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There's such a thing as rivers in the sky.
They're called atmospheric rivers.
Atmospheric rivers are weather systems that move
high concentrations of water vapor outside the tropics
and can bring strong winds and floods.
According to a new study released on February 13th, 2017,
by Netflix, nearly half of streaming couples around
the world have cheated on their significant other by
watching a show ahead of them without their knowledge.
One of the reasons that the Pentagon is so short is
because of the steel shortage due to the war.
The building was built primarily using 332 thousand
581 cubic meters of reinforced concrete.
A lot of which was from the grounds around the
Pentagon itself.
When Kleenex tissues were first introduced to the public
in 1924, they were intended to be used with cold cream
to remove makeup and clean the face.
The 'kleen' in the name represented that physical clean,
and the 'ex' was tied into the company's other popular
and successful product at the time, Kotex.
There are snakes found in rain forests in Southeast Asia
that are able to fling themselves from trees and
elegantly fly through the air.
They're capable of changing their body shape to generate
the aerodynamic forces needed to fly.
Domino's pizza has a wedding registry where you can purchase
different e-cards for some lucky couple.
Some examples that they offer are a $25 gift of pizza
called the post-honeymoon adjustment to real life,
because washing the dishes is the worst.
Then there's the $15 married but chill option.
I want pizza now, I'm hungry.
Writer, actor and comedian, Dan Akroyd, has a form
of autism called Asperger's.
One of his symptoms is having an obsession with ghosts
and law enforcement.
This is what led to the idea of the Ghostbusters film.
Famous designer, Hugo Boss, not only made Nazi uniforms,
but he was also part of the Nazi party.
Venus is referred to as Earth's sister planet because
of the number of things that it has in common with Earth.
It's a terrestrial planet and also orbits within our
sun's habitable zone.
In ancient Greece during the Olympics,
a truce was called so that athletes and spectators
could travel safely.
The truce was initially there for one month,
but in later centuries it was extended to three.
No wars were permitted and no arms could be carried.
There's an annual tradition called Los Bolos del Juego,
or balls of fire, held every August 31st in El Salvador
where two groups of young people throw flaming balls
of old cloth and wire that are soaked in gas at each other.
This dangerous event has been happening since 1922.
In 2013, Burger King tried to make its French fries
healthier by introducing satis-fries,
a low calorie alternative.
But customers preferred the full fat version and
Burger King killed off the item in 2014.
25% of US presidents lost their fathers either at a
young age or in their teens from death, divorce,
or abandonment.
Many of them were cared for and raised by single mothers
and grandparents.
The von Schesteffan Brewery located in a small town
just north of Munich has been brewing beer non-stop
for almost a thousand years withstanding four fires,
three plagues, and a major earthquake.
Well, somebody definitely loves beer.
There are 293 different combinations to make change
for a dollar.
Green patches in potatoes indicates the presence
of chlorophyll, which also means that there's a
concentration of a harmful toxin called solanine.
So when you see these green patches, you should cut
them out entirely and discard them.
Don't just be bitin' into raw potatoes
'cause you gonna get sick.
Before Super Bowl 51, Zoo Atlanta in the Roger Williams
Park Zoo in Providence, Rhode Island, made a bet that
if their team lost, they would name a baby animal
after the winning team's quarterback.
Since the New England Patriots beat the Atlanta Falcons,
Zoo Atlanta named a Madagascar hissing cockroach Tom Brady.
In Margate, England, there's a series of underground
passageways covered in millions of sea shells.
The Margate Grotto was discovered in 1835,
but it's still unknown how old the grotto really is,
or who built it.
The larvae of the Middle Eastern epomis beetle
socialize in killing frogs, salamanders, and other
amphibians that try to eat them.
They lure in their prey, encouraging them to approach,
and strike with double-hooked jaws hanging on and
eating the prey alive.
There's a robotic coffee brewing kiosk called Cafe Ex
that opened in February 2017 in downtown San Francisco.
The drinks are served by barista bots, which are
robotic arms designed by Mitsubishi and are the first
of their kind in the United States.
(buzz) I said low on the milk.
No more milk.
The Great Sphinx of Giza was constructed out of a
single chunk of soft limestone bedrock.
It stands over 20 meters high, almost 74 meters long,
and over 19 meters wide.
Researchers from MIT have created a new material that's
actually stronger than graphene.
It's 10 times stronger than steel,
with only 5% of its density.
There is a 6,410 square meter indoor farm in Newark,
New Jersey, that's the world's largest indoor farm.
Aero-farms are able to grow crops without soil,
sunlight and nearly no water.
They use 95% less water than conventional outdoor farms.
According to a study published in 2015 by a university
at Albany Team in the journal analytical chemistry,
gender can now be determined from the concentration
of amino acids that are found in a fingerprint.
As it turns out, women have more amino acids than men.
In December of 2016, the oldest known breeding wild bird,
Wisdom the albatross, laid an egg at the
Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in Hawaii
at the ripe old age of 66.
In Northwest Poland, there's a forest of about 400
pine trees that grow with a 90 degree bend at the
base of their trunks before rising vertically again.
This collection of crooked trees has been named the
Crooked Forest.
In California's Sierra Nevada mountains,
there's a group of blind millipedes that glow in the dark.
The millipedes give off a neon teal color and have a
special type of protein that allows them to produce light
from beneath the tough cuticle that covers their bodies.
President Jimmy Carter installed 32 solar panels on the
White House roof when he was president in the late 1970's.
When Ronald Reagan took office in 1981,
he had them removed because he thought it was a joke.
Then when President Obama moved in,
he had all the solar panels reinstalled.
Oranges are actually green in warm climates.
Most green oranges are perfectly ripe and need
no more ripening.
In fact, they're actually on their way to being rotten
when they're turning orange.
Zoos have begun raising puppies and cheetah kittens
together to help combat the cheetah's stress and focus
their wild energy.
Our fingers don't contain any muscles
to facilitate movement.
Movement, like flexing and curling our fingers is
actually made possible by specific actions of the tendons,
bones and muscles that are found in the palm of our hands.
There's something called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
or the Pacific Trash Vortex, where there is a collection
of garbage in the north Pacific Ocean.
It spans waters from the west coast of North America
all the way to Japan.
It's made of tiny particles of plastic that never degrade.
Venus rotates very slowly, taking over 243 Earth days
to complete a single rotation.
It has the slowest rotation period of any planet.
Dogs can have a disorder called canine compulsive
disorder, or CCD, which is characterized by excessive
repetition of an action or behavior and can vary
depending on the context.
CCD is similar to human compulsive disorders,
and is likely to be a coping mechanism for when the
dog sees a situation as stressful.
According to a survey done in February of 2017,
by Venezuela's living conditions, almost 75% of the
population lost an average of at least 8.6 kilograms
in 2016 due to a lack of proper nutrition because of
the economic crisis.
The Earth receives 174 pedo watts of solar radiation
at the upper atmosphere.
30% of that is reflected back to space and the rest
is absorbed by clouds, oceans, and land masses.
Mageirocophobia is a fear of cooking.
I definitely have this, I stick to Kraft dinner.
It can take many forms and is extremely common,
although it is only considered a phobia when it's severe
enough to interfere with daily life.
Adermatoglyphia is an extremely rare genetic disorder
in which people are born without fingerprints.
The finger pads of people with this condition are entirely
flat and don't have the arching or looping ridges of
finger prints that virtually all other humans do.
There's a McDonald's in Marino, Italy, where you can
have your meal and also check out an ancient Roman
road at the same time.
The road built, between the second and first centuries BC,
was discovered in 2014 when the McDonald's was being built.
The road was excavated, documented, and enclosed in a
gallery with a glass roof so that patrons
of the restaurant can look down on it.
One year after the Brooklyn Bridge opened in 1883,
circus performer, P T Barnum, led 21 elephants across it
to prove the bridge's strength.
A woman from Michigan named Barbara Soaper gave birth
to her three children on oh eight, oh eight, oh eight,
oh nine, oh nine, oh nine,
and 10, 10, 10, respectively.
The odds of this happening are 50 million to one.
That blob of toothpaste in the shape of a wave on
your toothpaste box is called a nurdle.
In the tech world, the word Yahoo followed by an
exclamation point stands for yet another
hierarchical officious oracle.
In 1994, David Filo and Jerry Yang,
used the term to name their internet search engine.
Chess boxing is a hybrid sport combining the mental
battle of chess and the physical struggle of boxing.
Players have to learn how to balance their strategy on the
chess board with the plan of attack in the boxing match.
The Voynich manuscript is a hand-written book
of 246 pages and many illustrations in approximately
170 thousand characters.
But the script in the book is completely unknown and
illegible, meaning that no one has ever been able
to read it or decipher it.
Bobby Leach was the second person to ever go over
Niagara Falls in a barrel.
He actually survived the stunt, but died ironically
15 years later while walking down a street in
Auckland, New Zealand.
He slipped on an orange peel, fell down, and broke his leg.
After infection set in, the leg had to be amputated,
and he died in surgery.
Germany put the world's first hydrogen powered
zero emission train into service in 2017.
The non-electric network trains are powered using a
hydrogen fuel cell and only emits steam and water.
Residents of a village named Hopeman in Scotland
have been posing as police officers using speed guns
by arming themselves with hair dryers and reflective
vests to combat speeding drivers.
The Rafflesia Arnoldi plant is the biggest individually
produced flower in the world.
It gets to be over 91 centimeters across and weighs
almost 11 kilograms.
Nepalese climber, Pemba Dorje, is a Sherpa who holds
the record for the fastest assent of Mount Everest.
He climbed Everest in only eight hours and 10 minutes
in 2004.
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