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list 25 has gone super sized I've
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250 facts 10 times your usual amount of
fun all in one video so sit back relax
and watch me push my voice to the
breaking point as I give you the
ultimate Lowdown on movies science outer
space Inner Space life hacks food world
records and all kinds of other crazy
stuff in between I'm Mike with list25
and here are well 250 facts it's also
going to be a little bit different
that's a lot of facts so I'm not going
to say the number with everyone pasta
reportedly boils faster if you do it in
a frying pan just watch the water
doesn't scald you a giant 24t High
McDonald Shake was poured into the
Chicago River in 2010 on St Patrick's
Day this was the popular mint flavored
shamrock shake and the jumbo version was
created to celebrate a $10,000 charity
donation to Ronald McDonald House
despite women not being allowed to race
in the Boston Marathon at the time
Roberta Gibb managed to take part in
1966 the rules wouldn't be relaxed for
another 6 years did you know that yahooo
isn't just a cool sounding name it's
also an acronym meaning yet another
hierarchical officious Oracle yeah we
we've had our fill of those right you
can apparently remove a deep splinter in
your skin by applying the mushy part of
a banana peel to it yuck wrap it around
the area like a bandaid and the Splinter
eventually comes out this isn't a
guaranteed fix but some people really
recommend it
another mad medical fact coconut water
doubles as emergency blood plasma Mad
Max director George Miller funded the
production of the movie by working as a
doctor in an ER this helped with the
bloody Mayhem presented on screen there
is only one place in America that grows
coffee beans and that's Hawaii
everything else comes from other
countries which is actually pretty
amazing given that the country basically
runs on
caffeine 146 billion cups of coffee are
consumed by Americans every year this
epic stat maybe isn't that surprising
but I'll tell you what is people have
always enjoyed engaging in physical
combat so no under wrestling is among
the oldest Sports on the planet experts
believe it dates back to 708 BCE as an
Olympic sport the surface of your washer
can double as a whiteboard just make
sure the pen isn't going to leave a
permanent Mark before you try this
though the Amish aren't as traditional
as you think they use computers but
strictly for stuff like word processing
and admin no way are you getting Netflix
up there the computer mouse dates back
all the way to
1964 it was a block of wood on Wheels
speaking of wild technology the water
integrator was a computer created by the
Russians in
1936 they say water and electricity
shouldn't mix well this computer was
powered by water your pinky finger is
stronger than it looks it reportedly
plays a major role in gripping strength
the percentage has been worked out at
33% before 2011 beer was considered a
soft drink in Russia we only found out
who the killer was in Twin Peaks because
the network forced them to reveal it in
the second season technically there's
some of Africa under the ground in the
United States this is part of Pangia an
epic continent from which our seven
continents originate the 250 million
year old Remnant which was found in 2014
is reportedly close to Alabama we
associate the Olympics with being hosted
by one country but that wasn't always
the case in 1920 the Summer Olympics
took place in Belgium and the
Netherlands later in 1956 Melbourne
hosted most of the games and Stockholm
handled the equestrian activities the
tubish bush Cricket has testicles so
large they take up 14% of its body mass
I know one of those things are noisy if
you place a stocking over the end of
your vacuum cleaner and secure it in
place with rubber band it becomes a
great tool for finding tiny items
dropped on the floor the vacuum sucks it
up but the nylon holds a little fell in
position Google has their grass cut by
goats reportedly hire a couple of
hundred goats as hairy gardeners the
Nazis discovered Catherine the Great's
erotic Furniture these featured x-rated
carvings though I can't recall any penis
Furniture in the TV show with El Fanning
meanwhile Mozart had a dirty sense of
humor and would often put jokes about
bodily functions into his compositions
natural flavoring contains a chemical
extracted from a beaver's rear end an
amateur School production of alien was
so successful that soury Weaver herself
turned up to watch it after the
publicity went viral Row River in
Montana is officially the world's
shortest river at approximately 200 ft
fans of skiing and ballet used to have
their own special competitive sport ski
ballet was all the rage for some on the
snow until 2000 you may have gotten the
impression that hippos can swim because
they spend their time in water it's
actually not the case they stay in the
water but on the bottom like a scene out
of The Little Mermaid watch out though
because they need to come out frequently
in order to fill their lungs a staple
remover doesn't just remove Staples you
can also pry openen a key ring with it
saving yourself broken nails or
unnecessary Cuts trying to use your
fingers we have the cordi keyboard
system partly due to issues with old
Machinery the system was intended to
prevent Keys jamming something that
would happen if the board ran a to z and
you typed super fast Thomas Edison
filmed the first ever cat video in
1894 and it put today's cat videos to
shame because it featured a feline
boxing match complete with boxing gloves
Animal Welfare wasn't the biggest
concern back then Edison was a big
figure in electricity though sometimes
the power gets cut and you're left in
the dark run out of candles no reach for
your art supplies you can light up a
crayon for a quick and easy source of
Illumination when people become parents
their brains change in fact they shrink
for example a study published in 2023
showed that things such as visual
processing were reduced in fathers brain
training is all good but you apparently
start losing it in the metal department
at 24 yep
24 a 2014 study revealed that not only
do you slow down in your 20s your
cognitive speed decreases by
approximately 15% every 15 years
cantaloup can be surprisingly expensive
the sought after yubari melon is one
example two of them were sold for over
$27,000 in Japan in 2016 the North Pole
isn't a land mass but a sheet well they
call it a sheet but it's actually around
3 Mi deep in geography terms though
that's pretty thin a snail looks squishy
but not all of it is like that there is
the shell of course but I'm talking
about the teeth and it doesn't just have
a few Chompers I'm talking thousands and
thousands of them gum on the carpet
don't worry it's cool no really it's
cool cold in fact freeze the gum with
ice cubes for 30 minutes the hard and
gum then breaks right off oh and by the
way did you know Back to the Future
started out as a story about a time
traveling refrigerator that was until
Steven Spielberg raised objections
because he didn't want kids locking
themselves in fridges so they used a
DeLorean instead the biggest number of
pencils that can fit in a beard is 59
this feat was achieved within a minute
by Joel straser in
2021 Nokia is more than just a cell
phone company they've been around since
1865 they started out as a paper mill if
you've ever called a Nokia phone a piece
of crap then get this they made toilet
paper one small step for man one small
urination for mankind Buzz Aldren had a
malfunction in a SPAC suit meaning that
when he needed to go he basically wet
his pants not that you'd particularly
care in that situation you may know
about astronaut Alan Shepard who played
golf on the moon in
1971 well did you know about Edgar
Mitchell part of the same Mission
Mitchell picked up a staff and threw it
like a javelin on the lunar surface you
can't really damage your weenus by
massaging it that's the piece of loose
skin on your elbow by the way there are
approximately 540 peanuts on average in
a jar of peanut butter Harvey kitel was
originally cast in the lead role for
Apocalypse Now after a while director
Francis Ford Copo realized he wasn't
right and replaced him with Martin Sheen
a key reason appears to be that kitel
wasn't happy filming in the jungle
something that kitel himself denies
people call it Bangkok however that's
just the quick version you want the real
name it's a staggering 21 words long
Mah Mah
Mah
mahasan there's an important reason that
the grass at Wimbledon is approximately
8 mm any longer and snakes might get in
and start biting the players this
actually happened in
1949 giraffes have an unusual and pretty
disgusting way to prepare for sexy times
the male tastes the urine of the female
if it's good and ferony then she's ready
to impregnate you can get paint off a
carpet using something called denatured
alcohol this is basically souped up
ethanol if you're not in the US you'll
know it as methylated Spirits rub your
rag on the carpet and it should remove
the problem paint it's also recommended
that you choose a rag that's the same
color as the carpet to avoid bleeding
there's McDonald's in Arizona with
turquoise arches yellow arches were
thought to draw attention away from the
landscape Charles Dickens nearly lost
his classic novel our mutual friend in a
train crash the train went over a bridge
as in NOS first the manuscript for the
book was in the wreckage but he went
back and got it almost a third of your
skeleton is made up of water plus you
have soft tissue inside your bones
called bone marrow the old song lyric
about dry bones it's not quite accurate
for a while a company called Canon films
on the movie rights to Spider-Man but
they misunderstood the idea they were
going to make a movie about a man who
literally turns into a spider and
speaking of genetic weirdness we have
similar DNA to bananas all living things
are similar in some ways but with
bananas there's reportedly over a 60%
match go Apple go orange go
banana if you're wondering how fast a
continent can move well then look at
your fingernails the speed is comparable
something to think about the next time
they need a trim women only began
competing at the Olympics in 1900s which
is incredible given that the Olympics
has its Origins thousands of years ago
if something is unfortunate enough to
meet a venus fly trap it isn't a
guaranteed death sentence this deadly
plant will actually count the number of
times its potential victim disturbs the
hairs on its leaves if it happens twice
in 20 seconds then snap you can use lint
from the dryer to start a fire as in a
nice safe fire in an outdoor location
with proper Supervision in the Garden of
Eden Eve was originally tempted by a fig
not an apple according to to early
Christian art speaking of which wasps
lay their eggs inside figs a fig
typically contains wasp DNA the Mozilla
Firefox logo looks like a fox I mean why
wouldn't it however it actually depicts
a red panda iconic nurse Florence
Nightingale was a crazy cat lady she
adopted approximately 60 of them also
she had an owl which she trained to
playfully attack her own sister
identical twins share everything
including the same smell as scientific
study from 2008 showed that body odor
and genetics are linked parmesan cheese
contains some wood pulp or to be more
precise cellulose which is a wood-based
filler ingredient Super Mario Brothers
Stars Bob Hoskins and John leguisamo
were reportedly drunk making the movie
The Experience was allegedly so
stressful that they need to hit the
bottle approximately 700 new species of
animals are found in Brazil every year
while a golf ball is hard enough to
cause a serious injury you might be
surprised to know the the core is
actually made of rubber a bullet once
ricocheted off an armadillo with nasty
consequences for the shooter how did you
shoot yourself in the face oh my bullet
hit an armadillo it's a crazy but true
explanation however I should say this
isn't the norm and that you can cause
harm to an armadillo by shooting it you
can de wrinkle light clothing such as
Shirts by adding ice cubes after you've
washed your clothes put some ice cubes
in the dryer the resulting steam Smooths
out the fabric you don't have to wait 24
hours before reporting a missing person
the first 3D printed building in the
world is in Dubai the beo tapestry is
not actually a tapestry it's a piece of
embroidery plus it's known for being a
fictionalized version of what happened
in 1066 at the Battle of Hastings your
heart is designed to last a lifetime
without flagging the corps fungi can
infect and control ants before finally
overwhelming and destroying them while
this horrific Act is happening the ant
is basically a zombie ants are roasted
and spiced as an alternative to cinema
popcorn in Columbia Darth Vader actor
David prow revealed the ending in The
Empire Strikes Back during a media
interview this was way before the second
or fifth depending on your level of
phandom movie was released with prow
commenting on the general direction of
the story Star Wars Creator George Lucas
was not happy and reportedly banned prow
from public
events if Pluto fell out of the sky and
landed on Russia then Russia could
actually take it the country has a
larger surface surface area than a whole
planet at 177.1 Square km here's a bone
chilling fact they originally used
animal bones to make the blades in
figure skating when they say a skater
killed it on ice well maybe they weren't
kidding is it possible for a shrimp to
interfere with a submarine incredibly it
is the pistol shrimp Rivals Thanos in
terms of its snap the claw of the pistol
shrimp forms only part of its 2 cm long
body yet can do a lot of damage in both
the human and animal kingdom if you have
trouble fitting a bucket in the sink to
fill it then you can bridge the gap with
a dust pan the wide front and grooved
handle mean the water flows into the
scoop and along the handle Groove out
into the bucket 7 Up used to be
prescribed as an anti-depressant the
Shanghai tower has an elevator that
moves at 40 mph Gladiators in ancient
Rome fought to the death but only
sometimes the Gladiator business could
be compared to modern sport today huge
amounts of money were involved so it
made no sense to invest in the Gladiator
only to have them slaughtered in their
first fight you get taller as you sleep
this is because your cartilage has room
to stretch out your body Grows by
approximately a centimeter though you go
back to regular height after you get up
and the cartilage is compressed french
fries are Belgian they were first cook
there in the 17th century the Batman
character Harley Quinn doesn't come from
the comic books she was specially
created for the Animated Series in the
'90s before going on to appear in three
movies played by Margo Robbie a cloud
Wes is a million tons really I mean they
look so light and fluffy grunting is a
major part of tennis these days so it
doesn't surprise me to learn that Maria
sharapova's noises rivaled an aircraft
in volume barn owls are known to have
breakups the female flies The Nest
leaving the male to look after the
family which is totally unfair because
he was the one who slipped the bald
eagle in the first place uncooked
spaghetti makes a great emergency candle
lighter if you need to reach down real
low to get that Wick going a casino
company paid $28,000 for a partially
eaten grilled cheese sandwich apparently
it looked like the Virgin Mary there's a
61m long conveyor belt in the Sahara
Desert mammoths still walk the earth at
the time of the pyramids ear wax isn't
wax it's a nasty Gunk made by your oil
and sweat gland which also features dead
skin and cholesterol bet your gladi ate
so much of that as a kid right a rack
aerophobia is a fear of peanut butter
specifically getting it stuck to the
roof of your mouth
movie trailers started in 1913 also they
came after the film meaning they trailed
it that's where the name comes from
which really makes sense when you think
about it there are three countries
within countries Vatican City and San
Marino in Italy plus loto in South
Africa they are referred to as enclaved
countries out of these the city state of
Vatican City is the smallest country on
the planet it covers just 121 Acres when
box take a break during a match they're
doing more than relaxing they aim their
gloves down which lets blood flow into
their arms otherwise they'd be in big
trouble if a male penguin gives a female
penguin a pebble it's more than just an
ordinary day in the Arctic Pebbles are
prettyy special to the famous Little
Creatures so what you're saying is the
closest thing to romance you can get in
the animal kingdom a madeup condition
called bicycle face was used to prevent
women from riding bikes and feeling too
independent hot water freezes faster
than cold water
it sounds weird but the evaporation when
you place hot water in a super cold
environment results in a lower amount of
liquid which is quicker and easier to
freeze the shortest war in history
lasted approximately 40 minutes this was
the Anglo Zanzibar War which took place
on August 27th
1896 the most intelligent human on the
planet is believed to be Marilyn vant
she has an IQ of
228 chocolate was historically used as
money by the ancient Aztecs I mean I've
been in a few sticky Financial
situations in my time but this is
something else English actor and Screen
Legend David Warner was originally cast
as Freddy Krueger in a Nightmare on Elm
Street but had to drop out images of the
test makeup are out there to scare the
heck out of Y online because it was
constructed on a lake hundreds of years
ago Mexico City is on the way down as it
drains the natural water supply below
the city gradually sinks dropping it by
approximately 3 ft every year now Mexico
City is going down but the Himalayas are
going up they're growing at a rate of 5
mm per year this is due to tectonic
plates colliding underneath the steagles
were a super team of players from the
Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia
Eagles American football teams they
joined forces in 1943 because of their
heavily depleted numbers cuz you know
there was a little thing called World
War II going on at the time there are
more trees on Earth than stars in the
Milky Way onions make you cry or rather
they don't if you give the irritating
onion Miss somewhere else to go a wet
paper towel placed beneath the onion isy
chop should do the job nicely 7% of
Americans believe you get chocolate milk
from brown cows probably milkshake if
you shake them a space suit is
surprisingly expensive NASA can make one
for a cool $12 million at least in 1970s
money they're using decades old suits a
new one would cost approximately 150
million it appears people with
disabilities were treated differently by
Society over 30,000 years ago a t and
12-year-old boy were given a prestigious
burial in Russia with precious items one
had issues with his bones and the other
was confined to bed according to a study
that remains you have approximately 50
to 70,000 thoughts per day lipstick
contains crushed Beatle acid the longest
film ever made is 85 hours it's called
the cure for insomnia and was released
in
1987 and I'm guessing the title was
accurate Earth didn't always look the
way it does with Contin it's being
formed over thousands of years that
process is still happening with North
America and Asia drawing closer together
over time this is reducing the size of
the Pacific little by little it's
physically impossible for a high jumper
to stay in the air for longer than a
single second polar bears aren't white
it's just the way they reflect the light
their fur is translucent meanwhile their
skin is black using the font comic Sands
helps you type better you take the silly
font less seriously whereas with serious
fonts like aeriel you're too anxious
about making mistakes Henry Gunther died
in World War I 1 minute before the
conflict officially ended if you want
peace and quiet go to space it's the
ultimate destination for meditators
librarians and other quiet loving types
because it's completely silent due to
the lack of atmosphere before the late
15th century all children were called
girls the word could apply to either sex
you're more likely to make mistakes
while multitasking because the human
brain can only effectively focus on one
task at a time what you see as
multitasking is actually juggling single
tasks you can hallucinate if you eat
enough nutmeg Nintendo's Mario was
originally supposed to be popey the
Sailor Man if the original plan fell
into place it would be super Popeye
world because the rights couldn't be
obtained for the character Mario was
created instead speaking of Nintendo
they haven't always been a video game
company they originally produced playing
cards the gaming side of the business
started in 1975 nearly a century after
the company was founded Mount Everest
isn't the highest mountain it's the
highest above sea level the mightiest
Mountain overall is monoa in Hawaii this
exists both overground and underground
at 3288 FT monia licks Everest by 3,000
ft if you feel you're not so great at
sports here's a stat that'll comfort you
the great Shaquille O'Neal missed 5,317
free throws during his time as a
basketball player he's still the best
but it shows the pros make mistakes like
anyone else sand theft is a serious
problem huge quantities of sand were dug
up and removed when no one was watching
a whole Beach was stolen in Jamaica in
2008 want to know if a battery's dead
why not try bouncing it apparently if it
bounces like a ball you need to change
it be careful though cuz batteries
famously have acid inside Henry zand
died when a bullet flew out of an explo
in tree and killed him the bullet was in
the tree because someone had tried to
shoot zand years
earlier Mission successful the moon has
thousands of craters they cover the vast
majority of its surface it's been worked
out that just over 4 and half% of the
moon's geography is crater free Hitler
rode around in train called America yes
it was named after America who were his
enemies one person not on board for the
ride was his nephew William Patrick
Stewart Houston would fight for the
Allies against his crazy uncle during
World War or two you could apparently
ease vertigo by placing an ice pack
against the base of your skull in the
area between your ears and the top of
your neck don't exceed 20 minutes or you
might get frostbite consult a medical
professional over any home remedy World
of Warcraft helped Medical Science the
character of contagion spreader hakar
was studied by scientists in connection
with real life outbreaks and their
transmission so the next time someone
accuses you of sitting on your butt
playing video games tell them that story
Alaska is found both in the West and the
east of the United States in fact it's
the furthest state in either direction
it stretches into the Eastern Hemisphere
from the West meanwhile Africa occupies
the northern southern eastern and
western hemispheres the only continent
to do so a boxing match that lasted 110
rounds and went on for over 7 hours
that's just the way they did things back
in
1893 this is the longest such fight in
sporting history and unsurprisingly it
ended in a no contest if boxing sounds a
little too brutal for you then maybe you
should try chess boxing unbelievable
though it may seem this is an actual
cross between chess and boxing several
hundred million years ago the earth had
a covering of giant mushrooms reminds me
of the first level of Sonic and Knuckles
you can kind of trap a Kindle library
rental by setting your device to
airplane mode technically this gives you
all the time of the world to read the
book so you'll have to keep it in that
setting otherwise it'll disappear did
you know that cheese develops a stronger
flavor if you play music to it in 2019
aantal cheese was the audience for a
playlist including varied artists such
as Mozart and Lead Zeppelin sound
travels faster through water than air
the dense particles in water are better
for sound to travel without our
atmosphere we wouldn't see twinkling
stars it's an effect of Starlight
passing through the barrier between us
and space the word y'all dates back to
1631 when bodies are cremated a machine
called a cremulator is used to ensure
that everything is ground up nice and
fine r dressing is white because it
contains titanium dioxide this chemical
compound is also used in white paint
basically it's died Larry David saved a
murder suspect from jail Juan Catalan
was accused of the killing of a teenage
girl but Kier enthusiasm helped his case
in court cameras had captured catalon at
a Dodgers game where the crew was
filming this backed up catalon side of
the story and cleared his name the
largest desert in the world is actually
in Antarctica Olympic gold medals only
contain 1.3 % of gold and that's a
ballpark figure so to speak what you're
actually holding is a silver medal with
added gold the biggest number of snails
you can balance on your face is 48 we
know this because Mike Dalton did it on
national TV in Australia balancing the
snails for 10 seconds in 2009 you can
remove the stink of garlic or onions on
fingers by rubbing stainless steel on
them it won't take it away 100% but hey
it beats washing your hands several
hundred times the oldest hybrid car is
from 1900 it was called the Seer Vivas
and was produced by Lon Porsche the
vehicle ran on both electricity and gas
or petrol depending on where you're from
Mars is Rusty the planet gets its red
color from iron oxide just like what you
get on old cars and other items at the
scrapyard there was once a dog in the
White House called Satan he belonged to
the second President John Adams we make
95% of our decisions
subconsciously we partly enjoy spicy
food because of a release of endorphins
this is triggered by the compound Capas
in the chemical kind of fools you into
thinking you're eating something
dangerous and the pleasure packed
endorphins come in by way of response
Ozark was filmed in Georgia not Missouri
they apparently preferred it that way as
Georgia offered a variety of locations
plus the state offers income tax credits
to producers America has the most
volcanoes in the world that's in total
both active and inactive jogging became
a thing stat side because of one James
fixed so it's a real shame that he died
doing what he loved I.E jogging
tragically he was just 52 years old a
venus fly trap can eat human flesh
thankfully there's no evidence that a
plan is able to trap and eat a
full-sized person you shouldn't wear
canvas shoes in wet conditions right
wrong apparently by applying beeswax to
canvas shoes you can protect them
against water Christmas was banned in
Massachusetts between 1630 and
1856 ho ho ho pilgrims one of the
strangest things in space is an
exoplanet dubbed the marshmallow Planet
also known as wasp 107b it has a
surprisingly low density maybe it's
getting toasted by the Sun the first
woman of color to deliver mail in
America was a formidable character known
as Stage Coach Mary AKA Mary
field dunbar's number dictates that a
person can have a maximum of 150 friends
there's a chemical in pineapple that's
strong enough to tenderize meat it's
called Braman The Beatles are arguably
the greatest fan of all time so it's
incredible that none of them could read
music they relied on creativity and
instinct to produce their incredible
back catalog of Classics redhe heads
apparently have a higher pain threshold
than other people the water in Florida
can turn red due to algae good old red
tide do you know where the word soccer
comes from interestingly it's a
shortened version of
Association so technically it should be
called sasher also it's originally
British the tallest dog of the world is
a great D named Zeus he measures at 1.18
m in height meanwhile Napoleon was
actually average height at
56 you can use a walnut to buff out
scratches in your furniture nut oil is
great for getting rid of scratch marks
rub the Walnut on the problem area and
then rub it again with the gentle fabric
the youngest mother in history was 5
years old her name was Lena Medina from
Peru waves can be square this powerful
reaction happens when two C's intersect
and the Water Mass turns into a grid
during World War II the French
Resistance would hide secret information
in
baguettes the New York Times once
reported that someone's eyeball popped
out when they sneezed when you sneeze it
reboots the cells in your nostrils 57
cowb brains written in 15 minutes a
gruesome meal that broke a world record
in Japan in 2002 Sean connory wanted to
make a crazy James Bond movie called
Warhead which featured remote control
robot sharks carrying nukes shaken but
not splashed speaking of Jaws Dental
Onin double as a cake slice as long as
you don't use the minty fresh kind
everything should be well a piece of
cake Australia is a laid-back country
and has its laid-back volcanoes the last
recorded eruption on the continent was
around 5,000 years ago animals try to
lubricate their eyes not because they're
emotional toothpaste can remove crayon
from a wall also if used before meals it
can reduce your ability to taste sweet
things while boosting your sense of
taste for bitter food and drink a
Hollywood actress helped developed Wi-Fi
Hy Lamar discovered frequency hopping
technology which went on to become a
stepping stone to the internet access we
enjoy today nitrogen gas is used to
remove the oxygen from Chip packets
oxygen makes your chips go bad Henry VII
had a personal toilet and someone needed
to carry it around for them this job
title was called groom of the stool we
used to have a third eyelid that little
pink triangle in the corner of your eye
is what remains of it the herb cilantro
can only be tasted and appreciated by by
a small percentage of humans me included
everyone else thinks it tastes like soap
the classic Rolling Stones track I Can't
Get No Satisfaction came to Keith
Richard in a dream he described waking
up in the night recording the opening
and then going right back to sleep he
left the tape running and recorded his
own snoring the game of volleyball
predates the actual volleyball itself it
started with players using a basketball
bladder another crazy Sports fact the
first puck in ice hockey was something
you probably didn't want to hit too hard
why well because it was a frozen chunk
of cow poo now you definitely want a
frozen cow patty rather than a regular
one but Bonafide hockey pucks are also
placed in the Deep Freeze this way they
Glide well and don't bounce as much you
can walk between America and Russia
thanks to our old buddy ice you can do
this by crossing a frozen stretch of
water between two islands chameleons
change color for social reasons not to
blend into their environment you can
easily remove pet hair with your hands
just put on a pair of wet rubber gloves
and watch that fuzz disappear Adolf
Hitler once tried to kill Winston
Churchill with exploding chocolate
though he might not need to have tried
so hard you see Winston Churchill had a
lot of accidents these included being
hit by a car being involved in a plane
crash almost drowning in a lake and
falling off a bridge although that last
one wasn't actually an accident he
deliberately threw himself for the edge
and damaged his kidney as a result the
radio waves we've created form a shield
around the planet protecting us from
stuff like solar flares
the wild west really wasn't all that
wild you could certainly be killed if
you weren't careful however the image
presented in movies and such is pretty
overd
dramatized your tongue never gets
tired how much does all the internet in
the world weigh amazingly it's the same
as an apricot that's a juicy fact for
you Star Trek was once interrupted by a
real life space mission the iconic
Apollo 11 moon landings from 1969 were
complained about by some who wanted to
watch their scheduled episode of instead
William Shatner auctioned his kidney
stone which sold for
$25,000 Jordan's capital Oman used to be
called Philadelphia in the 3rd Century
BC it was taken over by King toi II
philadelphus of Egypt minor yida a
Japanese athlete managed to complete
1057 push-ups in one session in 1980 is
this the biggest number of continuous
push-ups in history what do you think
female sharks have developed thicker
skins to cope with males biting them
during sex tomato sauce doesn't beat the
smell of a skunk it'll just make it
smell like tomatoes stinky doesn't
always mean bad take dung beetles for
example use the Stars to get around how
do we know this because in 2013 it was
observed that on a cloudy night The
Beatles seem to not know where to go yet
when the stars are out they Scuttle with
confidence there's a crossbow firing
competition at
Octoberfest some believe that the Moon
is hollow speaking of moon Madness the
US government once thought about nuking
the moon in order to intimidate the
Russians
it's Pandora's jar not Pandora's Box the
original narrative featured a jar
however it was mistranslated in the 16th
century do you have a problem jar you
can't open well try spanking it as in
turning it upside down and giving the
Basse a slap this will apparently knock
out the vacuum and make the lid looser
your hair is strong enough to hold the
weight of two elephants we only have
vanilla Twinkies because banana supplies
ran low during World War II and they
needed another flavor before anyone in
heard of a xenomorph the original
director of alien Robert aldri wanted a
shaved orangutan as the alien this
bizarre suggestion was an attempt at
thinking outside the box aldri left the
project to be replaced by Ridley Scott
and the rest is history there are 840
languages spoken in Papa New Guinea the
Olympics is a celebration of sport but
only a tiny fraction of sports from
around the world it covers approximately
30 whereas the total number is more like
8,000 manate stay Float by farting
natural light makes you more productive
Tom Hanks discovered he was related to
Mr Rogers but only after playing him in
a movie human blood is almost as salty
as seawater there's a 98% match between
the two Mount Rushmore is
spectacular it's also unfinished we were
supposed to see the presidents from head
to waste but the team ran out of money
60% of your brain is fat your body can
produce its own alcohol via something
called Auto Brewery syndrome caviar used
to be served for free in bars to make
people thirsty this was in America where
the luxury food took a while to catch on
they nearly made a Batman movie in the
80s with Bill Murray as Bruce Wayne and
David Bowie as the Joker this was back
when Ghostbusters Ivan wman wanted to
direct the film went through various
stages of development before we got the
1989 version from Tim Burton speaking of
Ghostbusters Ghostbusters 2 underwent
extensive re-shoot after the first cut
got negative feedback from test
audiences much wasang changed including
the ending which had failed to impress
fans Australia used to be called New
Holland it became Australia in the 19th
century the oldest base jumper in the
world was 84-year-old Donald Crips he
fell 876 ft from the New River Gorge
Bridge in West Virginia in 2013 hippos
nearly became part of the food chain in
America in the early 20th century a meat
shortage led to these magnificent and
muddy beasts being considered as a
solution as you may have guessed the
idea didn't catch on probably for the
best because hippos are incredibly
dangerous it may not look that way but
they're fast aggressive and
unpredictable some estimates place the
human death toll by hippo each year at
3,000 a slice of cucumber held against
the roof of your mouth is good for bad
breath as long as you don't choke on it
everything should be fine there was a
Harley-Davidson perfume in Cologne range
they reportedly made you smell of wood
and tobacco on a bike rated note the
Hell's Angels sued Disney for using
their name and logo in the 2007 movie
wild hogs also did you know that Frasier
nearly didn't happen producers wanted to
make a whole new sitcom with Kelsey
gramar what was it about a parabolic
millionaire Who Loved motorbikes when
that fell through they Revisited Fraser
crane which was a lot more successful
the metaverse was first mentioned in a
1992 novel called snow crash Saddam
Hussein was given the keys to Detroit in
1980 because of his generosity
supporting a local hospital yes Saddam
different times there are approximately
100,000 viruses in our DNA there's a
pizza that costs over
$112,000 it's called the Louis the 13th
and has toppings including caviar
Lobster and gold not to mention the
traditional mozzarella cheese actor and
comedian Dana Carvey worked with Mike
Myers on Wayne's World and Michael Myers
in Halloween 2 he wasn't credited but
believe me he's there party onc and
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