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Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind, part eight.
This scan of Nintendo's official character guide
published in 1993 reveals that Yoshi's real name is
T. Yoshisaur Munchakoopas.
There is a movie from 2010 called Rubber
about a murderous car tire named Robert
that rolls around killing people and blowing things up.
Yeah.
When the Domestic Parcel Service was first introduced
by the United States Postal Service in 1913,
it was legal to ship children as long
as they weighed less than 50 pounds.
There's an alarm clock called Clocky
that has wheels and runs away and hides
if you don't get out of bed on time.
You can make your own Gatorade at home
by simply adding salt to some Kool-Aid.
It's not the exact recipe, but it's got
just as many electrolytes.
There's a charity that exists in the UK and America
called Project Prevention that pays
drug addicts 300 dollars to get sterilized.
As of today, they have payed over 4000 clients.
The current American flag was designed
by a 17 year old named Robert Heft
as a high school class project
for which he recieved a B minus.
On Good Friday in 1930, the BBC announced
there is no news followed by piano music.
Volvo invented the three point seat belt
but opened up the patent to any car manufacturer
who wanted to use it as they felt
it had more value as a life saving tool
than something to profit from.
The most successful interrogator
of World War II is named Hans Scharff.
Instead of using torture on a prisoner,
he would be friendly to them to gain their trust
by taking them to a cinema on camp
or by sharing a tea or coffee with them.
In the Curve Gallery at the Barbican Center in London,
there's something called the rain room
where through the use of sensors,
rain falls everywhere in the room
except for where you're walking.
At the Crocosaurus Cove Aquarium in Australia,
there's a popular tourist attraction
called the Cage of Death which allows you
to get up close and personal with giant crocodiles.
There's a Canadian toy company called Child's Own Studios
that turns children's drawing into stuffed animals.
Monowi, Nebraska is the smallest incorporated
municipality in the United States
with a population of just one.
Its sole resident, Elsie Eiler,
is both the town mayor and librarian.
Every single person on Earth including you and I
have lines on our bodies called Blaschko's lines
which can only be seen under certain conditions
such as under UV light.
At the end of the 1990s, BMW had to actually
recall their GPS systems because male German drivers
did not want to take directions from a female voice.
In 2010, a black Nigerian couple living in the UK
gave birth to a blond white baby with blue eyes
that they called the Miracle Baby.
The dot over a lowercase i or j is called a tittle.
Atelophobia is the fear of not being
good enough or having imperfections.
The letter u was first used as a substitute for the word you
by William Shakespeare in his comedy
Love's Labors Lost around 1595.
Rowan Atkinson, the actor who played Mr. Bean
once saved a plane from crashing
after the pilot passed out despite
never having piloted a plane before.
In the summer of 1932 while sitting in a restaurant,
Adolf Hitler designed the prototype
for what would become the first Volkswagen Beetle.
In March 2013 a man got a tattoo
of the word Netflix on his side for which
after tweeting a picture of it to the company,
they gave him a free year of service.
In order to drink, giraffes have to spread
their almost two meter long legs apart
just to get close enough to the water.
The offspring of two identical sets of twins
are legally cousins but genetically siblings.
Doritos could be made without the powder
and taste exactly the same,
but the company intentionally adds it
because they believe that it's
part of the Doritos experience.
Ryan Gosling was casted for the role of Noah
in the movie The Notebook because the director
wanted somebody quote "not handsome".
The word verb is actually a noun.
When Charles Darwin first discovered
the giant tortoises on the Galapagos Islands,
he tried to ride them.
Since 1945, all British tanks have come
equipped with tea making facilities.
Falling in love produces the same high as taking cocaine.
In 1945 a man named Tsutomu Yamaguchi
survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima
only to catch the morning train
so that he could arrive at his job on time in Nagasaki
where he survived another atomic blast.
There is a metal called gallium that melts in your hand.
Bruce Lee was so quick that he could
snatch a time off of a person's open palm
and replace it with a penny
all before they could close their fist.
Between 1997 and 1998 there was a popular Russian gameshow
called the Intercept which had contestants
steal a car and if they didn't get caught
by police within 35 minutes, they win the car.
Otherwise, they were arrested.
According to a study done by Mekuin University in Canada,
playing video games before bedtime
actually gives a person the ability to control their dreams.
It also suggests that gamers are more likely
to have lucid dreams as opposed to non gamers.
The small pocket inside the larger pocket
of your jeans was originally designed for pocket watches.
Crocodiles can not stick out
their tongues nor can they chew.
Marvel Comics once created a superhero named Throg
who was a frog that has the power of Thor
and is in a group called the Pet Avengers.
I wish I was making that up.
The largest natural bridge in the world
is the Ferry Bridge in China and was virtually unknown
to the rest of the world until
it was observed on Google Maps.
It took the inventor of the Rubik's Cube
Erno Rubik a whole month to solve it
before he introduced it to the world.
In Switzerland if you fail your
practical driver's license test three times,
you are required to consult an official psychologist
to assess the reasons for your previous failures
before you are allowed to retake the exam.
This is what rain looks like from the view of a plane.
In 2011, a man named Richard James Verone
robbed a bank for one dollar so that
he could be sent to jail in order
to receive free medical healthcare.
A software company called PC Pitstop
once hid a 1000 dollar prize in their terms of service
just to see if anyone would read it
and after five months and over 3000 sales later,
somebody finally claimed the prize.
Crying is actually very healthy for you.
Not only does it help emotionally,
but it lubricates your eyes,
removes toxins and irritants, and reduces stress.
This is where the Caribbean meets the Atlantic
in Eleuthera, Bahamas.
In the United States, April 2nd
is National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day.
There is a Russian novel published in 1999
called the Last Ringbarer which retells
the Lord of the Rings from Sauron's perspective.
If you arrange the first letters
of the main characters names in the movie Inception,
Dom, Robert, Eames, Arthur, Mal, Saito, they spell dreams.
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