25 Amazing Facts You Didn't Know

as the host of a long running fact-based Channel there are things that surprise even me like the incredible truth about a tiger's Roar the connection between B Midler and The Golden Girls and the way crying your eyes out actually works here's another amazing fact there are a bunch of amazing facts out there you weren't aware of let me tell you some of them I'm Mike with list 25 and here are 25 amazing facts you didn't know 25 Facebook pirate mode there's a special pirate face on Facebook I've been using and being banned by this platform

for years and I didn't know that what's the point of it who knows is it fun you bet to access it you apparently adjust your language settings to Pirate mode just like Captain Jack Sparrow himself it's something of an old Sea Dog in that it only works with web Facebook and not the app Y what be a pirate's favorite letter you might think it' be R but a pirate can never give a is love for the sea 24 Google escue Google the word escue and the search engine will give you a definition not only that

but it'll demonstrate the Crooked nature of a skew by making your screen Lurch to the side don't worry you're not having a stroke it's actually designed to do that 23 it takes 2 years to grow a pineapple it's worth it for the delicious juicy taste but how amazing is it that pineapple takes its sweet sweet time literally to grow because a pineapple is a perennial fruit living for a couple of years the people who plant them have to factor in the increased time frame plus they require a hot and sunny environment to do their thing

22 Niagara Falls can't freeze over maybe if we went into a new Ice Age then those famous Falls would grind to a halt the way things are currently however there's no way that ice is going to stop business at Niagara there's too much of the wet stuff and it's always on the move one thing that could happen of course is that the water could run dry experts have suggested Niagara Falls might become Niagara stalls in a couple thousand years 21 ancient Egypt is really ancient what's the oldest country on the planet that's believed by some

to be Egypt land of the pyramids the Pharaohs and more than a few mummies the earliest knowledge we have of ancient Egypt comes from 3100 BCE that stands for Before Common Era though you may know it as BC as in before Christ not everyone agrees that Egypt is the oldest pointing to Old republics such as San Marino in Italy and various other locations 20 tiger sound travels if you hear the sound of a tiger roaring and think it's something else then you could be mistaken can you believe that the sound of a tiger's Roar can

travel for an Incredible 2 miles that's comparable to a thunder clap or massive explosion all that comes from one tiger let me put it this this way uh you going to stick around to find out 19 apricots and electricity we think of the effect of electricity but not so much its physical properties for example how much does electricity weigh makes sense to assume it's fairly light as a form of energy however a lot of it must be considerably heavy right nope amazingly the total amount of electricity behind the whole darn internet is approximately 35 G

that's the same as an apricot eight most powerful roller coaster would you like to know what it's like to experience the GeForce of an astronaut then go to NASA if you want to feel double that amount then head to johannesburg's Gold Reef city in South Africa the Tower of Terror roller coaster there has been dubbed the most powerful on the planet feeling like you've been punched in the stomach by the almighty isn't everyone's idea of a good time but Thrill Seekers love it 17 printing the internet we live in a largely paperless Society now with

printers and in cartridges requiring a small mortgage to afford should someone decide to print out everything that's on the internet it would be super costly but may be worthwhile it's been worked out that you need 136 billion sheets of A4 paper and if all that was piled high it would go beyond our atmosphere it's unlikely anyone would do this but who knows it never hurts to have a backup real quick if you are enjoying this video and want to help me out please please give this a like and comment for the algorithm because it will

really help the channel out a lot thank you so much 16 bumblebee bat in a limestone cave in kabbur Province Southwest Thailand lives the planet's smallest mammal This Bat has a pig-like appearance and is referred to as Kitty hog noosed bat however its size gives it another name the bumblebee bat this tiny creature measures up to 1.29 in long and up to 5.7 in wide with its wings spread I'm I'm not sure whether it's proportions would make it better or worse for bat phobics 15 I can't believe it when we think of the human eye

we think of a lot of veins sometimes you see them when you go to the Opticians and they shine a very bright light in your eye however not everything in your incredibly veiny eye has veins the transparent covering of the cornea features no blood vessels this makes it highly unusual not just because of where it's located but also due to it being one of two blood vessel-free areas across the entire body the other one is your cartilage 14 celebrity flight attendant groundbreaking sitcom The Jeffersons ran from 1975 to 1985 and was known for its diverse

cast one of its Stars Marley Gibbs became a household name as housekeeper character Florence though she was also a familiar face on American Airlines you'd think having landed a role on a TV show Gibbs would quit her life as a flight attendant but no the practically minded actress decided to work both gigs finally leaving the airline 2 years later 13 The Golden Girls original theme song some TV themes are legendary such as thank you for being a friend composed by Andrew gold which viewers of a certain age know from The Golden Girls if the original

plan panned out you would have heard bet Middler over the credits her track friends was wanted for the show initially but had to be replaced with a cheaper option and weirdly this is long before the sitcom Friends was created pivot pivot 12 the be a hybrid animal doesn't sound like the tastiest option that said people are willing to buy beff meat yes as you might expect this is two animals in one specifically a cow and a bison they've been held on the market since the early' 70s 11 a Ferrari could fit inside a hippo hippos

are cute looking but surprisingly dangerous in fact their jaws can reportedly open incredibly wide how wide you might be asking technically you could drive a sports car into its mouth a hippo has been known to open its jaw up to 150° basically three times wider than we can 10 the white stuff indigenous peoples of the Arctic are famous for having many words meaning snow but did you know the same applies way over in Scotland they have no less than 421 snowy definitions these include spitters as in little little Frozen pieces carried on the wind and

the incredible sounding Flink drinking which refers to a light show nine origins of the windy city like many I believe Chicago was called the Windy City because of well wind and while I'm sure it can blow a gale over there it turns out that story's not accurate in the 19th century the Press seems to have been as vicious then as it is now the wind factor comes from not the heavens but the mouths of Chicagoans as reported in the papers they were described as windbags eight tweets per second Twitter X the muskers whatever you like

to call the famous social media platform you know it's still being used by people around the world so how many tweets do you think are sent by human beings every second the answer has been worked out at an amazing 9,310 seven Hol la la did you know that France is officially the most visited country on Earth it reported receives between 90 and 100 million visitors per year how come iconic landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower play their part also you got Disneyland over there and for those who prefer roller coasters to romantic walks along the

s six 1% that's the percentage of the planet's water supply that we can actually use oh hold on isn't the majority of our planet water it sure is but a lot of that is ocean plus it's more than a little looted with plastic and such if you want the fresh kind you'll be amazed to hear this represents just 2.5% or so of our total Supply cut away half of that too because these freshwater locations aren't exactly easy to get a hold of five dairo drove a taxi whilst shooting a movie the Great Robert DeNiro is

famously a method actor living the lives of characters he plays when preparing for his iconic role of Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver dairo not only got behind the wheel of a cab he earned his very own taxi license adding to the craziness is the fact he was doing this on a break from shooting an epic period drama called 1900 four zest fact ever I bet you've put a lemon slice in your drink before maybe you've done the same thing but with a lime instead well believe it or not that's a different kind of thing what

do I mean by that they're both packed with zesty goodness however your lemon will float and your lime will sink you see lime is dense compared to its little yellow friend three digital currency is King Digital currencies have totally eclipsed Cold Hard Cash that's not a surprise I'm sure you could have guessed that fact anyway what is amazing is just how insignificant coins and notes seem to be these days only around 10% of the world currency is physical the other 90ish per is very much online though I should highlight that digital currency isn't exactly the

same as virtual currency like Bitcoin a world run on bitcoin would surely be a crazy Place indeed two telling tears tears say a lot about a person and before you reply yeah that they're crying let me stop you you see tears can come out of a specific eye first this actually reveals the reason they've opened those floodgates tears from the right eye are reportedly happy tears if they come from the left the person is in pain one the world doesn't need to be hungry amazingly the issue lies with distribution not supply if we manage distribution

better then everyone would have food to eat so what's getting in the way well have you seen our planet lately when Wars break out that seriously disrupts food distribution and access to supplies organizations such as the world food program also point out things like weather food wastage and even social identity as contributing factors now normally this is the time I point you to one of our other videos in the end screen however I have exciting news I just launched a new channel called dark roast detectives where I will Deep dive into true crime stories if

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