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Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
Studies show that listening to music while working,
studying, or doing anything productive really,
can improve focus, motivation, and productivity.
And the best kind of music that you can listen to
to keep your mind energized is actually video game music.
In 1973, a short episode of Batman starring Adam West,
was produced in order to bring attention to unequal pay.
As Batman and Robin are tied up next to a ticking bomb,
Batgirl, played by Yvonne Craig bursts in
but states that it's too late,
as she makes less than Robin does
and that it's not right according to Federal Equal Pay Law.
If vending machines keep rejecting your paper money,
you can actually repair it by microwaving it for 20 seconds.
When it comes out, it will be crisp,
and unless it's seriously damaged,
vending machines will accept it.
Just don't actually cook it.
Don't be causing no fires.
According to multiple studies, being called baby
has a positive effect on the female brain.
It's been theorized that subconsciously it's nice knowing
that you've got someone supporting you
if you decide to act like a baby.
Dorito chips can be used as kindling
if you need to start a fire.
And the oils and seasoning on the spicier flavors
actually allow the fire to stay lit longer.
It's lit fam!
Fritos and Cheetohs have also been proven
to be excellent kindling as well.
Though they tend to cry an awful lot,
newborn babies don't actually shed any tears.
This is because they don't have any functional tear ducts
until they're between three and 12 weeks old.
When placed in a pool of water,
lemons will usually float while limes will most often sink.
Speaking of floating fruit,
a whole orange will float,
but if you were to cut it into slices,
the proportions will sink.
It's not just tissues and organs that are made of water.
Your skeleton is too.
In fact, around 31% of your bone mass is H2O.
The cuckoo clock in Triberg Schonach Germany,
is the largest cuckoo clock on the planet.
It has a 7.9 meter long pendulum.
And it's cuckoo weighs nearly 150 kilograms.
In at least 21 out of the 50 U.S. states,
you can buy the meat from a cow-bison hybrid.
The animal is adequately called a beefalo.
Chicago's nickname The Windy City
actually has nothing to do with the weather.
It actually got it's name from people
who believe that politicians there were windbags.
Human beings are the only creatures whose brains shrink.
While the brains of animals such as chimpanzees
maintain their size, ours don't.
So next time you claim
that you're losing your mind, you're right.
A chef's toque blanche, the traditional white hat
that chefs wear, has 100 folds in it.
This is said to represent the fact
that there is 100 ways to cook an egg.
On the show, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood,
every time Mr. Rogers fed his fish,
he seemed to narrate that he was physically doing it.
This was actually due to a letter that he received
from a blind five year old fan of the show
who was worried about the fish
and wanted to ensure that they were being cared for.
Francois Clemmons played the role of Officer Clemmons
on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood from 1968 until 1993.
He was the first African American to have a recurring role
on children's television.
When the main water supply for La Paz, Bolivia
became polluted with acidic metal-infused run-off
from abandoned mines, a team of researchers found
an interesting substance to filter it: llama feces.
Microbes in the manure neutralized the acids
and removed most of the dissolved metals.
A study conducted by researchers
at the University of Vermont
found that people with lighter colored eyes,
such as blue, green, or gray,
are most likely to develop a dependency on alcohol.
People with blue eyes specifically,
had the highest rate of alcohol dependence.
As disgusting as it may be, while you are in the womb,
you swam in and drank your own urine on a regular basis.
Okay, yellow background just too much.
Researchers at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City
discovered a correlation between how much a person consumed
and the size of their utensils.
Basically, the bigger the fork, the less you eat.
Astronaut and first man to set foot on the moon,
Neil Armstrong's application to NASA arrived a week late.
Luckily, he had a friend, Dick Day, who worked at NASA
and slipped the late application
onto the pile of on time ones.
If not for Day, Armstrong would not have gone to the moon.
According to a report released in 2013 by Oceana,
a conservation group,
as many as a third of all fish sold in grocery stores
and served in sushi restaurants
are not the types consumers think they are.
Due to mislabeling, the white tuna
that you think you're eating might be king mackerel.
During the years of prohibition,
moonshiners would make their illegal alcohol
in secret places, such as forests or meadows.
To avoid being tracked by police,
they would wear special footwear called cow shoes,
which left what appeared to be bovine footprints
instead of human ones.
Nothing going on over here (mooing).
A survey involving 17,000 participants
from 28 developed Western countries,
revealed that live-in boyfriends do more chores
around the house than married men do.
And the live-in girlfriends do far fewer chores
than married women do.
The Waffle House index is an informal scale
that the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA,
uses to state how severe a storm will be.
The restaurant Waffle House has a reputation
for staying open even in bad weather.
So if a storm is labeled The Restaurant Is Closed,
it means severe damage is imminent.
If you look at the number of times
that people were bitten by sharks in a year worldwide,
and then multiplied it by 10,
you'd have roughly the number of people in New York alone
that were bitten by other people.
In the early days of toy company Nerf,
their slogan was Nerf, throw it indoors,
you can't damage lamps or break windows.
You can't hurt babies or old people.
Neuroscientists at the University of Geneva
discovered that napping in a hammock
actually delivers a deeper sleep
than a night's sleep in your own bed.
In April of 1933, while at a dinner party
at the White House,
then First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart
spontaneously snuck away after the main course,
flew a plane around Washington, D.C.
And then returned to the White House to have dessert.
According to a Harvard University study conducted in 2011,
potato chips cause more weight gain in people
than any other food.
There are over 400 words people in Scotland use for snow,
including snaws, spitters, and flindrikin.
On May 4th, 2018, 64 year old Don Gorski
ate his 30,000th Big Mac.
The Wisconsin resident holds the world record
for the most Big Macs consumed by a single person,
and he claims the sandwiches make up to 90-95%
of his daily food intake.
He's still alive, huh?
Well, we'll see how much longer that lasts.
When babies are born,
they already have an excellent sense of taste,
potentially a better one than adults do,
but they can't taste salt
until they're around four months old.
In a study that took over seven years to complete,
researchers inn Alberta, Canada discovered
that there are at least
3,079 chemical compounds in human urine.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, better known as MIT,
sends out acceptance notices on Pi Day, March 14th
of each year at Tau Time, or 6:28 p.m.
If you were lucky enough to live as long
as the average human being,
your heart will beat around three billion times.
Developed in the 1880s, the sport of bobsledding
got it's name because early participants
used to bob their heads in an attempt to gain speed.
Of course, simply bobbing your head
doesn't actually make you go faster,
but the sport adopted the name anyway.
The underside of your hands are called palms
because of a Roman tradition
in which palm tree leaves were laid in the hands
of the winner of contests.
Research conducted in 2014 revealed
that you're more likely to die on your own birthday
than any other day of the year.
The likelihood increases if your birthday
falls on a weekend.
While producing their Black album,
three of the four band members in Metallica
divorced their wives.
The band claims that this helped
give their tracks their moody feeling.
Unrealistic hopes or fantasies
are often referred to as pipe dreams.
The term comes from the crazy dreams
that people reportedly had while smoking opium.
A survey of 2,099 hiring managers
revealed that the worst color
someone can wear to a job interview is orange.
They also said that the best colors are blue or black.
According to a 20 year old study,
you should spend more money on experiences
instead of material possessions.
The happiness associated with things fades quickly,
while experiences become a part of your identity.
When you get a tattoo removed via laser,
it's not the laser that takes the ink away.
It simply breaks it down so your body flushes it out.
It only leaves your body when you go to the bathroom.
So if you have some inky business, don't worry,
you're not dying.
Residents in the town of Dildo, Newfoundland
claim it's the happiest place on Earth.
It's there that they celebrate Dildo Day.
And their mascot is a fisherman named Captain Dildo.
You can't make this stuff up.
While filming The Wizard of Oz,
then 16 year old Judy Garland, who played Dorothy,
was forced to stick to a diet of black coffee,
chicken soup, and 80 cigarettes day.
Sitting for more than three hours a day
can shave up to two years off your life-expectancy.
And if you're watching TV while sitting,
you just added another 1.4 years of how much life you lost.
After the band Outkast released their song Hey Ya!
on September 9th, 2003, the tune quickly
became a number one hit.
But one of the song's lyrics
which encouraged listeners
to shake it like a Polaroid picture,
forced the actual Polaroid company to post a warning
informing photo takers that
shaking their self developing pictures could damage them.
Despite this, Polaroid still used the song
to revitalize the public's perception of their products.
In their lifetime, the average human being
creates enough saliva in their mouths
to fill two swimming pools.
At room temperature, atoms never touch each other,
at least in the every day sense of the word touch.
So you're not actually touching the chair you're sitting on
or the floor beneath you.
You're actually floating just a tiny bit above them.
Amazing facts knowledge whale.
Hope you guys enjoyed this.
Leave a comment below,
let me know what fact was your favorite.
I really like the one about floating there.
We're all just kind of zen masters today, aren't we?
Okay, that's all for today, I'll see you guys next time.
Bye bye.