facts that will blow your mind

1. scientists in a restricted Zone on an island in Iceland that's closed off to the public discovered a tomato plant grown out of the solidified lava further research concluded that it was from a tomato seed grown from the defecation of a scientist.

2. up until the 1970s movies were only copyrighted for 56 years that means all movies released in 1967 and prior as of the recording of this video would be in the public domain by now instead it was expanded to 95 years and one must now wait until 2062.

3. Venus fly traps will grow their own flower stocks long in order to save the bugs that pollinate them from being trapped and eaten.

4. the most polluted place in the U.S is the Hanford nuclear site home to 56 million gallons of nuclear waste leaking storage tanks in contaminated soil.

5.Gatorade is similar in composition to a medical rehydration solution.

6. upon Harry Houdini's death his magic equipment was inherited by his brother Theodore on the condition that it be burned and destroyed upon Theodore's death but instead the equipment ended up in the Houdini magical Hall of Fame a museum which burned down in 1995.

7. Harley Quinn was originally intended to be a one episode background character in the 1990s Batman animated series she was almost scrapped until her Creator hired his college friend Arlene Sorkin to do a voice for her based on a clown character that she played.

8. there was a man named triconius who was a celebrity in ancient Rome because of his ability to drink three gallons or 11.4 liters of wine in a single sitting in fact the Roman Emperor Tiberius was said to have been very impressed with him.

9. the largest rose tree in the world located in Tombstone Arizona was planted in 1885 and now covers 5 000 square feet and has a trunk that's 14 feet or 4.3 meters in diameter.

10. eat prey love is technically a single two Coyote Ugly since both are about the author's life before Elizabeth Gilbert went to find her Bliss in third world countries she tended a bar at Coyote Ugly.

11. the song Hey There Delilah was written about a woman who had a different boyfriend and turned down the lead singer of the band.

12. frog saliva is a non-Newtonian fluid the fluid is initially runny when the Frog's tongue first hits its prey helping it spread along the surface of their food after the initial pressure drops the fluid gets gooier and stickier allowing the prey to be quickly brought into the Frog's mouth.

13. the movie Footloose is actually based on a real place of Elmore Oklahoma which banned dancing between 1898 and 1980.

14. many female insects mate only once in their lives insect populations can actually be controlled by releasing flocks of sterile males into the wild females mate with them never give birth and simply die.

15. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the two largest centers of the Christian population in Japan during World War II the atomic bombing in Nagasaki killed 66 percent of Christians in the city.

16. while Iceland doesn't have mosquitoes per se it does have similar behaving blood-sucking insects called midges.

17. brass doorknobs have an antimicrobial Effect called the oligodynamic effect.

18. according to International Space law space is defined as common Heritage of humanity which makes territorial claims in space Pro imminent the main purposes of this law are to prevent Colonial claims and militarization of space.

19. the Manta Ray has the biggest brain and by far the biggest brain to mass ratio of any fish and is one of the few animals in the world that may pass the mirror test of self-recognition.

20. a study from 2015 showed evidence that polar bears are submissive to grizzly bears even when the latter is smaller fewer and or not acting aggressively polar bears acted submissively towards Grizzlies and 132 of 137 inters-specific interactions at whale carcasses.