- You know what time it is. Get ready for Knowledge Will to bring you the oh, oh, oh, facts. Here are 50 amazing
facts to blow your mind. Research conducted in Britain has revealed that the average motorist spends over two days per year simply waiting for a red light to change green. When former President
of the United States, Harry S. Truman, visited Disneyland in 1957, he was offered a ride on Dumbo the flying elephant, but he politely declined. A democrat throughout
his political career, Truman didn't wanna be
seen riding an elephant which is the symbol of
the Republican Party. According to legendary Canadian actor, William Shatner, he and
fellow Star Trek star, DeForest Kelly, didn't
speak for nearly two years after Shatner laughed at Kelly's story about his chihuahua, Emily, running into a sprinkler head
on and abruptly dying. In 1949, the town of
Molehill, West Virginia officially changed its name to Mountain simply for the humor
behind making a mountain out of a molehill. When woodpeckers hit
trees or telephone poles with their beaks they do so with a force that's 1000 times that of gravity. Before being born many female aphids are already pregnant and expecting their own insect babies. Called telescoping of generations, this process allows the insects to increase their numbers quickly. Around 40% of meteorites
that strike the earth are said to originate
from a single source, Six Hebe, an asteroid in the main belt that was discovered on July 1st, 1947. During World War II there was a unit at Auschwitz that's called Canada, where valuables taken
from prisoners were kept. It was so named because the country of Canada was at that time believed to be the land of untold riches. In the 1972 classic film, The Godfather, the word mafia is never
said due to threats made by the real life mafia. Producer Albert Ruddy
eventually got the go ahead to make the film from boss Joseph Colombo after the filmmaker and Paramount Studios agreed to remove every
instance of the word mafia from the script and give the proceeds from the film's premier
to the Italian American's Civil Rights League
hospital building fund. Yeah, give the money to
the construction people, just construction, no mafia here, just construction, thank you. On January 9th, 1386,
after being found guilty of the murder of a child
in a court of law in France a pig was executed by hanging. The pig had been formally arrested after being found with the dead child, served time in a human jail for the crime and was given the death sentence by a judge. Yeah, that's what you get you dirty swine. After Thomas Edison's declining health forced him into a wheelchair the inventor's dear friend, business magnet, Henry Ford, brought an extra wheelchair to his estate so that the two could race
them against each other. On his death bed Edison's final breath was captured in a glass test tube by his son, Charles, and then sealed with paraffin wax. It was then given by Charles to Henry Ford as the younger Edison was well aware of how close the two men were. It's actually now on display at the Henry Ford Museum just
outside of Detroit, Michigan. Around 35% of female prisoners in Saudi Arabia are still in prison because no male relative
will come and collect them. In 1997, Iceland Foods Limited, a British supermarket chain,
released a line of products called Wacky Veg in an attempt to get kids to eat more healthy vegetables. The range included
chocolate flavored carrots, baked bean flavored peas,
cheese and onion flavored cauliflower and pizza flavored sweet corn. I'm not gonna lie to you,
I would definitely try all of those. Your boy's got an inner fat
kid waitin' to break out. During the American Civil War disease took nearly twice the amount of lives than the actual fighting did. One of the biggest
issues among the soldiers was acute diarrhea. It was so common a problem
that an unwritten code was established that
said that you couldn't fire on or otherwise kill an enemy soldier that was in the process of dealing with the call to nature. In 2014, scientists'
research in chimpanzees at a Zambian sanctuary
noted that the primates recognized their own fashion trends. In one instance a number
of them began putting pieces of grass in their
ears for no apparent reason other than to seem included in the group. Released on June 23rd, 2017, D.J. Khaled's 10th studio album, Grateful, features his infant son, Assad,
as an executive producer. While producing the tracks on the album Khaled looked to his baby boy to see how he reacted to the music. Apparently when Assad threw up on him while listening to the song, Shining, Khaled knew he had a hit on his hands. In 1781 while living abroad as the United States Ambassador to France, Benjamin Franklin wrote an essay titled, A Letter to a Royal
Academy, about farting. Better known as Fart
Proudly, the essay was Franklin's way of expressing his belief that various academic societies
in Europe were pretentious. Yeah, that's right (farting). During a press conference in June of 1943, U.S. Congressman Andrew J. May, announced that American submarines were good at surviving Japanese
attacks in enemy waters because the depth charges being used were set to explode at
too shallow a depth. Because of May's comments
Japan made modifications and around 800 American
officers lost their lives. A poll of 23,000
individuals in 22 countries revealed that around 20%
of the world's population believe that aliens are among us walking around while
looking like regular people. In India and China that number is as high as 40%. As of February 2015,
Director, Stephen Spielberg, has been named in Academy Awards acceptance speeches 42 times which is more than any other filmmaker. He's been thanked more than twice as often as God has. For several decades villagers living in central China were consuming dinosaur bones dug up in
the surrounding region using them in soups and as medicine as they believe them to be the bones of magical dragons. Who cares about archeology and history? Delicious dinosaur soup. Released on September 5th, 2000, Christopher Nolan's neo-noir
psychological thriller, Memento, has been praised by a number of experts in the field of neurology who claim that the fictional film is one of the most accurate depictions of anterograde amnesia in the
history of motion pictures. A 1962 Looney Toons cartoon
called Mexican Borders featured Slowpoke, a
cousin of Speedy Gonzales and eluded that the much slower mouse had a marijuana habit. On April 19th, 1951, less than six years after watching Hiroshima get obliterated by an atomic bomb from a neighboring town in Japan, 20 year old Shigeki Tanaka went to the United States, the country responsible for the explosion, and won the Boston city marathon. Released in 1997 to mark
Apple's 20th birthday the 20th anniversary Mac or TAM was a limited edition
computer that was marketed to an executive market. The futuristic looking
Mac cost around $7500 and was hand delivered in a
limo by an Apple staff member in a tuxedo. Some African giant pouched
rats have been trained to sniff out tuberculosis
and they can do so with more accuracy than many lab tests. Argentina was given its
name by European settlers who believed that there were riches hidden in the mountains. In Italian Argentina loosely translates to silvery and it was
thought that there was a legendary hidden mountain
of silver in the region. Saloop was a popular hot drink and a less expensive substitute for coffee or tea in the
18th and 19th centuries. That is until a rumor began spreading that it cured venereal diseases. After that drinking saloop became shameful and the beverage vanished from shops. Why would that be shameful
that you wanna clear up your hoo ha, anyway, moving on. According to the CDC
America's National Health Protection Agency, men are over five times more likely to be killed
by a lightning strike than women are. Data collected between
1968 and 2010 showed that 3389 people died after being struck by lightning and 85% of them were males. When designing the
character Yoda for Star Wars Episode Five, the Empire Strikes Back, Hollywood visionary, Stuart Freeborn, modeled the wise green Jedi master's face after his own mixed with
that of genius inventor, Albert Einstein. During World War II the popular German pharmaceutical company,
Bayer, which is famous for introducing aspirin to
headache sufferers everywhere, purchased a number of prisoners from concentration camps and used them as guinea pigs for new product testing. Some of the last words of Wayne McClarin, better known as the Marlboro Man, a spokesman for the
famous cigarette company, before he lost his battle with lung cancer on July 22nd, 1992, were
take care of the children. Tobacco will kill you and
I am living proof of it. On February 5th, 1958 while conducting a practice exercise near Tybee Island off the coast of Georgia
USA, the U.S. Air Force lost a Mark 15 nuclear bomb
when an F86 fighter plane and a B47 bomber collided in mid air. The nuke was jenocent to avoid detonation, but was lost in the Atlantic Ocean and despite extensive searches has never been located. A study conducted by researchers
at Ohio State University in 2016, found that acetaminophen,
a common pain reliever found in products such
as Tylenol, can actually make people less empathetic meaning they understand the pain
others are experiencing less than normal. Honestly, I don't care. When I'm feelin' sick your boy needs all the flu drinks, make me feel better. In 1967 after an ad campaign the citizens of Piscataqua, a village in Ecuador, elected Pul Vapes, a foot
deodorant, as their mayor. Well, I guess its competitor could definitely smell defeat. I'm sorry, I'll move on. As much as 20% of people
suffer from something called white coat syndrome
in which the patient's blood pressure increases dramatically only while in a doctor's office. A December 2011 study
revealed that around 92% of all baby changing stations
in the United Kingdom had traces of cocaine on them, 92%. From March 1952 until
May 1956, Kent cigarettes sold by Lorillard Tobacco Company featured a micronite filter which
contained carcinogenic crocidolite, also known as blue asbestos. Alarmingly, of the six
recognized types of asbestos experts consider crocidolite
to be the most hazardous. I get that, but it also sounds kinda like a lovely name, crocidolite,
delightful crocodile, crocidolite, sorry. According to National
Geographic the amount of space between New York,
New York in the United States and London, England,
increases by about 2.5 centimeters each year. The two cities are
literally drifting apart. Robert Chesebrough, the
man who invented and sold Vaseline, believed in his product so much he ate a spoonful of the wonder jelly every day until his death at 96 years old. In early 2011, a super
pack of over 400 wolves began attacking Vircoyans,
a village in Russia killing more than 30
horses in just four days. The local government
sent out hunting parties and brought in experts
all of which were baffled as to why the animals had formed such an enormous pack. Tetranitratoxycarbon is
a hypothetical molecule that was first theorized by a 10 year old from Kansas City, Missouri in early 2012. Fifth grader, Clara Lazen, was working in Science class with a molecular model when she found a configuration
that hadn't been documented. She is now credited as the co-author of a scientific paper, along
with her Science teacher. During the 51-day siege on
the Branch Davidian's compound in Waco, Texas in 1993 one of the tactics U.S. federal agents used in an attempt to end the standoff was sleep deprivation. Throughout the night they broadcast loud noises through speakers
aimed at the building including jet engines, chanting, pop music and even the screams of rabbits
that were being slaughtered. For the 1993 blockbuster, Jurassic Park, the sounds used for the velociraptors when they're barking at each other was recorded by sound
engineer, Gary Rydstrom, at Marine World and
are actually the sounds being made by a tortoise
while it was having sex. One of Ireland's oldest
festivals, The Puck Fair, takes place annually
between August 10th and 12th in the town of Killorglin. During the fair a wild goat is captured and carried down from the mountain. It's crowned King Puck,
locked in a small cage high up on a pedestal for
the festival's duration and then released back into the wild. At the 1904 Summer Olympic
Games in St. Louis, Missouri, the marathon proved to
be the most bizarre event with one man traveling
most of the way in a car, another who used rat poison as a stimulant and had to be carried off the track and third who consumed rotten apples in a orchard on the way got sick, took a nap and then finished the race in fourth place. The Walt Disney Company
is the second largest purchaser of explosives in the world behind only the United
States Department of Defense. Disney is also the largest
consumer of fireworks on earth. During a snow storm at
Fort Keogh in Montana in January of 1887, the largest snowflakes ever recorded fell from the sky. A local rancher declared they were bigger than milk pans and measured one which turned out to be
over 38 centimeters wide. The book that holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries is in fact, the Guinness Book of World Records.
