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- Here are 50 Amazing Facts
To Blow Your Mind.
A multi-millionare named Forrest Fenn has hidden a treasure
valued between one to three million dollars
in the Rocky Mountains.
And in order to find it, you must solve his riddle.
So far, no one has done it or found the treasure.
The director of the 1980 horror film Cannibal Holocaust
had to prove in court that the actors were still alive
and didn't get killed during the movie.
There is a ten-year-old girl named Ester Okade
who is already enrolled in university,
and has the highest exam scores in her class.
She mastered algebra at the age of four.
The rarest wild cat in the world is the Bornean bay cat.
Only 12 have ever been captured and studied
between the years of 1874 and 2002.
That's one every 10 years.
At the time of this recording,
Stephen Hawking is 73
and was diagnosed with ALS at the age of 21,
meaning he has outlived his life expectancy
by over 50 years.
- Shani Shingnapur is a small village
in India with 300 buildings,
all of which have no doors in their doorways.
These people leave their homes, businesses,
and schools open at all times
under the belief that if anyone does anything dishonest,
that they will face seven years bad luck.
In 1883, the body of a bear and a man named Frank Devereaux
were found dead side-by-side
with the ground around them thrashed.
It's believed that the man and bear fought to the death.
There are over 500 hundred different ways to cook potatoes.
In fact, a recipe book on it was put together
by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's wife,
and was gifted to Britain.
It now sits in the British foreign office.
There is a bottle of vodka
that costs 3.75 million US dollars,
and it's filtered through sand
made from crushed diamonds and gems.
A study concluded by the Journal of Positive Psychology
concluded that two thirds of humans have no idea
what they're good at and what their strengths are.
In 2014, Beyonce made
about $3.65 US every second.
The Pixar team came up with the concepts
of Wall-E, A Bug's Life, Monsters Inc, and Finding Nemo
all over a lunch break in 1994.
There is a floating stage in Singapore
that sits above the water that can bear the weight
of 9,000 people.
It's used as a soccer field, concert stage,
and place of celebration.
Istanbul has a vending machine
that releases food and water for stray dogs
in exchange for recyclable bottles.
The first animal to ever ask an existential question
was from a parrot named Alex.
He asked what color he was,
and learned that he was gray.
Researchers at the University of Montreal have concluded
that everyone has the potential ability to be a good singer.
It's a developed skill that gets better with practice
and worse by lack of use.
There's an infrared device that exists
that detects the locations of medical patients' veins
and projects them onto the skin.
The Keikyu Aburatsu marine park in Japan
has tiny holes in the otter enclosure
which allows visitors to shake hands with these animals.
For the past three years,
Ohio police have been on the lookout
for a serial pooper,
who has pooped on at least 19 cars.
Someone needs a hobby.
A group of pandas is known as an embarrassment.
There's a town in Alaska called Whittier
where almost everyone lives and works under one roof.
Inside of a 14 story building there's a police station,
school, two convenience stores, and also a bed and breakfast
if you want to make a visit.
In 1948 the committee responsible
for awarding the Nobel peace prize chose no one,
stating there was no suitable living candidate,
mostly as a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi
who was assassinated earlier that year.
The word bae which is popular in North American society
is actually the Danish word for poop.
Think about that next time you call your girlfriend bae.
Ah, you my bae. (blowing raspberry)
You can tell identical twin babies apart by their navels
since the navel is a scar and isn't caused by genetics.
Soviet diplomat Vyacheslav Molotov
is thought to be the only man to ever shake hands
with Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, Himmler, Goering,
Roosevelt, and Churchill,
and is also the inspiration behind the term
Molotov cocktail.
In March of 2015,
a Georgia teen was arrested for stealing a goat,
later confessing he had planned on asking a girl
if she would "goat to prom with him."
Womp womp.
Since 2011,
there have been at least four incidents in America
of people cooking meth inside of a Walmart.
Have you ever seen the People of Walmart?
That just, that does not surprise me at all.
The Wright brothers only ever flew together once, in 1910.
This is because their father feared losing both sons
in an airplane accident,
so he gave them special permission just that one time.
There exists a series of 21-meter long concrete arrows
from San Francisco to New York City
designed to direct areal traffic
that exists from the pre-digital days,
originally installed in 1924.
Psychopaths are only capable
of perceiving the positive consequences
for their actions as opposed to any negative ones.
Actor Sean Bean is so terrified of flying
that during the filming of Lord of the Rings
while shooting in remote mountain locations,
he traveled via sky lift
and walked the remainder of the journey all in full costume.
Until 1987,
all surgeries performed on infants were done
without anesthesia,
under the belief that infants
were not capable of feeling pain.
Yikes.
In 2012, man sued Pepsi
after he found a mouse in his Mountain Dew.
However, Pepsi fought and won the case,
proving that any mouse would have dissolved
inside a can of Mountain Dew after 30 days,
and that this can purchased 74 days
after being manufactured.
Yeah, think about that next time you drink
some Mountain Dew.
Railroad tycoon George Pullman's family were so worried
that former employees would desecrate his corpse after death
that they buried him at night in a pit 2.4 meters deep
under layers of steel reinforced concrete
in a lead-lined casket.
Until 1974,
it was actually illegal to appear in public in Chicago
if you were ugly.
There is a doctor in Nepal named Sanduk Ruit
who has restored vision to over 100,000 people
in the developing world.
A research paper from 2013 concluded
that Harry Potter fans tend to be more open
to diversity, politically tolerant, less authoritarian,
and less likely to support the use
of deadly force or torture.
You can be criminally prosecuted for making death threats
written entirely in emoji.
If you were to commit suicide in Japan
by either jumping in front of a train
or killing yourself in your apartment building,
the train or building company will actually sue your family
for clean up fees, loss of income, and negative publicity
brought upon them by your suicide.
In 1992,
thousands of plastic yellow ducks broke free
from a cargo ship in the middle of the Pacific Ocean,
and the for past 23 years,
these ducks have since turned up
in locations all over the world,
and they have even been used to track ocean currents.
Research conducted at the University of Stanford concluded
that a racially diverse group has the ability
to solve problems more effectively
than a group with only one race in it.
If you watch any classic Clint Eastwood film,
you will often see his character smoking like Dirty Harry,
despite the fact that Clint never smoked habitually
in real life,
and actually practiced healthy dieting
and meditation since his youth.
In South Korea,
children under 17 are blocked
from playing online games past midnight,
which is monitored by their KSSN,
the Korean Social Security Number.
On April Fool's Day in 1989,
billionaire Richard Branson designed a hot air balloon
to look like a UFO,
and hired a dwarf in an ET costume
to come out and scare whoever was near it
when it landed.
The band Blink-182 incorporated
under the name Pennywise Poo Poo Butt Inc
so that their accountants, managers and attorneys
would have to say that when doing business.
That is hilarious.
When James Bond actor Daniel Craig first ran off
with his current wife Rachel Weisz in 2010,
he actually had a fiancee at the time.
And when she found out, she spent a million dollars
on his credit line in revenge.
Robert Hubbard was executed in 1666
for starting the great fire of London
by claiming he threw a firebomb through a bakery window.
However, this was despite the fact
that he was heavily crippled,
the bakery had no windows,
and it was proved at his trial
that he wasn't even in the country at the time.
Jennifer Lopez's common nickname
in parts of Hong Kong and China
is Lord of Butt.
65% of smart phone users
download zero apps per month.
I am not part of that 65%.
Pharrell Williams was fired
from three separate McDonald's restaurants
when he was 17 for being lazy and stealing McNuggets.
He later reamed up with Justin Timberlake
to create the jingle "I'm Lovin' It."
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