Health
This is the average time (within 1 month) an American waits to receive a heart transplant.
What is 4.9 months?
This is one of the three the National Parks that have the highest number of search and rescue missions each year.
What are Grand Canyon, Yosemite, or Sequoia National Parks?
Mary Beth Sweetland, a woman whose life depends on insulin tested on animals, spent decades as the leader of this animal rights organization.
What is PETA?
This naturally occurring element was used as a treatment for syphilis and gonorrhea in the pirate times.
What is mercury?
This head of the "Family" named his first two sons after himself years prior to being implicated in a series of famous murders.
Who is Charles Manson?
(sons Charles Manson Jr. and Charles Luther Manson)
Deficiency in this vitamin causes bleeding gums, bruising, fatigue, irritability, and muscle weakness.
What is vitamin C?
This is a slang term for when light reflected off snow impairs vision, and can also be used when you've had too much cocaine according to "some sources."
What is "Snowblind?"
This species of whale has amassed a following on Twitter (never to be known as X) for doing what too many humans are scared to do and attacking the rich.
What are orcas?
This is how many Deloreans, within a thousand, were made between January 1981 and December 1982.
What is between 8,500-9,600?
This Guyana-bound cult gained a reputation for aiding the poorest citizens in California, especially racial minorities, drug addicts, and the homeless, prior to their Flavorade finale.
What is the Peoples Temple?
In this year a routine autopsy diagnosed a British man with Triphallia, a condition in which a person has three working penile shafts. (i.e., muthafucka had 3 dicks)
What is 2024?
This is approximately how many dead bodies are currently on Mt. Everest (within 25).
What is 200?
This is the arch rival of the eponymous Tiger King.
Who is Carole Baskin?
This is the age range most likely to be involved in a cellphone-related car crash.
What is 21-30?
This is the comet to which Heaven's Gate dedicated a mass suicide in order to "graduate from the Human Evolutionary Level."
What is Hale-Bopp?
This is the country in which was first recorded the condition Fatal Familial Insomnia, a rare congenital disease that causes irreversible sleep disturbance to the point of death.
What is Italy?
(Venice to be exact)
This young pharaoh almost lost to history, named in Steve Martin's popular 1978 song, cursed multiple people with death for disturbing his tomb.
Who is King Tutankhamun, or colloquially known as "King Tut?"
This low fat avian meat inspired a fad in the 90s that caused some people to abandon their jobs to farm these animals.
What is ostrich?
This was the name given to the technological apocalypse that was supposed to have taken place at 12:01 am on January 1, 2000.
What is Y2K?
This is the number of people, within a million, who watched the final episode of the popular 90's TV show Friends.
What is 52.5 million people?
Modern dentistry is recognized as developing in the 15th century, which is at least 200 years before the 1846 invention of this surgical aid.
What is anesthesia?
This is the US State with the most spelunking (cave exploring) fatalities.
What is Florida?
(due to it's high number of flooded caves)
This is the year that Charla Nash had her face ripped off by her friend's illegal pet chimp Travis.
What is 2009?
Walter Freeman invented this technology for subduing aggressive psychiatric patients in 1946.
What is a transorbital lobotomy?
The geographical trigger that gives this delusional disorder it's name is central to the world's three major religions.
What is Jerusalem Syndrome?