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White house physician, Admiral Joel T. Boone,
invented a game called Hoover-Ball for President Hoover.
It was a combination of tennis, volleyball,
and medicine ball created to help keep President Hoover
physically fit.
All 10 of the documented people that lived the longest
are all women, each range from 116 years old
to 122 years old,
and they were kicking right up until the end.
The plane that was crashed in the movie
The Dark Knight Rises with the use of
computer generated special effects
actually did crash the next year,
killing two people on board.
The word emoji is the Japanese term for picture characters.
Emojis were actually born out of necessity back in 1999,
when mobile carriers were struggling
to support the messaging needs of 80 million users
of a rapidly growing technology of cell phones,
and their hopes were that
an emoji would reduce the need for multiple text messages
or even picture messages.
Blue jays and cardinals go bald in the late summer and fall.
I got a little blue jay in me.
Usually they lose all of their feathers
and replace them gradually when they moult,
but sometimes they lose them all at once,
creating a bald head.
They're only bald for about a week, though,
and their feathers grow back.
Over 3200 confirmed new planets
have been discovered by telescope.
The strongest insect in the world is the dung beetle.
It can pull 1,141 times its own body weight.
That would be like the average person
pulling six double-decker buses full of people.
London based ice cream company The Licktators,
teamed up with breast-feeding campaigner Victoria Hilly
to celebrate the birth of royal baby number two
by relaunching their breast milk flavored ice cream.
The ice cream is called Royal Baby Gaga.
It's made of donated breast milk
that has been screened with hospital standards,
and Madagascan vanilla, tasty.
If you are caught injuring or killing a swan,
or stealing one of their eggs in the UK,
you could be fined or could be sent to jail
for up to six months.
South African architect Clara da Cruz Almeida
has designed a little portable house
that can be packed into a 258 square foot pod
and shipped anywhere.
Gladiators were for the most part, vegetarians.
Their diets consisted of barley and vegetables.
This enabled them to put on weight
to protect them during fights
and make them appear more spectacular to the crowd.
On October 29th, 1998,
the first astronaut to orbit the earth, John Glenn,
made history again by becoming the oldest man
to fly in space.
He traveled aboard the space shuttle Discovery
at the age of 77
as part of a NASA study on health problems
associated with aging.
Even though George Washington chose the site
for the White House,
he never actually lived there.
In fact, he's the only president
who did not reside in the White House.
There's a gang of women called the Gulabi Gang
or Pink Gang in India,
who stand up to abusers in the country.
The gang was founded in 2006,
and is based in Badousa.
It has a whopping 400,000 members,
and helps bring rapists, abusers,
and corrupt police men to justice.
The women that join the gang are registered,
given a small ID card,
and wear a distinctive pink uniform, a pink sari.
And for 500 rupees a year,
they also get a stick to carry.
Lady Gaga has a whole genus of ferns
named after her,
a DNA sequence spells out Gaga,
and the ferns have Gaga-like qualities.
Some of them resemble her elaborate stage costumes,
and one of them is even called the Gaga monstraparva.
There used to be a fifth playing card suit
called the eagle.
In the United States, those cards were green
with an eagle on them
instead of red or black.
In England, they were blue with a royal symbol
for a crown.
They were originally intended to be used
in the game of bridge.
According to a team of astronomers and geologists
led by J. Alexis Rodriguez,
at the Planetary Science Institute at Tucson, Arizona,
there is evidence that there were two massive tsunamis
on Mars billions of years ago.
They were both triggered by meteor impacts
and were millions of years apart.
They created waves as high as 150 feet.
The hunger games is banned in Vietnam.
The movie was originally just delayed,
but according to a member of
the Vietnamese National Film Board,
the board considers the film to be too violent,
and unanimously voted for it to be banned.
Buzz Light year from Toy Story
was actually named after astronaut Buzz Aldrin,
the second astronaut to walk on the moon.
The first Ferris Wheel was invented in 1893
for the Chicago World's Fair
by George W. Ferris.
It was 260 feet high, cost 50 cents per ride,
and could carry 60 passengers
in each of the 36 cars.
That's a total capacity of 2,160 passengers.
In Alaska, it's against the law
to look for a moose from an airplane.
The fin whale produces an average
of 257 gallons of urine each day.
That's a whole lot of pee pee.
There's a toilet made by Kohler called the numi
that has a heated seat,
foot warmers, lights, and bluetooth technology.
Who needs bluetooth for a toilet?
To count your number of poops?
Anyway, moving on.
Salt and pepper actually comes in liquid form in space.
If astronauts tried to sprinkle regular salt and pepper,
it would just float around.
Cheese making artists at Dublin Science Gallery
made cheese using bacteria from several artists
and scientists that were collected
using sterile cotton swabs
from various parts of their body
including a belly button, a mouth,
and even tears, heh.
Grand Banks, Newfoundland, Canada,
is the foggiest place in the world
with 206 foggy days every year.
The California condor
is the largest flying bird in North America.
Its wing span can be as wide as 10 feet
from tip to tip,
and they can fly as high as 15,100 if the in the air
by catching air currents.
The duck billed platypus and the echidna
are the only two mammals to lay eggs.
More twins are born in Nigeria
than any other place on earth.
The landscape arch in Arches National Park, Utah,
has the longest natural rock span in the world,
spanning 290 feet.
The peacock spider does a little mating dance
to attract a partner.
Each type of peacock spider has its own style of dance.
I really dislike spiders
but I have to be honest, this is kind of cute.
Elephant Island, located off the coast of Antarctica
has elephant moss growing on it
that is over 5500 years old.
The Nile crocodile rolls and squeezes
her eggs in her mouth
to help her hatchlings emerge.
The White House, the Empire State Building,
the Sears Building, and Dodger Stadium are so large
that they have their own zip codes.
There are over 10 million weddings in China every year.
Couples spend an average of $12,000 on each,
and it's estimated that the wedding industry there
will reach $120 billion by 2019.
The pope has his own vehicle that he uses
at public appearances called the popemobile.
Now you probably already knew that,
but what you might not know
is that it has bulletproof glass
that surrounds him,
as well as a handrail for him to hold on to
while he stands and waves at the crowd
in order to get in and out.
It's designed to protect him
and still allow him to be visible to the crowds.
Every year, London holds the Great British Duck Race,
where people purchase rubber ducks
to help support various charities.
The ducks are raced more than half a mile
down the River Thames,
and the first one over the finish line
wins a cash prize.
In 2009, they set a world record
for the largest plastic duck race
with over 205,000 ducks.
The vampire fish impales their prey
with their long, sharp fangs.
Their fangs can grow as long as six inches.
All NHL hockey pucks are frozen before the game
because they glide smoother and faster when frozen.
The trap-jaw ant from Central and South Africa,
can snap its jaw shut
at a speed of up to 145 miles per hour.
To put that into context,
that's 2300 faster than the blink of an eye.
According to a study led by Igor Malyshev,
a zoologist at St. Petersburg State University in Russia,
the Australian red kangaroo
and the eastern gray kangaroo
are almost always left handed.
Bellandur Lake in Bangalore, India,
is so toxic that it's covered in froth
and sometimes bursts into flames.
The foam on it is the result of toxic water
which has a high amount of ammonia
and phosphate, and very low dissolved oxygen
because of decades of untreated chemical waste
going into it.
Because of the amount of grease, oil, and detergent
in the froth, it often catches fire.
People who live in Estonia
have been able to vote via the internet since 2005.
It has actually snowed in the Sahara desert,
in 1979 and 2012.
The trombone was originally called the sackbut.
Port Lincoln, Australia holds an annual festival
called the Tunarama.
The main event is the world championship
tuna toss competition
where the winner is the one
who can throw their tuna the farthest.
There is a sauna in Norway
that can house 150 people.
It's a large timber construction
set on a beach overlooking the Arctic Ocean.
The bowhead whale, which lives exclusively in the Arctic
has the thickest blubber of all of the whales.
It can get as thick as 28 inches.
Hurricane Patricia, from 2015,
is the strongest hurricane recorded
in the Western Hemisphere.
It had winds as high as 200 miles per hour.
Owls are unable to roll or move their eyes,
so they have to turn their heads to look sideways.
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