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Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
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There is a comic superhero called Snowflame
that's powered by covering himself in white fire
while consuming cocaine.
The rooster on the box of Corn Flakes has a name.
It's Cornelius Rooster.
Chicago ad agency Leo Burnett, aka The Critter Agency,
created the mascot after their success
with Snap, Crackle, and Pop for Rice Krispies
and Tony the Tiger for Frosted Flakes.
When you blush, not only do your cheeks turn red,
but so does your stomach.
When you blush, your capillaries widen throughout your body
and increase blood flow.
And since they're close to the surface,
it's more obvious in your cheeks than your stomach lining.
The Aztecs used to call armadillos ayotochtli,
which means turtle-rabbit.
For the 2017 Super Bowl,
Tostitos partnered with Mothers Against Drunk Driving
and Uber to create a chip bag
that tells you if you've been drinking.
There was a sensor at the top that measures your breath
and then lights under the logo flash green
if there's no alcohol detected
or a red steering wheel and the words,
"Don't drink and drive,"
will show up if alcohol was present.
There are worms called wax worms
that can eat and metabolize polyethylene,
the plastic found in shopping bags,
which makes up about 40% of the plastics used in Europe.
The hope is that this discovery could lead to a method
for breaking down plastic bag landfills
and clogging waterways.
There's a building in Amersfoort, Netherlands,
that has 22 emojis carved in concrete on the outside of it.
It was made by Changiz Tehrani
and the Dutch architecture firm Attika Architekten.
The oldest woman in Canada
is a woman from North Bay, Ontario, named Ellen Gibb.
She is over 112 years old.
She has nine grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren,
and 10 great-great-grandchildren.
On April 26th, 2017,
NASA's Cassini spacecraft came back to Earth
after completing the first-ever dive
through the narrow gap between Saturn and its rings.
It came within 3,058 kilometers of Saturn's cloud tops
and about 322 kilometers
of the innermost visible edge of the rings.
The United States has the largest amount of vending machines
in the world at over 6.9 million.
Those Americans just love their snacks.
Fashion designer Ralph Lauren's real name is Ralph Lifshitz.
When he was 16, Ralph and his brother Jerry
changed their last name to Lauren
just because of how much they were made fun of in school.
Lauren is definitely more marketable than Lifshitz.
Elvis only ever did one commercial in his entire career
and it was a jingle for Southern Made Donuts.
He actually frequently went to the store,
which began his well-known love for donuts.
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There's a company in the United Kingdom called And Vinyly
that will bake your ashes after cremation
into a vinyl record.
The record can even have your own voice,
your favorite songs, or your last will and testament.
In 1999, General Mills introduced a limited edition
box of cheerios called Millenios
that had the original donut-shaped cereal
plus new whole-grain pieces shaped like the number two.
On the back of the box,
it encouraged people to use it as a time capsule
and even gave suggestions for what people could put in it.
After being released from prison in 1939,
gangster Al Capone spent time
in Union Memorial Hospital being treated for paresis.
To show his appreciation for the hospital
after he was released,
Capone gave them two weeping cherry trees.
In the 16th century,
there was a design for a piano called the Katzenclavier,
which was a cat piano.
It would work by having cats in boxes
attached to a piano organ keyboard.
And when a key was played, a nail would poke their tails,
causing them to meow.
Tiger Woods' actual name is Eldrick Tont Woods.
In his early career as a golfer,
he would be referred to by some reporters
as Eldrick 'Tiger' Woods.
But when he truly became famous, he dropped the Eldrick.
There's a species of spiders
called the Cebrennus rechenbergi
that live in the Erg Chebbi sand desert in Morocco
that uses their legs to perform a rolling motion
to get away from danger.
They appear to be doing acrobatic flips
across the desert floor.
Just one more reason not to go to the desert.
The phrase, "Close but no cigar," is traditionally used
when someone falls just short of achieving something.
Now, that you know.
But the phrase originates from the early 20th century,
when people would get cigars as prizes for winning games
at carnivals, fairs, and other attractions.
Bees actually have the ability
to see ultraviolet wavelengths.
This is why they're so attracted to flowers,
since they have UV patterns on their petals.
The world's largest cave is located
in the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in Vietnam.
It's so big that you could literally fly
a Boeing 747 through it
or even fit an entire Manhattan city block inside.
It is a whopping 34 kilometers long.
In 2016, the Auto Insurance Center
searched through over 70,000 Instagram posts
to find the ranking of US states
with the most selfies taken while driving.
What they found was that California was number one
with 2.53 driving selfies per 100,000 residents.
Man, don't be texting and driving,
or especially don't be taking selfies.
(stammering) What's wrong with y'all?
The very first copyright infringement case
to go to trial in the United States occurred in 2009
involving a 32-year-old woman named Jamie Thomas-Rasset.
She was found guilty of illegally downloading 24 songs
from the internet and was fined $80,000 per song.
That's a total of $1.9 million. (groaning)
In 2014, JAMA Dermatology released a study that revealed
that there are more cases of skin cancer from tanning
than there are cases of lung cancer due to smoking.
Sunblock, y'all; sunblock.
On April 29th, 2017, an English policeman named Tom Harrison
completed the London Marathon
while crawling and wearing a gorilla costume.
From participating in the 42.2-kilometer marathon,
Harrison raised $33,650 for The Gorilla Organization,
which works to conserve gorillas.
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Some species of dolphins have hair at birth,
but it falls out after they're born shortly after,
kinda like me.
A French design firm named Faltazi
created a urinal called the Uritonnoir.
It's made of a bale of straw
and turns urine into nutrient-rich compost.
Okay, why not?
The world's largest consumer of tea is China,
consuming nearly 726 million kilograms every year.
The urine of the maned wolf
smells just like cannabis or weed.
This is because of the substance pyrazine,
which is found in both the urine and the plant.
In 2015, New Yorker Jeffrey Tanenhaus
rode a commuter Citi Bike 4,828 kilometers across America.
He was charged the highest overtime fee
for the New York City Citi Bike, which is $1,200.
A forward slash's technical name is a virgule.
Vestiphobia is the irrational fear of clothing.
People suffering from this phobia can have palpitations,
tremors, shortness of breath,
or even difficulty breathing while wearing clothes,
especially tight-fitting clothes.
Two heirs in the royal family
are never supposed to fly on the same plane together
so that the royal lineage is protected
just in case of a plane crash.
But Prince William broke this tradition
when his son was born
and took him on the same flight to Australia
when Prince George was nine months old.
In North Korea, all legal televisions
only show state-controlled domestic programming
and the internet doesn't exist
other than a closed domestic network.
This means that very few North Koreans
know anything about world events
other than how they're described
by North Korean state propaganda.
The very first written record of hearing loss
is believed to be from 1550 BC in Ancient Egypt.
During that time, people would actually inject olive oil,
red lead, ant eggs, bat wings,
and goat urine into their ears
to try to cure their bad hearing.
There's a faith-based nonprofit organization
called Mountain Peaks Therapy Llamas and Alpacas
that attempts to spread the love of God
through animal-assisted therapy
and camelid education for all ages.
You can even request theme-decorated llamas and alpacas
to be guests at any event that you're having.
Oh yeah, that sounds like fun.
I'm ordering these guys.
On Donald Duck's 50th birthday in 1984,
he was thrown a parade in Walt Disney World.
His float had live ducks wearing party hats on it
containing a plexiglass barrier.
There's a mechanical sculpture called the London Booster
that was created by David Cerny
to commemorate the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
It's a 1958 double-decker bus transformed into an athlete
with a pair of arms that perform a pushup motion
every day at 3 p.m.
Zerão is a stadium in Brazil
that's supposedly located exactly on the equator.
This means that each team
is playing for a different hemisphere.
Singer Willie Nelson has only ever played one guitar
since 1969, a Martin N-20
that he named Trigger after Roy Rogers' horse.
The guitar even has a large hole in it
from years of force from Nelson's playing.
The Star Wars sound designer Ben Burtt
created the Ewoks' language.
It's a combination of Tibetan phrases and some Nepalese.
Male hippopotamuses fling their poop
by spinning their tails around.
They actually do this to impress females
and to mark their territory.
Well, that's effective,
'cause I wouldn't go near that territory.
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Jack Black used to be a cocaine addict
at the age of 14 after his parents divorced,
but he got sober thanks to help of a therapist
at a school for troubled youth
called Poseidon in Los Angeles.
A Chinese company
called WinSun Decoration Design Engineering
created a five-story residential apartment block
with a 3-D printer.
It's the world's tallest 3-D-printed building
and took 12 years to manufacture.
A British sensory branding company called Condiment Junkie
did an experiment in 2014 where they played sounds
of hot and cold water being poured into glasses
and asked people to guess if it was hot or cold.
Believe it or not, 96% of people could tell the difference
between the two just from the sound.
This is because the viscosity
of the hot and cold liquids are different,
and this difference affects how it pours
and therefore how it sounds.
According to a survey conducted in the United States
of almost 27,000 people, the percentage of young adults
between 20 and 24 years old who reported having
no sexual partner after the age of 18
increased 6% to 15% from the 1960s to the 1990s.
This is mostly because of the cohort effect,
meaning that sexual behavior
appears to have changed between generations.
Freddie Mercury was born
on the East African island of Zanzibar
and has actual birth name is Farrokh Bulsara.
Mantis shrimp have 16 photoreceptive cones in their eyes.
To put that into perspective, humans only have three,
which allows us to see the colors that we do.
And this means that mantis shrimp
have a much larger visual spectrum.
Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh suffered from epilepsy.
One of the way to tell twins apart
is to look at their bellybuttons.
This is because navels aren't caused genetically,
since they're scars
from the detachment of the umbilical cord after birth
and no two scars are identical.
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