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- The knowledge wheel's back once again!
Because here are 50 amazing facts
to blow your mind.
Margaret Anne Cargill left all of her stocks
to be split between two charities after her death,
totaling six billion dollars.
This made her the most generous philanthropist
in the world in 2012, even though she died in 2006.
Robert Gleason Junior was a convicted murderer
who vowed to continue killing his fellow inmates
until he was given the death penalty.
And he finally got his wish in 2013.
John Shepherd-Barron the inventor of the ATM
originally intended them to have PINs
that were six digits long,
but his wife could only remember four digits
at a time, so, that became the standard.
In 2009 the Nigerian police force arrested a goat
on suspicion of attempted armed robbery.
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In Russia there's a capsule that's used to treat alcoholism
that's implanted under the skin
and causes a chemical reaction resulting
in shortness of breath, nausea, and mental confusion
if the person drinks alcohol.
So, basically, it makes you drunk without being drunk.
Unrelated note, about 25% of Russian men die
before they hit the age of 55, mostly due to alcohol.
The Kuru-Kuru Nabe is a pot developed in Japan
that can stir its own contents
when the water inside the pot gets hot enough.
There is a Wikipedia monument located
in Sliwice, Poland that was erected in 2014.
Vin Diesel got his first acting break
when he was only 7 years old.
When he and his friends
broke into a theater to vandalize it,
but a woman stopped them and offered them
a script and 20 dollars each on the condition
that they'd attend rehearsal everyday after school.
Ruth Lawrence is a child prodigy
who passed the Oxford University Entrance Exam
when she was only 10,
coming first out of 530 candidates.
She graduated after only two years
in the bachelor's degree program
and she earned a doctorate's degree
by the time she was 17 years old.
This is what farming in Saudi Arabia looks like.
You can, actually, take a ride on the Hogwarts Express!
It's a real train in Scotland called The Jacobite,
and has been named for the most beautiful
railway route in the UK.
Male kangaroos flex their biceps and wrestle
other males to attract female kangaroos.
Since 2005 Utah has reduced its rate of homelessness
by 78% by providing homeless people
with apartments and social workers,
which, actually, cost less than the annual
ER visits and jail stays.
Finland has the highest rate of
recycled bottles in the world.
With a return rate of over 90%
for plastic bottles and cans.
And almost 100% for glass bottles.
The longest highway in the world
is Highway 1 in Australia with a total length
of approximately 14,500 kilometers.
When Anglerfish mate, they actually
fuse together into a single fish.
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Emperor penguins can dive to 565 meters
underwater which is deeper than any other bird
and can stay under for over 20 minutes.
Steve Jobs once gave a secretary a brand new Jaguar
after she told him that she was late
because her car wouldn't start.
While we have leap years, we also have leap seconds.
Which are added every few years to adjust
to the Earth's speed of rotation.
Nike, actually, has plans to release a pair
of self-lacing shoes, much like the ones
in Back To The Future II, by the end of 2015.
Scientific research from
the London School of Economics and Political Science
in 2010, shows that men who are unfaithful
tend to have lower IQs.
Research shows that others see you
as 20% more attractive than you think you are.
This is because when you look in a mirror
all that's reflected are your looks, not your personality.
The world mortgage is derived from French,
meaning death pledge.
Referring, of course, to the death of a loan
because you amortize a mortgage.
It is theoretically possible to get addicted to cuddling.
Couples that cuddle a lot can, actually, experience
oxytocin withdrawal when they are apart from each other.
Dogs don't feel guilt or shame.
However, they do feel sadness
when their owners yell at them.
In Japan's Brazilian Washuzan Highland Park,
there's a scary roller coaster called the Sky Cycle.
On it, people actually pedal to propel themselves
forward through the track.
Yeah, no thanks.
It is easier to get into Harvard than it is
to get a job at Apple's newest store in New York.
Harvard's acceptance rate is 7%,
while Apple's is only 2%.
In 1979 a woman named Elvita Adams
attempted suicide by jumping off the 86th floor
of the Empire State Building.
But she survived when, unbelievably, a gust of wind
blew her back onto a ledge on the 85th floor.
The Amur leopard is a beautiful,
but rare sub-specie of leopard
located in Russian far east and are critically endangered.
James Watson, one of the scientists
credited with the discovery of DNA's double helix,
once said that, "Wouldn't it be great if we can make
"all girls pretty by engineering genes
"that would influence beauty?"
Yeah, I'm sure he was a lady's man.
City birds use cigarette butts to line their nests
in order to drive away parasites,
as the nicotine in the cigarettes
act as a natural pesticide.
Every single president Egypt has ever had
has either left the position by being
arrested into military custody, or died in office.
There's an animal native to east Asia
called the raccoon dog.
It looks like a raccon, but is actually a dog.
In the 1980s, a musician named Daryl Davis
befriended members of the KKK in Maryland,
causing them to disband in that state
because they learned all about the misconceptions
of black people from Davis.
To this day, 4% of the sand on Normandy beaches
is made of shrapnel from the original fight on D-Day.
In 2003, a 15 centimeter skeleton
was found in a Chilean ghost town.
And scientists have, actually, classified it as human
with skeletal development equivalent
to that of a six to eight year old child.
Due to the space restrictions in Sarpourenx France,
it's, actually, illegal to die there.
It is illegal in many countries to perform
surgical procedures on an octopus
without anesthesia due to their intelligence.
There are Yaodong, or house caves,
located in northern China where an estimated
40 million people currently live.
Hugh Jackman didn't know that Wolverines
were actual animals until he started filming X-Men.
In 2010 Mark Haub, professor of nutrition
at Kansas State University,
went on an all junk-food diet where he ate
Twinkies, Oreos, Doritos and other junk-food
for two months to teach his students
that pure calorie counting is what matters
the most in weight loss.
He lost 27 pounds.
In 1968, Samuel L Jackson attended
Martin Luther King Junior's funeral as one of his ushers.
Halle Berry was named after Halle's Department Store,
a local landmark in Cleveland where she was born.
According to the World Health Organization and UNICEF,
hand washing with soap is a more effective way
to prevent disease than any vaccine out there.
Jason Lewis journeyed around the world
between 1994 and 2007 by biking,
roller blading, kayaking, and pedaling.
And became the first person to circumnavigate
the globe by pure human power.
After Seth Rogen released the parody
to the Bound 2 music video,
Kanye West, actually, invited him to give feedback
on every new song off his new album.
According to statistics, most missing children
are abducted by relatives and parents.
Not like the abductions that you see in movies and TV.
Although, white vans are still creepy.
Shockingly, most energy drinks
don't contain as much caffeine as coffee.
A Grande coffee at Starbucks has
320 milligrams of caffeine,
which is four times the 80 milligrams of caffeine
that can be found an average can of Redbull.
If a baby with foreign parents is born on a plane
flying above the United States,
the baby automatically granted American citizenship.
However, if the baby is born while flying over the ocean,
its nationality depends on the country
in which the plane is registered.
And now you're a little bit smarter.
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