Curious Mind Blowing Facts - 14
will make you say "No Way"
How famous bands got their name:
Jethro Tull was an 18th century English agriculturist.
Uriah Heep is a fictional character created by Charles Dickens in his 1850 novel David Copperfield.
The Sex Pistols got their name from their manager, Malcolm McLaren, who was trying to promote his clothing store, Sex.
Mott the Hoople was taken from a 1966 novel of the same name written by Willard Manus. "Hoople” is a slang term for a ne’er-do-well.
The Mothers Of Invention was put together by the Verve record label because 'The Mothers' was too close to Mother***kers
Little Feat got its name from Lowell George's former bandmate Jimmy Carl Black when both were in The Mothers of Invention. Jimmy would tease Lowell about his 'Little Feet'.
MC5, is Motor City Five
The "Grateful Dead" name was chosen from a dictionary. According to Phil Lesh, Garcia "picked up an old Britannica World Language Dictionary ... [and] ... he said to me, 'Hey, man, how about the Grateful Dead?'"
REM literally picked it at random by opening a dictionary also.
Foreigner got their name because 3 of the 6 original members were British, and the other 3 were American. No matter where they played, there would always be a foreigner in the band.
Buddy Holly was the inspiration for the Hollies.
UFO was originally called Hocus Pocus. They changed to UFO after the name of a popular night club.
The drummer, Joey Kramer came up with the name Aerosmith. While listening to Harry Nilsson's album Ariel Ballet, he was looking for words that would be cool to put with Aerial. Nothing. So then he tried Arrow. Arrow Mind, Arrow Star and more…were dismissed when someone said Arrow Smith.
About 89% of Canada's land area (8,886,356 km2) is Crown land, which may either be federal (41%) or provincial (48%); the remaining 11% is privately owned.
Chat GPT gives better answers in May than it does when people are on a break during December.
Purdue University engineers and the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) are working to make it possible for electric vehicles ranging from tractor-trailers to passenger cars to wirelessly charge while driving on highways.
During the eclipse event on April 8/24 a Delta flight pilot flew in a large loop so that passengers on both sides of the plane got a great view.
In the 8th Century of Ancient Greece Olympians competed stark naked, which included all events, from running and discus to horse racing and wrestling. (Sorry guys, no YouTube matches recorded of women’s volleyball matches back then).
Surely you’ve got to be kidding? The Vatican sent an investigator to determine if the rumor about Shirley Temple being a 30 year old dwarf posing as a child was true.
Postage Stamps were invented so that you could pay in advance for your mail service. Before about 1840, in England, the recipient had to pay to get their mail. The first stamp had an image of Queen Victoria, and has been named the Penny Black. And if you’ve found one in your grandparents attic, they are worth a few hundred dollars to a collector. Queen Victoria referred to Penny Postage in her speech at the opening of Parliament in January 1840. Scientists found that the only ink that couldn't be removed without damaging the stamp was black. So in 1841, the Penny Black stamp was changed to red and was called the Penny Red stamp.
Have you heard about the viral feminist 4B movement that started in 2019 in Korea? The movement is defined by its four foundational principles, each beginning with the Korean word “bi-” which translates to “no”: Bihon (no to heterosexual marriage), Bichulsan (no to childbirth), Biyeonae (no to dating), and Bisekseu (no to sex)
On April 8/24, internet traffic dropped by 40 + percent during the eclipse in states in the path of totality, including Maine, New Hampshire and Ohio, according to Cloudflare.
Costco is selling $200 Million of Gold Bars per month this year.
The Nobel prize was created because the inventor of dynamite, Alfred Nobel, read a mistaken and unflattering obituary that called him “The Merchant of Death”. The reporter got the name wrong. The obituary was supposed to be for a Ludvig Nobel.
The creators of Southpark, - Trey Parker and Matt Stone - are worth more than $1.3 Billion.
The creator of the Simpsons is Matt Groening with a net worth of $600 million.
A lot of English words and phrases were loaned from Chinese merchants interacting with British sailors.” E.g.: chop chop," "no can do," "long time no see," "no pain no gain," and "look see”.
Carly Simon's father, Richard Leo Simon, is the founder and namesake of the Simon & Schuster publishing company.
The value of goods and services provided by coral reefs is estimated at US$2.7 trillion per year, including US$36 billion in coral reef tourism.
In Avon Park, Florida, an innovative orange tree, hidden within a high-wire fence and guarded round-the-clock, promised to transform the orange industry with its continuous fruit production. Despite its eight years of prolific yield, its significance remained unknown until 1923, when efforts began to propagate it for widespread cultivation.
Bobcats can breed with lynxes to produce blynxes. 10 other animals that can cross breed are:
Liger: male lion and a tigress
Tigon: male tiger and a lioness
Coywolf: coyotes, eastern wolves, gray wolves, and dogs.
Cama: male dromedary camel and a female llama
Zebroids: cross between a zebra and any other equine, usually a horse or a donkey. There are zorses, zonkeys, zonies, and a host of other combinations.
Zeedonk: zebra and a donkey
Whophin: female common bottlenose dolphin with a male false killer whale
Grolar Bears: a grizzly bear and a polar bear
Geep: a cross between a sheep and a goat
Jaglion: a male jaguar and a female lion
The last Grand Duchess of Russia - Olga Alexandrovna - passed away in 1960 in a small Toronto apartment.
On January 30, 2000 Super Bowl XXXIV (34) was played. The St. Louis Rams emerged victorious over the Tennessee Titans, 23 to 16.
It was known as the "Dot-Com Super Bowl" because it featured 14 ads from dot-com companies. The cost was an average of $2.2 million per spot. Of these companies, four are still active, five were bought by other companies, and the remaining five are defunct. These are the ads and how the companies turned out:
In 2023 Americans spent more than $100 billion in state-run lotteries. If that were a company, it would be the ninth-largest company in the world.
It seems like humans account for only half of all web traffic. The rest are bots.
The 1997 movie - Titanic, ended up costing more to produce than it cost to build the Titanic, which was the largest and most luxurious ship at the time, even when adjusted for inflation.
When the Titanic sank, the ship's band played music right until the very end to try to calm passengers, just like in the 1997 movie.
The hangar used to build the Titanic is now a filming location — HBO's hit show "Game of Thrones" was shot there.
O.J. Simpson died recently owing more than $100 million to the family of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson following a wrongful death lawsuit in 1997, an attorney for the Goldman family has said.
The Top 5 Busiest Airports in the World:
Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport
104.6 million passengers in 2023Dubai Airport
87 million passengers in 2023Dallas Fort Worth International Airport
81.75 million passengers in 2023London's Heathrow Airport
79.18 million passengers in 2023Tokyo's Haneda Airport
78.72 million passengers in 2023
You can get a sunburn on your eyes. An eye sunburn is called photokeratitis. And it happens because UV rays can damage and burn the eye surface. Eye sunburn feels like there is sand in your eyes. It can be very uncomfortable, and usually lasts just 1 to 3 days. If you burn your eyes, stay out of the sun. There are over the counter medications that can give relief. The best way to avoid this is to wear sunglasses that can completely block out UVA and UVB rays. Search for UV blocking sunglasses.
Nearly one in five cars sold in 2023 was electric. Electric car sales neared 14 million in 2023. 95% of which were in China, Europe and the United States.
The Parker Solar Probe is the fastest man-made object ever. But for a time, that title was held by a manhole cover launched by a nuclear weapon, in 1959. It was also the first manmade object ever launched into space. When the cover went through the Earth's atmosphere it was travelling so fast that it didn’t burn up - 125,000 miles per hour. For perspective, rockets leaving Earth bound for space have to travel at 17,400 miles per hour. It is currently still travelling somewhere in space. (The fastest manmade object ever was a manhole cover launched by nuke).
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