- Here are 50 Amazing Facts to Blow Your Mind! Part 5.
It is in fact possible to die from a broken heart.
Known as Broken Heart Syndrome, the medical term for it
is stress cardiomyopathy.
President Barrack Obama was known as "Barry Obamer"
in high school because of his skill on the basketball team.
There's a phenomenon that occurs in the Mekong River
in Thailand where red fireballs called "Naga Fireballs"
randomly shoot into the air and nobody knows why it happens.
If you search the world "askew" in Google,
the page will tilt slightly clockwise.
Mosquitoes don't just bite you,
they also urinate on you after sucking your blood.
The reason that people traditionally put wedding rings
on the left ring finger is because before medical science
discovered how the circulatory system functioned,
people used to believe that there was a vein that ran
directly from the fourth finger
on the left hand to the heart.
The word "vodka" in Russian translates to
"little water" in English.
Your cell phone carries up to 10 times more bacteria
than a toilet seat.
Bleh.
Humans and bananas share about 50% of the same DNA.
In other words, half of what makes you you
is identical to a banana.
An adult giraffe's tongue is approximately 21 inches long.
Today's gold medals are only 1.3% gold.
The last time a solid gold medal was given
was at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.
It would take over 51 million balloons to lift the average
2,000 square foot house off the ground like in the movie Up.
Mark Zuckerberg is red- green color blind.
That's why he made Facebook blue,
because that's the color that he can see best.
There's a book that exists called
"Everything Men Know About Women" that has 100 pages,
all of which are blank.
A male honeybee's orgasm is so powerful that its sex organs
actually explode, shortly after which it dies.
It's a beautiful death.
The Kevlar bulletproof vest was invented by a pizza delivery
guy named Richard Davis after being shot twice on the job.
If you left Tokyo by plane at 7am you would arrive
in Honolulu at approximately 8pm the previous day
due to the 19 hour gap in time zones.
Time Travel!
There are only 12 people in the word with a condition called
"hyperthymesia" that causes them to remember
every single detail of their lives.
All characters in the movie Toy Story
only blink one eye at a time.
Fashion companies Chanel and Louis Vuitton
both burn their leftover products at the end of each season
in order to prevent them from being sold at a discount.
Ghostsingles.com is a real dating website for ghosts.
Apple, Google, HP, Amazon, Disney, Harley Davidson
and Microsoft all started in garages.
It's possible to see a rainbow as a complete
circle from an airplane.
There's a hand sanitizer named,
"Maybe You Touched Your Genitals."
The creators of Adidas and Puma,
brothers Adolf Dassler and Rudolf Dassler,
were both part of the Nazi Party.
The youngest mother in medical history was
Lina Medina of Peru who gave birth at the age of five.
Ants go to war just like humans.
In fact, they're even able to strategize by doing things
like sending the weaker ants out to fight first.
If you're taller that 6'2", you can't be an astronaut.
Author JK Rowling of the Harry Potter universe
was a billionaire until she gave away so much of her
wealth to charity that she lost her billionaire status.
Jackie Chan is actually a pop star in Asia.
Not only has he released 20 albums since 1984,
but he often sings the theme songs to his own movies.
Coca-Cola was invented by an American pharmacist
named John Pemberton who advertised it
as a nerve tonic that could cure headaches and fatigue.
Statistically, you are more likely to die on the way
to buying a lottery ticket than you are
to win the lottery itself.
We know more about what exists on the surface of the moon
than we know about what exists in the Earth's oceans.
The word "checkmate" comes from the Arabic "Shah Mat",
which means, "The King is dead."
"Voldemort" in French literally translates to
"flight of death."
To this day, Japan and Russia still have not
signed a peace treaty to end World War II.
Humans have less chromosomes than a potato.
There is a lake in the United States called
"Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg"
that's often sited as the longest
place name in the United States.
Yeah, try saying that three times fast.
In the United Kingdom, the queen cannot be arrested
no matter what crime she commits.
This is because the crown itself is the prosecuting force
in the UK, thus you cannot have the crown versus the crown.
This immunity is not shared by other members
of the Royal Family.
In 2011, Barrack Obama became the first president
to have ever brewed beer in the White House.
In fact, the beer itself is called "White House Honey Ale."
The pinky swear originated in Japan where it indicated
that if somebody breaks a promise,
they must cut off their pinky finger.
Steve Jobs' final words were, "Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow."
The novel Twilight was rejected 14 times
before it was finally published.
A "Googol" is actually a mathematical term for
a very large number equal to one followed by 100 zeros.
Although it might sound counter-intuitive,
hot water freezes faster than cold water.
This is known as the "Mpemba effect."
There's a phobia called "Jonah complex"
which causes a person to fear their own success,
preventing them from reaching their full potential.
In the movie Terminator 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid
15 million dollars and only spoke 700 words of dialogue.
If you break down that cost by word,
that means that his famous line, "Hasta la vista, baby,"
cost $85,714.
The Snuggery is a service where you can hire somebody
and pay them 60 dollars an hour
to have them come and snuggle with you.
You must be very lonely.
The animal in the Firefox logo is not a fox.
It's actually an animal known as a red panda,
a species that's closer to the raccoon family.
The China National Highway 110 traffic jam
is considered the longest traffic jam in history.
It stretched for more than 100 kilometers
and lasted for almost 11 days.
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