50 AMAZING Facts to Blow Your Mind! #70

- Who wants to learn something?
Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
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There are only four words in the English language
that end with -dous.
They are tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
A tiger's stripes are on their skin, not just their fur.
More collect phone calls are made on Father's Day
than any other day of the year.
AT&T reported, on average,
83 million calls were made on Father's Day,
compared to 106 million on Mother's Day,
but 27% more Father's Day calls were collect.
Pearls will actually dissolve when immersed in vinegar.
A pearl is mostly calcium carbonate,
which is susceptible to even the weakest acid solution.
On March 3rd, 1934, gangster John Dillinger escaped from
a jail in Indiana with the help of a wooden gun
that was smuggled in to him by one of his attorneys.
The first technical casualty of the Civil War
was killed during a 100-gun salute.
A cannon prematurely discharged and killed
Private Daniel Hough of the First US Artillery.
Somebody got fired for that.
McDonald's in the Netherlands has a place mat
called a McTrax where you can make music while you eat.
To make it work, you place your phone on the mat,
get an app, and then compose your music
including your voice.
According to the Guinness World Records,
the United States hold the record for the most medals
won at a single summer Olympic games.
At the 1904 Olympics, held in St. Louis, Missouri,
they won 78 gold medals, 82 silver, and 79 bronze
for a total of 239.
Cobwebs actually have antifungal and antiseptic properties
that keep bacteria away, minimizing the chance of infection.
In fact, in ancient times, the Greeks and Romans
would use cobwebs to treat cuts.
Soldiers also used spider webs to heal wounds.
They would combine honey and vinegar to clean the wounds
and then cover it with balled-up spider webs.
Nope, I would just rather die, keep spiders away from me.
The female Burmese Python incubates her eggs
by raising her body temperature by as much as
seven degrees warmer than air temperature.
They accomplish this by frequently hiccuping
or having muscle spasms.
Ancient Egyptians used to put dead mice into the
mouths of people to treat toothaches.
They also mashed up dead mouse paste with
other ingredients to treat patients with pain.
Once again, rather die.
In 2015, astronomers located a gigantic cloud
of methyl alcohol called methanol surrounding a
stellar nursery, measuring over 310 billion miles across.
Over time, it could actually help astronomers
understand how some of the most massive stars
in the universe are formed.
Tibetan nuns can actually change their core body
temperatures with a form of meditation called gitumo.
Using EEGs and temperature measurements,
a team of researchers recorded the internal temperature
of the nuns in the freezing cold of the Himalayas.
The nuns were able to increase their core body temperature
up to almost 101 degrees Fahrenheit.
Researchers at Murdoch University in Perth
have discovered goldfish as long as 12 inches
and weighing as much as 4.2 pounds in the Bath River
in the southwest of western Australia.
They think it's the result of people
releasing their goldfish into the water.
This is because in the wild, that's how big they can grow.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration and NASA, July 2016 was the hottest month
in 136 years of record keeping.
Dyslexics see numbers and letters backwards.
It's a reading disorder, not a vision or seeing disorder,
which means that Braille readers can also be dyslexic.
According to a study published in the Journal
of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry,
mood can affect how we walk and vice versa.
We walk slumped-shouldered if we're sad,
bouncing if we're happy.
Making people imitate a happy walk actually made them
feel happier, and sadder if they were
imitating a sad way of walking.
Queen Elizabeth and her husband, Prince Phillip,
are third cousins. (gags)
Oh, that's weird and gross.
According to Guinness World Records,
the oldest tree known to have been
planted by humans is 2,300 years old.
The sacred fig, or Bow Tree was planted
in Sri Lanka in 288 BC.
In India as well as other parts of the world,
standing babas are people who have taken a vow
to never sit, lay, or squat for 12 years
in order to transport their psyches into a realm
of spiritual awareness not experienced by sitters.
They stand before a small hammock in which to rest
their arms during the day and torso at night.
One leg must be on the ground at all times.
Robert F. Kennedy failed third grade.
Smaller than his siblings, Bobby was often considered
the runt of the family and he even attended nearly
a dozen schools as well.
Governments in Iraq and India have imposed an
internet black-out during exams
to prevent students from cheating.
You can now hire a self-driving taxi in Singapore.
During the testing period, the cars had a driver
in the front who could take over the wheel at any time,
and a researcher in the back who watches the computers.
They're equipped with a detection system
that uses lasers to operate like radar and two cameras
on the dashboard to scan for obstacles
and detect traffic light changes.
Hurricane names are recycled every six years,
with the exception of hurricanes that have been so deadly
and costly that the future use of its name
for a different storm would be insensitive.
A Filipino fisherman found a 75-pound natural pearl
and kept it hidden under his bed for 10 years.
He discovered it in a giant clam and kept it
as a good luck charm.
It's 170,000 carats.
According to a new study in the Journal of Hand Therapy,
millennials have weaker muscles in their hands
from all the texting, snapping, scrolling,
and gaming that they do, especially the guys.
The up side is that they have stronger thumbs.
There's a social anxiety called parthenophobia
where you have an abnormal and persistent
fear of young girls, specifically virgins, it's weird.
Vampire bats have a protein in their saliva
that acts as an anticoagulant, which keeps their
victim's blood flowing while they feed.
Researchers have actually been studying it
to see if it can help dissolve blood clots
and help with stroke victims.
There are moon quakes on the moon that are similar
to our earthquakes, only they are weaker and less common.
In fact, there are four known types:
deep moon quakes, shallow moon quakes,
thermal moon quakes, and meteorite moon quakes.
Canada is the largest country in the western hemisphere
and has the longest coastline.
In the 1904 Summer Olympics, gymnast George Eiser
won three gold medals, two silver, and a bronze,
all while wearing a wooden prosthetic leg.
There used to be a sport called ferret-legging,
where a ferret is strapped in a
contestant's pants, sans underwear.
The contestant who can stand the teeth and claws
the longest wins.
The ALS Association received 101 million dollars
in donations compared to 2.8 million the previous year
because of the money raised by people
doing the ice bucket challenge.
In the United Kingdom and Ireland,
you can purchase cyber bullying insurance.
The insurance company, Chub, will pay out as much as
$74,600 to help with court costs and relocation fees.
In Shanghai, you can have your credit score lowered
for not sending greetings or visiting your elderly parents.
Hey Mom, yeah, I miss you.
There is a hangover clinic in Sydney, Australia.
For a whopping $200, you can get a one-hour treatments,
which includes a half gallon of hydration drip,
oxygen therapy, and vitamins to help you recover
from a night of too much alcohol.
Voyager II was launched on August 20, 1977,
and Voyager I was launched September 5th.
They were sent on different trajectories
and Voyager I was put on a path to reach Jupiter
and Saturn ahead of Voyager II.
Canada is larger than the entire European Union.
In fact, it's 33 times bigger than Italy
and 15 times bigger than France.
If you have a fear of cheese,
you have something called turophobia.
In order to get street view of a desert,
Google hires camels to carry its trekker camera.
The term Captcha stands for (clears throat)
Completely Automated Public Turing Test
to tell Computers And Humans Apart.
I just call them annoying.
Scorpions glow a bright blue green
when under ultraviolet light.
According to National Geographic,
there used to be 100,000 wild tigers in Asia
a century ago, and now due to poaching,
sadly there are only about 3,200.
According to a report by Michael Gibson Light,
a doctoral candidate in the University of Arizona's
School of Sociology, ramen noodles are now more popular
than tobacco as currency in US prisons.
I don't blame them, it's delicious.
The owner of the Gin Tub in Brighton, England
had a faraday cage built into its ceiling
to block cell phone reception.
He wants his patrons to socialize the old-fashioned way,
you know, by actually speaking to each other.
There are no natural lakes in the state of Maryland.
All of the lakes are man-made by damming rivers.
According to Guinness World Records,
the only man to be struck by lightning seven times
was ex park ranger Roy C. Sullivan.
He suffered a lost toenail, lost eyebrows,
a shoulder injury, leg burns, an ankle injury,
chest and stomach burns, and had his hair set on fire twice.
Unfortunately, he ended up taking his own life
after being rejected in love.
Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, has a saltwater
ocean buried under 95 miles of ice.
Scientists estimate that it's 60 miles thick,
which is about 10 times deeper than our oceans.
The female logger head turtle will sometimes travel
thousands of kilometers to return to the beach
where they hatch their eggs.
In 1978, serial killer Rodney Alcala,
who murdered four women and a child,
appeared on a game show The Dating Game and won.
Well, hopefully he paid for the meal.
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