Curious Mind Blowing Facts - 5
will make you say "No Way"...
Not a traveller? We don’t feel it, but our planet spins at 1,000 miles per hour. And Earth is traveling through space at 67,000 miles per hour. We travel more than 1.6 million miles through space in one day.
“Stewardesses” is the longest word that is typed with just the left hand.
Just 5% of the universe is observable matter.
There are 16,300 Starbucks in the U.S. There are approximately 400,000 Churches. About 30% (100 million) of US adults go to church once a week. Starbucks serves an average of 4 million customers a day.
Why the cursor changed into a tilted arrow from a straight up pointer? It was found that, given the low resolution of the screens in the early days, drawing a straight line (left edge of arrow) and a line at a 45 degree angle (right edge of arrow) was easier to do and more recognizable than the straight cursor.
A single cloud can weight more than a million pounds.
Who hasn’t felt Schadenfreude (shawd-en-froy-da)? It’s when we feel good about someone else’s misfortunes.
The opposite of Schadenfreude is Freudenfreude.
Freudenfreude (froy-din-froy-da) is the sense of happiness we feel when others succeed. Won’t you agree with me that the world needs a bit more freudenfreude?
Lululemon founder Chip Wilson chose the name because it has 3 “L’s” in it. The Japanese don’t use the L in their language. The name Lululemon brought uniqueness and authenticity for the Canadian brand to the Japanese, especially the younger Gen Z and Millenials.
Chip Wilson now owns 20% of the parent company (Amer Sports) that owns Wilson Sports brand. Wilson Sporting Goods makes equipment and clothing for many sports - badminton, American football, basketball, fastpitch softball, golf, racquetball, soccer, squash, tennis, pickleball and volleyball.
Ransomware payments in 2023 reached over $1.1 billion, the highest annual total ever recorded.
Snoop Dogg and Master P's Broadus Foods is suing Walmart and Post Foods, alleging that the companies "collaborated to prevent" their flagship Snoop Cereal "from reaching consumers." Mr. Dogg’s real name is Calvin Broadus and Master P’s is Percy Miller.
There is a pet detective who has tracked down and returned 330 lost dogs to their incredibly grateful owners using a drone and thermal imaging. She does it for free. (https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/shes-a-pet-detective-whos-tracked-down-and-reunited-330-lost-dogs-with-owners-for-free-using-thermal-imaging/)
Maine is the only state with one syllable.
Los Angeles’ full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula.”
The average price of a 2024 Super Bowl ticket was $12,240.
You can’t hum while you’re pinching your nose. I’ll wait…
Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation claimed in 2017 that "half of all American films made before 1950 and over 90% of films made before 1929 are lost forever".
Martin Cooper - the inventor of the cell phone told the amusing story of the very first public cell phone call, which made use of two cell towers that had been set up in New York for demonstration to the press:
“The first public cellular call was made in New York. I was walking down the street in New York with a reporter, and we wanted to demonstrate the phone, and I thought a dramatic thing to do was to call my counterpart at AT&T, Joel Engel, who was running the AT&T cellular program. They were really antagonists, if you think about it. They wanted to have a monopoly. We wanted to have competition. So I dial the phone and Joel answered the phone. And I said, “Hi, Joel. It's Marty Cooper.” He said, “Hi, Marty.” I said, “I'm calling you from a cell phone. But a real cell phone. A personal, handheld portable cell phone.” And there was silence at the other end of the line, and I suspect he was gritting his teeth, and to this day Joel doesn't remember that conversation. But I'm telling you that it really happened.”
An ostrich’s brain is smaller than its eye.
Men stopped wearing hats in 1959 - The construction of highways that crossed the entire country underscored the reality that, by this time, cars had become a way of life.
So, with the advent of highways, there were even more cars and car travel occurring. Now roofs were low enough that hat-wearing became less prevalent, and because hats were less commonly worn, roof heights could get even lower.
Japan loves Kit Kat candy bars and creates unique flavors for different cities, regions, and even seasons. There are more than 200 flavors.
In the Philippines, McDonald’s serves spaghetti.
The world’s oldest dog lived to 29.5 years old. His name was Bluey.
The world’s oldest cat lived to 38 years old, named Creme Puff.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
An average horse exerts around 15 horsepower.
A blob of toothpaste on its brush is called a nurdle.
What you talking’ about…? The building formerly known as the Sears Tower in Chicago is now called the Willis Tower. From that tower you can see 4 states - Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin.
The creation of Google images was inspired by Jennifer Lopez. After she wore her infamous green dress at the 2000 Grammys, the search engine added the function because so many people were looking for pictures of her outfit!
All Froot Loops colors are the same flavor.
The unicorn is Scotland’s national animal.
Avocados are fruits, not veggies.
When the iron heats up in the summer, the Eiffel tower can be up to 15 centimeters (6 inches) taller due to thermal expansion.
January 2024 was the hottest January ever measured.
Scientists are studying stars that have already died. They came into existence, went through their entire life cycle (taking billions of years), and exploded - all before we ever even saw they existed because the light when they were first born hadn’t gotten to us yet.
There's more gold in the sun than water in our oceans.
The human brain is an incredibly complex organ, containing around 86 billion neurons. It generates electrical signals that create our thoughts, emotions, and consciousness. And yet I ask myself And why did I come into this room?”
This fellow spent some time with Gene Cernan, the Apollo 17 astronaut who was the last guy to walk on the Moon. He told him two things that he couldn’t stop telling people:
the Earth is round in space like a ball, not flat looking like the Moon is to us. He said while looking up from the lunar surface, the Earth just hung there, like a grapefruit that he could almost grab if he just jumped high enough. Could see the weather change too.
because of the smaller size of the Moon, not only is it’s curve very visible, the apparent horizon is also much closer so he said there were moments where if he ran too fast or jumped too high he felt like he was going to fall off.
If you get a bone marrow transplant, your blood type can change. Even if your donor is a "100% match," they don't match on blood type because it doesn't matter. Once the new marrow sets up shop in your bones it'll start producing whatever type the donor had. This is not a problem for you because it's also making your entire immune system, so you can't have a reaction to the "foreign" blood.
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"There's more gold in the sun than water in our oceans." - All of the discovered gold on earth can fit inside a cube 25 yards on each side. Doesn't seem that much, but gold is heavy and dense. A basketball court is 31.3 yards long.
...men stopped wearing hats in 1959!...what am i doing with my head!!!...