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19/03/2022

Do limes float?
Because limes are denser than lemons, they drop to the bottom of a glass, while lemons float at the top. Out of all these random fun facts, this one’s been in front of our faces (or rather, in our glasses) this whole time! Check out these other things to wonder about that you likely never thought of before.

19/03/2022

Where did the German chocolate cake come from?

The “German” part of German chocolate cake comes from an American man—not a European country. Specifically, it’s named after Sam German, who in 1852 created the formula for a mild dark baking chocolate bar for Baker’s Chocolate Company, which was subsequently named Baker’s German’s Sweet Chocolate. Fast-forward to June 13, 1957. The Dallas Morning Star published the recipe for the cake, invented and submitted by a reader identified as Mrs. George Clay, according to What’s Cooking America.

18/03/2022

How much of the earth's water can humans use?

In school, we were taught that most (specifically, 71 percent) of the planet’s surface is covered in water. While that’s true, humans can use only 0.007 percent of that water, according to National Geographic. That’s because only about 2.5 percent of Earth’s water is fresh water, and only 1 percent of that is accessible. The rest makes up glaciers and snowfields.

18/03/2022

How far are the parts of Africa?

For people whose education was largely focused on the Western world, it may be surprising to find out exactly how huge the continent of Africa is. For instance, it spans all four hemispheres and covers nearly 12 million square miles.

17/03/2022

What is the smallest mammal in the world?

Weighing in at 0.05 to 0.07 ounces, with a head-to-body length of 1.14 to 1.29 inches and a wingspan of 5.1 to 5.7 inches, the bumblebee bat—also known as Kitti’s hog-nosed bat—is the smallest mammal in the world, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. To see this tiny bat for yourself, you’d have to visit one of a select few limestone caves on the Khwae Noi River in Kanchanaburi Province of southwest Thailand.

17/03/2022

How long has the world's oldest wooden wheel existed?

It was found in 2002, approximately 12 miles south of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, and is now housed in the city’s museum. Radiocarbon dating was used to determine the wheel’s age, which is somewhere between 5,100 and 5,350 years old. Closer to home, these are the oldest tourist attractions in every state.

16/03/2022

How long did the first commercial passenger flight last?

In 1914, Abram Pheil paid $400 (which would be $8,500 today) for a 23-minute plane ride. The Florida flight flew between Saint Petersburg and Tampa, where only 21 miles of water separate the cities. Pheil, a former mayor of Saint Petersburg, and the pilot, Tony Jannus, were the only passengers. This momentous flight paved the way for air travel as we know it. Speaking of which, here are some airplane facts you’ve always been curious about.

16/03/2022

Is a lion's roar a trademark?

At the start of any movie made by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio, the iconic lion roars at the audience. While MGM has gone through several iterations of lion mascots, the sound of the roar is always the same. The company trademarked the “sound mark” with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in the 1980s. Believe it or not, these famous phrases are also trademarked.

15/03/2022

Was Neil Armstrong's hair sold?

The lucky buyer, John Reznikoff, holds the Guinness World Record for the largest collection of hair from historical celebrities, reports NBC. But Armstrong’s lawyers threatened to sue Marx Sizemore, the not-so-lucky barber who cut the former astronaut’s hair; they said he violated an Ohio law that protects the rights of famous people. Sizemore said he wouldn’t pay, and Reznikoff said he wouldn’t give back the hair but that he’d donate $3,000 to charity.

15/03/2022

Can bees make colorful honey?

In France, there’s a biogas plant that manages waste from a Mars chocolate factory, where M&Ms are made. Beekeepers nearby noticed that their bees were making “unnatural shades of green and blue” honey. A spokesperson from the British Beekeepers’ Association theorized that the bees eating the sugary M&M waste caused the colored honey.

15/03/2022

Who scored the winning goal in the first World Cup?

A one-armed player scored the winning goal in the first World Cup.
Héctor Castro, who accidentally cut off his right forearm while using an electric saw as a teenager, played on the Uruguay soccer team during the first-ever World Cup in 1930. In the last game between Uruguay and Argentina, Castro scored the winning goal in the last minute of the game. The final score was 4–2, making Uruguay the first country to win the World Cup title.

14/03/2022

Think of how versatile a stick is. You can use it to play fetch with your dog, swing it as a bat, or use your imagination to turn it into a lightsaber. That’s why, in 2008, the National Toy Hall of Fame inducted the stick into its collection of amazing toys as, very possibly, the oldest toy ever.

14/03/2022

Do cows have uper front teeth?

Cows don’t have upper front teeth.
They do have molars on top, in the back of their mouths, but where you’d expect upper incisors, cows, sheep, and goats have a thick layer of tissue called a dental pad. They use that with their bottom teeth to pull out grass.

13/03/2022

Why do jeans have small pockets?

That tiny pocket in jeans was designed to store pocket watches.
The original jeans had only four pockets: that tiny pocket, plus two more on the front and just one in the back.

12/03/2022

Can Eiffel Tower grow?

The Eiffel Tower can grow more than six inches during the summer
The high temperatures make the iron expand.

12/03/2022

Europeans were scared of eating tomatoes when they were introduced.
Scholars think Hernán Cortés brought the seeds in 1519 with the intent of the fruits being used ornamentally in gardens. By the 1700s, aristocrats started eating tomatoes, but they were convinced the fruits were poisonous because people would die after eating them. In reality, the acidity from the tomatoes brought out the lead in their pewter plates, and they actually died of lead poisoning.

12/03/2022

Do spiders fly?

Even though they don't have wings, spiders can fly for hundreds of miles (across entire oceans) on long strands of silk using Earth's electric fields; it's called "ballooning." Spiders have been found two-and-a-half miles up in the air, and 1,000 miles out to sea.

11/03/2022

How many toes do cats have on their hind paws?

Like most four-legged mammals, cats have five toes on the front, but their back paws only have four toes. Scientists think the four-toed back paws might help them run faster. Here are more purr-fectly fascinating facts about cats.

10/03/2022

How many calories does a blue whale eat?

Blue whales eat half a million calories in one mouthful.Just try to wrap your brain around the second part of this animal fact: Those 457,000 calories are more than 240 times the energy the whale uses to scoop those krill into its mouth.

10/03/2022

What language is spoken in Canada?

Canada has 2 official languages, French and English. Across Canada, you'll hear many other unofficial languages in restaurants, on buses and at school. In fact, more than 200 languages from around the world are spoken. Canada also has 60 Indigenous languages.

10/03/2022

Are peanuts nuts?

Peanuts aren’t technically nuts.
They’re legumes. According to Merriam-Webster, a nut is only a nut if it’s “a hard-shelled dry fruit or seed with a separable rind or shell and interior kernel.” That means walnuts, almonds, cashews, and pistachios aren’t nuts either. They’re seeds.

09/03/2022

How many letters are in the longest English word?

The longest English word is 189,819 letters long
We won’t spell it out here, but the full name for the protein nicknamed titin would take three and a half hours to say out loud. While this is, by far, the longest word in English, the longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary has 45 letters, and the longest made-up word has just 28. Just a few more interesting facts for your next cocktail party!

08/03/2022

How does Samsung test the durability of a phone?

People stash their phones in their back pockets all the time, which is why Samsung created a robot shaped like a butt to “sit” on their phones to make sure they can take the pressure. Believe it or not, the robot even wears jeans.

08/03/2022

How many words are used for snow in Scotland?

Yes, 421! Some examples: sneesl (to start raining or snowing); feefle (to swirl); and flinkdrinkin (a light snow).

07/03/2022

How much gold is underground?

Turns out, there’s quite a bit of gold on—or, really, in—our planet: 99 percent of the precious metal can be found in the Earth’s core, Discover Magazine reports. How much is there? Enough to coat the entire surface of the Earth in 1.5 feet of gold.

07/03/2022

How many islands are there in the Philippines?

The Philippines is an archipelago, which means it’s made up of a group of islands—7,641 islands, to be exact. That figure does not include the thousands of sandbars and other landforms that emerge during low tide.

06/03/2022

Where was the world's first animated feature film made?

The world’s first animated feature film was made in Argentina
Even if you know a lot of Disney trivia, you might assume that the honor of first animated feature film belongs to Walt Disney’s 1937 movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. But 20 years earlier, a full-length animated feature film was made in Argentina. It was a political satire called El Apóstol made up of 58,000 drawings and had a running time of 70 minutes, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.

05/03/2022

Ukrainian WhatsApp founder grew up poor, was rejected by Facebook but now worth billions The founder of WhatsApp Jan Koum grew up on food stamps in Ukraine and was rejected from a job at Facebook before selling his messaging app to Mark Zuckerberg for billions - now he lives in a Malibu mansion.

05/03/2022

Jim Cummings, the voice of "Winnie the Pooh", often calls sick children in hospitals and talks to them in Pooh's voice. He once called a little girl in the hospital dying of cancer. The mother of the girl told him that was the first time her daughter had smiled in six months.

05/03/2022

Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water.

04/03/2022

Australia's first cops were all criminals. Their first police force was made up of 12 of the best-behaved convicts.

03/03/2022

When TV chef Gordon Ramsay started a baking reality show featuring the inmates of a London prison, it changed the life of few inmates. The hit show Gordon Behind Bars was all about Gordon teaching inmates how to bake, and a business was set up called "Bad Boys' Bakery" to sell these products. It helped the prison with financial support while giving the inmates work experience they could use to find honest work after their sentence.

03/03/2022

Sergey Bubka broke the pole vault world record in 1984 then kept breaking it every year after by as small an amount as possible for the reward money.

03/03/2022

When Clint Eastwood was offered the role of James Bond, he turned it down. He was offered pretty good money for the role, but Eastwood believed it wouldn't suit him and declined it by saying that it was "Sean Connery's deal."

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