- [Narrator] Here are 50 animated facts to blow your mind.
Goats have horizontal rectangular pupils.
They're herbivores that are often the target of carnivores
so they have rectangular slit pupils as a line of defense
which helps them run away faster.
The town of Nagoro in Japan has more scarecrows
than it does humans.
The town has 30 people and over 400 scarecrows.
Glass is pretty incredible.
Over a ton of natural resources are saved
from every ton of glass that is recycled
and in addition, it's 100% recyclable
and can be recycled endlessly
without loss in quality or purity.
The giant wetapunga are really large insects
that are unique to New Zealand.
When they're fully grown, they can weigh more than a mouse.
The sports brand, Nike, was originally founded in 1964
by CEO Phil Knight and Oregon head track coach,
Bill Bowerman, as Bill Ribbon Sports or BRS.
The name was later changed to Nike.
There's a museum in Peaks Island, Maine
that is dedicated exclusively to umbrella sleeves.
Over 700 umbrella coverings hang from the walls and ceiling.
Pikachurin Protein was named after the Pokemon character,
Pikachu by Japanese scientist
because of the character's agility.
Competitors at Wimbledon are only allowed
to wear all white while competing.
This dress code dates back to 1800s when it was frowned upon
and considered unseemly to have visible sweat stains.
The sloth is the world's slowest mammal.
It's so sedentary that algae grows
on it's coat giving it a greenish tinge
that helps camouflage them in trees.
Rhinestones got their name from the Rhine River
because the factory that produced them
in Austria used energy that was driven by the Rhine River.
Early astronaut food came
in tubes similar to toothpaste tubes.
Astronaut John Glen, the first American to orbit Earth,
had to endure bite size cubes, freeze dried powders,
and semiliquids stuffed into a aluminum tubes.
He said that the foods were unappetizing
and disliked squeezing tubes.
And on top of that, the freeze dried foods
were hard to rehydrate and crumbs
had to constantly be prevented from ruining instruments.
The first country to legalize same sex marriage
was the Netherlands.
It was passed in December of 2000 by a three to one margin.
Now over 23 major countries
have legalized it including Canada, England,
and the United States.
The only child of King Henry V, Henry VI,
ascended to the British throne
when he was only eight months,
25 days old making him the youngest king in British history.
The female Tasmanian devil can have
up to 50 joeys or pups in one litter.
They all have to scramble to attach themselves
to one of the four available tits in the mother's pouch.
The ones that don't attach to a tit do not survive.
It's a New Years tradition in Peru to give
and wear new yellow underwear because yellow
is for luck and happiness.
Pez was invented in 1927 in Vienna, Austria
as a breath mint.
Pez is actually an abbreviation for the German word,
pfefferminz or peppermint.
The dispenser was invented in 1948
to resemble a cigarette lighter
and was meant to encourage people to quit smoking.
Watchmaker Garo Ansertian designed a special watch
that keeps time with martian solar days
and it was used by NASA.
The martian day is longer than Earth's
but this minimal variance can amount
to physical and mental fatigue.
Everyday team members are reporting
to work 39 minutes later than the previous day
so the watch is actually 24.65 hours.
Scientists at Imperial College London
and US firm DNA Electronics are developing
a type of HIV test using a USB stick.
It uses a drop of blood to detect HIV
then creates an electrical signal
that can be read by a computer, laptop, or handheld device.
Pretty cool.
The south island town of Oamuru in New Zealand
built a underpass specifically
for the blue feathered korora penguin
so that they can get to their nesting sites every night.
McDonalds in Italy is selling a Nutella burger
called Sweety con Nutella.
It's Nutella spread between a hamburger bun.
Yeah, be right back.
I'm going to Italy.
Former First Lady Jackie Kennedy won an Emmy
for her televised tour of the White House in 1962.
Actor Tom Cruise was a student at a Franciscan seminary
as a teenager and aspired to become a priest
before he went into acting.
I guess that explains a lot about he's into now, doesn't it?
Horses are physically unable to vomit.
This is because horses have a number
of key physiological differences to ensure
that any food they ingest takes a one-way trip.
They have a much lower esophageal sphincter
that is much stronger than in other animals,
making it nearly impossible to open
that valve under backward pressure from the stomach.
A curling stone weighs 44 pounds and is made of granite.
In fact, almost all curling stones in the world
and all of those used in the Olympics
come from an uninhabited 220 acre island
just off the coast of Scotland.
Country singer Dolly Parton is Miley Cyrus' Godmother.
The Titanic had it's own newspaper.
The Atlantic Daily Bulletin was printed daily
on board the Titanic and had news, ads,
stock prices, horse racing results,
gossip, and of course, the day's menu in it.
In Victorian times, men with mustaches
would eat their soup with a mustache spoon
also called an etiquette spoon.
It was spoon with a special guard
to help keep their neatly kept mustaches clean
while they ate.
One of the most unique wills ever written was by farmer,
Cecil George Harris, of Rosetown, Saskatchewan in 1948.
He scratched his will into the fender of a tractor
that he was trapped under for 10 hours during a heavy storm.
His will read, "In case I die in this mess,
"I leave all to my wife."
He died that night from his injuries.
A judge ordered that portion of the tractor cut off
and it is now displayed under a piece of glass
in the University of Saskatchewan Law library.
Bluetooth got its name from Swedish communication company,
Ericsson's Viking Heritage.
It's named after Danish Viking King Harold Blatand.
Blatand translates to Bluetooth in English
and amazingly the Bluetooth symbol
is actually Blatand's initials inscribed in runic symbols.
There's a museum in downtown Austin, Minnesota
dedicated to Spam.
It features bluegrass instruments made of Spam cans,
a Spam rocket, a Spam can conveyor suspended
from the ceiling, and a Spam children's play area.
Maine and Vermont are the only two states
where there is no felon voting restrictions.
Even current inmates can vote.
The 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln,
never actually slept in the Lincoln bedroom.
Instead, he used it as his personal office.
There are more saunas in Finland than there are cars.
Unlike the rest of us in the world,
who generally view a hop in sauna as a luxury,
the Finnish consider their weekly sauna trip
as a necessary right up there
with food, rye bread, and vodka.
Rapper Busta Rhymes voiced Reptar in the Rugrats movie.
Caligynephobia also known as Venustraphobia
or for short Gynophobia is the abnormal fear
of beautiful women.
Vandals in Russia vandalized a Soviet star,
which is a highly revered symbol
for communism in the country,
by painting it to look like Patrick,
the cartoon starfish from the kid's show,
Spongebob Squarepants.
Hope Frances use to be a bouncer in a bar.
Penguins can't fly
but they can still get air born by jumping.
Smaller species of penguins can actually jump
as high as almost 10 feet in the air.
Cashews are the in the same family
as poison ivy and poison sumac.
The cashew plant contains powerful chemical irritants
that are found in the shell oil.
That is why you can only buy cashews
already out of the shell.
The world's only ventriloquist museum
is located in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky.
It houses 750 ventriloquist dummies
from over 20 different countries.
Yeah, that kinda sounds like a nightmare to me.
Yikes.
Actress Sissy Spacek was actually 26
when she played the role of a teenager in the movie,
Carrie, based on Stephen King's first novel.
NBA superstar Michael Jordan was actually cut
from his Laney High School varsity basketball team.
The zip in zip code is an acronym for zone improvement plan.
Twitter limits it's users to 24,000 tweets
and 1,000 direct messages per day
and if you hit that limit, you definitely have a problem.
There's a condition called superior canal dissonance
where the sufferer can actually hear their own pulse
and their eyes moving in their sockets.
Most grasshoppers will vomit
a repugnant, bitter acidic bile
when they're handled by a predator.
It's essentially a last resort defense mechanism.
Jackie Chan won an honorary Oscar in 2016.
He's the first Chinese actor in history
to receive the award.
In November of 2016, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake
tore through New Zealand.
It was so powerful
that it dragged the sea floor 6.6 feet above ground.
It happened so fast that it was still crawling
in sea life when it was discovered.
To celebrate the launch of the 2017 Lexus IS Sports Sedan,
Lexus partnered with Huy Fong Foods
to create a customized 2017 Lexus Sriracha IS.
It's a Sriracha-themed car where
even it's paint has sriracha in it.
It has all kinds of Sriracha-themed details
including a trunk filled with 43 bottles
of Sriracha for emergencies.
President William H. Taft was the first president
to have a Christmas tree in the public part
of the White House.
It was put in the blue room
and the blue room still hosts
the official Christmas tree today.
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