50 facts so incredible that you are going to accuse us of lying
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Sometimes the reality is crazy-crazier as a whole movie of novelist or avant-garde or even a truly imaginative child would be able to invent. Often, Trivia arrives at the point whereIt's the spirit And you find it downright incredible.There is no way to a spying agency used cats like spies, you might think.Nope! Boston was not almost erased from the card by Molasses. It's all fiction!
Well, think again. If you look in the annals of human existence, whether it's corroborated historical record or undisputed modern facts, you will find all kinds of fiction pretending quite, totally, 100% 100%. Do not believe us? It is very good. You do not have to. However, at the very least, read and test the limits of your information - because we have identified the most chance stories of humanity.
1 There was a four-epoch dog mayor
The Belovent Mayor of Cormorant, a small canton in Minnesota, retired this summer after four consecutive terms in the office. As long as he liked the public service, he had to become too old for the work 91, if you put it in years of dogs, in fact. Duke,The big dog of Grande Shaggy Pyrenees, was first elected in 2014 and continued to win annual elections until the announcement of his retirement in 2018. Duke plans to write a book on his inheritance of being a very good boy.
2 Typhoons saved Japan from Kublai Khan
Although the word "kamikaze" was applied later to Japanese suicide pilots during the Second World War, it literally means "Divine Wind" and is also used as a historical term to refer to two typhoons that swept the island nation of 1274 and 1281. The Hordes of Mongols led by Kublai Khan navigated from China to try to conquer Japan and twice, a massive storm bouaya. The Japanese Buddhists of the time thought that the storms had been the way of the gods to preserve their empire, so they referred to typhoons as "divine wind".
3 "Genuine leather" is a little garbage
The next time you are at the mall, stop a mid-range store and take a look at the selection of the belt. Chances are you will see the words "genuine leather" stamped on the underside. Although yes, it means that the belt is 100% leather, it also means that it is made of the cheapest quality of leather: several layers of high quality skin glued together. "Top grain leather" is what you will find in fine leather goods and designer stores, but all forms widely available, "full grain leather" is the highest quality and the most durable type . Or, if youreally want to make madness,Go for Italian leather, which is inimitable in its quality.
4 Giant turtles will turn off - because they are delicious
These days, giant turtles live only on two groups of islands - Seychelles and Galapagos - and although there are several different species, all may express. They take a lot of time at maturity and have only a few offspring, but a rather shocking reason for their rarity is their spectacular taste. When marine marine swept through their islands, they could easily catch a lot ofSlow creaturesAnd hide them on board, because animals can go up to a year without food or water. Newspapers of the time show that European sailors have described their meat as tasty as chicken, beef or pork.
5 A spin of espresso contains less caffeine than a cup of coffee
Many purists of coffee swear by Espresso, a form of coffee made by grinding the beans very finely and submits them with high pressure hot water. Espresso has a more concentrated flavor, so it must have a higher concentration of caffeine, right? Good type of. However, the ounce of the ounce, the espresso has more caffeine than a regular drip,An espressoAt 120 to 170 mg of caffeine, while a cup of coffee has 150 to 200 mg. In fact, it would take two or three espresso strokes to match the caffeineIn a 16 ounce Starbucks cafe.
6 The dinosaurs were different as you probably imagine
Since we have to do everything we know dinosaurs together scattered fossils, our image of how they appeared and behaved changes as we find more. For one, many dinosaurs (non-flying), including the Velociraptor, had feathers, but it is unlikely that one of them would have voice agreements to roar. In addition, these ferocious velociraptors were not bigger than a modern turkey.
Do not let all that spoil you, though! It turns out that the saolopodosodes (long-tail herbivores with long taillike the apatosaur) Could probably break the sound barrier with their tails, use them as whips.
7 Lead was formerly used in makeup
You probably know that the lead we now know how to be very dangerous, used to be included in products such as crystal and gasoline. However, if you even go further in history, you will find a number of different civilizations that have loved smear lead on their faces ... in the form of makeup. Ancient Egyptians have doubled their eyes with Kohl that contained lead salts and the old Roman women used a whitening face cream full of lead. Even Queen Elizabeth I mixed lead and vinegar and applied it to his faceTo smooth his skin.
8 High Cince is a recent innovation
It looks like the simple gesture of a person who slaps the palm of another in the victory must have been around forever, but in truth, it can even be younger than you. In a Professional Baseball match in 1977, Dodger Player Dusty Baker struck his 30eHouse at the house of the season. While rounding home and spent his teammate Glenn Burke into the bridge circle, Burke raised his hand in excited greetings. At the instinct, Baker reached up and slapped it because, he said, "It seemed to be the thing to do." Therebyhigh-fivewas born.
9 It is illegal chewing gum in Singapore
If you have already looked at the underside of a public bench, you probably understand the desire to prohibit chewing gum. In 1992, the Prime Minister of Singapore was also tired of the cleaning expenses of the Gum Falls of the public facilities and the new transit system that he has made the import and sale ofillegal chewing gum. Although the prohibition is still in place, in 2004, the government has submitted an exception to certain types of sugar-free gum sold by dentists or pharmacists, who must record the names of anyone buying.
It is the kind of story you thought that only in large cinematographic fiction: in 2004, a man woke up in a garbage bucket next to a King Georgia Burger without clothing or identification And could not remember who he was. This type of dissociative amnesia is fortunately very rare. For more than a decade, he did everything he could to discover his true identity, evenDr. PhilBut it was not until 2015 that the analysis of ancestral DNA found his family. Although he gave the nameBenjaman KyleHe was really William Burgess Powell of Lafayette, Indiana.
11 A kangaroo saved the life of the man who saved her
When AustralianLen Richards found a joey(It's a baby kangaroo) whose mother had been touched by a car, he brought the little creature at home and appointed his lulu. The Richards family lifted her like a pet on their big farm. One day in 2003, Len was hit unconscious by a branch that falls on his property, and Lulu remained in Lulu, strongly "yapping" until his family find it. Len survived his injuries and animal experts pointed out how unlikely the faithful behavior for a kangaroo.
12 It takes about a week to make a jelly bean
Chances are you never thought too muchHow are the frozen beans are made. After all, they are so small that factories must bring them back by millions. However, the whole process takes six to ten days, depending on the flavor. First, the "jelly" or sugar syrup is boiled, mixed and left left. Then he became in tiny cornstarch molds and cooled until it's time to add the outer layer. The jelly centers are then placed in large rotating drums, where sugar, aroma and color are added slowly to form a protective shell around each.
13 The remains of king have been found in a car park
Only the King of England for two years (1483 to 1485), Richard III is perhaps better recalled than Shakespeare's Play's Hunchbacked Anti-Hero. The true Richard III has been lost time in addition to means, it was a more ambiguous character in life and the stone who scored his grave disappeared in the 1600s, which means that the exact location of his remains was Unknown for centuries. It was not until 2012, when historians managed to find theOld location of the churchWhere it was buried, that they found its last place of rest in modern parking.
14 Diamonds are valid only because of Beers says they are
The diamonds were very rare in the western world, until the end of the 1800s, when a diamond mining race in South Africa made them much more accessible to external people in the housing of royalty. A company calledDe Beers quickly bought the minesand created an artificial shortage, as well as a monopoly. When other diamond sellers have declined, from Beers has purchased or flooded the local market, leading to prices and putting sellers abroad. All the facades of Stranglehold on the industry has recently started breaking.
15 The CIA has already tried to create spied cats
The 1960s were the peak years of the cold war and the American intelligence agencies tried pretty bizarre strategies to get a leg on the Soviets. In a project calledAcoustic chatCIA operators have tried to implement listening devices in cats' ears in the hope of listening to high-level conversations. They placed the first cat near the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C., but according to some reports - the poor cat was almost immediately executed by a taxi. The project was arrested in 1967 after the CIA geniuses finally understoodWhat is the difficulty of forming a cat.
16 Boston was almost destroyed by a molasses flood
While a wave of tide of sweet molasses, sticky mixtures passing through a city to nearly 35 m / h could seem comical, the reality was tragic. In 1919,A huge tank of molassesIn a distillery near the northern breaking of Boston Rumptue, sends 2.3 million gallons of thick Goo in the KEANY square, where he threw debris around while causing serious damage to buildings and railways and Provoked water in the port of brown for at least six months. The human cost was also high: 21 people were killed and 150 additional were injured.
17 Wasps attack when they are Saoules
If you have noticed that wasps seem to become more aggressive at the end of the summer, it's not just because you are outside more often, trying to soak the sun before falling. The gaiters have one job: provide their queen with nectar. And when they stored everything they can, they have nothing to do. So they do what many of us could: they getFermented fruits buzzing. They feast on fruits that have fallen from the tree and, in their drunk stupor,think it's a good idea to attack Something much bigger than they are.
18 Your brain is an insane hard drive
YourThe brain consists of about one billion nerve cells, or neurons. Each neuron connects to about a thousand other neurons for a total of dollar bonds. The memories are stored through these connections, so the result is that your brain can store about 2.5 petitals of memory. This is the equivalent to leave your DVR running 24 hours a day for more than 300 years! Unfortunately, scientists have not yet determined why, with all thatmemory capacityYou still can not remember where you put your car keys.
19 "OMG" goes back to WWI
When the internet discussion rooms have become popular, their users have started shortening many current phrases in abbreviations: lol, brb, there, etc. This practice has developed with the use of cell phones for text messages. Ultimately,He expanded in the spoken language, And you could expect to hear a teen screaming "OMG!" in surprise or pleasure. However, the first known use of OMG to abstract "Oh my God" appears in a1917 Letter from Lord FisherWinston Churchill. Fisher closed his letter with "O.M.g. (Oh! My God!) - Shower-le on the Admiralty !!"
20 Ornithorynins do not have nipples
Ornithoryryn is a really unique animal in many ways: it's a hot bloodmammal that lays eggs. He lives only in Australia. It looks a bit like the offspring of a beaver and a duck. Add to this list the fact that while when ornithologists have breast glands, they have no nipples. After the hatch of his babies, the ornithoryny of Mom "Sine" the milk of his abdomen, where he starts pools in the folds of his skin for the pots (it is an ornithorynic baby, or "Platypup") for to boast.
21 The name "Tiffany" goes back to the Middle Ages
If you had to imagine someone named Tiffany, it's unlikely that your first thought would be an elegant medieval woman in cast dresses. However, the name was indeed popular in 12eCentury Europe as a variant of the Greek name Théophania, which means "God appears". Some writers even use the sentence "Tiffany problem"To describe a real historical fact that does not go wrong with modern ears, like Lord Lancelot and Lady ... Tiffany.
22 Disney is the second largest explosive buyer in the world
It might not surprise you that you learn that the United States Defense Department is the organization that buys the largest number of explosive devices on Earth. The second highest number, however, is shipped to "The happiest place on earth. "Between many parks on both sides of the country, night artifice brisdoms and dozens of parades and other special events throughout the year, Disney requires a huge amount of explosives to create the many thousands guests traveling their parks every day.
23 All pure-blood horses have a common ancestor
There is more than half a million pure blood horses throughout the speech, and all virtually all come from a group of 28 horses only born in the 1700s and 1800. More than that, 95 % of all male purebreds come fromA single stallionNamed Darley Arabian, born in 1700. The practice at the time was to elevate many English ponds with a handful of Arab and similar standards. Today, it is the most valuable horses in the world, although consolidacy generations mean that some have serious health problems.
24 DeafPeople with schizophrenia "See" Voice
"Hearing aid" is a commonly known symptom of schizophrenia, a serious mental illness that causes victims to lose contact with reality. In an attempt to better understand the disorder and how this affects the brain, researchers have worked with experienced people both schizophrenia and on permanent deafness. While subjects who had become deaf later in life described their hearing hallucinations as "hearing aid",Deaf born topicssaw moving lips or hands that feel instead. They even declared being able to tell the sex and identity of each "voice".
25 The landing moon pre-dates wheel luggage
People refer to Apollo 11's mission to the moon as a pinaxe of scientific realization, often in the context of things that should seem easy compared to. For example, "we can send men to the moon, but we can not cure common cold!" Whether it is a fair comparison or not, the fact means that, in 1969, NASA scientists have successfully put three astronauts in a tip box, sent them through the space to walk on the Moon and bring them safely. It would take another year before a man named Bernard Sadow asked for a patent for aSuitcase with wheelsTop and sold in Macy's.
26 Crocodiles are more closely linked to birds than on lizards
How is it for incredible? Crocodiles are more closely linked to birds than lizards. On ato studyBy CPU scientists Santa Cruz, "Crocodiles are the closest living parents of birds, sharing a common ancestor who has lived about 240 million years ago and also gave rise to dinosaurs." The study was conducted on crocodilian genomes and shows an "exceptionally slow" genome evolution rate in crocodiles.
27 The heaviest pumpkin has ever weighed more than a ton
The final weight? 2,624 pounds. According toGUINNESS WORLD RECORDSThe pumpkin was cultivated by Mathias Willemijns in Ludwigsburg, Germany. And, apparently, the growth of the size of a growing car is a great thing, and a competitiveness to that. Before the Willemijns folder has been defined, the largest previous registered pumpkin was 1,054 kilograms, or 2,323 pounds. It was cultivated by the Swiss Farmer Beni Meier in 2014.
28 Apollo 11 astronauts had to cross the customs after his return from the moon
And you thoughtyou had a long flight. Afterreturn of the moonApollo's astronauts 11-Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins - had to go through customs. Yup, you read it properly. The astronauts, they are like us. According to the documentation, they reported things like moon rocks, moon dust and other lunar samples. Today, astronauts still have to go through the customs, but for more practical reasons. The more you know.
29 Harper Lee's friends gave her a year's salary for Christmas so she could take the time to write
Talk about amazing friends. In 1956, Harper Lee found himself having trouble balancing his day work with writing. She expressed this to her friends Michael and Joy Brown. (The pair was also friends with the legendary Truman hood. Casual.)As a Christmas giftThe Browns gave the wage of a whole year so that she could take the time to write what she wanted. And as you can probably guess, it's when Lee wrote the classic novelKill a mocking bird, a prize winner Pulitzer who has sold more than 30 million copies.
30 Leftsmen are more accident topics than right-handed
According toresearchpublished in theNew England Journal of Medicine, those who are left-handed are more likely to die in accidents than those who are right-handed. The study was conducted by Diane Halpern, Professor of Psychology at California State University in San Bernardino, as well as Stanley Coren, researcher at the University of British Columbia. The study revealed that the average age on the death of right-handeds was 75 years old. For left-handed, it was 66. This was determined by adopting a sample of 987 death certificates.
31 Harvard offers free tuition for low-income families
Ivy League (which has a $ 37.1 billion endowment, in which) wishes to help make college as affordable as possible. According to the "Affalable Page" ontheir website"Attend Harvard will only cost what your family can afford. We ensure that it is safe." This means that families with an annual income of $ 65,000 or less attend free. For families earning between $ 65,000 and $ 150,000, the expected contribution is between zero and 10% of your annual income.
32 Once upon a time, Antarctica was as hot as California
Of course, about 40 to 50 million years ago, but always.ResearchersFound that during that time, the climate in Antarctica looked like the coast of modern California. Even more interesting, the neighboring polar islands looked more like Florida. The researchers calculated that the continent reaches a height of 63º Fahrenheit, with an average temperature of 57º Fahrenheit. Today, these same average averages fall below the freezing.
33 Match.com founder was dropped because of a match.com match
That's right: Gary Kremen, the founder of the dating service, has crossed a difficult break when the girlfriend left him for another guy she met with match.com. (Ouch.) It remains optimistic, however. HenotedWhen he was broken in this way, he really knew that the site was actually a great success. He designed Match.com with women in mind, after all. "You must design the entire system for women, not men," said Kremen in an interview withFinancial times. Other squitches of wisdom in the interview included that everyone will not find love online and people do not always know what they want in a companion.
34 If you live in Brooklyn, you can rent a mother
Yes, it's true. Resident of Brooklyn Nina KENEALLY, 63, started aBusinessBy renting herself like a mother. The company is called a mother andservicesInclude non-judicial listening, watching a movie with you when you just do not want to be alone, resume the exam, etc. The site notes that it is not a therapist and only provides mom's advice and mom help. So, if you are in the country in Brooklyn, Nina has your back. Cookies sometimes included.
35 LEGO Group is the largest tire manufacturer in the world
TheThe factories of the toy companyproduceTires 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It's more than 870,000 tires a day! This is because almost half of the LEGO sets include a wheel of some kind. In 2012, LEGO received the Guinness World record for "the largest tire manufacturer per year". That year, the group also celebrated 50 years of activity. Exciting things.
36 Alfred Hitchcock GuardedPsycho'Sending in progressSecret through crazy ways
Can you say dedicated? According toVariety, the filmmaker "bought all the copies" of Robert Bloch's novel published in 1959, one year before the first year of 1960 fromPsycho. He did that to keep the plot with torsion to the envelope and maintain the secret surrounding the film. He also insisted that no one enters the film after the start of the film. His goal was really to keep the suspense, but he finally became a marketing hook.
37 Spider silk is stronger than steel
Take this, Superman.spider silkis stronger than steel. The material is lightweight and flexible, and can even be used by soldiers one day to protect them from bullets and other damage on the battlefield. However, produce and harvest enough spider silk to make products such as protection wear for military and even surgical sutures has been difficult. A tangled cloth indeed.
38 J.K. Rowling was rejected a ton beforeHarry PotterHas been accepted
12 publishersrejectedHarry Potter and Philosophale Stone (This is the British version of the book you may know likeHarry Potter at Sorcerers School)Before being accepted by the Bloomsbury publisher. And the craziest part of this acceptance? It was only because of the insistence of the President's eight-year daughter. Moral of the story? Always try again, oh, and listen to children. They know more than you think.
39 Michael Jordan was cut off from the basketball team to high school
Even the greatest hear "no". Michael Jordan, easily the best basketball player in the world (we will not make any disagreements), did not do theBasketball Team Varsityduring his first year of high school. The broken heart, Jordan used rejection as fuel. Finally, he gave rise to his junior year. In his professional career, Jordan scored 32,292 points, won six NBA championships and five MVP titles of the NBA, as well as 14 star match appearances. Talk about a Career Slam Dunk.
40 Antarctica is technically a desert
Weird, right? Despite its thick, iced ground and mountainous topography, Antarctica is actually classified asdesert. The most southernmost continent is a desert because so little moisture actually falls from the sky. It is actually the coldest continent, the most sinuous and the hardest. Fastern facts on this continent are that it is once and half of the size of the United States and the best place on Earth to observe space because of its dry climate and lack of pollution Luminous.
41 Bill Gates helped save six million lives
How? 'Or' What? Giving 48% of its net worthSince 2007, a total amount ofAbout $ 28 billion. His donations have helped bring vaccines and better health care to international children. Diseases he saved people with hepatitis B, measles, polio and pneumonia. By 2019, his philanthropy should save 7.6 million. It's just going to show that give is better than receiving, and the world could always use more help.
42 Wimbledon referees receive a list of jure words in different languages
And you thought your mother was strict about not swearing! TOWimbledonThe referees received a list of Words of swear in many different languages so that they could call athletes for whitening. According to Wimbledon Umpire Bernadette Halton, if she hears "an expletive in French or in Russian is a violation of code". Oh, and the code goes as much as the protection of inanimate objects. For example, if a player throws a racket, it's "racket abuse". Stay in line.
43 The average cloud weighs 1.1 million books
Despite their spacious and weighted appearance, the clouds are actuallyincredibly heavy. According to scientists, 1.1 million books are themean. This is the equivalent to 100 elephants. So, yes, you are probably wondering how these things remain afloat. This is because the weight is extended in millions of droplets on a very large space. Some of these droplets are so small that you would need a million to make a unique drop of rain.
44 The state of California has a larger population than the whole country of Canada
How is it for a shocking fact, huh?StatisticsShow that in 2016, the Canadian population has completed 36 million for the first time. However, the state of California always exceeds this number of about three million of about three million. In California, 38.8 million people live, according to the US census office. This makes it the most populous state. Texas is at a second distant, with just over 27 million people.
45 There was a chicken that lived for months without head
In 1945, a farmerChicken decapitatedin Colorado. He literally refused to die for 18 months. The farmer, Lloyd Olsen, and his wife, Clara, kills chickens. Lloyd will decapitate the birds and Clara would clean up the disorder. However, one of the chickens did not behave like the rest and continued to walk around. Lloyd and Clara finally took the animal on tour, where the bird finally died in 1947, in Phoenix.
46 The dinosaurs traveled the Earth for 150 million years; Humans are around only 0.1% of this era
Before there were humans there, there wasdinosaurs. For 150 million years, these creatures traveled the earth. Despite popular belief, they are not dead because of an asteroid or because they were not fruitful with regard to the evolutionary terms. Nobody really knows 100% what happened to these creatures. Only theories exist. We will probably never know why they end up out. We can not study their fossils and discover what they left.
47 Humans and dogs have become chips before written history
The friendship between humans and dogs may have taken place as soon as possible30,000 years ago. Genetic evidence suggests that wolves (ancestors of domestic dogs) have been tamed by former pickers. These results contest the previous theory that domestication of dogs occurred about 15,000 years ago in East Asia, after the introduction of agriculture. For more information, scientists have used a DNA analysis technique to establish the most longed-related wolf populations.
48 Mickey Mouse has not always been named Mickey Mouse
It's actuallyMartable. Walt Disney Lillian's wife is offered to Mickey because she thought the name Mortimer was too pompous. However, Mickey Rooney also claims to have offered the new name. Mickey's official beginnings were in "Steamboat Willie" in 1928. He did not speak, until 1929 in "Karnival Child." His voice was made by Carl Stalling and his first words were: "Hot Dogs! Hot Dogs!" Frankly? Reliable.
49 Ketchup was sold as a medicine
While Ketchup is easily the best condiment in addition to the ranch, do not call medicine for something other than the soul. However, in 1834, Dr. John Cooke Bennet addedTomatoes in Ketchup. Before that, Ketchup had been a concoction of fish or mushrooms. He asserted that this new recipe could cure diarrhea, indigestion, jaundice and rheumatism, because tomatoes have introduced more vitamins and antioxidants.
50 The coffee is diuretic, but that does not mean it dehydrates you
The myth that the dehydrate coffee has been around you since1928. Despite liquid gold being a diuretic, it does not dehydrate you. A more recent study of British researchers published inThe American Journal of Clinical NutritionCompared several popular drinks with moisturizing water effects. The results? Yes, you can moisturize with coffee. Oh, and the skim milk was also extremely moisturizing. The moral? Drink this second cup of coffee.
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