- Oh, you know what time it is. Here are 50 amazing
facts to blow your mind. There's a city in Kansas
called Gas that was named for the abundant amount of
gas that was discovered in the area. The city's motto is don't
pass Gas, stop and enjoy it. Black tomatoes can be
grown without any genetic engineering. They are full of beneficial
anthocyanins which are believed to help with obesity, cancer and diabetes. Most cats don't like to
drink water if it's too close to their food source. Always keep your cat's water
and food supply separate so they don't get dehydrated. Aside from stock footage
of historical people, Steven Hawking is the only
person to date to have played himself in an episode of Star Trek. During World War 2 a 14 year old boy named Jacklyn Lucas lied his way
into the military and became the youngest marine ever
to earn a medal of honor. When he was 17 he threw
himself on two live grenades to protect his squad members and survived. DC Comics published an alternate unvierse where Bruce Wayne dies
instead of his parents. In it, Thomas Wayne
becomes Batman and Martha Wayne goes crazy and becomes the Joker. In 2003 neurosurgeon and
CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta saved marine
Jesus Vidana's life after he was shot in the head in Iraq. He did this by performing
brain surgery using a Black and Decker drill bit. Romanian tennis player
Simone Halep used to have 34 double D breasts, until
she got breast reduction surgery to make her more
agile while playing. Well it worked because since
then she has climbed the ranks in the tennis world. Hippos like to lick crocodiles. They're not a threat so
the crocs tolerate it. Watson, IBM's artificially
intelligent computer learned how to swear from the urban dictionary. Because of that it began
talking sassy so scientists had to remove the entire
urban dictionary database from it's memory. During World War 2 Hitler
had a plan to destroy Russia by killing 4 million
inhabitants of Moscow and covering it with an artificial lake. The Indonesian Ministry of
Marine Affairs and Fisheries determined that a single manta
ray, if caught and killed, is worth any where from 40 to 500 dollars. However they also determined
that if kept alive they're worth up to one
million dollars in tourism revenue so they created the
largest manta ray sanctuary in the world. Mufdi Zakariah, a poet,
wrote the Algerian national anthem in his own blood on
his prison cell walls after he was in prison by the
French Imperial forces in 1955. The children's book
Where the Wild Things Are was originally titled Where
the Wild Horses Are however author and illustrator Maurice
Sendak ended up changing the name of it after he
realized he had no idea how to draw horses. An Indonesian boy named Aldi
Rizal began chain smoking when he was just 18 months
old and continued smoking over 40 cigarettes a day until
he was five years old when he was sent to rehab. The state of Illinois has
banned exfoliating face washes because the microbeads in
them are so small that they actually slip through the
water treatment facilities and end up back in the water supply. The first recorded human
flight with artificial wings in history was in the
sixth century in China. Emperor Kao Yang would
strap prisoners to kites and throw them off buildings
to see if they could fly. A psychologist named Timothy
Leary was sent to jail in 1970 and given a series
of tests to determine which jail he should be placed in. Since he designed many
of the tests himself, he manipulated his answers
so that he would be placed in a low security prison
as a gardener and ended up escaping only eight months later. After needing a blood
donation when he was young, an Australian man named
James Harrison began donating blood as soon as he turned 18. Amazingly it was discovered
that he has a rare antibody in his blood that
cures Rhesus disease and has since donated blood
over 1,000 times saving an estimated 2.4 million
babies from the disease. Ken McElroy was a notorious
bully who terrorized residents of Missouri for years. He was shot in 1981 in
broad daylight in an act of vigilante justice with
dozens of onlookers watching however no one came forward
saying that they saw anything and the case remains
unsolved to this day 30 years later. Noah Webster, the creator
of the first ever American dictionary learned 26 languages
so that he could understand and research the origins
of his own country's tongue in order to write it. The word jay used to be
used as slang for a dull or stupid person so when
anyone who ignored traffic regulations and crossed roads illegally, was called a jay walker. Girdling or ring barking is
the term used to describe the removal of a strip of
bark from the circumference of a tree's branch or trunk. If the main trunk of a tree
is girdled, it will die if it cannot regrow from above
to bridge the wound. Walt Disney used to visit
his parks in disguise and test ride operators to
make sure that they weren't rushing guests. This is Gunner the air raid siren dog. during World War 2 he alerted
aircraft personnel that Japanese aircraft were
approaching because his hearing was so acute and accurate. The most well known cut for a
diamond is the brilliant cut. When done perfectly on a round diamond, something called the cupid
effect appears which is a pattern of arrows and hearts
that can be seen if you shine a light through it. In 1999, Lene Hau a
physicist at Harvard became the first person ever to
slow light down to only 17 meters per second,
using a machine called Bose-Einstein condensate. And only two years later
she succeeded in stopping light entirely. Barcode scanners actually
read the spaces between the black bars, not the
black bars themselves. Employees who play different
cartoon characters at Disneyland never ever break character. They're even given special
autograph training sessions so that they can always
sign autographs in the style of the cartoon character they're playing. Iron Man was created by Stan
Lee in 1963 at the height of the Cold War when people
hated war and the military. He did this as a challenge
to himself to see if he could create a character that everyone
would hate and yet still try to shove it down their
throats to make them like him. And obviously he succeeded. A study conducted in
2011 by Angela Duckworth proved that IQ tests can
be affected by motivation. By promising subjects monetary rewards, she found that the higher
the reward, the higher they scored on the IQ test. The US embassy located in
Baghdad Iraq is the largest and most expensive embassy in
the world, spanning more than 104 acres and costing more
than 750 million dollars. In Finland, babies sleep in
cardboard boxes, seriously. Expected mothers are given
starter kits from the state filled with clothes, sheets,
toys and even a little mattress to put in the box to use as a bed. It's a tradition that is
continued since the 1930's. Galalith was an inexpensive
synthetic plastic that was developed in the early 1900's
that was made out of milk protein. It was odorless,
biodegradable, anti-allergenic and virtually inflammable,
however, unfortunately because it could not be molded
after the plastic was set, production ended in the 1960's. Before Will Smith stared in
the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, he was on the verge of
bankruptcy owing the government 2.8 million dollars. In fact, for the first
three seasons of the show he had to pay the IRS 70% of his income. There's a lake in Australia
called Lake Disappointment that was named and found
by Frank Hann in 1897 who was hoping to find fresh
water but instead found salt water. National Geographic star
Casey Anderson has a pet grizzly bear named Brutus. The bear was adopted in
2002 when he was a newborn cub and in 2008 served as
Casey's best man at his wedding. Seriously. Peachtree City in Georgia
has a 145 kilometer network of pathways dedicated to
pedestrian and golf cart use. Most of the city owns golf
carts that use them as an extra car to get around
for local transportation. Philani Dladla is a homeless
man from Johannesburg South Africa who's known
as the pavement bookworm. He survives by reviewing
books for people passing on the street and sells them
the book if they like it. Researchers from the University
of California in 2013 found that 29% of San
Francisco's pollution comes from China. The hazardous air from China
can travel all the way to the west coast of America within
only days if the weather conditions are right. There's an amusement park
in Las Vegas called Dig This where you get to drive
construction equipment over a giant sand box. I want to do that. This is a golden tiger. They're the result of inbreeding
between white and orange tigers held in captivity. They are extremely rare because
they're not intentionally bred. Chiune Sugihara was a famous
Japanese diplomat that operated in Lithuania during World War 2. He helped more than 6,000
Jewish refugees escape to Japanese territory by
issuing them transit visas risking his life and his
family's life in the process. When a new building was
being constructed for Scotland Yard, one of the
world's best known police agencies, a dismembered
torso of a woman was found. The case was called the
white hall mystery and was never solved meaning that
Scotland Yard was built upon an unsolved crime scene. Lotso the bear from Toy Story
3 was originally supposed to be in the first movie
but the technology needed to create his fur wasn't
available at the time so he got pushed back to the third movie. Insurance companies have
blacklisted Jackie Chan and anyone else who
works on his stunt team. This means that if anyone
gets injured while on the set of a Jackie Chan movie,
he has to pay for their recovery treatment. In 1861 a slave named
Robert Smalls fought his way to freedom by seizing a
confederate ship and delivering it to the union. He ultimately became a major
general and even bought the original house that he
was a slave in, reuniting with his mother. The oldest hotel in the
world is the Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan in Japan. It was founded in 705 AD
and has had 52 generations of the same family operating
it since it was founded. Every spring, a set of 21
swings is set up near a bus stop in Montreal's entertainment district. Every one of them acts as
a musical instrument and as people swing, prerecorded
sounds fill the air. The pizza Luis XIII is the most
expensive pizza in the world costing 12,000 dollars. Created by chef Renato
Viola he prepares the entire dish at your house. The toppings include
three types of caviar, Mediterranean lobster, and
red prawns and the size of the pizza is only 20
centimeters in diameter. Yikes. And that's all for this time guys. Thank you so much for watching, as always if you enjoyed
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