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Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
Google rents goats to replace lawn mowers at their
Mountainview headquarters.
When you get blackout drunk, you don't actually forget
anything because your brain wasn't recording in the
first place.
Ancient Babylonians did math in base 60 not base 10
thus giving us 60 seconds in a minute,
360 degrees in a circle, et cetera.
Nintendo has banked so much money that they
could run a deficit of 250 million dollars every year
and still survive until 2052.
Taiwan has become the first country to offer free
Wi-Fi to all tourists through over 4,000 hotposts
all over the island.
In 1962 the CAA tipped off South Africa's intelligent
service about the location of Nelson Mandala
that led to his arrest that put him in jail for 27 years.
In Japan, it's illegal to dance in nightclubs
after midnight.
Nightclubs are routinely raided by police and undercover
agents go in to see if anyone is dancing.
Former US President Calvin Coolidge used to enjoy
buzzing for his bodyguards and then hiding under his
desk as they frantically searched for him.
There's a fruit called black sapote or chocolate pudding
fruit, which at the right ripeness, tastes like chocolate
pudding, is low in fat, and has about four times as
much vitamin C as an orange.
This is the world's smallest code lock created by
Ganesh Subramaniyam in India.
It has a height of three millimeters, a circumference of
one centimeter, a weight of 41 milligrams and has three
lines of code from zero to nine.
The phrase the luck of the Irish did not originally mean
extreme good fortune, in fact it originated as an old
miner expression meant to be sarcastic.
It was as if to say only by sheer luck as opposed to brains
could these fools succeed.
In North Korea, citizens are forced to choose from one
of 28 government approved haircuts.
It's estimated that there are approximately three
million shipwrecks on the ocean floor worth billions
in value and treasure.
A seven year old second grader was suspended for biting
a pop tart into the shape of a mountain which school
officials mistook for a gun.
In 2013 a company called Limite Zero created a
720 meter international zipline between Spain
and Portugal.
All of the air in potato chip bags that people complain
about isn't air at all.
in fact it's nitrogen which serves the purpose to keep
chips crisp and to provide a cushion during shipping.
A German author named Timur Vermes wrote a
satirical novel in which Hitler wakes up in modern day
Berlin with no memories since 1945 and becomes a
comedian.
In 2005, a documentary was filmed called Reversal
of Fortune where filmmakers gave a homeless man
named Ted Rodrigue 100,000 dollars in cash and
followed him around to see what he would do with the money.
Less than six months later, he was completely broke
and back in the same place his was before the windfall.
There is a squirrel whisperer student at Penn State
University named Mary Krupa.
She has the the unique ability to not only attract
squirrels but to put hats and earmuffs on them as well.
Army ants are used as nature sutures, their jaws
are so powerful that natives staple wounds by forcing
ants to bite them and breaking of the body.
This is a massive bird's nest built on a telephone pole
in the Kalahari desert in southern Africa.
It's made of sticks, grass, and cotton and is home to
several types of birds.
A study conducted by the University of Wisconsin,
Madison in 2012 concluded that people who appear
to be constantly distracted have more working memory
and sharper brains.
The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey
hitting keys at random on a typewriter for an infinite
amount of time will eventually type out any given text
such as the complete works of William Shakespeare.
If you don't identify as an extrovert or introvert,
you may be an ambivert which is a person moderately
comfortable with groups and social interactions
but also relishes time alone away from crowds.
In 2007 a twin was born 34 minutes after her brother
but because of a daylight savings time adjustment,
was actually born 26 minutes before her brother.
In a study to improve hospital design for children,
researchers from the University of Sheffield polled
250 children regarding their opinions of clowns.
Every single one reported disliking or fearing them.
The most expensive thing ever built was the International
Space Station at a cost of 160 billion dollars and
rising as new sections are added.
In a study conducted by the Bay State Medical Center
in Springfield, approximately 68% of people experience
phantom vibration syndrome, a sensory hallucination
where you mistakenly think your phone is buzzing
in you pocket.
Jack Johnson, the first ever black heavyweight boxing
champion was once pulled over and given a 50 dollar
speeding ticket but gave the officer 100 dollars,
telling him to keep the change because he was going
to make the return trip at the same speed.
In 2013 a man named Harrison Okene survived
for three days at the bottom of the ocean in a sunken
ship by finding a pocket of air.
In North Korea it is currently the year 105, not
2015 because their calendar is based around the birth
of Kim Il-sung, the founder of North Korea.
In 1912, Teddy Roosevelt was shot prior to giving
a speech, however noticing that it missed his lungs
since he wasn't coughing up blood,
he proceeded to give a 90 minute speech.
In Armenia, all children age six and up are taught
chess in school as a mandatory part of their curriculum.
Schools that ditch schoolyard rules are actually seeing
a decrease in bullying, serious injuries, and vandalism
while concentration levels in class are increasing.
This is because fewer rules requires critical thinking
whereas simply obeying instructions requires
very little critical thinking.
Sand from the Sahara is blown by the wind
all the way to the Amazon recharging it's minerals.
The desert literally fertilizes the rain forest.
As a child, Muhammad Ali was refused an autograph
from his boxing idol Sugar Ray Robinson.
When Ali became a prized fighter, he vowed to never
deny an autograph request which he honored
throughout his entire career.
President JFK purchased 1,200 Cuban cigars just
hours before he ordered the Cuban trade embargo
in 1962.
In 1976 a Greek war veteran named Stamatis Moraitis
was diagnosed with cancer and told he only had
six months to live.
He went back to those doctors ten years later to
tell them he was still alive only to discover that
all of the doctors who had diagnosed him were dead.
He lived to be 102 years old.
An Indiana state prison allows murderers to adopt
cats in their cells to help teach them love and compassion
for other living things.
The Gatling gun was invented by doctor Richard Gatling
who noticed that the majority of soldiers during the Civil
War who died were due to disease, not gunshot wounds.
By inventing a machine that could replace hundreds
of soldiers, the need for large armies would be reduced
thus diminishing exposure to battle and disease.
If New York City was it's own country and the NYPD
was it's army, it would be the 20th best funded
army in the world just behind Greece and ahead of
North Korea.
A 24 year old woman named Michelle Chapman
was sentenced to 20 months in jail for sending
abusive messages to herself from fake profiles
that she made for her father and his wife.
The WWOOF or the Worldwide Opportunities on Organic
Farms, is an international program that allows you to
travel the world with free food and accommodations
in exchange for volunteer work.
Brass door knobs automatically disinfect themselves
in eight hours, this is known as the oligodynamic effect.
This is what the skeleton of a turtle looks like.
In 2014, a man in China bought a first class ticket on China
Eastern Airlines where he went to the airport and ate
free food for almost an entire year in the VIP lounge.
Astoundingly, he cancelled and re booked his flight
an incredible 300 times over the course of the year
and then cancelled his ticket for a full refund
once the airline became wise of his scam.
Until it's demolition in 2012, 1% of Greenland's
entire population lived in one apartment building
called Blok P.
German used to be the second most widely spoken
language in the United States before it was forcibly
repressed during World War 1.
When developing the Macintosh computer,
Steve Jobs wanted to add a small mysterious character
that would appear about every one thousand times
you use an OS UI element.
It would wink at you and disappear so fast that you would
never quite be sure if it was real.
In the 1960's the US did an experiment where
two people without nuclear training had to design a nuc
with only access to publicly available documents
and they succeeded.
Little bit scary.
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