Today I Found Out

The Surprising Place That Has the Highest Crime Per Capita in the World... and 7 other Amazing Facts (2015x51)

Air date: Jun 27, 2015

→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/todayifoundoutsubscribe →Why Do Superheroes Wear Their Underwear on the Outside?: http://bit.ly/1Ow7J0K Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from Today I Found Out: Why Vampires Can't Exist... and 9 Other Amazing Facts http://bit.ly/1Jw62w1 The Sun is White... and 8 other Astronomy Facts http://bit.ly/1OvIA6f Find more interesting quick facts here: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/category/quick-facts/ In this video: 1. Wikipedia to date has taken about 100 million man-hours to create. This may sound like a lot, but in fact in a typical month, people in the U.S. alone spend about 1.5 billion man hours watching advertisements on TV. (QF 473) 2. Alaska is the Eastern, Western, and Northern most state in the U.S.. How? Some of the Aleutian islands that are part of Alaska cross the 180 meridian line, which is the marker between “East” and “West” (QF 441) 3. The highest crime rate per capita of any city in the world is at Vatican City where an average of 600 crimes are committed per year, despite only having 800 residents. (QF 459) 4. The Sun is 20 “years” old in Sun years. You see, it’s completed about 20 orbits around our galaxy’s center since it first sparked to life. (QF 467) 5. The Jews were not the only civilization to mark a great flood that seemingly covered the Earth for a certain period (note: 40 days and 40 nights was just a Jewish expression that meant "a really long time" and didn't necessarily literally mean 40 days and 40 nights). Here is a small subset of other cultures that had similar stories: a. Ancient Greek literature states that "Zeus sent a flood to destroy the men of the Bronze Age. Prometheus advised his son Deucalion to build a chest after floating in the chest for nine days and nights, landed on Parnassus. When the rains ceased, he sacrificed to Zeus, the God of Escape."