Curious Mind Blowing Facts - 15
Will Make You Say 'No Way'
Dropbox CEO says employees appreciate remote work more than cushy office perks.
The 4 main worldwide LEGO factories produce 30,000 bricks per minute and operate 24/7 for the entire year. That is more than 15,768,000,000 per year.
Adolf Hitler was obsessed with his teenage half-niece, Geli Raubal, (sometimes known as Angela Raubal) making her a virtual prisoner in his home and perhaps his lover. In September 1931 Geli planned to escape to Vienna to continue her singing lessons but Hitler forbade her. A few days later on 18 September 1931 Geli was found dead in Hitler’s Munich apartment from a gunshot wound to the lung. She was just 23 years old. Hitler later declared that Raubal was the only woman he had ever loved, according to American historian William L. Shirer.
in 2001, a 13-year-old Boy Scout named Cody Clawson went missing for over 18 hours near Yellowstone Park. Clawson resorted to using his belt buckle to signal to planes overhead. Eventually, he got a pilot’s attention - and that pilot was none other than Harrison Ford - who rescued Clawson.
General Foods Corporation marketed Tang, a fruit flavored powdered drink, in 1959. Sales were poor until NASA selected it for use on John Glenn's 1962 Mercury flight and subsequent missions.
Of the total 10 humans currently in space (as of April 18/24, https://whoisinspace.com/) - 2 are named Tang
Vincent van Gogh was in love with his widowed cousin. He held his hand in the flame of a lamp in front of his uncle and pleaded to him: "Let me see her for as long as I can keep my hand in the flame." The uncle put out the lamp and said: “You shall not see her."
The official name of " Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" was changed to Serbia and Montenegro, in 2003.
Oklahoma City plans to have the U.S.’s tallest skyscraper. The 1,907-foot, mostly residential 'Legends Tower' would be the sixth tallest in the world.
The Cannonball Run are street racing enthusiasts who challenge themselves to go from New York to Los Angeles as quickly as possible. In May 2020, a new mark was established: 25 h 39 min, at an average speed of 177 km/h (!), in a car disguised as a police car. (Link to a Canadian version: https://urbania.ca/article/traverser-le-canada-le-plus-vite-possible-bienvenue-dans-lunivers-du-cannonball-run)
If you have a Brother, Epson or Canon home office color printer, you know the ink is expensive. Well it's the most expensive liquid on the planet. Standard black ink is 70¢ per milliliter. You know what that is in dollars per gallon? $16,218 per gallon.
Tigers have marks that look like eyes on the back of their ears so they usually won’t get attacked from the back.
In a little more than two years, Amazon has installed more than 17,000 chargers at about 120 warehouses around the U.S. It is now the Largest Private EV Charging Operator in the US. Amazon says it has 10,000 Rivian electric vans in its delivery fleet. The price of the 2024 Rivian Commercial Van costs between $86,325 and $90,325 depending on the trim and options.
There are over 20,000 species of edible plants in the world, but only 20 make up 90% of humans' food.
Just 15 percent of discarded clothing and textiles in the U.S. are collected for reuse or recycling. And to add insult to injury, data from the Environmental Protection Agency shows that in the U.S., the average person discards more than 100 pounds of textiles each year.
Jeff Bezos convinced his siblings to invest $10K each in his online startup called Amazon. Their stake is now worth over $1B.
The Back button is now only the 3rd most-used feature on the Web.
Users will read about 20% of the text on the average page.
The solution to getting someone to do something for you is fairly simple. By slapping the words "or someone you know" onto a request, you nudge the person you're asking to consider if passing you along to one of their connections might be the best way to help. At the same time, the super low-key language makes clear that your contact is under no obligation to pass your request along, eliminating any potential awkwardness.
According to https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php the UNITED ARAB EMIRATES has the most powerful passport in the world. With it you could travel to 134 Countries Visa Free, 45 countries let you get a Visa upon arrival (Visitors do not need to apply for a travel Visa beforehand), and 19 Countries require a Visa (Visa required means that travellers must apply for a Visa to the country before actually travelling there).
The best time on an analog clock is 6:30 - hands down.
There are nearly 4,000 religions around the world. About three quarters of the people follow one of the four main faiths which include Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism: in order of popularity.
The Denver International Airport is known as DEN. It is the largest airport in the Western Hemisphere by land area and the second largest on Earth, behind King Fahd International Airport. It operates on 53 square miles (34,000 acres, or 137.8 square kilometers) of land. That means DEN's area is twice the size of Manhattan, and larger than the city boundaries of Boston, Miami or San Francisco.
Bee hive theft is a big problem in North America. It's hurting beekeepers who lose their hives and it is causing problems for plants and animals. When hives are stolen, it messes up the job of bees in pollinating plants. This means less fruit, veggies, and other crops grow properly. Also, it's making bee numbers drop, which is already a big problem.
There is a great single Banyan tree in India. It is 3.5 acres in size, its is 80 feet tall, and is more than 250 years old.
Cigarette butts are the most common type of trash found everywhere in the world. Around 4.5 trillion of them are thrown away every year. That’s 4.5 million - millions. It can take anywhere from 5 to 400 years for one butt to break down completely.
Pirates would patch one eye in order to help their eyes adjust more quickly between the bright ship deck and the dark below decks, so their vision was always adjusted for the darkness. Not because they lost an eye fighting. Arrrg.
And there were many women pirates. In fact one of the most powerful pirates in history was a woman, named Madame Ching. She commanded more than 300 ships with anywhere between 20,000 to 40,000 men obeying her orders. She was co-commander with her husband until he died. In 1801 she led the pirate fleet known as the Red Flag Fleet until 1810.
“Gangnam Style” is still the highest ranking K-Pop song ever on Billboard.
~Excerpt From ‘10x Is Easier Than 2x’ book by Dan Kennedy:
“At age 17, Michelangelo became fixated with secretly obtaining and dissecting human cadavers. Violating a corpse” was a crime punishable by death in Florence, Italy, in 1493.
“And if one were willing to risk it? How could it be gone about? Watch the poverty fields for burials?” he asked an elderly friend, Marsilio Ficino, whose father had been a prominent doctor. Ficino could not believe what he was hearing. “My dear young friend, you cannot conceive of yourself as a grave robber.”
But Michelangelo was desperate.
Indeed, he would rob graves to get bodies if he could find no other option.
Learning anatomy was essential to his aim.”
Steve Jobs typed this letter to a fan. who had requested his autograph. (the letter ended up selling at auction for $400,000):
Kelp is one of the fastest growing organisms on the planet. In a single growing season, it can grow to over 100 feet in length, starting from the size of a microscopic spore.
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Do you compile these yourself or is it pre-curated and you are sharing? Of course my favorite one would be the punniest one: The best time of day is 6:30, hands down!
...give me some time with that tree...what a beaut...