- Oh, hey! Fact time. Let's do it. Here are 50 amazing
facts to blow your mind. (glass shattering) Actor Sir Christopher Lee, who played Saruman in the
Lord of the Rings films, read the book trilogy every year from when it was published
until his death in 2015. Harriet Tubman once
pretended to read a newspaper on a train to avoid her former
master from recognizing her. The former master knew
Tubman was illiterate and ignored the black
woman reading on the train without knowing it was her. On September 21st, 1939, radio station WJSV in Washington, DC, recorded the entire 19-hours broadcast for the National Archives. This gave the National
Archives a complete artifact from the Golden Age of Radio. The recording is available to listen to for free on the internet. Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton and his wife Jordan rent
out a hotel every year to let parents of
children with disabilities have a paid date night. Two high schools in Seattle, Washington, delayed their start times one hour each so that students could sleep in longer. They found that the
students were more attentive and performed better with only
an extra half-hour of sleep. Wild Bill Hickok usually sat in a chair with his back against the
wall in establishments so that he could see the entrance. One night while he was playing poker, the only seat that was
available at the table faced away from the entrance. He asked another player if
he could switch seats twice, but the man refused. When Hickok ended up sitting in the seat, a disgruntled card player
from a previous night entered the saloon and
ended Hickok's life. Because wasabi is so difficult to grow, many restaurants outside of Japan serve a mixture of horseradish, mustard, and food coloring to imitate it. In 2004, French police
discovered a fully equipped movie theater in the Catacombs of Paris. They found a large cinema screen, seats for an audience,
projection equipment, film reels of many different movies, and even a fully stocked bar. When rapper Eminem was being sentenced for a weapons charge in 2001, the judge said to him, "Mr. Mathers, "now's the time for you
to please stand up." Speaking of Eminem, in
2010 he had a high score of 465,800 on the arcade game Donkey Kong. This would have placed
him in the top 30 scores in the world at the time. There's a Japanese work
philosophy called kaizen, which means finding better
methods to complete a task instead of doing it the same way. Soldiers from the Nebraska
National Army Guard used Chinook helicopters
to drop bales of hay for cattle that were
stranded from a flood. Khuk Khi Kai was an
infamous prison in Thailand during the 1800s that
translated to Bird Drop Prison. The first floor contained prisoners, while the second floor was porous and contained chickens that
would poop on the prisoners. This was used as a torture
method on the prisoners, who had to endure the smell
and slime of the poop. According to Title 27, Section 5.22 of the United States Alcohol,
Tobacco, and Firearms code, vodka must be distilled or
treated until it's without distinctive character,
aroma, taste, or color. If it does not comply
with any of these rules, then it's not considered vodka. The retail store Target's
main corporation in Minnesota has a state-of-the-art
forensics laboratory that not only catches shoplifters, but also helps with law
enforcement agencies during investigations free of charge. Between 33,000 and 55,000 Canadian men served in the Union army
while a few hundred of them served in the Confederate army
during the U.S. Civil War. At least 29 Canadian men were
awarded the Medal of Honor. During and after the U.S. Civil War, Canada refused to return
about 15,000 Americans who deserted or dodged the draft. Ninjas in Japan during the
17th and 18th centuries avoided eating pungent food
such as garlic or leeks in order to have no body odor. This was due to the fear
of being sniffed out by the enemy while trying
to remain undetected. On December 4th, 1956, Elvis
Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny
Cash recorded an impromptu jam session at Sun Records
Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. This historic moment in rock 'n' roll was called the Million-Dollar Quartet. While singer Diana Ross was recording the hit song I'm Coming Out, she didn't know that coming out meant revealing someone was gay. After she discovered
the meaning of the term, Ross broke out in tears
and thought that songwriter Nile Rodgers was trying
to destroy her career. It's officially forbidden to
wager either $69, 666, 14, 88, or $1,488 on the television
game show Jeopardy! One of the few historically
accurate accounts of Pocahontas is of a time when she did
cartwheels completely naked to provoke European
settlers in a stockade. NFL legend Jerry Rice
started playing football in his sophomore year of high school after the principal caught
him misbehaving one day. Rice sprinted away so
fast that the principal told the football coach
of the student's speed and offered him a spot on the team. Norway has introduced
digital driving licenses that people can download from
an app on their smartphones. The Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest manmade structure in the
world for 3,871 years, until the Lincoln Cathedral
in the United Kingdom was built in 1311. Deep Springs College is an
all-male two-year college that's located on a cattle
ranch outside of Death Valley. Only 15 students are admitted per year, and the college offers free tuition as well as free room and board. However, they are required to work 20 hours a week on the ranch. Alexandre Dumas, who wrote
The Three Musketeers, was the son of the first
French black general, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas. He was the highest-ranking
black military officer in history until the year 1975. According to sociologist Reuben J. Thomas from the University of New Mexico, people who participate in online dating are more likely to settle down with someone from a
different race, religion, class, or educational background. U.S. President Theodore
Roosevelt's daughter Alice chewed gum, played poker,
and smoked cigarettes. She also had a pet garter snake that she would keep in her pocketbook and take out at unexpected times. Native American Joseph Medicine Crow became a war chief during World War II by unlocking the four
achievements necessary to do so. These achievements are leading a successful war party on a raid, capturing an enemy's weapon, touch an enemy without killing him, and stealing an enemy's horse. In 2007, comedian Jon Lovitz slammed fellow comedian Andy
Dick's head into a bar at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles. In 1969, actor Samuel
L. Jackson was expelled from Morehouse College for
locking the board members in a building for two days in protest. One of those board members was Martin Luther King Jr.'s
father, Martin Luther King Sr. Having a dream that you're still in school even though you graduated years ago is one of the top 10 most
common dreams in the world. Actor Will Friedle from
the show Boy Meets World suffers from an anxiety disorder that forced him to stop acting onscreen. He became a voice actor for cartoons such as Batman Beyond and Kim Possible. In 2015, he was comfortable to get in front of the camera again
for the show Girl Meets World. Most ground cinnamon in
international commerce is not actually true cinnamon. It comes from the related
species called cassia. Indonesia and China are
responsible for producing most of the world's true cinnamon. According to Dr. Philip
Stephens from Durham University, it would take at least 500
humans to repopulate the Earth after a mass extinction event in order to prevent inbreeding. Eating 100 grams of red ants provides 14 grams of protein and
48 grams of calcium. This amount of ants is
also under 100 calories, so they're low in carbs. It's possible to eat stinkbugs if you can get past the smell. They add an apple flavor to sauces and are a great source of iodine. Legendary actors Henry
Fonda and James Stewart were best friends even though they had opposing political views. Fonda was a Democrat, while
Stewart was a Republican, and one night they got into
a fight from a heated debate. They decided to never
argue again about politics, and instead spent their
time pranking each other and building model airplanes. After artist Frida Kahlo discovered that her husband had cheated on her, she found the woman he cheated with and slept with her for revenge. Japanese toilet company Toto
created a green motorcycle called the Toilet Bike
Neo that runs on biogas that are produced from livestock waste. The seat of the three-wheeled
motorcycle is a toilet, and it has a 250cc engine. Sorry to disappoint you, but
there are currently no plans to commercially produce
the Toilet Bike Neo. Dolphins are actually born with mustaches that help them locate
and feel their mother. But after about a week they fall off because of the depilatory process. After the film The Taking of Pehlam 123 was released in 1974, New York City Transit
Authority decided to not have any trains leave Pelham Bay Park at 1:23. This is a rule that
they still enforce today by subway dispatches. Crocodiles are capable of surviving without food for up to three years, because they're extremely efficient at storing energy in their bodies. In 2006, a railway switchman
named Truman Duncan fell off of a moving train
car and fell underneath it. He was cut in half by the steel wheels but remained conscious and
even calm enough to call 911. He ended up surviving but lost
his legs, pelvis, and kidney. Bananas are curved because
they reach for sunlight as they grow due to a process
called negative geotropism. The Beatles were all under 30 years old by the time they broke up the band. The youngest was George
Harrison at 27 years old, and the oldest was Ringo Starr at 29. In 2019, a Mexican
judge granted two people the right to recreational cocaine use. The U.S. military developed
a new precision missile that uses blades instead of
explosives to destroy a target. This is intended to avoid
any civilian casualties after it's launched from a drone. The small town of Severance, Colorado, had a ban on snowball fights until a nine-year-old boy named Dane Best persuaded the town board
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