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Here are 50 Amazing Facts to Blow Your Mind part 12.
In 1979 at the age of 16, a man named Jadav Payeng
began planting trees over his concern over the disappearing
habitat for local animals.
He's continued it for over 35 years and today has
single-handedly restored over 1,360 acres of forest.
The scent that lingers after it rains is called petrichor.
There are now digital pens that digitally record
everything you write, draw or sketch on any surface
and then converts the notes to text on any computer.
Some Japanese companies such as Sony, Toshiba,
and Panasonic have banishment rooms where they
transfer surplus employees and give them useless
tasks or even nothing to do until they become disheartened
or depressed enough to quit on their own, thus avoiding
paying them full benefits.
This picture of brothers Michael and Sean McQuilken
was taken in Sequoia National Park in 1975
by their sister Mary only moments before lightning stuck
them and amazingly they all survived.
In 1886, a man named HH Holmes built a three-story
hotel in Chicago specifically to kill people in it.
Its design included stairways to nowhere and
a maze of over 100 windowless rooms which he used
to kill over 200 people.
This is Jung Da Yeon.
She's a bit of celebrity in Korea, not just because
of her beauty, but because she looks 20 years
younger than she actually is.
She is 48 years old.
Yeah.
This is Miss America 1924, Ruth Malcomson.
My, how times have changed.
In the dense forests of Finland, there's a giant rock
known as Kummakivi that is perfectly balanced on
a seemingly smooth curved mound.
Its name translates to strange rock, as nobody knows
how it got there.
This is Larry Tesler.
He invented the copy and paste function on
computers in 1973.
The United States budget for nuclear weapons
is not included in the Department of Defense spending,
but actually falls under the Department of Energy.
This is a single picture taken by photographer Bella Borsodi
as an album cover for the group VLP.
If it's hard to wrap your head around, here it is at
a different angle.
Photography magic.
Queen Elizabeth II served as a mechanic and driver
in WWII.
In Seoul, South Korea, there's a place called
Dalgo Cat Cafe where you can drink coffee and
hang out with cats for hours.
There is a device known as a ventricular assist devise
or VAD that can permanently replace the function
of your heart.
The only side effect is you have no pulse.
Country singer, Dolly Parton, once anonymously entered
a Dolly Parton look-a-like contest and lost to a drag queen.
There's a restaurant in L.A. called evarestaurant that
gives 5% off the total bill to patrons if they give up
their cell phone before being seated.
Bangkok University in Thailand makes their students
wear anti-cheating helmets during exams.
Created in Germany, ESSLack is the world's first edible
spray paint and comes in gold, silver, red and blue.
C'mon, you know you always wanted to eat a gold chicken.
This is a commodore, a traditional Hungarian guard dog.
To save workers time during the construction of the
new world trade center building, a mobile Subway restaurant
was installed for their lunches that moved up the building
as they completed each new floor.
This incredible sculpture is located in Philadelphia in
the United States and is by artist Zenos Frudakis and
is known as Freedom.
This is Emmanuel Joseph Bishop.
He's 15 and has down syndrome but can speak English,
Spanish, French, and Latin fluently.
Can play the violin and has set six junior down
syndrome world records.
In 2011 archaeologists at the ground zero 9/11
terrorist attack site in New York City uncovered half
of an 18th century ship, believed to have once been used
by merchants.
It's possible to hire an evil clown to terrorize your
son or daughter for an entire week before their birthday.
For a fee, artist Dominic Deville will increasingly pursue
your child and leave scary notes, texts and phone calls
and ultimately will attack your child on their birthday
by smashing them in the face with a cake.
Happy birthday.
In the city of Mackinac Island, Michigan, all motor vehicles
including cars, have been banned since 1898.
In 2004, Volvo introduced a concept car called the YYC
that was built specifically for women without a hood
and dent resistant bumpers.
The early years of the 20th century, horses were causing
so much pollution with their poop that automobiles
were seen as the green alternative.
Animal Planet aired a fake documentary about the existence
of mermaids that convinced thousands of viewers twice.
Once in 2012 and once in 2013.
Futureme.org is a website where you can send e-letters
to yourself at any time in the future.
This cute little guy is called the Tonkin snub-nosed monkey
and is one of the most critically endangered species
of primates in the world.
In 2008, The North Face clothing company sued a
clothing company called The South Butt.
In 2007, in Louisiana, a pink albino bottle-nosed dolphin
was discovered and photographed by a man named Eric Rue.
When the elephant whisperer, Lawrence Anthony, died
in March of 2012, an entire herd of elephants arrived
at his home to mourn him.
In 2012, Russian scientists regenerated an arctic flower
known as Silene stenophylla, that has been extinct for
over 32,000 years, from a seed that was buried by
an ice-aged squirrel.
The age of fish can be determined the same way as trees.
Fish scales have one growth ring for each year of age.
Killing season, as it's known in the UK, or the July effect,
as it's known in the US, is used to describe the time around
July and August when newly qualified doctors first
begin their residencies.
A single sperm contains 37.5 megabytes of DNA information.
A single ejaculation represents the equivalent transfer
of 15,875 gigabytes of data.
In 1985, a New Orleans man named Jerome Moody drowned
at a party attended by 100 life guards who were celebrating
having made it through the summer without a single
drowning at a city pool.
In 1976, an underachieving Princeton student named
John Aristotle Phillips wrote a term paper describing
how to build a nuclear bomb.
He received an A but never got his paper back
because it was seized by the FBI.
This wooden cabinet is a real piece of artwork called
Good Vibrations by Ferruccio Laviani and is designed to
look like a digital glitch.
According to a study conducted by Brock University
in Ontario Canada, racism and homophobia are linked
to having lower IQ, as those with lower intelligence
tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies.
There's a resort in Japan called the Tomamu Resort
that is located high atop a mountain peak that allows
patrons to view a sea of fluffy white clouds beneath them.
Michael Birch, the founder of the social networking site
Bebo, sold it to AOL for $850 million in 2008 only to
later buy it back for one million dollars in 2013.
This is the tip of a ball-point pen super magnified.
In 1961, Italian artist, Piero Manzoni filled 90 tin
cans with his own feces and called them Artist's (beep)
and sold them according to their equivalent weight in gold.
Singapore has the world's highest percentage of millionaires
with one out of every six households having at least one
million US dollars in disposable wealth.
Newman's Own Food has donated 100% of its post-tax
profits to charity since 1982, totaling over $400 million.
In 2013, over 200 strangers responded to a Facebook
invitation to attend a funeral for British veteran
James McConnell who had no friends or family members
to attend otherwise.
And finally, it was discovered that wealthy Russians
often hire fake ambulances to beat the city traffic.
Known as ambulance taxis, they cost as much as $200 an hour
and have luxury interiors and refreshments and include
caviar and champagne.
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