This video presents 50 interesting and little-known facts on various topics such as history, science, technology, and culture. Some of the facts include:
* The origin of the color purple being from sea snails and only affordable by royals
* Ants being immune to injury from falling due to their small mass
* The devastating impact of Finding Nemo on clown fish populations
* A man paying 10,000 Bitcoins for two pizzas, which later became worth $5.12 million
* The existence of a city in Turkey called Batman
* A Shiba Inu dog making $180,000 a year modeling menswear on Instagram
* The history of Central American stingless bees being cultivated by the Mayans
* The discovery of a way to unboil egg whites using urea
* The low incarceration rate in Liechtenstein, with only seven people in prison
* A 101-year-old woman still teaching math at the same elementary school in Brooklyn
* The existence of a motorcycle built from an old tractor
* The fact that flipping a coin is not 50/50, but rather 51/49 biased
* The story of a goat and a tiger becoming friends in a Siberian tiger enclosure
* The offer of Pablo Escobar to pay off Colombia's foreign debt in exchange for avoiding extradition
* The difference in behavior between secluded rats and rats provided with space, friends, and games when it comes to addiction
* The fact that you could pay admission to the zoo in the Tower of London by bringing a cat or dog to feed the lions during the 18th century.
These facts cover a wide range of topics and are presented in an engaging and entertaining way.
Here are the key facts from the text:
1. In ancient times, purple was a royal color because it was difficult to extract from sea snails.
2. It took 12,000 snails to produce 1.4 grams of purple dye.
3. Ants cannot be injured from impact with the ground after being dropped from any height due to their small mass.
4. The demand for clown fish increased after the release of the movie Finding Nemo, causing large-scale harvesting of tropical fish from the wild.
5. A man named Laszlo paid 10,000 Bitcoins for two Papa John's pizzas, which were later worth $5.12 million.
6. A 16-year-old student in Columbus, Ohio won an essay contest in 1944 by suggesting that Hitler be put in black skin and made to live in America.
7. Al Qaeda has denounced the actions of ISIS as anti-Islamic.
8. Seth Putnam wrote a song about how being in a coma was stupid and later fell into a coma himself.
9. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was not famous until it was stolen from the Louvre in 1911.
10. A hyena's laugh can be heard up to 13 kilometers away.
11. In ancient Egypt, household members would shave their eyebrows off in mourning when a cat passed away.
12. A California elderly home went bankrupt in 2013, leaving 16 residents destitute, but two staff members continued to care for them at their own expense.
13. There is a city in Turkey called Batman, located in the province of Batman near the Batman River.
14. A Shiba Inu dog named Bodhi makes $180,000 a year modeling menswear on Instagram.
15. According to North Korean textbooks, Kim Jong-un learned to drive at the age of three.
16. There are so many types of apples that if you were to eat a new one every day, it would take you almost 20 years to try them all.
17. In India, it is not uncommon to enjoy marijuana in milkshake form, with evidence of its consumption dating back to 500-1500 BC.
18. A superhero movement in Seattle, led by a mixed martial artist named Phoenix Jones, stopped multiple assaults and robberies until 2014.
19. The CEO of Netflix offered a partnership to Blockbuster in the late 1990s, but the CEO of Blockbuster laughed in his face.
20. FIAT workers sent a FIAT to trail a Google Street View car for 45 minutes and had it captured on Street View in front of Volkswagen headquarters.
21. Every resident of Alaska receives an annual oil royalty check, with the payout reaching a high of $2069 in 2008.
22. Virgil Griffith gathered information on students' tastes in music and compared it with their SAT scores, finding a correlation between the two.
23. The Toyota Supra driven by Paul Walker's character in Furious 7 actually belonged to the late actor.
24. Apple got the idea of a desktop interface from Xerox.
25. Scientists have found a way to unboil egg whites using urea, a main component of urine.
26. A woman tried to use a fake million-dollar bill to buy $1675 worth of merchandise at a Walmart in Atlanta.
27. Thomas Jefferson argued that the constitution should expire every 19 years.
28. Dr. Seuss was confronted by a feminist who stated that there were no strong female roles in his books.
29. Central American stingless bees have been cultivated by Mayans for thousands of years and are regarded as pets.
30. Some hives of these bees have been recorded to last over 80 years.
31. 35% of US workers would willingly forego a substantial raise in exchange for seeing their direct supervisor fired.
32. Bob Marley was seen as a white man in his native Jamaica due to having a British father and suffered racism and discrimination while growing up.
33. Madeline Scotto, a 101-year-old woman, is still teaching math at the same elementary school in Brooklyn that she graduated from in 1928.
34. The country of Liechtenstein has an incarceration rate of 19 per 100,000, with only seven people in prison.
35. A 20-year-old man from France spent six months looking for the person who killed his online character in a virtual knife fight and eventually found and stabbed him.
36. A motorcycle was built from an old tractor.
37. Flipping a coin is not actually 50/50, but rather 51/49 biased for the side that was facing up when flipped.
38. The Russians partied so hard after World War II that the entire city of Moscow ran out of vodka.
39. Bob Ross did the Joy of Painting completely free of charge and only made money through his art supply store.
40. A goat was placed in a Siberian tiger enclosure in Russia but instead of being eaten, the two became friends.
41. Pablo Escobar offered to pay off Colombia's $20 billion foreign debt in order to avoid extradition to the United States.
42. Rats provided with space, friends, and games rarely take morphine water and never become addicted or overdosed.
43. During the 18th century, you could pay your admission to the zoo in the Tower of London by bringing a cat or a dog to feed the lions.
44. Members of the band Good Charlotte used to protest against KFC's treatment of chickens but later appeared in KFC commercials in Australia.
45. Abraham Lincoln once claimed that women were the only things that could not hurt him that he was afraid of.
46. Africanized bees, known as killer bees, are breed hybrids that accidentally escaped quarantine and have spread throughout the Americas.
47. A stray junkyard dog named Lilico walked up to 13 kilometers every night to collect a food parcel and shared it with her family, including a dog, a cat, some chickens, and a mule.
48. Your body paralyzes itself when you sleep to keep you from acting out your dreams.
49. A cat named Cookie went missing while on holiday with her owner in France but returned 18 months later, having traveled 1127 kilometers.
50. Ayan Qureshi took and passed Microsoft's IT technician exam at the age of five, making him the youngest computer specialist in the world.
51. If you earn more than $27,665 Canadian a year, you are part of the richest 4% of the planet.
52. A tomato plant was found on an isolated volcanic island off the coast of Iceland, which grew from a previous scientist's feces.
53. Members of the band Good Charlotte used to heavily protest against KFC's treatment of chickens.
54. The Russians partied so hard once World War II ended that the entire city of Moscow ran out of vodka.
55. Bob Ross did the Joy of Painting completely free of charge and only made money through his art supply store.
56. In 2015 a goat was placed in a Siberian tiger enclosure in Russia, and it was supposed to become the tiger's food, but the tiger and the goat became friends.