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Only one major league ballplayer has been fatally injured during a game. Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Chapman was killed when struck in the head by a pitch on August 16, 1920

Physics

If two black holes collided they would release as much energy as 100 million supernovas

Fast Food Facts

McDonald's is the second largest buyer of chicken and the largest buyer of beef, pork, and potatoes in the world

Football

After 18 college football players were killed during games in 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt personally intervened and demanded that the rules of the game be reformed to make the game safer. One of the changes was to make the forward pass a legal play

Football

The huddle was first used in the 1890s by quarterback Paul Hubbard who was deaf

Planet Earth

Earth is the only place in the our solar system in which a solar eclipse can happen

Animals

A "Panther" is not a real animal. It is a name used to describe cougars, leopards, and jaguars that are black in color

Space

The first man-made object to enter space was a German V2 rocket

Insects

Dragonflies are astonishingly good predators, with up to 97% success at capturing their prey

Nature

A sea squirt digests its own brain. It spends the early portion of its life as tadpole-like creature. It then permanently attaches itself to the ocean floor. Since it is stationary from this point on, it has no use for its brain

Surprising food facts

Apple juice (and other fruit juices) has more sugar than Coke

People

World War II

Over 1 million soldiers died during that Battle of Stalingrad in World War II. That is roughly the same number of United States combat deaths in all of its wars put together

History

The Egyptians believed that the heart, not the brain, was the source of human wisdom, memory, emotions, the soul and the personality itself. In fact, the brain was discarded during the mummification process

History

In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost during an aircraft collision during exercise near Savannah, GA. It's whereabouts remain unknown to this day

The Godfather

The words "mafia" and "mob" never appear in The Godfather. Coppola agreed to omit these words after meeting with the Italian-American Civil Rights League

Movies

The movie "Paranormal Activity" had a production budget of $15,000 but grossed over $193 million, making it the most profitable movie of all-time

Movies

In the original draft of "Back to the Future", the time machine resembles a refrigerator. The idea was dropped due to a fear that children would imitate the movie and lock themselves in refrigerators

Animals

Hippopotamuses kill more people each year than lions, leopards, and elephants combined

More bacteria than human cells

History

The Aztecs sacrificed 250,000 people a year, about 1% of their population

Sports

The term soccer originated in England, first appearing in the 1880s as an Oxford "-er" abbreviation of the word "association"

Animals

The blue whale largest animal that has ever lived on the planet Earth

Food and Drink

A large movie theater popcorn has about 50 grams of saturated fat. That's almost three days worth, or the amount in approximately five big macs

Nature

This is what ocean sand looks like magnified 250x

Planet Earth

There are more organisms in an average teaspoon of soil than there are people on Earth

The ocean: the ultimate gold mine

Animals

Grizzly bear's sense of smell...

Food and Drink

In colonial America, lobster was undesirable and was routinely fed to prisoners and slaves. An old Maine law stated that prisoners "could not be fed lobster more than twice a week, for to do so was inhumane..."

Movies

O.J. Simpson was considered for the role of the Terminator, but producers felt O.J. was too nice to depict a cold blooded killer

Movies

The actor who played Jesus in the Passion of the Christ was struck by lightning during filming

The Matrix

The text of green bands of code in "The Matrix" is Japanese sushi recipes

Surprising food facts

Bird’s nest soup, a popular delicacy in Asia, is made from the nest of the swiftlet bird. The gummy strands of the bird’s saliva which form the nest create a desirable (to some) gelatinous texture when added to the broth

Food and Drink

The red juice that comes out of a rare steak is not blood. It is a chemical called myoglobin. Almost all of the blood has been removed from a steak before it is packaged and sold

Brad Pitt was officially banned from entering China by the Chinese government due to his role in the movie Seven Years in Tibet

Atoms in a grain of sand

World War II

80% of all Soviet males born in the year 1923 died in World War II

Sports

Until 1936, a jump ball in basketball occurred in at center court after every basket made

Physics

A subatomic particle (like an electron or photon) can exist in two places at the same time

The Human Body

98% of the atoms in the human body are replaced every year with new ones

Space

The Earth's rate of rotation is slowing at a rate of about 17 milliseconds a century. The length of a day for the dinosaurs was closer to 22 hours

Animals

The Stegosaurus dinosaur measured up to 30 feet (9.1 meters) long but had a brain the size of a walnut

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Only one major league ballplayer has been fatally injured during a game. Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Chapman was killed when struck in the head by a pitch on August 16, 1920

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A "Panther" is not a real animal. It is a name used to describe cougars, leopards, and jaguars that are black in color

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McDonald's is the second largest buyer of chicken and the largest buyer of beef, pork, and potatoes in the world

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Apple juice (and other fruit juices) has more sugar than Coke

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In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost during an aircraft collision during exercise near Savannah, GA. It's whereabouts remain unknown to this day

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Over 1 million soldiers died during that Battle of Stalingrad in World War II. That is roughly the same number of United States combat deaths in all of its wars put together

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Earth is the only place in the our solar system in which a solar eclipse can happen

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The movie "Paranormal Activity" had a production budget of $15,000 but grossed over $193 million, making it the most profitable movie of all-time

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The words "mafia" and "mob" never appear in The Godfather. Coppola agreed to omit these words after meeting with the Italian-American Civil Rights League

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Hippopotamuses kill more people each year than lions, leopards, and elephants combined

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In the original draft of "Back to the Future", the time machine resembles a refrigerator. The idea was dropped due to a fear that children would imitate the movie and lock themselves in refrigerators

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