- Here comes a bunch of amazing random facts.
Let's get into it.
Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
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The nose of a bloodhound has around 230 million
scent receptors which is nearly 40 times
what a human nose has.
Due to this, bloodhounds were the first animal ever
to have their evidence admissible
in a court in the United States.
There's a hotel in Jukkasjarvi,
a village in northern Sweden,
that's made out of ice.
First constructed in 1990,
the hotel is rebuilt every year from snow and ice
taken from the nearby Torne River.
It's built in December
and stands up until it melts in April.
Even the beds, chairs and decorations are made of ice
and no two rooms are the same.
The first documented account of a labor strike
occurred in Egypt during the construction
of the Great Pyramid of Cheops,
around 1580 B.C. when the workers building it
did not receive their daily ration of garlic.
The plant was given to them
to help increase their stamina and overall health.
When it wasn't given to them,
they just stopped working.
"Hey, I know you're not paying us money for this,
"but not giving us our daily ration of garlic,
"that's where we draw the line."
In January of 2001,
Jennifer Lopez's second studio album J.Lo,
and her film The Wedding Planner,
were both released and she became the first woman
to simultaneously have a number one album
and a number one film in the same week.
After becoming fully grown,
many male fireflies never consume their food at all
due to their drive to mate
and their incredibly short life spans.
Some female fireflies can mimic the blinking rates
of other species, drawing males who wish to mate with them
but instead they eat them.
"Ah yeah, you like this, come get some, arngh."
In July of 2007,
Iranian intelligence agents caught and detained 14 squirrels
because they thought that they were spies.
According to the operatives,
the squirrels appeared to be carrying
advanced Western spy gear
and were allegedly sent into Iran
to undermine the Islamic Republic.
Really?
Squirrels?
That's what they're worried about?
I think we can do better than that.
There's a name for that loud gurgling sound
that your stomach sometimes makes.
It's called borborygmus
and it's not your body telling you that you're hungry,
it's simply your intestines moving gas along.
The world record for the longest hangover ever suffered
was set by a 37 year old man in Glasgow, Scotland.
After consuming over 60 pints,
or 35 liters of beer over a four day period,
the unidentified man had severe hydration symptoms
for over four weeks.
A specialist was called in
and after six months of blood thinning treatments,
the man's blurry vision and headaches finally went away.
(hiccups) I'm doin' this for (hiccups) science, I swear.
Back in the 13th century,
after finding out people were baptizing their children
with beer instead of water,
Pope Gregory IX issued a decree
which said that doing so made the baptism invalid.
There's a law in the State of Virginia
which says that it's legal to hunt a raccoon on a Sunday
so long as it happens before 2:00 A.M.
You hear that,
you're not burrowing into my house anymore.
(gun cocks)
There are more people living in the city of Tokyo in Japan,
than in the entire population of Canada,
the second largest country by land mass on Earth.
If you've ever been in the woods after a rain storm
and smelled the sweet scent that often lingers there,
what you're actually smelling
is a bacteria called actinomycetes.
Its spores are created in dry soil
and get kicked up into the air with the falling rain.
John H Kellogg, one of the founders of the Kellogg Company
and a number of popular cereals,
grew up with little education
because his parents believed the second coming of Christ
was imminent and would happen well before their children
would even need an education.
But despite this, John got his medical degree
and created the food company
with items on millions of breakfast tables.
After months of tremors on February 7th, 1812,
an earthquake hit the region of New Madrid
near the Mississippi River in modern day Arkansas.
It's estimated to have been an 8.8 magnitude quake
and it was so powerful it actually forced the Mississippi
to flow backwards for a short time.
On July 5th, 2015,
26 year old Daniel Boria was arrested
in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
after he tied around 120 helium balloons
to a lawn chair and floated over the city.
Boria claimed that it was to promote his cleaning business
which had better do well as he also received a fine
of over $25,000.
Located in Halden, Norway,
Halden Prison is an establishment that's truly devoted
to rehabilitation over punishment.
Even the worst criminals incarcerated there
have cells with flat screen televisions,
en suite showers and even fluffy white towels
to dry themselves with.
I mean I'm not saying do a crime,
but if you were, like, do it in Norway.
There's a restaurant in Taipei, Taiwan,
called the Modern Toilet which pushes its gross theme
to the extreme.
They serve food in toilet shaped bowls,
drinks in urine collecting bottles
and offer food such as poop meatballs
and stuffed brown sugar poop pancake.
And to top it off,
diners consume their meals while sitting on a toilet.
You just can't make this stuff up folks.
Apples are actually better at waking you up in the morning
than coffee is.
This is due to the glucose you get from the fruit
which gives your body energy and fuels your brain.
Still though, give me that sweet, sweet java.
In 2010, global warming actually settled a land dispute
between India and Bangladesh.
Both countries had staked claim to the small island
of New Moore in the Bay of Bengal.
However after global warming caused ocean waters to rise,
the entire island became submerged.
It's now unavailable to anyone without scuba gear.
Emus, flightless birds native to Australia,
are the only bird species to have calf muscles
and are known for their speed and endurance
when traveling long distances.
Despite this, these animals cannot walk backwards
and it's unknown exactly why this is.
Due to the wide spacing of their eyes on their heads,
donkeys have almost 360 degree vision.
They're actually capable of seeing all four of their feet
at the same time.
In 2012, after becoming frustrated
with cold calls from telemarketers,
49 year old Tim Price from Leicester, England,
legally changed his name to PPPPPPPPP Price.
He added nine Ps to his last name
in order to make the calls more difficult
for callers to pronounce.
Well that's an extreme solution
to just hanging up on them but alright.
Female ferrets must mate every time they go into heat
or else they will die.
The massive amount of estrogen
their bodies create during heat
can cause a progressive depression in bone marrow
and their bodies will stop creating blood cells.
First discovered in 1922 in Brazil,
the zyzzyva is tropical American weevil,
a type of snouted beetle
that takes up the final entry
in a number of English language dictionaries.
It's suspected that it was named that
just so it would hold that position.
You burn more calories fast asleep in your bed
that you do sitting on the couch and watching television.
Gorillas burp when feeling happy and at ease.
(loud burp)
In late 2011, Pakistani officials arrested a monkey,
later named Bobby,
after the animal illegally crossed the border
into the country from India.
But bizarrely, it was revealed later
that this may have been revenge
for India once detaining a pigeon
that was suspected of spying for Pakistan.
After his video, a cover of David Bowie's Space Oddity,
performed on the international space station
went viral online,
Canadian astronaut commander, Chris Hadfield,
decided to release an entire album of songs
performed from Earth's orbit.
The album, called Space Sessions: Songs from a Tin Can,
was released in 2015 and features the Bowie cover
plus 11 original songs,
each recorded either partially or fully by Hadfield
during the 144 days that he spent onboard the station.
Scientists Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein,
author H. G. Wells and Canada's first prime minister,
John A. Macdonald, all married their first cousins.
Hmm, y'all nasty.
Cannabinoids, a group of compounds found in marijuana,
can only be found in two other places.
One is the human brain
and the other, incredibly, is in chocolate.
Legend has it, the country of Canada got its name
after French explorer, Jacques Cartier,
mistook the St. Lawrence Iroquoian word for village,
kanata, for the name of the land that he was in.
But how do you explain why we all say, "Eh", eh?
Before being named after that mistake,
other names for Canada were proposed.
These names included Cabotia, Laurentia, New Albion,
Ursalia, Transatlantica and Superior.
Probably a good thing that Canada was chosen.
In 1998, the Przewalski's horse
was introduced into habitats around Chernobyl
in an attempt to save the species from extinction.
Having few, to no humans around,
the area turned out to be perfect
and the horse population is actually thriving.
The Swedish government actually pays students
to attend school.
Paid as a monthly salary to students
between the ages of 16 and 20,
amounts range from $570 to $693.
Dragonflies are more than four times more likely
to catch their prey than a big cat,
such as a lion or tiger is.
The success rate that dragonflies achieve
in taking down a target has been documented
as being 95%, making them the front runner
in the world's deadliest hunters.
There's a strip club in Guelph, Ontario
which doubles as a church.
Every Sunday morning, Jack and Sharon Ninaber,
along with several volunteers,
transform the club which is called The Manor
into a place of worship,
hold a service and then change it back
into a strip club again.
If you're ever in the State of Texas
and you happen to run into Big Foot,
according to the law,
it's perfectly within your right to shoot him dead.
However some places, such as Skamania County, Washington,
there's actually a law forbidding killing a Sasquatch.
I don't care, if there was a large hairy thing with teeth
comin' at me, he's dead.
The white clouds and green bushes in the video game,
Super Mario Bros,
for the original Nintendo Entertainment System,
were actually all the same, only colored different.
During the cold war, British Trident submarines
were instructed to act as if Britain had been destroyed,
if the Today program on BBC Radio 4 went off the air
for three consecutive days without explanation.
At that point, commanders would open sealed envelopes
containing instructions from the prime minister
on how to proceed.
In 2006, Ming the mollusc was dredged up
off the coast of Iceland
and soon after, killed by British researchers for testing.
Only after taking its life, did scientists become aware
that the clam was 507 years old,
and thus the oldest living animal ever discovered.
This sign which resembles a sideways eight,
and is most commonly known in mathematics
as an infinity symbol,
has a real name.
It's called a lemniscate.
Before his capture and execution,
Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein,
wrote four novels and several poems,
many of which were blocked from being mass produced.
His first two novels were written
by He Who Wrote It, his chosen pen name.
There are a large number of people in the world
who claim to suffer from cenosillicaphobia
which is the fear of your beer glass being empty.
Have you ever had a catchy song stuck in your head,
playing over and over again,
long after you first heard it?
Well there's actually a name for that,
it's called an ear worm.
In 1954, after being kidnapped from her home in Colombia,
four year old Marina Chapman was abandoned
in the Colombian jungle.
It was there that she starred in her own Tarzan-like story.
She was raised by weeper capuchin monkeys
and the young girl spent five years eating,
sleeping and fighting off predators
as well as rival clans with her adoptive monkey family.
Goldfish that are kept indoors
tend to be paler
than those who receive regular amounts of natural light.
In fact, if you kept a pet goldfish
in the dark at all times,
the chromatophores, which produce the animals' pigment,
would start to die,
causing it to become nearly white in color.
Technically a pineapple
isn't a single fruit, but multiple.
A cluster of flowers, each forming a berry,
compress themselves together to make it.
Music legends Jimi Hendrix, Michael Jackson,
Eddie Van Halen, Eric Clapton, Elvis Presley
and all four of the Beatles
could not read or write music
before becoming famous performers.
The word ukulele which originated in Hawaii,
roughly translates as jumping flea.
It's named so due to the movement of a person's fingers
when playing it, resembling a quick hopping insect.
(gentle music)