Mind-Boggling Facts You Never Knew!

Here are fifty amazing facts to blow your mind. 

A Colorado man named Wayne Watson was awarded $7,000,000. The damage occurred after he developed a lung condition from eating two bags of popcorn every day and inhaling the steam from the bag. 

Japanese sumo wrestlers Life expectancy is between 60 and 65 years old, or about 20 years less than that of the typical Japanese male. Before it was known that birds migrate in the winter, it was commonly accepted. Theory that birds dug holes and buried themselves in the ground during the cold months In fact, Aristotle claimed he had found swallows on kites in holes in the ground. Unlike most of his astronaut colleagues, Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert was single and had the reputation of being a Playboy. You like to party. 

There are as many smokers in China as there are people in the United States. Approximately 70% of the world's vegetarians live in India. A 176 year old tortoise named Harriet died in 2006. It was reportedly collected by Charles Darwin himself in 1885. Voyage US Space Force members are called Guardians, and they are organized into deltas. In 2024, the original design of Mickey Mouse loses its copyright protection. However, Disney can still take legal action if you draw it in color because colored Mickey Mouse is still copyrighted until 2035, the legal age of adulthood. Higher than 18 in three U.S. states. In Alabama and Nebraska, it's 19, and in Mississippi, it's 21. 

In 1950, a man named Kevin Budden caught a deadly taipan snake by hand and hitchhiked to town, still holding the snake. He lost his grip and was bitten, but he begged the snake and made the driver promise to get it to researchers. Kevin passed away the next day, but the snake was used to create the first Taipei anti venom. In 1977, scientists in a restricted zone on an island in Iceland that's closed off to the public discovered a tomato plant growing out of the solidified lava. Further research concluded that it was from a tomato seed grown from defecation. Of a scientist. Up until the 1970s, movies were only copyrighted for 56 years. That means all movies released in 1967 and prior to 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. Venus Flytraps. Will grow their own flower stocks in order to save the bugs that pollinate them from being trapped and eaten. 

The most polluted place in the US is the Hanford nuclear site, home to 56 million gallons of nuclear waste leaking from storage tanks into contaminated soil. Gatorade is similar in composition to medical rehydration. Upon Harry Houdini's death, his magic equipment was inherited by his brother Theodore on the condition that it be burned or destroyed upon Theodore 's death. But instead, the equipment ended up in the Houdini Magical Hall of Fame, a museum that burned down in 1995. 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. There was a man named Tricon guess who was a celebrity in ancient Rome because of his ability to drink 3 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. 

The largest rose tree in the world, located in Tombstone, Arizona, was planted in 1885 and now covers 5000 square feet and has a trunk that's 14 feet, or 4.3 meters, in diameter. Eat, Pray, Love is technically a single 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. The song Hey There Delilah was written about a woman who had a different boyfriend and turned down the lead singer of the band 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. 

The movie Footloose is actually based on a real place. Of Elmore, Oklahoma, which banned dancing between 1898 and 1980. 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. Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Where the two largest centers of the Christian population in Japan were during World War Two, the atomic bombing in Nagasaki killed 66% of the Christians in the city. While Iceland doesn't have mosquitoes per se, it does have similar-behaving, blood sucking insects called midges. Brass doorknobs have an antimicrobial effect. Called the oligodynamic effect, according to International Space law, space is defined as the common heritage of humanity, which makes territorial claims in space prohibited. The main purposes of this law are to prevent colonial claims and the militarization of space. The manta ray has by far the biggest brain in terms of mass. Ratio of any fish and is one of the few animals in the world that may pass the mirror test of self recognition. 

A study from 2015 showed evidence that polar bears are submissive to grizzly bears. Even when the latter is smaller, less aggressive, or not acting aggressively, polar bears act submissively. Awards Grizzlies and 132 of 137 interspecific interactions at whale carcasses in China Demand for horror is about 95% less than the global average due to strict censorship laws against the supernatural and superstition. Originally, the Barbie movie was supposed to come out in 2018. Amy Schumer's Barbie's sonar is actually lethal at 235 decibels. The vibrations can rupture your lungs and cause brain hemorrhaging. Smoke from wildfires is composed of volatile organic compounds, or Vocs, that interact with UV radiation to create benzene and formaldehyde. Compounds in the atmosphere, causing that burnt, plasticky smell. The Amazon River drains about 61 million gallons, or 230 million liters, of water into the ocean per second. This is greater than that of the world's next seven largest rivers combined and accounts for 20% of total river water discharge. Worldwide, the coffee break was first utilized during World War Two at a necktie factory in Colorado. Wigwam weavers gave two coffee breaks a day to their workers so that the caffeine boost would increase productivity. 

In 2013, the number of US children named Cheese skyrocketed by 450%. People are more likely to abuse alcohol and drugs. A Chicago man named Russ Gremel, now 98 years old, who bought $1000 in stock about 70 years ago, has given the resulting $2,000,000 to a wildlife charity. In 1950, a Californian engineer designed a unique system to transport water to the southern deserts. Using 400 artificial geysers that would throw water in an arc at 400 mph through the air to be caught by a funnel at the next geyser, the deepest fish ever recorded was found at a depth of 8336 meters, more than twice the depth of the Titanic in 2010. Lost $400 million in federal education reform money due to submitting data from the wrong school year. This cost them 4.8 points, making them fall three points short of receiving federal aid, which went to Ohio instead. 

The Bank of England has a £100 million bank note, also referred to as a Titan. It's a non circulating Bank of England Sterling Bank note used to back the value of Scottish and Northern Irish banknotes. Until the early 1920s, most astronomers thought that the Milky Way contained all the stars in the universe. Following the great 1920 debate between the astronomers Harlow, Shapley, and Herbert, the Doused Curtis Observations by Edwin Hubble showed that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies. In 1929, the author of Peter Pan, J.M. Berry, gave the copyrights to the books to the Great Ormond Street Hospital. In 1988. The hospital was given unique rights to the royalties from Peter Pan in the UK for perpetuity. Alexander the Great founded as many as thirteen cities during his rule, ten of which had Alexandria in their names. There were 26 families of passengers on the Mayflower that are known to have left descendants. It's estimated that over 30 million people can trace their ancestry back to those 26 families on the Mayflower, led by Wilt Chamberlain. Why do players have to stay behind the foul line when shooting a free throw? Why let KU Thanks to his 7 foot height, 7-foot-8-inch wingspan, and 50 inch vertical, he would start from the top of the key leak before the foul line and dunk the ball before he touched the ground in the lane. 

In 1925, a forger named Elvis Reese convinced Portugal's money printer to make him 200,000 bills worth 1% of Portugal's GDP. They were easily laundered since they weren't actually counterfeit. To cover his tracks, he started buying a controlling interest in the Bank of Portugal but was caught.