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  • - I have a dream that one day, teachers everywhere

  • will begin their lessons with a whale noise. (wails)

  • Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.

  • There's a restaurant called Tacsiyapo,

  • Isdaan Floating Restaurant, in Tarlac City, Philippines,

  • where you are actually allowed to smash plates on the wall

  • to help release pet-up anger.

  • Research conducted at the University of Chicago

  • found that rats who were trained to press a lever for food

  • stopped pressing that lever once they realized that it

  • also caused another rat to receive an electric shock.

  • If we were able to capture just 0.1%

  • of the ocean's kinetic energy caused by its tides,

  • we would be able to satisfy the current global demand

  • for energy five times over.

  • Research conducted at Brooklyn College concluded that

  • females are better at discriminating among colors,

  • while males excel at tracking fast-moving objects.

  • This is believed to be an evolutionary adaptation

  • from our hunter-gatherer past.

  • Sniper bullets travel so fast that the rotation of the Earth

  • will actually move the target,

  • so shooters have to adjust their aim accordingly.

  • California uses inmates to fight forest fires.

  • And prisoners gladly take the jobs, because it

  • reduces their sentence, gets them outside,

  • and pays better than the typical job.

  • According to psychologist Adrian Furnham,

  • perfectionism can be a curse that often leads to depression.

  • The reason for this is because perfectionists

  • often have an unrealistic view about failure

  • and are overly critical of themselves,

  • which results in having a very negative

  • impact on their daily lives.

  • (sighs) Jeez, I think I coulda delivered that line better.

  • Dammit!

  • Research conducted at the University of Warsaw

  • concluded that the average person is able to accurately

  • track three to four moving objects at any one time.

  • However, an avid action gamer can track six to seven.

  • Scientology, everybody's favorite religion,

  • isn't legally considered a religion at all

  • in many countries.

  • In fact, Switzerland identifies it

  • as a commercial enterprise,

  • France and Chile as a cult,

  • and Norway as a nonprofit.

  • I identify it as the clan of the cuckoo squad. (crazy laugh)

  • During the Iranian embassy siege in London, England

  • back in 1980, when given the choice of who

  • from the group of hostages would be released,

  • they chose Ali Guil Ghanzafar,

  • whose loud snoring was keeping them awake.

  • So if you're ever captured as a hostage,

  • just snore really loud, you'll be free!

  • According to U.S. soldier Sean O'Shea,

  • who guarded Saddam Hussein after he was captured in '03,

  • the only time Saddam ever looked defeated in prison

  • was when they brought him the wrong cereal.

  • "No Froot Loops!" he would scream out.

  • I don't know why, Froot Loops are delicious.

  • The Megamouth shark, first discovered back in 1976,

  • is a species of shark that is so rare,

  • at the time of this recording, only 60 of them

  • have ever been captured or identified on record.

  • For eight consecutive years,

  • a Greyhound dog named Jasmine,

  • who survived in a shelter, was the surrogate mother

  • to over 50 rescued animals, including puppies,

  • foxes, four badger cubs,

  • 15 chicks, eight guinea pigs,

  • 15 rabbits, a deer, and a goose!

  • In a study conducted by data scientist Matt Daniels,

  • all members of the Wu-Tang Clan are all in the

  • top 20 of artists with the largest vocabulary in the world.

  • Eiffel Tower designer Gustave Eiffel

  • included a secret apartment for himself near the top,

  • where he would entertain elite members

  • of the science community.

  • Research from the University College London

  • concluded that teenagers are scientifically

  • less empathetic than adults.

  • Due to the continual development in their brains,

  • teenagers are less likely to use the neural area

  • that is associated with guilt and empathy

  • when they make decisions.

  • Leonidas of Sparta was not a young man

  • at the Battle of Thermopylae,

  • like depicted in the film 300.

  • In reality, he was actually more like 60-years-old,

  • which kinda makes him even more badass.

  • Al Capone was known for sending flowers

  • to rival gang members' funerals.

  • In fact, at one time, he actually spent over $5,000

  • on a single funeral.

  • The average fast food customer eats about

  • 12 pubic hairs a year!

  • You're welcome for that fact.

  • The word "best" in best man historically refers to

  • his skill with a sword.

  • This is because he may have been needed

  • if the bride tried to run away,

  • or if her family tried to stop the wedding.

  • Jellyfish are 98% water,

  • so when they wash up on the shore,

  • they will eventually simply (bubbly noise)

  • evaporate into the sun.

  • In 2015, Oscar Santillan, an artist from Ecuador,

  • removed one inch off the peak of England's highest mountain,

  • Scafell Pike.

  • In response, the British demanded that that inch

  • be returned to them,

  • and accused him of vandalism.

  • It's just a little bit of rock, man.

  • Take it easy.

  • Research conducted by Yale psychologist Oriana Aragon

  • determined that tears of joy

  • is your body's way of neutralizing your emotions

  • and helps restore your emotional equilibrium.

  • After an 8.0 magnitude earthquake

  • that hit Mexico City in 1985,

  • a hospital collapsed, yet four newborn babies survived

  • for seven days trapped under the rubble.

  • They have become known as the miracle babies

  • for surviving without nourishment, water,

  • or human contact for so long.

  • The CEO of Japan Airlines Todu Yamanaka

  • makes less than the pilots,

  • takes a bus to work, and eats in the cafeteria.

  • When interviewed about his, he said that

  • businesses who pursue money first fail.

  • Chuck Palahniuk, author of the Fight Club,

  • preferred the film adaptation so much

  • that it actually made him embarrassed of his own book.

  • The mathematical proof that one plus one equals two

  • actually takes 162 pages to explain.

  • It was documented in a three-volume work

  • called Principia Mathematica,

  • which details the foundations of mathematics.

  • See, this is why I've never been strong in math.

  • To me, it's like one plus one equals two.

  • That's it, it's too much.

  • Although Donald Trump has described himself

  • as an ardent philanthropist,

  • he ranks among the least charitable billionaires

  • in the entire world.

  • That should not surprise you.

  • Mount Everest actually shrank one inch in 2015,

  • due to the earthquake in Nepal.

  • 70% of U.S. elite athletes

  • were found to have a key heart gene variant,

  • known as ACTN3,

  • that makes them great sprinters.

  • In fact, 75 of all Jamaicans have this gene.

  • Ring announcer Michael Buffer

  • has made over 400 million dollars

  • by licensing the use of the trademark catchphrase,

  • "Let's get ready to..."

  • And I can't finish it, but you know what it is.

  • I just, I just don't wanna pay him.

  • FANUC, a Japanese robotics company,

  • has a factory that can run unsupervised

  • for 30 days at a time.

  • Robots build other robots

  • at a rate of 50 per 24 hour shift.

  • These factories are called lights-out factories,

  • because no human presence is needed.

  • The future is now, we're all out of a job!

  • The Van Cats of eastern Turkey,

  • which are a naturally occurring breed,

  • all have white fur, mismatched eyes,

  • and love to swim.

  • They're like mutant cats, I kinda like it.

  • In 2009, a man named Alexei Roskov from Russia,

  • drank three bottles of vodka, and then jumped out

  • of a five story window, walked back up,

  • and jumped out again, because of his nagging wife.

  • And he survived!

  • Bill Gates continued to fly coach all the way until 1997,

  • when his net worth was already, brace yourself,

  • 36 billion dollars U.S.

  • It's okay to splurge a little, man, on a little first class.

  • I think you can afford it.

  • Drew Manning is a personal trainer,

  • who in 2011, wanted to prove that it was possible

  • to get back in shape, even if you became

  • extremely overweight.

  • So, what did he do?

  • Well, he actually gained 32 kilograms,

  • or 70 pounds of fat,

  • over a six month period, before he started

  • the tough journey back to regaining his prior form.

  • And he did!

  • You can see underwater sea life and coral reefs

  • using Google Maps, try it!

  • Adnan and Sana Klaric,

  • a married couple from Zenica, Bosnia,

  • started cheating on each other in online chat rooms.

  • When they finally decided to meet up with the person

  • that they were each cheating with,

  • they quickly realized that they

  • had been cheating on each other!

  • And soon after, filed for divorce.

  • The Pronghorned antelope has a 10 X vision,

  • which has left scientists to believe that on a clear night,

  • they can actually see the rings of Saturn.

  • Russian Special Forces use a knife

  • that fires a bullet out of the bottom of the hilt.

  • The safe way to fire it involves holding the blade

  • to absorb the recoil.

  • I would not do that, nope, ouchy.

  • A terminally ill six-year-old boy named Levi Mayhew

  • was offered a gift from the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

  • Now, this is fairly common.

  • However, instead of using it for himself,

  • he wished a trip to Disneyland for the little girl

  • writing him letters out of encouragement.

  • And, she went to Florida, carrying a cutout photo of him

  • all the rides that she could.

  • All the feels! (wimpers)

  • Serial killer Rodney Alcala

  • acted as his own attorney in his trial in 2010.

  • For five hours, he interrogated himself

  • on the witness stand,

  • asking questions addressed to Mr. Alcala in a deep voice

  • and answering them in his normal voice.

  • During construction of the Golden Gate Bridge,

  • a safety net was suspended under the floor of the bridge

  • from end to end.

  • And it came in handy!

  • The net actually saved the lives of 19 men,

  • who became known as the Half Way to Hell Club.

  • In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable,

  • and big ones were for old men and barbarians.

  • What?

  • There is an entire industry to help students cheat

  • to get their degrees, by having their papers

  • written by unemployed graduates and professors.

  • And it's actually kind of brilliant,

  • because students can't get caught for plagiarism,

  • because the papers are brand new.

  • Scorpion venom is the most expensive liquid on Earth,

  • at 39 million dollars per gallon.

  • The Apollo 11 astronauts

  • went to the moon without life insurance.

  • This is because they could not afford the rates,

  • so, instead, they signed hundreds of autographs,

  • and gave them to the family members to sell if they died.

  • Usain Bolt ate nothing but chicken nuggets

  • while he was in Beijing for the 2008 Summer Olympics,

  • because he found Chinese food to be odd.

  • Yeah, that's right, on a McDonald's diet,

  • he won three gold medals.

  • Sir Ian McKellen actually broke down and cried

  • while filming the Hobbit,

  • because he had to film with just a green screen

  • instead of with the other actors.

  • In fact, he was quoted as saying,

  • "This is not why I became an actor."

  • Really, man, you didn't become an actor to be

  • in a multi-billion dollar franchise?

  • Just, life is so hard.

  • A man named Derek Amato from Denver, Colorado

  • hit his head in a shallow swimming pool,

  • and awoke with a condition known as

  • Acquired Musical Savant Syndrome.

  • What does that mean?

  • Well, he simply became an amazing pianist,

  • despite never having learned how to play the piano.

  • And now your brain is just packed full of knowledge!

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  • What? (laughs)

  • I'll see you guys next video, bye!

  • (dying bird wail)

- I have a dream that one day, teachers everywhere

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