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Class is now is session.
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Flippers of knowledge.
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Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
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No suspect was ever caught or charged
for the 1982 Tylenol murders in Chicago
that killed seven people.
The last time that all the planets
in the solar system were aligned was 561 BC,
and the next alignment won't happen until 2854.
The Battle of Cherbourg in 1864 was a single ship battle
between the Union warship USS Kearsarge,
and the Confederate warship CSS Alabama
during the U.S. Civil War.
However, the location of the battle
was off the coast of France, in the English Channel.
The CSS Alabama eventually lost the battle and sank.
The ancient Greek statue, the Colossus of Rhodes,
was about the same height as the Statue of Liberty
in New York City, according to various descriptions.
The most disliked music video on the internet
is Justin Bieber's "Baby" on YouTube,
with over 9.9 million dislikes.
It also has over two billion views.
The Oregon duck mascot from the University of Oregon
is based on Disney's Donald Duck
through a special license agreement
between the school and the company.
To combat tourists from stealing their beer glasses,
the Dulle Griet in Belgium requires customers
to give the bar one of their shoes
if they want to drink any of their house beer.
The shoes are then placed in a basket
and raised up tot the ceiling,
which is now a popular attraction.
On October 6th, 1909, Vancouver unveiled its first ambulance
and took it for a test drive around town.
The ambulance ended running over
and instantly killing a wealthy man from Austin, Texas.
He was the first person the ambulance picked up.
6,000 of the world's modern languages
can be traced back to a single mother tongue
that was spoken in Africa 50,000 to 70,000 years ago.
Actress Drew Barrymore became a regular
at the nightclub Studio 54 when she was still a child.
She started smoking cigarettes at the age of nine,
drinking alcohol at the age of 11,
smoking marijuana at the age of 12,
and snorted cocaine at 13.
Where the parents at, though?
When San Diego experienced a severe drought in 1915,
the city took an extreme measure to make it rain.
They hired a rain maker named Charles Hatfield,
who referred to himself as a moisture accelerator,
to solve the problem.
He claimed to have concocted a chemical cocktail
that would be released into the air and cause rainfall.
And on January 1st, 1916, heavy rains arrived
and didn't stop for over a month,
which caused flood damage and almost 50 deaths.
Hatfield was never paid for the job,
because the city declared the rain and floods
were an act of God, not Hatfield.
The sailfish changes the color of its skin
based on the mood that it's experiencing.
They become darker when they hunt for prey
and become neon and copper colored
when they are excited or tired.
The Walt Disney Company trademarked the phrase hakuna matata
for clothing, headgear, and footwear.
The most expensive painting ever sold
was Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi,
when it sold for $450.3 million dollars in 2017
at an auction to a prince from Abu Dhabi.
The teeth of marine snails are made
from the strongest natural material on Earth.
They're able to clamp onto rocks
and grind them down as they feed.
President Abraham Lincoln was a fan
of the assassin John Wilkes Booth
during his years as a stage actor and singer.
When Apple's Steve Jobs died in 2011,
Microsoft lowered their flags to half staff
as a sign of respect to him.
NBA all-star Kevin Love of the Cleveland Cavaliers
is a nephew of Beach Boys drummer Mike Love.
According to AIDSVu, there are about 35,402 people
living with HIV in Atlanta, Georgia as of 2016,
with most of them being male.
The original voice of Porky Pig
was provided by Joe Dougherty,
who also had a stutter familiar to the character on screen.
However, he was fired when he was unable
to get his own stuttering under control
and missed cues, causing delays.
That's when legendary voice actor Mel Blanc
took over the role in 1937
and continued with it for 52 years.
In the film Django Unchained,
Calvin Candie, who is played by Leonardo DiCaprio,
smashes his hand on a dinner table
and accidentally crushes a stemmed glass with his palm.
Even though his hand started to actually bleed,
the actor finished the scene
and gave an amazing performance.
Director Quentin Tarantino decided
to put the scene in the movie.
In Malay, "orang" means "person" and "hutan" means forest.
This means that the orangutan means "person of the forest".
New York was the first state in America
to create a law against drunk driving, in 1910.
After California was the next to create a law,
every other state followed
and legislated drinking and driving.
The original voice actor of Charlie Brown is Peter Robbins,
and he's currently in prison for threatening the manager
of a mobile home park that he lived in.
Preside Theodore Roosevelt was against putting
"in God we trust" on U.S. currency,
because he thought it would be unwise
to cheapen such a motto by using it on coins,
just as it would be to cheapen it
by using on postage stamps or in advertisements.
The average U.S. citizen eats around 45.8 pints of ice cream
per year, more than any other citizen in the world.
The United States does eat the most ice cream in the world,
but Australia and Norway are second and third, respectively.
The New York Mets are still paying Bobby Bonilla
$1.19 million a year, even though he retired in 2000.
When the team wanted to cut him
and pay him the rest of his contract,
Bonilla's manager made a deal with them
to pay him $1.19 million for 25 years, starting in 2011.
Naturalist Sir David Attenborough
always wears a blue shirt and khaki pants in his specials
to help with the continuity, because they can sometimes film
thousands of miles and months apart.
Frankenstein's monster never actually had a name,
but he tells his creator, Victor Frankenstein,
that he should be called Adam.
This is based off of Adam in the bible.
Victor does not refer to the monster as Adam, however,
but various insulting names, such as devil,
the demon, specter, thing, being, and ogre.
Honeybees pollinate 30% of all the food that American's eat
and 85% of all flowering plants.
They're also responsible for 90% of the pollen
that's transferred to and from our orchard crops
and 70% of the feral honeybee population
has disappeared or died.
A Canadian special forces snipe broke the record
for longest confirmed kill shot in history
by shooting an IS militant dead from 3,540 meters away.
Weird Al Yankovic's song "Eat It" reached number one
on the music charts in Australia,
but Michael Jackson's "Beat It"
only went as high as number three.
Sherlock Holmes never says the phrase
"elementary, my dear Watson" in any of the books
written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The line was actually spoken by Basil Rathorn
in the 1939 film The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
The United States does not have
an official language at the federal level.
However, English is considered
the official language in 32 states.
The Catholic church bought the land in Atlanta, Georgia
that was the headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan
and turned it into a church
called the Cathedral of Christ the King.
First-time stage hands in Carnegie Hall
get paid an average of $400,000 a year.
If you cook food in a microwave
with a small amount of water inside,
it becomes one of the best ways
to retain all of the vitamins and nutrients in your food.
Women were the ones who originally brewed
the majority of the ale in Medieval England
before the Black Death.
Women in brewing can also be dated
back to ancient Mesopotamia.
Some of the titles this women were called
were alewife and brewster.
One of the biggest reasons why the police use horses still
is because they offer a significant height advantage.
The officers have the ability to overlook
large crowds of people and move easily through them
than if they were to be on foot or in a car.
Actress Geena Davis is a talented archer
and even made it to the semifinals
of the United States Olympic trials in '99.
The event gathered a large amount of media attention,
because a famous movie star was participating.
Actor Mark Hamill did the military channel voiceovers
for the 2005 video game Call of Duty 2: the Big Red One.
The game also featured several actors
from the successful HBO miniseries Band of Brothers.
The holiday favorite, mistletoe, is actually a parasite
that lives by sucking the nutrients from trees.
If it spreads to the branches, then the tree will die.
It's not completely terrible, though,
because the parasite feeds birds,
may treat cancer, and inspires kissing, of course!
Woodpeckers have tongues that are made up
of bone and cartilage that wrap around their skulls
to protect their heads.
Whenever they peck wood, their tongues absorb the shock
that's given to the brain and skull.
Dr. Hannibal Lecter never says the line "hello, Clarice,"
in the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs.
Instead, he says, "Good evening, Clarice."
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President Abraham Lincoln suffered from heavy depression
and refused to carry a knife,
because he was afraid that he would harm himself.
He also had a major depressing episode
in the summer of 1835 and again in the winter of 1840.
In 2012, a chain of 228 people
paid for the customer behind them
at a Tim Hortons in Winnipeg.
The act of kindness and generosity lasted for three hours.
Someone eventually broke the chain by paying
only for their coffee and not the customers behind them.
Pssh!
The Truman Show director, Peter Weir,
wanted to have cameras secretly installed
behind the scenes in movie theaters,
so that the projectionist could cut the film at some point
during the movie and have the audience watch themselves.
Then he would cut back to the movie.
When Andre the Giant left home at the age of 14 years old
to find work, he grew so much that when he returned home
at 19, his parents didn't recognize him.
They did recognize him from wrestling on television,
however, but did not know that he was their son.
Actor Tom Hanks auditioned for the role of Mario
in the film adaptation of the video game Super Mario Bros.
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