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The Knowledge Whale returneth!
Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
According to astronomers at the Australian
National University, there are ten times more
stars in the night sky than there are grains
of sand in the world's deserts and beaches.
Even though the Church of Scientology has been in
Germany since 1970, the German government doesn't
recognize it as a religion and sees it instead as
an abusive business masquerading as a religion.
Why don't we look at this way in North America?
This is stinging bush known as a Gimpie Gimpie.
Touching it delivers a potent neurotoxin, yet
its fruit is edible if the stingers are removed.
Alpacas can get sick or even die from loneliness,
so it's always best to have them in pairs or more.
About 90% of the world's population
lives in northern hemisphere.
This means that only about 700 million people
live in the southern hemisphere.
According to biologists working at
Newfoundland's Memorial University,
bread is junk food for ducks because
it makes them fat and disease-ridden.
Dogs watch more TV now than they did
before because of flat screen televisions
which flicker at a rate that a dog's
eyes are actually able to process.
People in China are increasingly wearing
surgical masks to protect themselves from
air pollution and it's even become
a fashion statement with designer masks.
North Americans work more, take fewer vacations,
and retire later than people in
other industrialized countries.
"Live Free or Die" is the official state slogan in
New Hampshire and is written on all license plates.
Ironically, prisoners in New Hampshire
are the ones that make those license plates.
The Bororo people are an indigenous race in
Brazil and all share the same blood type. Type O.
This is the last known photo
of the Titanic before it sank.
Beethoven began losing his hearing at the age of
only 28, so he cut the legs off his piano
so that he could sit on the floor and compose
music by feeling the vibrations of the piano.
The Greater Honeyguide bird guides people
to beehives and after the honey is taken out
the bird eats what's left of the hive.
Indonesian scientists have created
a birth control pill for men by using
a plant called the gendarussa.
It's 99% effective and is planned for release
in the Indonesian market in 2016.
The urine from a Maned Wolf smells
like marijuana. Who discovered this?
Indonesia's Kawah Ijen volcano burns blue
along with its lava because of the high
amounts of sulfur gas contained within it.
Boxer and olympic gold medalist George Forman
has five sons and he named all of them George.
There's a hotline in Germany called "Schimpf-los",
which means "swear away", where people can call
to let off steam after a stressful day at work.
In 2013, Mark Zuckerberg spent 30 million dollars
buying four houses that surround his home,
just to make sure that he has privacy.
The shortest jail sentence in history was given
in 1906, where a man named Joe Munch
was sentenced to one minute in jail.
In 2012, a Swedish man named Peter Skyllberg
survived for two months in a snowed in car by
eating snow and staying warm in a sleeping bag.
In 1993, a lawyer named Garry Hoy in Toronto
decided to show off to a group of law students
just how durable his office's windows were by
body-checking one. Unfortunately, the window
didn't shatter and instead popped out of its
frame and he ended up falling 24 stories to his death.
Charlie Sheen once spent over $6500 to buy
2,615 seats at a baseball game so that
he could catch a home-run ball.
He went home empty handed that day.
There's a religion called Dudeism, based on
the movie "The Big Lebowski", which advocates
the practice of going with the flow,
being cool headed, and taking it easy.
Created in Italy, "Let's Pizza" is the world's
first pizza vending machine and can
deliver fresh pizza with custom
toppings in only three minutes.
Maryana Naumova is a 16 year old Russian
power lifter. She can bench press 170 kilograms.
In 2010 photographer Robert Haas
managed to get a picture of a flock of flamingos
migrating to form the shape of
a giant flamingo in the Gulf of Mexico.
City raccoons are very intelligent and
have learned to adapt to their urban
environment by opening doors and trash bins.
In 1986 a French woman named Nadine Vaujour
was so determined to get her husband out of jail
that she learned how to fly a helicopter
and flew over the prison where he was at
to pick him up off of a roof. And she did!
But was arrested shortly after.
The Maruyama Zoo in Japan spent four years
trying to mate two hyenas before
realizing that they were both male.
I feel like that's pretty obvious,
just look at the... they both got
danglies..... It can't happen.
In 2014 the Journal of Neuroscience
found that brain patterns synchronize when
people have conversations, as our brains
are constantly trying to predict what the
person is trying to say next.
As of July 2015, 600 billion LEGO parts
have been produced. Which is about 86 pieces
for each person on the planet.
In Thailand people text 555 to each other
instead of "hahaha" because the
number five is pronounced "ha" in Thai.
The Citarum river in Indonesia is considered the
most polluted river in the world. Full of dyes,
chemicals, and a lot more nasty stuff.
There are white strawberries with red seeds
in Japan called "The Scent of First Love".
They are amazingly sweet and rich,
but also ridiculously expensive at
about $4.10 American per berry!
In 2012, John and Frances Canning invited
Queen Elizabeth to their wedding in Manchester
as a joke. But astonishingly,
the queen surprised them by actually showing up.
Elvis Presley once tipped a limo driver by
buying him the same limo that he
had been driving him around in.
A businessman named Armand Hammer coincidentally
served on a board of directors for Arm & Hammer.
Paul McCartney is the only musician to ever top
the charts as a solo artist, and in a duo,
trio, and quartet, and quintet.
In the music industry, for every $1000 of music sold,
the average musician only gets about $23.40.
The IOS game "Clash of Clans" makes an
astonishing 1.5 million dollars a day.
Habitat 67 is a model community and
housing complex in Montreal and is considered
an architectural landmark as well as being
the most recognizable buildings in the city.
About 4.6% of the population of New York city
has a net worth of over one million dollars,
meaning that one out of every
twenty one New Yorkers is a millionaire.
Facebook has over one billion users and
more than 10,000 of them die every day.
Meaning that dead Facebook users will
soon out number the living ones,
which also means that it could become
a digital graveyard by the year 2065.
A 20 year old gallon of McDonald's barbecue sauce
that was used for the McJordan Burger in
the early 1990's sold for almost $10,000 in 2012.
Yeah, good use of money.
While filming "I am Legend", Will Smith
got so attached to his co-star
Abbey the German Shepherd, that he asked
if he could keep her, but the owner refused.
An artist named Johannes Stötter spent four years
painting a woman to resemble a parrot.
Yes, that is a woman, not a parrot. Look closely.
During World War two, the Soviets
built an A-40 Krylya Tanka,
a tank with wings. It didn't actually work.
If humans had eagle vision, we'd be able to see
an ant crawling on the ground from
the roof of a ten story building.
In fact, everything would also be
brilliantly colored and objects
in our line of sight would be magnified.
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