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Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind part nine.
The Santa Rita do Sapucai prison in Brazil allows its
inmates to pedal exercise bikes to power lights in a nearby
town in exchange for reduced sentences.
For every 16 hours that they pedal one day is knocked
off of their sentence.
In 2012 in China a man named Zao Phen had 9,999 red roses
sewn into a dress for his girlfriend before asking for
her hand in marriage.
She said yes.
The code of Hammurabi is a well preserved Babylonian
law that dates all the way back to 1772 BC.
It had progressive laws in it such as minimum wage and
the right to be a free man and was written
far before the Bible.
In the novel Forrest Gump that the movie was based upon
he goes into space with NASA but upon returning,
crash lands on an island full of cannibals and only
manages to survive by beating the head cannibal every
day at chess.
Now that should have been made into a movie.
There is a secret McDonald's menu item that you can order
called the McGang Bang.
It's a McChicken in the middle of a double cheeseburger.
The Burj Kalifa in Dubai is the tallest man made structure
in the world at 830 meters tall.
Aerogel also known as frozen smoke is one of the world's
lowest density solids being made up of anywhere from
95 to 99 percent air.
It's almost impossible to see or feel but can support
4,000 times it's own weight.
Because of it's crystal clear water Flathead Lake in Montana
appears shallow but it's actually 113 meters deep.
In 2012 a 19 year old teenager secretly lived in AOL's
headquarters for two full months in Palo Alto, California.
He ate free food, used the gyms and showers and even
slept in the conference room all while working
on his own startup.
Everyone just assumed that he worked there.
During his presidency between 1961 and 1963
John F. Kennedy never once collected his salary of
$150,000 dollars.
Instead, every year he donated the full amount to charity.
A hacker group named UGNazi took down the Papa John's
website because the company was two hours later than
expected in delivering their food.
This is what shooting a glock 22 gun underwater looks like.
The Ark Two shelters, the world's largest privately
constructed nuclear fallout shelter that was being built
since the 1980s by man named Bruce Beach just north
of Toronto.
It's a 10,000 square foot shelter composed of 42 school
buses mixed with concrete, runs on internal generators,
and has it's own chapel, decontamination room,
and radio station.
In Dubai, Lamborghinis, Aston Martins, Bentleys
and Ferraris are all used as police cars.
This is known as the lilac chaser or the pac man illusion.
If you follow the movement of the rotating pink dot with
your eyes, the dots will remain pink but if you stare
at the black cross in the center,
the moving dot will turn green.
This is a Mercedes Benz made entirely of
18 karat white gold.
Owned by an unnamed oil billionaire in Abu Dhabi,
it has a V10 engine with 1600 horsepower,
goes zero to 100 in less than two seconds,
runs on bio-fuel and costs a
reported 2.5 million U.S. dollars.
Instead of using spray cans,
some artists create semi-permanent images on walls or
other surfaces by removing dirt from a surface known as
reverse graffiti or clean tagging.
In 2009 a man named Dalton Chisholm sued the Bank of
America for $1,784 billion trillion dollars because
he was unhappy with their service.
There is a Turkish artist named Eşref Armağan who is blind
yet he taught himself to write and paint and has been
doing so on his own for 35 years.
It is illegal to wear a bullet proof vest while comitting
a murder in New Jersey.
This beautiful scenery is located at the Kochia Hill
at the Hitachi Seaside Park in Japan.
An Akhal-Teke is a famous breed of riding horse known
for its beauty and shining metallic coat.
This incredible architecture is the piano house in
Huainan City, China.
The building is in the shape of a grand piano and is
accessible through a set of stairs in the giant glass
violin and acts as a show room for city planners to
show off their plans.
This picture taken in 2011 is of a two year old chimpanzee
named Doo Doo feeding milk to a two month old tiger cub
named Aorn.
Earlier this year in China, a golden haired Tibetan
Mastiff puppy was sold for twelve million yuan or
two million American dollars making it the most expensive
dog in the world.
Unlike most members of the cat family, tigers actually seem
to enjoy water.
They swim well and often soak in streams or pools of water
to cool off.
Oriole Os are a type of cereal that's exclusively available
in South Korea.
Deliciously disappointing.
In 2008 it was discovered that a 56 year old crime reporter
named Vlado Taneski who was reporting on gruesome murders
was the serial killer himself.
This is the original Ronald McDonald from 1963.
That's worth a nightmare.
When a person lies they experience an increase in
temperature around the nose.
This is known as the Pinocchio effect.
There is a micro nation located in the state of Nevada
called Molossia that was founded by a man named Kevin Baugh
that consists entirely of his house,
his front and his backyard.
In the 1980s a man known only as George who had severe
OCD shot himself in the head in an attempt to commit
suicide but instead of killing him,
the bullet destroyed the part of his brain responsible
for the OCD and he went on to be a straight A college
student five years later.
Henry Ford was the first industrial giant to give his
workers both Saturday and Sunday off in hopes that
it would encourage more leisure use of vehicles hence
popularizing the concept of the weekend.
Candles will last almost twice as long if placed in a
freezer a day before using them.
May the fourth is annual Star Wars day, an unofficial
holiday celebrated by Star Wars fans.
I also think that we should make the next day revenge of
the fifth but hey, that's just me.
TheZombie Research Society or ZRS has declared the
month of May Zombie Awareness month in the United States
with the goal of bringing awareness about zombies and the
possibility of a future zombie apocalypse.
In 1961 Mel Blanc the voice of Bugs Bunny was in a serious
car accident that put him in a coma that he could not wake
up from.
Doctors began speaking directly to the characters that
he voiced from which he would actually respond in their
voices and three weeks later he actually woke up.
In the earliest versions of The Little Red Riding Hood
the girl cannibalizes her own grandmother and then
gets eaten by the wolf after getting into bed with him.
In Egypt actors were once not allowed to testify in
court because they were seen as professional liars.
In 2010 Johnny Depp responded to a letter from a nine year
old girl named Beatrice Delap by actually showing up
at her school in costume as Captain Jack Sparrow after
she wrote asking that pirates help her stage a mutiny
against her teachers.
Bob Marley was buried with his red Gibson guitar,
a bible opened to Psalm 23, and a bud of marijuana.
In the original version of The Little Mermaid by
Hans Christian Anderson, Ariel does not marry the prince.
In fact he marries someone else and she dies.
Cheetahs, Tigers, Jaguars and other wild cats are attracted
to Obsession by Calvin Klein so don't ever wear it if
you're ever going on safari.
In 2012 a 63 year old man named Wallace Weatherhold
from Florida had his hand bitten off by an alligator
and he was charged with illegally feeding an animal.
Jackie Chan's son will receive none of his $130 million
dollar fortune as he was quoted as saying,
"If he is capable he can make his own money. If he is not
then he will just be wasting my money."
Bruce Lee could perform one handed push ups using only
his index finger and thumb.
He was also known for his famous one inch punch where he was
capable of knocking back an opponent from a distance
of just one inch.
In 2013 Vietnam unveiled a new steel bridge that's shaped
like a dragon that literally shoots fire out of it's mouth
that's called the dragon bridge.
Spanish fashion designer Manel Torres has invented the
world's first spray on clothing which can be worn,
washed and worn again.
In 1983 Marvel published a comic called Your Friendly
Neighborhood Spider Ham.
He was a Spider Pig named, wait for it,
Peter Porker.
Bed bugs survive longer in beds that are made,
so scientists actually suggest that you leave your bed
unmade once in a while as it ends up being healthier
for you.
Tell your momma that one.
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