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Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
The seawater in Boston Harbor in Massachusetts Bay
has been found to contain caffeine.
Although tiny, the traces are there.
140 to 1,600 nanograms in the Boston Harbor
and 5.2 to 71 nanograms in Massachusetts Bay.
According to the Centers For Disease Control And Prevention,
on average people who smoke die 10 years earlier
than non-smokers.
And every person who dies because of smoking,
at least 30 people live with a serious
smoking related illness.
Jell-O is made from gelatin that is produced by boiling
the bones, skin, and hides of animals such as cows and pigs.
People have been eating it since 1897,
and it accounts for about 80% of the gelatin market.
Abraham Lincoln was in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
He had an awesome physical size at six foot four,
was widely known for his wrestling skills,
and had only one reported defeat in a dozen years.
It was the beard and the top hat, I'm tellin' you.
It's a good character.
Echidnas have a four-headed penis.
Also known as spiny anteaters, they don't even use
their penis to urinate and it only leaves the body
during an erection.
The golden silk orb weave spider's web is so strong
that it can capture a bird, and then it eats the bird.
Marigolds and other plants that contain the pigment
Xanthophyll are added to chicken feed to make
their egg yolks appear more orange.
In Peru, fried or roasted guinea pig is considered
a delicacy.
Known as cuy, it's been a staple in Peru's diet
for around 5,000 years.
The Aztec people often used cocoa beans as currency.
Argyria is a condition which turns a person's skin
a bright blue color.
It's caused by chronic exposure to silver.
A California man named Paul Karason developed this
by using a special silver-based preparation
to treat a skin condition and drinking colloidal silver,
a product that consists of silver particles suspended
in liquid.
In 1998, construction worker Travis Bogumill
was accidentally shot with a nail gun that drove
a 3.25-inch nail into his skull.
The nail lodged in the area of the brain that
typically involves processing math.
He was completely fine after the nail was removed,
except his math skills weren't what they used to be.
In the year 1900, inventor Ludwig Ederer invented
an alarm mechanism that was built into your bed.
When you set the alarm to a specific time,
the bed rose to a 45-degree angle and tipped you out of bed.
It didn't catch on.
In the 1800s, researchers found one of the first ever
iron maidens in a castle in Nuremberg, Germany.
An iron maiden is a device of torture where the person
is put inside a sarcophagus with spikes
on the inner surface.
When the doors were closed, the spikes would puncture
several organs, including their eyes, but not deep enough
to kill them, just deep enough that they would
bleed to death over several hours.
Yahoo was originally called Jerry's Guide
to the World Wide Web after one of its creators, Jerry Yang.
It was officially incorporated on March 2nd, 1995,
and was pretty awesome until Google came around.
In 1881, dentist Alfred Southwick got the idea
for the electric chair after witnessing a freak accident
when an intoxicated man died after he accidentally touched
a live generator terminal.
The barreleye fish has a completely transparent head.
It inhabits depths of around 2,000 feet to 2,600 feet
where the darkness approaches absolute black.
Some insects smell with their genitalia.
There's a genetic disease called fish odor syndrome
where a person excretes an excess of chemical
called TMA in their urine, sweat, and breath
that causes them to smell like rotting fish.
The average person has two million sweat glands.
The parliament of Iceland is the oldest still-acting
parliament in the world.
It was founded back in 930 A.D.
Political gatherings typically lasted for two weeks in June,
which was a period of uninterrupted daylight
and nice weather.
The Maya found slightly crossed eyes beautiful.
Parents of babies would actually hang objects like stones
right between their baby's eyes to try to get them
to go cross-eyed.
Lyme disease got its name because it was first recognized
back in 1975 when researchers found that a large number
of children in Lyme, Connecticut were being diagnosed
with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.
A group of porcupines is aptly named a prickle.
In 2015, Apple recovered 2,200 pounds of gold
from recycled iPhones, iPads, and Macs.
That's worth over $40 million.
Gold is frequently used in consumer electronics
because it's highly averse to corrosion
and an excellent conductor of electricity.
And while silver is actually the best conductor,
it corrodes more easily.
In ancient Olympics, women were not allowed to compete,
and married women weren't even allowed to be in the stands
to watch.
Only young women and virgins were permitted.
Fathers brought their daughters in hopes that they would
marry one of the champions.
Brazilian police on Marajo island ride water buffalo
when they patrol instead of horses.
All Starbucks coffee shops in Saudi Arabia
have a gender wall.
It separates single men from women and families.
There's a Starbucks at CIA headquarters
in Langley, Virginia, where workers undergo
an intense background check before they're hired,
and they aren't allowed to put customers' names
on any of the cups.
And believe it or not, it's one of the busiest Starbucks
in the country.
Most Bolivian families have a dried llama fetus
under the foundation of their houses for luck.
They're most commonly found at Bolivia's witch's market
where you can also find toad talismans, owl feathers,
and stone amulets.
Austrian inventor Valentin Vodev has invented
a scooter slash stroller hybrid.
With the click of a button, the stroller transforms
into a scooter and can travel as fast as 10 miles per hour.
The coconut crab grows over three feet long and is not only
the largest land crab but is also the largest anthropod,
the group that includes that insects, spiders,
and crustaceans.
Okay, this is some Jumanji stuff.
Most meteors are actually the size of a grain of sand
and disintegrate in the air.
The larger ones that actually reach the Earth
are called meteorites and are very rare.
Believe it or not, green bell peppers are just less mature,
less ripe versions of red, orange, and yellow peppers.
Back in 2007, a priest was arrested for stalking
late night talk show host Conan O'Brien.
He was writing threatening notes on parish letterhead,
contacting his parents, and showing up at his studio.
He referred to himself as "your priest stalker."
That's creepy.
The stop sign originated in Detroit, Michigan,
back in 1915 and was originally black lettering
on a white background.
Then it was black lettering on a yellow background
before it was finally red and white.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia means the morbid fear
of long words.
Jupiter is the fourth-brightest object in our solar system.
Only the sun, moon, and Venus are brighter.
It is one of the five planets that you can see from Earth
with the naked eye.
The pink fairy armadillo is the smallest specie
of armadillo.
It is a mere four inches long
and weighs about a hundred grams.
Also, it's pink.
In Las Vegas, an average of five to seven adults
is reported missing every day and more than 200 a month.
40 to 50 million years ago, Antarctica's climate
was very similar to modern day California's.
If you leave towels, chairs, or sun umbrellas overnight
to save a spot on busy Italian beaches,
officials will take what you left behind and fine you
about $220 to get your property back.
The very last McDonald's hamburger and fries in Iceland
is on display at a bus hostel in Reykjavik right now.
You can even watch real-time footage of it
over a live stream.
A man purchased it back in October 30th of 2009,
and it's still on display.
In South Korea, if you win gold at the Asian Games
or any medal at the Olympics, you are exempt
from the country's military service,
which is mandatory for able-bodied males.
The walnut-sized male blanket octopus tears off
the tentacles of passing Portuguese man o' war jellyfish
as a defense mechanism.
Tigers have a retinal adaptation that reflects light
back to the retina, which makes their night vision
six times better than humans'.
According to the Death Penalty Information Center,
since 1973, 156 people have been exonerated
and freed from death row.
There is a Switzerland-based company that for a measly
$29,000 will name your baby for you.
You know, just in case you weren't capable
of naming it Sally or Apple or something.
Kamikaze or exploding ants from southeast Asia
kill themselves when under threat.
They have a toxic substance in their heads
and in two large glands on the sides of their bodies
that are filled with poison.
Under threat they literally explode their heads
or rupture their bodies to spray the poison
to cover the predator.
In medieval times, bras were called breast bags.
The 2016 Olympics in Rio was the first time
in Olympic history that South American country
had hosted the games.
And those were more 50 amazing facts.
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