December 2011
3 posts
Each year, 86,000 Americans go to the emergency room because they trip over their pet.
In American’s first automobile race in 1895, the winning car had an average speed of 7 mph.
The last time a white man made it to the Olympic 100 meter final was 1980.
November 2011
8 posts
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.
It costs TV stations about $25,000 per football game to use the technology that mark first down with yellow lines.
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.
Arizona does not follow daylight savings time. The Navajo Nation inside the state does. But the Hopi Reservation inside that Navajo Nation does not.
In 1795, 20% of the entire US Budget was for paying ransom money for North African pirates.
The VA estimates that a veteran dies by suicide once every 80 minutes.
The average pencil has enough graphite to either draw a line 35 miles long or write 45,000 words.
Crayola’s senior crayon maker, Emerson Moser, has made over 1.4 billion crayons in his career. He is also colorblind.
August 2011
5 posts
The founder of match.com had has girlfriend leave him for another man she met on match.com.
48 hours of Youtube videos get uploaded every minute.
On a chessboard, a knight can move to each square exactly once.
For dietary law, the Roman Catholic Church in the 17th century ruled that the beaver was a type of fish.
Red eye in photographs comes from the flash reflecting off blood vessels in the back of the eye.
July 2011
25 posts
Dandruff actually comes from a fungus, not a dry scalp.
Military dogs are always one rank higher than their handler so if the handler mistreats his dog, then it’ll be considered “assaulting a superior officer.”
A newborn baby’s brain consumes 87% of its daily calories.
The Earth’s horizon is on average about 3.1 miles away.
If your phone’s GPS recognizes that you are going faster than ~1,100 mph, then it will automatically shut down the phone because that means it might be guiding a missile.
The Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prize medals in acid to prevent the Nazis from confiscating them in WWII. After the war, the gold precipitate was then recast back into the medals and returned to the owners.
There is a statistically significant correlation (p=0.008) between stork populations and birth rates in Europe.
1 in 13 adults in the state of Georgia are in prison.
The word “apron” used to be “napron,” but people kept on hearing “an apron” instead of “a napron.”
“Howdy” is actually a contraction for “How do you do?”.
USA Women’s soccer star Abby Wambach, in her first youth soccer league, scored 27 goals in only three games.
Cold fronts can move twice as fast as warm fronts. Warm fronts move North-South, and cold fronts move East-West.
Pot growers in America consume 1% of the total electricity.
Hogwart’s school motto is “Draco dormeins nunquam titillandus” which means “Never tickle a sleeping dragon.”
Between 1924 and 1935, Greece had 23 changes in government and 13 coups.
15% of snails survive being digested by birds.
The rate of how fast our nails grow is related to how long our fingers are. So our pointer finger nails grow faster than our pinky finger nails, and fingernails grow about four times faster than toenails.
Replacing the $1 bill with $1 coin can save an estimated $5.5 billion dollars over the next 30 years.
Next week, Neptune will complete its first full orbit around the Sun since being discovered in 1846.
A backwards question mark was once proposed to denote irony or sarcasm.
Scrooge McDuck is the richest fictional character according to Forbes magazine with $44 billion. Other characters in the list of top 15 richest include Tony Stark, Mr. Monopoly, C. Montgomery Burns, and Artemis Fowl II.
Nicolas Cage turned down the role of Aragorn in Lord of the Rings due to “family obligations.”
Karate belts progress from lighter to darker colors as you increase your rank because it was cheaper to dye a belt a darker color than to buy a new belt each time.
Scooby Doo’s original name was “Too Much.”
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1826.
June 2011
29 posts
Ring announcer Michael Buffer has earned more than $400 million in royalties for his trademarked “Let’s get ready to rumble!”
German Chocolate Cake did not orginate from Germany, but instead from an American named Sam German.
The song “Old MacDonald had a Farm” may have evolved from a WWI song called “Ohio.”
“Old Macdougal had a farm in Ohio-i-o,
And on that farm he had some dogs in Ohio-i-o,
With a bow-wow here, and a bow-wow there,
Here a bow, there a wow, everywhere a bow-wow.”
The average American will have eaten 1,500 PB&J sandwiches before graduating from high school.
To save time when marching, Mongols would drink blood from their horses instead of eating.
Sudan and Idaho have the same GDP.
The US liquid gallon is 3.75 liters.
The US dry gallon is 4.4 liters.
The UK liquid gallon is 4.5 liters.
William Shatner once sold his kidney stone for $25,000.
Formula One race-cars theoretically generate enough downforce to be able to drive upside down on the ceilings.