whose
taken up the responsibility of keeping the city clean.
He wears a full moon head, purple bodysuit,
oversized Ugg boots with matching gloves,
and uses a voice dictation app to hide his voice.
I feel like New York City needs one of those.
Researchers from the University of Michigan
have found a way to allow people to have vision at night.
In 2014, they developed a graphene contact lens
that allows users to change the kind of light that they see.
A company in Singapore made a pair of
soft drinks called Anything and Whatever.
The two lines of drinks had six flavors each,
but both had generic packaging designs,
so there was no way to tell what flavor was in each can.
Kind of a cool idea, except it was ultimately
discontinued in January of 2010.
On November 7th, 1907, a Mexican railroad worker
called Jesus Garcia single handedly saved the population of
a nearby town called Nacozari, Sonora by
driving a train loaded with dynamite away.
The train exploded six kilometers away from the town
and killed the brave man in the process.
One of the top five things that people regret
when they're dying is working too hard and
missing out on family time.
So if you're a workaholic, gives you
something to think about.
The Hanover Country School Board in Virginia
tried to ban Kill a Mockingbird in 1966.
When she heard about this, author Harper Lee
sent a letter to the school board asking if
they were literate and offered some money to
enroll them in first grade.
Ouch!
In 2012, a man named Robert Biggs was attacked
by a mountain lion while he was out hiking.
Unbelievably, a bear saved his life by attacking
the lion and driving him away.
In 2014, Margaret Loughrey won the Northern Ireland
lottery jackpot, which consisted of 46 million dollars.
But, she donated 44 million of it to her own
hometown to help transform it into a tourist destination.
Video games can be good for children with autism
because it helps them practice skills like
self-awareness, flexibility, and self-control.
After winning the 2014 FIFA World Cup,
German footballer Mesut Ozil donated his
300,000 euro victory bonus to help
support 23 Brazilian kids surgery operations.
Simo Hayha, the deadliest sniper in World War 2,
with over 505 confirmed kills, never once
used a telescopic sight.
Sture Bergwall was known in the '90s as a
notorious killer in Sweden.
He confessed to over 30 murders and other crimes.
But, as it turns out, he was actually just a
compulsive and manipulative liar,
and he never once killed a person or did a crime.
He's got issues, the man's got issues.
La Petite Syrah, a wine bar and bistro in Nice, France,
charges extra for rude customers.
People who just ask for coffee have to pay
7.50 euro, while adding a please
drops the price to 4.25 euro.
And if you say, "Hello, a coffee please,"
then you only have to pay 1.40 euro.
After the film Fight Club was released,
a bunch of fight clubs started popping up around the US.
A gentleman's fight club was started in Menlo Park
with its members being from the tech industry only.
That would be interesting, it'd be like,
"Okay, I'm going to punch you now."
(screams)
Underwater hockey is a sport where two teams
compete to push a puck across the bottom of
a swimming pool into the opposing team's goal.
It originated in England in 1954,
and is also called Octopush.
The customs papers the Apollo 11 team
allegedly signed after coming back from the moon
were actually signed by autopen weeks after
they arrived back to Earth.
There's a tradition in Glasgow of
placing a traffic cone on the head of
the Duke of Wellington's statue.
Normally this would just be like, "Ha ha, funny,"
except that removing the traffic cones
costs an estimated 10,000 pounds a year.
Your tax dollars at work!
Elephants are more intelligent than you think.
One elephant in India was trained to
place logs in pre-dug holes for a ceremony.
On one occasion, it refused to place a log in
a hole where a dog was sleeping,
and waited until the dog was chased away to
lower the post into the hole.
When he died in 1937, John D. Rockefeller's
estate equalled 1.5 of America's total economic output.
To put that into perspective for you,
today that's the equivalent of four times the amount of
Bill Gate's net worth when it was at its peak.
Buzz Aldrin's first words after landing on the moon
were, "Beautiful view, magnificent desolation."
The aquarium at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas
has a water slide, also called the Shark Chute,
where you can go through the tank and see the sharks.
In 2001, Robin Williams met and became friends with
Koko the gorilla, who communicates in sign language.
After hearing about Robin William's death in 2014,
Koko signed the word cry and
became somber for the rest of the day.
This is what a computer delivery looked like in the 1950s.
In 2005, a girl in Ethiopia was kidnapped and
saved by three wild lions.
The lions unbelievably chased off her kidnappers
and stayed with her until the police found her.
Jack Nicholson grew up believing that his mother was
his sister, and his grandparents were his parents.
He didn't find out the truth until both
his mother and grandmother had died.
It's possible for stem cells to extend human life.
In 2014, researchers in Pittsburgh injected
white mice with stem cells.
Now, normally, their usual life span is 21 days,
but after injection they lived for an extra 71 days.
This is the equivalent of an 80-year-old
human being living to be 200.
Something tells me we're about to have a
bit of an overpopulation problem.
The air pollution in China is so bad
that it's actually visible from space.
One gigabyte of storage cost 300,000 dollars in 1981.
Now, it's as cheap as 10 cents!
Emotions and stress can adversely affect your body.
Negativity can actually lower your immune
system's response against disease.
Lois Gibson is the world's most
successful police sketch artist.
By being patient and talking to victims,
she's able to coax out realistic
descriptions of the suspects.
At last count, back in 2007, she'd helped solve
over 1,000 crimes in Texas alone in
the 30 years that she'd been in the police force.
The University of Oxford is so old that one of
its constituent colleges, New College,
was actually established in 1379.
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