Curious Mind Blowing Facts - 6
will make you say "No Way"...From sources across the web
“The price of monkeys has gone through the roof.”
How I Find Facts and Links for "One Thing", and "Mind Blowing Facts"
Author Roald Dahl swore by this advice he learned from Ernest Hemingway:
“I never come back to a blank page; I always finish about halfway through. Hemingway taught me the finest trick : “When you are going good, stop writing.” You don’t go on writing and writing until you come to the end of it, because when you do, then you say, well, where am I going to go next? You make yourself stop and you walk away. And you can’t wait to get back because you know what you want to say next.
72% of Gen Z's time on social media is spent watching videos.
The first telephone directory, consisting of a single piece of cardboard, was issued on 21 February 1878; it listed 50 individuals, businesses, and other offices in New Haven, Connecticut that had telephones.
Freddie Mercury used a piano as a headboard for his bed so that he could play tunes that came to him in his dreams.
U.S. researchers had been forced to change or abandon projects because of difficulty obtaining monkeys. China, which supplied more than half of the 70,000 research monkeys used annually in the U.S., stopped exporting them in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since then, “The price of monkeys has gone through the roof.” Prices were $7000 per animal a few years ago, but they now cost about $20,000.
Are you like more than half of American adults who still have their childhood teddy bear?
All of the discovered gold on earth can fit inside a cube 23 yards on each side. (thanks to - https://substack.com/@jamesron)
Ethiopia’s Transport and Logistics Ministries have announced that automobiles cannot enter Ethiopia, unless they are electric.
People carry an average of 13 secrets.
The first recorded UFO sighting occurred in 1639 near present-day Boston and was recorded that same year by John Winthrop, the governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. His journal entry dated March 1st gives a detailed account of the strange events that set New England abuzz.
Your fingerprints can be recreated from the sounds made when you swipe on a touchscreen — Researchers claim the hack can successfully attack up to 27.9% of partial fingerprints and 9.3% of complete fingerprints within five attempts.
Nasa stopped painting its shuttles' fuel tank because the white paint added about 600 pounds of weight.
31% of U.S. adults say they would favor a nationwide ban on TikTok, while 35% would oppose it. TikTok is owned by a Chinese IT company named Byte Dance. On the other hand, nobody would ban TicTac Mint Candies. It’s parent company is Ferrero - from Italy.
Butter Tarts, California Sushi Rolls, Canola Oil, the Donair, Hawaiinan Pizza, The Macintosh apple, Peanut Butter, Pizza Pops were invented in Canada.
As were the IMax movie system, Java programming language, the 56k modem, AM broadcasting, Newsprint paper, the Telephone, the Pager, and the Walkie-talkie.
As was Baseball, Basketball, Hockey, Ringette, Lacrosse, Five-pin bowling. Oh Canada! 🇨🇦
Have you heard of Westarctica? It’s a micronation with its own flag, currency, and Grand Duke. It has an area of about 620,000 miles² and is in Antarctica. (https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/westarctica-the-micronation-with-a-real-world-purpose)
Bookkeeping/bookkeeper ... the only word(s) in the English language with three consecutive double letters. (Thanks, Jim!)
The fear of long words is called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
Sir Isaac Newton's explanation of gravitation covers six pages but the schoolboy's terse and homely “What goes up must come down” clinches the whole thing in six words.
1440 is a wildly successful and subscribed to newsletter. Started in 2017 and now has 3.4 million subscribers. 1440 is the number of minutes in a day.
The NYT “The Morning” newsletter has over 17 million subscribers.
Men get breast cancer. In Canada around 200 per year can get it. I was one of the 200 in 2019. Please get regular examinations for breast cancer. Men, and women. Women are starting to discover it in their 40’s more often than before.
The EU: In 2021 more than 95% of Romanians, and 92% of Slovakians owned their own homes, as opposed to renting. While just under 50% of Germans owned their homes. In Switzerland, just 42% were owners.
Research Suggests Certain Mushrooms Talk to Each Other. It appears some species have a vocabulary of around 50 "words." And a gorilla named Koko could use a vocabulary of more than 1,000 signs.
Ernest Vincent Wright managed to write a 50,000 word novel called Gadsby without using the letter 'e'. (<This last sentence has 11 e’s). The letter "E" appears in more than 11 percent of all English words.
Stop Closing Your iPhone’s Background Apps - We all perform this iPhone maintenance ritual, but it's a mythical waste of time that's been around for years.
McDonald's sells a McToast sandwich in Ukraine and other countries that consists of sliced cheese between two upside-down buns.
Animals that have blue blood include octopus, squid, and horseshoe crabs. The reason why these animals have blue blood is because of hemocyanin, a copper-rich protein present in their blood, while animals with red blood including humans have hemoglobin, an iron-containing protein responsible for the red color.
Canusa Street is the only part of the CA-US border that runs down the middle of a street. One side of the street is in Vermont, USA and the other in Quebec, Canada
Do you seem to get more creative thoughts in the shower? The warm water increases the flow of dopamine and makes us more creative.
In 1530 a letter from British nobles was delivered to Pope Clement VII to grant King Henry VIII an annulment so he could marry Anne Boleyn. The pope refused but the King went ahead anyway and got married, breaking with Rome. And thus the birth of the Anglican Church.
There’s a small Nebraska town called Monowi that has only one resident, 90 year old Elsie Eiler. Elsie votes for herself for Mayor, and pays herself taxes. She is also the town librarian - that she build with her husband’s book collection after he passed away in 2004. (https://ironicsans.beehiiv.com/p/us-census-wrong-purpose)
In the early 1900’s, Proctor and Gamble was one of the world’s most profitable companies with revenues of more than 80 billion dollars. They would advertise detergents, soaps and household cleaning products to housewives during the commercial breaks in daytime television programs. These very dramatic, serial instalments of shows became known as “soap operas”.
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This issue is like opening a digital Cracker Jack box — each fact is a surprise, and some hit deeper than expected. The Freddie Mercury piano headboard, the iPhone background app myth, and the birth of the Anglican Church all in one scroll? Beautifully bizarre. Also, thank you for the gentle but important reminder about men and breast cancer — powerful personal share amidst the fun. You strike that rare balance between curiosity, humor, and humanity. Keep ‘em coming. 👏🧠
Lol I love how you captioned the shower pic with "not me." 😂 Noted!
I always thought shower ideas happened because of sensory deprivation. In there, all we can hear and feel is water. No distractions.