50 Amazing facts to blow your mind part 16 Video Lecture

- Oh it's go time.
Here are 50 amazing
facts to blow your mind.
Google rents goats to
replace lawn mowers at their
Mountainview headquarters.
When you get blackout drunk,
you don't actually forget
anything because your brain
wasn't recording in the
first place.
Ancient Babylonians did
math in base 60 not base 10
thus giving us 60 seconds in a minute,
360 degrees in a circle, et cetera.
Nintendo has banked so
much money that they
could run a deficit of 250
million dollars every year
and still survive until 2052.
Taiwan has become the
first country to offer free
Wi-Fi to all tourists
through over 4,000 hotposts
all over the island.
In 1962 the CAA tipped off
South Africa's intelligent
service about the
location of Nelson Mandala
that led to his arrest that
put him in jail for 27 years.
In Japan, it's illegal
to dance in nightclubs
after midnight.
Nightclubs are routinely
raided by police and undercover
agents go in to see if anyone is dancing.
Former US President Calvin
Coolidge used to enjoy
buzzing for his bodyguards
and then hiding under his
desk as they frantically searched for him.
There's a fruit called black
sapote or chocolate pudding
fruit, which at the right
ripeness, tastes like chocolate
pudding, is low in fat,
and has about four times as
much vitamin C as an orange.
This is the world's smallest
code lock created by
Ganesh Subramaniyam in India.
It has a height of three
millimeters, a circumference of
one centimeter, a weight of
41 milligrams and has three
lines of code from zero to nine.
The phrase the luck of the
Irish did not originally mean
extreme good fortune, in
fact it originated as an old
miner expression meant to be sarcastic.
It was as if to say only by
sheer luck as opposed to brains
could these fools succeed.
In North Korea, citizens are
forced to choose from one
of 28 government approved haircuts.
It's estimated that there
are approximately three
million shipwrecks on the
ocean floor worth billions
in value and treasure.
A seven year old second grader
was suspended for biting
a pop tart into the shape
of a mountain which school
officials mistook for a gun.
In 2013 a company called
Limite Zero created a
720 meter international
zipline between Spain
and Portugal.
All of the air in potato chip
bags that people complain
about isn't air at all.
in fact it's nitrogen which
serves the purpose to keep
chips crisp and to provide
a cushion during shipping.
A German author named Timur Vermes wrote a
satirical novel in which
Hitler wakes up in modern day
Berlin with no memories
since 1945 and becomes a
comedian.
In 2005, a documentary
was filmed called Reversal
of Fortune where filmmakers
gave a homeless man
named Ted Rodrigue 100,000
dollars in cash and
followed him around to see what
he would do with the money.
Less than six months later,
he was completely broke
and back in the same place
his was before the windfall.
There is a squirrel whisperer
student at Penn State
University named Mary Krupa.
She has the the unique
ability to not only attract
squirrels but to put hats
and earmuffs on them as well.
Army ants are used as
nature sutures, their jaws
are so powerful that natives
staple wounds by forcing
ants to bite them and
breaking of the body.
This is a massive bird's nest
built on a telephone pole
in the Kalahari desert in southern Africa.
It's made of sticks, grass,
and cotton and is home to
several types of birds.
A study conducted by the
University of Wisconsin,
Madison in 2012 concluded
that people who appear
to be constantly distracted
have more working memory
and sharper brains.
The infinite monkey theorem
states that a monkey
hitting keys at random on a
typewriter for an infinite
amount of time will eventually
type out any given text
such as the complete works
of William Shakespeare.
If you don't identify as
an extrovert or introvert,
you may be an ambivert
which is a person moderately
comfortable with groups
and social interactions
but also relishes time
alone away from crowds.
In 2007 a twin was born 34
minutes after her brother
but because of a daylight
savings time adjustment,
was actually born 26
minutes before her brother.
In a study to improve
hospital design for children,
researchers from the
University of Sheffield polled
250 children regarding
their opinions of clowns.
Every single one reported
disliking or fearing them.
The most expensive thing ever
built was the International
Space Station at a cost
of 160 billion dollars and
rising as new sections are added.
In a study conducted by the
Bay State Medical Center
in Springfield, approximately
68% of people experience
phantom vibration syndrome,
a sensory hallucination
where you mistakenly think
your phone is buzzing
in you pocket.
Jack Johnson, the first ever
black heavyweight boxing
champion was once pulled
over and given a 50 dollar
speeding ticket but gave
the officer 100 dollars,
telling him to keep the
change because he was going
to make the return trip at the same speed.
In 2013 a man named
Harrison Okene survived
for three days at the bottom
of the ocean in a sunken
ship by finding a pocket of air.
In North Korea it is
currently the year 105, not
2015 because their calendar
is based around the birth
of Kim Il-sung, the
founder of North Korea.
In 1912, Teddy Roosevelt
was shot prior to giving
a speech, however noticing
that it missed his lungs
since he wasn't coughing up blood,
he proceeded to give a 90 minute speech.
In Armenia, all children
age six and up are taught
chess in school as a mandatory
part of their curriculum.
Schools that ditch schoolyard
rules are actually seeing
a decrease in bullying,
serious injuries, and vandalism
while concentration levels
in class are increasing.
This is because fewer rules
requires critical thinking
whereas simply obeying
instructions requires
very little critical thinking.
Sand from the Sahara is blown by the wind
all the way to the Amazon
recharging it's minerals.
The desert literally
fertilizes the rain forest.
As a child, Muhammad Ali
was refused an autograph
from his boxing idol Sugar Ray Robinson.
When Ali became a prized
fighter, he vowed to never
deny an autograph request which he honored
throughout his entire career.
President JFK purchased
1,200 Cuban cigars just
hours before he ordered
the Cuban trade embargo
in 1962.
In 1976 a Greek war veteran
named Stamatis Moraitis
was diagnosed with cancer
and told he only had
six months to live.
He went back to those
doctors ten years later to
tell them he was still
alive only to discover that
all of the doctors who had
diagnosed him were dead.
He lived to be 102 years old.
An Indiana state prison
allows murderers to adopt
cats in their cells to help
teach them love and compassion
for other living things.
The Gatling gun was invented
by doctor Richard Gatling
who noticed that the majority
of soldiers during the Civil
War who died were due to
disease, not gunshot wounds.
By inventing a machine
that could replace hundreds
of soldiers, the need for
large armies would be reduced
thus diminishing exposure
to battle and disease.
If New York City was it's
own country and the NYPD
was it's army, it would
be the 20th best funded
army in the world just
behind Greece and ahead of
North Korea.
A 24 year old woman named Michelle Chapman
was sentenced to 20
months in jail for sending
abusive messages to
herself from fake profiles
that she made for her father and his wife.
The WWOOF or the Worldwide
Opportunities on Organic
Farms, is an international
program that allows you to
travel the world with free
food and accommodations
in exchange for volunteer work.
Brass door knobs automatically
disinfect themselves
in eight hours, this is known
as the oligodynamic effect.
This is what the skeleton
of a turtle looks like.
In 2014, a man in China bought
a first class ticket on China
Eastern Airlines where he
went to the airport and ate
free food for almost an
entire year in the VIP lounge.
Astoundingly, he cancelled
and re booked his flight
an incredible 300 times
over the course of the year
and then cancelled his
ticket for a full refund
once the airline became wise of his scam.
Until it's demolition in
2012, 1% of Greenland's
entire population lived
in one apartment building
called Blok P.
German used to be the
second most widely spoken
language in the United
States before it was forcibly
repressed during World War 1.
When developing the Macintosh computer,
Steve Jobs wanted to add a
small mysterious character
that would appear about
every one thousand times
you use an OS UI element.
It would wink at you and
disappear so fast that you would
never quite be sure if it was real.
In the 1960's the US
did an experiment where
two people without nuclear
training had to design a nuc
with only access to
publicly available documents
and they succeeded.
Little bit scary.
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