- Whoo, you already know what time it is! Here comes the facts! Here are 50 Amazing
Facts to Blow Your Mind. Discounting the planet's
30 kilometers per second trip around the sun, anything located on the Earth's equator is traveling around 1,600 kilometers per hour, while anything situated at
either of the world's poles is essentially stationary,
with spinning in place. There are actually no female peacocks. The correct name for
the species is peafowl. Males are called peacocks, while
females are called peahens. Females lack the bright blue color. Their feathers are brown, gray, or cream, and tend to be much smaller
than their male counterparts. Counting all of the
territories controlled, the country that exists
in the most time zones is France with 12. The United States covers
11, and Russia covers nine. In the early 1950s, doctors
at Tulane University in Louisiana discovered a
way to trigger the pleasure and pain centers of the
human brain using electrodes. In one of the most famous experiments, the team managed to give a female subject a 30 minute orgasm. A compass doesn't point to the planet's geographical north pole, it actually uses the
earth's magnetic field to identify the magnetic north pole, which moves in loops up
80 kilometers per day. Between June 2nd and June 4th of 2017, a pop-up establishment called The Restaurant of Order Mistakes
appeared in Tokyo, Japan. The owners actually hired
people with dementia to be their waiters and waitresses which led to many diners having a laugh as they were served the wrong things. That was really funny until it wasn't. Lady Gaga wrote her
hit songs Born This Way and Just Dance in only 10 minutes each. And both of them became number ones! During the Cold War as a
deterrent for potential invaders, the Swiss government executed a plan to defend it's borders by
having a number of bridges, roads and railways wired with explosives. Over 3,000 points of
demolition were prepared, and the bombs could be
detonated at any moment. Many of them hidden in the mountains and able to cause devastating rock slides. Nicknamed the Lighthouse
of the Mediterranean, Mount Stromboli is a volcano situated on an island near Sicily, Italy. It's been in a constant state of eruption for over 2,000 years. After her screenwriter
friend, Heather Robinson, was sexually harassed by a male producer, actress Carrie Fisher personally
hand-delivered a package, as well as a note to the harasser. Inside the package was
a cow tongue and a note that said if you ever
touch my darling Heather or any other woman
again, the next delivery will be something of yours
in a much smaller box. I think she's talking about his you know. Southern Florida is the
only place in the world where you can find alligators
coexisting in the wild with crocodiles, even
though the gators greatly outnumber the crocs. There is an online,
interactive, digital map called Ancient Earth which
can show you where the ground beneath your feet now would
have been on the globe as far back as 750 million years ago. Before the rise in popularity of Netflix and pausing live TV, the
British show EastEnders caused huge spikes in the power grid that required backup
stations to go on stand by. This is because when a
commercial break started, millions of people would
put on a kettle for tea, suddenly drawing all of the
electricity at the same time. That's a lot of tea. In the late 1980s and early 1990s professional pole vaulter Sergei Bubka broke the world records
for high jump 35 times, beating his own previous
records by only tiny amounts so that he could cash
in on the record bonuses as many times as possible. It's said that we'll never know how high he could have actually jumped. Ketchup was initially sold as a medicine after a medical paper published in 1834 claimed tomatoes helped
with digestive issues. A number of scientists
believe that the earth used to have two moons in it's orbit. The smaller one crashed
into the larger one to form the moon that
we know and love today. The near side of the
moon is much different from the far side which could mean that that half was changed,
scarred by a collision. Google is technically one of the world's top five computer manufacturers by volume, simply due to the fact that
they build their own servers. In 1994, the very first meeting of the Homestead,
Florida Crime Watch group was interrupted when a bale of cocaine weighing 34 kilograms fell out of the sky. The drugs were being transported
in a small plane overhead, and the traffickers ditched it when a US Customs jet caught up with it. Although he's easily recognized in part due to his dark-slicked
hair, Elvis Presley was actually a natural blonde. He dyed it raven-black
as he thought it would give him an edgier look. Honey bees are capable
of transmitting diseases to each other through sex. The STDs tend to spread very
quickly throughout the hive, as queens have been
known to mate with 100s of males in a matter of hours. Around 95% of the population of Suriname live along the northern coast. This is because 91% of the African country is covered in dense jungle. Tigers are widely considered to be the most vengeful creatures
in the animal kingdom. They've been known to stalk
humans and other animals that have somehow wronged
them for several days. Before he was the king of racy television, talk show host, Jerry
Springer was a politician. In fact, he held office
as the Mayor of Cincinnati for one whole year between 1977 and 1978. In the early 1900s, cars
were actually considered the cleaner and healthier way to travel, as they didn't leave horse
poop all over the streets. The pollution that horses left behind, along with the rising
costs of food and stables led to the last horse-drawn carriage leaving the streets of New York in 1917. Every year, 1,000s of people attend the Interstate Mullet
Toss, a charity event on the border between Alabama and Florida, in which paying participants
literally toss dead fish from one state into the other. In the early 1990s a
group at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan managed to
successfully train pigeons to discriminate paintings
by Picasso and Monet. After being presented with
several examples of their artwork the birds managed to recognize
pieces by the artists that had never been shown to them before. In the 2014 film Hercules,
the beard that Dwayne Johnson sports isn't his own,
but actually a prosthetic made of yak testicle hair. (baying) Yak. It's estimated that that world's oceans contain over $771 trillion worth of gold, but it's nearly impossible to obtain based on the fact that it was
dissolved into the salt water. So many people move to
Florida after retiring, that by 2030 it's estimated
that one in four people living there will be over the age of 65. The piercing cry that so many, especially in the United States associate with the bald eagle, isn't
an eagle screech at all. Hollywood, in an effort to
make the symbol of the USA more fierce often dub in the
cry of a red-tailed hawk. This is because the actual
sound that eagles make sounds more like a singing parakeet than the a tough predator from the sky. When traveling down to Sweden's
coast on the Iron Ore Line, trains generate up to
five times the amount of electricity that they use. In turn, this energy is used to power towns and other trains. According to a 2012 census,
the Falkland Islands, a British territory in the South Atlantic, have over a half a million sheep, but only 2,932 permanent residents. That means that there's around 167 sheep for every human being. The official highest recorded
temperature on planet Earth was 56.7 degrees Celsius,
or 134 degrees Fahrenheit. It occurred on July 10th,
1913 at Greenland Ranch in Death Valley, California. For 90 years, it was believed
that El Azizia in Libya experienced the highest temperature until the World
Meteorological Organization disqualified the record in 2012. According to NASA satellite data, the coldest recorded temperature was negative 94.7 degrees Celsius, or negative 135.8 Fahrenheit. It was recorded in August of 2010. It happened in Antarctica. Before he was a superstar,
actor Harrison Ford was a carpenter. He was doing work on a
door for legendary producer Fred Roos at the very
place that George Lucas was holding a casting call for Star Wars. At random he read for
Hans Solo, got the part, and quickly became famous. In addition to the standard set of teeth, moray eels have a second set of jaws located in their throats. Due to their narrow heads,
they would otherwise have trouble swallowing prey, however, they can push
the throat teeth forward to grip what's in their mouths and pull it into their digestive system. That's some alien nightmare stuff. Though it was a maximum,
high-security federal prison that held some of the
most notorious inmates, Alcatraz was also famous
for the incredible food served to the inmates there. Murderers that were serving
multiple life sentences were eating beef steak,
baked meat croquettes and iced cupcakes. They were allowed to eat
as much as they wanted as long as they left no waste behind. Lucky inmates. Michael C. Hall and Jennifer
Carpenter started dating, got engaged, got married,
and then divorced each other, all while playing brother an sister as the stars of the
Showtime series Dexter. The first electric lighting
installed at the White House was put in in 1891. President Benjamin Harrison was so afraid of getting electrocuted that he refused to touch any of the
switches to turn them on. When threatened by a predator,
red-eyed tree frog embryos can detect the danger, and in seconds free itself from its egg and drop away to safety. They can do this even
if it would otherwise be several days before
it hatches naturally. Singer-songwriter Kesha
once sent out a request that her fans send her
samples of their teeth. The performer was creating an art piece while in rehab for an eating disorder, and required her followers
pearly whites to complete it. While they make up only 1%
of the human population, psychopaths seem to be
good business people. An Australian study showed that more than one in five CEOs were psychopaths. A number that rivals the
percentage of people in prison. British artist Richart Sowa
built an artificial island in Mexican waters using
100,000 plastic bottles to keep it afloat. It's over 25 meters long
and has been recognized by the Mexican government as an eco-boat. Ferdinand Waldo Demara spent much of his life as other people. Starting in 1941, the
American-born identity thief impersonated monks, a prison warden, a sheriff's deputy, and many others as he moved from place to place. And while pretending to
be Brother John Payne with the Brothers of
Christian Instruction, Demara founded a college that was actually chartered by the state. Another fun fact is that
during the Korean War, Demara also impersonated a surgeon while onboard a Royal
Canadian Naval destroyer. But despite being a total fraud, he managed to memorize how
to perform certain surgeries from a textbook, and completed operations on 16 Korean combat casualties. The meow sound that cats make is actually a language developed
especially for humans. Research into how felines
communicate revealed that they very rarely meow at one another, but do so when they want
something from their human owners. Before he was the host of
Inside the Actor's Studio, James Lipton was a pimp. After World War II, Lipton
spent a year representing prostitutes in Paris, France,
as it was the only job that he could get at the time. Despite the fact that adult flamingos stand between 1.2 and 1.5 meters tall, these animals only weigh
between 1.8 and 3.6 kilograms. This incredibly low body density is what allows them to stay in the air and travel at speeds of up
to 60 kilometers an hour. If global warming caused
the oceans to rise, the first nation to disappear
would be The Maldives. The island country is the
flattest on planet Earth, with no area rising naturally higher than three meters above sea level. When manatees and alligators
approach each other in the water, the alligators give the manatees the right of way. In Florida, a number of gators, even ones that are 3.7 meters long will passively allow a manatee to pass by before continuing to swim. (flames sizzling) And that's it. That's knowledge whale. (screaming) Hope you guys enjoyed this. If you did, leave a comment below. What was your favorite fact on this list? Because there's lots
more coming next time. So stay tuned and I'll see you guys then. Buh-bye now.
