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Just lay back, relax and get ready for the facts.
Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
The average human being weighing 70 kilograms
contains within them, over 0.2 milligrams of pure gold.
The word twyndyllyngs, which means twins or twinlings,
is the longest word in the English language
that contains no vowels.
For men, wearing a green hat in China is a fashion no-no,
as it's considered a sign that their wife
has cheated on them with another man.
The tradition dates back to the Yuan Dynasty,
when the families of prostitutes
were forced to wear green headgear to reveal their shame.
Despite only having 0.06%
of the whole world's human population,
the Carolingian community in Kenya
is home to the athletes responsible for winning nearly 70%
of all elite distance-running-races worldwide.
In the 2013 Berlin Marathon,
female runners from Kenya won first,
second and fourth places, while male Kenyans
won first, second, third, fourth and fifth.
The fastest time overall was Wilson Kipsang's
at two hours, three minutes and 23 seconds,
the fastest marathon time ever recorded to that date.
In late November of 1990, world champion boxer Muhammad Ali
flew to Iraq and met with dictator Saddam Hussein.
He then somehow managed to negotiate the release
of 15 American prisoners being held there
and brought them all home to the United States.
This was despite the fact that then President
George HW Bush did not approve.
Before he passed away on July 4th 2013,
55-year-old Cleveland Browns super fan, Scott Entsminger
requested that six members of his favorite team
step in as pallbearers, claiming that he wanted the Browns
to let him down one last time.
Ooh that's savage, that is a savage way to go.
In Slovakia and a few other places in Europe,
it's a common tradition at Christmas time
to have a carp swim in the family bathtub for a day or two
before it's killed and prepared for Christmas Eve dinner.
How'd these traditions get started, like seriously?
In 1974, 17-year-old Neville Ebbin
was riding his moped in Hamilton Bermuda
when he was struck by a taxi and tragically killed.
Around a year later, his brother Erskine
was riding that same moped on the same road
when he was hit and killed by the same taxi,
driven by the same man.
Back in 1889, when Nintendo
was opened as a playing card company,
their products became incredibly popular with,
of all people, the Yakuza.
The organized crime syndicate
used the cards in their gambling parlors,
and Nintendo quickly became their main supplier.
If not for the huge amount of money
their deal with the Yakuza brought in,
Nintendo would likely not be the mammoth
video game company that they are today.
Ironically, after making the switch to video games
and releasing the SNES,
or Super Nintendo Entertainment System back in 1990,
Nintendo was forced to make shipments
of their new console at night,
as due to his popularity, the Yakuza organization
kept robbing daytime shipments.
In 2012, in an attempt to reduce the number of suicides
that were being committed Mapo Bridge in Seoul, South Korea,
the local government along with advertising
and insurance companies, began a campaign
that saw messages, paintings, sculptures
and motion-activated lights installed.
All of this was to support and reveal to passersby
that they were not alone.
Unfortunately, the following year saw over six times
the number of suicides as the previous one.
The University of Minnesota was established
before Minnesota was even a state.
The school was opened in 1851 and it wasn't until 1858
that the state joined the union.
In 1973, film star Anthony Hopkins
traveled to London, England, searching for a book
that a movie that he was in was based on.
That book, The Girl From Petrovka,
was unavailable in every store that the actor visited.
He ultimately gave up, but while waiting for a train home,
he sat on a bench only to find a copy of that very novel
sitting unattended on the bench next to him.
Upon meeting the author of The Girl From Petrovka,
George Feifer in 1975, Hopkins was surprised to learn
that the writer didn't even have a copy of it.
He'd lent his only copy to a friend,
having added important notes in the margins.
Incredibly, the book that the actor had found
was the very same one that Feifer had lost.
A number of churches in Malta have two clocks.
The one on the right is the correct time
and is the one that locals use to know when to go to mass.
The one on the left is wrong
and is there to confuse the devil
so he can't interrupt services.
At Christmas dinner in 1972, 13-year-old Marie Heffernan
came down with a severe case of bronchitis and laryngitis
and was rushed to the hospital in Wollongong Australia.
The condition went away after six weeks,
but she still couldn't speak.
Then, 12 years later, a coughing fit
broke up a ball of black sludge
that contained a silver coin.
Marie's mother had put the coin
in a Christmas pudding, 12 years earlier.
Focus and watch what you eat folks, focus.
There was a Marvel DC Comics crossover event in the mid-90s
that saw the biggest heroes from both universes clash.
In the series, Marvel's Quicksilver
challenged DC's The Flash to a race.
The Flash, disappointed in the two speedsters
not being friends, ultimately won.
On October 29th 2012, between 30 and 50 thugs
showed up at 38-year-old Shen Sing Sung's house
in China's High Bay Province,
sent by a land developer who wanted the property.
As they forced their way in, Shen a Kung Fu expert
fought them off, knocking several unconscious
and successfully defending his home.
The remaining thugs retreated.
In parts of Europe, giant catfish have been witnessed
purposefully beaching themselves
to quickly strike at pigeons and other birds.
The fish then flop back towards the water,
dragging their feathered meals with them
and drowning them like an alligator does.
According to research conducted
by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
a car, truck or other vehicle
is stolen somewhere in the United States every 46 seconds.
In 2011, the most stolen vehicle,
according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau
was the 1994 Honda Accord.
It was also the most stolen vehicle from 2008 until 2010.
In the midst of World War II, the demand for penicillin
was much higher than what was available,
so doctors resorted to recycling it,
taking the urine of someone who's been given the antibiotic
and removing whatever penicillin
made the journey through the person's body,
to give to someone else.
The language spoken by Pingu, the claymation
children's television character from Switzerland,
isn't just gibberish,
it's actually a nonsense language called Grammelot.
It's been used by clowns and in satirical theater
since the 16th century.
On August 28 2017, Hurricane Harvey
was dropping so much rainfall in the Southern United States
that the national weather service had to add two colors,
light and dark purples to their graphics,
as the amount of water had more than doubled
the more-than-15-inches dark-red flooding indicator.
The legendary Bruce Lee was so fast and accurate
that he was able to toss a single grain of rice
up into the air and then catch it before it hit the ground,
between a pair of chopsticks.
In 1989, while on death row in South Carolina,
convicted murderer, Michael Anderson Godwin
decided to multitask and fix his broken television
while answering the call of nature in his cell.
Upon biting into a wire still attached to the plugged in TV,
he electrocuted himself, effectively turning his toilet
into a version of the electric chair
that was waiting for him.
When Hersheypark, an amusement park in Hershey, Philadelphia
built its new merry-go-round in 1912,
the person in charge of painting the ride's sign,
spelled it C-A-R-R-O-U-S-E-L with an extra R.
Instead of repainting the sign,
the park decided to operate the ride
under that title for 32 years.
On the set of the 2017 Marvel Blockbuster
Spider Man Homecoming, Michael Keaton
continuously trolled Tom Holland
by quoting lines that he spoke as The Dark Knight.
While in one particular fight scene,
as Holland's Spider Man punched at Keaton's Vulture,
the older actor turned around and whispered darkly,
"I'm Batman", throwing the young Holland off.
In 1965, four-year-old Roger Lausier was saved from drowning
by a woman named Alice Blaise.
Nine years later, while on a raft by the same exact beach,
Roger pulled a man from the water, saving him from drowning,
and that man was Alice's husband.
When French inventor Louis Reard was unable to find a model
willing to show off his new clothing invention,
the bikini, in 1964, he turned to 19-year-old
Micheline Bernardini who agreed.
While other models claimed the bathing suit was too skimpy,
Bernardini a stripper, had no problem showing off some skin.
The line eventually took off
and can be seen on pretty much any warm beach on Earth.
Some species of termites are natural suicide bombers.
The tiny creatures, when presented with danger
to themselves or their colonies, can latch onto a predator
and squeeze their own midsection until they burst,
effectively killing themselves and sending
a hardening, sticky and very toxic substance
in every direction.
In 2009, Brian Acton was turned down
for a position at Facebook, and it may have been
the best thing that ever happened to him.
That's because five years later in 2014,
Facebook purchased Acton's company
and the app that they developed,
a little thing called WhatsApp for $19 billion dollars.
Acton took 50 million of it and invested in to Signal,
an app that competed with WhatsApp.
And then, on March 20th 2018,
he tweeted that everyone should delete Facebook.
A study published in 2009 revealed
that in loud environments, people will more often
try to hear something whispered to them
with their right ear over their left.
It also showed that subjects were more likely
to comply with another person's request
if it was delivered into their right ear.
Al Capone's business card claimed
that he was in the business of used furniture.
Whenever in trouble with authorities,
the mobster would present his card
and claimed that he was just
a second-hand-furniture salesman.
"You wanna get some of this furniture,
"just saying, just a regular guy, not a criminal."
On February 28 2007, 170 Swiss soldiers
accidentally invaded the tiny country of Liechtenstein
when they got lost while on a nightly training march.
As soon as they realized where they were,
the group retreated back to Switzerland
and the government later issued an apology.
As a response, as spokesman from the small country declared,
"No problem, these things happen."
When local council realized that people were
constantly speeding down a road in Arnprior, Scotland,
they had the lines on the road repainted as wiggly ones,
but the twisting lines on the straight road
have not had the desired effect
and have actually upset residents in the area.
In 2001, a 10-year-old girl named Laura Buxton
released a helium-filled balloon with a note
to return it to her at her address
in the Midlands in England.
It was found 225 kilometers away,
in a field by another young girl
who was also named Laura Buxton.
On top of that, the girls are only a few months apart in age
and are of equal height,
despite both being tall for their age.
Adding to the coincidences, each of them
both have a three-year-old black Labrador retriever,
a bunny and a guinea pig.
From the age of 10, UK-rapper MIA
had zero contact with her father,
a man who fought against the Sri Lankan government
in the Civil War as a Tamil Tiger.
So, in an effort to get him to contact her,
the artist titled her debut studio album, Arular after him.
Her goal was for him to Google his own name,
see the album and then get in touch with her,
and the plan worked.
On July 11th in 2013, people across India
worked together to break a world record,
planting more trees in a 24-hour period
than any group had before them.
Attempting to fight climate change,
over 800,000 volunteers turned up to complete the feat,
planting an estimated 50 million trees.
After uncontrolled flooding caused the cruise ship
The Oceanos, to start sinking in 1991,
her captain and crew quickly abandoned ship
and the passengers on board without even sounding an alarm.
Ship entertainer Moss Hills stepped up
and used a radio to call mayday and got everyone saved.
The crew were brought up on charges for negligence.
When sexually frustrated young male dolphins
have been documented going on murderous rampages
and killing other porpoises, often in groups.
There are people who suffer
from a psychological disorder called Boanthropy,
in which the individual believes that they are a cow
or other subtype of bovine.
Nah, this is ridiculous, just mooove on.
When Tom Scholz recorded his band Boston's
debut album More Than A Feeling,
he did so in his own basement,
but turned the tracks over to the studio
as if they'd been professionally recorded in a studio.
The album has sold over 17 million copies today.
Actor and Scientology frontman Tom Cruise
split with each of his three former wives,
Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes
when they were each 33 years old.
In the Scientology faith, the number 33
is considered the master teacher
and symbolizes altruism, true love
and increasing positive energy.
In 2011, a Florida high school principal named George Kenny
was suspended after 16-year-old Wesley McKinley,
one of his students, took his own life
a day after the principal hypnotized him.
A number of hair salons in the United Kingdom
have designated a quiet chair in their establishment.
It's a way for antisocial individuals
to get their hair cut or colored
without participating in small talk.
Oh man, these are needed everywhere.
In 2011, 71 year old retired fisherman Joao Pereira de Souza
saved a South American penguin
after the animal became stranded on a beach near his home,
on an island off the coast of Rio De Janeiro.
Since then, each year the penguin named Dindim
travels thousands of kilometers
to spend several months with the elderly man,
only to then return to its colony again.
A dual involving three opponents
instead of the standard two which most duels consist of
is actually called a truel.
In such a fight, each participant
must try to kill the other two, kind of like you'd expect.
When building the SR-71 Blackbird,
the world's fastest manned aircraft
and a nearly undetectable plane
during the height of the Cold War,
the CIA used dummy corporations
to obtain the titanium from Russia.
Basically, the Soviets were supplying
the metal used in the planes that were spying on them.
(tranquil music)