- You ready for some facts? Perfect, let's dive right in. Here are 50 amazing
facts to blow your mind. There's such a thing as rivers in the sky. They're called atmospheric rivers. Atmospheric rivers are
weather systems that move high concentrations of water
vapor outside the tropics and can bring strong winds and floods. According to a new study
released on February 13th, 2017, by Netflix, nearly half of
streaming couples around the world have cheated on
their significant other by watching a show ahead of
them without their knowledge. One of the reasons that
the Pentagon is so short is because of the steel
shortage due to the war. The building was built
primarily using 332 thousand 581 cubic meters of reinforced concrete. A lot of which was from
the grounds around the Pentagon itself. When Kleenex tissues were
first introduced to the public in 1924, they were intended
to be used with cold cream to remove makeup and clean the face. The 'kleen' in the name
represented that physical clean, and the 'ex' was tied into
the company's other popular and successful product at the time, Kotex. There are snakes found in
rain forests in Southeast Asia that are able to fling
themselves from trees and elegantly fly through the air. They're capable of changing
their body shape to generate the aerodynamic forces needed to fly. Domino's pizza has a wedding
registry where you can purchase different e-cards for some lucky couple. Some examples that they
offer are a $25 gift of pizza called the post-honeymoon
adjustment to real life, because washing the dishes is the worst. Then there's the $15
married but chill option. I want pizza now, I'm hungry. Writer, actor and comedian,
Dan Akroyd, has a form of autism called Asperger's. One of his symptoms is having
an obsession with ghosts and law enforcement. This is what led to the idea
of the Ghostbusters film. Famous designer, Hugo Boss,
not only made Nazi uniforms, but he was also part of the Nazi party. Venus is referred to as
Earth's sister planet because of the number of things that
it has in common with Earth. It's a terrestrial planet
and also orbits within our sun's habitable zone. In ancient Greece during the Olympics, a truce was called so that
athletes and spectators could travel safely. The truce was initially
there for one month, but in later centuries
it was extended to three. No wars were permitted and
no arms could be carried. There's an annual tradition
called Los Bolos del Juego, or balls of fire, held every
August 31st in El Salvador where two groups of young
people throw flaming balls of old cloth and wire that are
soaked in gas at each other. This dangerous event has
been happening since 1922. In 2013, Burger King tried
to make its French fries healthier by introducing satis-fries, a low calorie alternative. But customers preferred
the full fat version and Burger King killed off the item in 2014. 25% of US presidents lost
their fathers either at a young age or in their
teens from death, divorce, or abandonment. Many of them were cared for
and raised by single mothers and grandparents. The von Schesteffan Brewery
located in a small town just north of Munich has
been brewing beer non-stop for almost a thousand years
withstanding four fires, three plagues, and a major earthquake. Well, somebody definitely loves beer. There are 293 different
combinations to make change for a dollar. Green patches in potatoes
indicates the presence of chlorophyll, which
also means that there's a concentration of a harmful
toxin called solanine. So when you see these green
patches, you should cut them out entirely and discard them. Don't just be bitin' into raw potatoes 'cause you gonna get sick. Before Super Bowl 51, Zoo
Atlanta in the Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence,
Rhode Island, made a bet that if their team lost, they
would name a baby animal after the winning team's quarterback. Since the New England Patriots
beat the Atlanta Falcons, Zoo Atlanta named a Madagascar
hissing cockroach Tom Brady. In Margate, England, there's
a series of underground passageways covered in
millions of sea shells. The Margate Grotto was discovered in 1835, but it's still unknown how
old the grotto really is, or who built it. The larvae of the Middle
Eastern epomis beetle socialize in killing frogs,
salamanders, and other amphibians that try to eat them. They lure in their prey,
encouraging them to approach, and strike with double-hooked
jaws hanging on and eating the prey alive. There's a robotic coffee
brewing kiosk called Cafe Ex that opened in February 2017
in downtown San Francisco. The drinks are served by
barista bots, which are robotic arms designed by
Mitsubishi and are the first of their kind in the United States. (buzz)
I said low on the milk. No more milk. The Great Sphinx of Giza
was constructed out of a single chunk of soft limestone bedrock. It stands over 20 meters
high, almost 74 meters long, and over 19 meters wide. Researchers from MIT have
created a new material that's actually stronger than graphene. It's 10 times stronger than steel, with only 5% of its density. There is a 6,410 square
meter indoor farm in Newark, New Jersey, that's the
world's largest indoor farm. Aero-farms are able to
grow crops without soil, sunlight and nearly no water. They use 95% less water than
conventional outdoor farms. According to a study published
in 2015 by a university at Albany Team in the
journal analytical chemistry, gender can now be determined
from the concentration of amino acids that are
found in a fingerprint. As it turns out, women have
more amino acids than men. In December of 2016, the oldest
known breeding wild bird, Wisdom the albatross, laid an egg at the Midway Atoll National
Wildlife Refuge in Hawaii at the ripe old age of 66. In Northwest Poland, there's
a forest of about 400 pine trees that grow with
a 90 degree bend at the base of their trunks before
rising vertically again. This collection of crooked
trees has been named the Crooked Forest. In California's Sierra Nevada mountains, there's a group of blind
millipedes that glow in the dark. The millipedes give off a
neon teal color and have a special type of protein that
allows them to produce light from beneath the tough cuticle
that covers their bodies. President Jimmy Carter
installed 32 solar panels on the White House roof when he was
president in the late 1970's. When Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, he had them removed because
he thought it was a joke. Then when President Obama moved in, he had all the solar panels reinstalled. Oranges are actually
green in warm climates. Most green oranges are
perfectly ripe and need no more ripening. In fact, they're actually
on their way to being rotten when they're turning orange. Zoos have begun raising
puppies and cheetah kittens together to help combat the
cheetah's stress and focus their wild energy. Our fingers don't contain any muscles to facilitate movement. Movement, like flexing
and curling our fingers is actually made possible by
specific actions of the tendons, bones and muscles that are
found in the palm of our hands. There's something called the
Great Pacific Garbage Patch or the Pacific Trash Vortex,
where there is a collection of garbage in the north Pacific Ocean. It spans waters from the
west coast of North America all the way to Japan. It's made of tiny particles
of plastic that never degrade. Venus rotates very slowly,
taking over 243 Earth days to complete a single rotation. It has the slowest rotation
period of any planet. Dogs can have a disorder
called canine compulsive disorder, or CCD, which is
characterized by excessive repetition of an action
or behavior and can vary depending on the context. CCD is similar to human
compulsive disorders, and is likely to be a coping
mechanism for when the dog sees a situation as stressful. According to a survey
done in February of 2017, by Venezuela's living
conditions, almost 75% of the population lost an average
of at least 8.6 kilograms in 2016 due to a lack of
proper nutrition because of the economic crisis. The Earth receives 174 pedo
watts of solar radiation at the upper atmosphere. 30% of that is reflected
back to space and the rest is absorbed by clouds,
oceans, and land masses. Mageirocophobia is a fear of cooking. I definitely have this,
I stick to Kraft dinner. It can take many forms
and is extremely common, although it is only considered
a phobia when it's severe enough to interfere with daily life. Adermatoglyphia is an
extremely rare genetic disorder in which people are born
without fingerprints. The finger pads of people with
this condition are entirely flat and don't have the
arching or looping ridges of finger prints that virtually
all other humans do. There's a McDonald's in
Marino, Italy, where you can have your meal and also
check out an ancient Roman road at the same time. The road built, between the
second and first centuries BC, was discovered in 2014 when
the McDonald's was being built. The road was excavated,
documented, and enclosed in a gallery with a glass roof so that patrons of the restaurant can look down on it. One year after the Brooklyn
Bridge opened in 1883, circus performer, P T Barnum,
led 21 elephants across it to prove the bridge's strength. A woman from Michigan named
Barbara Soaper gave birth to her three children on oh
eight, oh eight, oh eight, oh nine, oh nine, oh nine, and 10, 10, 10, respectively. The odds of this happening
are 50 million to one. That blob of toothpaste
in the shape of a wave on your toothpaste box is called a nurdle. In the tech world, the
word Yahoo followed by an exclamation point stands for yet another hierarchical officious oracle. In 1994, David Filo and Jerry Yang, used the term to name their
internet search engine. Chess boxing is a hybrid
sport combining the mental battle of chess and the
physical struggle of boxing. Players have to learn how to
balance their strategy on the chess board with the plan of
attack in the boxing match. The Voynich manuscript
is a hand-written book of 246 pages and many
illustrations in approximately 170 thousand characters. But the script in the book
is completely unknown and illegible, meaning that
no one has ever been able to read it or decipher it. Bobby Leach was the second
person to ever go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. He actually survived the
stunt, but died ironically 15 years later while
walking down a street in Auckland, New Zealand. He slipped on an orange peel,
fell down, and broke his leg. After infection set in, the
leg had to be amputated, and he died in surgery. Germany put the world's
first hydrogen powered zero emission train into service in 2017. The non-electric network
trains are powered using a hydrogen fuel cell and
only emits steam and water. Residents of a village
named Hopeman in Scotland have been posing as police
officers using speed guns by arming themselves with
hair dryers and reflective vests to combat speeding drivers. The Rafflesia Arnoldi plant
is the biggest individually produced flower in the world. It gets to be over 91
centimeters across and weighs almost 11 kilograms. Nepalese climber, Pemba
Dorje, is a Sherpa who holds the record for the fastest
assent of Mount Everest. He climbed Everest in only
eight hours and 10 minutes in 2004. So that's it. I hope you guys enjoyed
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