- Here are 50 Amazing
Facts to Blow Your Mind! One of the largest animals to ever fly was the Quetzalcoatlus. It was a pterosaur that
was as tall as a giraffe, had a wingspan of 10 meters and could fly for 16,000
kilometers nonstop. Due to their small brains, koalas are unable to
perform complex, unfamiliar tasks such as eating leaves
off of a flat surface. No human has won a
tournament standard chess game against a high-spec
computer since 2005, and because computers
have become so powerful, it's likely it will never happen again. Monopoly was originally invented in 1903 to expose the unfairness
of a social system where a small minority screw
the majority of tenants. Not only are there radar detectors, but there are radar detector detectors, and even radar detector
detector detectors. There is a company called Hoxton Street Monster Supplies that sells salt made from real human tears, and disturbingly, there are four kinds harvested from different moments, sneezing, chopping onions,
laughter, and anger. You can taste the emotion. It took radio 38 years to
reach 50 million people, 20 years for the phone, 13 years for television, 3.6 years for Facebook, and only 88 days for Google +. An Australian man named Don Ritchie lives across the street from the most famous suicide spot in Australia, a cliff known as The Gap. He, alone, has prevented
around 160 suicides in his 50 years of living there by striking up a conversation with people contemplating suicide by inviting them into his house for tea. For the past 15 years,
a Bulgarian man named Dobri Dobrev has walked
up to 25 kilometers every single day to beg for money for orphanages that are
unable to pay their bills. He turned 101 in July of this year. An adopted man in Michigan named Steve Flaig searched for his birth mother for four years before
finally discovering in 2007 that she worked at the same Lowe's store that he worked at. Amazingly, neither of them knew. A moment is actually a medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds. There are 40 moments in an hour. The Queen of England's portrait has been on enough International money to make a progressive
timeline of her aging. This is a home carved
entirely out of rock. It was created by a hermit named Daniil Sihastru in the late 1400's. An Abu Dhabi oil sheik named Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan carved his name in the desert in letters that are over 1,000 meters tall. Well, I guess if you have limitless money, you might as well have some fun with it. James Cameron was actually homeless when he wrote The Terminator and sold the rights to
it for only one dollar on the condition that he could direct it. You can rent the entire
country of Liechtenstein for $70,000 a night. In fact, Snoop Dogg once tried to do that in 2011 for a video shoot but the country said no, primarily because he just didn't give them enough notice. Australia, literally,
lost a Prime Minister. Harold Holt, on December 17th of 1967, who went for a swim and
just never came back. High atmospheric pressure affects the bubbles in your coffee, therefore, if bubbles
are closer to the center, you can expect it to rain or have other stormy weather. Elephants remember and
mourn their loved ones like us, sometimes
years after their death. In 1999, a woman named Penny Brown saved, then little boy,
Kevin Stephan's life by giving him CPR after he was hit in the chest with a baseball bat. However, just seven years later, he ended up saving her
from choking to death by giving her the Heimlich maneuver. Now, that's karma. There is a cryptid that's
believes to exist in the Gobi Desert called
the mongolian deathworm. It can grow up to 1.5 meters long and kills its prey with
electric shots from its eyes. Yikes. In 2013, a bank worker in Germany fell asleep on his
keyboard's number two button causing him to transfer
222, 222, 222 euros on a transfer that should've been worth only 62 euros. Interestingly, his
coworker was the one fired for not spotting the error. Users upload an average
of 350 million photos to Facebook every day and
in total have uploaded more than 250 billion photos to date. The role of Captain Jack Sparrow was originally offered to Jim Carrey but he turned it down for
the role of Bruce Almighty. An Iowa artist named Patrick Acton built a complete model of Hogwarts out of 602,000 matchsticks held together by almost
60 liters of wood glue. Sugar gliders are such
social creatures that if they're deprived of social interaction, they can actually become
depressed and die. So, make sure you love your sugar gliders cause they sweet. In the middle ages, doctors believed that farting into jars and sniffing them would prevent death, or more specifically,
the black death plague which they called therapeutic stink. Gross. The richest woman in
Germany, Susanne Klatten met her husband while
she was working in an internship for BMW under
a fake name in the 1980's. He had no idea who she actually was until she was sure about the relationship when she revealed herself. There are approximately 10 quintillion insects on our planet. That's 10 with 18 zeroes behind it or roughly 200 million insects per human. A UK teenager named Rory McInnes secretly painted an 18 meter penis on the top of his house and was caught over a year
later when his parents looked up their house on Google Earth. During the later 1800's, a baboon named Jack was employed by the railroad in Capetown, South Africa as a signal man. He never once made a mistake and worked for the
railroad until his death. The Boeing factory in
Everett, just north of Seattle is so massive that
rainclouds began forming inside the facility until they were finally forced to install a state of the art air circulation system. Scientists have begun arguing that we may actually have more than five basic senses including magnetoreception, the ability to detect magnetic fields and chronoception, the
sense of time passing. In 1898, Bayer introduced
diacetylmorphine, marketed as a cure for morphine addiction and cough suppressant. Today, that drug is better known by its trade name, heroin. In the 1930's, an Argentinian engineer named Juan Velar created
a rain-making machine, successfully made it rain
in several places at once and then disappeared without a trace. Marvel's The Avengers movie caused shawarma sells to skyrocket nationwide in America in 2012, purely because of an extra scene in which
Thor, Captain America, Bruce Banner, and the
rest of the heroic clan are quietly enjoying shawarma after casually saving the world. In 1888, A pigeon keeper and a bee keeper challenged each other's creatures to a 5.6 kilometer
organized race in Germany. The bee won by 25 seconds. Jonathan the tortoise is a giant tortoise who lives on the island of St. Helena in the South Pacific Ocean that's believed to have been born in 1832 and is still alive to this day. America has 19 aircraft
carriers compared to the rest of the world
that only has 12 combined. If you multiple
111,111,111 by 111,111,111, it gives the magical, mathematical result of 12,345,678,987,654,321. Amazing. The original release date of Halo 2 for the PC was delayed because Microsoft discovered that
one of the developer's hid a picture of his ass in it. The lowest class of meat is called canner and comes from very old cows with little fat in their tough meat, and is used in both dog
food and school lunches. Ack! In 2013, Volkswagen
succeeded in building a car that gets 235 miles per
gallon called the XL1. Almost the entire car is made out of carbon fiber and only weighs 81 kilograms. By definition, if you
commit any crime at sea, you're considered a pirate. Most of the time, the
ice cream that you see in tv commercials and other ads is actually mashed potatoes. This is because regular ice cream wouldn't be able to stand up to the heat of the onset lights while filming. In Queens, New York in 2010, a 12 year old girl named Alexa Gonzalez was arrested, handcuffed, and detained at a police precinct for several hours just for doodling on her desk. Yeah, that's a little bit strict. In 2010, in Stockholm, Sweden, there was a temporary campaign implemented called the speed camera lottery where good drivers can win money from the fines of other speeding drivers. The game company, EA, hired people to portray Christians to accuse EA of being the Anti-Christ for the video game Dante's Inferno as a marketing scheme. And it was incredibly successful. The Salar de Uyuni in
Bolivia is the world's largest salt flat at
10,582 square kilometers and turns into the world's largest mirror when it rains. It's so beautiful that it's been called the border between heaven and earth. In Japan, Nestle has introduced over 200 different flavors
of KitKat since 2000, including ginger ale, soy sauce, creme brulee, green tea, and banana. I need to go to Japan. And, that's it for this video, guys. Thank you so much for watching. I just wanted to remind
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