- Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
- [All] Part 10!
- Being hungry causes serotonin levels to drop,
causing a whirlwind of uncontrollable emotions
including anxiety, stress, and anger,
or, as I like to call it, hangry.
- On Monday, March 23, 2178, Pluto will complete
its first full orbit since its original discovery
in 1930.
- There are more than 150 people cryofrozen right now
in hope that one day the technology will be invented
to revive them with over 1,000 registered to do the same
upon their death.
- Under extremely high pressure peanut butter
can be turned into diamonds.
- After the movie Princess and the Frog came out,
more than 50 children in the U.S.
were hospitalized with salmonella poisoning
from kissing frogs.
- Albert Einstein never wore socks.
- In 2010, the Technical University of Munich
built four-story high slides to help students
get to classes faster instead of taking the stairs.
- A can of Diet Coke will float in water,
while a can of regular Coke sinks.
Try it.
- If you take any number and double it,
add six, divide it in half,
and subtract the number that you started with,
your answer is always three.
- Only 2% of the Earth's population has green eyes.
- When Jackie Chan was 18 he got into a street fight
with bikers where, shortly after,
he noticed a piece of bone sticking out of his knuckle.
He tried spending an entire day pushing it back in
until he realized that it wasn't his bone,
it was the other guy's tooth.
- This crazy looking fish is called
a White Dragon Ling Crown Betta.
- In 1971, a man named Jean-Claude Romand
lied about passing important medical exams,
where he continued crafting an elaborate lie
until everyone he knew thought
he was an actual medical doctor.
He got away with it for 18 years,
until he eventually killed his entire family
to avoid being revealed.
- There's a small town in Oklahoma called Okay,
which is denoted as Okay, OK on maps.
Okay? Ok.
- In 1967, an orangutang named Fu Manchu
repeatedly escaped from his cage
at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Nebraska
using a key that he fashioned out of a piece of wire.
The reason that he kept getting away with it
was because every time the zookeepers inspected him
he would hide the key in his mouth.
- In 1984, upon introduction,
Air Jordans were banned by the NBA.
However, Michael Jordan wore them anyway,
as Nike was willing to pay the $5,000 fine
each time he stepped onto the court.
- Zach Galifianakis was approached by Nike to be
in their advertising after the success of The Hangover.
During the conference call, he broke the ice by asking,
"So do you guys still have seven-year olds
"making your stuff?"
And that was the end of that conversation.
- The Statue of Liberty was originally meant to be
a gift to the Egyptians from France,
but when it was refused, it was given to America instead
in honor of her centennial.
- In France, a bakery, by law, has to make
all of its bread that it sells from scratch
in order to have the right to be called a bakery.
- Vatican City is home to the world's only ATM
that gives instructions in Latin.
- In 2005, 110 people tied for the second prize
in the Powerball Lottery.
Officials suspected cheating was involved,
but discovered that the winners had all used
the same lucky numbers off copies of the same fortune
from fortune cookies.
- In Denmark, "Fartkontrol" means speed check.
- This is the famous Mayan Temple water slide
on Atlantis Paradise Islands in the Bahamas
that features an almost completely vertical drop
into an underwater tube surrounded by sharks.
Awesome.
- In Australia there are trees that grow
several different kinds of fruit,
known as "fruit salad trees."
- In 2009, a 10-year-old British girl named Zoe Pemberton
tried to sell her grandmother on eBay,
because the little girl found her annoying
and wanted to get rid of her.
- The United States could cut its military budget by 80%
and still have the largest military budget in the world.
- The shortest presidency in the history of the world
was by President Pedro Paredes of Mexico,
who ruled for less than one hour
on February 19, 1913.
- In 2013, Scottish scientists created a pizza
that has 30% of your daily recommended nutrients.
It can be eaten for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Thank you, Scottish scientists.
- In 2006, artist Kim Graham and group of 25 volunteers
spent 15 days using entirely non-toxic,
recycled paper products to create
a 3.7 meter tall paper mache tree doll.
- A 20 ounce bottle of Mt. Dew
contains the equivalent of about
22 packets of sugar.
- This is the skywalk on Tianmen Mountain in China.
It's a 61 meter long, 2.5 meter thick glass bridge
that's so high up, that it allows visitors
to look down on the peaks of smaller mountains below.
- In Moscow, stray dogs have learned to commute
from the suburbs to the city, scavenge for food,
then catch the train home in the evening.
Stray dogs.
- The human brain has a negativity bias
causing us to continually look for bad news.
It's an evolutionary trait that stem from early humans
as a survival mechanism.
- The smallest known reptile in the world
is the Brookesia micra, which is so small
it can stand on the head of a match.
- In 2011, a 99-year-old Italian man named Antonio C.
divorced his 96-year-old wife Rosa C.
after finding secret love letters revealing
that she had an affair in the 1940s.
- We're all technically living about 80 milliseconds
in the past because that's how long it takes
our brains to process information.
- In 2008, a 19-year old from Somerset, England
named George Garret officially changed his name to,
wait for it,
Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman
Spiderman Batman Wolverine The Hulk And The Flash
Combined.
Wow.
- In 1993, Dave Thomas, the founder of Wendy's
went back to high school to earn his GED
decades after dropping out,
because he was worried kids may see his success
as an excuse to also drop out of school.
- In 1973, billionaire J. Paul Getty
refused to pay a $17 million ransom
for his kidnapped grandson.
When the teenager's severed ear arrived,
he agreed to pay $3 million,
but actually only paid $2.2 million,
because that was the maximum amount
that was tax deductible.
Oh, and he lent the other $800k to his son
on the condition that he pay it back with interest.
- The average Game of Thrones episode
costs $6 million to make.
That's two to three times what a typical network
or cable show costs per episode.
- This unusual frog is the Atelopus varius,
also known as the Costa Rican Variable Harlequin Toad,
or simply, the Clown Frog,
and is an endangered species.
- Baboons in the wild have been known
to kidnap puppies and raise them as pets.
- This is the glass floor of CN Tower in Toronto.
I have been on it and trust me,
it's not pleasant if you're afraid of heights.
- In 2005, a man named Ronald MacDonald robbed a Wendy's
in Manchester, England.
- This is not a cartoon drawing of a Kleenex,
it's a real sculpture by New Zealand artist
Neil Dawson called, Horizons.
- In 1977, we received a radio signal from space
that lasted 72 seconds and was dubbed "the Wow Signal."
To this day, we still don't know
from who or what it came from.
- Socialist Karl Marx's final words
before he died in 1883 were,
"Go away, last words are for fools who haven't said enough."
- According to lunar scientists,
all the American flags still standing on the moon
are likely completely white now,
due to radiation from the sun.
- Oona Chaplin, the actress who plays
Talisa in the Game of Thrones,
is actually Charlie Chaplin's granddaughter.
- This is the 3Doodler.
It's the world's first 3D printing pen that can draw in air.
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Peace.
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Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
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Do it again.
And that's it.
- On Monday, March 23, 2178,
Pluto will complete its first full orbit.
First full orbit.
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- Are they, all this stuff?
- A can of Diet Coke will float in water
while a can of regular Coke sinks.
Try it.
(Matt laughing)
- Only 2% of the Earth's pop,
Earth's,
Earth's.
Only 2% of the Earth's po...
- [Matt] Alright?
- It was given to America instead in honor
of her centennial. (laughing)
In honor of her (breathy) centennial.
- Yeah, is it true?
- [Matt] Yes! (Rhett laughing)
- That's it?
(Matt and Rhett laughing)
Beautiful.