- Knowledge whale says hello. (mimics whale whistle)
(electric zapping)
It's a tradition in Denmark that if you're still single
when you turn 25, you're doused in cinnamon.
According to the World Health Organization,
suicide rates have increased by 60% worldwide
in the last 45 years.
In fact, there's an approximate mortality rate
of 16 per 100,000 people or one death every 40 seconds.
France is the first country to ban
plastic plates, cups, and utensils.
A law was past that comes into effect in 2020.
The new law's part of the country's energy transition
for Green Growth Act, the same legislation
that also outlawed plastic bags
in grocery stores and markets.
Saturn's rings are made up of dust, rock, and ice
accumulated from passing comets,
meteorite impacts on Saturn's moons,
and the planet's gravity pulling material from the moons.
The Titan beetle known as Titanus giganteus
is the largest known beetle in the Amazon rainforest
and one of the largest insects in the whole world.
It can grow up to 6.5 inches long.
They have mandibles that can easily snap a pencil in half.
David "The Bullet" Smith who was on season seven
of America's Got Talent has been shot from a cannon
more than 5,000 times.
He's the highest flying human cannonball in the world today
with his world record breaking human cannonball shots.
Phobophobia is the abnormal fear
of developing a phobia or anxiety
about showing symptoms of a phobia.
Greenland is the largest island in the world.
It has an area of 822,700 square miles.
Olympus Mons located on Mars is the largest volcano
and mountain in the solar system.
It's over 16 miles high which is three times
the height of Mount Everest.
There were 12 confirmed dogs on the Titanic.
Unfortunately, only three of them survived.
A year on the planet Mercury takes 88 Earth days.
This is because Mercury is nearly tightly locked to the sun
and overtime this has slowed the rotation of the planet
to almost match its orbit around the sun.
The word, laser, is an acronym that stands
for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.
Fireflies are actually beetles not flies.
Most of them are winged
and are from the same family as glow worm.
Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were both born
on the same day and year, February 12th, 1809.
Not only that but they both love Shakespeare,
they both lost their mothers at an early age
and both were abolitionists.
The human small intestine is 20 feet long
and about one inch in diameter.
It can hold a lot of poop.
The line that separates the top and bottom numbers
of a fraction is called a vinculum.
In 2009, Bill Gates released mosquitoes into an audience
that was there to hear him speak
about malaria education and eradication.
Malaria is transmitted from person to person
via mosquito bites.
According to the Guinness World Records,
Bluey, an Australian cattle dog
from Rochester Victoria in Australia
was the oldest dog ever recorded.
He was 29 years, five months.
He was born in 1910 and was put to sleep
on November 14th, 1939.
Kangaroos are unable to move backwards.
The combination of their muscular legs, big feet, and tails
may help kangaroos move forward and hop effectively
but these appendages also prevent them
from going in reverse.
Sexual cannibalism is actually common in the insect world.
It's when one partner, usually the female,
eats the other after mating.
This is why praying mantis males
become motionless after mating to avoid being eaten.
The microwave oven was invented by accident.
In 1945, engineer Percy Spencer
was working in the lab testing magnetrons.
One day while working here the magnetrons
that produced microwaves,
he noticed a candy bar in his pocket was melting.
This is how the microwave oven was born.
the opossum is immune to bee stings, scorpion stings,
rattlesnake venom and toxins such as botulism.
Optical illusion speed bumps are being used
to slow drivers down.
One of them is a three-dimensional little girl
chasing a ball.
This was first introduced in Vancouver
and now other provinces and states in the United States
are experimenting with with it.
Naked mole rats are rodents but live like many insects.
They live in colonies and are led
by a queen or dominant rat.
The queen is the only female to breed and bear young.
According to researchers at the University of Aberdeen
in Scotland, binge watching TV shows together
can you bring you closer as a couple.
The study found that if you lack mutual friends
in the real world,
the characters on the shows you watch together
become a good substitute.
The latest update to Samsung Pay
allows you to pay for things with just your retina
but only if you have the Galaxy Note 7.
Australian truck driver, Bill Morgan,
was in a near-fatal accident
when he was crushed in a truck accident
and had a heart attack,
but I say near fatal because he was clinically dead
for more than 14 minutes.
However, he survived after being in a coma for 12 days.
His luck doesn't run out there either,
he also won the lottery twice.
With the first winning scratch ticket,
he won a car worth $17,000
and during a reenactment for a Melbourne TV show,
he purchased another ticket and won a jackpot of $170,000.
The only known albino gorilla to live was Snowflake.
He was born in the wild but was captured in 1966
by villagers and lived in the Barcelona Zoo.
He died of skin cancer in 2003.
And according to Spanish researchers,
Snowflake was the results of inbreeding
between possibly an uncle and a niece.
At the Hetaoping Research and Conservation Center
for the Giant Panda in the Wolong Nature Reserve in China,
researchers would dress up as pandas
to prepare panda cubs for the release into the wild.
They would wear costumes to try and deter
from the babies getting attached to humans.
In 2002, Sesame Workshop created an HIV-positive character
to be in the cast of the South African co-production
of Sesame Street.
The muppet was designed to promote tolerance
and reduce the stigma associated
with being positive with HIV/AIDS.
She was a five-year-old who contracted the disease
through a tainted blood transfusion.
The swiftlet's nest is made out of the bird's own saliva.
In Asian countries, the bird's nest is boiled into a soup
and it's considered a delicacy.
A single bowl of bird's nest soup can run you around $100.
That's a lot of money for bird spit.
There's an 18 karat gold fully functional toilet
called America at the Guggenheim Museum.
It was created by Italian artist, Maurizio Cattelan,
is installed in one of the museum's
small single unit restrooms
and visitors are encouraged to use it.
In 2014, a London parking space sold for 400,000 pounds.
That was 2.5 times the cost of the average UK home.
Really, how lazy are you
that you needed that good of a spot?
The nation's oldest carousel is the Flying Horses Carousel
located in Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard.
It was built in 1876 and it's still running.
It is one of 20 surviving carousels
that includes a ring machine,
and people who grabbed the ring get a free ride.
Alaska has its own version of Groundhog Day
called Marmot Day.
this is because Alaska doesn't have any groundhogs.
Jellyfish eat and poop out of the same orifice.
I guess that's great if you're minimalist.
Pluto had a heart-shaped expense known as the Tombaugh Regio
that is made of ice, huge glaciers made of nitrogen,
methane and carbon dioxide.
Angel Falls in Venezuela was accidentally discovered in 1935
by Jimmy Angel, a bush pilot
searching for gold and diamonds.
This is where it got its name.
In the movie, The Hateful Eight, actor Kurt Russell,
smashed an authentic Martin guitar from the 1870's
that was on loan from the Martin Guitar Museum.
It was supposed to be switched out for a prop
before he smashed it, but unfortunately, no one told Kurt.
Australian Mark Murray has created a food combination
called a hamdog.
It's a hamburger and hotdog combined
and has a special shaped bun
and it's coming to America soon.
Yummy!
There's a mushroom species named
after SpongeBob SquarePants.
(laughs) Mr. Krabs.
the Spongiforma squarepantsii was named by researchers
at San Francisco State University
because it reminded them of the cartoon character.
It's shaped like a sea sponge, has large holes in it,
and has an orange color.
Presidential candidate, Dwight D. Eisenhower
was the first politician to use political TV ads
during his 1952 campaign.
He created 40 20-second TV ads
where he took questions from the audience.
There are mushrooms that actually glow in the dark.
Don't, don't need these.
The mushrooms which are found in Brazil
are part of the genius, Mycena,
a group that includes about 500 species worldwide.
Of these, only 33 are known to be bioluminescent.
The world's smallest species of snake
is the Leptotyphlops carlae
found in the Caribbean island of Barbados.
An adult average size is just under four inches in length
and is as skinny as a spaghetti noodle.
In 1998, Sony actually had to recall 700,000 video cameras
because customers discovered that the camera
gave them the ability to see through clothes.
They found that have the infrared lens was used in daylight,
they could see details like tattoos,
underwear, and body parts through certain types of clothing.
There's an extremely rare congenital condition
called polyorchidism where a male is born
with more than two testicles.
According to biologist, Dr. Sandra Goutte
of Sorbonne University in Paris,
some frogs have evolved ultrasonic mating calls
that they can use to be heard
over rushing water to find a mate.
According to the World Health Organization,
approximately 265,000 people die every year
from burns that occur mainly from home or the workplace.
The Thanboddhay Pagoda Temple in Myanmar
contains over 582,000 Buddhas.
In 2012, the Australian government did research
for packaging tobacco products.
They determined that the color Pantone 448 C
also known as opaque couche is the most offensive color
to put beside the health warnings associated with smoking.
They used it to make the cigarette packages
look as unappealing as possible
to dissuade people from smoking.
Really though, do you need a color to tell you
smoking is just nasty?
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