- Here are 50 Amazing Facts to Blow Your Mind!
One of the largest animals to ever fly
was the Quetzalcoatlus.
It was a pterosaur that was as tall as a giraffe,
had a wingspan of 10 meters
and could fly for 16,000 kilometers nonstop.
Due to their small brains,
koalas are unable to perform complex, unfamiliar
tasks such as eating leaves off of a flat surface.
No human has won a tournament standard chess
game against a high-spec computer since 2005,
and because computers have become so powerful,
it's likely it will never happen again.
Monopoly was originally invented in 1903
to expose the unfairness of a social system where
a small minority screw the majority of tenants.
Not only are there radar detectors,
but there are radar detector detectors,
and even radar detector detector detectors.
There is a company called Hoxton Street
Monster Supplies that sells salt
made from real human tears,
and disturbingly, there are four kinds
harvested from different moments,
sneezing, chopping onions, laughter, and anger.
You can taste the emotion.
It took radio 38 years to reach 50 million people,
20 years for the phone,
13 years for television,
3.6 years for Facebook,
and only 88 days for Google +.
An Australian man named Don Ritchie
lives across the street from the most
famous suicide spot in Australia,
a cliff known as The Gap.
He, alone, has prevented around 160 suicides
in his 50 years of living there
by striking up a conversation with people
contemplating suicide by inviting them
into his house for tea.
For the past 15 years, a Bulgarian man named
Dobri Dobrev has walked up to 25 kilometers
every single day to beg for money for
orphanages that are unable to pay their bills.
He turned 101 in July of this year.
An adopted man in Michigan named
Steve Flaig searched for his birth mother
for four years before finally discovering in 2007
that she worked at the same
Lowe's store that he worked at.
Amazingly, neither of them knew.
A moment is actually a medieval unit
of time equal to 90 seconds.
There are 40 moments in an hour.
The Queen of England's portrait has
been on enough International money
to make a progressive timeline of her aging.
This is a home carved entirely out of rock.
It was created by a hermit named
Daniil Sihastru in the late 1400's.
An Abu Dhabi oil sheik named
Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan
carved his name in the desert in letters
that are over 1,000 meters tall.
Well, I guess if you have limitless money,
you might as well have some fun with it.
James Cameron was actually homeless
when he wrote The Terminator
and sold the rights to it for only one dollar
on the condition that he could direct it.
You can rent the entire country of Liechtenstein
for $70,000 a night.
In fact, Snoop Dogg once tried
to do that in 2011 for a video shoot
but the country said no, primarily because
he just didn't give them enough notice.
Australia, literally, lost a Prime Minister.
Harold Holt, on December 17th of 1967,
who went for a swim and just never came back.
High atmospheric pressure affects
the bubbles in your coffee,
therefore, if bubbles are closer to the center,
you can expect it to rain
or have other stormy weather.
Elephants remember and mourn their loved ones
like us, sometimes years after their death.
In 1999, a woman named Penny Brown
saved, then little boy, Kevin Stephan's life
by giving him CPR after he was hit
in the chest with a baseball bat.
However, just seven years later,
he ended up saving her from choking to death
by giving her the Heimlich maneuver.
Now, that's karma.
There is a cryptid that's believes to exist in
the Gobi Desert called the mongolian deathworm.
It can grow up to 1.5 meters long
and kills its prey with electric shots from its eyes.
Yikes.
In 2013, a bank worker in Germany
fell asleep on his keyboard's number two button
causing him to transfer 222, 222, 222 euros
on a transfer that should've
been worth only 62 euros.
Interestingly, his coworker was the one fired
for not spotting the error.
Users upload an average of 350 million photos
to Facebook every day and in total have uploaded
more than 250 billion photos to date.
The role of Captain Jack Sparrow
was originally offered to Jim Carrey
but he turned it down for the role of Bruce Almighty.
An Iowa artist named Patrick Acton
built a complete model of Hogwarts
out of 602,000 matchsticks
held together by almost 60 liters of wood glue.
Sugar gliders are such social creatures that
if they're deprived of social interaction,
they can actually become depressed and die.
So, make sure you love your sugar gliders
cause they sweet.
In the middle ages, doctors believed that
farting into jars and sniffing them
would prevent death,
or more specifically, the black death plague
which they called therapeutic stink.
Gross.
The richest woman in Germany, Susanne Klatten
met her husband while she was working in an
internship for BMW under a fake name in the 1980's.
He had no idea who she actually was
until she was sure about the relationship
when she revealed herself.
There are approximately 10 quintillion
insects on our planet.
That's 10 with 18 zeroes behind it
or roughly 200 million insects per human.
A UK teenager named Rory McInnes
secretly painted an 18 meter penis
on the top of his house
and was caught over a year later when his parents
looked up their house on Google Earth.
During the later 1800's, a baboon named
Jack was employed by the railroad
in Capetown, South Africa as a signal man.
He never once made a mistake
and worked for the railroad until his death.
The Boeing factory in Everett, just north of Seattle
is so massive that rainclouds began forming
inside the facility until they were
finally forced to install a
state of the art air circulation system.
Scientists have begun arguing that we may
actually have more than five basic senses
including magnetoreception,
the ability to detect magnetic fields
and chronoception, the sense of time passing.
In 1898, Bayer introduced diacetylmorphine,
marketed as a cure for morphine addiction
and cough suppressant.
Today, that drug is better known by
its trade name, heroin.
In the 1930's, an Argentinian engineer
named Juan Velar created a rain-making machine,
successfully made it rain in several places at once
and then disappeared without a trace.
Marvel's The Avengers movie caused
shawarma sells to skyrocket nationwide
in America in 2012, purely because of
an extra scene in which Thor, Captain America,
Bruce Banner, and the rest of the heroic clan
are quietly enjoying shawarma
after casually saving the world.
In 1888, A pigeon keeper and a bee keeper
challenged each other's creatures
to a 5.6 kilometer organized race in Germany.
The bee won by 25 seconds.
Jonathan the tortoise is a giant tortoise
who lives on the island of St. Helena
in the South Pacific Ocean
that's believed to have been born in 1832
and is still alive to this day.
America has 19 aircraft carriers compared to
the rest of the world that only has 12 combined.
If you multiple 111,111,111 by 111,111,111,
it gives the magical, mathematical result
of 12,345,678,987,654,321.
Amazing.
The original release date of Halo 2
for the PC was delayed because
Microsoft discovered that one of the developer's
hid a picture of his ass in it.
The lowest class of meat is called canner
and comes from very old cows
with little fat in their tough meat,
and is used in both dog food and school lunches.
Ack!
In 2013, Volkswagen succeeded in building a car
that gets 235 miles per gallon called the XL1.
Almost the entire car is made out of
carbon fiber and only weighs 81 kilograms.
By definition, if you commit any crime at sea,
you're considered a pirate.
Most of the time, the ice cream that you see
in tv commercials and other ads
is actually mashed potatoes.
This is because regular ice cream
wouldn't be able to stand up to the heat
of the onset lights while filming.
In Queens, New York in 2010,
a 12 year old girl named Alexa Gonzalez
was arrested, handcuffed, and detained
at a police precinct for several hours
just for doodling on her desk.
Yeah, that's a little bit strict.
In 2010, in Stockholm, Sweden,
there was a temporary campaign implemented
called the speed camera lottery where
good drivers can win money from the fines
of other speeding drivers.
The game company, EA, hired people
to portray Christians to accuse EA
of being the Anti-Christ
for the video game Dante's Inferno
as a marketing scheme.
And it was incredibly successful.
The Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is the world's
largest salt flat at 10,582 square kilometers
and turns into the world's largest
mirror when it rains.
It's so beautiful that it's been called
the border between heaven and earth.
In Japan, Nestle has introduced
over 200 different flavors of KitKat since 2000,
including ginger ale, soy sauce,
creme brulee, green tea, and banana.
I need to go to Japan.
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