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Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
Upon their return to Earth in 1969,
the Apollo 11 crew, including Neil Armstrong
and Buzz Aldrin, were quarantined
in a special facility for three weeks.
As being the first humans on the moon,
it wasn't known if they'd bring back
any mystery moon germs or not.
In 1918, pink was the color for boys,
because it was a stronger color,
while the delicate blue was reserved for girls.
It's amazing how things change.
The Pentagon spends about $300,000 dollars per year
to study the body language of world leaders,
like Vladimir Putin.
There's an animal called the rough skinned newt,
who's skin produces a toxin called tetrodotoxin,
that is so potent that it's approximately
10,000 times stronger than cyanide.
Don't go near that.
The North Korean government is one of the
largest counterfeiters of US $50 and $100 bills.
These bills, called Super Dollars, are so close
to the real thing that they've been referred to
as "just US dollars not made by the US government."
The average tree is made up of about 99% dead cells,
with only about 1% actually being alive at any given time.
Humans are not appropriate prey
for great white sharks, because their digestion
is too slow to cope with the
high ratio of bone to muscle and fat.
This boat, created in 2010 by French artist Julien Berthier,
was created from an abandoned yacht that was
designed at a 45 degree angle, to look like
it's perpetually sinking... super cool!
In 2007, animal handlers at the Oregon Zoo
walked an elephant named Chendra
around the zoo, where she stopped
at the sea lion exhibit, and made a friend
with the sea lion named Gus.
A 2010 study conducted by Oxford University,
found that for every person that you
fall in love with and accommodate into your life,
you lose two close friends.
There's a travel agency in Tokyo
called Unagi Travel that, for a fee,
will take your stuffed animal on vacation... without you.
During his time in office, the current mayor
of Davao City in the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte,
has transformed the city from being the murder capital
of the country, to the most peaceful city in Southeast Asia,
by killing multiple drug lealers and traffickers.
He was dubbed The Punisher by Time Magazine.
He's a pretty controversial guy.
This is the unbroken seal on Tutankhamen's Tomb from 1922.
It remained untouched for 3,245 years.
In 2012, Amy Jung and her son rescued Pudding,
a tabby cat from a shelter.
That same day, Amy had a diabetic seizure,
and the cat saved her life by bringing her back
to consciousness, and then running to her son's room,
pouncing on him until he woke up
to call for medical assistance.
How cool is that? So, adopt small animals,
they might save your life.
There is a secret swimming pool in the Mojave Desert
that anyone can use, if you can find it.
There are no roads, trails,
or signs leading to it... good luck.
Colonel Sanders disliked what the KFC Franchise
had done to the food so much,
that he described it as the worst fried chicken
he had ever had, and the gravy as wallpaper paste.
In Switzerland, it's illegal to keep a lone guinea pig
because the animals are sociable,
and need each other's company.
in 2008, a businessman from Abu Dhabi
named Saeed Abdul Ghafour Khouri,
spent $14.3 million dollars at an auction,
to buy a license plate labelled 'one,'
making it the world's most expensive license plate.
I wish I had the money to spend on stupid things like that.
In 2013, it was discovered that some bears in Russia
have become addicted to sniffing jet fuel
out of discarded barrels.
As a result, they go as far as to stalk helicopters
for the drops of fuel that they leave behind.
The modern handshake dates all the way
back to the 5th century BC, where swordsmen
would greet each other with their weapon hand free,
showing no sign of a fight.
In the 1960s, Alcatraz was the only federal prison
at the time to offer hot water showers for its inmates.
The logic behind it was that prisoners who were
acclimated to hot water would not be able to
withstand the freezing waters
of the San Francisco Bay during an escape attempt.
Switching from one dollar bills to one dollar coins
would save American taxpayers approximately
$4.4 billion dollars over the next 30 years.
This is because coins are significantly more
durable than paper bills, and have to be
replaced much less often.
In 2014, New York City announced plans to turn
all of its old phone booths into WiFi hot spots... finally!
85% of Chinese people share only 100 surnames.
In fact, Li and Zhang cover 13%
of the entire Chinese population.
In the late 1970s, Richard Chase was a serial killer
and cannibal who only broke into houses that were unlocked.
He believed that if they were locked,
it meant he was unwelcome, but if they were unlocked,
he saw it as an invitation to enter... that's creepy.
Chefchaouen is a small town in northern Morocco,
that's known for being covered
almost entirely in blue paint.
That's pretty cool, I wanna visit that place.
The American street gang, the Crips,
were originally formed in 1969
as a neighborhood watch, to eliminate
criminal gangs by force... how ironic.
Hitler planned to rebuild Berlin after World War II
into a Neo-Roman cosmopolitan city.
It was going to include several ambitious
architectural projects, including one building called
'The People's Hall' that was 290 meters tall,
and 250 meters in diameter.
The avocado is the world's most nutritious fruit,
with over 25 essential nutrients.
So, as it turns out that extra guac
isn't just tasty, it's good for you!
There's a man in New York City named Raffi Stepanian,
who mines sideway cracks for gold.
Before you laugh, he makes anywhere from
$500 to $800 a week, so yeah, who's really laughing?
Since the 1990s, Carmel, Indiana has been replacing
all signaled intersections with roundabouts.
Since then, injury accidents have
dropped by 80%, total accidents have
dropped by 40%, and construction costs have dropped
by $125,000 dollars per intersection.
In Medieval Ireland, between the 5th and 15th century,
murderers were given to the deceased family as slaves
if they failed to pay the hefty fine to buy their freedom.
They essentially then belonged to the family,
who could legally kill the murderer if they so chose.
According to scientists, the average cumulus cloud
weighs approximately 500,000 kilograms.
That's one big ass cloud!
Albert Einstein's brain was kept and dissected
both improperly and against his wishes.
In addition, his eyeballs remain
in a safety deposit box in New York City.
What do we need his eyeballs for, like, what?
Dennis Rader, also known as the BTK Killer in Kansas,
installed alarm systems as part of his job.
Ironically, some of his clients purchased these
systems to stop the BTK Killer from ever entering
their homes, completely unaware that the BTK Killer
himself was installing them... that's just creepy.
Dubai is building the world's first indoor city,
called Mall of the World, with air conditioned streets,
a massive 743,000 square meter mall,
and many other luxurious amenities.
Walt Disney planned his own city, where everyone
could be employed and working for Disney in some way.
In return for paying rent, they would get a home
and would always be ensured the latest of technology.
Can we still, like, make this happen?
Because that sounds great.
Coyotes and badgers hunt together.
The badgers dig up the prey, and the coyote runs it down,
kind of like a hunting partnership of sorts.
In 2012, the elderly couple of Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jin,
in the Jiujiang province of China,
refused to sell their home to make way for a road,
so the government built it around them.
There is a pet king penguin in Japan named Lala,
that is owned by the Nishimoto family.
Every day, he walks into town by himself with a backpack,
collects fish from the local market, and then walks back.
In 2005, the DEA reported seizing $1.4 billion
in drug trade related assets, and $477 million dollars
worth of drugs... now that sounds impressive,
except the total value of drugs sold in the US
is as much as $64 billion dollars a year,
meaning that the DEA has an efficiency rate
of less than 1% at intercepting
the flow of drugs into and within the US.
As of today, that rate still has not improved.
After his success in the Harry Potter films,
Rupert Grint, who played Ron Weasley,
bought a 1974 ice cream truck to fulfill
his childhood dream of becoming an ice cream man.
He uses it to drive around giving free ice cream
and lollipops to children... awesome, but also kinda creepy!
A man named Bob Kerstein originally purchased
Windows 2000, which at the time Microsoft wanted.
However, it just so happened that Microsoft owned
bob.com, which Kerstein wanted,
and they ultimately came to an agreement
to trade one for the other.
In northwestern Venezuela, near the Catatumbo River,
there's a storm that's been raging for centuries,
known as the Everlasting Storm, that strikes at, get this,
280 times an hour, or 1.2 million times per year.
The British Navy uses Britney Spears' music to scare
off Somali pirates from hijacking supertankers
off the coast of East Africa.
In fact, it's so effective
that they rarely need to shoot their weapons.
In the 1960s, Orville Redenbacher paid an
advertising company $13,000 dollars to come up
with a name for his popcorn company.
Their advice was to call it, brace yourself,
Orville Redenbacher...
yeah, that was a good investment.
In 1993, a Missouri man named James Scott
purposefully damaged a levy on the Missouri River,
to delay his wife from coming home
from work so that he could party.
Unfortunately, the river ended up flooding
14,000 acres of land, and he was convicted of
causing a catastrophe,
and was sentenced to life in prison...
I don't blame them for doing that.
There is a British man named Nick Hess,
that suffers from auto-brewery syndrome,
which means that his stomach has an overgrowth of yeast,
which turns any carbohydrates he eats into alcohol.
In other words, he gets drunk off of bread.
The longest ever recorded sniper kill
was shot from 2,475 meters away,
by British soldier Craig Harrison.
The bullet took over six seconds
to reach its target, and fell about 122 meters.
Now that's a head shot!
Taco Bell sold 100 million Doritos Locos tacos
for the first ten weeks after launch.
To put that into perspective as to how amazing that is,
it took McDonald's 18 years to sell
the same amount of burgers...
people love their tacos.
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