- Get ready to learn some crazy things
about the world that we live in because here
are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
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On June 10th, 1986,
two and a half year old Michelle Funk from Salt Lake City
fell into a creek near her home.
When rescuers finally pulled her out of the creek
over an hour later,
she had no pulse and wasn't breathing.
Doctors put her on a heart lung bypass machine
and rewarmed her blood.
Unbelievably, when her blood finally warmed
to 77 degrees fahrenheit,
she woke up and is still living to this day.
The smallest commercial flight in the world
is from the Westray Airport to the Papa Westray Airport
between two small Orkney Islands north of Scotland.
It's only a distance of 1.7 miles
and if the wind is ideal,
it can take as little as 47 seconds from start to finish.
There are hundreds of stone slabs
dotting the coastlines of Japan that give advice.
This advice includes high dwellings
are the peace and harmony of our descendants.
Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis.
Do not build any homes below this point.
And also, if an earthquake comes, beware the tsunamis.
And in fact, some of these markers
are more than 600 years old.
A handful of British companies are now offering pawternity.
Paid time off to take care of a pet in need.
The two abbreviated letters OK
first appeared in the Boston Morning Post
in March 23rd, 1839 as a joke.
When it appeared in print,
it was intended to be a shortening of orl korrekt,
the then humorous misspelling of all correct.
It appeared in newspapers
and in the 1840 presidential campaign,
and after that, we continued to use it to this day.
The Indianapolis 500 has claimed more than 60 lives.
At least one of them being an innocent bystander.
In 1931, a wreck by Billy Arnold
sent a stray tire flying out of the race track
and across a street where it struck and killed
an 11 year old, Wilbur Brink,
while he was playing in his front yard.
Astronaut Neil Armstrong's lunar outfit
was designed by the women's bra manufacturer Playtex.
I can breathe well and I got all kinds of support.
In 1872, Victory Woodhull was the first woman
to vie for the presidency.
She ran as an equal rights party nominee
against Ulysses S Grant.
This was nearly 50 years before the 19th amendment
gave women the right to vote.
There's an exhibition at the Isle of Wight Zoo in the UK
dedicated to poop.
It features feces from the animal world and the human world.
It also features fossilized poo called coprolites
that date back 140 million years.
Dinosaur poop.
In the original book The Wizard of Oz,
Dorothy's magical slippers were actually silver.
They were changed to ruby red for the technicolor movie
because it was believed that they'd stand out better
against the yellow brick road.
♫ Follow the yellow brick road, huh
Angela Stogner of the University of Vienna Austria
discovered that giraffes can hum.
The hum is a low frequency sound at about 92 hertz.
There's a restaurant called Subsix
located at the Per Aquum Nima Restaurant in the Maldives
that is located 20 feet below the surface
of the Indian Ocean.
You can sit near floor to ceiling glass windows
and watch schools of fish
and more than 90 coral reef species while you eat.
The dwarf lantern shark,
according to the Guinness Book of World Records,
is the world's tiniest shark.
A male measures only about 6.3 inches in length.
There's a phenomenon known as
heteropaternal superfecundation
that is so rare that there is only a handful
of documented cases in the world.
The phenomenon is when two twins have two different fathers.
The gadget was the first atomic bomb ever made
and was tested at Trinity Site New Mexico
on July 16th, 1945.
The test code named Trinity was a success,
unleashing an explosion with the energy
of about 20 kilotons of TNT.
Punt guns is a type of gun that was first used in the 1800s.
They were used in commercial water fowl hunting
and these guns fired almost one pound shots
that could kill 50 to 100 birds in a single shot.
The barrels had opening upwards of two inches in diameter
and weighed over 99 pounds
and measured almost 10 feet long.
Those is some big guns.
Anne Hodges from Alabama is the only confirmed person
in history that has ever been hit by a meteorite.
On a clear day in November of 1954,
she was having a nap on her couch
when a softball sized hunk of black rock
broke through her ceiling, bounced off a radio,
and hit her in the thigh, leaving a pineapple shaped bruise.
On January 21st, 1977, in his first day in office,
President Jimmy Carter fulfilled a campaign promise
by granting unconditional pardons
to hundreds of thousands of men
who had evaded the draft during the Vietnam War
by fleeing the country or failing to register.
Researchers that were training monkeys
to recognize themselves in mirrors
found that the first thing that the monkeys did
was check out all the places on their bodies
that they've never seen before,
especially their genitalia area.
The researchers found them contorting
and spreading their legs in front of the mirror
to get a better look
at previously unseen corners of their bodies.
In Sweden, blood banks send texts to blood donors
to notify them whenever their blood helps save a life.
Spain's national anthem, Royal March, has no lyrics.
American company Cabot Guns
has made the first gun made almost entirely
from a piece of Gibeon meteorite
that crashed to earth approximately 4.5 billion years ago.
The meteorite was originally found in Namibia in the 1830s.
Yeah.
That's a good use of precious meteorite.
Bison may look slow and now very agile,
but they can run at 35 miles per hour
and jump as high as six feet off the ground.
The Louvre Museum in Paris
was the most visited museum in the world in 2014.
There were 9.3 million visitors,
almost the same amount of people
as the population of Sweden.
Approximately 1500 earthquakes
are recorded in Japan every year.
Seahorse babies eat as much as 3000 pieces of food a day.
They have such a voracious appetite
because they have no stomach
and their digestive system has been described
as inefficient,
meaning that they must eat a lot
in order to stay properly nourished.
A frog's tongue is about a third of the length
of its entire body.
In comparison, if a human had the same sized tongue,
it would reach our belly button.
Ha.
Researchers at the University of Oxford
and the University of Queensland
discovered that the small tropical archer fish
can be taught to accurately recognize human faces.
When the researchers display two faces side by side
on a screen over a fish tank, one familiar and one unknown,
the fish was able to recognize the same face
81% of the time in color
and even more accurately in black and white images.
The world's tallest tree is currently Hyperion,
a 379 foot tall redwood
in California's Redwood National Park.
Donald J Trump is the oldest US president in history
at almost 71 years old.
Dolphins can't chew their food.
Their teeth are only used to grip food
and they'll shake and rub it on the ocean floor
to tear it into smaller more manageable pieces.
(imitates dolphin)
The Moomin House Cafe in Bunkyo, Tokyo
offers coffee, treats,
and companionship of an enormous stuffed animal.
They will actually seat you with a stuffed animal
so that you don't have to dine alone.
In Singapore, the importation or sale of gum is illegal
unless you have a medicinal reason for needing it.
There's a solar facility at Walt Disney World
in Lake Buena Vista, Florida
that is comprised of 48,000 solar panels
and is in the shape of Mickey Mouse.
Oh, sunshine for everybody.
Oh boy!
Researchers exploring the northwester Hawaiian islands
aboard the Okeanos Explorer
came across the world's largest sea sponge.
It was found 7000 feet below the ocean surface
and measured 12 feet long and seven feet wide.
It's possible to be allergic to the cold.
This allergy, called cold urticarial,
is an allergic response to cold temperatures
triggering hives, swelling and itching.
And if the allergy is severe enough,
it can actually result in fainting, shock, or even death.
And there is no cure.
In a new study published in the Journal of Entomology,
a research team from the University of Florida
and Union College found that bed bugs
love the colors black and red and hate yellow and green.
Evel Knievel,
the pioneer of motorcycle long jumping exhibitions,
suffered 433 fractured bones and holds the world record
for the most bones broken in a lifetime.
I'm surprised the man just doesn't turn to dust.
The world's largest specie of earthworm
can be found in Gippsland in southeastern Australia.
The giant Gippsland can get as big as 10 feet long.
In 1972, a few years after being elected to congress,
Shirley Chisholm became the first black woman
to run for the presidency.
She never expected to win,
but she ran to prove that Americans
could vote for a black woman.
Queen termites have a really long lifespan
and they are the oldest termite in the colony.
They can lives up to 50 years long
and produce eggs for up to 10 years.
Melba toast and peach melba are both named
after the most famous opera singer
of the late Victorian era, Dame Nellie Melba.
According to researchers at the Washington University
School of Medicine in St. Louis,
moms who are supportive and nurturing
during their children's preschool years
can actually boost the growth of their kids' brains.
They found that kids who were nurtured in their early years
had a larger hippocampus,
the part of the brain tied to learning,
memory, and emotion control.
Artist Mark Quinn creates self portraits
using his own blood as a medium.
He casts his own head in plaster
mixed with 10 pints of his own blood
and then immerses it in frozen silicone.
He's been doing this every year since 1991
as a way to preserve the natural aging process
as well as a symbol of his dependency on alcohol.
In 1998, Kevin Warwick,
a professor of cybernetics at Reading University
became the world's first technical cyborg.
He had a radio frequency ID implanted in his arm
and could turn on lights by snapping his fingers.
In ancient Rome, women thought that if you wore
a leather pouch containing a cat's liver
on their left foot during sex
that it would prevent pregnancy.
In 2014, the United States Department of Agriculture
reported that the average American consumes
up to 170 pounds of refined sugar every year.
On January 15th, 1919,
a storage tank burst on Boston's waterfront,
releasing almost two million gallons of molasses
in a 15 foot high, 160 foot wide wave.
That looks delicious but it's gonna kill me.
It rushed through the city's north end
at 35 miles per hour,
killing a 10 year old boy and injuring many others.
It was so powerful that it even swept a train
off its tracks and toppled electrical poles.
Instead of keeping your departed loved one
in an urn on the fireplace mantle,
now, thanks to the company Bios Urn,
you can keep them in the form of a tree.
Bios Urn created Bios Incube,
which is an incubator that monitors and cultivates trees
from human ashes in people's homes.
In 2014, the comedian Nathan Fielder,
star of the Comedy Central show Nathan For You
opened a parody coffee shop called Dumb Starbucks
as a TV stunt.
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