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Here are 50 Amazing Facts to Blow Your Mind.
Discounting the planet's 30 kilometers per second
trip around the sun, anything located
on the Earth's equator is traveling
around 1,600 kilometers per hour,
while anything situated at either of the world's poles
is essentially stationary, with spinning in place.
There are actually no female peacocks.
The correct name for the species is peafowl.
Males are called peacocks, while females are called peahens.
Females lack the bright blue color.
Their feathers are brown, gray, or cream,
and tend to be much smaller than their male counterparts.
Counting all of the territories controlled,
the country that exists in the most time zones
is France with 12.
The United States covers 11, and Russia covers nine.
In the early 1950s, doctors at Tulane University
in Louisiana discovered a way to trigger the pleasure
and pain centers of the human brain using electrodes.
In one of the most famous experiments,
the team managed to give a female subject
a 30 minute orgasm.
A compass doesn't point to the
planet's geographical north pole,
it actually uses the earth's magnetic field
to identify the magnetic north pole,
which moves in loops up 80 kilometers per day.
Between June 2nd and June 4th of 2017,
a pop-up establishment called
The Restaurant of Order Mistakes appeared in Tokyo, Japan.
The owners actually hired people with dementia
to be their waiters and waitresses
which led to many diners having a laugh
as they were served the wrong things.
That was really funny until it wasn't.
Lady Gaga wrote her hit songs Born This Way
and Just Dance in only 10 minutes each.
And both of them became number ones!
During the Cold War as a deterrent for potential invaders,
the Swiss government executed a plan
to defend it's borders by having a number of bridges,
roads and railways wired with explosives.
Over 3,000 points of demolition were prepared,
and the bombs could be detonated at any moment.
Many of them hidden in the mountains
and able to cause devastating rock slides.
Nicknamed the Lighthouse of the Mediterranean,
Mount Stromboli is a volcano situated
on an island near Sicily, Italy.
It's been in a constant state of eruption
for over 2,000 years.
After her screenwriter friend, Heather Robinson,
was sexually harassed by a male producer,
actress Carrie Fisher personally hand-delivered a package,
as well as a note to the harasser.
Inside the package was a cow tongue and a note
that said if you ever touch my darling Heather
or any other woman again, the next delivery
will be something of yours in a much smaller box.
I think she's talking about his you know.
Southern Florida is the only place in the world
where you can find alligators coexisting in the wild
with crocodiles, even though the gators greatly
outnumber the crocs.
There is an online, interactive, digital map
called Ancient Earth which can show you where the ground
beneath your feet now would have been on the globe
as far back as 750 million years ago.
Before the rise in popularity of Netflix
and pausing live TV, the British show EastEnders
caused huge spikes in the power grid
that required backup stations to go on stand by.
This is because when a commercial break started,
millions of people would put on a kettle for tea,
suddenly drawing all of the electricity at the same time.
That's a lot of tea.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s
professional pole vaulter Sergei Bubka
broke the world records for high jump 35 times,
beating his own previous records by only tiny amounts
so that he could cash in on the record bonuses
as many times as possible.
It's said that we'll never know how high
he could have actually jumped.
Ketchup was initially sold as a medicine
after a medical paper published in 1834
claimed tomatoes helped with digestive issues.
A number of scientists believe that the earth
used to have two moons in it's orbit.
The smaller one crashed into the larger one
to form the moon that we know and love today.
The near side of the moon is much different
from the far side which could mean
that that half was changed, scarred by a collision.
Google is technically one of the world's
top five computer manufacturers by volume,
simply due to the fact that they build their own servers.
In 1994, the very first meeting
of the Homestead, Florida Crime Watch group
was interrupted when a bale of cocaine
weighing 34 kilograms fell out of the sky.
The drugs were being transported in a small plane overhead,
and the traffickers ditched it when
a US Customs jet caught up with it.
Although he's easily recognized in part
due to his dark-slicked hair, Elvis Presley
was actually a natural blonde.
He dyed it raven-black as he thought it would
give him an edgier look.
Honey bees are capable of transmitting diseases
to each other through sex.
The STDs tend to spread very quickly throughout the hive,
as queens have been known to mate with 100s
of males in a matter of hours.
Around 95% of the population of Suriname
live along the northern coast.
This is because 91% of the African country
is covered in dense jungle.
Tigers are widely considered to be
the most vengeful creatures in the animal kingdom.
They've been known to stalk humans and other animals
that have somehow wronged them for several days.
Before he was the king of racy television,
talk show host, Jerry Springer was a politician.
In fact, he held office as the Mayor of Cincinnati
for one whole year between 1977 and 1978.
In the early 1900s, cars were actually considered
the cleaner and healthier way to travel,
as they didn't leave horse poop all over the streets.
The pollution that horses left behind,
along with the rising costs of food and stables
led to the last horse-drawn carriage
leaving the streets of New York in 1917.
Every year, 1,000s of people attend
the Interstate Mullet Toss, a charity event
on the border between Alabama and Florida,
in which paying participants literally toss dead fish
from one state into the other.
In the early 1990s a group at Keio University
in Tokyo, Japan managed to successfully train pigeons
to discriminate paintings by Picasso and Monet.
After being presented with several examples of their artwork
the birds managed to recognize pieces by the artists
that had never been shown to them before.
In the 2014 film Hercules, the beard that Dwayne Johnson
sports isn't his own, but actually a prosthetic
made of yak testicle hair.
(baying) Yak.
It's estimated that that world's oceans
contain over $771 trillion worth of gold,
but it's nearly impossible to obtain
based on the fact that it was dissolved into the salt water.
So many people move to Florida after retiring,
that by 2030 it's estimated that one in four people
living there will be over the age of 65.
The piercing cry that so many,
especially in the United States associate
with the bald eagle, isn't an eagle screech at all.
Hollywood, in an effort to make the symbol of the USA
more fierce often dub in the cry of a red-tailed hawk.
This is because the actual sound that eagles make
sounds more like a singing parakeet
than the a tough predator from the sky.
When traveling down to Sweden's coast on the Iron Ore Line,
trains generate up to five times the amount
of electricity that they use.
In turn, this energy is used
to power towns and other trains.
According to a 2012 census, the Falkland Islands,
a British territory in the South Atlantic,
have over a half a million sheep,
but only 2,932 permanent residents.
That means that there's around
167 sheep for every human being.
The official highest recorded temperature on planet Earth
was 56.7 degrees Celsius, or 134 degrees Fahrenheit.
It occurred on July 10th, 1913 at Greenland Ranch
in Death Valley, California.
For 90 years, it was believed that El Azizia in Libya
experienced the highest temperature
until the World Meteorological Organization
disqualified the record in 2012.
According to NASA satellite data,
the coldest recorded temperature
was negative 94.7 degrees Celsius,
or negative 135.8 Fahrenheit.
It was recorded in August of 2010.
It happened in Antarctica.
Before he was a superstar, actor Harrison Ford
was a carpenter.
He was doing work on a door for legendary producer
Fred Roos at the very place that George Lucas
was holding a casting call for Star Wars.
At random he read for Hans Solo, got the part,
and quickly became famous.
In addition to the standard set of teeth,
moray eels have a second set of jaws
located in their throats.
Due to their narrow heads, they would otherwise
have trouble swallowing prey,
however, they can push the throat teeth forward
to grip what's in their mouths
and pull it into their digestive system.
That's some alien nightmare stuff.
Though it was a maximum, high-security federal prison
that held some of the most notorious inmates,
Alcatraz was also famous for the incredible food
served to the inmates there.
Murderers that were serving multiple life sentences
were eating beef steak, baked meat croquettes
and iced cupcakes.
They were allowed to eat as much as they wanted
as long as they left no waste behind.
Lucky inmates.
Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Carpenter started dating,
got engaged, got married, and then divorced each other,
all while playing brother an sister
as the stars of the Showtime series Dexter.
The first electric lighting installed at the White House
was put in in 1891.
President Benjamin Harrison was so afraid
of getting electrocuted that he refused
to touch any of the switches to turn them on.
When threatened by a predator, red-eyed tree frog embryos
can detect the danger,
and in seconds free itself from its egg
and drop away to safety.
They can do this even if it would otherwise
be several days before it hatches naturally.
Singer-songwriter Kesha once sent out a request
that her fans send her samples of their teeth.
The performer was creating an art piece
while in rehab for an eating disorder,
and required her followers pearly whites to complete it.
While they make up only 1% of the human population,
psychopaths seem to be good business people.
An Australian study showed that more than
one in five CEOs were psychopaths.
A number that rivals the percentage of people in prison.
British artist Richart Sowa built an artificial island
in Mexican waters using 100,000 plastic bottles
to keep it afloat.
It's over 25 meters long and has been recognized
by the Mexican government as an eco-boat.
Ferdinand Waldo Demara spent
much of his life as other people.
Starting in 1941, the American-born identity thief
impersonated monks, a prison warden,
a sheriff's deputy, and many others
as he moved from place to place.
And while pretending to be Brother John Payne
with the Brothers of Christian Instruction,
Demara founded a college that
was actually chartered by the state.
Another fun fact is that during the Korean War,
Demara also impersonated a surgeon
while onboard a Royal Canadian Naval destroyer.
But despite being a total fraud,
he managed to memorize how to perform certain surgeries
from a textbook, and completed operations
on 16 Korean combat casualties.
The meow sound that cats make is actually
a language developed especially for humans.
Research into how felines communicate revealed
that they very rarely meow at one another,
but do so when they want something from their human owners.
Before he was the host of Inside the Actor's Studio,
James Lipton was a pimp.
After World War II, Lipton spent a year representing
prostitutes in Paris, France, as it was the only job
that he could get at the time.
Despite the fact that adult flamingos
stand between 1.2 and 1.5 meters tall,
these animals only weigh between 1.8 and 3.6 kilograms.
This incredibly low body density
is what allows them to stay in the air
and travel at speeds of up to 60 kilometers an hour.
If global warming caused the oceans to rise,
the first nation to disappear would be The Maldives.
The island country is the flattest on planet Earth,
with no area rising naturally higher
than three meters above sea level.
When manatees and alligators approach each other
in the water, the alligators give
the manatees the right of way.
In Florida, a number of gators,
even ones that are 3.7 meters long
will passively allow a manatee to pass by
before continuing to swim.
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