Curious Mind Blowing Facts - 17

That will make you say "No Way"

iPhone prediction before I was born, Spokane Chronicle from April, 1953:

63 percent of Americans want regulation to actively prevent superintelligent AI, a new poll reveals.

Police don’t demand a 24-hour period before accepting a missing persons report.

There are actually no genes ‘for’ specific characteristics, esp. not psychological ones.

The world’s shortest escalator is found in Kawasaki, Japan. It has only 5 steps.

Vikings’ horned helmets were created by a costume designer for a 19th-century Wagner opera.

In the U.S. a Guardian-Harris survey found that 49% of respondents think the S&P 500 index is down for the year. In reality, stocks have been ripping: The S&P 500 is up 13% this year on top of a 24% gain last year. (May/2024)

Common senses. The five senses are the five main tools that humans use to perceive the world. Those senses are sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. 

But there are more:

• Dynamic equilibrium (body motion)

• Static equilibrium (body position or orientation)

• Light touch

• Heavy touch

• Texture

• Pressure

• Stretch

• Fast pain

• Slow pain

• Somatic pain

• Visceral pain

• Blood chemistry

• Common chemical sense

• Cold

• Heat

• Vibration

• Proprioception

• Hair movements

The most common passwords according to 20 top data breaches:
123456
password
12345678
|1234
qwerty
12345
123123
dragon
baseball
1234567890
football
696969
1234567
monkey
111111
abc123
mustang
michael
shadow
master
jennifer
Here are hundreds more: https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/top-500-passwords-visualized/

Military Spending in 2023:

The Last Crumb Cookie Company sell their cookies for 12 for $140. USD for the “Core Collection” and 12 for $160.  for the “Premium Collection”. OH… they made a “luxe black box” to deliver these in, so there’s that.

38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later.

54% of Wikipedia pages contain at least one link in their “References” section that points to a page that no longer exists.

Ed Dwight, was selected for NASA training in 1961, but the first Black astronaut candidate for the U.S. never got the chance to travel to space — until now. Today, May 19/24, Dwight reached the edge of space as part of the 25th flight for the Blue Origin company — more than 60 years after he was first selected. At 90 years old, Dwight is the oldest person to travel to space.

TikTok is the #1 source for financial information among Canadian users under the age of 45 in social and video platforms.

In 2022 Taylor Swift Made History as the First Artist With the Entire Top 10 on Billboard Hot 100 chart.  Last month she repeated and expanded upon that feat with songs from “The Tortured Poets Department,” which filled the top 14 spots on the singles chart. 

Night of the Living Dead director George A. Romero got his start making short films for Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.

Continents shift at about the same rate as your fingernails grow.

California has more people than Canada.

Russia spans 11 time zones.

China has a strong foothold in the supply chain of Rare Earth Metals and produced 85% of the world’s refined rare earths in 2020.

The 17 rare earth elements are: lanthanum (La), cerium (Ce), praseodymium (Pr), neodymium (Nd), promethium (Pm), samarium (Sm), europium (Eu), gadolinium (Gd), terbium (Tb), dysprosium (Dy), holmium (Ho), erbium (Er), thulium (Tm), ytterbium (Yb), lutetium (Lu), scandium (Sc), and yttrium (Y). Uses:

Ramjit Raghav is the oldest man to father a child. He welcomed his first child into the world in 2010 at the ripe old age of 94 years. He had his second child at 96. Ramjet died in February 2020 at age 104 years. Actor Anthony Quinn fathered his last child at 81 years old.

Elon Musk’s dad, Errol was well to do himself. He said in an interview “We had so much money at times we couldn’t even close our safe”. He was an engineer and imported emeralds into South Africa, and sold them around the world.

THE MOST MYSTERIOUS SONG ON THE INTERNET: It was recorded from a German radio station around 1983. No one has been able to give any accurate information about the origin of the song. Facts like the band's nationality and exact year of recording are unknown, and to this day, we have not gotten any information about the whereabouts of the authors, or even the correct title of the song. Maybe

Front Row & Backstage

knows?

The lowest natural temperature ever directly recorded at ground level on Earth is −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F) at the then-Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica on 21 July 1983 by ground measurements.

Indian people own more property in London than the English themselves.

On April 1, 1974, in Sitka, Alaska, residents saw smoke from Mount Edgecumbe, suggesting an eruption. A closer investigation revealed 70 burning tires and "APRIL FOOL" in the snow, all part of a prank.

Hummingbirds are the smallest living birds in the world, of which the bee hummingbird is the smallest at two inches. They can fly forward, backward, up, down, and in zigzags. Hummingbird plumage has more colours than all other bird species combined. Hmmm

5 year fast food price changes in the U.S:

DHL Group now operates over 35,000 electric vehicles for collection and delivery globally. That’s 38% of their overall fleet.

If you hear "Stars and Stripes Forever" at a circus, you better run toward the exits. Circuses use the song as a way to alert employees that there's a disaster afoot, and they won't play the song at any other times.

Each color in a roll of Smarties candy has its own flavor, and green is strawberry.

Piper aircraft is a state-owned firm owned by Brunei government.

Chuck Norris was an Air Force security policeman in 1958, and learned martial arts while stationed in South Korea. Returning to California he tried to become a police officer but didn’t suceed. He did have great success opening karate schools and participating in competitions. Celebrity clients at his schools included Steve and Chad McQueen, Bob Barker, Priscilla Presley, Donny and Marie Osmond. 

In an interview with Norris about the jokes, he said he loves them. The interviewer asked if he was fast enough to run around the earth a punch himself in the back of the head.
"No. I'd hear myself coming."
-Chuck Norris knows Victoria's Secret. 
-Chuck Norris once made fire by rubbing two ice cubes together.

There were twelve dogs on the Titanic. Only three of them survived. 

Medical bankruptcies are mostly unheard of outside of the United States. Around 67% of bankruptcies in America are due to high medical bills. 

The number of Crayola crayon colors doubles every 28 years.

and apparently get stubbier…

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