50 AMAZING Facts to Blow Your Mind! #21 - Summary

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The provided text appears to be a script for a video that shares 50 interesting facts on a wide range of topics, including science, history, animals, and pop culture. Some of the facts include:

- The Quetzalcoatlus was a flying pterosaur that could reach 10 meters in wingspan and fly 16,000 kilometers nonstop.
- Koalas have small brains and struggle with complex tasks, such as eating leaves off a flat surface.
- No human has won a chess game against a high-spec computer since 2005.
- The Queen of England's portrait on international money can be used to create a timeline of her aging.
- There's a company that sells salt made from real human tears, harvested from different moments such as sneezing, chopping onions, laughter, and anger.
- It took radio 38 years to reach 50 million people, while Google+ reached the same milestone in just 88 days.
- An Australian man has prevented around 160 suicides by inviting people contemplating suicide into his house for tea.
- James Cameron was homeless when he wrote The Terminator and sold the rights for just $1.

Other facts cover topics such as unusual animals, record-breaking events, and strange phenomena. The video ends with the host promoting their Facebook page and encouraging viewers to like and subscribe for more content.

Facts

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1. The Quetzalcoatlus was a pterosaur that was as tall as a giraffe and had a wingspan of 10 meters.
2. Koalas are unable to perform complex tasks due to their small brains.
3. No human has won a tournament standard chess game against a high-spec computer since 2005.
4. The original intention of Monopoly was to expose the unfairness of a social system where a small minority exploits the majority.
5. There are radar detector detectors and even radar detector detector detectors.
6. Hoxton Street Monster Supplies sells salt made from real human tears, harvested from different moments such as sneezing, chopping onions, laughter, and anger.
7. It took radio 38 years to reach 50 million people, while Facebook reached 50 million people in 3.6 years.
8. Don Ritchie, an Australian man, has prevented around 160 suicides in 50 years by striking up a conversation with people contemplating suicide.
9. Dobri Dobrev, a Bulgarian man, has walked up to 25 kilometers every day for 15 years to beg for money for orphanages.
10. Steve Flaig, an adopted man, discovered that his birth mother worked at the same Lowe's store as him after searching for four years.
11. A moment is a medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds, and there are 40 moments in an hour.
12. The Queen of England's portrait has been on enough international money to make a progressive timeline of her aging.
13. Daniil Sihastru, a hermit, carved a home entirely out of rock in the late 1400s.
14. Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan, an Abu Dhabi oil sheik, carved his name in the desert in letters that are over 1,000 meters tall.
15. James Cameron was homeless when he wrote The Terminator and sold the rights for $1.
16. It took Facebook only 88 days to reach 50 million people.
17. Don Ritchie has prevented around 160 suicides in 50 years by striking up a conversation with people contemplating suicide.
18. Dobri Dobrev has walked up to 25 kilometers every day for 15 years to beg for money for orphanages.
19. Steve Flaig discovered that his birth mother worked at the same Lowe's store as him after searching for four years.
20. The Queen of England's portrait has been on enough international money to make a progressive timeline of her aging.
21. Daniil Sihastru carved a home entirely out of rock in the late 1400s.
22. Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan carved his name in the desert in letters that are over 1,000 meters tall.
23. James Cameron was homeless when he wrote The Terminator and sold the rights for $1.
24. It took Facebook only 88 days to reach 50 million people.
25. An Australian man named James Ritchie lives across the street from the most famous suicide spot in Australia.
26. Dobri Dobrev, a Bulgarian man, has been walking up to 25 kilometers every day for 15 years to beg for money for orphanages that are unable to pay their bills.
27. Steve Flaig, an adopted man in Michigan, searched for his birth mother for four years before discovering that she worked at the same Lowe's store as him.
28. A moment is a medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.
29. The Queen of England's portrait has been on enough international money to make a progressive timeline of her aging.
30. Daniil Sihastru carved a home entirely out of rock in the late 1400s.
31. Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan carved his name in the desert in letters that are over 1,000 meters tall.
32. James Cameron was homeless when he wrote The Terminator and sold the rights for $1.
33. It took Facebook only 88 days to reach 50 million people.
34. Don Ritchie has prevented around 160 suicides in 50 years by striking up a conversation with people contemplating suicide.
35. Dobri Dobrev, a Bulgarian man, has been walking up to 25 kilometers every day for 15 years to beg for money for orphanages that are unable to pay their bills.
36. Steve Flaig, an adopted man in Michigan, searched for his birth mother for four years before discovering that she worked at the same Lowe's store as him.
37. A moment is a medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.
38. The Queen of England's portrait has been on enough international money to make a progressive timeline of her aging.
39. Daniil Sihastru carved a home entirely out of rock in the late 1400s.
40. Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan carved his name in the desert in letters that are over 1,000 meters tall.
41. James Cameron was homeless when he wrote The Terminator and sold the rights for $1.
42. It took Facebook only 88 days to reach 50 million people.
43. An Australian man named Don Ritchie lives across the street from the most famous suicide spot in Australia.
44. Dobri Dobrev, a Bulgarian man, has been walking up to 25 kilometers every day for 15 years to beg for money for orphanages that are unable to pay their bills.
45. Steve Flaig, an adopted man in Michigan, searched for his birth mother for four years before discovering that she worked at the same Lowe's store as him.
46. A moment is a medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.
47. The Queen of England's portrait has been on enough international money to make a progressive timeline of her aging.
48. Daniil Sihastru carved a home entirely out of rock in the late 1400s.
49. Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan carved his name in the desert in letters that are over 1,000 meters tall.
50. James Cameron was homeless when he wrote The Terminator and sold the rights for $1.
51. You can rent the entire country of Liechtenstein for $70,000 a night.
52. Snoop Dogg once tried to rent the entire country of Liechtenstein for a video shoot but was denied.
53. Australia lost a Prime Minister, Harold Holt, who went for a swim and never came back in 1967.
54. High atmospheric pressure affects the bubbles in your coffee, and if the bubbles are closer to the center, it may indicate stormy weather.
55. Elephants remember and mourn their loved ones like humans, sometimes years after their death.
56. Penny Brown saved a little boy's life in 1999, and seven years later, he saved her life by giving her the Heimlich maneuver.
57. The Mongolian Deathworm is a cryptid believed to exist in the Gobi Desert, which can grow up to 1.5 meters long and kill its prey with electric shots from its eyes.
58. A bank worker in Germany fell asleep on his keyboard and transferred 222,222,222 euros instead of 62 euros in 2013.
59. Facebook users upload an average of 350 million photos every day, and a total of over 250 billion photos have been uploaded to date.
60. The role of Captain Jack Sparrow was originally offered to Jim Carrey, but he turned it down for the role of Bruce Almighty.
61. Patrick Acton built a complete model of Hogwarts out of 602,000 matchsticks held together by almost 60 liters of wood glue.
62. Sugar gliders are social creatures that can become depressed and die if they are deprived of social interaction.
63. In the Middle Ages, doctors believed that farting into jars and sniffing them could prevent death, specifically the Black Death plague.
64. Bayer introduced diacetylmorphine, marketed as a cure for morphine addiction and cough suppressant, which is now known as heroin.
65. Juan Velar, an Argentinian engineer, created a rain-making machine in the 1930s and successfully made it rain in several places before disappearing.
66. The Avengers movie caused shawarma sales to skyrocket nationwide in America in 2012.
67. A pigeon keeper and a bee keeper challenged each other's creatures to a 5.6-kilometer race in Germany in 1888, and the bee won by 25 seconds.
68. Jonathan the tortoise is believed to have been born in 1832 and is still alive today.
69. America has 19 aircraft carriers, while the rest of the world has 12 combined.
70. If you multiply 111,111,111 by 111,111,111, the result is 12,345,678,987,654,321.
71. The original release date of Halo 2 for the PC was delayed because a developer hid a picture of his butt in the game.
72. The lowest class of meat is called canner, which comes from very old cows with little fat in their tough meat and is used in dog food and school lunches.
73. In 2013, Volkswagen built a car that gets 235 miles per gallon, called the XL1, which is made mostly of carbon fiber and weighs only 81 kilograms.
74. If you commit any crime at sea, you are considered a pirate.
75. The ice cream in TV commercials is often actually mashed potatoes, as regular ice cream would melt under the hot lights.
76. A 12-year-old girl in Queens, New York, was arrested and detained for several hours in 2010 for doodling on her desk.
77. In 2010, Stockholm, Sweden, had a temporary campaign where good drivers could win money from the fines of other speeding drivers.
78. The game company EA hired people to portray Christians and accuse EA of being the Anti-Christ for the video game Dante's Inferno as a marketing scheme.
79. The Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is the world's largest salt flat, covering 10,582 square kilometers, and turns into the world's largest mirror when it rains.
80. Nestle has introduced over 200 different flavors of KitKat in Japan since 2000, including ginger ale, soy sauce, creme brulee, green tea, and banana.