- Here comes your weekly
dose of brain food. Here are 50 Amazing
Facts to Blow Your Mind. Verne Troyer, the actor who plays Mini-Me in the Austin Powers movies,
has to do all of his own stunts because at 81 centimeters tall, there's no stunt double his
size that can fill in for him. In 2006, a rare grizzly and
polar bear hybrid species was confirmed in Canada called
pizzly bears or grolar bears. Global warming is causing
polar bears habitats to melt, so they find shelter elsewhere and end up mating with grizzlies. In 2004, a serial rapist
in India named Akku Yadav, was lynched by a mod of
200 of his alleged victims, after they did not get justice in court. They stabbed him over 70 times, threw rocks and chili powder at his face, and even hacked off his man
bits with a vegetable knife. After the ordeal, all
of the women involved claimed responsibility for the murder. Well, that's a feel good fact. In 2005, the Golden State Fence Company in Southern California, was hired to build part of the fence that
separates the US and Mexico. However, ironically, just
one year later in 2006, they were fined five million
dollars after it was discovered that they had hired
illegal immigrant workers to build part of the fence. In 1993, a Chinese man named Hu Songwen was diagnosed with kidney failure. In 1999, after no longer being able to afford the hospital bills, he built his own dialysis machine, which kept him alive for another 13 years. Since then, a new medical insurance scheme was introduced in China, which
now covers his treatments. When he was a freshman, in
1987, a man named Mike Hayes got a friend who works
at the Chicago Tribune to write him article, asking
the millions who read it to donate one penny each
towards his tuition. Immediately, pennies, nickels
and even larger donations came pouring in from all over the world. After accumulating the equivalent
of 2.9 million pennies, he graduated and paid for
his degree in Food Science. After being eliminated from
the show Hell's Kitchen, contestants are immediately taken to get psychiatric evaluations, and then to a house
where they are pampered with back rubs, haircuts and manicures. This is because the experience
on the show is so draining that the producers don't want
the eliminated contestants to kill themselves or someone else. In 2012, after spending
five days in prison, a Korean man named Choi Gap-bok, who had practiced yoga for 23 years, escaped by slipping
through a tiny food slot at the bottom of his cell door, while the guards were sleeping. He was only 163 centimeters tall, and the slot was only
15 by 45 centimeters. Bhumibol Adulyadej, the
current King of Thailand, was actually born in
Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States in 1927. When he was born, the hospital
room that he was delivered in was briefly declared Thai territory so that he could be
technically born on Thai soil. There is a hidden beach in
the Marieta Islands in Mexico. It was originally formed in the 1900s by the Mexican government,
and used as a bomb site for preparation for the first World War. Today, the only way to get to this beach is by going through a small
opening in a cavernous wall, or being hoisted down by a helicopter. Switzerland has enough nuclear shelters to accommodate 114% of its population. In fact, it's actually a legal requirement for the Swiss to have a protected place that can be reached quickly
from their place of residence. A study conducted by Loma
Linda University in 2010 concluded that laughter
not only reduces stress, but increases the production of antibodies and kills the activity of tumor cells. So as it turns out laughter
really is the best medicine. There are more tigers held in captivity in the United States at 5,000, than there are running wild
in the rest of the world at only 3,200. There's a chimpanzee in
a Russian zoo named Zhora that became addicted to booze and smoking after too many visitors began giving him alcoholic treats and cigarettes. In fact, in 2010, the chimp actually had to be sent to rehab to be treated for his addictions. Today, I'm happy to say
he is happily recovered. Don't be giving booze
and smokes to chimps. What the hell's wrong with you? Ioannis Ikonomou, the Chief Translator in the European Commission, can speak 32 different languages. His native language is Greek, and he's the only in-house translator in the European Commission, who's trusted to translate
classified Chinese documents. In 1860, Abraham Lincoln
grew his famous beard because he got a letter from an 11-year-old
girl named Grace Bedell, who said that all ladies
liked the whiskers, and that they would
convince their husbands to vote for him for President. In 2013, Sean Conway
became the first man ever to swim the entire
length of Great Britain. The 1,400 kilometer
trek took him 135 days, 90 of which were spent in water, the rest were spent avoiding
bad weather and resting. There is a syndrome
called the Tetris Effect that occurs when people dedicate so much time and attention to an activity, that it starts to pattern their thoughts, mental images and dreams. Yasuo Takamatsu, a
58-year-old Japanese man, began learning how to scuba dive in 2014 in order to find his wife's remains after she was swept away in the 2011 tsunami that hit Japan. The last time that he spoke to her, she told him, "I want to go home," and he wants to fulfill that wish for her. If were to buy a PlayStation 4 in Brazil, it would cost you $1,845 American, because of the country's
heavy import taxes. In fact, it would be cheaper
to buy a round-trip ticket from Brazil to the US. Experts believe that New York is home to as many as 800 languages, making it the most
linguistically-diverse city in the world. The red mushrooms featured
in Nintendo's Mario games are based on a real species of
fungi called amanita muscaria. They're known for their
hallucinogenic properties, and can distort the size
of perceived objects. This is also the same mushroom that is referenced in Alice in Wonderland. In 2013, France banned
child beauty pageants because they promote the
hypersexualization of minors. Anyone who organizes such a pageant could face jail time of up to 2 years, and a fine of up to 30,000 euros. Before he was Iron Man,
actor Robert Downey, Jr. was a notorious drug addict. He credits his sobriety to,
of all unlikely candidates, the fast food chain, Burger King. In an interview with
Britain's Empire magazine, he revealed that in 2003, he was driving a car full of drugs when he ordered a burger from Burger King that was so disgusting, that he felt compelled
to pull over, get out, and dump all of his drugs into the ocean. Well, that's a weird story. The Beatles never once stood
for any kind of discrimination throughout their entire career. Their contracts always stipulated that they had the right to refuse to play for any segregated audience, and demanded equality at their shows. During World War II, prisoners
in Canadian war camps were so well treated, that they were given
games and entertainment like soccer tournaments
and musical groups. In fact, when the war ended, many of them did not want to leave Canada. The rules of most airlines require that the pilot
and co-pilot of a plane eat different meals. This is just in case one of the
meals causes food poisoning. In 1938, Walt Disney was awarded an honorary Oscar for Snow White. The statuette that he received came with seven mini-statuettes
on a stepped base. How cute is that? The keys to the holiest
site in Christianity, The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which was erected in 325, over the site where it's
believed Christ was crucified, is actually held by two Muslims, which has been a tradition since 1187. In 2014, Budapest broke the world record for the tallest Lego tower ever built. Made of 450,000 colorful bricks, and topped with an over-sized
Hungarian Rubik cube, the structure stands at 34.7 meters tall, in front of St. Stephen's Basilica. In 2013, Google sent a lone employee to an abandoned Japanese
island called Gunkanjima to map it for Google Street View. The island was once the most
densely-populated island in the world, but is now
completely abandoned, and, if it looks familiar, that's because it was the island
used in the movie Skyfall. This is the famous Swedish Icehotel that's constructed every winter
after it melts in the spring In 2013, authorities made it a requirement to install fire alarms, even though the entire
place is made of ice, just in case things like sleeping
bags or pillows catch fire This is Sir Nils Olav. He's a penguin that is an
honorary member and mascot of the Norwegian King's Guard since 1972. He was officially knighted in 2008, but the penguin that was
knighted at the ceremony was not the original Nils Olav, as that penguin died in the
1980s, and instead was replaced by a two year-old penguin from the zoo. Yeah, that's weird. There is a species of fungi
called the Bleeding Tooth. It's also called the
Strawberries and Cream, and although non-toxic, is not edible. But seriously, who would ever
want to try this thing anyway? In the early 1930s, a social movement called
the Technocracy Movement became popular, although
it eventually died out, which proposed replacing
politicians and business people with scientists and engineers
that could manage the economy. There is a side-effect
of sleep deprivation called microsleep, in which a person will fall
asleep for a few seconds or even a few minutes
without realizing it. It's extremely dangerous
and has actually contributed to a large amount of traffic accidents. So get your sleep before you
drive, baby, it's dangerous. In 2014, a competitive
eater named Molly Schuyler, who weighs only 57 kilograms, won four eating contests
in only three days. She ate a total of 363
chicken wings, 59 pancakes, five pounds of bacon and five
pounds of barbecued meat. Yummy. The Centennial Light Build
in Livermore, California, has been burning since 1901, and is the world's longest
lasting light bulb, according to the Guinness
Book of World Records. The bulb is at least 113 years old, and has only been turned
off a handful of times. The invention of the fire hydrant is generally credited
to Frederick Graff, Sr. although no one knows for 100% certainty who actually patented it. This is because, ironically, the patent for the first-ever
fire hydrant was destroyed when the office in Washington, D.C. caught fire in 1836. There is a 16-storey office
building in Osaka, Japan called the Gate Tower Building, that has an entire highway
that passes through the fifth, sixth and seventh
floors of the structure. That's some interesting architecture. Until the 1930s, the letter E was used to represent a failing grade in the US, however that was changed to F, as professors began to
worry that their students would mistake E for excellent. In 2010, a man named Gary
Richmond was beaten into a coma, and woke up with amnesia, forgetting his girlfriend of
26 years and his daughter. However, after only 3 years of waking up, he fell in love all over
again with his girlfriend and they actually just got
married in January of this year. How lovely. There is a school called Ordinary Miracle in Yoshkar-Ola, Russia, that
looks like a fairy-tale castle. A man named Sergey Mamaev
had it built for his wife, who wanted to teach at a school that children would
actually want to go to. Forget going to school
there, I'm gonna live there. Pretty princess. In 1975, Professor Jack H. Hetherington from Michigan State University, add his cat as a co-author to a theoretical paper that
he had been working on. He did this because he
mistakenly used words like "we" and "our" in the paper, and didn't feel like revising it. Yeah, that's just a little bit lazy. And crazy. In April of 2014, the Danish government built an exact replica of their country in the online game, Minecraft, using four trillion
Minecraft building blocks. It was intended for educational purposes, but within weeks, American
players had invaded the game, planting American flags
everywhere and blowing things up. America. In Finland, when you earn your PhD, you're given a doctoral hat,
that looks like a top hat, as well as a doctoral sword. Like a Sir. A man named Sogen Kato was thought to be the oldest man in Tokyo, until 2010, when officials
arrived at his home to wish him a happy 111th birthday, only to find his mummified remains. As it turned out, he had
been dead for 30 years, while his family continued
to collect his pension money. That's just ain't right. Reciprocal liking is a psychological term used to describe when
you start liking someone after you find out that they like you. It's a phenomenon that reflects the way people feel better about themselves, and enjoy the company of those that provide them with positive feelings. The beautiful white sand
beaches that you find in Hawaii are actually made up
predominantly of fish poop. Larger parrot fishes produce as much as 381 kilograms of white sand per year. That takes a little bit of the magic away from it doesn't it? I'm walking on poop. Contrary to popular belief, white spots on fingernails are not a sign of excess or deficiency of calcium or zinc, or
other vitamins in the diet. They're actually called leukonychia, and are completely harmless, and are most commonly
caused by minor injuries that occur while the nail is growing. And that's it for this time guys, thank you so much for watching. As always, if you enjoyed this video, be sure to give that Like button a click, and if you'd like to see
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