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- Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
The metallic smell of money is actually your body oils
breaking down in the presence of iron or copper.
You can see this by using a paper towel
to pick up a penny and smelling it, no odor.
Sarcasm is believed to boost creativity
in all parties involved in the conversation.
US and European laws say that travelers must be
compensated if their flight is cancelled or delayed.
But only a few of the eligible travelers
try to claim their cash.
A Starbucks in Saint Augustine, which is home
to the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind,
has employees that use sign language over a two-way
video system so that people who are deaf
can place their order at the drive-thru.
When cats look at you in the eye and blink slowly,
they're actually trying to tell you
that they're in love with you.
The Rekonect Notebook is a magnetic journal,
that allows you to remove, reattach,
and rearrange the pages whenever you want.
There is a small penis rule, which authors use
to protect themselves against liable lawsuits
by saying that a character they based off of someone else
has a small penis, which stops most people
from wanting to associate themselves with the character
that they're suing the author about.
There is an island called Hans Island,
which is disputed territory between Canada and Denmark.
The militaries of both countries periodically visit
to remove the other guy's flag and leave a bottle
of Danish schnapps or Canadian whiskey.
Adele isn't allowed to send out her own tweets
because when Twitter first came out,
she was notorious for tweeting while drunk.
Still better than Kanye.
Inspired by the viral photo of Donald Trump
sporting a man bun.
DesignCrowd held a Photoshop contest
to see what past and present politicians
would look like if they had one.
The results are disturbing.
Singles Day in China is the worlds biggest
online shopping day
since unattached individuals celebrate
by buying themselves gifts.
When Paris fell to the Nazis in 1940,
French soldiers cut the elevator cables to the Eiffel Tower.
They did this so that if Hitler
wanted to hoist a swastika flag,
they would have to climb hundreds of stairs
to get to the top, brilliant!
In Nashville, Tennessee there's a five story,
fully automated vending machine that dispenses real cars.
The original floats in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade
were released into the air, after the parade,
because Macy's didn't know what to do with them.
However, they included a ticket that would
fall to the ground after they popped.
If you found a ticket, you could redeem them
for a prize at Macy's.
The city of Lexington, Kentucky is letting residents
pay parking tickets with canned food donations
during the holiday season.
Hong Kong billionaire Cecil Chao is offering
120 million dollars to turn his lesbian daughter straight.
I don't think he understands how that all works.
Don't ever place a cucumber behind your cat.
Why, well because it's stressful for the cat
to find a new object in its territory
and could leave it anxious for days.
Panda nanny is a real job position,
where you get to spend 365 days a year
with panda babies for an annual salary
of 32 thousand dollars.
The platypus has no nipples
and milk simply oozes from their skin.
When a coal mine catches fire it can burn
for decades or even centuries.
There are thousands of these fires across the world.
Believe it or not, socks are among
the most needed items at homeless shelters,
yet among the least often donated.
A dog named Greyfriars Bobby in Scotland
sat by his owner's grave for 14 years
until he eventually passed away.
Anonymous sent thousands of all black faxes
to the Church of Scientology to deplete
all of their ink cartridges, that's expensive.
A 104 year old knitter named Grace Brett,
who yarn-bombed her town,
is thought to be the world's oldest street artist.
There is a plant that mimics the anus
of a dead animal in order to attract flies for pollination.
Mmm, plant anus.
All new employees and recently promoted executives
at the Japanese company, Dentsu, have to climb Mount Fuji.
This has happened every July since 1925.
The horse head used in The Godfather
was a real horse head, not a prop.
John Marley was not informed before hand,
so his scream was authentic, not scripted.
Momentary Ink, prints your tattoo designs
as customary, temporary tattoos, that last 3-10 days
so that you can try out your ideas before you commit to one.
Michael Nicholson, a man from Michigan,
who has one bachelors degree, two associates degrees,
and 22 masters degrees, 3 specialists degrees,
and one doctoral degree,
makes him the most credentialed person in history.
Cheetah cubs have long, tall hairs,
that run from their neck,
all the way down to the base of their tail, called mantle.
It makes a cheetah cub look like a honey badger
and makes them blend into the tall glass.
Keeping them from threats like lions and hyenas.
Photographer Antoine Geiger, creates images,
of cell phones sucking at people's faces.
To reflect our self-alienation
and constant use of mobile devices.
Native American people intentionally bent trees
to mark trails, and many remain today as hidden monuments.
A millionaire Chinese business man named Xiong Shulhua,
decided to bulldoze entire rundown huts
in his village where he grew up
and decided to build luxury flats.
Then gave the keys to the residents instead, for free.
Happier cows really do produce more milk.
And simply calling cows by individual names
ups production by 3.5 percent.
Saskatchewan farmer Liezel Kennedy,
thought she lost her entire flock of 500 sheep,
so she drove right by them until she got close enough
to realize that they'd been in front of her the whole time.
The skull that Russians kept as evidence
of Hitler's death is actually the skull of a woman.
Caterpillars completely turn to liquid in a cocoon,
but as a moth/butterfly can still
remember their life as a caterpillar.
The steamboat Arabia, which sank in 1856,
was excavated, in 1988, under almost 14 meters of dirt
in a field, at a farm.
Interestingly many artifacts were recovered
and preserved so well that some of the food
was actually still edible.
Diana Kim, a photographer from Hawaii,
who after 10 years documenting the homeless,
found her own father among them.
Wildlife photographer Alan McFadyen spent 42 hundred hours
and took 720 thousand photos, over a six-year period
before he finally got the perfect shot of a Kingfisher
diving into water without making a splash.
The first guest to enter Disneyland
was college student Dave MacPherson.
He didn't ride a single attraction
because he had to get back to school.
He was awarded a life-long ticket to Disneyland,
with up to three guests,
and the ticket has since been extended to include
Disney parks around the world.
There are tea bags that make it look like
goldfishes swimming around in your mug.
Norwegian student Kristoffer Koch spent 27 dollars
on bitcoins, forgot about them, and then years later
realized they were worth 886 thousand dollars.
Self-discipline better predicts success than IQ.
According to research done by scientists.
In order to lose 63 pounds for his role in The Machinist,
Christian Bale's daily diet
consisted of one can of tuna fish and/or one apple per day,
black coffee, and water.
The tree that owns itself is a white oak tree
in Athens, Georgia, that is widely assumed
to be legally owned by itself,
and eight feet of land surrounding it.
According to newspapers,
a deed written by Colonel William Jackson,
was written to the tree, giving ownership of the land
to itself in the 1800's.
This cute little dwarf elephant
was first spotted in Sri Lanka back in 2013.
It's fully grown but it's only 1.5 meters tall.
French artist Travis Durden, mashes the heads
of popular Star Wars characters
with the bodies of classical Greek statues.
Artist Cayce Zavaglia uses only thread in a canvas
to create finely embroidered photo realistic portraits.
A man name Nigel Richards from Malaysia,
memorized the French dictionary to win
the French Scrabble championship,
and he doesn't even speak French.
So much knowledge flowin'.
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