22 Random And Bizarre Facts To Widen Your Horizons

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Jan 27, 2018 2:00 PM EST

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  • 01
    Hair - If you were born with both red hair and blue eyes. you're part of only 1% of the human population where this occurs naturally.
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    Helmet - A single helmet for the F-35 fighterjet costs over $400,000
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    Text - Aprison warden named John Whitley was so respected that when he retired in 1995, 100 inmates pooled together money and threw him a party.
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    Insect - It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to completely drain the average human body.
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    Text - A new ocean is forming in Africa. The crack opened in 2005 in Ethiopia, and has been expanding ever since. Scientists believe that in 10 million years, it will split the continent in two.
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    Text - In 2009, Robert Downey Jr. was held at a Japanese airport for 6 hours because of his previous convictions, and only allowed to attend the Iron Man premiere after agreeing to "never return to Japan again"
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    Text - At one time, Alcatraz was the on ly prison with hot watershowers. The thought was prisoners used to it wouldn't be able to withstand the frigid San Francisco Bay during an escape.
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    Child - Babies learn their parents accents while still in the womb. A French baby's cries end with a rising note, while a German baby's will end in a dropping note.
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    Light - You could power a light bulb with the electricityproduced by your brain.
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    Text - Once complete, the Tesla Gigafactory 1 will produce more lithium-ion batteries in 1year than what was produced worldwide in 2013.
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    Birthday - Some countries, like Korea, still use the East Asian age reckoning system. When a baby is born they are linstead of 0, and everyone's age increases on the same day, Jan. 1st of the new year. So if you were born Dec. 31st, you would turn 2 the next day. BA
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    People - There is an estimated $6 $10 trillion worth of minerals in North Korea that they can't access due to the lack of technology and equipment.
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    Adaptation - JK. Rowling was once fired from her job as a secretary for daydreaming too much
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    Natural landscape - A British reality TV show, Eden, placed 23 contestants in a remote area of Scotland for a year-long experiment. The 10 people who stuck it out for the year came back to find out the show had been cancelled 7 months earlier.
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    Text - Nikola Tesla had the ability to do integral calculus in his head, a skill that made his teachers believe he was cheating.
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    Aerial photography - There was an 85% reduction in the amount of children named Katrina after Hurricane Katrina.
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    Text - An IT company in South Africa in 2009 wanted to prove that they could transfer data faster with a carrier pigeon than with the country's leading internet service provider. Winston the pigeon took 2 hours to carry a 4GB memory card 60 miles. With the ISP, 4% of the data had been sent in the same amount of time.
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  • 18
    Building - Executive Members t in arqu 2P Reward to 50 Costco stores have no signs on purpose. They want you wandering around finding things to buy.
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    Text - You know when you hit something to try and get it working again? There's a scientific term for that, it's called "percussive maintenance".
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    Sitting - During the 1928 Olympics, Australian rower Bobby Pearce stopped mid-race to let a family of ducks pass. He still won the gold medal
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  • 21
    Terrestrial animal - Cheetahs meow just like a house cat.
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    Text - Puyi, the last Emperorof China, spent his latter years living as a commoner in communist ruled Beijing. He struggled with the most basic tasks, like tying his shoes and brushing his teeth, things previously done for him.
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