50+ Facts About the World I Double Checked

hey if you've been wandering for ages what the most common lie is whether penguins have knees or how big the world's largest pizza is you're in the right place volcanoes can produce lightning during eruptions there might be too much friction between ash particles static electricity builds up and creates lightning bolts the longest time a person spent without sleep was 11 and a half days or 276 hours the most common phobias are acrophobia the fear of heights Eero phobia the fear of flying hydrophobia the fear of water autophobia the fear of being alone and so on as for more unique ones there's own ama phobia the fear of names Neph o phobia the fear of clouds Nemo phobia the fear of memories and many others like choco phobia the fear of chocolate now I made that one up more than 90 percent of drivers confess they regularly sing behind the wheel the world's largest gummy bear is produced in the USA it's half as heavy as the average domestic cat and is as big as 1,400 regular-sized gummy bears it takes four seconds for silence to become awkward like this oh I can't stand it in Antarctica there's a blood-red waterfall that stains the Taylor glacier its water is filled with iron oxide which is basically good old rust that's what creates the eerie red hue the biggest yo-yo ever took a year and a half to build and weighed more than an adult male hippo and reach 13 feet in diameter dogs can smell separately with each nostril the most remote island in the world is bhuva Thailand discovered in 1739 more than 1,600 miles away from the nearest inhabited place it even got to the Guinness Book of World Records the rainbow eucalyptus might be the most colorful tree on earth as it ages the bark peels off and changes its color the youngest bark is bright green then it turns purple and red the oldest bar is brown it doesn't matter for your brain in what order the letters in a word are you can read any messed up text if the first and last letters of the words stay in the right place cashews shaped like boxing gloves are collected from the bottom of cashew apples that grow on cashew trees fairy circles in the Namib Desert are millions of circular patches of land where nothing grows one of the theories explaining this phenomenon claims that's how plants compete for scarce water it takes from 18 to 254 days for a person to form a new habit and 66 days for this behavior to become automatic miniatur wunderland in hamburg is the largest model train set in the world it's as big as a hockey ring and as 42 planes 9250 cars 1040 trains and 260,000 figurines the whole thing costs about 23 million dollars to build the biggest number of toothpicks in a beard is 350 it took the current record-holder 3 hours and 13 minutes to stick the toothpicks into his beard the world's coldest capital city is uhlan Betar in mongolia the average annual temperature there is 29 point seven degrees Fahrenheit almost eighty percent of the average car is recyclable automobile recycling is one of the largest industries in some countries bismuth is a brittle shiny white metal with a pink tinge if you melt it and then let it cool really slowly it'll form iridescent cubic crystals fish do sleep and some even have insomnia which is actually a big problem for a fish in Chestnut Ridge Park in western New York there's a small waterfall called eternal flame Falls natural gas escapes from a grotto at the waterfalls base this gas can be lit to produce a tiny flame that's burning behind the curtain of water fear can make you feel good but only if there's no real danger that's why so many people are crazy about scary movies penguins do have needs but their knee joints are shifted up higher where the hip normally is the hip joints in turn are way back near the tail in the winter the water of Lake Abraham in Canada gets filled with white orbs that look like snowballs these pretty ice bubbles are actually super dangerous pockets of flammable methane gas the chameleons tongue is nearly twice as long it's its body it would be a tongue of 10 to 12 feet long in humans Scotland has more than 400 words to describe snow the most common lie all over the world is the phrase I'm fine fire rainbows appear high in the sky when the sun shining through a certain kind of ice cloud formation this phenomenon has nothing to do with rain or fire the saltiest water body in the world is the get al pond in ethiopia this small lake contains 43 percent of salt a glass ball bounces higher than a rubber ball of the same size if it doesn't break at the very beginning of course the biggest number of tricks performed by a pig in one minute is 13 what a ham the mimic octopus can not only change its color but also take the shapes of other animals for example flounders sea snakes or lionfish in the deserts of California there are stones that move on their own some of these sailing rocks are as heavy as 700 pounds most of them move in straight lines while others create oval turns if you've already invented a plan B your plan a is less likely to work rhino horns are made of keratin it's the same protein substance that makes up human nails and hair the longest single word place name on the planet is 85 letters long it's the name of a 1000 foot tall Hill in New Zealand now I'm not even going to try to save that one I have renounce a phobia Moroccan gulps climb trees to snack on their favorite Argan fruit the animals can get as high as 26 to 30 feet spaghetto is how a single strand of spaghetti is called in Italy you'll remember a topic better if you've been tested on it the petrifying lake in Tanzania can heat up to 140 degrees Fahrenheit the water in it is so acid that its pH level can sometimes reach 12 which is as high as that of ammonia few animal species can live in such an environment paradoxically the lake is a favourite breeding place for a flock of flamingos closing your eyes helps to recall an event in more detail there's a small force in poling where almost 400 pine trees grow with a 90 degree bend at their base the highest a person jumped on a pogo stick was just over 11 feet it's almost as high as two people standing on top of each other the Magnetic Hill in India is a small uphill stretch of road that tends to pull cars upward if you turn your engine off and let your vehicle stand on neutral it'll start to move on its own at a speed of up to 12 miles per hour the fastest land animal the cheetah can't war instead it makes sounds similar to those produced by house cats only for feline species can roar the lion leopard Jaguar and tiger despite their name peanuts aren't real nuts they're legumes that belong to the same plant family as beans peas soya and lentils baby carrots are nothing else but chopped up normal carrots ow the wind sometimes catches small droplets of lava from active volcanoes these droplets get carried miles away from the vent and stretch into super thin glass wire they're called hair lava some strands can be as long as six feet people are calmer and more productive in Bluegreen rooms cats love boxes because they make great hiding places no one can sneak up on them from behind and cats can observe their surroundings without being seen the unicorn is the national animal of Scotland even though well there are many oops forgot the spoiler alert on that one only about 25% of the Sahara Desert is sand the rest of the area is covered with gravel and littered with mountains and Oasis a group of ferrets is known as a business gee I think I had a job there once kaya Ijen volcano in Indonesia emits hot and flammable sulfurous gases bursting through the rocky surface they come into contact with oxygen it creates flames that can shoot up to 16 feet in the air and look electric blue it's impossible to sneeze in your sleep your brain simply shuts down this reflects the more alternatives people have the more difficult it is for them to choose something this phenomenon is called the paradox of choice the most densely populated island in the world is Santa Cruz del s latte off the coast of Colombia the size of two soccer fields this artificial island has ten neighbourhoods and four main streets around 500 people live in 155 houses there octopuses lay up to 56,000 eggs at a time when baby octopuses get born they aren't bigger than rice grains the world's biggest pizza was two-and-a-half times as big as a basketball court had its own name octavia and was 100% gluten-free fire tornadoes look like spinning columns of flames they most often occur when the wind twists an already burning fire particularly huge fire whirls can be 1,000 feet tall too much stress can change brain cells the connections between them and even the way they work ostriches don't hide their heads in the sand but they do dig holes in the ground and use them as nests after laying eggs a bird regularly sticks its head into the hole to turn them blue whales eat almost half a million calories at a time that's 240 times the energy they need to gather krill into their mouths when the first windshield wipers were invented drivers considered them an unnecessary distraction they realized the invention was a game changer only sometime later the largest gathering of people wearing a cobra hats was 1912 the event took place in Australia the human brain is more likely to remember bad things than good ones as why it takes five positive events to outweigh one negative Lake Hillier in Australia is bubblegum pink its waters are unlikely to be dangerous for people because they're swarming with fish still tourists aren't allowed in the water the lakes unusual colour is probably caused by some bacteria algae or chemical reactions even in inanimate objects we tend to look for human faces that can explain the faces people see on Mars and on the moon the average driver spends five months of their life waiting in their car at red lights flamingos turn pink because they're embarrassed now they eat a particular kind of blue-green algae and brine shrimp this diet contains a natural pink dye that affects the birds coloring the Greenland shark is the longest living vertebrate known to exist its average lifespan is 270 to 300 years but some sharks live as long as 400 years if you decided to count all nerve cells in your brain it would take you up to 3,000 years Antarctica is the driest and most freezing continent on the planet that's where the coldest temperature was ever recorded it was minus 128 degrees Fahrenheit the driest place on earth is also and Antarctica it's Dry Valleys the place hasn't seen snow or rain for millions of years in Costa Rica you can spend a night in a two bedroom luxury guest house made out of an upcycled 1965 Boeing 727 there's indeed such a thing as a desert rose it grows in super dry places that sometimes get flooded the environment switches from dry to wet and back which allows gypsum crystals to trap sand grains and form flat petals when opossums play possum they don't pretend these animals can indeed pass out from extreme fear the human brain doesn't consider long-term deadlines important people also prefer urgent but insignificant tasks because they know for sure they'll be able to complete them a tiny amount of stress helps you to remember things better but too much stress hinders your memories the largest underwater human pyramid was made in Thailand and consisted of 62 people oh yeah I'd want to be on the bottom of that the largest snake in the world is the green and a condom this reptile can grow up to 18 feet which is three times as long as a bed the most populated city in the world is Tokyo more than 37 million people live there Catatumbo lightning is a unique phenomenon that occurs up to 260 days per year in Venezuela you can see more lightning flashes over the surface of Lake Maracaibo than anywhere else in the world up to 280 in an hour on average people spend more than four years of their lives eating the world's longest commercial flight of the past lasted almost 30 hours the double sunrise service was operated by Qantas and ran from Australia to Sri Lanka in 1943 to 1945 the flight got its nickname because passengers could see the sunrise twice people tend to second-guess themselves when others disagree with them even when they know they're right the shortest commercial flight lasts less than two minutes it connects to neighbouring islands in Scotland moose are great swimmers and this ability is inborn the animals can swim at a speed of 6 miles per hour and keep this pace for up to two hours the largest collection of Transformers memorabilia includes 2111 unique items colorful neck rias clouds appear extremely high in the atmosphere twice the commercial airplane cruising altitude the air there is extremely dry and cold the clouds look colored because they contain ice crystals which scatter live in Portsmouth a Victorian era fort was turned into a luxury hotel with 23 rooms a night club hot tub laser Quest Arena and a lighthouse penthouse suite fingers don't have muscles of their own all the muscles that move your finger joints are located in your forearms and palms people read longer lines faster but they still prefer shorter ones not that you should ever repeat it but the fastest time to eat a bowl of pasta is 26.69 seconds cats regularly lick themselves preventing skin oils from gathering on their fur that's why when cats get wet their coats become very heavy and animals start freezing the world's largest skateboard is twelve and a half times bigger than its regular version and longer than a London bus people are the most creative in the evening at around 10 p.m. and the least creative in the late afternoon around 4:30 p.m. you're also more likely to get a lot of fresh ideas while taking a shower or right after the southern cricket frog can jump incredibly high up to sixty times their body length it's like you leaping over a 38 story building go ahead try it one of the theories explaining why people yawn claims that it's a way to show empathy it helps people bond the Meghalaya estate in India is the wettest area in the world it receives more than 467 inches of rain per year it's almost enough water to cover the Hollywood sign Japanese railways are so punctual that if a train runs more than five minutes late passengers get delays certificates these documents can be shown to teachers or bosses to explain why somebody's late your brain literally wants you to be lazy because it knows that conserving energy is a good thing lots of cheeses have holes called eyes in them these eyes are made by bacteria used in the production process now contrary to popular belief the Great Wall of China isn't visible from space but it's still great the biggest number of consecutive pinky pull-ups is 36 people feel less stressed when they know something bad is going to happen then when they aren't sure how things are going to work out all together while visiting Idaho you can stay in a B&B located inside a 12-foot tall beagle the inn is totally pet friendly the longest flight in the world is performed by Singapore Airlines and connects Singapore and Newark the whole journey lasts on average 18 hours and 30 minutes the diameter of the Sun is 10 times larger than that of Jupiter at any given moment 50,000 cells in your body are getting replaced by new ones hey it's an upgrade China stretches through five geographical time zones but it follows only Beijing Standard Time it means that when it's five pm in the country's capital it's the same time three thousand miles away in China's Far West your fingers and toes get all wrinkly after you spend too much time in the water so that it's easier for you to grab wet objects a garbage can is never more than 30 steps away from you in any Disneyland Park and still they seem to miss it rats are ticklish if you stroke certain areas on a rodents body it'll emit high pitch chirps similar to human laughter even though it seems times flying when you're having a good time it's not so you're just more likely to remember what you did in more detail dogs can dream about their doggy things like chasing pigeons or barking at other pooches fresh rain falling down on dry ground smells so nice thanks to the mixture of ozone plant oils and bacterial spores our solar system exists inside the solar neighborhood these are all stars not further than 15 light-years away from our Sun banana paired with curry powder is a real and rather popular pizza topping in Sweden honey doesn't spoil it means you'll be just fine after eating three thousand-year-old honey the first cars weren't equipped with a steering wheel when a driver needed to turn they used a special lever turkeys can blush it happens when birds are afraid annoyed sick or excited nano robotics researchers in France have built the world's tiniest house the construction is so small that it wouldn't fit a mite and still it has seven windows a chimney and a tiled roof finally the ocean isn't really blue the water absorbs all colors from the red part of the light spectrum which leaves behind the blue-green color you can see got all that [Music]

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Published: Wed Jun 24 2020