Facts that will actually blow your mind.
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25 facts to blow your mind.
It's actually possible to walk from one side of the United States to the other on a single hiking pathway.
The American Discovery Trail is 10,944 kilometers long and crosses the country coast to coast from Cape Henlopen, Delaware, to Limantour Beach, California.
A few days prior to signing the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776, Thomas Jefferson bought a new thermometer. He recorded the temperature in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where the document was signed on that historical day as 76 degrees Fahrenheit, or 24.4 degrees Celsius.
In July of 2016, Radford Army Ammunition Plant, a highly classified military explosive factory in Virginia, had to take extra precautions after people were caught sneaking onto the premises while playing Pokemon Go on their phones, A rumor spread that there was a Charizard on the property when, of course, there wasn't.
The hides of around 22 cows are used to make enough footballs for the Superbowl and over 3,000 for a regular NFL season.
The oldest your momma joke is actually 3,500 years old. It was written on a tablet by a student in Ancient Babylon.
In 1978, an undergraduate architectural student named Diane Hartley saved an uncountable number of lives when she pointed out a flaw in the construction of a skyscraper in New York City. If the error hadn't been fixed, the 59 story building would have likely collapsed and taken everyone inside and on the street below with it.
In 2013, Sony released a fully waterproof MP3 player. To prove their new device's underwater capabilities, each one was sold fully submerged in a bottle of water.
During World War II, the fuel used in the US Navy's torpedo motors was a 180 proof grain alcohol, which the officers would often steal to make torpedo juice, the combination of the fuel and pineapple juice.
Naval authorities began mixing poisonous substances into the fuel simply to stop it from being consumed, but the sailors kept figuring out ingenious ways to separate the alcohol from the poison.
During breeding, a hummingbird will build its nest close to a hawk's nest, as the larger birds will instinctively protect them from animals that prey on the hummingbird's eggs.
actor James Franco started smoking two packs of cigarettes a day in order to prepare for his role as James Dean in the 2001 television biographical film, James Dean.
Franco also learned to ride a motorcycle, play guitar, and even isolated himself from his friends and family in order to get into the right mindset to play the part and ended up winning a Golden Globe for the performance.
Pattie Boyd, who was the wife of the late George Harrison of the Beatles and the inspiration for their song, Something, is also the inspiration for Eric Clapton's hit, Layla, in which he confesses being in love with his friend's wife.
Unlike regular tires, the tires used for NASCAR teams are actually built with nitrogen instead of regular air.
This is because nitrogen has a more consistent rate of contraction and expansion, which gives the car better traction and handling than if they were filled with just air.
On December 11th, 1937, Romford Stadium in London held its very first cheetah race. Up against two greyhounds, the female cheetah named Helen left the pooches in her dust, reaching a speed of 88.5 kilometers per hour and instantly giving her the title of Queen of the Track.
Released in 2012, The Lorax features the voice talents of Danny DeVito as the titular character. But not just in the English versions of the film. The actor also provided voice for the German, Italian, Spanish, and Russian dubbed versions.
The cicada, a flying insect found in Africa, spends 17 years of its life sleeping before it wakes up, spends two weeks mating, and then it dies.
During his term as president of the United States, John Quincy Adams approved an expedition to the center of the Earth in an attempt to prove the planet was hollow.
While filming the 1964 movie, Cheyenne Autumn, some Native American actors kept making inappropriate comments in their native tongues as nobody else on the set spoke their language.
At least one of these comments actually made it into the final edit of the film and featured the actors making fun of the size of the character's penis.
In April of 2015, Hayley Atwell, who plays Peggy Carter in Marvel's Captain America movies, had her driver's license photo taken while in full movie makeup.
In 2014, construction on a highway in Iceland was stopped because protesters claimed the crew would have to destroy a church that was attended only by elves in its path.
The first hot air balloon trip took place in Versaille, France in September of 1783. But instead of humans, the passengers were a sheep, a duck, and a rooster.
When ATMs were first introduced, many believed that they would be total failures because only prostitutes and gamblers would want to do their banking without looking a teller in the eye.
In 1993, archeologists discovered what is believed to be the oldest pieces of chewing gum on the Swedish island of Orust.
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