- [Man] Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
The role of the first lady comes with no official duties
and is unpaid, this despite the fact that many of them
work hard to accomplish many projects
that they're passionate about and are notoriously targeted
for appearance based criticism.
In the 1850's the pathways of the roads in Central Park
were designed to be curved so that people couldn't race
in their horsing carriages.
The world's smallest guitar is about the size of a human
blood cell, it was made by Cornell University researchers
from crystalline silicon and has six strings
each about 50 nanometers wide.
Nagoya Castle in Japan has opened a ninja school
where tourists can take an hour lesson
from Hatori Hanzo and the ninjas,
a group of men and women dressed in ninja outfits
who give lectures on things such as ninja weapons.
In August 2016 an anonymous artist placed a huge statue
of Pikachu on a defunct fountain in Coliseum Museum Park
in New Orleans, it's made of fiber glass
but was made to look like aged bronze.
The Wallace flying frog is able to glide from tree branches
and glide up to 49 feet by splaying their four webbed feet.
The skin flaps catch the air as they fall.
In August of 2016 Nabisco released a limited edition
Swedish Fish Oreo cookie, it's the normal chocolate cookie
filled with a red Swedish Fish flavored cream.
China has a panda themed subway train that was created
to draw tourists to the panda base in Chengdu
a large panda bear conservation facility.
In the United Kingdom there's an app called
To Good To Go which connects users to local restaurants
that want to sell perfectly good leftover food
at a much cheaper price.
McDonald's once created bubble gum flavored broccoli
to get kids to eat more vegetables.
Unfortunately testing on children didn't go well,
the candy flavored vegetable only confused them.
The movie Wayne's World was filmed in only 34 days
but that was in the 1990's compare that to today
where many movies take many months or even years to film.
The blood in the famous shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's
Psycho was actually Hersey's chocolate syrup.
This was the go to for blood in
black and white films at the time.
Paul McCartney's mother was a midwife
in fact having been in charge of the maternity ward
at the Walton Hospital Liverpool she was awarded
the privilege of giving birth to Paul in a private ward.
Her ambition for her elder son
was that he would become a doctor.
Actor Richard Gere's middle name is Tiffany.
All royal babies are baptized with
water brought from the river Jordan,
the tradition began because this is where it is said
that Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist.
Dogs can suffer from tonsillitis
but not appendicitis because they don't have an appendix.
Barn owls are normally monogamous birds
but a study done by the University of Lausanne
found that during a year where they don't have many babies
they may divorce each other and move on to a new mate.
Usually the male keeps the quote house meaning they stayed
at the original breeding ground.
Out of thousands of satellites that have been launched
into space amongst meteors only one
has been hit and destroyed
the European Space Agency Communications Satellite Olympus.
During mating the male sea otter grips his teeth onto
the males nose, during the reproduction cycle females
get the nickname Rudolph because after mating
the female's nose is red.
Starfish also known as sea stars,
have no brains and no blood,
their nervous system is spread through their arms
and their quote blood is actually filtered sea water.
Those little flashes of light you see
when you close or rub your eyes is called phosphines,
the light flashes inside your eyes because atoms
in the eye emit and absorb particles of light.
The optic nerve sends light signals to the brain
making the phosphines visible.
A cat's lower jaw is attached to it's upper jaw
which makes it impossible for them to move
their jaw sideways or grind their teeth.
When actress Charlize Theron was 15
her mother shot and killed
her alcoholic father in self defense.
The actress was quoted as saying
the terrible thing is that everybody in South Africa
has a gun but that's just the lifestyle there
and those things are handy, terrible things happen.
In the 1980's you could call 1-900-909-FRED
to have Freddy Kruger of Nightmare on Elmstreet
tell you scary stories.
According to a study done by researchers
at the Australian National University
queen bees and ants can control their colonies female
offspring by emitting a special pheromone.
It can actually alter the DNA of their daughters
that ensures the offspring are sterile
and remain busy workers.
When they are deprived of the pheromone the worker bees
and ants become more self centered and lazy
and began to lay eggs.
In August of 2016 Taco Bell started testing on a new product
called the Cheetos burrito,
it's a burrito stuffed with seasoned meat,
buttery rice and a cheese sauce and Cheetos.
All of it for just a dollar.
Scientists have discovered two new types of ants
in the rainforests of New Guinea,
their names are Pheidole viserion and Pheidole drogon
and were inspired by the fire breathing dragons
from the fantasy series Game of Thrones.
The ants bear a strong resemblance to the dragons
because they have blade like serrations on their backs.
Researchers from Macquarie University found that people
with psychopathic tendencies have a poor sense of smell.
You can buy flatulence deodorizer pads to be worn in
your underwear to prevent your flatulence from smelling.
The bite of the Brazilian Wandering Spider
also known as the Banana Spider can cause priapism
in men which is an uncomfortable erection
that can last for hours.
A fully mature oak tree shed's approximately
700,000 leaves each autumn.
You can tell the age of a mountain goat
by the number of rings on it's horns,
the average life span of a mountain goat
is nine to 12 years.
The honey bee has hair on it's eyes.
They are microscopic short hairs called settey
that help with navigation by catching the wind
to help them figure out direction and speed while traveling.
Hamsters can blink one eye at a time,
seems kind of unnecessary but okay.
During World War II the US navy partnered
with the mafia to protect the country's ports.
The US government denied it's collaboration
with the mafia for decades
and not just in relation to the second world war.
Dutch bike manufacturer VanMoof started printing pictures
of flat screen tv's on their bike boxes
to reduce delivery damages.
Damages went down 70 to 80 percent.
A moose's antlers can weigh as much as 70 pounds
and be as wide as six feet.
In 1898 author Morgan Robertson wrote a novella called
the Wreck of the Titan, in the book the ship Titan
sinks in the north Atlantic after being hit by an iceberg.
The story of the sinking is eerily similar to
the actual Titanic that sank just 14 years later.
Both ships were deemed to be unsinkable,
didn't have enough life boats, struck an iceberg
and sank and lost more than half of their passengers.
Congress in the United States made the first Tuesday
in November election day to accommodate farmers
and rural workers in the 1800's.
November was the month that suited farmers best
because the fall harvest was over by November,
spring was planting time
and summer was when they worked the fields.
The weather in November in the majority of the nation
was still mild enough for traveling,
Tuesday was picked because most residents of rural America
had to travel far to reach the voting center.
Tuesday gave them enough time to start traveling
on the Monday instead of Sunday
which would have conflicted with church services.
Author Ian Fleming who created the fictional character
James Bond got the name from an American ornithologist
James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert
and author of the Field Guide Birds of the West Indies.
The state of Wyoming produces the most coal.
It produces 40% of all coal production
in the United States.
In the 1960's the American Typers Association
made a new punctuation mark called the interrobang,
it's a combination of a question mark
and an exclamation mark it was designed to be used
at the end of the exclamatory rhetorical question
such as what the heck.
There are people who suffer from aphantasia
where they're unable to create imagery in their minds eye
and synthase senses in their mind.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
was written in only six weeks,
Tiny Tim and Bob Cratchet helped speed up the process.
The acronym shazam that was shouted to conjure up
comic book hero Captain Marvel
stands for Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles,
and Mercury.
Walt Disney's Goofy was first introduced to audiences
in Mickey's Revue but he was originally called Dippy Dog.
There are only two words in the english language
that both begin and end in und,
underground and underfund.
The American football team Baltimore Raven's
are named in honor of Edgar Allen Poe's classic poem
the Raven.
At 7:25 p.m. on March first 1950
the west side Baptist church in Beatice Nebraska
was rocked by an explosion that demolished the church,
choir practice had been scheduled to begin at 7:20
but not one of the 15 people who should have been present
was injured because all of them arrived late that night.
Some people think it was divine intervention.
Writer Mark Twain's real name was Samuel Langhorn Clemens.
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