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Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
On average, women have longer legs
and shorter torsos than men.
They also usually have shorter arms
than their male counterparts.
Doctors from the University of Western Ontario
observed a terminal patient's continuing brain activity
10 minutes after they were pronounced dead.
The team of doctors had no explanation
for this unusual event.
There are 630 calories in a medium McDonald's
chocolate milkshake, which is the same as an average meal.
It's kinda worth it though, isn't it, let's be honest.
The ancient Mesopotamians considered dog saliva
to be medicinal because they documented that
when a dog licked their wounds,
it sped up the recovery process.
Americans spend an average of $1,100
on clothes for themselves every year.
Super Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto said that
he did not like the 1993 film adaptation of it
because it was too similar to the video game.
But like, isn't that the point?
The second leading cause of death in the world
behind cardiovascular disease is cancer.
Every sixth death in the world is due to cancer.
General Albert Johnston was the highest-ranking officer
to be killed during the US Civil War.
He died from ignoring a wound on his leg
and losing too much blood.
The town of Detang in China is also known as Sock City
because they produce eight billion
pairs of socks every year,
which is one third of the socks produced in the world.
Most people don't reach full brain maturity
and still go through puberty
until they're about 25 years old.
There are more than 500,000 pieces of debris
orbiting Earth and travel at speeds
up to 28,163 kilometers per hour.
Even the tiniest chip of paint has been seen
damaging spacecrafts from their intense speeds.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa has survived
at least four strong earthquakes that have hit the region
since the year 1280 because of
the soft soil underneath the tower.
Norman Lloyd is the oldest working
American actor today at 104 years old.
He first appeared on screen in his teens during
the Great Depression and has been working for 87 years.
He also originally wanted to be a tennis champion.
Toyota once had to recall more than nine million
of their cars and had to pay over $3 billion in fines
and settlements because of unintended
acceleration in their vehicles.
97% of all Amish families use motorized washing machines
while 75% of them use chainsaws.
However, only 6% of them use tractors for field work.
China monitors and tests their sewage for traces of drugs
that are excreted through urine.
Officials say that they have already caught
and arrested a drug manufacturer by using this technique.
People who experience hypothermia could also suddenly
feel hot and irrational and then
want to take off their clothes.
This is called paradoxical undressing.
Legendary musician Frank Sinatra has three
stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,
one for music, one for film, and one for television.
Neil Armstrong, along with his Apollo 11 crew
have moons on their Hollywood Walk of Fame stars instead.
The first car television commercial was for Chevrolet
and aired on June 9th, 1946.
According to a study in 2012,
a high performance boar's average ejaculation duration
was six minutes.
One boar continuously orgasmed for 31 minutes.
Sofia Coppola, director and daughter
of Francis Ford Coppola appeared in all three
of her father's Godfather films.
Under the court of law in Scotland,
there are three verdicts instead of two,
guilty, not guilty, and not proven.
Spider-Ham was originally written as a spider named Peter
who was bitten by a radioactive pig,
not the other way around.
Today, there's a movie prop of Nessie
that sunk to the bottom of Loch Ness
after the shooting of the 1970 film
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
starring Sir Christopher Lee.
In 2015, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania proposed
a ban on the importation of second hand clothes and garments
because they negatively affect the textiles industry
and put thousands of people out of work.
According to Oxfam, 70% of all clothes
that are donated in the world go to Africa.
Musician Eddie Van Halen created a guitar
known as the FrankenStrat because he combined
different parts of the instrument from various places.
This was his attempt to have the classical
sound of a Gibson mixed with
the physical attributes of the Fender.
A healthy person's sinuses create about 1.5 liters
of clear and thin phlegm a day,
and most of it is swallowed. (snorts)
There's because a name of the year award,
and the 2018 winner was Jimbob GhostKeeper.
Other winners include Assumption Bulltron,
Honka Monka, and Crescent Dragonwagon.
Albany International Airport is the first and oldest
running municipal airport in the United States.
The airstrip was first built on an old polo field in 1908.
The highest grossing stop motion animation film
is Chicken Run from the year 2000 starring Mel Gibson.
The lead singer of the punk bad The Offspring
Dexter Holland is also a molecular biologist
and attended the University of Southern California,
where he received his master's degree.
He was also a candidate for their Ph.D. program,
but it had to withdraw because of the success of his band.
He's called out people on social media in the past
for thinking that he was only a musician.
Former Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg
once drove a taxi around because he wanted to hear
what real Norwegian voters had to say.
He believed that taxis were one of the few places
where people can freely share their views.
A study conducted at the University of Central Florida
suggest that people who have had bad or abusive bosses
in the past will make themselves into a better boss
when the time comes.
A Scandinavian woman's bones were found 20 years ago,
and they date back 5,000 years ago.
When scientists examined her bones and teeth,
they found an ancient strain of bacteria
that cases the plague.
Scientists believe that an early form of the plague
developed in Europe between 6,100 and 5,400 years ago.
The term for thinking that something such as
a puppy or kitten is so cute that you could crush it
is called cute aggression.
This happens when the neurons in the brain fire and create
electrical activity which makes you more aggressive.
Oh that baby's so cute and just want to eat him.
According to researchers at the University of Helsinki,
running in shoes that are highly cushioned
make your legs stiffer and increase impact loading.
The reason behind this is because the extra cushioned shoes
alter the spring-like mechanisms of running.
Photosynthesis in oceans make a ping sound.
This occurs when algae turns sunlight into energy
and scientists believe that these sounds
could act as a sort of stethoscope when checking
for health of a coral reef.
According to researchers at the University of California
in Berkeley, girls who are exposed to chemicals
in toothpaste, make up, soap, and other
personal care products may hit puberty earlier
than boys and speed up the process.
The regular use of a sauna was associated
with a lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease
in men and women who are over 50 years old,
according to BMC Medicine.
The study also showed that saunas lower blood pressure.
Extremely shy people are more likely
to experience anxiety when they're hungover
than their extroverted counterparts.
The term is called hangxiety.
The advice given by Professor Celia Morgan
of the University of Exeter is that shy people
should accept the fact that they're introverted
and that should help the transition
from heavy alcohol consumption.
Singer Katy Perry's debut album was a gospel record
that was titled Katy Hudson.
She originally went by this name
and even though her album was generally well-reviewed
by critics, it only sold 200 copies.
The record label she recorded it on
eventually had to close, and Katy Hudson became
who we all know as Katy Perry today.
The line on Earth that separates day from night
is called the Terminator, but is also known
as the gray line and the twilight zone.
Our atmosphere also bends sunlight by half of a degree,
which is 60 kilometers.
Because of this, the land covered by sunlight
is greater than the land that is covered by darkness.
The United States Department of Agriculture
has stated that the average American consumes
between 68 and 77 kilograms of refined sugar every year.
For every American who eats two kilograms of sugar
a year, there's one who eats 133 kilograms a year.
In addition to Neanderthals, humans interbred
with another ancient species called Denisovans.
A 90,000-year-old skeleton of a girl was discovered
and she was a hybrid between the two species.
The popular dish Mongolian barbecue
was created by a Taiwanese comedian named Wu Zhaonan,
who is recognized by Taiwan as a national treasure.
He was also a recipient of the lifetime achievement award
from the Lincoln Center.
Zhaonan invented the culinary dish when he was running
a food stall in Taipei before he was famous.
Researchers at Indiana State University
studied and filmed a group of mallard ducks
when they were sleeping in a row.
They found that the ducks on the end of each row
had one eye open and half of their brains were still
functioning so that they could keep a good look-out
for predators and other potential threats to their group.
In the film Muppets From Space,
it was revealed that the character Gonzo was an alien
and his family came to Earth to throw a party for him.
They later ask him if he could go back with them
to space and although he initially agrees,
he later turns down the offer to be with his Muppet friends.
There was a band on the USS Arizona
called the USS Arizona Band, who were all killed
during the bombing of Pearl Harbor during World War II.
A music ticketing app called Dice in London
allows their employees to call out of work
for being too hungover.
They simply send a message to their boss
with beer, music, and sick emoji.
Each employee is allowed to take four hangover days a year.
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