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scientists discovered sharks that are living in an active underwater volcano divers cannot investigate because they would get burns from the acidity and heat there's a Japanese diver who tends an underwater Shinto shrine and has been greeted by the same fish for the past 25 years a fish at the Vancouver Aquarium was given a prosthetic eye so it wouldn't be bullied by another fish Toronto has around 90 fake houses they look real on the outside which contain transformers that convert raw high-voltage electricity to a voltage low enough to distribute through the city despite what Bugs Bunny cartoons tell us carrots are like candy to rabbits and should only be fed as an occasional treat only to them having too much can result in obesity Sean Bean was afraid of flying in helicopters during the filming of Lord of the Rings the crew would look down at 7:30 a.m. and see him fully dressed in costume climbing cliffs all by himself the only creature on earth who is not symmetrical in any way as the sponge [Music] Fidel Castro was obsessed with ice-cream once consuming 18 scoops in one sitting his love for ice cream inspired him to implement a fully-fledged berry industry in Cuba and he even opened his own ice cream parlor in Taiwan every receipt for every store in the country is also a ticket to a government-run lottery with top prizes worth up to three hundred thousand US dollars human-hair rejected by wig makers and sent from Hair Salons is being used to create oil-absorbing booms for ocean oil spills hair can absorb three to nine times its own weight in oil the officer in charge of guarding Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theater left his post to go drinking at the same bar where John Wilkes Booth was building up the courage to shoot the president Columbus ship aground on the shores of Jamaica told the natives that if they didn't give him more supplies God would eat the moon he knew an eclipse was coming it worked breaking overnight this statue of Christopher Columbus beheaded in Boston founding father John Adams would turn down invitations to July 4th celebrations believing that July 2nd the date the Continental Congress voted for American independence was the correct dates to celebrate Independence Day during World War two JFK was stranded in the Solomon Islands and ended up carving a message into a coconut that a native delivered to the nearest US base and saved his life in the USA you can just an adopt children at any point if you don't want them anymore in the United States 78% of people with the name Leslie are female but in England 95% are male Gerald Ford's presidency caused problems for political cartoonists as he was considered so nondescript they couldn't work out what to carry kochiya Tim Roth passed on the role of snake in Harry Potter to be in Planet of the Apes [Music] monkey in 2013 9 Lost episodes of Doctor Who from 1968 were found in the store room of a TV station in Nigeria Bruce Willis appearance on friends came from a bet he made with Matthew Perry on the set of their film whole nine yards and that he would appear for free Finn's weren't originally considered white in the United States they willing to Mongols and called China Swedes due to not speaking an indo-european language Scottie Pippen is so cheap that restaurant workers had given him the nickname no tip in Pippen an estimated 500,000 Americans have faked degrees Billy Joel's signature song piano man is based on Joel's real-life experiences as a lounge musician John the bartender pulled the real estate novelist and the waitress are all real people bulls are color blind and can't see the color red it is the movement that angers them during Matador fights the reason behind the color red is so that the blood spilled is less visible when Kiefer Sutherland found out about a 24 drinking game where you drink every time he says damn it he decided to play along and started saying the phrase as many time as he could in an episode there is no practical way to draw our solar system to a visible scale with us reduced to pea diameter pluto would be the size of a bacterium 1.5 miles from jupiter with jupiter being the size of a period pluto would still be 35 feet away from it and reduced to the size of a molecule the oldest known spider lived for 43 years 1974 to 2016 and did not die of old age but was instead killed by a parasitic wasp 20,000 pounds of cheddar was stolen from a Wisconsin semi-trailer in 2016 the perpetrators are suspected to be part of a crime ring and as of 2017 have yet to be caught [Music] the man who played McGruff the Crime Dog was sentenced to 16 years in jail for drugs humans and the Tyrannosaurus Rex are closer on the world's timeline than the t-rex and Stegosaurus the National Federation of the blind estimates that today only 1 in 10 blind people can read Braille that stand romantically from the 1900s in medieval times corpses of sick people were used as catapult ammunition as a form of biological weapon there's a rare condition called spatio-temporal synesthesia where people can visualize time with in space a ton of old mobile phones has 100 times the concentration of gold found in an actual gold mine [Music] sloths can swim three times faster than they can walk on land and because of their ability to slow their heart rate to 1/3 of its normal rate they can also hold their breath for a whopping 40 minutes underwater home alone was filmed in an abandoned high school and Ferris Bueller's Day Off was filmed there too the reason Allied forces had nets on their helmets during World War two wants to reduce the helmets shine and it would also allow soldiers to place bits of foliage to increase their camouflage the iconic tumbleweed found throughout the American Southwest was accidentally imported to the USA from Russia in 1877 there is a secret entrance to the White House through an alley on H Street Egyptian pharaohs would publicly masturbate into the Nile as a religious ceremony a study conducted in 2019 in the United States found that almost half of people reporting they had a food allergy our Henry Ford anti-semitic propaganda was likely the most sustained printed attacks on Jews the world had ever seen at his time I regard Henry Ford as my inspiration Hitler told the news Nasser is under presidential orders to land humans on Mars by 2033 and NASA funded engineers are studying a way to build potential human habitats thereby producing bricks from pressurized Marty and soil despite our thinking of the big bang as the universe is let there be light moment light did not exist until 240,000 to 300,000 years later the Amish make rag dolls that don't have faces because of the no idols commandment and that all people are equal in the eyes of God in most American universities the only truly profitable sport is American football while men's basketball is somewhat profitable in some schools all other sports generally lose money sand dollars are actually live creatures the white sand dollars we often see on beaches are actually dead when they are alive they are black and have fine bristles on their underside to catch food when the term veggie burger was used in 1976 it meant a regular ground beef hamburger topped with vegetables there is an extinct language called bathroom which evolved separately from English the word for dog in babbles to also be dog by complete coincidence there is a difference between pizza sauce and pasta sauce pizza sauce is pureed and uncooked while pasta sauce is chunkier and slow simmered the helicopter used during the u.s. operation that killed Osama bin Laden in 2011 that crashed was a stealth helicopter that was never known to publicly exist before tempura one of Japan's national dishes was brought over by Portuguese traders in the 16th century free divers on average hold their breath for 10 minutes but the longest breath held was 24 minutes 3 seconds by Alex Segura in 2016 the square patch on backpacks like Gen sport is called a lash tab or pig snout originally it was designed for outdoor packs to pass string through it and fasten equipment las vegas looked like your ordinary spaghetti western town in 1910 mona lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1911 which drew more visitors to see the empty space than the actual painting Hawaii imports sterilized mail snakes for training border guard dogs to find snakes in luggage since there are no snakes in Hawaii a female ant which is capable of Shrek shell reproduction but isn't a queen is referred to as a gamergate during the Great Depression Al Capone the notorious gangster from Chicago established the first soup kitchen there is an island off the coast of Dublin Ireland inhabited by kangaroos [Music] earthworms are known to live 10 to 15 years before they die some species of penguin were taller than humans away Switzerland kept itself from being invaded as by booby trapping and blowing up all its board linkages and bridges making it nearly impossible for the Nazis to invade during World War two Brazil is home to the largest Japanese population outside of Japan Apple sold in supermarkets can be up to a year old when bored famed dancer Josephine Baker was a spy during World War two and had a pet cheetah [Music] Pandora's box was actually a jar Nicolas Cage was paid twenty million dollars for a never made Superman movie open-faced sandwiches are inspected by the USDA while closed faced sandwiches are inspected by the FDA scientists determine a blue whale's age by Counting the layers of its earwax for a human to run on water they would need to reach a speed of at least 67 miles per hour [Music] there are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on earth the size of the universe is inconceivably large kool-aid used to be called fruit smack and that kool-aid actually thrives during the Great Depression unlike other businesses at the time a [Music] kangaroo cannot jump if you hold its tail this is due to how vital its muscular tail is when it comes to hopping jeopardy prohibits certain wagers such as 666 69 or 1488 whereas 420 is allowed prince was an amazing ten pin bowling who wore furry knee-high boots to the bowling alley and could throw a strike at will during times of famine women are more likely to give birth to girls there is a paleontologist named David Schwimmer the same name as the actor who played polly oncologist Ross Geller on friends the closest living relatives of hippos are cetaceans which includes whales dolphins and porpoises the citric acid used as a preservative in many foods and beverages is not from citrus fruits but from black mold [Music]

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Length: 13min 44sec (824 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 11 2020