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100 Mindblowing Facts by TWOYANSH: 12:12am On Nov 09, 2016
BONUS. An Islamic religious authority in Iran blamed women who dress immodestly for causing earthquakes. In response to this, a blogger organized Boobquake, an event where 200,000 women wore immodest clothing in a light-hearted scientific experiment to produce an earthquake.

100. In 2007, Iran arrested 14 squirrels on charges of spying.

99. The Eiffel Tower was originally intended to be built in Barcelona, Spain in 1888 but was rejected due to being "too expensive and strange".

99.Bruce Lee once kicked a man so hard that it broke the arm of a bystander when the man fell on him.

98. Mark Zuckerberg, the Founder/Chairman/CEO of Facebook called his first few thousand users as "dumb bleeps" for trusting him with their personal data.

97. In 1999 in a chess match called Kasparov versus the World, World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov played against over 50,000 players voting for the best opposing move over the internet. Kasparov won.

96. In 2009, Israeli woman, Rachel Krishevsky, died at age 99 when she had 1400 direct descendants.

95. In the movie Lion King, it took approximately three years to animate the two-and-a-half-minute wildebeest stampede scene.

Re: 100 Mindblowing Facts by TWOYANSH: 12:26am On Nov 09, 2016
BONUS. It is three times faster to say “World Wide Web” as compared to it’s shortened version “www”.


94. In 1994, teenager Jeremy T. Brenno, a golfer was killed by his own club when he threw it in frustration. It bounced back and pierced his heart.

93. Aluminum used to be one of the most expensive metals in the world. Only the wealthiest ate with aluminum utensils, while lesser nobility ate with gold.

92. In 2003 the US troops found approximately 650 Million US Dollars inside the walls of Saddam Hussein's palace.

91. For one day in 2008 there was an app in the App Store that cost $999.99 USD shocked and did nothing. 8 people bought it.

90. An estimated one third of the population will often sneeze when looking at the sun or a bright source of light; this is due to a genetic quirk known as the photic sneeze reflex; a condition described by neurologists as having to do with crossed wires in the brain.

89. There is a fruit called The Miracle Berry that, when eaten, causes sour foods to taste sweet, and has been used to treat diabetes, among other things.

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Re: 100 Mindblowing Facts by TWOYANSH: 12:38am On Nov 09, 2016
BONUS. I have never seen someone write the letter “a” with how it is shown in most fonts. I have only seen it written as “ɑ.”


88. In 1942 there was a man called the Phantom Barber, who would break into peoples houses in Mississippi at night and cut their hair.

87. Diamonds are not rare or valuable!!!

86. There are still 8 people alive who were verified to be born in the 1800s. They're all female.

85.There is a prison on Norway where inmates can go fishing and swim at the beach. They also have TVs, computers and showers in their cells.

84. The introductionion of gloves to boxing made the sport significantly more dangerous.

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Re: 100 Mindblowing Facts by TWOYANSH: 12:50am On Nov 09, 2016
83. During the Cold War, President Nixon devised a strategy to make the USSR think he was crazy and capable of launching nukes at any moment. It was called the "Madman Theory".

82. In Warsaw, Poland, people born in a public transport vehicle are entitled to free travel until they die.

81. Taliban uses space blankets to hide their heat signatures from NATO forces during night attacks.


80. Literacy in North Korea is measured by their ability to write the name of their Dear Leader.

79. The first cat to be cloned was named Copycat.

78. In 2001, Laura Buxton, a 10 year old girl from Staffordshire, England released a balloon with at note where she had written “Please return to Laura Buxton,” and on the other side, her home address. The note was found and returned by another 10 year old named Laura Buxton who seemed almost like her twin.

77. Continuum, a magazine devoted to the idea that AIDS was a conspiracy, went out of print around 2001 after all the editors died of AIDS

Re: 100 Mindblowing Facts by TWOYANSH: 12:58am On Nov 09, 2016
76. Russia out produces Saudi Arabia in Oil Production by 1,000,000 barrels per day.


75. Every Apple Macintosh from 1984 to the early 90s had Steve Jobs's and his team's signatures engraved on the inside of the case.


74. Micheal Jackson's chimp, Bubbles once flew with the singer to Japan, met the mayor of Osaka and the three sat down together for some green tea.


73. Pirates used eye patches to quickly adjust their eyes from above to below deck, having one eye trained in bright light, and the other in dim light.

72. Beer bottles are brown in order to protect the beer from UV rays, which causes it to spoil. However, green and clear glass offers virtually no protection.

71. The fastest supercomputer in 1976 ran at 80MHz and cost $80 million. Compare that to the cheapest (<$50) phone today that runs on 256 MHz.

Re: 100 Mindblowing Facts by TWOYANSH: 1:14am On Nov 09, 2016
70. At top speed, the tires of Bugatti Veyron will only last for 15 minutes and it will run out of fuel in 12 minutes.

69. Jesus nut is the bolt at the top of a helicopter shaft that holds it all together. It got its name because if it were to fail in flight, the only thing left to do would be to pray to Jesus.


68. In the early 1900s Wagner von Jauregg treated syphilis patients with malaria (winning the Nobel Prize). The patients developed malaria, causing a severe fever and killed the syphilis bacteria. They were then given the malaria drug quinine and were cured. This was used until the development of penicillin.


67. Stevie Wonder is blind because doctors gave him too much oxygen as a baby.

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Re: 100 Mindblowing Facts by TWOYANSH: 1:48am On Nov 09, 2016
66. The rarest Olympic Medal is the Pierre de Coubertin (aka True Spirit of Sportsmanship) medal. It has been awarded less than once per Olympics.

65. South Africa has no legally defined capital city. Power is shared between Cape Town (Parliament), Bloemfontein (Administrative), Pretoria (President & Cabinet) and Johannesburg (Constitutional Court).

64. The Hanwha Eagles, a South Korean baseball team, has robot fans. These robot fans are controlled by real fans who can’t attend the game. The bots can cheer, chant, and do the wave.

63. When George Lazenby wasn’t a big actor he met up with the producers and fabricated a story about the made up films he had acted in. He was then given the role of James Bond.

Re: 100 Mindblowing Facts by buffalowings: 12:48pm On Jan 22, 2017
Fuming he'll where are the rest angry sad
Re: 100 Mindblowing Facts by jojothaiv(m): 4:49pm On Jan 23, 2017
Mindblowing, where are the rest?
Re: 100 Mindblowing Facts by Nobody: 6:55pm On Jan 23, 2017
i never knew any of these,truly enlightening
Re: 100 Mindblowing Facts by dauddy97(m): 9:43pm On Jan 23, 2017
OBOY,where did you get all this from.....respect

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