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Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
The longest mountain range on earth
is actually under water.
The Mid-Ocean Range is over 80,000 kilometers
long, and much of it is volcanic.
When mating, dragonflies and damselflies
form their body into a heart shape.
The males use claspers at the end of their abdomen
which fit perfectly into species-specific
grooves on the female,
and both contort until a heart is formed.
In an attempt to deal with a devastating
mosquito population in the Florida Keys,
real estate developer Richter Clyde Perky
constructed a 2.74 meter tall bat house.
He claimed that the structure had everything
that a little bat heart could desire,
and once a decent number of the animals
moved in, they would begin eliminating
the insects pestering everyone.
Unfortunately, not a single bat moved in.
Banana trees are not actually trees.
They're hibiscus plants or herbs.
Their trunks are made up of tightened leaves
and contain no woody tissue.
The first-ever Google doodle replaced
the standard logo on August 30, 1998
as a type of out-of-office message.
It featured a Burning Man stick figure
that informed people that founders
Larry and Sergey couldn't fix any bugs
or issues because they were attending
the Burning Man Festival in Nevada.
In 1929, two researchers at Princeton University
successfully transformed a house cat
into a working telephone.
Meh, meh.
Somehow, the cat actually survived
only to die when the pair tried to repeat the experiment.
Before closing in 2006, Eglin Federal Prison Camp,
a minimum security facility, was considered
to be so cushy that it was given the nickname Club Fed.
Just think, there was a time when inmates
could play golf or tennis, go swimming
and even dine on lobster, all on your tax dollar, yeah.
In 1838, Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
was hit by cannon fire and had to have his leg amputated.
Strangely, four years after the limb
was removed, the general ordered it to
be dug up and be given a full military funeral,
complete with speeches and prayers.
It was buried in a crystal vase beneath an elaborate
monument in Santa Paula Cemetery.
Plane crashes happen far less often than you might think.
Very few flights actually crash,
and if they did, the odds that you'd
die in one are one in only 11 million!
Literally, even if the plane that you're in
does go down, nearly 95.7% of people survive them.
Studies have shown that the first thing
that people notice about you subconsciously
is what you're wearing on your feet, your shoes.
On August 3, 2015, the South Florida Museum
opened a brand new exhibit showcasing
the largest collection of fossilized poop on the planet.
Another poop fact is that the largest
fossilized poop in their collection
is from a prehistoric crocodile.
And it's the size of a puppy.
The team has nicknamed it precious.
I'm not joking.
Although they have a rodent-like appearance,
elephant shrews are not classified with true shrews.
As insectivorous mammals, they actually have
more in common with elephants than shrews.
Donkeys and zebras are capable of mating with each other.
There's a visual for ya.
Hnuh.
The cross-breed of the two species is called a Zonkey.
Shot in the head in 1915 during World War I,
Paul Kern managed to survive, but his frontal lobe
had taken severe damage.
After waking up from surgery, the Hungarian
man did not sleep again, but, amazingly,
he passed away in 1955, 40 years after being shot
and having never slept a wink during that time.
10 years after being purchased, the average
mattress more than doubles in weight
due to dead skin, sweat and dust mites it takes in.
Ugh!
You might want to think about changing your mattress.
Baby bats are usually born feet first,
and often the mother will hang upside down
and catch the newborn in her wings
as it leaves her.
Between 1955 and 1966, a number of people
hiking in the woods along the Tomoka River
near Daytona, Florida, reported seeing
a mysterious pink fog that stayed close to the ground.
Many of them claimed that the cloud was carnivorous.
It's been blamed for the disappearances
of at least a dozen people.
Still to this day, it's unknown
what the fog is or where it came from.
Yo, we're livin' in an M. Night Shyamalan movie!
The first-ever Google server racks
were built using lego bricks.
At the time, the construction toys
were considered cost effective,
and the structures were easier to expand
than more permanent solutions.
High school student David Merrill once conducted
an experiment on mice, making them listen
to heavy metal music 24 hours a day
and testing to see if it had any negative
effect on their ability to navigate a maze.
And he was kinda right, 'cause instead of getting
smarter, the mice killed each other.
In the winter of 1916-1917, large packs
of starving wolves began attacking the German
and Russian forces battling it out in World War I.
Things became so bad that both sides
agrees to a temporary alliance simply
to deal with the vicious animals.
According to mathematicians, every glass of water
you drink has at least one molecule
of water in it that was once consumed by Cleopatra.
Additionally, every sip you take has at least
one that was consumed by a dinosaur!
On April 23, 1982, frustrated with border patrol roadblocks
and being treated like a foreign country,
the city of Key West, Florida, declared
secession from the United States
and became a conch republic.
The new nation then declared war on the U.S.,
surrendered less than a minute later
and immediately applied for a billion dollars
in foreign aid money.
Amazingly, the silly ordeal led to real change,
and the roadblocks were soon after removed.
Flamingos consume food by stirring up mud
in shallow waters with their webbed feet
and then taking a mouthful of the murk.
Their beaks have a filter-like structure
which takes out creatures like plankton,
tiny fish and crustaceans, which they survive on.
The pink color that flamingos are known for
isn't the shade that they are naturally.
They're actually a very pale almost white color
and get the deeper pink hues due to the ingestion
of beta carotene, an organic pigment
in the species of plankton and crustacean they eat.
Niger is considered to be the country
with the youngest population.
Though it's home to 18 million people,
nearly half of them are under 15 years old!
The reason for this is likely to the ridiculously
high fertility rate of 6.6 children per every woman.
People in Soviet labor camps used to
sneak out and ingest condoms attached to rubber tubes.
They would fill them with raw alcohol
and sneak them back to the camp,
where other prisoners would hand them upside down
to use them as human kegs.
In 1939, German dictator Adolf Hitler
was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize
by Erik Brandt, a member of the Swedish Parliament.
The nomination was ultimately canceled,
and no peace prize was ever given out that year.
Despite claims that it only sank
after its completion, Italy's leaning tower of Pisa
was never actually straight.
The foundation of the structure was built
on soft ground that never settled properly
and thus was incapable of supporting any weight evenly.
A law was passed in Florida in 1998
that says that all state-funded daycares
and preschools had to play classical music for children.
It was believed that the Mozart effect
would help properly develop young minds,
and the law remains today,
even after the effect was disapproved.
Ironically, when the American Civil War began,
Union General Ulysses S. Grant owned
at least one slave, while Confederate General
Robert E. Lee owned none.
In 1666, the Great Fire of London devastated
the city, destroying over 13,300 buildings
and leaving as many as 70,000 inhabitants without homes.
But despite this, only six verified deaths
were officially recorded as having occurred.
A leech's body is divided into 32 segments,
each one of them with its own brain.
They also have two reproductive organs
and nine pairs of testes.
Those are complicated creatures.
Google has a rule that no part of their
offices can be more than 150 feet
or 45.7 meters from some type of food.
Like the legendary Big Foot in the more northern states,
Florida has its own mythical beast, the Skunk Ape.
This 2.4 meter tall humanoid primate,
which apparently smells like rotten eggs
or cow manure, was incredibly popular in the 70s.
So many sightings were reported that state
representatives actually attempted to make
it a misdemeanor to take, possess, harm
or molest anthropoid or humanoid animals.
Due to mutations in their genes,
house cats, bottlenose dolphins
and a number of other carnivorous creatures
cannot detect sugar or taste any sweetness at all.
Birds are not affected by the heat
given off when wild chilies are consumed.
This is believed to be an evolutionary trait
needed for birds to be able to spread
seeds in a wider area in their droppings.
The type of music you listen to
can not only influence your mood
but how you think.
Studies show that different genres of music
affect your brain in different ways,
making you able to heal from emotional
trauma faster, be more patient
or even make you a more confident person.
In 1912, a raffle was held on behalf
of an orphanage in Paris, France,
that needed money to stay afloat.
But as prizes, those who won the lottery
were given babies!
There is an Amish beach in Sarasota, Florida,
called Pinecraft, where people who prefer
a simpler life can enjoy the sand and sun
while keeping to their traditions and lifestyle.
It's literally an Amish paradise
and is likely the only one of its kind on earth!
The longest war in recorded history
was the 335 Years War.
It was between the Netherlands
and the Isles of Scilly from 1651 to 1986.
However, not only were there no casualties
but not a single shot was fired.
When they were looking for a new shape
for their bottles in 1915, Cocal-Cola
only told glass makers to design a bottle
so distinct that you would recognize
it by feel in the dark or lying broken on the ground.
The Root Glass Company won the elongated,
ribbed cocoa bean design the soda
company is famous for today.
In 2013, Pilot Linda Ducharme renewed her vows
with Bruce, a Ferris wheel she had previously married.
During the ceremony, she fed the spinning ride
a slice of pizza, and a Catholic priest officiant
declared, "I tie you flesh and steal."
Yeah, this is not a joke again,
and Ducharme truly loves Bruce.
Uh yeah, you're lookin' kinda dry today, Bruce.
Can I oil ya up?
Oh yeah, ya like that?
Located in Longwood, Florida, the Senator was
a 3,500-year-old cyprus tree that was
considered the fifth oldest on earth.
Unfortunately, in 2012, a woman accidentally
burned it down after climbing inside its
huge hollowed out trunk and smoked meth.
When asked how she felt, the woman claimed
she couldn't believe she burned
down a tree older than Jesus.
Ring-tailed lemur males will often
have stink fights with each other.
In which they apply secretions from their scent glands
to their incredibly long tails
and then waft it at their opponents.
Kinda like people farting in real life.
Bppt, oh, look at that, smell it.
Hey, yeah.
While in a dressing room at the Grammy Awards,
Singer Katy Perry asked fellow artists
Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus for locks of their hair.
The pair obliged, and Perry tied a ribbon
around each clipping and put them in her purse.
Nope, nobody knows why.
Water isn't actually a good conductor of electricity.
In fact, it's an insulator.
The impurities in the water are what
allow for the conduction of electricity,
not the H2O itself.
At the time of his death, Elvis Presley
was planning his first European tour.
He only ever held five official concerts
outside of the United States,
and every one of them was in Canada.
According to the World Health Organization,
the Republic of Nauru has the largest
percentage of overweight inhabitants among all countries.
A report done in 2007 revealed that
around 94.5% of the population was overweight.
In comparison, the United States came in ninth, with 74.1%.
Blue jays are capable of mimicking the cries
of other birds, such as red tailed hawks.
They use this ability to keep predators
away and sometimes to clear other birds
away from food sources so that they can
have it all to themselves.
(fire roaring)
(gentle music)