50 AMAZING Facts to Blow Your Mind! #20 - Summary

Summary

This text is a transcription of a video presenting 50 amazing facts. The facts cover various topics, including history, science, animals, and human behavior. Some examples include:

* The Apollo 11 crew was quarantined for three weeks after returning from the moon in 1969.
* In the early 20th century, pink was considered a stronger color, suitable for boys, while blue was seen as more delicate and suitable for girls.
* The Pentagon spends $300,000 per year studying the body language of world leaders like Vladimir Putin.
* There's an animal called the rough-skinned newt that produces a toxin 10,000 times stronger than cyanide.
* The North Korean government is a major counterfeiter of US currency.
* Trees are made up of 99% dead cells, and humans are not prey for great white sharks due to their slow digestion.
* The average cumulus cloud weighs approximately 500,000 kilograms.
* Albert Einstein's brain was kept and dissected without his consent, and his eyeballs remain in a safety deposit box.
* Dubai is building the world's first indoor city, and Walt Disney planned a city where everyone could work for Disney and live in a self-sufficient community.
* Coyotes and badgers hunt together, and there's a pet penguin in Japan that walks into town and buys fish from the market.
* The DEA has an efficiency rate of less than 1% in intercepting the flow of drugs into and within the US.
* The longest ever recorded sniper kill was shot from 2,475 meters away.
* Taco Bell sold 100 million Doritos Locos Tacos in the first 10 weeks after launch.

The video ends with the host announcing the launch of their merchandise store, featuring various designs chosen by their audience.

Facts

Here are the key facts from the text:

1. After returning to Earth in 1969, the Apollo 11 crew was quarantined for three weeks to prevent the potential spread of "moon germs."
2. In 1918, pink was considered a stronger color and was associated with boys, while blue was considered more delicate and was associated with girls.
3. The Pentagon spends around $300,000 per year to study the body language of world leaders like Vladimir Putin.
4. The rough-skinned newt's skin produces a toxin called tetrodotoxin, which is approximately 10,000 times stronger than cyanide.
5. The North Korean government is one of the largest counterfeiters of US $50 and $100 bills.
6. The average tree is made up of about 99% dead cells, with only about 1% being alive at any given time.
7. Humans are not an appropriate prey for great white sharks due to the slow digestion of the shark.
8. There is a secret swimming pool in the Mojave Desert that is open to anyone who can find it.
9. Colonel Sanders disliked the KFC franchise's version of his fried chicken and described it as the worst he had ever had.
10. In Switzerland, it is illegal to keep a lone guinea pig as pets, as they are social animals and need each other's company.
11. In 2008, a businessman from Abu Dhabi spent $14.3 million to buy a license plate with the number "1."
12. The unbroken seal on Tutankhamun's tomb remained untouched for 3,245 years.
13. Amy Jung's cat saved her life by bringing her back to consciousness and alerting her son to call for medical assistance.
14. The average tree is made up of about 99% dead cells, with only about 1% being alive at any given time.
15. A study by Oxford University found that for every person you fall in love with, you lose two close friends.
16. A travel agency in Tokyo offers a service where they take your stuffed animal on vacation without you.
17. Rodrigo Duterte, the mayor of Davao City in the Philippines, transformed the city from the "murder capital" of the country to the most peaceful city in Southeast Asia.
18. The rough-skinned newt's skin produces a toxin called tetrodotoxin, which is approximately 10,000 times stronger than cyanide.
19. The North Korean government is one of the largest counterfeiters of US $50 and $100 bills.
20. The average cumulus cloud weighs approximately 500,000 kilograms.
21. Albert Einstein's brain was kept and dissected against his wishes, and his eyeballs remain in a safety deposit box in New York City.
22. Dennis Rader, also known as the BTK killer, installed alarm systems for his clients, some of whom were trying to protect themselves from him.
23. Dubai is building the world's first indoor city, called the Mall of the World, with air-conditioned streets and a massive mall.
24. Walt Disney planned to build his own city where everyone would work for Disney in exchange for housing and insurance.
25. Coyotes and badgers hunt together, with the badgers digging up prey and the coyotes running it down.
26. In 2012, an elderly couple in China refused to sell their home to make way for a road, so the government built the road around their house.
27. A pet penguin in Japan named Lala walks into town every day, collects fish from the local market, and walks back home.
28. In 2005, the DEA reported seizing $1.4 billion in drug trade-related assets and $477 million worth of drugs.
29. The total value of drugs sold in the US is estimated to be around $64 billion per year.
30. Rupert Grint, who played Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter films, bought a 1974 ice cream truck to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming an ice cream man.
31. In 2014, New York City announced plans to turn all of its old phone booths into Wi-Fi hotspots.
32. 85% of Chinese people share only 100 surnames, with Lee and Zhang covering 13% of the entire Chinese population.
33. In medieval Ireland, murderers were given to the deceased family as slaves, who could legally kill the murderer if they chose to do so.
34. The British Navy uses Britney Spears' music to scare off Somali pirates from hijacking super tankers off the coast of East Africa.
35. The Catatumbo River in northwestern Venezuela has a storm that has been raging for centuries, known as the "Everlasting Storm."
36. In the 1960s, Orville Redenbacher paid an advertising company $13,000 to come up with a name for his popcorn company, which they named "Orville Redenbacher."
37. A man named Bob Kirstine originally purchased the domain name "windows2000.com" which Microsoft wanted, and they eventually traded the domain name for Kirstine's desired domain name "bob.com."
38. The longest recorded sniper kill was shot from 2,475 meters away by British soldier Craig Harrison.
39. Taco Bell sold 100 million Doritos Locos Tacos in the first 10 weeks after launch, which is equivalent to the number of burgers McDonald's sold in eight years.
40. A British man named Nick Hess suffers from auto-brewery syndrome, which means that his stomach has an overgrowth of yeast that turns any carbohydrates he eats into alcohol.