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Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
Ford engineer Doug Martin has developed a system
that collects AC condensation and lets you drink the water
from a tap on your dashboard, but first,
the water is routed through a filter
that removes any organic particulate contaminants.
You gotta be really thirsty to drink some car water.
It's actually possible to get slivers or splinters
just like wood ones from hair.
They're actually very common
with dog groomers and hair stylists.
Basketball starts Lebron James, Michael Jordan,
and Magic Johnson all donated millions of dollars
to the Muhammad Ali Exhibit at the Smithsonian.
The largest living organism in the world
is located in the Malheur National Forest.
It's called the armillaria ostoyae, or the humongous fungus.
It covers 2,385 acres.
That's a whole lot of fungus, kind of gross.
Galileo's preserved middle finger is on display
at the Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy.
It stands eternally giving the bird
in the general direction of the church
that once censored his theories,
destroyed his good name, imprisoned him in his home,
refused for nearly a century to give the man
the decent burial that he was due, and for 350 years,
neglected to grant him any honor.
Who was responsible for positioning his hand like that,
'cause they're going to hell, too.
It's actually possible for rabbits to die of fright.
Loud sounds like dogs barking, loud music, or screaming
can lead to a heart attack and put a rabbit into shock,
causing sudden death.
A tomato has 25% more genes than humans.
The simple tomato has 31,760 genes,
while we only have about 20,000 genes.
However, keep in mind that the amount of genetic material
does not indicate how advanced an organism is,
which you probably already figured.
I mean, we don't have tomato overlords
walkin' around, do we?
Edmonton's La Poutine restaurant and food truck
collaborated with the Wild Prairie Soap Company
and came up with a poutine-flavored lip balm.
You cannot make this stuff up.
Inspired by KFC making a fried chicken scented sunscreen,
the lip balm has been sold out
almost everywhere since its creation.
There's a spider that scientists discovered
in November of 2016 in southwestern China's
Yunnan rainforest that can make itself
look like a dangling dried up leaf.
The leaf-mimicking spider employs
a strategy called masquerading,
or pretending to look like something else,
in order to protect itself.
Think about that next time you go jump in a pile of leaves.
The reason that pool tables are covered in green felt
is because the original game of billiards
was played on lawns outside.
Play then moved indoors to a wooden table
with green cloth to simulate grass.
When actress Jodie Foster was only eight years old,
she was attacked by a lion and carried briefly in its mouth
while filming Disney's Napoleon and Samantha.
Needless to say, she's had a fear of cats ever since.
Elvis Presley had a chimpanzee named Scatter.
It's a little known fact that the king
had a great love of animals.
In fact, Elvis had countless pets over the course
of his life, including dogs, horses, birds, and more.
The only mounted whale in the world,
known as The Malm Whale, is on display
in Sweden's Natural History Museum.
It was found stranded on rocks on October 29th, 1865
when it swam too close to land
in Askim Bay south of Goteborg.
It was over 52 feet long and weighed around 25 tons.
It's estimated that 46 million turkeys
are eaten every Thanksgiving in America.
Also a fun fact, that same 88% go into a food coma.
I'm one of 'em.
There's no time zone in Antarctica,
so scientists that live there while doing research
usually go by the time zone from their home land.
In addition, because of how Antarctica is situated,
daylight savings is useless.
Most of the area experiences 24 hours of sunlight
during the summertime and 24 hours of night
during the winter.
That sounds like hell.
The same goes for the Arctic,
although most of the North Pole is nothing
but water and sea ice, and maybe a couple seals.
The dark gray color seen by the eyes
in perfect darkness is the result of signals
from the optic nerves and is called Eigengrau.
There's an alarm clock called Sensor Wake
that uses aromas of your choice
to make you wake up instead of sound.
You can be awoken by scents such as cut grass,
hot croissant, chocolate, espresso, or peppermint.
Actor Matthew McConaughey's older brother Michael,
known as Rooster, named his son Miller Lite
after his favorite beer.
Okay, some people should just not be allowed to procreate.
Clap hand emojis.
There's a very rare condition known as distichiasis
where someone has two layers of eyelashes.
They can actually be painful and should be removed.
However, even through electrolysis,
they will likely grow back.
When cauliflower grows quickly,
they create a loud creaking sound
because their florets rub together.
This is actually a thing.
It's known as cauliflower creak.
American Express started out in 1850
as a freight and valuables delivery service.
The brand new US Postal Service was unreliable at the time
and only allowed shipment of letter-sized envelopes.
This provided a business opening
for the company to ship larger parcels,
but the company ultimately took a turn
when it began to realize more profit
from a sector of its customer base
that included banks and other financial institutions.
Artist Grant Wood, who painted American Gothic,
used his sister Nan and his dentist, Dr. Byron McKeeby,
as his models, and the house actually exists in Eldon, Iowa.
I wonder if they were that grumpy in real life.
Stoic.
John H. Jack Cover, one of the inventors of the taser,
named it after his literary hero, Tom Swift.
In fact, taser is an acronym
for Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle.
Cover just added the A to Tom Swift's name.
Singer Otis Redding whistled the last verse
of the hit song "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay"
because he didn't have the words written for it
when it was recorded.
He did plan to fill in the verse,
but he died in a plane crash just three days
after recording it before he had the chance.
But the producer decided to leave the whistling in
because he liked it.
The replica ship that they used in the film
Pirates of the Caribbean, known as the Bounty,
sank off the coast of North Carolina during Hurricane Sandy.
In November of 2015, Pope Francis actually released
an album called Wake Up that features his speeches
set to rock, pop, and Gregorian chants.
I'm telling you man, you can't make this stuff up.
The original Three Musketeers candy bar was invented
back in 1932 in the United States by M&M Mars.
It was originally packaged as three
individual mini bars of chocolate, vanilla,
and strawberry nougat, hence the name.
Sesame Street's Cookie Monster's real name is Syd.
In fact, in 2010, Cookie Monster tweeted, and I quote,
"Me wasn't born with name Cookie Monster.
"It just nickname that stuck.
"Me don't remember real name.
"Maybe it was Sydney."
Mm-hmm, Sesame Street, you can hit me up
if you need a voice actor.
Clearly I'm very good at it.
The Ms in M&Ms stand for the last names
of the candy's founders, Mars and Murray.
Same goes for the Mars bar itself,
although it wasn't originally named that
by its creator Frank Mars, but by his son, Forest Mars.
The Chollima, a mythical winged horse,
is the national animal of North Korea,
and they probably believe that Kim Jong Un
gives birth to them daily.
Wouldn't surprise me.
The world's only underwater post office is located
at the Hideaway Island Resort and Marine Sanctuary
in Port Vila, Vanuatu.
Snorkelers and divers can post
special waterproof postcards in 10 feet of water.
There's a museum in Chichibu, Japan called Chinsekikan,
which means hall of curious rocks,
that has almost 2,000 rocks that resemble human faces.
One in about every 8,500 people are born
with something called situs inversus,
which is where their organs in their chest and abdomen
are in perfect mirror image reversal
of their normal positioning.
Their heart is on the right
and liver and spleen are on the left.
Brian May, the guitarist from the band Queen,
actually has a PhD in astrophysics.
After abandoning his academic pursuits
for three decades to become a rock star,
he returned to school in 2007
to complete and receive his degree.
The US's first satellite, Explorer I,
was launched into space on January 31st, 1958.
It was about twice the size of a basketball
and only weighed 30 pounds.
Thurl Ravenscroft, who was the voice
of Kellogg's Tony the Tiger, was also the man who sang,
"You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch,"
in the original How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
Hawaiian Punch was originally developed
as an ice cream topping in 1934
and only later became the tropical fruit drink
when consumers discovered how good it was
as a drink when mixed with water.
Elephants are known to favor one tusk over the other,
making one shorter than the other.
Kind of like how humans are right and left-handed.
A violin contains over 70 separate pieces of wood.
According to the Guinness World Records,
Svetlana Pankratova from Russia holds the record
for the female with the longest legs in the world.
Her legs measured 4.3 feet long as of July 8th, 2003.
That's a huge-- no, I'm not gonna be disrespectful,
but seriously, she's a giant.
The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt is the only one
of the seven wonders of the ancient world that still exists.
The rest, including the Colossus of Rhodes,
the Lighthouse of Alexandria,
the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, The Temple of Artemis,
and Statue of Zeus were all destroyed.
Only two US presidents have been impeached so far,
Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton.
Neither were convicted of charges filed against them.
Britannic, the sister ship of the Titanic,
was sunk during World War I.
Britannic was improved after the Titanic sank
but it still sank in only 55 minutes.
You can tell a hard-cooked egg
from a raw egg simply by spinning it.
If it spins easily, it's hard-cooked.
If it wobbles, it's raw.
The name salamander comes from the Greek word fire lizard.
It came about when salamanders came running out of logs
that had been thrown on a fire.
More than 1,000 elephants were used to transport
the materials needed to build the Taj Mahal.
Soap operas, or soaps, are called such because years ago
the shows were predominantly sponsored by soap companies.
They were mostly on during the day
and it was a way for advertisers to reach
their main demographic, which was the housewife.
The world's largest ketchup bottle is nearly 69 feet tall
perched on top of 100 foot tall steel tower
located in Collinsville, Illinois.
It's the water tower at the Old Brooks Ketchup Plant
and Headquarters, and Collinsville holds
the World's Largest Ketchup Bottle Festival
every single year.
It's possible to get a university degree in surfing.
Hockey pucks were originally made of cow dung.
What a way to end.
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