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Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
Action gamers are better learners.
They excel at predicting the sequence of upcoming
events and become better learners
by playing fast-paced games.
A single share of Coca-Cola stock
that was purchased in 1919 for $40,
would be worth $9.8 million today.
Robert Emmet Odlum, the first person
to jump off of the Brooklyn Bridge,
was a professional high-diver who wanted
to demonstrate that people did not die
by simply falling through the air,
and he proved himself correct by falling
41 meters safely through the air
only to die when he hit the water.
South Carolina high school student Alex Stone
was arrested, suspended and had his
locker searched because of a creative writing
assignment where he mentioned buying a gun
to shoot his neighbor's pet dinosaur.
Scientists at Oregon State University have
developed an algae that tastes just like
bacon when fried and has nearly twice
the nutritional value as kale.
There's a genetic disease called Laron
Syndrome that results in short stature,
long life expectancy and near immunity
to cancer and diabetes, among other things.
In 1942, a British forest guard in India
made an alarming discovery.
About 4,877 meters above sea level,
at the bottom of a small valley, a frozen
lake absolutely full of skeletons was discovered.
During Roman times, salt was worth its weight
in gold, and soldiers were sometimes paid in salt,
hence the word salary.
The flag erected on the moon during the Apollo 11
landing was purchased at a local Sears
store for $5.50 American.
A Japanese gymnast named Shun Fujimoto
once broke his knee at the Olympics in 1976
but didn't tell anybody and performed
miraculously despite his injury, even winning
his team a gold medal.
There's a town in Australia where the entire
town, 200-plus people, live underground
in abandoned opal mines.
Residents here have electricity and plumbing,
and have been known to find vast amounts
of opal when renovating.
Artist Susan Beatrice recycles old watch parts
and turns them into intricate steampunk sculptures.
Panera and Chipotle are the only U.S. restaurant
chains that have meat offerings that do not use antibiotics.
A woman in Florida once spent six years
sitting on a couch.
She actually died during surgery, after doctors
attempted to remove her after her skin
grafted to the fabric.
Ugh.
George Hotz, then 17 years old, was the first
to unlock a first-generation iPhone and sold
the iPhone for a Nissan 350Z and three locked phones.
There's a pepper, grown in Japan,
known as the Shishito pepper.
Only one out of every 10 is spicy, and there's
no way to know which one beforehand.
It's like Russian roulette with peppas.
There's a mental disorder called maladaptive
daydreaming, which causes people to excessively
daydream to escape reality as a defense
mechanism due to trauma, usually from abuse.
More people have died from selfies than shark attacks.
Treadmills were actually created to punish
English prisoners in 1818.
Dr. Duncan MacDougall, Haverhill, once attempted
to prove that the human soul had weight
by placing dying patients on a giant scale
at the exact moment of death.
Believe it or not, at the exact moment
of death, there was a slight decrease in weight.
Experiences that you have throughout your life
leave chemical markers on your DNA,
essentially ingraining superficial experiences
into your descendants.
Photographer Chompoo Baritone created
a photo series that aims at exposing
the truth by mocking Instagram users
who prop and filter their lives to make
them seem more amazing than they really are.
Africam is a website that brings you live,
24/7 video feed of protected areas of southern Africa.
You can watch elephants, giraffes, zebras,
hyenas and all kinds of species of wildlife living there.
There is a 1966 Volvo with more than 3 million miles on it.
Horror movie sound tracks sometimes include
infrasound, which is sound below the range of human hearing.
Even though we can't hear it, we can still feel it,
and infrasound has been shown to induce
anxiety, heart palpitations and even shivering.
In Japan, you can hire a handsome man to show
up at your office and watch sad videos with you
until you cry and then wipe away your tears for you.
Trust me, that's the least weirdest thing in Japan.
Charles Baldwin, designer of the international
biohazard symbol, said regarding his design,
we wanted to create something that was
memorable but meaningless, so that we could
educate people as to what it means.
The total cost of climbing Mount Everest, to pay
for sherpas, supplies and permits, is
between $60,000 and $120,000.
When Neuroscientist James Fallon was studying
the brains of psychopathic killers, he scanned
his own brain as a control, only to discover
that he himself was a psychopath.
When he told his friends and family,
the universal response was that explains a lot.
This is the Jorunna parva, a sea slug that looks
exactly like a fluffy bunny.
Aw, how cute and terrifying.
Argentine ants have a worldwide mega-colony.
In fact, if they got on an airplane and traveled
to a different continent, they would actually
be welcomed by a foreign branch of the colony.
These are Silkie chickens, and they are
well-known for their calm, friendly temperament.
Among the most docile of poultry, Silkies
are considered an ideal pet.
A study once found that, while sober,
rats prefer silence, but on cocaine, they prefer jazz.
The U.S. Navy maintains a research vessel
that is designed to be capsized vertically.
As a result, most rooms on it have two doors,
one to use when the ship is horizontal,
another when vertical.
In the 1930s, two psychologists adopt a baby chimp
and tried to raise her as their own child
alongside their real infant son, Donald, to see
if it caused the chimp to learn human behavior,
but they stopped the experiment after nine months
because their son actually started behaving
more like the chimp.
Wuh huh huh!
Gun laws in Japan are so strict that even
when a police officer killed himself with one once,
he was posthumously charged with breaking the law.
One of the top vasectomy doctors in Austin
is named Dick Chop.
I can't make that up.
The whiptale lizard is an all-female species.
The males have gone completely extinct.
Interestingly, they are not hermaphroditic.
the females actually lay and hatch from unfertilized eggs.
There's a nightclub in Devon, U.K., who gave out
free lollipops to reduce late-night rowdiness
in hopes that drunken clubbers wouldn't be able
to shout or cause disturbance while sucking
on them, and it worked.
The Island of Discussion in Scotland is where,
historically, those with arguments were put
on the island with cheese and whiskey to sort
out their problems and couldn't leave until they
came to a mutual agreement.
Breakups are actually more painful for men.
In a study of around 5,705 participants from 96
countries, it was found that while women
experience intense pain immediately after a breakup,
then get over it pretty quickly, men on the other hand,
move on quickly but remain damaged for longer.
There is a limestone wall in Bolivia that is home
to over 5,000 dinosaur footprints, some of them
dating back nearly 68 million years.
Crows have actually been shown to be
as smart as great apes.
They are able to show imagination,
anticipation of possible future events,
and are able to solve problems which
require abstract reasoning.
There is a Chinese Segway ripoff company
called NineBot, which used the money that it
got from selling ripoff Segways to buy
the original Segway company.
There exists a giant American wasp
with a sting so painful one peer-reviewed
journal advises anyone who gets stung
to lie down and scream to avoid further injury.
In the 1970s, people in Cambodia were killed
for being academics or for merely wearing sunglasses.
Hey, four-eyes, you dead.
Billy Milligan, a criminal, had a life so disturbed
that his mind fractured into at least 24 personalities.
For each of these personalities, his speech pattern
was different, his accents were different,
and he even sat in different ways in chairs.
A 20-year-old anonymous British man from Birmingham,
dresses up as Spiderman in the night to help
homeless people by buying them food from the supermarket.
Potoos are a type of bird that use body posture
to camouflage themselves to look
like the part of a tree stump.
Some restaurants in China actually lace
their foods with opiates to keep
customers coming back.
That really doesn't surprise me at all.
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