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The text is a transcript of a video that presents 50 amazing facts to blow your mind. The facts cover a wide range of topics, such as animals, history, science, culture, sports, and entertainment. Some of the facts are:
- Vern Troyer had to do his own stunts as Mini-Me in the Austin Powers movies because there was no stunt double his size.
- There is a hybrid species of grizzly and polar bears called pisley bears or growler bears.
- A serial rapist in India was lynched by a mob of 200 of his alleged victims who stabbed him, threw rocks and chili powder at him, and cut off his genitals.
- A Chinese man built his own dialysis machine to keep himself alive for 13 years after he could not afford hospital bills.
- A man in 1987 got millions of people to donate one penny each towards his tuition by getting an article written in the Chicago Tribune.
- A Korean man escaped from prison by slipping through a tiny food slot at the bottom of his cell door after practicing yoga for 23 years.
- The current king of Thailand was born in the US and the hospital room he was delivered in was declared Thai territory.
- There is a hidden beach in Mexico that was formed by bomb testing in the 1900s and can only be accessed through a small opening in a wall or by helicopter.
- Switzerland has enough nuclear shelters to accommodate 114% of its population.
- Laughter reduces stress, increases antibodies, and kills tumor cells.
- There are more tigers in captivity in the US than there are in the wild in the rest of the world.
- A chimpanzee in a Russian zoo became addicted to alcohol and cigarettes after visitors gave him treats and had to go to rehab.
- A man who speaks 32 languages is the chief translator in the European Commission and can translate classified Chinese documents.
- Abraham Lincoln grew his beard because an 11-year-old girl wrote him a letter saying it would make him more popular with ladies and voters.
- A man swam the entire length of Great Britain in 135 days.
- The Tetris effect is when an activity patterns your thoughts, mental images, and dreams.
- A Japanese man learned how to scuba dive to find his wife's remains after she was swept away by the 2011 tsunami.
- A PlayStation 4 costs $1,845 in Brazil because of import taxes.
- New York is the most linguistically diverse city in the world with over 800 languages spoken.
- The red mushrooms in Mario games are based on a real hallucinogenic fungus called amanita muscaria.
- France banned child beauty pageants because they promote hypersexualization of minors.
- Robert Downey Jr credits Burger King for his sobriety after he ate a disgusting burger that made him dump all his drugs into the ocean.
- The Beatles refused to play for any segregated audience and demanded equality at their shows.
- Prisoners in Canadian war camps were so well treated that many did not want to leave after the war ended.
- Pilots and co-pilots eat different meals in case one causes food poisoning.
- Walt Disney received an honorary Oscar with seven mini statuettes for Snow White.
- The keys to the holiest site in Christianity are held by two Muslims as a tradition since 1187.
- Budapest broke the world record for the tallest Lego tower ever built with 450,000 bricks and a Rubik's Cube on top.
- Google sent an employee to map an abandoned Japanese island for Google Street View that was used as a bomb site and later as a movie set for Skyfall.
- Finland gives PhD graduates a doctoral hat and sword as symbols of academic honor.
The video ends with the narrator thanking the viewers, inviting them to like and subscribe, and saying goodbye.
Here are some key facts extracted from the text:
1. Vern Troyer, the actor who plays mini me in the Austin Powers movies, has to do all of his own stunts because of his height.
2. A rare Grizzly and polar bear hybrid species was confirmed in Canada in 2006, called pisley Bears or Growler Bears.
3. A serial rapist in India named Aku yadav was lynched by a mob of 200 of his alleged victims in 2004.
4. The Golden State Fence Company in Southern California was hired to build part of the fence that separates the U.S and Mexico, but was fined for hiring illegal immigrant workers in 2006.
5. A Chinese man named huzongwin built his own dialysis machine in 1999 after he could not afford the hospital bills.
6. A man named Mike Hayes got a friend to write him an article asking for one penny donations for his tuition in 1987, and accumulated enough to pay for his degree in science.
7. After being eliminated from the show Hell's Kitchen, contestants are taken to get psychiatric evaluations and pampered with back rubs, haircuts and manicures.
8. A Korean man named Troy Gap Bach escaped from prison by slipping through a tiny food slot at the bottom of his cell door in 2012.
9. The current king of Thailand was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States in 1927.
10. There is a hidden beach in the Marietta Islands in Mexico that was originally formed as a bomb site for preparation for the first world war.
11. Switzerland has enough nuclear shelters to accommodate 114 percent of its population.
12. Laughter reduces stress, increases the production of antibodies and kills the activity of tumor cells, according to a study conducted by Loma Linda University in 2010.
13. There are more Tigers held in captivity in the United States than there are running wild in the rest of the world.
14. A chimpanzee in a Russian Zoo named Zora became addicted to booze and smoking after too many visitors gave him alcoholic treats and cigarettes, and had to be sent to rehab in 2010.
15. Giannis ikonomu, the chief translator in the European commission, can speak 32 different languages.
16. Abraham Lincoln grew his famous beard because he got a letter from an 11 year old girl named Grace Bedell who said that ladies like the whiskers and that they would convince their husbands to vote for him for president in 1860.
17. Sean Conway became the first man ever to swim the entire length of Great Britain in 2013, taking him 135 days.
18. The tetris effect is a phenomenon that occurs when people dedicate so much time and attention to an activity that it starts to pattern their thoughts, mental images and dreams.
19. Yasu takamatsu began learning how to scuba dive in 2014 in order to find his wife's remains after she was Swept Away in the 2011 tsunami that hit Japan.
20. A PlayStation 4 would cost $1,845 in Brazil because of the country's heavy import taxes.
21. New York is home to as many as 800 languages, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world.
22. The red mushrooms featured in Nintendo's Mario games are based on a real species of fungi called amantia muscaria, which are known for their hallucinogenic properties and can distort the size of perceived objects.
23. France banned child beauty pageants because they promote the hypersexualization of minors in 2013.
24. Robert Downey Jr credits his sobriety to Burger King, after he ate a burger that was so disgusting that he felt compelled to dump all of his drugs into the ocean in 2003.
25. The Beatles never once stood for any kind of discrimination throughout their entire career, and demanded equality at their shows.
26. Prisoners in Canadian war camps during World War II were so well treated that they were given games and entertainment like soccer tournaments and musical groups, and many of them did not want to leave Canada after the war ended.
27. The rules of most Airlines require that the pilot and co-pilot of a plane eat different meals, just in case one of them causes food poisoning.
28. Walt Disney was awarded an honorary Oscar for Snow White in 1938, which came with seven mini statuettes on a stepped base.
29. The keys to the holiest sight in Christianity, the Church of the Holy sepulture, are held by two Muslims since 1187.
30. Budapest broke the world record for the tallest Lego tower ever built in 2014, which stands at 34.7 meters tall and is topped with an oversized Hungarian Rubik's Cube.
31. The letter e was used to represent a failing grade until the 1930s, when it was changed to