1Hippocampus
The reason most long-term depressed people "feel less", remember less and experience "blurred memory" is due shrinkage of the hippocampus.
2. The first Olympic fatality occurred when Francisco Lázaro tried to run a marathon covered in animal fat (it was to prevent sunburn). He collapsed at the 30 km mark (19 miles) of the marathon because the animal fat prevented him from sweating leading to fatal body fluid electrolytic imbalance. Before the race, he had supposedly said: "Either I win or I die."
3. Indigenous Native Americans were not granted US citizenship until 1924.
4. There are three main fart smells. Hydrogen sulfide produces the signature "rotten eggs" note, methanethiol produces hints of "decomposing vegetables," and dimethyl sulfide adds a hint of "sweetness."
5. Pistachios used to almost always be sold coated with a deep red dye, to hide harmlessly but unattractively splotchy hulls. Discolored hulls is no longer an issue with better harvesting technology, allowing today's pistachios to be sold without dye.
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6It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
The cast and crew of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia had no idea that they had been nominated for a People's Choice Award until after they had won it in 2016.
7. Leonard Nimoy released multiple albums, including a two-sided record titled "Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy". One side featured him singing songs as Spock and the other side featured songs related to his personal interests.
8. In the "Chicken poop prison" in Thailand, the ceiling of the cells was a grate, and chickens were cared for above the cell. Their dung was allowed to drop freely onto the criminal within.
9. Some rainbows have only one color and it is called a "Monochrome rainbow".
10. Cougars are the biggest cat that can purr and meow.
11Sperm cells
Sperm cells can live for up to 30 hours after a man has died. The sperm can be gathered and used for posthumous fertilization.
12. Brazil has the largest Japanese community outside of Japan.
13. Elvira Taylor was a notorious 'Allotment Annie' during World War 2 who was discovered to have married six sailors at the same time. She was found out due to a fight between two of her husbands when they learned that they were both married to the same girl.
14. Keanu Reeves was forced to star in the critically-derided film The Watcher (2000) due to the fact that a friend forged his signature on the contract agreement.
15. There are almost 2 times more kangaroos in Australia than humans.
16Sacramental wine
There is a special minimally-fermented wine (Sacramental wine) used at masses where the priest is a current or recovering alcoholic.
17. Medical students in 18th-century Scotland could pay their tuition fees in corpses. The financial prospects encouraged a group of people to exhume corpses to sell to the medical schools, and they became known as resurrectionists.
18. To become an astronaut in Japan you are tested in your ability to fold a thousand paper cranes.
19. Earthworms have even been ranked the number one most influential species in the history of the planet above dinosaurs and humans.
20. The largest surviving relative of the Tyrannosaurus Rex is the common Ostrich.
21Deaf servants
The Sultans of the Ottoman Empire deliberately employed deaf servants because silence played a key role in expressing majesty to subjects and visitors.
22. Hans Zimmer's "Spider Pig", from The Simpsons Movie soundtrack, entered the UK singles chart at #24. The running time for the song is a mere 1:04, making it the second shortest single to ever chart.
23. In 1971, American astronaut David Scott smuggled a 'Fallen Astronaut' sculpture onto the Apollo 15 lunar mission and placed it on the Moon's surface to "commemorate the astronauts and cosmonauts who have died in the advancement of space exploration."
24. Walt Disney World is 40 square miles, making it the same size as San Francisco and 2 times the size of Manhattan.
25. The Whopper Jr. was created by accident in 1963 by the manager of the first Burger King restaurant in Puerto Rico. The molds for the standard Whopper buns didn't arrive so he used a much smaller local bun. The result was such a success that Burger King adopted it worldwide and called it the Whopper Jr.
