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Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
According to the Journal of Applied psychology,
an analysis of hundreds of basketball halftime speeches
from various high school and college games
showed that the more negative the coach was at halftime
the better the team played in the second half.
The results were true
even if a team was already up at half-time.
Mark Davis, who's the owner
of the Oakland Raiders football team
frequently eats at PF Chang's.
So do I.
Drives a 1997 Dodge Caravan
and still uses a 2003 Nokia phone.
The reason that's significant
is he's worth 500 million dollars.
A survey conducted by toilet paper manufacturer Charmin
showed that the average U.S. citizen
uses around 57 sheets of toilet paper a day.
At that rate, someone will have used 1,532,160 sheets
by the time they get to 80 years old.
The average household in the U.S.
flushes away about 80,000 sheets of toilet paper a year.
That's a lot of poopy.
When the explorers of the Lewis and Clark expedition
became constipated on their journey,
they took a remedy called Dr. Rush's Bilious Pill.
This pill was composed of 10 grains of calomel
which contains mercury.
Experts were able to locate
where exactly they camped in Montana
by finding some signatures of mercury in their pit latrines.
Before they set off on their journey,
American President Thomas Jefferson
informed Lewis and Clark that they would possibly encounter
mountains of salt, Welsh speaking Indians,
and herds of wooly mammoths and giant ground sloths.
They did not encounter any of these things, however,
but Lewis did find 178 species of plants that were unknown,
as well as 122 new animals
such as grizzly bears and coyotes.
The United States has a presidential yacht
called the U.S.S. Sequoia that was used
from the Herbert Hoover administration
until Jimmy Carter sold it in 1977.
It had an elevator for Franklin Roosevelt,
but Lyndon Johnson replaced it with a Liquor Bar.
A study from Stanford University in 2017
showed that artificial intelligence is capable
of accurately guessing whether someone is gay or straight.
A computer algorithm they created could distinguish
between gay and straight men 81% of the time.
For women, it was 74% of the time.
The largest wave ever recorded
occurred on July 10th, 1958 in Lituya Bay, Alaska
after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake
struck the region and caused a tsunami.
One of the waves that were created
measured a maximum height of 524 meters.
In 2001, the FBI informed actor Russell Crowe
that Al-Qaeda was planning to kidnap him
as part of a cultural destabilization plot.
He required extra security
on the set of his movies A Beautiful Mind
and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
The FBI also followed him around for nearly two years.
Florida passed a bill in 1967 that allowed in Disney World
to plant a nuclear power plant.
Even though they had never built one
and do not currently intend to, the law still stands.
Author Virginia Wade has made a nice career for herself
by writing and publishing
Bigfoot erotica novels on Amazon Kindle.
You cannot make this stuff up.
Bob Barker, the legendary host of The Price is Right
trained karate with actor Chuck Norris for eight years.
Iconic guitarist Eric Clapton is
the only musician in history to be inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times.
The first was when he was a member
of The Yardbirds in 1992,
the second came when Cream was inducted in 1993,
and the third in 2000 when he was inducted as a solo artist.
Michael Jackson's pet chimpanzee Bubbles
is still alive today at 36 years old,
and has been living at The Center for Great Apes sanctuary
in Wauchula, Florida since 2005.
When Michael Jackson owned Bubbles,
the young chimp slept in a crib
and ate candy at Neverland Ranch.
However, when it became fully mature and aggressive
he was taken away by an animal trainer
to ensure the safety of Jackson.
There's an S&M gym in Japan called Himitsu no Gym
which means Secret Gym where your personal trainer
is a professional dominatrix
who controls your diet and workout.
A trial session costs ¥7,800
Bananas are the top selling item at Walmart
and have been for years.
Around the world, the company sells, brace yourself,
453,592,370 kilograms of bananas per year
and 14.5 kilograms every second of the day.
That's a lot of, ooh-ah-ah, bananas.
In 2008, a conjunction of the Moon, Venus,
and Jupiter formed a smiley face
over the sky in the rare event.
It was a visible from all parts of the world,
even in cities with light pollution such as New York City.
Disposable diapers in Norway
are the cheapest in all of Europe,
and many Russians smuggle them over the northern border.
During the Middle Ages, the verb poop
meant to produce a short blast of sound with a horn.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary,
this changed in the late 1600's and it meant to break wind.
If you cut a piece of fresh garlic in half
and put it in a plastic bag
then put your bare foot in it
after an hour you will be able
to taste and smell the garlic.
This is because it contains a molecule called Allicin
which can permeate through the skin of your foot
and travel up your bloodstream to the mouth and nose.
Since 1954, more Burger King fast-food restaurants
have burned down than any other fast food chain.
According to the Wall Street Journal, 554 million tacos
from the fast food chain Jack in the Box
are eaten every year.
A small minority of people have
a natural immunity to tear gas,
and it's actually possible to build up
a tolerance for it over time.
Members of the U.S. Army undergo tear gas exposure
during their basic training for this reason.
When the United States Air Force
was testing their ejector seats
for the B-58 Hustler in 1950,
they used Himalayan and American black bears
as test subjects.
They would sedate the bars and strap them into the seats.
Even though some of them suffered broken bones,
all of them survived
until they were euthanized and dissected.
A biker gang in Denmark called Black Cobra
once 120 boxes of almond tarts, punsch rolls,
apple crowns, and brownies from a delivery truck in 2010.
On July 2nd, 1992 in Los Angeles,
a man named Larry Walters attached
45 helium-filled weather balloons to a lawn chair
and took off from San Pedro.
He flew into controlled airspace near LAX airport
and landed on some power lines
in Long Beach 45 minutes later.
He was also unhurt, but he did have to pay a $1,500 fine.
90 new baseballs are required
at the beginning of every MLB game
and between 60 and 70 are used
because they're replaced
after they are scuffed by dirt or grass.
The average lifespan of a baseball
in the MLB is only six pitches.
In Honolulu, Hawaii, so many cases of spam are being stolen
that it's starting to be considered
a form of organized crime.
The Guinness world record for the most recent test
of a nuclear bomb goes to North Korea on May 25th, 2009.
The raccoon dog needs to load up on food
before winter arrives because it's the only member
of the canine family that hibernates.
NBA superstar LeBron James is left-handed,
even though he shoots the ball with his right hand.
Hall of Famer Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics
was also a player who was left-handed
but shot the ball with the right.
During a Canadian fair in 1956,
the Canadian Army put on an exhibition
to show a bazooka type of weapon.
After testing it, there was an incident
where something bad happened, so yeah,
they don't use that weapon any more.
The State of Arizona passed a Safe-haven law in 2001
declaring that a parent is legally allowed
to anonymously leave their newborn baby at a safe haven
such as a fire station, hospital, or church
as long as they did it
in less than 72 hours of it being born.
Artist Michael Heizer has been building
a massive piece of earth art
in the Nevada desert since 1972.
The sculpture is called "City"
and covers a space of two kilometers by 0.4 kilometers.
Heizer inspiration from the work
after he visited the Yucatan and studied Chichén Itzá.
The work of art won't be open to the public until 2020.
It's estimated that 28% of dogs aged 11 to 12 years old
have cognitive dysfunction syndrome
which is similar to Alzheimer's.
About 60% of dogs that are 15 to 16 years old
are also present with signs of the disease.
According to the Down Syndrome program
at Boston Children's Hospital, a 25 year old woman
has a one in 1,200 chance of giving birth
to a baby with Down Syndrome.
A 35 year-old mother has a one in 350 chance in having one,
and a 40 year old mother has a one in 100 chance.
And a mother who's 49 years old has a one in 10 chance.
Our skin has the ability to smell
and can actually heal itself when exposed
to certain ingredients such as sandalwood oil.
There's been a Korean culture called fan death
which means that a running electric fan
in a closed room with unopened windows will be fatal.
However, there's no evidence to support this belief,
but they do believe it.
Barbie and Ken actually broke up in 2004
after being together since 1961.
Ken eventually one of her back though in 2011,
isn't that sweet?
There's only one place on Earth
where four different countries meet at a quadripoint.
They're the African countries of Namibia,
Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Zambia.
There are about 18,000 trees of all different kinds
in New York City's Central Park.
Eel is always cooked before eating
because their blood is poisonous.
Just a small amount of eel's blood
is capable of killing a person.
Raw eel should never be eaten.
According to a Gallup poll from 1966,
66% of Americans had an unfavorable opinion
of civil rights activist Doctor Martin Luther King Junior,
which was actually a 26% increase
from the poll taken in 1963.
There is a spot in the Black Sea
that preserves shipwrecks so well
that scientists were able to see
the builders' chisel marks in the wood.
They discovered 41 well-preserved ships
that were from the 9th century until the 19th century.
In June of 1959, the U.S. Navy mailed
3,000 letters on the Postal Service via a guided missile
I was fired towards an air station in Mayport, Florida.
The attempt was successful
and reached the station in 22 minutes.
And land mine that was planted during World War I in 1917
was struck by lightning on June 17th, 1955 and killed a cow.
This made the cow a casualty of war 38 years later.
Caller ID tripled in the United States
following the theatrical release
of the 1996 horror movie "Scream,"
a film centered around a killer
who would anonymously call his victims
before, well, ending them.
There've been seven divorce settlements
that have been where with more than one billion dollars.
The most recent one was the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
and his wife Mackenzie, which was 35 billion dollars.
Chess has been banned in Islam
by Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti, Abdul Aziz Al Sheikh
because it's believed to be a form of gambling
and a waste of time and money.
He also claimed that it causes
hatred and enmity between the players.
The Italian mafia trafficked nuclear waste
from the 80's until the 1990's
and ended up dumping it in Somalia.
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