50 Amazing Facts

 

Kyle Russell

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1. ‘Bitch the Pot’ was the 19th century slang for ‘pour the tea’

2. Breathing 100% oxygen, instead of the 21% in our atmosphere, is generally bad, and sometimes toxic.

3. Mushrooms can stimulate rain in the atmosphere surrounding their habitats

4. The last time anyone is known to have contracted HIV from blood donation in the U.S. was in 2008.

5. Ichiro Suzuki, baseball’s all-time hits leader, learned spanish just for the purpose of trash talking opponents.

6. Measles was officially eliminated in the americas, the first region in the world to do it.

7. In the first 26 seasons of “The Simpsons” Homer has said the most, accounting for 21% of the show’s 1.3 million words.

8. Horses can be trained to use symbols in order to tell humans what they want.

9. WTF is the acronym of the World Taekwondo Federation

10. St. Lucia is the only country in the world named after a woman.

11. 255 people are born every minute

12. Greater Bangkok, a sprawling metropolis with more than 10 million people has just 1300 homeless people, a 2016 survey said.

13. Two-Thirds of all US $100 dollar bills are held outside the US

14. Female sharks can store sperm for up to a year before using it to fertilize their eggs.

15. In an isolated village in the Dominican Republic, about 1 in 50 children are born appearing to be girls but grow male genitalia during puberty.

16. The Eternal Flame at Bullhead city, Arizona, only lasted until city officials received a $961 gas bill. It has been relighted after complaints by veteran groups.

17. Most diamonds on the Earth’s surface are between 1 and 3 billion years old.

18. The word ambisinistrous is the opposite of ambidextrous; it means ‘no good with either hand’.

19. An estimated 150,000 people die in the UK every year because too few people can give first aid.

20. China is the world’s largest consumer of red wine.

21. In order to be light enough to fly, birds have only one ovary

22. The Giant Palm Salamander can stick out its tongue 50 times faster than you can blink

23. Each Anteater eats about 35,000 ants and termites a day

24. The hole in the ozone layer is twice the size of Europe

25. In 2015, Apple Inc. was worth more than Switzerland, Sweden or Nigeria.

26. You can burn 20% more fat by exercising in the morning on an empty stomach.

27. Road traffic accidents kill more people around the world than malaria

28. In 2015, a canadian man was arrested after tying more than 100 balloons to a garden chair and flying over the city of Calgary

29. There are about 50 million guns in Yemen, a country of 26 million people.

30. Scientists dip tampons in rivers to test for pollution.

31. Children who grow up learning to speak two languages are better at switching between tasks, according to a study.

32. In 2013, Bill Gates admitted that the Ctrl+Alt+Delete command was a mistake, and should have been a single button.

33. People who read books live an average of almost 2 years longer than those who do not read at all, a Yale research found

34. The first transplant using a “dead heart” was performed by surgeons in Australia in October 2014.

35. The loudest howler monkeys have the tiniest testicles, a study found.

36. More people have died by taking selfies in 2015 than shark attacks.

37. Eating too much meat can accelerate your body’s biological age.

38. Sperm whales are the loudest whales on Earth. Their calls reach up to 230 decibels.

39. A scientist cracked his knuckles for over 50 years to prove it did not cause Arthritis

40. Yoda’s first name was originally going to be Minch

41. In 177 AD, Emperor Hadrian declared attempted suicide a form of desertion and made it a capital offense.

42. In the 17th century Ottoman Empire, drinking coffee was punishable by death.

43. Nixon was the first and only U.S president to resign and be pardoned by another president.

44. In the 1950’s Las Vegas crowned a Miss Atomic Bomb.

45. The horses in olympic equestrian events have their own passports and fly business class.

46. The first American woman to win an olympic event received a porcelain bowl instead of a gold medal.

47. The world record for most candles on a birthday cake was 50,151.

48. It’s illegal in Iceland for parents to threaten children with fictional characters.

49. According to his wife Mary, Abraham Lincoln’s hobby was cats.

50. Apollo astronauts trained in Iceland because it was felt that the terrain would most resemble the surface of the moon.

 

There you go, 50 amazing facts that you may or may not have known. All of these facts are from www.factslides.com. Feel free to go to the website. They have many different facts and give sources so you know where they got their information.