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Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
The Empire State Building makes more money from
observation decks than it does from renting office space.
It's illegal not to flush the toilet in Singapore.
For failing to flush, you will be fined $150.
And, police officers have been known to check.
Buzz Aldrin's maiden name was, coincidentally, Moon.
Just one percent of friendships formed in the 7th grade
are still intact by the 12th grade,
according to a study by Psychological Science.
Architects in Iceland wanted to push the appearance
of utility towers beyond their basic functional structures.
So, they created a design proposal
called The Land of Giants.
Essentially, it turns electrical pylons into
human-shaped sculptures.
That is cool.
Portuguese artist David Oliveira uses wire
to draw in the air by creating
sculptures that look like pencil sketches.
There is a prison in Finland where the only thing
keeping inmates in is a yellow picket fence.
Anhedonia is the word for feeling when
you cannot find joy in things that usually bring you joy.
In 2001, Pizza Hut paid the Russian space agency
to send a pizza to the International Space Station
at a cost of one million dollars.
That's an expensive pie.
20 year old Kiran Cable from South Whales
was with his girlfriend so much that his friends
say that he actually disappeared from their lives.
So much so that after 18 months of unreturned calls
and emails 50 of Cable's friends decided to surprise
him with a mock funeral that included a coffin,
a hearse, and even a eulogy.
No need to change after you get a significant other, friend.
Just include them in the group, it's all friendship.
Despite having DNA evidence of the suspect,
German police could not prosecute a 6.8 million dollar
jewel heist because the DNA belonged to identical twins
and there was no evidence to prove
which one of them was actually the culprit.
Bruises turn colors because your body is breaking down
and reabsorbing the hemoglobin that leaked
from the broken blood vessels in your body.
At full sprint a cheetah spends more time flying
than in contact with the ground.
Hundreds of prisoners were left to die in their cells
during Hurricane Katrina as officials
abandoned Orleans Parish Prison.
In the movie Saving Private Ryan,
directors depicted combat so realistically that veterans
actually had to leave the theaters during the opening scene
stating that it was the most realistic depiction
of combat that they had ever seen.
A 14-carat gold Lego brick was given out in the early 80s
to employees who had worked at the Germany
Lego Factory for over 25 years.
They are valued at over $15,000.
In 2007, a stray dog saved Shannon Lorio after she
crashed down an embankment and was thrown
through the back window of her car.
The German Shepherd emerged from the woods,
pulled her by the collar off of the trunk,
and 50 years through the briers to the road
where she could be seen by passing motorists.
And, they say dogs are only a man's best friend, nuh uh.
Iowa and Montana will revoke your driver's license
if you can't pay back your student loans.
UK brothers Jeff and John Bitmead created a grown-up version
of the red and yellow Little Tikes toy car.
It's road legal, fully functional,
and can go up to 113 kilometers an hour.
Mice can sign just like birds.
It's simply inaudible to human ears.
The naked mole rat is not only unable to feel pain,
it's the only known thermal conforming mammal
is resistant to cancer and possesses
extraordinary longevity for a rodent.
Queen Elizabeth II has owned more than
30 Corgis over her reign.
Steve Jobs had a high school GPA of 2.65.
Hummingbirds have such a high metabolism
that they are always hours away from starving to death.
In France, it is illegal for grogery stores
to throw away edible food.
Stores have to donate edible, unused food to charity
or facilities that process it into animal feed or compost.
A survey conducted by Buy T-Shirts Online
says that those who wear black
are seen as serious and reliable.
Almost 50% of women and 64% of men
agree that black exudes confidence.
If you are a seven plus foot tall American male,
between the ages of 20 and 40,
there is a 17% chance you currently play for the NBA.
Pedestrians in Jerusalem's Valero Square can stop
for some rest under these self-inflating giant flowers.
Installed by HQ architects in 2014, and entitled warde,
these nine by nine meter flowers bloom when
someone approaches, or when a tram is about to arrive,
brightening an otherwise depressed as part of the city.
On an island in Indonesia, if a child dies before
he started teethng, the baby is placed
inside the trunk of a growing tree.
The hole is then sealed, and as the tree begins to heal,
the child is believed to be absorbed.
And, in fact, dozens of babies may be interred
within a single tree, yikes.
The mobile game Send Me to Heaven involves
throwing your phone as high in the air as you can.
The creator made it in hopes of destroying
as many iPhones as possible, but
Apple banned it from the app store.
Who would ever download that?
Bananas have more trade regulations
imposed upon them than AK-47s do.
The world's tallest man, Bao Xishun,
used his long arms reaching 1.06 meters
to remove plastic from the stomachs of two dolphins,
which ultimately saved their lives
after trainers tried numerous other methods.
Ew, could you imagine that, just blah.
When Julius Caesar first discovered giraffes,
he named them camelopards, since they reminded
him of both camels and leopards.
British banking giant HSBC admitted to laundering
billions of dollars for Colombian and Mexican drug cartels
and violating a host of important banking laws.
But, somehow, there were no criminal charges
and no one went to jail.
You can't usually smell your own house or perfume
for the matter because of the survival instinct
called olfactory adaption.
The brain is always looking for new, unusual,
or changing smells as a sign of possible danger.
So, it ignores smells that it has become familiar with.
The most densely populated island on the planet
is Santa Cruz del Islote, off the coast of Colombia.
It measures only about 0.012 kilometers,
but is home to over 12,000 people.
A biotech startup has managed to print 3D rhino horns
that are genetically similar to a real horn.
The best thing about it is the company plans to flood
Chinese and Vietnamese markets, where demand is high,
and bring down the price, and thus, demand.
The movie Straight Outta Compton didn't play in Compton
because there are no theaters there.
There's a waterfall that exists where
nobody knows where the water goes.
Minnesota's Devil's Kettle Falls dumps into a
giant pothole with no see-able exit.
Researchers have actually poured dye and logs into it,
then watched the lake for any sign of them.
So far, none have ever been found.
A man in the United Kingdom was so fed up
that his city wasn't repairing potholes
he went and spray painted penises on them
earning him the nickname wanksy.
There is a natural rock formation off of the coast
of Iceland that looks like a giant elephant.
Donald Trump was actually the inspiration
for the character Biff Tanned in the
Back to the Future trilogy.
There is a bookstore in Australia where books are
wrapped in paper with short descriptions
so that no one can judge a book by its cover.
There is only one species of warm-blooded
fish on Earth, the opah.
Pixar spent three years studying the physics of curly hair
in order to correctly render Meridia's hair in Brave.
Americans work 137 more hours per year than
a Japanese worker, 260 more hours a year
than a British worker, and 499 hours more a year
than French workers.
If you come across a stranded dolphin,
do not help it help it back into the water.
More often than not, they beach themselves purposely
because they are sick/injured,
and are trying to avoid drowning.
If you are an Indian American, and you own a motel,
there is a 70% chance that your last name is Patel.
The reason men have nipples is because
all embryos start off as females in the womb.
According to researches night owls, or people who
stay up late and sleep in, tend to be more
extravagant, impulsive, and novelty seeking.
They also tend to be more likely to develop
addictive behaviors, mental disorders,
and anti-social tendencies.
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