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Here are 50 Amazing Facts to Blow your Mind.
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According to the Guinness World Records,
the largest gingerbread man ever made
was made by Ikea in Oslo, Norway
on November 9th, 2009.
It weighed an astonishing 651 kilograms
and was all baked in one piece.
Anybody got a big-ass cup 'o cocoa,
'cause Matty's hungry.
Amish kids only go to school until the eighth grade.
The biggest reason for this is practicality.
The Amish feel that formal school learning
can only provide limited value,
as they emphasize agriculture as well as manual trades.
And beards.
Can't forget the beards.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had an older sister
name Maria Anna, who was also a child prodigy.
In fact, they performed together
until she turned 18 years old.
Back in those days, a child could perform and tour,
but a woman risked her reputation,
so she never toured again.
There's a British cat named Coby the Cat on Instagram
that has over 1.1 million followers.
Okay, I need to get on that cat's level.
(meowing)
Israeli and Australian researchers discovered
that a small concentration of Viagra
dissolved in a base of water
can double the shelf life of flowers,
making them stand up straight
for as long as a week beyond their natural life span.
Yep, it's a thing.
(whip cracking) #Flowerboner.
The University of Wisconsin Green Bay
is telling students that they have been accepted
at the university by sending them a Snapchat.
Wait, what did that say?
What did that say?
I missed it.
In the state of Florida, the prison's executioner
is an anonymous, private citizen
who's paid $150 per execution.
The therapy bills alone on that one, ooh.
In October, 2016, thousands of natural snow balls
showed up on a beach in Serbia.
They spanned 17.7 kilometers, and ranged in size
from tennis balls up to almost one meter.
It's a rare phenomenon where pieces of ice form
and then are rolled by wind and water
until they become snowballs.
This natural phenomenon is what's called
every day in Canada.
In about 21% of identical twin pairs,
one twin is right handed, and the other
is either left handed or ambidextrous.
Hand preference is a classic example
of the controversy over the relative importance
of nature, genetics, versus nurture, environment
in causing a trait.
Every December between finals and the end of the semester,
volunteers at a dorm at the University of Illinois
will sing you a Christmas carol if you call them.
This has been a yearly event since 1960.
All you have to do is call Dial-A-Carol
at (217) 332-1882, any time
and any day after finals
and before the end of the semester,
and they will sing you a carol request.
Just keep in mind that they're not exactly professionals,
so they might be a bit off-key.
Researchers at the Smithsonian
discovered that the central nervous systems, or brain,
of the smallest spiders fill up
almost 80% of their total body cavity,
including 25% of their legs.
Spiders be like, "Hm, let me think about that, hm."
There's natural sugar in tobacco,
but sugar is also sometimes added to tobacco manufacturing
to create a sweeter smell and taste.
The Amber Alert that is put out when a child goes missing
came about after nine year old Amber Hagerman
was kidnapped and murdered on January 13th, 1996.
Local broadcasters and law enforcement came together
to get information out quickly
following a child's abduction.
It's known nationwide as an Amber Alert, which stands for
America's Missing Broadcast Emergency Response.
And to this day, Amber Hagerman's killer
still hasn't been found.
There are only two 15-letter words
that do not repeat a letter.
One is dermatoglyphics, and the other is uncopyrightable.
Google announced that they will reach 100% renewable energy
for their global operations, including their data centers
and offices, in 2017.
That's a commitment of reaching 2.6 gigawatts,
or 2,600 megawatts of wind and solar energy.
To put that into perspective,
that's bigger than many large utility companies,
and more than twice as much as the 1.21 gigawatts
that it took to send Marty McFly back to the future.
The world's first meteorite-aged wine
was launched by Ian Hutcheon.
It's a Cabernet Sauvignon called Meteorite
that was aged with a 4.5 billion year old meteorite
from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
It was created in 2012 at his Tremonte Vineyard
in the Cachapoal Valley in Chile.
In December of 2016, the Alberta, Canada
parks system had to issue a warning to motorists
because there was an aggressive moose going around
liking the sides of cars for salt.
Now if you don't live in or haven't visited moose country,
and that all sounds silly to you,
you may not realize that these animals
can top 1.8 meters tall and weigh more than 680 kilograms.
That's a whole lotta mammal to have
hovering around your car door
when you want to get in and drive home.
The chimaera, or ghost shark, lives in the part of the ocean
that the sun can't reach.
They don't have teeth and are dead-eyed,
and the males have a retractable sex organ
on their foreheads.
Relatives of sharks and rays,
these deep-sea creatures are a split-off
from other groups, some 300 million years ago.
Yeah, and somewhere evolution went terribly wrong.
In 2016, Kentucky Fried Chicken
released a scented candle that fills your house
with the smell of fried chicken.
The King of Hearts is the only king in a pack of cards
without a mustache.
There is suggestion that the kings
were all based on historic figures,
such as Charlemagne and Alexander the Great,
and the King of Hearts is supposed
to have been Charlemagne,
though he is usually depicted as having
a full beard and mustache.
The sun is 1,391,000 kilometers across.
This is about 109 times the diameter of Earth.
If the planet Saturn was put in a bathtub,
or a really large bathtub, it would float
because it's mostly made up of gas.
There was a plane called the Bumble Bee II
that is only 2.7 meters long, 1.22 meters high,
and weighs only 180 kilograms empty.
Yep, I would not trust that to fly.
Less than 30% of China's airspace
can be used by commercial airlines,
compared to about 80% in the US.
This could be why China's airports
are the worst in the world
when it comes to punctuality.
According to the Guinness World Records, the longest burp
was one minute, 13 seconds, 57 milliseconds,
and was achieved by Michele Forgione
from Italy at the 13th annual Rock Beer Festival.
She achieved this on June 16th, 2009.
The bubbles in Guinness beer actually
sink to the bottom rather than float to the top.
The whale shark lays the largest egg
of any other animal.
The largest whale shark egg ever recorded
measured almost 31 centimeters long,
almost 14 centimeters wide,
and just under nine centimeters thick.
Thailand holds a monkey buffet festival every year.
(imitating monkey)
It was invented in 1989 by a local businessman
in order to boost tourism to the Lopburi Provence.
It has 4,000 kilograms of fruits, vegetables, cakes,
candies and more that are set down
in front of temples on tables
for the 3,000 monkeys that live in the area.
There are also people dressed like monkeys
and monkey sculptures.
The speed of light travels
at just under 300,000 kilometers a second.
Just for some context, that means
if you were traveling at the speed of light,
you would be able to whip around Earth 7.5 times per second.
At Christmastime in Iceland,
the people eat something called Kiviak
This is the raw flesh of little auks,
a type of Arctic bird which has been buried whole
in seal skin for several months
until they have reached an advanced stage of decomposition.
(retching) This is considered delicacy.
(gagging)
Baby koalas eat a liquified form of their mother's feces
knows as pap, in order to give them the necessary microbes
to digest the toxins in the eucalyptus
that he needs to eat to survive.
One megawatt of wind energy equals
2,600 fewer tons of carbon dioxide.
The male African lion protects his pride's territory
by marking it with urine.
And there's a lot of it, 'cause the area
can be as big as 259 square kilometers.
The world's largest pine cones
are created by tropical cycads
known as Lepidozamia and Encephalartos.
These African pine cones are almost one meter in length,
and weigh up to 45 kilograms.
Good luck rakin' those off your lawn.
The SIM in SIM card stands for
Subscriber Identification Module.
According to the Guinness World Records,
the most expensive bottle of white wine
is the Chateau d'Yquem from 1811,
which was sold for $117,000 by the antique wine company
to Christian Vanneque in January 18th of 2011.
The domaine name VacationRentals.com
was bought for $35 million.
The act of blowing smoke in someone's face
can actually be considered
for a case of assault and battery.
The ballpoint pen is called a biro in England,
because it was invented by Hungarian newspaper journalist
Laszlo Biro and his chemist brother.
In Scandinavia, the holly plant
that we use as a decoration at Christmastime
is known as the Christ thorn.
It's supposed to represent the thorns
that Jesus wore when he was crucified,
and the berries are the drops of blood.
A male duck is called a drake.
(imitating duck)
The device that measures blood pressure
is called a sphygmomanometer.
The only letter of the alphabet that doesn't appear
on the Periodic Table at all is the letter J.
In the 1970s, the CIA created a spy drone
the size of a dragonfly to collect audio intelligence.
It was called the Insectothopter,
but ultimately the drone was scrapped
because it couldn't withstand any type of crosswind
while it was flying.
The Ueno Zoo in Tokyo allows visitors
a chance to sample the same foods that
the animals eat.
Momoko Healthy Lunch is an exact copy
of the fruits, nuts, vegetables and legumes
fed to the zoo's lowland gorillas.
Of course it's portion-size adjusted for humans.
There is a rare plant called the cobra lily
that can be found in Oregon and Northern California
that lures insects into themselves
with a sweet smell so they can eat them.
They even have numerous see-through false exits
that exhaust their victims as they try to escape.
The first time a woman of England
was crowned as a queen with a coronation ceremony
was in the 10th century, C.E.
She was Queen Alfreda, the wife of King Edgar the Peaceable.
The short-finned pilot whale and the orca, or killer whale
both go through menopause.
A rare first edition of Sir Isaac Newton's
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
sold for $3.7 million in 2016.
Because of years of habitat destruction and poaching,
the giraffe is in the vulnerable category
on the endangered species list for the first time
ever, starting in 2016.
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