Curious Mind Blowing Facts - 18
They may make you say "No Way!"
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Before erasers were invented, people used bread to remove pencil marks.
In Italy, last names in the north usually end in “i” and those from the south end in “o”.
An 11-year-old invented the Popsicle by accident.
50 authors across the publishing industry sold more than 500,000 books in a single year. ~ Madeline Mcintosh, CEO, Penguin Random House.
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NVIDIA holds a 95% share of the AI chip market and is bigger than Tesla and Amazon combined. It’s even bigger than the German stock market. Nvidia's market capitalization of $2.8 trillion is just 3% shy of Apple's $2.9 trillion valuation and 11% shy of Microsoft's $3.2 trillion. (May 2024)
*Update June 5/24:
Nvidia closes above $3 trillion for the first time and overtakes Apple as the second-largest company in the US market.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Baby carrots are just regular carrots that have been shaved down to the bite-size pieces we see bagged in stores.
The Most Successful Hollywood Movie? It is Avatar. James Cameron’s 2010 masterpiece grossed close to $3bn worldwide, very closely followed by Avengers: End Game at $2.8bn.
Collective Animal Names:
A group of wildebeest is called a confusion.
A conspiracy of lemurs
A dazzle of zebras
A bloat of hippos
A tower of giraffes
A skulk of foxes
A destruction of wild cats
A coterie of groundhogs
A crash of rhinos
A cry of hounds
A kindle of kittens
A parade of elephants
A prickle of hedgehogs (and porcupines)
A business of ferrets
A team of pigs
Bonus: A group of clowns is sometimes called a giggle.
The city of Melbourne was earlier called as “Batmania”.
Ketchup originated in China as a spiced pickeled fish sauce known as ke-chiap.
The word for the ‘Infinity’ symbol (∞) is “Lemniscate”.
When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less.
The Eiffel Tower and Nintendo Co. are the same age.
Lego makes the most tires in the world.
The first 1080p video on YouTube was muppets singing the Queen song - Bohemian Rhapsody.
Dreamt is the only word in the English language that ends with "mt.”
1 teaspoon of honey is the lifework of 12 bees.
Your ears and nose are connected to your tear ducts.
You have seen, and picked off those little stickers on fruit. Did you know those stickers are edible and United States FDA approved to ingest? Even the glue used to stick them to the fruit or vegetable is edible. The US FDA classifies the pressure-sensitive adhesive as an indirect food additive.
A kiwi contains more vitamin C than an orange.
Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes ask “Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?”
Compared to coffee, apples can deliver a more healthy energy boost due to their high levels of Boron.
Pumpkin seeds have more protein than the same amount of ground beef.
The red food dye used in Skittles is made from boiled beetles.
"SPAM" is short for spiced ham.
Apples, pears and plums belong to the rose family.
Famous uncredited phone callers into the “Frasier” show after Frasier starts his talk show conversations with the catch phrase "I'm listening," :
Patricia Hearst
Tommy Hilfiger
Mary Tyler Moore
Matthew Broderick
Teri Garr
Carrie Fisher
John Lithgow
Kevin Bacon
Christopher Reeve
Ben Stiller
Rosemary Clooney
Mel Brooks
David Duchovny
Gillian Anderson
Bill Paxton
Malcolm McDowell
Joe Mantegna
Gary Sinise
Penny Marshall
Estelle Parsons
Stanley Tucci
Hilary Duff
Men and women have the same number of ribs. Both have 24 ribs, arranged in 12 pairs. The biblical story of Adam and Eve is just a story.
On August 21-23, 1924, all radios in the United States went quiet for five minutes on the hour, every hour, to listen for radio signals or messages from Martians, but none were detected. No guff.
DNA can hold up to 455 exabytes (Or 455 MILLION gigabytes) of data!
The fastest internet speed ever recorded is 319 Tereabits per second (Tbps) in Japan, 2021. This speed is about 7.6 million times faster than the average home internet speed in the US, and would allow for the download of almost 80,000 movies in a single second.
In Bhutan, people don’t know their birthdays. Everyone in the country turns another year older together each January 1st. And cake sales that day are ridiculous:)
Hold my Beer - 3.6% of all current cancer cases worldwide are attributable to drinking alcohol.
Spray paint cans make a weird noise when you shake them. That thing inside is called a pea and it helps to mix the paint and the propellant. The pea is usually made of plastic, metal, or glass and helps the mix the paint before spraying.
Until 1956, French children attending school were served wine on their lunch breaks. Each child was allowed up to a half litre a day.
Proverbs from around the world:
Every fire is the same size when it starts. — Seneca, North America
Youth is intoxication without wine; old age, wine without intoxication. — Peru
We cannot love that which we do not know. — Guinea
Second thoughts are best. — Greek
Do not propose to a girl whose home you have not seen. — Cameroon
Silence never makes mistakes. — India
Adversity makes men, prosperity monsters. — France
The threshold is the tallest mountain. — Slovenia
Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives. — Spain
Not the mouse is the thief, but the hole in the wall. — Aramaic
Praise does a wise man good but a fool harm. — Italy
A man does not seek his luck; luck seeks its man. — Turkey
He is young enough who has health, and he is rich enough who has no debts. — Denmark
God gives the wine but not the bottle. — Germany
Money likes to be counted. — Russia
Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald. — China
The same number of people have visited the moon as have taken the time to hike the entire Grand Canyon. The number is 12.
There are more monthly Facebook users than there were humans alive in 1950.
And Chuck Norris knows them all by name…
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...give me that wildebeest confusion...
Great list (as usual).
Sorry to disappoint any non-Australians: the ‘Batmania’ suggestion was in honour of John Batman, who was involved in the establishment of the city. There is, though, a place in Melbourne called Gotham City: it’s a brothel 😉