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Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind, part three.
One single teaspoon of honey represents
the life's work of 12 bees.
About 50 thousand years ago,
horse-sized ducks called dromornithidae
once roamed where is now Australia.
There are gold pills you can buy online for $425 each
that promise to make your poop glitter gold.
Nomophobia is the fear of being away from your cellphone.
The first ever modern toilet was made by Thomas Crapper,
hence the origin of the phrase, "to take a crap."
The University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada,
offers a course in the science of Batman.
It uses the caped crusader to explain the human condition
in the limitations of the human mind and body.
The Philippine island of Luzon
contains a lake that contains an island
that contains a lake that contains another island.
This is not a painting, it's a completely real photo
that has not been retouched or photoshopped in any way.
What you're looking at are the camel thorn trees
of Naukluft Park in Namibia.
The backdrop is a sand dune and the ground is blue
from the shadow of the early morning sun.
The Hudson Bay area of Canada has less gravity
that the rest of the earth.
Scientists don't know exactly why,
but they hypothesize that it could have something
to do with convection occurring in the earth's mantle.
Only 1-2% of the entire world's population
are natural red heads.
There is a real sport called Bonzai skydiving,
which involves throwing a parachute out of an airplane,
and jumping out after it.
There is a swing at the edge of a cliff in Ecuador
that has no safety measures,
that's hanging from a treehouse
overlooking an active volcano,
called The Swing at the End of the World.
Sunflowers can be used to clean up radioactive waste.
Their stems and leaves absorb and store pollutants.
This is also why the sunflower
is the international symbol for nuclear disarmament.
The Titanic 2 is a real ship being built right now
that is set for sail in the year 2016.
Let's hope this one does a little better.
Sloppy handwriting of doctors kills more
than 7,000 people and injures more
than 1.5 million people annually
due to getting the wrong medication.
Putting sugar on a wound or cut
will greatly reduce pain and speed up the healing process.
Just make sure you wash it first, baby,
'cause that's nasty.
Real diamonds do not show up in x-rays.
German doctors were the first to identify
the link between smoking and lung cancer.
In fact, Hitler led the first ever
anti-smoking campaign in history.
Fredric Baur, the creator of Pringles,
had his ashes stored in a Pringles can after he died.
I guess sometimes once you pop, you do stop.
What? I'm sorry.
Due to World War II rationing,
cocoa was scarce in Italy,
so a baker came up with an alternative chocolate spread,
that would later be renamed Nutella.
These are the rainbow mountains of Gansu, China.
They're multicolored because of
the densely packed layers of minerals in the rock.
Isn't that pretty?
In 1996, DC and Marvel Comics published
a crossover series where Wolverine and Batman were made
into one character called Dark Claw, or Logan Wayne.
The Kitti's Hog-nosed Bat, also known as the bumble bee bat,
is the world's smallest bat.
Naturally black roses are incredibly rare,
and exist only in Halfeti, Turkey.
Due to extreme pressure and weather conditions,
it literally rains diamonds on Neptune and Uranus.
Sweden recycles so well that it actually has
to import garbage from Norway in order
to fuel its waste to power energy plants.
There are seven different types of twins:
Identical, fraternal, half-identical,
mirror image, mixed chromosome,
superfetation, and superfecundation.
The longest Facebook comment thread in the world
belongs to Dawar Kazi, who, with the help of his friends,
commented a total of 584,444 times on a single status.
This is an underwater waterfall,
found off the island of Mauritius in the Indian ocean,
and is caused by water and sand
falling off the coastal shell.
You can buy a completely street legal,
Tron Legacy light cycle replica bike right now for $55,000.
Pluto is actually smaller than Russia.
There exists a Pizza Hut perfume
that smells like a fresh box of Pizza Hut pizza
being opened when you spray it on yourself.
That's one way to impress a date.
An elephant weighs less than a blue whale's tongue.
If Finding Nemo was real,
when Nemo's mother and siblings died,
either Nemo or his father would have had
to have become female in order to form a breeding pair,
because clownfish are sequential hermaphrodites,
which is how they perpetuate the species.
Yeah, childhood ruined.
Dolphins do not drink sea water.
Like humans, it would make them ill or possibly kill them.
Instead, they get all of their liquids
from the foods that they eat.
Kurt Cobain got married to Courtney Love
in his pajamas. Classy.
Giant hornets exist in Japan whose venom is so strong,
that it can melt human skin.
A company called Terrafugia has created
the world's first fully autonomous flying car
called the TFX, which will be available starting 2015.
Before the 17th century, carrots were actually purple.
They didn't turn orange until a mutation occurred.
Diet soda destroys tooth enamel
just as badly as meth and crack cocaine.
Japan's Okinawa island has more
than 450 people living above the age of 100,
and is known as the healthiest place on earth.
Skittles and jelly beans contain insect cocoons
which are used to coat the candies
to give them that special shine known as shellac. Yummy!
Coca leaves are still used by Coca-cola to this day.
The Stepan company in New Jersey
extracts the cocaine from the leaves,
and gives the spent leaves to Coca-Cola
to put in their drinks.
The skin of a honey badger is so thick
that it can withstand machete blows, arrows, and spears.
The only sure way to kill one is to use a club or gun.
And now you know why honey badgers don't give a (beep).
If the sun were scaled down to the size
of a white blood cell,
the Milky Way would be the size
of the Continental United States.
Grammatical Pedantry Syndrome is a form of OCD
in which sufferers feel the need to correct
every grammatical error that they see.
Every single year the Netherlands sends 20,000 tulip bulbs
to Canada to thank them for their help
in the second World War.
The chocolate cosmos is an inedible flower
that smells like chocolate.
This is a real Adidas shoe store in Amsterdam.
It's shaped like a giant shoebox, how cool is that?
And finally, Ben and Jerry's has a real graveyard
where they bury all of their discontinued flavors
of ice cream.
And that's it for this video guys, I hope you enjoyed it.
And if you want to learn anything more
about the individual facts that I talked about
in this video, I'll put a link in the description
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