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Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
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The medieval town of Nordlingen in Bavaria, Germany
is situated entirely inside a meteorite crater
that's 25 kilometers across.
That crater formed 14.5 million years ago.
According to a study done by UBC researchers
between October 2013 and February 2014,
people who are narcissistic, psychopathic,
or have Machiavellian tendencies are less convincing online
then they are in person.
That's because once the non-verbal cues are removed,
it's much easier to spot someone with these characteristics.
Some frogs throw up their entire stomachs
when they've eaten something extremely nasty,
such as a poisonous insect.
You ever seen Pan's Labyrinth?
You know what I'm talking about.
The entire stomach is thrown up inside out,
where the offensive insect falls out,
but if it doesn't fall out completely,
the frog will actually reach up with its forearms
and stroke the inverted lining of its stomach,
cleaning it off manually.
Unlike other fruit that generally grows on trees,
pineapples grow on shrubs and each pineapple plant
only grows one pineapple.
In Buddhist and Muslim countries,
it's seen as an insult to point
the sole of your feet or shoes at somebody.
There's a dog cloning service called Som Biotech
Research Foundation, located in South Korea,
that will actually clone your beloved pooch
for around $100,000.
Ancient Egyptians rimmed their eyes with kohl,
a mixture of lead, copper, burned almonds, and soot,
in order to ward off evil spirits.
In Italy, Disney actually changed the name
of the movie Moana to Oceana, because Moana Posey
is the name of a famous Italian porn star there.
She passed away in 1994, but her name is still
oddly a household name.
Ooh, can't be associated with porn, oh boy.
Before Americans landed on the moon the first time,
the majority of Americans did not support the idea
of a moon landing, and thought the government
was spending way too much money on space.
Artist Bin Dun, who lives in southern California,
creates art by taking photographs of people
from the Vietnam War and through the use of sunlight
and glass, prints them onto leaves
and then casts them in resin.
According to the Max Plank Institute for Ornithology
in Germany, the frigate bird sleeps while it's flying.
It sleeps for about 12 seconds at a time,
and usually with only half its brain.
Over a 24-hour period, they sleep only about 40 minutes.
Man, that sounds like a tough
life.
In March of 2017, a team of Egyptian and German
archaeologists found an almost eight-meter tall statue
of King Samotek I, who ruled Egypt from 664 to 610 BC.
It was originally believed to be a depiction
of Pharaoh Ramses II and is over 3,000 years old.
Scientists have developed a reusable sponge
called the oliosponge, which can absorb oil
from the surface of water, but also below the surface,
which will improve our ability to clean up large oil spills
because not all of the oil sits on the surface.
According to a study published in the journal
Archives of Disease in Childhood by researchers
from St. George's University in London,
children who spend more than three hours
in front of a screen or using computers
are at a greater risk of developing type II diabetes.
These children scored higher on various measures
of body fat and had higher insulin levels.
Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906
for his role in mediating the Treaty of Portsmouth,
which ended the Russo-Japanese War.
He was the first American to get the award
and he used the prize money to fund a trust
to promote industrial peace.
In March of 2017, geologists Johnathan O'Neil
and Richard Carlson uncovered ancient minerals
that are remnants of the earth's original crust,
which first formed more then 4.2 billion years ago.
That discovery was made in northern Quebec, Canada.
Hey Richard, I've been digging,
I think I found something here, eh?
According to a study done by Enigma in February of 2017,
key brain regions are smaller in people with ADHD.
These include the parts responsible for emotions,
goal-directed action, learning, and responding to stimuli,
rewards, and motivation, as well as memory.
Cardiff, Wales couple Martin Sherbington and Eliza Evans
got married in virtual reality in May of 2017.
The wedding took place at a virtual
night club called The Spire.
They invited 150 of their friends and family to attend,
many of whom wouldn't have been able to make it
to a real life wedding in Cardiff.
They tied the knot on a virtual reality social network
called Alt Space VR.
Dr. Hadi Shafiee, assistant professor of medicine
at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School,
is working on making a new device
that measures sperm concentration using your phone's camera.
Oh, I see all kinds of issues with this.
According to a study by Scott Bobeck,
a vertebrate ecologist at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania,
boa constrictors don't suffocate their prey,
they actually cut off their blood supply.
When it tightens its body around its prey,
it puts pressure on the victim's circulatory system,
and their arterial pressures drop,
venous pressures go up, and their blood vessels close.
On March 24th, 2001, in a spring training game
between the Arizona Diamondbacks and San Francisco Giants,
pitcher Randy Johnson hit a pigeon while pitching,
with the bird exploding in midair.
Oxygen masks in airplanes aren't actually
connected to an oxygen tank.
Instead, they use a chemical reaction
to generate it on the spot.
On March 23rd, 1962, Jacqueline Kennedy was given a horse
named Sadar by Mohammad Ayub Khan,
the president of Pakistan.
Japan actually has braille on their beer cans that says
alcohol and sometimes even the manufacturer's name.
Richard Nixon has been featured on the cover
of Time Magazine more than any other individual,
having appeared 55 times.
Pope Benedict XIV is a licensed pilot
who can legally fly small engine planes or helicopters.
President Theodore Roosevelt, the 32nd president
of the United States has a tattooed image
of his family crest tattooed on his chest.
Bonny Ver from Bruceville, Indiana built two
roller coasters in his back yard.
He calls them the blue flash, and he built them
for his grandchildren with no prior experience,
from scrap metal that he collected and then welded together.
Oh, that's nice, hey kids, if you're watching,
don't ride Grandpa's death machine.
There's a temple called Wat Samphran in Thailand
that has a giant dragon wrapped around the outside
of the building that's approximately 17 stories high.
On the grounds, there's also various animal sculptures,
such as an elephant, rabbit, dolphins,
and another large building in the shape of a tortoise.
In Murphy, North Carolina, there's a place called
Fields of the Wood Bible Park that has a mountain
called the 10 Commandments Mountain.
The 10 commandments are literally etched
into the side of its grassy slope.
Nelson Mandela was an amateur boxer.
He trained at the Donaldson Orlando
Community Center gym in Johannesburg.
He enjoyed the science of boxing
more than the violence of it.
In Bolivian cities, there's a program called
the Mama Zebra Program, where a team of young people
dress in zebra costumes and dance in the streets
to make drivers and pedestrians aware of traffic rules.
The zebra was picked because of the pattern
of the zebra crossing.
In 2006, the annual Discover Santa Convention
was held in Branson, Missouri.
There were workshops, vendor fairs, events, and networking.
Over 300 Santas showed up.
It was the first true modern day Santa convention.
On the 94th floor of the John Hancock Center in Chicago,
there's a steel and glass structure called Tilt,
that allows people to hover 305 meters over the city.
It has three overhead hydraulic actuators
that rotates the enclosed moving platform
and tilts you out 30 degrees over the edge of the building.
The makers of sriracha hot sauce, Huy Fong Foods,
chose a green cap for their bottle of sriracha
to represent a fresh chili stem.
Bless those people, they make delicious hot sauce.
During World War II, Britain's special operations executives
equipped secret agents with itching powder
that was placed into condoms destined for use
by German servicemen stationed in Norway.
I know it's war, but that's just cruel.
Koreans donated billions of euros worth of gold jewelry
to help pay down the nation's international monetary
fund debt in the wake of the 1997 Asian financial crisis.
It actually enabled them to pay off the debt
ahead of schedule.
The government asked the citizens to donate
their gold jewelry and millions of people did so
by donating heirlooms, wedding rings,
trophies, and small gold figurines.
227 tons of gold was collected within months.
The world's narrowest street is in the city
of Reutlingen in Germany.
City street number 77 ranges from just 31 centimeters
at its narrowest to 50 centimeters at its widest.
It was built in 1727.
In 1874, ear muffs were invented by a 15-year-old boy
named Chester Greenwood from Maine.
He shaped two pieces of wire into circles
and then connected them with a wire headband.
His grandmother then sewed velvet and beaver fur
to the circles to keep out the wind.
He was 18 when he got the patent in 1877,
and by 1883, his factory was producing
30,000 ear muffs a year.
By the time of his death in 1937,
he was producing over 400,000.
There's a Pac-Man-inspired entertainment center
in Illinois called Level 257.
It's an over 3,900 square meter playground
with bowling, arcade games, and food.
The kill screen on Pac-Man is level 256,
so level 257 symbolizes the next level of play.
There's even a store that sells Pac-Man memorabilia,
hundreds of which are only available there.
The Maya and other ancient peoples of southern
North America went to dentists to beautify their teeth
with notches, grooves, and semi-precious stones like jade.
The Holiday Inn resort in Panama City Beach, Florida
has a special daily wake-up call for spring breakers,
blasting Circle of Life, Elton John's hit song
from The Lion King musical.
They blast it at their balconies,
a tradition which began in 2012.
American aviator Charles Augustus Lindbergh,
who made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic
in 1927, was a polygamist with three other families
and wives in Germany and Switzerland.
Jeez, dude got busy.
Of the 24 men who traveled to the moon on Apollo 8
and Apollo 10 through 17 missions, 20 were Boy Scouts.
That includes 11 of the 12 moon walkers,
and all three members of the Apollo 13 crew.
Thomas Edison proposed to his second wife,
Mina Miller Edison, by using Morse code.
Oh, that's uh, romantic. (clears throat)
In Mount Rushmore's original design,
the four presidents were actually meant to be
carvings from the waist up, but insufficient funding
brought the carver to stop after the faces were completed.
Between 2002 and 2010, almost 18,000 men
made trips to ERs from zipper mishaps.
That's nearly one fifth
of all penis injuries during this time.
Researchers at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute
are developing a method to use the vascular network
in spinach leaves to deliver blood, oxygen,
and nutrients to grow human tissue.
They hope that in the future, they will be able
to use this to filter blood better to damaged tissue
in the human heart.
Theodore Roosevelt was an avid reader.
Now, that's not that amazing, but what is
is that he was known to read, on average,
a book a day while he was president.
He usually read several books at a time,
rotating between them depending on his mood.
In 1965, artist Salvador Dali drew a picture
of Jesus on the cross and donated it
to Riker's Island in New York.
It hung in the dining hall for 16 years,
when the prison administration began to fear
that the prisoners might damage the painting,
and it was moved to a plexiglass case
in the lobby of the prison.
It turns out, it wasn't the prisoners they needed
to worry about, because in 2003, it was stolen
by four prison officials, including a deputy.
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