Twenty Facts to Blow your Mind!

Oh, it's go time!

So, I'm starting a new series on this blog called Twenty Facts to Blow your Mind and these facts will just be about random things that you may not know about.

Let's get started!


1. Google rents goats to replace lawn-mowers for their mountain-view head-quarters.

2. When you get black-out-drunk, you're brain won't actually forget anything because it wasn't recording in the first place.

3. Nintendo has banked so much money that if you check their banking account, you will see that they have over 250 million dollars in it and are gaining more every year!

4.Taiwan has become the first country to offer free wifi to tourists in all hot spots all over the island.

5. In Japan, it is illegal to dance at nightclubs after midnight.
Nightclubs are routinely raided by police and undercover agents that go in to see if anyone is dancing.

6. Former US president, Calvin Collidge, used to enjoy buzzing for his bodyguard and then hide under his desk as they frantically searched for him.

7. The phrase, "Luck of the Irish", did not originally mean extreme fortune.
It was actually meant to be used as sarcasm.
It was meant to say that only sheer luck rather than brains could help these fools.

8. Korea citizens are forced to choose between one of twenty-eight government-approved haircuts.

9. It has been estimated that there are three-million ship wrecks on the ocean floor that are worth millions in value and treasure.

10. A seven-year old second grader was suspended from school after he bit a poptart into the shape of a mountain and school officials mistook for a gun.
Really?
Are they really that stupid?

11. All of the air that people find in potato chip bags isn't really air at all.
It is actually nitrogen which serves the purpose to keep chips crisp and to provide a cushion during shipping.

12. A German author wrote a comical novel in which Hitler wakes up in modern-day Berlin and has no memory since 1945 and becomes a comedian.

13.  There is a student squirrel-whisperer at Penn State University named Mary Crew.

14. There has been a study in 2012 concluded by the University of Wisconsin that people that are more distracted and tend to day dream, are often to have a sharper memory and better working brain.

15. There was a study by hospitals that had to do with making children's hospital more fun.
So, they pulled children out of a children's hospital and they were told to tell them what clown they liked.
All of them either disliked or had a fear of them.

16. A recent study showed that about 68% of people report to have Phantom Vibrate Syndrome.
It's a condition that causes people to think that their phone is vibrating when it isn't. 

17.  Jack Johnson, the first African-American to be in heavy-weight boxing champion, was once pulled over and was given a 50 dollar speeding ticket but gave the officer 100 dollars saying that when he rides back down street he will be going the exact same sped.

18. In north Korea, it is currently the year 125 not 2015 because their calender is based around the birth of the founder of North Korea, Kin Ill Sung.

19. In 1912, Teddy Roosevelt was shot before he gave his speech.
But because he wasn't coughing up blood and the bullet missed his lungs and heart, he walked in the building and proceeded to give a 90 minute speech.

20. In 1976, a Greek War veteran was diagnosed  with cancer by doctors and told by them that he only had six months to live.
He went back to those doctors ten years later to tell them that he was still alive only to find that they were all dead.
He lived to be 102 years old!

That's all for this post, folks!
If you want to see more posts, you know where to look!