Interesting facts

HERE ARE SOME INTERESTING FACTS THAT WILL BLOW YOU MIND.      

# INTERESTING FACTS:-

#1. The Higashiyama Zoo in Japan is home to a western lowland gorilla named Shabani who became know as the most handsome gorilla. His rise to fame was so huge that there was an increase in young women in attendance who wanted to actually see him. The employees had to put up a sign that told people to stop yelling his name in the exhibit because it was making him uncomfortable.         

#2. According to Karen Shapiro from the University of California Davis, flushing cat litter down the toilet could in fact kill sea otters with Toxoplasma. 

#3 Cats are the only known hosts of the parasite and when their feces are flushed down the toilet, snails feed on them.         

#4. In turn, sea otters then eat the snails. Oregon forest landowners are required to replant trees after a timber harvest. They plant about 40 million new trees every year.                    

#5. In 2014, attendees at the Food Safety Summit in Baltimore, Maryland were sickened by contaminated chicken that was served to them.        

#6. Trick or treating on Halloween was put on hold during World War II because of sugar rations.        

#7. The Allied forces in World War II debated whether or not to bomb Auschwitz because the Nazis were setting up operations there.    

#8. There was originally going to be a sequel to the thriller movie "Se7en" entitled "Ei8ht" where Morgan Freeman's character was going to be revealed as a psychic. However, the studio said no and the script was rewritten into "Solace" starring Anthony Hopkins.      

 #9.  Backgammon is one of the oldest board games in history, dating back to 3000 BC in ancient Persia.    

#10.There's an annual tradition in Spain called El Salto del Colacho, which means the devil's jump. This act is also known as baby jumping and it dates back to 1620. Men dressed up as the devil jump over infants laying on mattresses.     

#11. San Pedro prison in Bolivia is known by many to be the most bizarre tourist attraction in the world. The prison allows families of the inmates to live with them inside and they have created a community in doing so. There are classrooms, small businesses, and even a football field. Tours are available and they can get up to 70 visitors a day. 

#12.Certain words from the animated series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had to be censored in the United Kingdom, such as "ninja" because of a controversy affecting the country at the time.        

 #13.The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was ratified at the Treaty of Windsor in 1386 between the United Kingdom and Portugal, and remains intact today. It's considered to be one of the oldest alliances in the world.        

 #14.Drivers in the United Kingdom must report to police if they run over a cat, a dog, a horse, cattle, pigs, goats, sheeps, donkeys, and mules. But not badgers, deers, or foxes.        

#15.City Park in New Orleans, Louisiana is home to the world's largest collection of mature live oak trees and some are more than 600 years old.     

 #16.  In 1969, activists in Berkeley seized a portion of a three-acre dirt lot where the university was going to build dorm buildings and declared it People's Park.   

  #17.A Florida man was killed by his pet cassowary when the large and flightless bird attacked him after he fell.     

  #18. Martin Scorsese directed Michael Jackson's music video "Bad," the same year he directed "The Color of Money" in 1986. 

#19. The official font of the Girl Scouts of America is called Omnes.

  #20. A Japanese beer called Un, Kono Kuro was made from the coffee beans that passed through an elephant's digestive system. And you thought coffee made you poop before, yummy.        

#21. Crickets are capable of chewing through the screens of your windows, but grasshoppers are actually the biggest problem with this issue

 #22.Ireland has its highest population since the Great Famine in the mid-1800s. The population of the country in 1841 was 8.5 million then declined significantly to 5.1 million in 1851. However, finally, in 2016 the population exceeded the 1851 census for the first time.   

 #23.  Actor Robert De Niro is actually more Irish than he is Italian. His ancestors escaped from the Great Famine and came to America. 

#24. Mountain Dew was originally developed to be a mixer with whiskey in the 1940s by Tennessee bottlers, Barney and Ally Hartman.     

  #26.Dragonflies are able to eat their own body weight in food in about 30 minutes.         

#27.  When actor Steve McQueen was in the United States Marine Corp, he was demoted to private seven times for being rebellious. After spending 41 days in the brig, McQueen focused on his responsibilities and later saved five other marines from a tank that was sinking into the sea. He was promoted to honor guard where he was tasked with guarding the presidential yacht of President Harry Truman.   

 #28.There's a bed that's actually bigger than the California King called the Alaskan King, which measures about 2.74 meters by 2.74 meters.     

  #29.The voice actor who played Kimi Finster in the cartoon show Rugrats is Dionne Quan, and she's legally blind. All of her scripts were written in brail for her. Hot Pockets were originally called Chunk Stuffers and they are all manufactured in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Chunk Stuffers, I'd still eat it. It's delicious.          

 #30.US general George Patton competed in the first-ever modern pentathlon during the 1912 Summer Olympic Games. He placed in fifth while causing a controversy at the pistol shooting event. He claimed that he was such a good marksman that one of his bullets passed through another one of his holes on the target.        

 #31.The world's largest bible factory is in China and they've printed over 150 million copies of the book. Actor Phil LaMarr who played Marvin in the movie "Pulp Fiction" also provided the voice for Hermes on Futurama.           

#32. According to ancient records, the Buddha recommended eating rice porridge because it had five benefits. He claimed that it stills hunger, dispels thirst, settles wind, cleans out the bladder, and promotes the digestion of the remnants of undigested food.        

 #33.NBA legend Manute Bol recorded more blocks than points during his entire playing career.     

   #34. The mascot for the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team sold the players cocaine in the 1980s.      

#35. Tootsie Rolls have been certified kosher by the Orthodox Union since 2009.

 #36. There are only seven genes in a cat's DNA that determines the pattern and color of its fur coat.        

 #37. In the Harry Potter films, the ghost of a 14-year-old girl name Moaning Myrtle was played by a 37-year-old actress named Shirley Henderson.       

 #38. There were 54 books published on the popular children's series "Animorphs" between June 1996 and May 2001. They were written by Katherine Applegate and her husband, Michael Grant. They wrote together under the name K.A. Applegate.      

 #39.Japan has one of the highest cremation rates in the world at 99.97%.        

 #40.The great Renaissance artist, scholar, and architect, Michelangelo, sculpted hearts into the statue of David's pupils.      

#41. The largest eagle that ever existed was the Haast's eagle, but they became extinct 500 to 600 years ago. The females were the larger of the sexes and their wingspan could reach up to three meters across.        

 #42.Believe it or not, sand is one of the most consumed resources on the planet and we're actually starting to run out of it according to author Vince Beiser.          

  #43.In 2012, the pizza chain Papa John's was sued for $250 million for spamming people with text messages at all hours of the day.       

#44.The Chicago Sun Times bought a dive bar in 1977 and named it The Mirage. They used the bar to investigate an intricate web of bribery and corruption by city officials and politicians. The team of journalists gathered so much information that they released a 25 part expose series a year later in 1978.   

 #45. When you're relaxing your jaw, your tongue should rest gently behind the top front teeth. Your bottom teeth and top teeth should also not be touching. And your lips should be closed, but not tightly.        

 #46.Formicophilia is the sexual interest in being crawled on and nibbled by insects, such as ants and other small creatures.          

#47.The term came from Ratnin Dewaraja and John Money in 1986, which comes from the Latin "formica" or ant and the Greek "philia" which means love.         

 #48. The ancient Polynesians who settled on Maui did not have any pottery because the Hawaiian island lacked clay.     

  #49. German scientist, Angela Kohler, developed a technique for no-kill caviar where the eggs are massaged from the sturgeon and the fish lives another day. This could make the price of caviar cheeper for consumers.       

#50.  In 2014, the beard on the mask of Egyptian pharaoh, Tutankhamun, fell off when workers took the artifact out of the display for cleaning. They attempted to glue the beard back on using epoxy, but it became off-center. The mistake was eventually noticed a year later and the team of Germans and Egyptians reattached the mask using bee's wax, which was a material used by ancient Egyptians.           

 #51. Actor, musician, and comedian Jack Black's mother was Judith Love Cohen, who was an aerospace engineer and author. She worked on the Hubble Space Telescope and Apollo Space Program. After she retired, Cohen founded a children's multimedia publishing company called CASCADE PASS. And that's it!        

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