Every once in awhile I come across an interesting tid bit fact from history, or the present, that most people do not realize. Some of them could even be considered hacks, useful for something we didn't even realize. Others are just plain odd. So let me start off with one that I just read about that I thought was quite funny. If you are a baby boomer, odds are you still remember the scent of your dad's aftershave. One of the most popular aftershave lotions of that generation was Aqua Velva. When it was originally sold it had a straw color to it and was very high in alcohol content, so much so that during WWII, PXs couldn't keep enough of it in stock. It was not because GIs loved the skin bracing splash, they drank the stuff to get drunk on it! The government then asked the JB Williams to do something about it, so they added a bittering agent which turned it to the blue color we are familiar with today. It didn't stop soldiers from drinking completely, they just filtered it through bread to remove it. Civilians however just liked the blue color.
The oldest condoms ever found date back to the 1640s (they were found in a cesspit at Dudley Castle), and were made from animal and fish intestines. Ah, that explains a lot!
Interesting about the condoms. In 1892, a group of 200 Australians unhappy with the government tried to start an offshoot colony in Paraguay to be called 'New Australia'.(It didn't last)
Interesting Facts 1. If you somehow found a way to extract all of the gold from the bubbling core of our lovely little planet, you would be able to cover all of the land in a layer of gold up to your knees. 2. McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food “heavy users.” 3. The average person spends 6 months of their lifetime waiting on a red light to turn green. 4. The largest recorded snowflake was in Keogh, MT during year 1887, and was 15 inches wide. 5. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. 6. There are more lifeforms living on your skin than there are people on the planet. 7. Southern sea otters have flaps of skin under their forelegs that act as pockets. When diving, they use these pouches to store rocks and food. 8. In 1386 a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child. 9. One in every five adults believe that aliens are hiding in our planet disguised as humans. 10. If you believe that you’re truly one in a million, there are still approximately 7,184 more people out there just like you. 11. A single cloud can weight more than 1 million pounds. 12. A human will eat on average 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders while sleeping. 13. James Buchanan, the 15th U.S. president continuously bought slaves with his own money in order to free them. 14. There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe. 15. The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime. 16. Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women. 17. Coca-Cola would be green if coloring wasn’t added to it. 18. You cannot snore and dream at the same time. Fun Facts 19. The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old! 20. A coyote can hear a mouse moving underneath a foot of snow. 21. Bolts of lightning can shoot out of an erupting volcano. 22. New York drifts about one inch farther away from London each year. 23. A U.S. dollar bill can be folded approximately 4,000 times in the same place before it will tear. 24. A sneeze travels about 100 miles per hour. 21. Earth has traveled more than 5,000 miles in the past 5 minutes. 22. It would take a sloth one month to travel one mile. 23. 10% of the World’s population is left handed. 24. A broken clock is right two times every day. 25. According to Amazon, the most highlighted books on Kindle are the Bible, the Steve Jobs biography, and The Hunger Games. 26. Bob Marley’s last words to his son before he died were “Money can’t buy life.” 27. A mole can dig a tunnel that is 300 feet long in only one night. 28. A hippo’s wide open mouth is big enough to fit a 4-foot-tall child in. 29. Chewing gum while you cut an onion will help keep you from crying. 30. If you were to stretch a Slinky out until it’s flat, it would measure 87 feet long. 31. Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer 32. There are more collect calls on Father’s Day than on any other day of the year. 33. Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour. 34. 95% of people text things they could never say in person. 35. A crocodile can’t poke its tongue out. 36. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. 37. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries. And for more, visit . . . http://www.livin3.com/50-cool-and-weird-fun-facts-that-you-should-know
Who has ever refused the Nobel Prize? Jean-Paul Sartre, awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature, declined the prize because he had consistently declined all official honours. Le Duc Tho, awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, but Tho declined and Kissinger tried to return it unsuccessfully after the ceasefire in Vietnam failed.
Dreams have always been inspiration for writers. But some dreams inspired for the discoveries and inventions. One dream inspired Madame C.J. Walker to invent hair products that made her the first female American self-made millionaire. Elias Howe invented the sewing machine inspired from one of his dream. Some other discoveries are; The idea of Google – Larry page Alternating current generator – Tesla DNA’s double helix spiral form – James Watson Periodic table – Dimitri Mendeleyev
Did you know that only 1 cup of gasoline has enough explosive power to lift 1 ton up to 14 feet in the air? Now you do.
Davy Crockett was born on August 17, 1786, in what is now eastern Tennessee. At the time, however, many of the region’s residents considered themselves citizens of the so-called state of Franklin, a breakaway territory that had declared its independence from North Carolina two years earlier. Supporters of the movement—including Crockett’s father, John—pushed for Franklin to enter the union as the 14th U.S. state, but the fledgling territory fell just shy of the required vote total in Congress. Following a stint as an independent republic, Franklin was eventually reclaimed by North Carolina in 1789. By 1796, its lands had become part of the newly formed state of Tennessee.
The Statue of Liberty's face was modelled after the features of an Arabic female peasant, because it was initially intended to serve as a lighthouse to the newly formed Suez Canal. The idea never caught on with Egyptian officials, but when sculptor Bartholdi presented the concept to Americans, he had a winner.
ACCELERATION PUT INTO PERSPECTIVE * One Top Fuel dragster 500 cubic-inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than the first 4 rows at the Daytona 500. * Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 11.2 gallons of nitro methane per second; a fully loaded 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate with 25% less energy being produced. * A stock Dodge Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to merely drive the dragster’s supercharger. * With 3000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into a near-solid form before ignition. Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock at full throttle. * At the stoichiometric 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture for nitro methane the flame front temperature measures 7050 degrees F. * Nitro methane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric water vapor by the searing exhaust gases. * Dual magnetos supply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of an arc welder in each cylinder. * Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After 1/2 way, the engine is dieseling from compression plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1400 degrees F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting the fuel flow. * If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up in the affected cylinders and then explodes with sufficient force to blow cylinder heads off the block in pieces or split the block in half. * Dragsters reach over 300 MPH before you have completed reading this sentence. * In order to exceed 300 MPH in 4.5 seconds, dragsters must accelerate an average of over 4 G’s. In order to reach 200 MPH well before half-track, the launch acceleration approaches 8 G’s. * Top Fuel engines turn approximately 540 revolutions from light to light! * Including the burnout, the engine must only survive 900 revolutions under load. * The redline is actually quite high at 9500 RPM. * THE BOTTOM LINE: Assuming all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, & for once, NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs an estimated $1,000 per second. The current Top Fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.441 seconds for the quarter-mile (10/05/03, Tony Schumacher). The top speed record is 333.00 MPH (533 km/h) as measured over the last 66′ of the run (09/28/03, Doug Kalitta). Putting this all into perspective: Lets say the you are driving the average $140,000 Lingenfelter twin-turbo powered Corvette Z06. Over a mile up the road, a Top Fuel dragster is staged & ready to launch down a quarter-mile strip as you pass by it. You have the advantage of a flying start. You run the ‘Vette hard up through the gears and blast across the starting line & pass the dragster at an honest 200 MPH. Just as you pass the Top Fuel Dragster the ‘tree’ goes green for both of you. The dragster launches & starts after you. You keep your foot down hard, but you hear an incredibly brutal whine that sears your eardrums & within 3 seconds the dragster catches & passes you. He beats you to the finish line, a quarter-mile away from where you just passed him. Think about it – from a standing start, the dragster had spotted you 200 MPH & not only caught, but nearly blasted you off the road when he passed you within a mere 1320 foot long race! That’s acceleration! Share This:
I have two fun facts: On a clear night you can see Uranus. Under my slimy exterior lies a lack of character.
The first known athee in europe after the fall of the roman empire is a priest, Jean Meslier. A french president died while his lover gave him oral sex, she was nicknamed "the deathblower" who in french sounds like "funeral service". The water is one of the rare elements who become bigger when solid, it enable ice to float, this rare particularity prevent lakes to freeze totally and kill the fish inside. You have to pay to visit Karl Marx grave. Italy trained dogs to smell money and catch 200 millions euros smuggled out of Italy.
If a whale's fart is the size of a bubble big enough to hold a horse, How fast will a whale accelerate when the bubble bursts? Fast enough to submerge the whale in blubber?
A male pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes. (there are 4 more ways that pigs are more awesome than humans. See: The Oatmeal.
