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Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
There's a city in Kansas called Gas that was named for
the abundant amount of gas that was discovered
in the area.
The city's motto is don't pass Gas, stop and enjoy it.
Black tomatoes can be grown without any genetic
engineering.
They are full of beneficial anthocyanins which are believed
to help with obesity, cancer and diabetes.
Most cats don't like to drink water if it's too close
to their food source.
Always keep your cat's water and food supply separate
so they don't get dehydrated.
Aside from stock footage of historical people,
Steven Hawking is the only person to date to have
played himself in an episode of Star Trek.
During World War 2 a 14 year old boy named
Jacklyn Lucas lied his way into the military and became
the youngest marine ever to earn a medal of honor.
When he was 17 he threw himself on two live grenades
to protect his squad members and survived.
DC Comics published an alternate unvierse
where Bruce Wayne dies instead of his parents.
In it, Thomas Wayne becomes Batman and Martha
Wayne goes crazy and becomes the Joker.
In 2003 neurosurgeon and CNN medical correspondent
Sanjay Gupta saved marine Jesus Vidana's life after
he was shot in the head in Iraq.
He did this by performing brain surgery using a Black
and Decker drill bit.
Romanian tennis player Simone Halep used to have
34 double D breasts, until she got breast reduction
surgery to make her more agile while playing.
Well it worked because since then she has climbed the
ranks in the tennis world.
Hippos like to lick crocodiles.
They're not a threat so the crocs tolerate it.
Watson, IBM's artificially intelligent computer learned how
to swear from the urban dictionary.
Because of that it began talking sassy so scientists
had to remove the entire urban dictionary database
from it's memory.
During World War 2 Hitler had a plan to destroy
Russia by killing 4 million inhabitants of Moscow
and covering it with an artificial lake.
The Indonesian Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries
determined that a single manta ray, if caught and killed,
is worth any where from 40 to 500 dollars.
However they also determined that if kept alive
they're worth up to one million dollars in tourism
revenue so they created the largest manta ray sanctuary
in the world.
Mufdi Zakariah, a poet, wrote the Algerian national
anthem in his own blood on his prison cell walls after
he was in prison by the French Imperial forces
in 1955.
The children's book Where the Wild Things Are
was originally titled Where the Wild Horses Are however
author and illustrator Maurice Sendak ended up changing
the name of it after he realized he had no idea how
to draw horses.
An Indonesian boy named Aldi Rizal began chain smoking
when he was just 18 months old and continued smoking
over 40 cigarettes a day until he was five years old when
he was sent to rehab.
The state of Illinois has banned exfoliating face washes
because the microbeads in them are so small that they
actually slip through the water treatment facilities
and end up back in the water supply.
The first recorded human flight with artificial wings
in history was in the sixth century in China.
Emperor Kao Yang would strap prisoners to kites and
throw them off buildings to see if they could fly.
A psychologist named Timothy Leary was sent to jail
in 1970 and given a series of tests to determine which
jail he should be placed in.
Since he designed many of the tests himself,
he manipulated his answers so that he would be placed
in a low security prison as a gardener and ended up
escaping only eight months later.
After needing a blood donation when he was young,
an Australian man named James Harrison began
donating blood as soon as he turned 18.
Amazingly it was discovered that he has a rare
antibody in his blood that cures Rhesus disease and
has since donated blood over 1,000 times saving an
estimated 2.4 million babies from the disease.
Ken McElroy was a notorious bully who terrorized
residents of Missouri for years.
He was shot in 1981 in broad daylight in an act
of vigilante justice with dozens of onlookers watching
however no one came forward saying that they saw anything
and the case remains unsolved to this day 30 years
later.
Noah Webster, the creator of the first ever American
dictionary learned 26 languages so that he could understand
and research the origins of his own country's tongue
in order to write it.
The word jay used to be used as slang for a dull or
stupid person so when anyone who ignored traffic
regulations and crossed roads illegally,
was called a jay walker.
Girdling or ring barking is the term used to describe
the removal of a strip of bark from the circumference
of a tree's branch or trunk.
If the main trunk of a tree is girdled, it will die if it
cannot regrow from above to bridge the wound.
Walt Disney used to visit his parks in disguise
and test ride operators to make sure that they weren't
rushing guests.
This is Gunner the air raid siren dog.
during World War 2 he alerted aircraft personnel that
Japanese aircraft were approaching because his hearing
was so acute and accurate.
The most well known cut for a diamond is the brilliant cut.
When done perfectly on a round diamond,
something called the cupid effect appears which is a
pattern of arrows and hearts that can be seen if you
shine a light through it.
In 1999, Lene Hau a physicist at Harvard became
the first person ever to slow light down to only
17 meters per second, using a machine called
Bose-Einstein condensate.
And only two years later she succeeded in stopping
light entirely.
Barcode scanners actually read the spaces between
the black bars, not the black bars themselves.
Employees who play different cartoon characters at
Disneyland never ever break character.
They're even given special autograph training sessions
so that they can always sign autographs in the style
of the cartoon character they're playing.
Iron Man was created by Stan Lee in 1963 at the height
of the Cold War when people hated war and the military.
He did this as a challenge to himself to see if he could
create a character that everyone would hate and yet still
try to shove it down their throats to make them like him.
And obviously he succeeded.
A study conducted in 2011 by Angela Duckworth
proved that IQ tests can be affected by motivation.
By promising subjects monetary rewards,
she found that the higher the reward, the higher
they scored on the IQ test.
The US embassy located in Baghdad Iraq is the largest
and most expensive embassy in the world, spanning more than
104 acres and costing more than 750 million dollars.
In Finland, babies sleep in cardboard boxes, seriously.
Expected mothers are given starter kits from the state
filled with clothes, sheets, toys and even a little mattress
to put in the box to use as a bed.
It's a tradition that is continued since the 1930's.
Galalith was an inexpensive synthetic plastic that was
developed in the early 1900's that was made out of milk
protein.
It was odorless, biodegradable, anti-allergenic
and virtually inflammable, however, unfortunately because
it could not be molded after the plastic was set,
production ended in the 1960's.
Before Will Smith stared in the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,
he was on the verge of bankruptcy owing the government
2.8 million dollars.
In fact, for the first three seasons of the show
he had to pay the IRS 70% of his income.
There's a lake in Australia called Lake Disappointment
that was named and found by Frank Hann in 1897
who was hoping to find fresh water but instead found
salt water.
National Geographic star Casey Anderson has a pet
grizzly bear named Brutus.
The bear was adopted in 2002 when he was a newborn
cub and in 2008 served as Casey's best man at his wedding.
Seriously.
Peachtree City in Georgia has a 145 kilometer network
of pathways dedicated to pedestrian and golf cart use.
Most of the city owns golf carts that use them as
an extra car to get around for local transportation.
Philani Dladla is a homeless man from Johannesburg
South Africa who's known as the pavement bookworm.
He survives by reviewing books for people passing
on the street and sells them the book if they like it.
Researchers from the University of California in 2013
found that 29% of San Francisco's pollution comes from
China.
The hazardous air from China can travel all the way to the
west coast of America within only days if the weather
conditions are right.
There's an amusement park in Las Vegas called Dig This
where you get to drive construction equipment over a
giant sand box.
I want to do that.
This is a golden tiger.
They're the result of inbreeding between white and orange
tigers held in captivity.
They are extremely rare because they're not intentionally
bred.
Chiune Sugihara was a famous Japanese diplomat that operated
in Lithuania during World War 2.
He helped more than 6,000 Jewish refugees escape
to Japanese territory by issuing them transit visas
risking his life and his family's life in the process.
When a new building was being constructed for
Scotland Yard, one of the world's best known police
agencies, a dismembered torso of a woman was found.
The case was called the white hall mystery and was
never solved meaning that Scotland Yard was built upon
an unsolved crime scene.
Lotso the bear from Toy Story 3 was originally supposed
to be in the first movie but the technology needed to
create his fur wasn't available at the time so he got
pushed back to the third movie.
Insurance companies have blacklisted Jackie Chan
and anyone else who works on his stunt team.
This means that if anyone gets injured while on the
set of a Jackie Chan movie, he has to pay for their
recovery treatment.
In 1861 a slave named Robert Smalls fought his way
to freedom by seizing a confederate ship and delivering
it to the union.
He ultimately became a major general and even bought
the original house that he was a slave in, reuniting
with his mother.
The oldest hotel in the world is the Nishiyama
Onsen Keiunkan in Japan.
It was founded in 705 AD and has had 52 generations
of the same family operating it since it was founded.
Every spring, a set of 21 swings is set up near a bus stop
in Montreal's entertainment district.
Every one of them acts as a musical instrument and as
people swing, prerecorded sounds fill the air.
The pizza Luis XIII is the most expensive pizza in the world
costing 12,000 dollars.
Created by chef Renato Viola he prepares the entire
dish at your house.
The toppings include three types of caviar,
Mediterranean lobster, and red prawns and the size
of the pizza is only 20 centimeters in diameter.
Yikes.
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