- Here we go!
Here are 50 amazing facts
to blow your mind,
Part Seven.
If police officers in Thailand misbehave,
they are publicly humiliated
by being forced to wear bright pink
Hello Kitty armbands.
The man who designed Saddam Hussein's
secret bunker was the grandson of the woman
who designed Adolf Hitler's.
Facebook tracks and records your IP address
as well as the URL of every website
that you visit that uses any of its social plugins,
such as the Like button.
No need to be logged in, or even have an account.
In 2009, Burger King launched a campaign
that if you unfriended 10 friends on Facebook,
that you were entitled to a free Whopper.
Using the Whopper Sacrifice application,
your friend would receive a message
telling them that their friendship
was less valuable than a Whopper.
Yale has a rare book and manuscript library
with no windows, but instead has walls made
entirely of translucent marble
that prevents the books from being
exposed to direct sunlight.
In the early 1900s,
French gangsters used a weapon called an Apache Revolver
that functioned as a revolver, a knife,
and brass knuckles.
An artist in Mexico created
a series of underwater sculptures
that double as art and as artificial reefs.
Queen Elizabeth II actually employs someone
to wear her shoes before she does
to ensure that they are comfortable.
At the Cosmo Land Amusement Park
in Yokohama, Japan,
there's a roller coaster called Vanish
that plunges its riders into a huge underwater tunnel.
In Trout Creek, Montana,
there's a place called The Shire of Montana
that's a replica Hobbit village
that anyone can stay in for $295 a night.
If a Google employee dies,
their spouse gets half their salary
for the next 10 years, stock benefits,
and their children get $1,000 a month
until they turn 19.
Backpfeifengesicht is a German word that means
a face that badly needs a punch.
The cheapest gas prices in the world
belong to Venezuela at just over
a penny a liter, or five cents per US gallon.
Outside of London's Tate Britain Gallery,
there's a public toilet encased in a glass cube
that's made entirely of one-way glass
where you can see passersby,
but they can't see you.
(blows out)
Now that's a test of courage.
Leonardo da Vinci loved animals so much
that he would often buy caged birds
that were being sold in Italy at the time
just to set them free.
Sternutaphobia is the fear of sneezing.
In China, it's a popular trend for owners
to dye their dogs various colors
to make them look like other animals.
There's a tiny heart-shaped island in Fiji called Tavarua.
It's possible for a cat to be its own fraternal twin.
These cats, known as Chimera cats,
are an oddity that occurs when
two fertilized eggs fuse together.
If you inhale a pea, it is possible
for it to sprout and grow in your lungs.
Because of noise ordinance laws in Europe,
club owners have created silent discos
where clubgoers listen to music through headphones.
In 1997, Yahoo turned down a chance to buy
Google for one million dollars.
Today, Google's total brand value
is worth approximately 160 billion dollars.
There's a lake in western Australia called Lake Hillier
that has water that's naturally pink.
The orca, better known as the killer whale,
actually belongs to the dolphin family.
One of the oldest and most famous roads
in Rome is the Appian Way.
It was built in 312 B.C.
and is still used to this day.
There is a large village on an island in Wales called
(speaks in foreign language)
Yeah.
Cherophobia is the fear of being happy or joyful
with the expectation that something bad will happen.
The country of Niue, an island 2400 kilometers
northeast of New Zealand,
put various Pokemon on its one dollar coins in 2001,
including Pikachu, Squirtle, Meowth,
Bulbasaur, and Charmander.
One of the oldest living creatures on earth
was a giant tortoise named Adwaita from India
that was believed to be 255 years old
before he finally passed away in 2006.
The word Sahara is an Arabic word
that literally means Great Desert,
so those who say "The Sahara Desert"
are actually saying "The Great Desert Desert."
There are at least seven apps in the app store
priced at $999.99, which is the maximum price
that Apple allows to be charged for an app.
In real life, a road runner can only reach
speeds of about 32 kilometers an hour,
whileas a coyote can reach speeds
of up to 69 kilometers an hour.
Johnny Depp has a passion for playing guitar.
In fact, he's played with such artists as
Marilyn Manson, Oasis, Aerosmith, and Eddie Vedder.
There is a religion called Christian Atheism.
Practitioners believe in essentially
the same things as traditional Christians,
except that the bible is completely metaphorical,
and that God is an allegory for human morality
rather than a real being.
Carmen Dell'Orefice is the world's
oldest working model.
She started modelling at the age of 15,
and is still an active model to this day at the age of 83.
There is a cruise ship named The World,
where residents permanently live
as it travels around the globe.
Purchasing an apartment on board
will cost you a cool two million dollars,
as well as up to $270,000 a year in maintenance costs.
Bon Voyage.
The distance between Europe and Africa
is only about 23 kilometers.
Such a short distance, in fact,
that there have even been talks of creating
a massive bridge between the two continents
called the Strait of Gibraltar Crossing.
China's richest and most powerful
people who break the law will often hire body doubles
to serve their prison time.
There is an Australian sculptor named Sam Jinks
that creates hyper-realistic sculptures
made entirely of wax, fiberglass, silicone
and real human hair.
The Lego-Brücke is a concrete bridge
in Germany that has become famous
for being painted to look like a giant bridge
made of Lego blocks.
Justin Timberlake's mother was
Ryan Gosling's legal guardian when he was a child.
Macklemore once worked at a juvenile detention center
to help detainees express themselves
by writing and creating rap lyrics.
The iTunes user agreement explicitly
states that you are not allowed to use
the program to build nuclear, chemical,
or biological weapons.
The largest man-made hole in the world
is the Bingham Canyon Copper Mine in Utah,
at one kilometer deep, four kilometers wide,
and covers 770 hectares.
In the 1980s, notorious kingpin Pablo Escobar
was making so much money off of his drug cartel
that he was spending $2,500,
or $7,200 in today's money,
every single month on rubber bands,
just to hold all of the cash.
Nemo makes an appearance in the movie
"Monsters Inc." as a toy that Boo gives
to Sully a full two years before
"Finding Nemo" was released.
In fact, Pixar movies are infamous
for being full of Easter eggs like this.
There are Wizard of Oz-inspired shoes
that guide you home when you click your
heels together using a GPS system.
There are at least three books
in the Harvard University Library
that are bound in human skin.
The largest cave in the world is
the Son Doong Cave in Vietnam.
It's just under nine kilometers long,
and its interior is so big that it has
its own clouds and forests.
In fact, its ceiling is so high that you can fit
an entire 40-story skyscraper inside.
And Bob Marley's final words to his son
Ziggy were, "Money can't buy life."
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