Matthew Santoro presents 50 interesting facts, ranging from weird, to amazing, to disturbing. Some of these facts include:
- The tires for the Bugatti Veyron cost $42,000 and last only 15 minutes at top speed.
- Dr. Dre's Beats by Dre headphones cost only $14 to produce but sell for up to $700.
- Bottlenose dolphins have the longest memories in the animal kingdom.
- A man crashed Paris Hilton's 30th birthday party, stole her $3,200 cake, and gave it to the homeless.
- A beaver's anal secretion, castoreum, smells like vanilla and is used in food and perfume.
- In the US and Canada, money acquired through illegal means must be reported and taxed.
- The Goliath tigerfish can eat small crocodiles and has attacked humans.
- A 45-60 minute nap can improve learning and memory by up to 5 times.
- In Iceland, there has been only one instance of a man being killed by police since 1944.
- The Japanese created edible, functional chocolate Legos.
- Blood has similar properties to eggs in cooking and can be used as a substitute.
- The world's dirtiest man, Ammu, hasn't bathed in 60 years.
- The Burj Al Arab in Dubai is the only 7-star hotel in the world, but the hotel doesn't use this term.
- A violinist played his instrument during brain surgery to remove his tremors.
- A group in Japan created zoo jeans, which were designed by lions, tigers, and bears.
- A competition in England crowns the world's biggest liar, but politicians and lawyers are banned from entering.
- Babies can give a thumbs up in the womb.
- The Khumba River Resort in Sri Lanka is shaped like a giant elephant.
- Ashton Kutcher considered committing suicide to donate his heart to his brother.
- A town in Arizona is called "Nothing" and is a ghost town.
- Bob Marley's song "No Woman, No Cry" actually translates to "No woman, don't cry."
- Istanbul has an estimated 150,000 stray dogs, and a company created a vending machine that dispenses food and water for the dogs when people recycle plastic bottles.
- Guide dogs can disobey their owners if they think the order is unsafe, known as "intelligent disobedience."
1. The tires for the Bugatti Veyron cost $42,000 a set and they only last 15 minutes at top speed.
2. It costs only $14 to produce a pair of Beats by Dre headphones.
3. The cheapest pair of Beats by Dre headphones sells for $200, while the most expensive pair retails for $700.
4. Bottlenose dolphins have the longest memories in the animal kingdom.
5. Dolphins can remember the whistles of other dolphins that they've lived with even after 20 years of separation.
6. In Finland, there's an annual contest called Elk Encanto where men race to carry their wives through an obstacle course.
7. The winner of the Elk Encanto contest receives his wife's weight in beer.
8. Sloths can swim three times faster than they can move on land.
9. Sloths can hold their breath underwater for up to 40 minutes.
10. It's possible to donate your voice to an organization called Vocal ID.
11. Vocal ID encourages people to donate their voices to recreate synthetic voices for individuals with speech impairments.
12. Only three humans have ever died outside of the Earth's atmosphere.
13. The three humans who died outside of the Earth's atmosphere were all on the Soyuz 11.
14. The Soyuz 11 was the only manned mission to board the world's first space station.
15. The crew capsule of the Soyuz 11 depressurized, causing the death of the three humans on board.
16. Edward Jones was known in the Victorian era for breaking into Buckingham Palace and stealing Queen Victoria's underwear.
17. Domestic animals are smarter than people might realize.
18. Some pets will pretend to be sick just to get special attention from their owners.
19. In Vermont, Royal Ditch billboards have been banned since 1968.
20. The Goliath tigerfish is the largest of the tigerfish clan.
21. The Goliath tigerfish can be found in the Congo River Basin.
22. The Goliath tigerfish is known to eat small crocodiles and has even attacked humans.
23. A 45- to 60-minute nap during the day can improve learning and memory by as much as five full hours.
24. Researchers say that a short nap at the office or in school can significantly improve learning success.
25. There has only been one instance of a man being killed by the police in Iceland since it became an independent republic in 1944.
26. Violent crime is almost non-existent in Iceland.
27. The police in Iceland usually don't even carry weapons.
28. In 2014, Japanese designer Akiro Mizuchi created edible chocolate Legos.
29. The edible chocolate Legos were functional and had the Lego logo imprinted on each block.
30. Blood has similar properties to eggs in cooking and can be used as a viable substitute in baking.
31. Mozart had a dirty mind and once composed a piece called "Leck mich im Arsch," which translates to "Lick me in the butt."
32. In September 1940, two planes collided over Australia and interlocked, but the pilot of one plane managed to land both planes safely.
33. Kim Jong-nam is Kim Jong-un's older brother and was supposed to be Kim Jong-il's successor.
34. Kim Jong-nam fell out of the line of succession when he tried to fake a passport to get into Disneyland in Japan.
35. There is a Twitter account called @big_ben_clock that tweets "Bong" every hour.
36. The account has been doing this since 2009.
37. In Finland, there's an annual contest called Elk Encanto where men race to carry their wives through an obstacle course.
38. The winner of the contest receives his wife's weight in beer.
39. Sloths can swim three times faster than they can move on land.
40. Sloths can hold their breath underwater for up to 40 minutes.
41. It's possible to donate your voice to an organization called Vocal ID.
42. Vocal ID encourages people to donate their voices to recreate synthetic voices for individuals with speech impairments.
43. The Burj Al Arab in Dubai is the only seven-star hotel in the world.
44. However, the hotel's management never uses this term to describe itself.
45. The notion of the Burj Al Arab being a seven-star hotel was brought about by a British journalist.
46. Roger Frisch, a concert violinist, was awake during brain surgery to get rid of his tremors.
47. Frisch played the violin while the doctors worked during the surgery.
48. Tiny pseudoscorpions are often found in rooms with dusty books.
49. Pseudoscorpions protect the books by feeding on book lice and dust mites.
50. In 2014, a homeowner in England accidentally left a spare bedroom window open for three months, allowing about 5,000 wasps to sneak in and build a massive nest on the bed.
51. Preying mantises can easily catch and eat hummingbirds despite their size difference.
52. White Coke is a clear-colored Coca-Cola that was commissioned by Soviet Marshal Gregory Zhukov in the 1940s.
53. Zhukov requested the clear Coke because he was a fan of Coke but didn't want to be seen drinking it in public.
54. In 1992, the CEOs of Southwest Airlines and Stevens Aviation settled a dispute over a slogan by arm wrestling.
55. Babies are capable of giving a thumbs up in the womb.
56. The Khumba River Resort in Sri Lanka is a hotel shaped like a giant elephant.
57. Ashton Kutcher thought about committing suicide when he was 13 so that he could donate his heart to his brother, who desperately needed a heart transplant.
58. There is a town in Arizona called Nothing, and it's a ghost town.
59. Bob Marley's song "No Woman, No Cry" is actually "No Woman, Don't Cry" in Jamaican Patois.
60. The song is about growing up in the ghetto and persuading a woman that things will get better.
61. Mosquitoes are also known as "nepotes" in Greek, which means "useless."
62. Istanbul has an estimated 150,000 stray dogs.
63. A company called Huge Din created a vending machine where food and water for the dogs can be dispensed when people recycle plastic bottles.
64. Guide dogs are able to go against their owners' instructions when they think their order is unsafe, which is called "intelligent disobedience."