Incredibly Fascinating Facts: Video Games, Sports, Music, and More

🎮 The video talks about a video game company that had to remove 200,000 copies of a strategy game from stores due to a uninstallation problem.

🧠 An engineer holds the record for the most digits of pi memorized using a method of assigning letters to each number as stories to remember them.

🏃‍♂️🐎 There is a race called the 'marathon man vs horse' in Wales where people and horses compete together, with a runner winning in some years and a horse in others.

🎵 Metallica's 'Master Of Puppets' became the first metal song to be entered into the Library of Congress recordings archive for its cultural significance.

🎩 Acts of magic cannot be registered or protected under intellectual property laws, allowing magicians to freely copy and perform each other's original tricks.

⚾️ Visiting baseball teams wore grey uniforms in the past due to limited access to laundry services, and it became a tradition that persists to this day.

⚔️ Darth Maul's double lightsaber in Star Wars Episode 1 is actually two separate sabers joined together, allowing one half to still function if the other is destroyed.

🚗 Rolls-Royce offers a course called White Glove Experience to teach drivers how to minimize fingerprint marks on door handles and brake without the car bouncing.

🎾 In a tennis match, if a player's hat falls or there is an obstruction, the umpire can order a replay of the last disputed points.

🖊️ The first mention of a pen with an ink reservoir was in the year 973, requested by the Caliph of Maghreb to have a pen that wouldn't stain his hands.

💎 The Coine diamond, once the largest in the world, was located inside the Taj Mahal but was taken by the East India Company and is now part of the British Crown Jewels in the Tower of London.

🌟 On average, a star explodes in a supernova every 100 years in each galaxy, meaning there are at least 53 supernovas exploding somewhere every second.

🧮 The mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras had an irrational fear of beans and convinced people around him that they resembled the gates of the underworld.

🌍 The Spanish language has approximately 300,000 different words or concepts, although the Royal Spanish Academy only recognizes 88,000 of them.

⌚ In 1793, the French attempted to change the time system by introducing a new method of timekeeping.

🕒 There was a French revolutionary who tried to change the concept of time by having 10 hours in a day, 100 minutes in an hour, and 100 seconds in a minute.

💰 Real Canadian coins were used in the movie Scott Pilgrim during scenes where enemies were eliminated.

⏰ Scientists conducted an experiment in 1971 to prove the theory of relativity by comparing atomic clocks on planes that circled the world.

🐘 In ancient India, warriors used to put fake trunks on horses to make them resemble baby elephants and avoid being attacked.

🍦 The curved tip of Dairy Queen's ice creams is patented, and there is a specific way to make it consistently.

🦖 There were crocodile species called mecosuchines that existed around 4000 years ago, which were primarily terrestrial and fed on mollusks.

Finland has the highest number of heavy metal bands per person in the world.

Camping without technology for a week can improve sleep quality.

The first hacking incident occurred in 1903, exposing the security vulnerability of wireless telegraphy.

Different metals in the mouth can create a low-voltage battery.

Professional bowling involves invisible oil patterns that affect the speed and effect of each throw.

Keanu Reeves performed 90% of his action scenes in the John Wick movies.

🍜 China consumes the most instant noodles, around 40 billion portions per year.

💧 In Iceland, the tap water may have a smell similar to rotten eggs due to a treatment used to prevent frozen pipes.

🎵 Before the 20th century, many countries, including England, used 'God Save the Queen' as their national anthem.

🎥 During the filming of 'Ben-Hur' in 1959, a stuntman fell into a blue-colored pond and the production had to keep him on payroll until the color washed off.