- Ahh, you know what time it is! Time for the facts! Here are 50 amazing
facts to blow your mind. (explosion) There are more countries
in the list of FIFA members than there are in the United Nations. There are currently 212 FIFA members, while the members of the countries in the United Nations sits at only 193. In 2007, Saina and Adnan Cleric, a couple in a loveless
marriage in Zenica, Bosnia were individually looking for someone other than their spouse online. Both found other users that they felt could be their soul mates. But when they went to meet in person, they discovered they had set
themselves up with each other. Despite the unlikely
coincidence and the love that they shared online,
each accused the other of cheating, and the couple
ultimately got divorced. If your eyes were as
good as the Wide Field and Planetary Camera on
the Hubble Space Telescope, you would have the ability
to read the fine print on a standard newspaper that was over 1.6 kilometers away from you. During the French Revolution
of 1830, Louis Antoine became King of France when his father, King Charles X abdicated. However, soon after, Antoine
renounced the throne as well, having been king for literally
less than 20 minutes. Only 10 people have been named honorary Harlem Globetrotters, and
that list includes two popes: Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis. Oh yes, times to get those holy baskets. In 1883, mongooses were set loose in sugarcane fields in Hawaii in an attempt to control
the growing rat populations. However, since rats are nocturnal
and mongooses are diurnal, the new animals failed to make an impact. Farmers quickly found they had issues with large populations of both animals, while the native bird
populations plummeted. Babies born in the Ache tribe in Paraguay have multiple fathers, which are made up of all the males who had intercourse with the baby's mother during pregnancy. Once born, the infant is looked
after by all of these men, who help feed and raise it. Like many countries, India
has an annual holiday celebrating children. But unlike other countries,
their "children's day" is on November 14th, exactly nine months after Valentine's Day. You know what that means,
you know what I'm saying? When they got busy. For the brief appearance
as a drugged out criminal in the 1986 comedy
Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Charlie Sheen stayed awake
for 48 hours prior to filming so that it would seem authentic. Right, that's how Charlie
Sheen made it authentic, just by "staying up". In the summer of 1962, American scientists detonated a hydrogen bomb that
was 100 times more powerful than the one that was
dropped on Hiroshima, just outside the Earth's atmosphere, just to see what would happen. The act or practice of eating
the flesh or meat of a horse is called hippophagy. Just eight months asfter
purchasing DomiNick's, a pizza restaurant, with
his brother Tom for $500, James Monaghan traded his share to Tom for a used Volkswagen Beetle. 38 years later, Tom sold 93% of what's now known as
Domino's Pizza for $1 billion. (groaning) That hurts. On August 13th, 1941, Henry
Ford unveiled his new car at the Dearborn Days community festival in Dearborn, Michigan. Dubbed the soybean car, the
vehicle was only two-thirds the weight of the average steel car and was made, in part, out of soybeans. The longest hole of golf ever
played was done so in 2017 by 28-year-old Adam Rolston
and his caddie/friend, 42-year-old Ron Rutland. Teeing off on June 29th
at the most Western point of Mongolia, the pair
traveled through the country for 2,011 kilometers, hitting
a golf ball as they went. It took them 82 days to reach
their destination, Ulan Bator, the nation's capital city,
to complete the "course". It was estimated to be a par 14,000, but Rolston shot a 20,093. The 1976 film Rocky was
filmed in just 28 days, with star Sylvester Stallone
and the film's small crew, that were driving around the
city of Philadelphia in a van, as well as hopping out
whenever director John Avildsen saw a colorful location. For centuries, many Buddhist monks practiced self-mummification, in which they consume only
water, nuts, fruits and seeds collected from nearby
forests as well as mountains, and then seal themselves in a small tomb with a breathing tube and a bell. If the monk failed to
ring the bell one day, they would be considered dead, the tube was taken out of the tomb and was sealed for 1,000 days,
leaving to a mummified body. On February 19th, 1916,
28-year-old Marshall Mabey was working on a new subway
line in Brooklyn, New York when a buildup of air pressure shot him, as well as two coworkers,
out of the tunnel, up through the mud and
water of the East River, and over seven and a
half meters into the air. Though the other men died, Mabey miraculously
suffered no serious injury. Although most of the
population speaks Spanish, as of 2009, the constitution
of the country of Bolivia recognizes 37 official languages. In 1924, while imprisoned
at Landsberg Fortress in Bavaria, Germany after a failed attempt to seize power in Munich, Adolph Hitler wrote a
letter to Jakob Werlin, the owner of a Mercedes-Benz dealership. In the letter, Hitler begged for a loan so that he could buy a limousine that he had his heart set on, as the future dictator was,
at the time, very broke. In South Carolina in the United States, the maximum penalty for
first-time domestic abuse is 30 days in jail, while
the maximum sentence for the abuse of a dog is five years. On November 3rd, 1986, a 12-member jury was on their way to a courtroom to hear arguments in a lawsuit filed against Otis, the elevator company, when the elevator that they were in broke down and got stuck. The elevator was an Otis elevator. Well that can't help your case. In March of 2016, Barak Obama
became the first president in 88 years to officially
visit the country of Cuba. The last president to do this
was Calvin Coolidge in 1928. Frito-Lays Flaming Hot Cheetos product was invented by a man
named Richard Montanez, who was working at one of
the company's factories as a janitor when he
came up with the idea. Today, that man is an
executive vice president with Pepsi-Co. First introduced in Green Lantern Volume II, number 188 in 1986, Dkrtzy RRR is a bio-sentient mathematical equation that's a genuine member
of a superhero group, the Green Lanterns. Terville, a town in
Normandy, is the only village in all of France to not
lose a single resident to the last five wars that the
nation has been involved in, including World War I and II. Every soldier who took
part in them came home. George Washington was the first and only United States President to
receive 100% of electoral votes. That sounds sketch. As an April Fools prank in
2014, National Public Radio posted a link on their Facebook page accusing Americans of not
reading things anymore. The post quickly got a slew of comments from outraged people, but
those who actually did read the content in the link
were congratulated. NPR was proving that a huge
number of people commented without ever reading, even
when the topic was reading. There's a company in Essex, England that allows people to hire actors to attend their own
funerals, so that they appear to have been more popular
than they actually were. Known as rent-a-mourner,
actors will even attend wakes and tell stories about the deceased as if they really knew them. In 1994, a lawsuit was filed against Apple over their new codename for
the Power Macintosh 7100. It was internally called Carl Sagan after the famous astronomer, but after learning of the lawsuit, Apple changed the codename to BHA, which stood for Butt Head Astronomer. During the 44th annual
Academy Awards in 1972, comedian Charlie Chaplin
received an honorary Oscar for his achievements in film. His appearance at the ceremony marked the first time that Chaplin had been in the United States in 20 years, since being labeled a communist, and he was greeted as
he made his way on stage with a 12-minute standing ovation from the audience of
his fellow filmmakers. It still stands, no pun intended, as the longest in Oscar history. As of 2014, the country with the slowest internet connections in
the southeast Asian region is the Philippines, with an average speed of just 3.54 Mbps. That while nearby Singapore
has the second fastest, with around 65 Mpbs. Iquitos, the capital
of the Maynas Province and Lareto Region is the sixth
most populated city in Peru. Despite having a
population of over 470,000, Iquitos can only be accessed
by the river or air. It is the largest city on the planet that cannot be reached by road. Bonobos, endangered great apes that happen to be the
closest extant relatives to human beings, are naturally bisexual and don't seem to discriminate
based on age or gender when participating in sexual activity. In Denmark, it's actually legal to burn or otherwise desecrate the national flag, called the Dannebrog, But it's actually illegal
to burn or desecrate those from foreign
countries, the United Nations or the Council of Europe, because doing so would be viewed as a threat. Breatharians are a group of people who believe that human
life can be sustained without food or even
water, but simply by prana. Prana is also known as life force, which is in the air and light around them. Despite many Breatharians claiming to go extended periods of time
without other nourishment, others have lost their lives
trying to follow their example. Data collected in 2013 by the
Venezuelan Prison Observatory revealed that nearly 48,000 people were incarcerated in the country's jails, which were built to house a maximum of only around 16,500. That's nearly three times the number that prisons can safely hold. On March 28th, 2013, inmates
of a Venezuelan prison on Margarita Island opened a nightclub inside the prison itself. Friends and family of those incarcerated attended the opening, which was complete with professional lights, sound
systems, and even strippers. During photosynthesis, the process which converts sunlight into energy, plants emit a light called fluorescence. It's invisible to the human eye but can be picked up by
satellites in the Earth's orbit. Most of the dinosaurs that
appear in Steven Spielberg's 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park were animals that lived in
Earth's Cretaceous Period, not the Jurassic, as the title suggests. (screeches) Velociraptors were not the slippery-skinned lizards
depicted in Jurassic Park. Quill knobs that were discovered
on several fossil skeletons have revealed that these animals
were definitely feathered. In 1925, a skilled conman
named Victor Lustig successfully sold the Eiffel Tower to a scrap metal purchaser,
accepting a large cash bribe while impersonating a corrupt member of the French government. When the buyer went to
claim the Paris landmark, he found that he'd been scammed and Lustig had fled to Austria. Studies conducted in 2006
revealed that the Amazon River, which flows from west to east today used to flow the opposite
way in prehistoric times and, for a very brief period, actually flowed in both directions. Despite having nuclear
bombs dropped on them, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are no longer radioactive, because the explosions
occur high up in the air, meaning that the radioactive fireball did not touch the ground, and thus reduced the amount of fallout created. There are somewhere
around 25,000 more genes in a dry bowl of cornflakes than in a human being's entire body. Meanwhile, there are actually
only 1,700 more genes in a human being than in
the body of an earthworm. Scatomancy is a practice
that's been around for thousands of years, in
which a person's fortune is told through the examination
of that person's poop. The fortune tellers are
called scatomancers. The longest civil war in Earth's history is actually still being waged. Dubbed the Karen Conflict,
the war began in 1949 in Karen State, Burma, which
is now Karen State, Myanmar and continues today
with Karen nationalists fighting the armed forces
of Myanmar for independence. In the summer of 2006,
the Walt Disney company quietly ended their cross
promotion arrangement with McDonald's in an effort
to distance themselves from the fast food giant's
alleged contributions to the childhood obesity epidemic
that was sweeping America. Named after the demigod,
the Hercules beetle, native to central and South America, can lift over 100 times
its own body weight. The longest poem ever
written is the Mahabharata, a text that is used to teach
the principles of Hinduism. It contains around 1.8 million
words in 74,000 verses. If you tried to continuously
recite it without breaks, it would take two weeks
to complete the poem. (relaxed electronic music)
