Each year, 86,000 Americans go to the emergency room because they trip over their pet.
(Source: The New York Times)
Each year, 86,000 Americans go to the emergency room because they trip over their pet.
(Source: The New York Times)
In American’s first automobile race in 1895, the winning car had an average speed of 7 mph.
(Source: Wikipedia)
The last time a white man made it to the Olympic 100 meter final was 1980.
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The equation to calculate wind chill is:
Wind Chill = 35.74 + 0.6215T - 35.75(V^0.16) + 0.4275T(V^0.16)
Where T is the actual temperature and V is the wind velocity.
(Source: mentalfloss.com)
It costs TV stations about $25,000 per football game to use the technology that mark first down with yellow lines.
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The Aryan Brotherhood makes up less than 1% of the US prison population in the US but is responsible for 21% of the murders in the prison system.
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Arizona does not follow daylight savings time. The Navajo Nation inside the state does. But the Hopi Reservation inside that Navajo Nation does not.
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In 1795, 20% of the entire US Budget was for paying ransom money for North African pirates.
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The VA estimates that a veteran dies by suicide once every 80 minutes.
(Source: cnas.org)
The average pencil has enough graphite to either draw a line 35 miles long or write 45,000 words.
(Source: discovermagazine.com)
