Curious Mind Blowing Facts - 25

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F1 driver’s position.

The 24 Hours of Le Mans race is an annual auto race where teams of three take turns behind the wheel for 24 hours. On the team that came in second place in 1979 was actor Paul Newman.

Christopher Columbus’s ship La Niña was only 50 feet long, and none of his three ships—Niña, Pinta, or Santa Maria—was greater than 60 feet long. That’s less than 4 average American cars. 

Mike Tyson has a tattoo of tennis great Arthur Ashe. And Che Guevara, and Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong.

Jonah Hill officiated Adam Levine’s wedding to model Behati Prinsloo in 2014. Yes, they are still married. He also came up with a joke: “The joke I wrote was like, ‘Adam and I grew up together. It’s so nice to see all the people we grew up skateboarding with ― like Gene Hong (Writer/Producer (Magnum P.I., Lethal Weapon, Bones), Stevie Nicks and Robert Downey Jr,” he said. “I was giving him shit because he had really famous people at his wedding.” Hill considers Levine an older brother.

For $10 you can buy a “mouse jiggler” to fool your bosses software into thinking you are doing work in your remote location. Here’s a description in an Amazon listing - and your company won’t detect ‘anyting’:

YouTube is the most used podcast listening platform in the U.S.: 31% say it is the platform they use the most, followed by Spotify (21%) and Apple (12%)

North Korea law specifies 'three generations of punishment'. If you commit a crime, your children and grandchildren will also receive the full brunt of punishment, which often involves a lifetime in prison. Children born in prison are raised as prisoners because their “blood is guilty”.

Wyoming is home to the most billionaires per capita in the entire U.S.

If you are thinking that house prices in North America are too high, you can move to Japan, and buy a house for cheap! There are millions of homes for sale in Japan for unbelievable prices. https://www.fastcompany.com/91153794/japan-affordable-housing-akiya and https://www.akiya-mart.com/

The closest planet to Earth?
Common sense would say the answer is either Mars or Venus, our next-door neighbors. Of the two, Venus comes closer to the Earth than any other planet, and its orbit is closest to ours. But over half the time Venus is not the nearest planet;
Mercury is. In fact, the scientists behind the article crunched the numbers and found that on average, Mercury is also the closest planet to every other planet in the solar system as well. (https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/solar-system/a26839314/closest-planet-to-earth-on-average/).

In 1941 the US produced over 3 million civilian cars. After joining the War, only 139 were made throughout the remainder of the War. The manufacturers built tanks and airplanes instead.

Since the United States Post Office settled on two-letter abbreviations in October 1963, there has only been one change. So the state would not be confused with New Brunswick, Canada, in 1969 Nebraska’s abbreviation was changed from NB to NE.

Bob Seger’s only #1 single is “Shakedown” on the Beverly Hills Cop II soundtrack.

Joe Montana, Ronnie Lott and other members of the San Francisco 49ers are singing the backup vocals on the Huey Lewis and the News hit song “Hip To Be Square” from 1986

Hurricane names get reused every couple of years until they are retired (typically due to a significant storm). For example - until Katrina was retired in 2005, a Katrina occurred in 1967, 1971, 1975, 1981, 1998, and 1999. Here are the storm names for the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season. These names can be applied to hurricanes, tropical storms and other systems that originate in the Atlantic Ocean:
Alberto, Beryl, Chris, Debby, Ernesto, Francine, Gordon, Helene, Isaac ,Joyce, Kirk, Leslie, Milton, Nadine, Oscar, Patty, Rafael, Sara, Tara, Valerie, and William. There are six alphabetical lists of names that are rotated through every six years, so the names that are used in 2024 will be used again in 2030. The last time this list was used was in 2018.

There is an alligator at Gatorland in Florida missing half of its top jaw. After rehab they named her Jawlene as a nod to Dolly Parton and she is doing well.

As you are reading this, 56 million people in the world are drunk! 

An overwhelming 99% of U.S. households now subscribe to at least one or more streaming services, with Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV+ topping the charts. 

Spotify data said that our most played songs are from our teenage years. Girls from when they were 13, and guys from when they were 14. I concur. I was 14 and a grade 9 student in 1970. A playlist from the 1970’s:

A major league baseball: Whether it is due to a ball going out of the park, getting dirty or damaged, it has been said that a single MLB ball only lasts six-to-seven pitches.

A jiffy is a real unit of time – 1/100th of a second to be precise.

AI-generated influencer Kenza Layli has been unveiled as the world's first AI beauty pageant winner:

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and two other groups looked into how some websites and apps use tricky designs called “dark patterns.” These designs can make people give away their privacy or buy things they didn’t really want. Or make it too difficult to cancel a subscription by trickery.
They studied 642 websites and apps that offer subscriptions and found that most of them (about 76%) used at least one of these tricky designs. Nearly 67% of them used more than one.
Despicable practice. (https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/10/ftc-study-finds-dark-patterns-used-by-a-majority-of-subscription-apps-and-websites/)

UPS, which deploys some 135,000 vehicles on the road every day, uses routing software designed to avoid left turns wherever possible.

Babies are born without kneecaps. There is some cartilage, but the kneecaps don’t develop until around 6 months of age. So you better figure out another way to get them to pay your $500 back…😮

There are a lot of people on Reddit that insist that they listen to episodes of the Frasier show to fall asleep to. Here are all the episodes in MP3 format: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hB84d_JeT4gldKUBqbATYeSs3QMrWv27

93 percent of the world’s ships are built by China, South Korea, and Japan. The United States accounts for 0.13 percent.

Chuck Norris got mad at the dinosaurs…once.

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