It's True! (Part Three)

More excerpts from True Facts that Sound Like Bulls#*t

Here's some more fun facts and trivia for you:

• Duck Bill Platypuses aren't just weird. They can poison you! Platypuses are one of the few mammals to produce their own venom, which is injected via barbs on the male's hind legs. This venom is highly toxic, and while it probably won't kill you, can cause an incredible amount of pain.

How can you tell a quack doctor? By the size of his bill

• The streaming service HBO was originally called the Green Channel

• The first commercial cell phone sold for $4,000 - It was the DynaTac 8000X in 1983. It was developed by Martin Cooper at Motorola who made the first mobile phone call ten years earlier on April 3, 1973. The phone weighed 2.4 pounds and had a talk time of about 30 minutes.

• There is a town in Texas called Happy - the town motto is "The town without a frown".

• A gentleman by the name of Derek Amato suffered a severe concussion after diving into a pool. Immediately afterwards, he became a musical savant and could play the piano professionally but had never played one before. This phenomenon is known as acquired savant syndrome in which extraordinary abilities emerge after brain injury, stroke or other neurological events occur.

• The World Record for near-continuous trampoline jumping is 266 hours and 9 minutes - Jeff Schwartz of Illinois holds the Guinness Record for more than 11 days of near-continuous bouncing in August of 1981. He was allowed brief clearly monitored bio breaks to use the bathroom, brief sleep and eating (in accordance with Guinness endurance-based records). The feat was to raise money for cancer research.

Just looking at this makes me dizzy

• In 1993, Yankees pitcher Jim Abbott through a no-hitter despite being born without a right hand. The hard-throwing lefty didn't let his missing hand stop him and enjoyed a decade-long career in the major leagues.

• Chess Boxing is a thing. It's a real sport and exactly what it sounds like. For hundreds of years, people cried out, "Why can't we combine chess and boxing?" And in 1992, they did it! Chess boxing is a hybrid sport where two combatants play alternating rounds of blitz chess and boxing until one wins by checkmate or knockout.

Hey, you boxed in my King...!

• Soviet scientists once tried to create a human/chimpanzee Hybrid. The study failed because they were unable to impregnate the chimpanzee with human sperm. (No comments from the peanut gallery please)

• Phobophobia is a thing. It's exactly what it sounds like. Sufferers are afraid of fear. There's also a condition called Barophobia where some people fear that gravity will crush them while other fear they will float away.

• There is a basketball court on the 5th floor of the U.S. Supreme Court Building!

• Samuel L. Jackson one held Martin Luther King Sr hostage. During his college days, Jackson was part of a group of students who held the Morehead College Board of Trustees hostage. King was part of that group held during the protest.

• O.J. Simpson was originally going to be the lead in Terminator before Arnold Schwarzenegger got the job. Simpson was passed over because pilot groups looking at the screening videos viewed him as too "likeable" and "innocent".

• The world record for fastest boxing knockout was two seconds! Ryohei Masuda set the record in 2008 when his opponent opened the bout by sprinting directly at him and Masuda decked him with one punch.

• The CIA once used cats as spies. Cats were surgically implanted with listening equipment and released around sensitive Soviet locations during the cold war.

Hello Ivan