- Ho ho ho, we're just one away from number 100,
I got something special planned for you guys,
but first here are 50 Amazing Facts to Blow Your Mind.
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The inspiration for the modern rollercoaster
were 17th century Russian ice slides,
they were tall, wooden structures
with ice frozen over a long, sloping ramp
and would often rise up over 24 meters
with ramps that stretched for hundreds of meters
and the ice sleds were simply
a block of ice with a straw mat.
In 2013, divemaster Nash Baiti
found the world's first two-headed sea slug,
while on vacation in Borneo.
It not only had two heads,
but it had male and female organs,
it was bright neon orange and green in color and was toxic.
Saturn's rings span 290,000 kilometers,
but are only 9.7 meters thick in some places
and 966 meters thick in others.
On New Year's Eve in 2013, a cat in Rio de Janeiro
was found wandering around the gate
of a medium security prison,
Judge Luiz de Oliveira Souza in Brazil,
what was unusual about it
was that attached to the cats' body
were saws, two concrete drills bits, a headset,
a memory card, a cell phone, three batteries
and a mobile phone charger, that is one strong cat!
The hedgehog was named as such
because it has peculiar foraging methods,
it roots through hedges and undergrowth
searching for small creatures like insects, worms,
centipedes, snails, mice, frogs and snakes,
which makes up the majority of their diet.
They also make a cute little pig like sound,
which is why they're called hogs.
The Volcano House Hotel on the rim of the Kilauea Crater
in Hawaii opened in 1846
and had a stone hearth with a fire,
that burned continuously for 133 years.
The fire was finally allowed to go out
on New Year's Day in 2010, quitters!
There was a body modification trend
in China called bagel head,
where people created a bagel-shaped knot on their foreheads
by injecting up to 400 ccs of saline solution
into their skin, causing it to swell.
After it reached maximum puffiness,
the injector uses his thumb to create an indentation
in the head, making it look like a bagel
and it lasted up to 24 hours.
There is a wasp called the cicada killer wasp,
it paralyzes cicadas with its venom
and then takes it to a burrow
and lays an egg under its left or right second leg,
then when the egg hatches, the larvae eat the cicada,
but carefully so that to keep the cicada alive,
oh, this is my nightmare.
According to the World Health Organization,
an estimated 50% of all medications
are prescribed, dispensed or sold inappropriately
and half of the patients
don't even take their medication correctly.
Texas has nearly 2.6 million wild hogs,
which is the largest feral hog population
in the United States.
The act of childbirth to the Aztec people
was considered equal to a man in battle.
If a woman was to die during childbirth,
she became a Companion of the Sun,
rising to one of the highest Heavens,
the same as a male warrior, who dies in battle.
Grapefruit juice decreases the activity of certain enzymes,
that are responsible for breaking down
many prescription drugs,
this is because grapefruit contains compounds
that block the enzymes, so when it's consumed,
the enzyme's ability to break down the drug is decreased.
Blood levels of the drug may rise,
resulting in a risk of new or worsened side effects.
Saltwater crocodiles have a bite force of 3700 psi.
In 1937, 27-year old chemist, Roy Plunkett
accidentally invented Teflon,
while he was trying to invent a new type of Freon
for use in fridges and air conditioners.
According to a study done in 2013
at the University of Bristol,
75% of people who have the gene ABCC11,
don't produce any underarm odor.
It's actually possible to get tonsil stones.
When debris like dead cells, mucus or bacteria
gets trapped in the nooks and crannies of the tonsils,
it can harden or calcify into stones,
it most commonly happens to people
who have chronic inflammation in their tonsils
or repeated bouts of tonsillitis.
You can buy a toy car that's powered by a live cricket,
it's called the Bug Racer
and yes, if you were wondering,
you can watch the cricket drive
through a see-through windshield.
Only one female passenger,
that went down with the Titanic survived,
her name was Rosa Abbott
and she was a third class passenger.
The saying, the dog days of summer
actually refers to when the Dog Star, Sirius
rises in conjunction with the sun,
July 3rd through August 11th.
The word, base in base jumping is actually an acronym
for four categories of fixed objects
from which you can jump,
that is Building, Antenna, Span and Earth.
Both of NASA's Mars Rovers,
Opportunity and its defunct Rover sibling, Spirit
have metal pieces of the fallen World Trade Center in them,
the metal was made into shields
to protect drilling mechanisms.
After 9/11, the Kenyan Masai, who regard cows to be sacred
and are valued above all possessions
gave the United States 14 blessed cows
as a show of sympathy.
In 2015, Dr. Makhan Lala Saha,
a gastrointestinal endosurgeon in India
removed almost 12,000 gallstones from a patient.
They ranged up to five millimeters in size
and it took his assistant four hours to count them.
In 1958, during a trip through Latin America,
Vice President Richard Nixon's car
was attacked by an angry crowd and nearly turned over
while he was traveling through Venezuela,
because they were angry
about some of the US's Cold War policies.
Baby carrots are just regular carrots,
that have been cut and peeled
to make those bite-sized pieces,
hm-mm, your whole life has been a lie.
19th century poet and writer, Oscar Wilde's tomb
is covered in thousands of lipstick kiss marks
left by years of female fans,
that visit his grave in Paris, France,
super romantic, but also super unsanitary, don't do it.
There is a spacecraft cemetery in the Pacific Ocean.
Off the coast of New Zealand, over 4,000 kilometers out
is where satellites and other spacecraft
plunge back to Earth.
The spot was chosen because of how isolated it is
from humans and shipping traffic,
so no one gets hurt when the crafts return
and there are over 150 crafts in this cemetery.
President Harry Truman, who inherited the presidency
just 82 days after being Vice President
was the president who started the tradition
of top secret intelligence briefings in 1952.
He wanted to make sure that his successor
was better prepared than he was,
so he offered classified briefings to each of the nominees
and it's still a tradition practiced to this day.
There's a museum called the Art Car Museum
in Houston, Texas, that's filled
with ornately painted, decorated vehicles,
it's also known as the Garage Mahal.
It opened in 1998 and features
a bunch of different automobiles
ranging from hippy vans to police cruisers.
There is a large fort in the shape of a star,
that's located in a village in Groningen in Netherlands,
built in 1593, its original purpose
was to control the only road between Germany
and the city of Groningen, controlled by the Spaniards
during the time of the 80 Years War,
now it's used as a museum.
About one month before Apollo 11 was set to launch,
Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins
signed hundreds of envelopes
as a form of life insurance for their families,
they gave them to a friend and on important days,
like the day they landed on the moon,
their friend gave them to their families,
if they did not return from the moon,
their families could sell them.
There is a Pencil Sharpener Museum
in the Hocking Hills Welcome Center in Ohio,
it's the collection of over 3400 pencil sharpeners
of Reverend Paul A Johnson,
that he began collecting in the late '80s.
There are sharpeners of all kinds including cars, planes,
toys, US presidents and Mickey Mouse,
"I'm a sharpener?
"Oh boy!"
According to a study done by Deborah Wells
of Queen's University, Belfast,
School of Psychology in 2009,
more often than not, female cats are right-pawed
and males are left-pawed.
In humans, testosterone is linked to left-handedness,
which apparently applies to cats too.
In 1998, as an April Fools prank, Burger King announced
a solution for the 1.4 million left-handed customers,
that visit the restaurants every day,
the Left-Handed Whopper.
Burger King said that all the condiments
were rotated 180 degrees
to suit the left-handed burger connoisseur.
The very next day, lefties actually showed up
to order the special burger.
In China, Vietnam and throughout Southeast Asia,
you can actually buy snake wine,
it's an alcoholic beverage,
that includes a whole venomous snake in the bottle
and also includes insects, herbs and other animals, yummy!
A cheetah can reach 64 kilometers per hour
in just three strides and can reach
97 kilometers per hour in just three seconds,
which is faster then most cars.
In 1987, the Hollywood sign was changed to Holywood
to mark a visit by Pope John Paul II,
but the prank was undone before the pontiff arrived in LA.
After Abraham Lincoln's son, Willy
died of typhoid fever in 1862,
Mary Lincoln held seances in the White House,
hoping to communicate with him.
On February 2nd, 2017,
27-year old Cassie De Pecol from Connecticut
set a world record for visiting
every country in the world in the fastest time.
She left on July 24th 2015 and visited all 196 countries
in just 18 and a half months.
Saddam Hussein's son, Uday
owned an actual iron maiden torture device,
it was found in his backyard in Baghdad
and was clearly worn from use,
its nails having lost some of their sharpness.
The US Navy was disbanded following the Revolutionary War
in 1785 with the last ship being the Alliance
and brought back years later in 1794
mostly to fight pirates.
Metrophobia is the fear of seeing,
hearing or writing poetry.
Disney World is about the same size
as the city of San Francisco, 111 square kilometers,
that's twice the size of Manhattan.
On April 1st, 2017, Bitcoin became a legal method
of payment in Japan, but that being said,
it's a method of payment, not a currency.
Gangster, Al Capone was expelled from school,
when he was just 14 years old for hitting a female teacher
and he never went back,
see what happens, when you don't stay in school, kids,
stay in school.
According to the Guinness World Records,
John Evan from the UK set a world record
on June 17th, 1998 in Los Angeles
by balancing 18 empty beer kegs on his head for 10 seconds.
According to a study from Spectrum Group's
Market Insights Report, at the end of 2016,
there were 10.8 million millionaires nationwide,
that's more than ever before
and marks a 400,000 person increase
from just the previous year.
Actor, producer, rapper and songwriter,
Will Smith's first name is actually Willard, not William,
his full name is Willard Carroll Smith Junior,
hm-mm, like I told you, everything you know is a lie.
Over 70% of all UK rail journeys start or finish in London.
Serbian physicist, engineer and inventor,
Nikola Tesla died penniless
and living in a tiny, New York City hotel room.
He has become fixated on pigeons and had terrible OCD,
he had to have 18 napkins during every meal
and would count his steps wherever he walked.
Ooh, and you guys know what comes next, episode 100!
I'm really excited to show this to you guys,
it was a huge undertaking, a lot of effort went into it
and a lot of people helped with it.
That's all I'm gonna tell you,
so make sure you stay tuned
and thank you so much for your continued support
and I'll see you in that episode.
Hm-mm, bye.