well it's been a long time since we've done one of these but it's here here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind number 150. the toy company Mattel once made a vibrating Harry Potter broomstick a toy that was intended for kids to be able to pretend to fly around on but they were forced to discontinue the toy after adult stores and Times Square started selling them for twice their original price during the Vietnam war the U. S conducted what they called operation Popeye in which they stimulated clouds in Vietnam to extend the monsoon season it was later Declassified in 1974 in the United States involvement in this operation became public knowledge zero Euro banknotes exist they have no monetary value but instead are used as souvenirs they are intended to promote tourism and each one has unique design relating to European landmarks or events James Cole of the University of Brighton found that human meat is a lot less nutritious than pork or Wild game and that the average human body has about 75 pounds of edible meat I really don't want to know how he figured that out out of the four to 500 species of sharks the sand tiger shark is the only one known to fart the Guinness world record for the most children delivered at a single birth to survive is nine babies known as non-uplets and belongs to a woman in the African country of Mali sharks don't make sounds across all their species none of them have any organs capable of producing sound there's a term called vasovical syncope which refers to a sudden loss or a near loss of consciousness caused by an emotional or environmental trigger such as the sight of blood or needles so if you've ever fainted while getting blood work done or just don't like needles that's what that was NASA discovered that only 40 digits of pie are needed to accurately calculate the observable universe's circumference within one hydrogen atom Jack White of the White Stripes originally wanted to save the guitar riff used in Seven Nation Army for if he ever got the chance to make a James Bond theme song now that didn't happen obviously however interestingly he did in fact get his wish five years after the song was released when he wrote the theme song for the 2008 Bond film Quantum of Solace roosters have built-in ear protection to prevent them from going Deaf from their own crowing up until 2018 there were still some McDonald's in the United States specifically in Florida who still sold fried apple pies now they're all baked in case you didn't get the comparison as if that was at all healthier on December 2nd 1942 scientists at the University of Chicago produced the first controlled nuclear chain reaction in human history James Earl Jones and Carrie Fisher who was the voice of Darth Vader and the actress who played Princess Leia respectively never met until they made Cameo appearances in an episode of The Big Bang Theory in season 7 episode 14 mean 37 years later there are at least five species of shark living in the River Thames in London and at least one of those species is venomous after President Kennedy's assassination in 1963 the owner of the Texas School Book Depository building had the infamous snipers window physically removed and placed on mounted display in his own home when axolotls lose a limb they can regrow the missing body part within a few weeks in this way they can regenerate almost anything including limbs spinal cord heart and even parts of its own brain it can even remain in its larval form throughout its entire life NBA player javel McGee and his mother former WNBA player Pamela McGee are the only mother-son duo in history to win Olympic gold medals the U.
S state of South Dakota installs fatal accident markers at sites of fatal automobile crashes to help prevent future crashes their durable signs that say think or why die and also act as memorials for the deceased prior to humans settling there New Zealand had no land-based mammals apart from three bat species the longest conflict in human history was the Liberian Reconquista the struggle between Christians and Muslims in the European Peninsula took almost 800 years to resolve freshwater mussels you know the kind that you eat start their life as parasitic larvae known as glochidia when these larval muscles are expelled by their mother they must find a suitable host fish to develop and so attach themselves to the fish's gills police departments in Southeastern China have actually started recruiting squirrels as alternative drug sniffer units over the usual canines because they're smelling and climbing capabilities are superior seagulls are an endangered species in New Zealand with fewer than 100 000 remaining Jacob nackin was the tallest German soldier in World War II standing seven foot three inches or 2. 21 meters John Pemberton was a confederate officer who became addicted to Morphine after receiving a saber wound Pemberton made a series of concoctions attempting to cure his addiction pemberton's experiments with Coca and cola resulted in pemberton's French wine Cola and later Coca-Cola lead shielding during an x-ray not only isn't necessary but may expose you to even more radiation and is no longer supported by the American Association of physicists in medicine the Woolworth company AKA Woolworths was a five cents for everything store back in the 20th century that did not go out of business but instead just changed their name to that of their most profitable division Foot Locker since 2020 there's been a massive Burmese python Invasion underway in the Florida Everglades they've eaten practically every mammal in sight and they have no natural Predators Bill Lear the creator of the Learjet also invented the eight-track tape cartridge in 1964. it was originally called the Learjet stereo 8 cartridge American yellow mustard was first introduced in 1904 by George J French as cream salad mustard before her death Queen Elizabeth II left behind a secret letter that cannot be opened until 2085.
Betty Crocker was never a real person but instead just a mascot for General Mills there have been over 16 000 books and articles published on U. S President Lincoln more than any other American estrogen from birth control pills is sometimes excreted in human waste which can end up in Municipal Wastewater and eventually the environment some species of male fish are actually becoming feminized as a result Cyclone Olivia that struck Australia in 1996 had a wind speed of over 254 miles per hour or 408 kilometers per hour this is the fastest non-tornadic surface wind speed ever observed on Earth One Bad Apple in a bunch will release ethylene a hydrocarbon gas that will ruin all the other apples in the bunch that perfect glob or wave of toothpaste on boxes and in advertisements is called a nerdle Believe It or Not companies like colgating glaxo have actually sued each other over the nerdal usage during World War II only 30 to 40 percent of the German Army was mechanized the remainder relied on Rails or horse-drawn Transportation modern fruit is becoming too sweet for zoo animals after years of genetic modification to the point where zoos have had to stop feeding them to the animals Philippe Khan invented the first camera phone back in 1997.
