Curious Mind Blowing Facts - 3
will make you say "No Way"...
Beetles (Order Coleoptera) are known to include someΒ 350,000 described species. In the United States, there are nearly 30,000 kinds of beetles known.Β
βHow high can a tree on a comet grow? The answer is surprising. On any celestial body whose diameter is of the order of ten miles or less, the force of gravity is so weak that a tree can grow out for hundreds of miles, collecting the energy of sunlight from an area thousands of times as large as the area of the comet itself. Seen from far away, the comet will look like a small potato sprouting an immense growth of stems and foliage. When man comes to live on the comets, he will find himself returning to the arboreal existence of his ancestors.β
~ The Starship and the Canoe by Kenneth Brower
Shein and Temu pushed global air cargo demand up 5% YoY in November 2023. The two e-commerce companies supposedly account for 80% of airfreight volume on some days.Β
The rule of 72 is a way to estimate how long it will take for something double. So, if your newsletter sign-ups are growing by 5% each week, they will take roughly 14 weeks (72Γ·5) to double, assuming you donβt have any churn.
Mushrooms and truffles are fungi, more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
Walking 10,000 steps per day may have originated when a Japanese pedometer manufacturer noticed that the δΈ symbol (which means 10,000) looks a little like someone walking. Research.
Ted Nugent was asked recently who he thought was the best guitarist ever, and he replied βGlen Campbell.β Ted never drank, or took drugs. His weakness was women. Another interesting tedbit is that he once played a concert so loud in Kansas City that farmers who lived 18 miles away complained.
The gas bags inside hydrogen airships of the 1930s were made from the outer layer of a cowβs intestines. When joined together, the wet living tissues grow together, creating an impermeable bond. The gas bags of the Graf Zeppelin were made from the guts of around half a million cows.
70% of Gen Z viewers tend to watch videos with subtitles.
Your memory resets when you walk through a door, even when that door is on a screen.
Only 28 books sold more than 500,000 copies in the US in 2022. Eight of them were by romance novelist Colleen Hoover.
40% of people shown a photoshopped image of themselves riding in a viking ship as a child claimed to remember the (fictional) incident. History - What do we know for sure?
The world produces 200 times more new computers per second than new humans.
Japanese atom bomb survivors lived five years longer and were less likely to get cancer than average Japanese citizens.Β
In 2021, 2.9 billion people have never used the Internet.Β
In August of 2020 computer scientist, pixel inventor Russell Kirsch died in Portland at age 91. He regretted making pixels square, describing the decision as βsomething very foolish that everyone in the world has been suffering from ever since.β
The iPod in 2001 took just 41 weeks to develop and launch from the very first meeting to iPods shipping to customers.Β
Spit painting is a thing on TikTok. You might not want to check it outβ¦
Vincent van Gogh is considered one of the greatest painters of all time and yet sold only one painting during his life,Β The Red Vineyard.Β Bought by the heiress Anna Boch for 400 francs (then Β£16) four months before his suicide:
A railway train car that carries combustable fuel (oil or a gas) is often called a βbomb trainβ. Twenty two train cars carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG) hold the same energy of the Hiroshima bomb.
Electric Light Orchestra's Number one song in US -
The original lyrics for βDonβt bring me downβ never said Brrrrruce or Bruce.Β They say βgrussββ¦ Now, however they do sing Bruce!
Approximately 99,000 search queries are processed by Google every second, resulting in about 8.5 billion searches daily and roughly 2 trillion global searches annually.
It would take around 181 million years for someone to download all of the data from the internet.
Windsor Ontario, my hometown, has the best pizza in Canada. Itβs across the international Detroit river, which is home to Dominoβs, Little Caesars, and a few other large pizza franchise head offices.
Gail.com website gets millions of visitors a year. Why? visitors simply mistype gmail.com and end up visiting gail.com by mistake. In fact, she doesnβt use a gmail address herself. And the link to her famous cat picture is only found in her website pageβs source code. (The cat is here: https://gail.com/boxcat.jpg):
Musicians:
Some musicians go by just their first names (and sometimes their last name). Cherβs full name is Cherilyn Sarkisian La Piere. Other Mononyms who arenβt fictional characters:Β
Celine,Β Reba,Β Aretha,Β Kanye, Snoop, Madonna, Pharrelle, BeyoncΓ©, Mariah,Β Dolly, Britney, Reba, Whitney, Rihanna, Adele, Elton, Drake, Dre, Prince, Sting, Shakira, Eminem, Elvis, Miley, Shania, Alanis, Ringo, Pink, Seal, Liberace, Tiny Tim, & Little Richardβ¦
Fake belly buttons are temporary tattoo-style stickers. Placed a few inches above your navel, they give the illusion of longer legs. One Chinese reviewer described them as βthe most successful invention of 2023.β
City Names:
-There is a city called East Chicago. It is in Indiana.
-There is also a Kansas City in Missouri.Β
-There is a Hell, and a Climax, in Michigan, Truth or Consequences in New Mexico, Boring inΒ Oregon, Okay in Oklahoma, Good Grief in Idaho,
Last Chance in Iowa, Three Way in Tennessee, Pink in Oklahoma, Bitter End in Tennessee, Booger Hole in West Virginia, Breeding, Kentucky, Carefree in Arizona, Chicken in Alaska, Frankenstein in Missouri, French Lick in Indiana, Hot Coffee in Mississippi, Monkeyβs Eyebrow in Kentucky, No Name in Colorado, Nothing in Arizona, Pee Pee in Ohio, Poverty in Kentucky, Romance in Arkansas, Slaughterville in Oklahoma, Success in Missouri, Why in Arizona, Whynot in North Carolina, and Zzyzx in California
-Texas has a bunch of cool city names: Cool, Uncertain, Canadian, Bangs, China, Bigfoot, Cut and Shoot, Coke County, Ding Dong, Earth, and Wealthy.
-Weird Canadian City/Town names:
- Climax in SK, Eyebrow in SK, Mosquito Grizzly Bears Head Lean Man in SK, Punkeydoodles Corners in Ontario, Dildo in NL, Stoner B.C, Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in AB, Blow Me Down in NL, and Balls Creek and Sober Island in Nova Scotia.
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What the fucking hell?
Youβre right--mind officially blown!
Thank you (I think).
I've never been to Zzyzx, California.
I don't know Whynot (North Carolina).