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Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
The luna moth doesn't have a mouth,
so it doesn't eat.
It only lives for about one week and its sole purpose
is to mate.
Alexander Solonik was a Russian hitman
known as Super Killer.
Famous for killing around 30 mob bosses
before becoming one himself.
And ironically, he was strangled to death
just two years later after he started
his own criminal organization.
That's called karma.
The Kids Wish Network was named the worst charity
in United States in 2013.
According to a report, only three cents
out of every dollar raised, actually went to granting
the wishes of children while the rest of the money
went directly into the pockets
of the charity organization's operators.
Well, there's a special place in hell for those people.
In order to protect the city's water,
the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
purchased 80 million hollow black balls
to cover its reservoirs to stop the sunlight
from triggering dangerous chemical reactions.
And that's why I stick to a bottle of water.
After losing a battle in World War II because
of taking a tea break, the British Army perfected
the art of brewing tea inside of a tank
by creating the British Army Boiling Vessel.
A built in kettle for armoured vehicles.
It is in fact possible to find DNA traces
from cigarette butts.
An artist named Heather Dewey-Hagborg
used cigarette butts and old chewing gum
that she found thrown away on the streets
to create 3D portraits of people whose DNA
was found on those objects.
Well, there's one more reason not to litter.
Creepy.
Naturally purple eyes exist, this is due to a disorder
called Alexandria's Genesis which causes
pale skin and purple eyes.
Despite being much smaller in size,
the wolverine can successfully attack
much larger animals including caribous and elk.
A man in Saudi Arabia installed a community fridge
outside of his home and asked his neighbors
to donate any extra food that they have
so that those in need could get something to eat
without having to beg for it.
What a nice man.
A man once faked a mental illness to get out of prison
because he thought living in an asylum
would be better.
However once he got to the asylum,
he tried to get out but the doctors actually
diagnosed him as a sociopath because
faking a mental illness to get out of prison
is exactly the type of manipulative behavior
you'd expect from a sociopath.
The Sapra salpa is a fish that can cause hallucination
if its head is eaten.
It used to be consumed as a recreational drug
during the Roman Empire.
It is entirely possible to see the Milky Way,
but light pollution has made that a rare occurrence.
In fact, in the 1990s there was a massive power outage
in California and the residents of Los Angeles
actually began to worry about the strange clouds
that they saw overhead.
As it turns out, they were actually seeing the Milky Way
for the first time.
A man in New York named Robert Samuels
is a professional line sitter who makes up to $1,000
a week just by standing in line for people.
So next time you want that new iPhone
or some SNL tickets, you know who to call.
There's a hotel atop the Foronon del Buinz Mountain
in the Julian Alps that accommodates only nine people.
Guests can stay there for free as long as they're willing
to make the 2,530 meter hike to get there.
Yeah, yeah, that doesn't seem really worth it to me.
Samuel J. Seymour was the last surviving witness
of Abraham Lincoln's assassination.
He lived long enough that he was able
to talk about his experience on a TV show in 1956.
Potatoes absorb and reflect radiowave signals
the same way that human bodies do.
So in the past, engineers have actually used them
to test and improve WiFi signals on planes.
Useful and delicious.
An ornithologist named George Archibald
managed to save the whooping crane species
from becoming extinct by spending 37 years
acting as a mate to a female whooping crane
who thought she was human.
He finally got her to mate with a real bird
and the rest is history.
William Shakespeare has added over 2,200 words
to the English language.
Some of those words are newfangled,
bedazzled and yes swagger.
The Dead Sea has an unusually high salt concentration
with about eight to nine times more salt
than natural sea water.
This means that people can easily float in the Dead Sea
because of its natural buoyancy.
Although I wouldn't recommend trying it
because that's just creepy.
Have you ever noticed that old books
have a distinct smell?
Well that's because organic compounds
in the paper break down over time
and release chemicals that smell like vanilla,
almonds and grass.
The pangolin is a mammal that looks like a reptile
because of its scales.
Its scales are made of carotene which is the same material
as human fingernails.
America's first female self made millionaire
was a black woman named Sarah Breedlove
or Madame Walker.
She made her fortune by developing
a tonic that could grow back hair faster.
I obviously haven't tried it.
Hans Zimmer, the music composer,
for over 150 movies has never had any formal
music education.
Pablo Escobar, the infamous Columbian drug lord,
collected exotic animals for his personal zoo.
When his house was raided, his hippos were released
into the wild and now Columbia has the largest
hippo population outside of Africa.
A teenager in Taiwan died after playing the video game
Diablo 3 for 40 hours straight without eating.
Friends, it's okay to take a break between gaming.
You're allowed to eat.
The phrase happy wife, happy life
is actually pretty accurate.
A study conducted in 2014 shows that men
who are unhappily married, may still be happy
with their lives in general if their wives are satisfied
with their marriages.
Astoundingly the human brain, the universe
and the internet all have similar network patterns
and the same growth dynamics.
Now that is cool.
Norway offers amazing incentives for people
who own electric cars such as free parking,
free charging and the use of bus lanes.
Now so many people in Norway have bought
electric cars that the incentives actually
have to be rolled back.
Sylvan Goldman, the inventor of shopping carts,
had to hire models to push the carts around
in his store to make them more appealing to customers
when they first launched.
The first ever 3D feature film was called
The Power of Love and premiered in 1922
in Los Angeles.
Unfortunately, the 3D version of the film
is presumed lost and the 2D version was later shown
under the name Forbidden Lover.
Christopher Robin Milne, the son of Winnie the Pooh
author A.A. Milne, and the person who the character
Christopher Robin was based off of
actually hated the books his father wrote
and thought it was his father's way of exploiting childhood.
Knowledge of silk production was thought
to be very valuable and the Chinese kept it a secret
for over 3,000 years.
In fact, it was so secret that anyone who revealed it
was sentenced to death by imperial decrees.
There is a phenomenon that exists called cellular memory.
It occurs when organ transplant recipients
experience the same thoughts and cravings
as their organ donors.
There is a fish that exists called the blue lingcod
that has blue flesh.
When it's cooked, the blue color vanishes completely.
That's an alien fish.
Instead of its gross national product,
Butan measures its development and prosperity
by its gross national happiness.
It's been doing this since 1971
and is the only country to do so.
There is an English law called Right to Light
that allows long standing owners of buildings
that receive natural daylight for at least 20 years
to forbid any construction that would block their windows
and deprive them of that light.
Greek statues aren't actually white
like we thought they were.
Ultraviolet light has revealed that they were once
originally brightly painted, but after thousands
of years, the paints wore away to show the statues
as we know them today.
Vikings never actually wore a horned helmets.
The only helmet that was discovered
to be of Viking heritage shows a rounded iron cap
and no horns whatsoever.
In 1950, almost the entire Soviet hockey team
died in a plane crash.
The team's manager was Vasily Stalin,
son of Joseph Stalin.
He was afraid of his father's reaction to the crash
and recruited a whole team immediately
and surprisingly his father never knew the difference.
At the age of 15, Ann Mackosinski managed
to invent a flashlight that is powered solely
by the hand's body heat.
She later crated a head lamp that's also powered
by body heat.
Damn, I could use that for my cell phone.
Crappy batteries.
Ninjas didn't actually wear black.
According to the ninja museums in Japan,
the best color to wear during the night time for ninjas
was actually dark navy blue.
Red pandas use their long bushy tails to balance
whenever they're in trees.
Their tails were also used to cover themselves
for warmth in the winter.
During job interviews, Google doesn't ask for a GPA
or test scores from their candidates
because they don't correlate at all with success
at the company.
Only 5% of Norway's financial transactions
are done in cash.
In fact, it's possible that by 2020,
Norway could be completely cash free.
In the movie The Matrix, Neo's passport expires
on September 11th, 2001.
Yikes.
The Ben Franklin Effect is a psychological phenomenon
where someone who has done a favor
for someone else is more likely to do another favor
for that person than they would be if they had
received a favor from that person.
There is an app that exists called Photo Math
that solves any math equation you point your phone at.
I really wish I had this when I was in school.
Lobsters have some really weird anatomy.
Their brains are in their throats,
their nervous systems are in their abdomens,
their teeth are in their stomachs
and their kidneys are in their heads.
Figure that one out, it's like nature's mistake.
The Carrot House in Warsaw is the world's thinnest
house measuring only 92 centimeters
at its narrowest point and 152 centimeters at its widest.
That's a tiny house.
Ravens are one of the smartest animals on Earth.
They actually try to hide their food
each other but are only sometimes successful
because they're all so smart.
Boom, weekly exercise for your brain.
Before I let you guys go, I wanted to tell you about
an awesome new series that I'm hosting
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We'd been working on it for awhile
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It's all about amazing food facts that you didn't know.
The guys and gals at Quest are some
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