- You know what time it is. Just lay back, relax and
get ready for the facts. Here are 50 amazing
facts to blow your mind. The average human being
weighing 70 kilograms contains within them, over
0.2 milligrams of pure gold. The word twyndyllyngs, which
means twins or twinlings, is the longest word in
the English language that contains no vowels. For men, wearing a green hat
in China is a fashion no-no, as it's considered a sign that their wife has cheated on them with another man. The tradition dates back
to the Yuan Dynasty, when the families of prostitutes were forced to wear green
headgear to reveal their shame. Despite only having 0.06% of the whole world's human population, the Carolingian community in Kenya is home to the athletes
responsible for winning nearly 70% of all elite
distance-running-races worldwide. In the 2013 Berlin Marathon, female runners from Kenya won first, second and fourth places,
while male Kenyans won first, second,
third, fourth and fifth. The fastest time overall
was Wilson Kipsang's at two hours, three
minutes and 23 seconds, the fastest marathon time
ever recorded to that date. In late November of 1990, world
champion boxer Muhammad Ali flew to Iraq and met with
dictator Saddam Hussein. He then somehow managed
to negotiate the release of 15 American prisoners being held there and brought them all home
to the United States. This was despite the
fact that then President George HW Bush did not approve. Before he passed away on July 4th 2013, 55-year-old Cleveland Browns
super fan, Scott Entsminger requested that six members
of his favorite team step in as pallbearers, claiming
that he wanted the Browns to let him down one last time. Ooh that's savage, that
is a savage way to go. In Slovakia and a few
other places in Europe, it's a common tradition at Christmas time to have a carp swim in the
family bathtub for a day or two before it's killed and prepared
for Christmas Eve dinner. How'd these traditions get
started, like seriously? In 1974, 17-year-old Neville Ebbin was riding his moped in Hamilton Bermuda when he was struck by a
taxi and tragically killed. Around a year later, his brother Erskine was riding that same
moped on the same road when he was hit and
killed by the same taxi, driven by the same man. Back in 1889, when Nintendo was opened as a playing card company, their products became
incredibly popular with, of all people, the Yakuza. The organized crime syndicate used the cards in their gambling parlors, and Nintendo quickly
became their main supplier. If not for the huge amount of money their deal with the Yakuza brought in, Nintendo would likely not be the mammoth video game company that they are today. Ironically, after making
the switch to video games and releasing the SNES, or Super Nintendo Entertainment
System back in 1990, Nintendo was forced to make shipments of their new console at night, as due to his popularity,
the Yakuza organization kept robbing daytime shipments. In 2012, in an attempt to
reduce the number of suicides that were being committed Mapo
Bridge in Seoul, South Korea, the local government
along with advertising and insurance companies, began a campaign that saw messages, paintings, sculptures and motion-activated lights installed. All of this was to support
and reveal to passersby that they were not alone. Unfortunately, the following
year saw over six times the number of suicides
as the previous one. The University of
Minnesota was established before Minnesota was even a state. The school was opened in
1851 and it wasn't until 1858 that the state joined the union. In 1973, film star Anthony Hopkins traveled to London, England,
searching for a book that a movie that he was in was based on. That book, The Girl From Petrovka, was unavailable in every
store that the actor visited. He ultimately gave up, but
while waiting for a train home, he sat on a bench only to
find a copy of that very novel sitting unattended on
the bench next to him. Upon meeting the author
of The Girl From Petrovka, George Feifer in 1975,
Hopkins was surprised to learn that the writer didn't
even have a copy of it. He'd lent his only copy to a friend, having added important
notes in the margins. Incredibly, the book
that the actor had found was the very same one
that Feifer had lost. A number of churches in
Malta have two clocks. The one on the right is the correct time and is the one that locals use
to know when to go to mass. The one on the left is wrong and is there to confuse the devil so he can't interrupt services. At Christmas dinner in 1972,
13-year-old Marie Heffernan came down with a severe case
of bronchitis and laryngitis and was rushed to the hospital
in Wollongong Australia. The condition went away after six weeks, but she still couldn't speak. Then, 12 years later, a coughing fit broke up a ball of black sludge that contained a silver coin. Marie's mother had put the coin in a Christmas pudding, 12 years earlier. Focus and watch what you eat folks, focus. There was a Marvel DC Comics
crossover event in the mid-90s that saw the biggest heroes
from both universes clash. In the series, Marvel's Quicksilver challenged DC's The Flash to a race. The Flash, disappointed
in the two speedsters not being friends, ultimately won. On October 29th 2012,
between 30 and 50 thugs showed up at 38-year-old
Shen Sing Sung's house in China's High Bay Province, sent by a land developer
who wanted the property. As they forced their way
in, Shen a Kung Fu expert fought them off, knocking
several unconscious and successfully defending his home. The remaining thugs retreated. In parts of Europe, giant
catfish have been witnessed purposefully beaching themselves to quickly strike at
pigeons and other birds. The fish then flop back towards the water, dragging their feathered meals with them and drowning them like an alligator does. According to research conducted by the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration, a car, truck or other vehicle is stolen somewhere in the
United States every 46 seconds. In 2011, the most stolen vehicle, according to the National
Insurance Crime Bureau was the 1994 Honda Accord. It was also the most stolen
vehicle from 2008 until 2010. In the midst of World War
II, the demand for penicillin was much higher than what was available, so doctors resorted to recycling it, taking the urine of someone
who's been given the antibiotic and removing whatever penicillin made the journey through
the person's body, to give to someone else. The language spoken by
Pingu, the claymation children's television
character from Switzerland, isn't just gibberish, it's actually a nonsense
language called Grammelot. It's been used by clowns
and in satirical theater since the 16th century. On August 28 2017, Hurricane Harvey was dropping so much rainfall
in the Southern United States that the national weather
service had to add two colors, light and dark purples to their graphics, as the amount of water
had more than doubled the more-than-15-inches
dark-red flooding indicator. The legendary Bruce Lee
was so fast and accurate that he was able to toss
a single grain of rice up into the air and then catch
it before it hit the ground, between a pair of chopsticks. In 1989, while on death
row in South Carolina, convicted murderer,
Michael Anderson Godwin decided to multitask and
fix his broken television while answering the call
of nature in his cell. Upon biting into a wire still
attached to the plugged in TV, he electrocuted himself,
effectively turning his toilet into a version of the electric chair that was waiting for him. When Hersheypark, an amusement
park in Hershey, Philadelphia built its new merry-go-round in 1912, the person in charge of
painting the ride's sign, spelled it C-A-R-R-O-U-S-E-L
with an extra R. Instead of repainting the sign, the park decided to operate the ride under that title for 32 years. On the set of the 2017 Marvel Blockbuster Spider Man Homecoming, Michael Keaton continuously trolled Tom Holland by quoting lines that he
spoke as The Dark Knight. While in one particular fight scene, as Holland's Spider Man
punched at Keaton's Vulture, the older actor turned
around and whispered darkly, "I'm Batman", throwing
the young Holland off. In 1965, four-year-old Roger
Lausier was saved from drowning by a woman named Alice Blaise. Nine years later, while on a
raft by the same exact beach, Roger pulled a man from the
water, saving him from drowning, and that man was Alice's husband. When French inventor Louis
Reard was unable to find a model willing to show off his
new clothing invention, the bikini, in 1964, he
turned to 19-year-old Micheline Bernardini who agreed. While other models claimed the
bathing suit was too skimpy, Bernardini a stripper, had no
problem showing off some skin. The line eventually took off and can be seen on pretty
much any warm beach on Earth. Some species of termites
are natural suicide bombers. The tiny creatures, when
presented with danger to themselves or their colonies,
can latch onto a predator and squeeze their own
midsection until they burst, effectively killing themselves and sending a hardening, sticky and
very toxic substance in every direction. In 2009, Brian Acton was turned down for a position at Facebook,
and it may have been the best thing that ever happened to him. That's because five years later in 2014, Facebook purchased Acton's company and the app that they developed, a little thing called WhatsApp
for $19 billion dollars. Acton took 50 million of it
and invested in to Signal, an app that competed with WhatsApp. And then, on March 20th 2018, he tweeted that everyone
should delete Facebook. A study published in 2009 revealed that in loud environments,
people will more often try to hear something whispered to them with their right ear over their left. It also showed that
subjects were more likely to comply with another person's request if it was delivered into their right ear. Al Capone's business card claimed that he was in the
business of used furniture. Whenever in trouble with authorities, the mobster would present his card and claimed that he was just a second-hand-furniture salesman. "You wanna get some of this furniture, "just saying, just a regular
guy, not a criminal." On February 28 2007, 170 Swiss soldiers accidentally invaded the
tiny country of Liechtenstein when they got lost while on
a nightly training march. As soon as they realized where they were, the group retreated back to Switzerland and the government
later issued an apology. As a response, as spokesman
from the small country declared, "No problem, these things happen." When local council
realized that people were constantly speeding down a
road in Arnprior, Scotland, they had the lines on the
road repainted as wiggly ones, but the twisting lines
on the straight road have not had the desired effect and have actually upset
residents in the area. In 2001, a 10-year-old
girl named Laura Buxton released a helium-filled
balloon with a note to return it to her at her address in the Midlands in England. It was found 225 kilometers away, in a field by another young girl who was also named Laura Buxton. On top of that, the girls are
only a few months apart in age and are of equal height, despite both being tall for their age. Adding to the coincidences, each of them both have a three-year-old
black Labrador retriever, a bunny and a guinea pig. From the age of 10, UK-rapper MIA had zero contact with her father, a man who fought against
the Sri Lankan government in the Civil War as a Tamil Tiger. So, in an effort to
get him to contact her, the artist titled her debut
studio album, Arular after him. Her goal was for him
to Google his own name, see the album and then
get in touch with her, and the plan worked. On July 11th in 2013, people across India worked together to break a world record, planting more trees in a 24-hour period than any group had before them. Attempting to fight climate change, over 800,000 volunteers turned
up to complete the feat, planting an estimated 50 million trees. After uncontrolled flooding
caused the cruise ship The Oceanos, to start sinking in 1991, her captain and crew
quickly abandoned ship and the passengers on board
without even sounding an alarm. Ship entertainer Moss Hills stepped up and used a radio to call
mayday and got everyone saved. The crew were brought up
on charges for negligence. When sexually frustrated
young male dolphins have been documented going
on murderous rampages and killing other
porpoises, often in groups. There are people who suffer from a psychological
disorder called Boanthropy, in which the individual
believes that they are a cow or other subtype of bovine. Nah, this is ridiculous, just mooove on. When Tom Scholz recorded his band Boston's debut album More Than A Feeling, he did so in his own basement, but turned the tracks over to the studio as if they'd been professionally
recorded in a studio. The album has sold over
17 million copies today. Actor and Scientology frontman Tom Cruise split with each of his three former wives, Mimi Rogers, Nicole
Kidman and Katie Holmes when they were each 33 years old. In the Scientology faith, the number 33 is considered the master teacher and symbolizes altruism, true love and increasing positive energy. In 2011, a Florida high school
principal named George Kenny was suspended after
16-year-old Wesley McKinley, one of his students, took his own life a day after the principal hypnotized him. A number of hair salons
in the United Kingdom have designated a quiet
chair in their establishment. It's a way for antisocial individuals to get their hair cut or colored without participating in small talk. Oh man, these are needed everywhere. In 2011, 71 year old retired
fisherman Joao Pereira de Souza saved a South American penguin after the animal became stranded
on a beach near his home, on an island off the
coast of Rio De Janeiro. Since then, each year
the penguin named Dindim travels thousands of kilometers to spend several months
with the elderly man, only to then return to its colony again. A dual involving three opponents instead of the standard two
which most duels consist of is actually called a truel. In such a fight, each participant must try to kill the other
two, kind of like you'd expect. When building the SR-71 Blackbird, the world's fastest manned aircraft and a nearly undetectable plane during the height of the Cold War, the CIA used dummy corporations to obtain the titanium from Russia. Basically, the Soviets were supplying the metal used in the planes
that were spying on them. (tranquil music)
