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Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
The show Stranger Things was rejected 20 times by different
networks before finally being picked up by Netflix.
During his 1963 tour with the Beatles,
singer Roy Orbison, who had horrible eyesight
and needed thick glasses, left his glasses
on a plane before a show, which forced him
to wear his ugly prescription sunglasses that night.
But the look ended up becoming his trademark.
In the 18th century, in the Gregorian period,
women would cover blemishes, like smallpox scars,
with little beauty patches none as mouches.
They would often use small clippings of black velvet, silk
or satin, but the people who couldn't afford silk or satin
had to use a piece of mouse skin.
On January 4th, 2017, 105-year-old French cyclist
Robert Marchand set a world record for distance cycled
in just one hour at the Velodrome just outside of Paris.
He set the world record in the 105+ age category,
created especially for him,
by riding almost 23 kilometers in an hour.
It takes about 600 years for a discarded fishing line
to degrade in the ocean.
There's a cooking trend in Japan called Kawaii cooking.
It's a form of miniature cooking.
Using little stoves, pots, pans and cooking utensils,
people actually create mini edible cuisine using real-life
ingredients that are cooked over a candle flame.
There's a nursing home in the Netherlands
called the Residential and Care Center Humanitas
where university students can live rent-free
alongside elderly residents.
In place of rent payments, the students are required
to spend at least 30 hours per month with the elderly,
doing such things as watching sports games,
celebrating birthdays, and spending time in general
with the residents that are ill.
It's a project setup aimed at warding off
the negative effects of aging.
I have a feeling there's a lot of broke students
that are definitely gonna do this.
Everybody wins!
Actor Shia LeBeouf cut his own face
and had his dentist pull out one of his teeth
to make the World War II movie, Fury, more realistic.
Okay, that's dedication!
Crazy, but dedication.
In the late 18th century and early 19th century,
parents of crying and colicky infants
of children in England and the United States
would give them something called Godfrey's Cordial,
also known as 'mother's friend'.
This lovely combination included opium, treacle,
water and spices to quiet them down.
The European hare is the fastest land mammal
in the United Kingdom.
They can reach speeds over 72 kilometers per hour.
There's a company called Artful Ashes
that will swirl your loved one's cremated ashes with color
into a glass decorative piece of art.
Oh that, that's grandpa Jerry.
Yeah, we chose red because he was always grumpy.
In January of 2017, a new species of prehistoric otter
that's 6.24 million years old
was discovered in the Hunan province in southwestern China
by an international team of scientists
from the United States, France and China.
It was named the siamogale melilutra
and was about the size of a wolf,
and weighed a shocking 50 kilograms.
For context, that's almost twice as large
as the largest living otter.
Scientists have created a 3-D printer
that uses a patient's own skin cells
to print skin grafts, including hair follicles
and sweat glands, that can be used to treat burn victims.
Does it ...
Does it work on bald people?
In February of 2017, India successfully launched
104 satellites on a single mission
from the Sriharikota Space Center in South India,
this beating the previous record of only 37 satellites,
launched by Russia back in 2014.
In Japan it's women who do the gift giving
on Valentine's Day.
Men can choose to reciprocate, or not,
a month later on White Day.
Wait, you hear that?
That's a lot of gus suddenly moving to Japan.
In Korea, April 14th is known as Black Day.
It's a day where single people who don't receive anything
for Valentine's Day or White Day get together
dressed in black and eat black noodles together.
That sounds depressing.
The Ruggie is an alarm clock disguised as a rug.
It forces you to get out of bed
because it has a sensor that will only turn off the alarm
once you've stepped on it for at least three seconds.
It not only wakes you up, but it has speakers
that will deliver motivational quotes
that you can choose to start your day right.
San Francisco is the first city in the United States
to offer free college since the fall of 2017.
In November of 1960, six-year-old Ruby Nell Bridges
became the first African American child
to attend an all-white public elementary school
in the American South.
She had to be escorted to school
by federal marshals for her safety,
and spent the first year as the only student in her class.
In the summer of 2017, Taco Bell's flagship restaurant
in Las Vegas began allowing people
to get married inside the restaurant.
They even have a wedding chapel
on the second floor for nuptials.
And do you, John, take this gordita.
I do.
According to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention,
one in six U.S. adults binge drinks
about four times a month.
Every February the Takhini Hot Pools
in White Horse, Yukon, Canada hosts a hair freezing contest.
Visitors dunk their hair in hot water
of about 40 degrees celsius and then let it freeze
in the chilly air above, which can easily dip
below negative 30 degrees celsius.
The wackiest hairdo, and whoever doesn't die, wins!
In February of 2017, a new dating app came out called Hater.
It matches people based on their mutual dislikes
instead of their mutual likes.
Some topics covered are Donald Trump, gluten-free,
camping, marijuana, butt selfies, and Taylor Swift.
There's a world mountain bike bog snorkeling championship
in Wales, where competitors have to ride a mountain bike
as fast as they can along the bottom of a bog,
a two-meter-deep, water-filled trench.
As if that wasn't hard enough,
the bikes that they use have led-filled frames,
the tires are filled with water,
and the competitors where led weight belts
so that they don't float off of their bikes.
A bloodhound who hunts by scent only
can follow the scent of blood that's several days old.
Male hippos size one another up
by opening their mouth up to 150 degrees,
stretching it up to 1.5 meters in length.
Mm-hm, the game Hungry Hungry Hippos
isn't just a game, it's science!
In Japan you can buy a pyramid-shaped watermelon.
They go of the low, low price of $500 each.
There is a Play-Doh-scented cologne.
I can't make that up.
Shmaltz Brewing and Barcade have collaborated
to create a pastrami-flavored pilsner.
Am I the only one that thinks that sounds disgusting?
It's a beer made with authentic pastrami notes,
including ingredients like a pinch of kosher salt,
a dash of pepper, and smoke.
Okay, no thanks!
NFL player Tom Brady became the first player ever
to win four Super Bowl Most Valuable Player awards,
after the Patriots won Super Bowl 51.
A company based in London, England, called Little Riot,
has created a product called Pillow Talk.
It's a wristband that picks up your heartbeat
and sends it in real time to your loved one.
It allows you to hear their heartbeat in your pillow,
and they can hear yours in theirs.
That sounds great in theory, but it's also a little creepy.
According to a study done in 2013
by the Karoliska Institute and Stockholm University
Stress Research Institute in Sweden,
which tested sensitivity to sounds immediately after
a few minutes of artificially induced stress,
stress makes exhausted women oversensitive to sounds.
Even the normal decibel levels of a conversation
can sometimes seem painfully loud.
There's a website called pinstruck.com
where you can anonymously put a voodoo curse on anyone.
Please, please don't pick me, just saying.
All you need is to fill up the description
of what they look like, fill out their email,
and the service does the rest.
The Hubble Space Telescope travels around the Earth,
taking pictures of the stars, planets, and galaxies
at about 7,600 meters per second.
Back in Gregorian times, people would apply something
called fard to sunburned faces and acne breakouts.
It was a mixture of sweet almond oil,
spermaceti, which is a waxy substance
found in the head of a sperm whale, and honey.
It was dissolved over heat, and once it had cooled
it was applied to the face and left on overnight.
Okay, that sounds wrong, that's nasty.
Whale poop freshens the air that we breathe!
Whales transport vital nutrients
to the warm surface waters every time that they poop.
That's where phytoplankton use the nutrients
to photosynthesize and produce oxygen.
So essentially, every breath you take
is thanks to the pooping whales!
During World War II, the United States Playing Card Company
joined forces with American and British intelligence
agencies to create a very special deck of cards.
This deck was created to help prisoners of war
escape from German POW camps.
The deck was called the 'map' deck.
They were made by hiding maps of top secret escape routes
between the two paper layers that make up regular
playing cards, except when these were soaked in water
these decks could be peeled apart to reveal hidden maps
that allowed escaping prisoners to find their way to safety.
According to the Literacy Project Foundation,
45 million Americans are functionally illiterate
and cannot read above a fifth grade level,
and 50% of adults cannot read a book
written at an eighth grade level.
Construction of the world's tallest dam
began on July 13th, 2015 in China.
The dam in the Dadu River will be 314 meters high.
Construction is expected to be completed in 2022.
Attorney and MIT alum Phillip Weidner
has built what is called the Goose Creek Tower
and what the locals call the Dr. Seuss house in Alaska.
It started out as a 12-by-12 meter log cabin,
but he kept building log cabin after log cabin
on top of each other.
The log cabins gradually get smaller,
and the tower has reached almost 55 meters tall.
And the only reason that he stopped
was because federal air space starts at 61 meters.
Japan is building a vertical forest.
The Nanjing Vertical Forest
is scheduled to be fully built by 2018,
and will bring thousands of trees and shrubs
into the highly populated Pukou District of the city.
The forest will absorb CO2
and produce oxygen at the same time.
It's a pair of towers, one reaching 200 meters,
and the second one reaching 100 meters high,
completely covered in greenery.
Adolph Hitler's telephone, recovered from the Fuhrer bunker
and kept in a box at an English country house since 1945,
was sold at auction in the United States
in late February, 2017 for $243,000.
Would I pay that?
Nein.
There is a phone booth on a hilltop
overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Otsuchi town
in Northeaster Japan called the wind phone.
It's there to "connect" family members to their loved ones
who were lost in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami
that hit the coastline of Japan.
There is a 1.5 meter long orange alligator
in a pond in Hanahan, South Carolina
that locals are calling Trumpigator.
As of January, 2016, Steve Jobs has won
141 patents since his death in 2011.
Out of a total of 458 patents filed by Apple,
around one-third of them were filed by Steve Jobs himself.
Most of them were related to the design of Apple products.
The Girl Scouts were founded by Juliette Gordon Low
on March 12th, 1912 in Savannah, Georgia.
As of today, there are 2.7 million Girl Scouts --
1.9 million girl members and 800,000 adult members.
In 2017, the Islamabad High Court in Pakistan's capital
issued an order that banned the celebration
of Valentine's Day across the country.
Israel has the most museums per capita in the world
with more than 200 across the country.
The phrase "paying through the nose"
can be trace all the way back to the Vikings.
It used to be a Viking punishment
of slitting the nose from tip to eyebrow
of anyone who refused to pay tax.
These are hybrid bear called pizzlies and growler bears.
They're a cross between a polar bear and a grizzly bear.
They're called pizzlies if the father is a polar bear
and growler bears if the father is a grizzly.
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