1. Ayam Cemani is a modern breed of chicken from Indonesia that is entirely black, including feathers, beak, and internal organs.
SOURCE2. At the age of five, Ayan Qureshi took and passed Microsoft's I.T. technician exam, making him the youngest computer specialist in the world.
SOURCE3. Believing you are a cow and trying to live as one is a real psychological condition known as Boanthropy.
SOURCE4. The 100 folds in a chef’s toque are said to represent 100 ways to cook an egg.
SOURCE5. If you took one cent and doubled your money every day, you would be a millionaire in just 28 days.
SOURCE6. Felix Baumgartner became the first person to break the sound barrier without vehicular power.
SOURCE7. Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci holds the Guinness World Record for the highest known insurance valuation in history at US$100 million in 1962 (equivalent to $650 million in 2018).
SOURCE8. Up to half of all fruits and vegetables produced worldwide go to waste.
SOURCE9. A recording of a camel's moan was slowed down and used as the sound effect of the tornado in the 1996 film Twister.
SOURCE10. There are over 100 different species of coffee plants, but the two most commonly used to make coffee are Coffea Arabica and Coffea Robusta. Arabica is considered to have a smoother, milder taste, while Robusta has a stronger, more bitter taste.
SOURCE11. The world's largest traffic jam occurred in China in 2010 and lasted for over 10 days.
SOURCE12. On January 19, 2023, Airrack (USA) in Los Angeles, California, USA achieved the record for the largest pizza, measuring 1,296.72 m² (13,957.77 ft²). The pizza was made using 6,193 kilograms (13,653 pounds) of dough, 2,244 kilograms (4,948 pounds) of sweet marinara sauce, 3,992 kilograms (8,800 pounds) of cheese, and approximately 630,496 pepperoni slices.
SOURCE13. The Star of India, a famous sapphire, is one of the largest of its kind in the world, weighing over 500 carats.
SOURCE14. Researchers discovered a new species of bacteria that thrive and reproduce using the toxic chemical arsenic. This was a groundbreaking discovery because all known forms of life on Earth require six elements, including carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur.
SOURCE15. Three U.S. presidents died on the 4th of July: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson in 1826, and James Monroe five years later.
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