- Welcome guys to a very special 50 amazing facts,
episode 50!
You guys were looking forward to something
very special for this episode and I promised it to you,
so I thought to myself, why not have an animated
knowledge whale?
Actually, in fact, why not make the entire episode animated?
(animated whale call)
So, without further ado, here we go.
Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
Episode 50!
The United Kingdom has a right to roam,
which allows public access for walking in leisure
to mountains, moors, heaths, and downs
that are privately owned.
The reason that buildings in Hong Kong
have gaping holes in them is to allow
dragons free passage from their mountain homes
to the sea.
Well, I guess tradition goes a little too far
in some places.
The bull on the Elmer's glue logo
is the husband of Elsie, the cow on the Borden milk logo.
In the Godfather film, McCluskey's shooting
was done by building a fake forehead
on top of actor Sterling Hayden.
A gap was cut in the middle, filled with fake blood,
and bunged up with prosthetic flesh.
The plug was then yanked out with a fishing line
to make a hole suddenly appear.
So gross.
Up to 40% of tuna imported to the U.S. from Thailand
is illegal or unreported, followed by up to
45% of pollock imports from China
and 70% of salmon imports.
Illegal fish, who knew?
According to the patent for toilet paper,
the creator, Seth Wheeler, made a drawing
that officially shows that toilet paper
should go over, not under.
Well, that's gonna settle a lot of debates.
The phrase always a bridesmaid, never a bride
was popularized by Listerine in ads
featuring a love lorn woman unable
to find a husband due to her halitosis.
The same ad coined the term halitosis.
According to an analysis done by Swift Key,
Canada uses the poop emoji more than any other country.
Hearts are number one in France, even beating
the standard smiley and Australia leads the world
in alcohol and drug related emojis.
The NYPD has undercover cop cabs.
Some police stations have recently created
safe exchange zones, designated areas
for trades arranged through Craigslist and similar sites.
The original creator for the Barbie Doll,
Jack Ryan, had previously designed military grade missiles.
Well, from one extreme to the next, I guess.
Former Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, stated
that Muammar Gaddafi was welcomed in Venezuela,
but stated that Charlie Sheen was not.
In that quote, "there are limits..."
There's a Detroit company called Extreme Kidnapping
where people pay up to $1500 to get tied up
and kidnapped for fun.
I don't understand what's fun about that?
In 1990, a man named Jesse Sharp
paddled over the Niagara Falls in a kayak.
He intended to paddle on after the fall
to a restaurant downstream where he had made
restaurant reservations, but he didn't wear a life jacket
in case it impeded his escape.
His body was never found.
Back in 1993, it was discovered that Heidelberg University
in Germany was using human corpses in crash tests.
Hydrogen peroxide is not recommended for cuts and wounds
and actually slows healing
by killing the healthy skin cells.
In 2010, after the BP oil spill,
Stephen Colbert declared that every time he said
the word bing, the Microsoft search engine
would donate $2500 to oil spill cleanup efforts.
He managed to say bing 40 times,
thereby raising $100,000 for his charity,
the Colbert Nation Gulf of America fund.
On the set of the movie, Apocalypse Now,
the production cast design decided to actually use
real bodies instead of fake ones.
It was only discovered when a pungent odor
became too strong for the rest of the cast to ignore.
There's an annual conference called The Boring Conference
on well, boring things.
In the past, people have given talks on barcodes,
sneezing, and the sounds of vending machines.
The Muppet Show received a letter from a man
informing them that the Swedish chef doesn't actually
speak Swedish.
The head writer wrote back,
"Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
"We were going to fire the chef on the spot,
"but he has a wife and family and promised to take
"Swedish lessons."
Gotta love a sense of humor.
The day after Robin Williams' suicide,
the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
fielded the greatest number of calls in its history.
The Lego movie incorporated actual fan-made
short Lego films into its plot.
You can see them on the monitors in the scene
where the citizens discover their creativity.
Platypuses don't have stomachs.
In fact, they're not the only jad-vertebrates
with that trait.
Michigan oncologist, Doctor Fareed Farah,
was convicted and sentenced to 45 years in prison
after it was discovered that he had bilked
553 cancer patients for millions of dollars
by overtreating, undertreating,
misdiagnosing, and even administering
treatment to people that never had cancer
in the first place.
Yeah, there's a special place in hell for that guy.
The police in west Germany located a man
who had a warrant for unpaid fines.
They confronted him just as a slot machine
that he was at struck a jackpot
and he avoided jail time by paying the fine on the spot.
A school in Pune, India encourages students
to conserve water by pouring leftover drinking water
from the bottles in a large tank
before they go home every day.
They use this to water plants and trees
or for other non-drinking purposes.
Takuya Nagaya, 23, from Japan,
started to slither on the floor
and claim that he had become a snake.
His mother thought that he had actually been possessed
by a snake and called for her husband, Katsumi.
He spent the next two days headbutting and biting his son
to quote, "drive out the snake,"
but caused his death in the process.
Tasmania has an extra day of Easter,
known as Easter Tuesday.
It is only celebrated in Tasmania.
Kamla Devi, a 56 year old Indian woman,
was ambushed by a leopard and actually managed
to kill it with the only thing that she had on her,
an iron sickle.
For the film, Gone Girl, David Fincher
wanted Ben Affleck to wear a Yankees cap for a scene.
Affleck, a die hard Red Sox fan, adamantly refused,
and this led to a four-day production halt
until the two came to an agreement that he would wear
a Mets cap.
D-day was originally set for June fifth,
but had to be postponed for 24 hours
due to bad weather.
The green ink used in American money was actually invented
at McGill University in Montreal, Canada
in 1857 by Thomas Dairy Hunt.
Cold foods like ice cream cause brain freeze
by causing a sudden surge of blood to the brain.
A team of archaeologists found what they believe to be
the world's oldest board game in a 5,000-year-old
bronze age burial site in Turkey.
They believe that board games originated in Egypt
in the Fertile Crescent.
The tumbler for the Dark Knight trilogy
is actually a working vehicle, not a CGI model.
Okay, where can I get one of those?
The most expensive guitar pick costs,
brace yourself, $4,674
and is made out of a meteor.
It's made by the company, Star Picks.
There's a UK based company named Gumdrop
that recycles gum into bins that are made out of
entirely recycled gum.
There is a territory in Costa Rica called
Territorio De Zaguates, which means land of the strays,
which is basically a huge no-kill dog shelter
where you can hike for free with dogs.
Little teeny tiny pooches.
In the 1960's and 70's, professional bowlers
were international celebrities who made twice as much
money as NFL stars at the time.
It's believed that the term sandwich
was named after John Montagu,
fourth Earl of Sandwich, a town in the county of Kent
in southeast England.
He would ask his servants to bring him
slices of meat between two slices of bread
while he was gambling at a table so that
he wouldn't have to leave the game.
President Reagan saved Harley Davidson Motorcycles
by raising tariffs 45% on Japanese bikes
that entered the country.
Oscar the Grouch was originally orange, not green.
According to a study published in the proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences,
female named storms have historically killed
more people because people neither consider them
as risky, nor take the same precautions
as the male named storms.
Yeah, you should probably not even consider the name
of the storm, just it's a tornado man, go hide!
In 2008, a Jamaican beach called Coral Spring Beach
was actually stolen and the thieves were never caught.
They achieved this by stealing massive amounts of sand
until it basically wasn't a beach any more.
We not only have fingerprints, but also toe prints
that have been used in criminal cases.
The headphone jack on your smartphone
has remained relatively unchanged other than size
since 1878.
During World War II, Japan launched balloons with bombs
into the jet stream.
The only known mainland attack
in the U.S. occurred when five picnickers found
a downed balloon and attempted to move it.
The bomb went off and killed them.
The locations of many of the balloons is still unknown.
The delicious treat of Peeps were once made
by hand and took nearly 30 hours to create.
Rats are a delicacy in Thailand.
(gag)
At one point after it's launch, Kim Kardashian's
emoji app was making $1,000,000 a minute.
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