Oh get ready to learn some new facts
baby they come in your way
here are 50 amazing facts to blow your
mind on October 2nd 1954 Elvis Presley
made his first and last Grand Ole Opry
appearance apparently his gyration
filled performance was not received well
and one of the officials there
reportedly told him to not quit his day
job which was driving trucks actor Brad
Pitt's first acting job was playing a
chicken yep he wore a chicken suit to
attract customers to an elf oil local
restaurant in Hollywood today the 53
year old actor has been in more than 70
movies won an Academy Award out of five
nominations and more American sprinter
Forrest Smithson won a gold medal in the
110 meter hurdles in the 1908 Olympics
but what was really astonishing about it
is that he was carrying a Bible in his
hand the common rumors that he did this
to protest against the decision to run
the finals on Sundays however the truth
is he was so religious that he often ran
with a Bible while editing his biggest
movie the Titanic director James Cameron
taped a razor blade to the side of the
computer with instructions that says use
only if the film sucks but he didn't
need to worry very much because the film
went on to gross a total of one point
eight four billion dollars worldwide in
2008 a 57 year old Chicago school bus
driver and amateur artist Steve Krishna
changed his name legally to In God We
Trust he did this because it symbolizes
the help that God gave him during tough
times but I don't think he thought it
through very much I mean I feel like
having your first name as in God would
make for some awkward social situations
no in God what up and underground fire
in the coal mines beneath Centralia
Pennsylvania has been burning since 1962
astonishingly nobody knows how the fire
even started but one theory is that
burning trash from a nearby landfill
accidentally ignited coal beneath the
old entrance to the mine from there the
fire spread wildly through all the mines
the world's longest yard sale
known as the 1:27 sale occurred between
August 4th and 7 of 2016 and extended
over 1,000 kilometers throughout four
states people selling goods lined the
roadside along the US highway 127 and
the Lookout Mountain Parkway all the way
through Cummington Kentucky Gadson and
Alabama at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing
China visitors could buy seahorse kebabs
and deep-fried scorpion and if that
wasn't weird enough it's estimated that
up to forty thousand restaurants ended
up adding crazy twist menu items such as
this according to dr. Scott picnic at
Bowling Green State University in Ohio
the tiny fruit fly Drosophila bar firki
develops huge testicles that make up
almost 11% of its body weight in order
to produce giant sperm they can produce
sperm that are more than 20 times the
size of their own bodies
that's disturbing Ellen Church was the
first female flight attendant who began
flying in 1930 she implemented a plan
that required all flight attendants to
be registered nurses which was a great
idea except when World War two began all
of the nurses enlisted in the war so
most airlines were forced to drop their
requirement in order to find any workers
the burger with the most calories in the
world can be found at the Heart Attack
Grill in Las Vegas according to the
owner John Basso the octuple bypass
burger is 20,000 calories the restaurant
ended up making national headlines for
literally killing its customers so
fittingly the waitresses are all dressed
as nurses there was an ancient Chinese
custom where girls would have their toes
and arches broken tied and bound
underneath their feet before the arch of
the foot could develop this was done so
that their feet could fit into tiny
little shoes back then small feet in
China represented the height of female
refinement there is a phobia called camp
una phobia where sufferers have a
paralyzing fear of buttons the specific
fear varies from person to person but
some people feel that buttons are dirty
and some are afraid of the texture of
certain buttons according to the US
Department of Treasury law poor
of living persons are prohibited from
appearing on government securities like
money this is why you never see living
presidents on dollar bills in addition
the portraits have to be of deceased
people whose places in history are well
known by the American people a woman
named vesna vulovic from Yugoslavia
holds the Guinness world record for the
highest fall survived without a
parachute On January 26 1972 she was
working as a flight attendant when she
fell over 10,000 meters over the Czech
Republic unbelievably the plane that she
was working aboard blew up and she fell
inside a section of the tail unit after
being in the hospital for 16 months and
emerging from a 27 day coma she had
multiple broken bones but miraculously
survived Ontario Canada has more than
250,000 lakes and contains about
one-fifth of the entire world's
freshwater it was also the place that I
was raised well in Ontario representing
NASA scientists have discovered that
about 4.3 billion years ago Mars may
have had enough water to cover its
entire surface in a liquid layer about a
hundred and thirty seven meters deep
this primitive ocean would have held
more water than the Arctic Ocean however
over time it lost about 87% of that
water into space researchers from the
French University University libre de
bracel found that cockroaches have their
own personalities and even display
different character traits they are
simple animals but they can make complex
decisions on survival and one
cockroaches decision can actually sway
in others Japan has the highest life
expectancy in the world at almost 84
years on average this is mostly due to
Okinawa Island which is known for having
some of the longest living people in the
entire world in fact there are 34
centenarians per 100,000 people which is
more than three times the rate of
mainland Japan in 2008 a man named Ian
uh sure from Perth Australia sold his
entire life on eBay for 399 thousand
dollars following the breakdown of his
marriage the sale price included his
home his car his motorcycle a two-week
trial in his job and an
introduction to his friends for five
years a woman named Oksana Malaya from
the Ukraine lived with dogs and survived
on raw meat and scraps she walked on all
fours panted with her tongue hanging out
and whined and even barked after she was
abandoned by her alcoholic parents she
was actually raised by a pack of dogs on
a rundown farm in the village of Nevaeh
when she was finally discovered in 1991
she had almost forgotten how to speak
Naples Italy has set a world record for
producing the world's longest pizza
it measures prepare yourself about 1854
metres long and took about a hundred
chefs 11 hours to make it took 2,000
kilograms of flour 1600 kilograms of
tomatoes 2,000 kilograms of cheese and
200 liters of olive oil just to make it
the oesophagus of a leatherback sea
turtle is lined with papillae sharp
tongs that enable the turtle to dine on
jellyfish and you thought turtles were
cute on May 17th 2016 a woman named Mary
Ann Noland had her obituary published in
the Richmond Times which stated that
faced with the prospect of voting for
either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton
she literally chose to die yeah I think
more than a few people felt that way he
films a Budweiser changed its name to
America for the summer of 2016 yes it
literally changed the labels on all
bottles and cans with images and phrases
affiliated with United States the
controversial campaign was called
America in your hands and was run from
May 23rd to November of 2016 on may 19th
2004 a boa constrictor triggered a 15
minute nationwide blackout in Honduras
when it got itself trapped between two
enormous generation units the boa was
electrocuted and the resulting
short-circuit caused the emergency
system to shut down the entire plant
which shut down the country's
electricity in 1992 locals from zona
coder minee discovered a 100 tree
swastika during an aerial survey the
swastika was made up of a group of
arched trees only visible from the air
and was almost nineteen square meters in
autumn the yellowing trees stand out
against the surrounding evergreens
nobody knows who played for these trees
but it is known that it was created
during Hitler's peak in the 1930s the
world's largest pool is in the seaside
resort of San Alfonso Del Mar in Chile
it was built in 2006 and is 35 meters
deep and is filled with get this 249
million liters of water scientists at
Duke University have developed a device
that allows monkeys to control robotic
wheelchairs by sending signals with
their brains they're hoping that one day
it will help people with disabilities
shyeah taiwan built a 17 meter glass
structure shaped like a giant eye heel
shoe it's used as a wedding hall in a
tourist attraction it was built in honor
of women who suffered from arsenic
poisoning from well water that caused
gangrene a condition sometimes known as
black Petes 36 year old Wang's IU is a
Chinese hair stylist trained in the art
of Kung Fu she cuts hair while standing
on his head not only does the earth spin
on its axis it also moves around the Sun
at a speed of about 107 thousand eight
hundred kilometres an hour
that's real fast in 1984 Jack LaLanne
sometimes referred to is the godfather
of Fitness toad 70 row boats with
passengers in them from Queens Weybridge
- the ship Queen Mary while shackled
handcuffed and fighting winds and
currents and he did this on a 70th
birthday I suddenly feel the need to go
to the gym the packing fish native to
South America was found in New Jersey in
June of 2015 it's a relative of the
flesh-eating piranhas
and is known for its distinctive teeth
which bear in eerie resemblance to human
teeth luckily the PACU fish is not going
to bite your face off because it
primarily eats plants and is considered
mostly harmless to humans mostly if your
name is Isabella you get a free lifetime
admission to the Isabella Stewart
Gardner
Museum in Boston how exciting United
kingdom-based horticulture company
Thompson & Morgan has developed a plant
that grows both cherry tomatoes and
potatoes it was developed in Canada and
has been called the ketchup and Fries
plants and can be bought in Canadian
Costco retailers and even in some
independent garden centers some children
in southwest China between the ages of 6
and 15 have to scale a cliff about eight
hundred meters high multiple times a
month in order to get to their school
the school located in Aguilar village
takes about 90 minutes to get to yeah
catching the bus in the morning doesn't
sound so bad now does it
mmm Cincinnati surgeon dr. Henry
Heimlich the man credited for developing
the Heimlich maneuver actually used it
himself for the first time in his life
on may 26 2016 he saved a woman that was
choking at his Senior Center he was 96
years old there was a species of orchid
that only grows at high elevations in
certain mountainous areas of Ecuador
Colombia and Peru that looks just like a
monkey in 1972 Curtis King built his son
a spaceship house in the woods near
Signal Mountain Tennessee where they
live it has a drop-down staircase and
every detail channels futuristic living
and it even costs two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars to build and it's no
joke it has three bedrooms two bathrooms
a full bar even though I don't
understand why his young son with me
that and an entertainment area he
eventually sold the house and it can now
be rented for a futuristic vacation
researchers at Norway's university
eversion have found a link between being
addicted to work and anxiety they looked
at more than 16 thousand workers across
the country and found that nearly eight
percent of workaholics were more likely
to suffer from ADHD OCD depression and
anxiety they also found that people who
work more than 55 hours per week were at
a higher risk of heart attack and stroke
believe it or not Nintendo was
originally a playing card company
founded in late 1889 it was based in
Kyoto Japan and
boost and marketed a game called Anna
Buddha in fact Nintendo continues to
manufacture playing cards in Japan and
even organize its own tournament called
the Nintendo Cup according to a study
done in 2002 by Gaffney surahs from the
University of Maryland an American
alligator can orient themselves to the
ripples created by a single drop of
water even in complete darkness this is
because their faces and bodies are
covered with tiny bumps that are far
more sensitive than our own fingertips
in May of 2016
President Barack Obama became the first
active president to visit the Japanese
city of Hiroshima since the bombing 71
years ago happy hour has been illegal in
the Republic of Ireland since 2003 under
the intoxicating liquor act Pogue Mahone
in 2006 a flight from Washington to
Dallas was forced to land in Nashville
because passengers could smell burning
matches as it turns out a woman with a
medical condition with lighting matches
to cover her own body odors in case you
didn't know lighting matches on a plane
is super illegal and his pain a Dallas
mother of two broke the Facebook live
video record as the most watched video
on the platform ever she shared a live
video of herself in a Chewbacca masks
laughing hysterically at the voice the
mask makes and you've probably seen this
video because as of the time of this
recording the video has gained over 164
million views and has been shared almost
3.4 million times rodents are incapable
of vomiting that's something you needed
to know really though they can't puke
because of anatomical constraints in
other words they simply aren't built
with the ability to in 1848 an ice jam
up the river from Niagara Falls caused
the Falls to stay bone-dry for nearly 48
hours some people actually took it as a
sign that the world was ending and
attended special services at local
churches normally it has the highest
flow rate of any waterfall in the world
and provides 4.4 gigawatts of energy
to the region in 2008 Burger King
introduced a new product for the
Christmas season called flame a meat
scented cologne for meat loving men it
was promoted as the scent of seduction
with a hint of flame broiled meat nope
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