“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Time for another selection of fascinating facts. How you use these is up to you, but some of them may well come in handy sometime.
Enjoy.
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Every year Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes,
1,000 of which measure above 3.5 on the Richter scale
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There are approximately 7,000 feathers on an eagle
– even a bald one!
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The average person changes their career every 13 years
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The total mileage driven by all U-Haul trucks in a year
is enough to move a person from the Earth to the moon
five times a day for an entire year
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Scientists with high-speed cameras have discovered
that rain drops are not tear shaped
but rather look like hamburger buns.
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570 gallons of paint would be needed to paint the outside of the White House
– make that 570 gallons of white paint
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Tiger Woods is the first athlete to has been named
“Sportsman of the Year”
by magazine Sports Illustrated two times
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In 1996, toy company Mattel released a “Harley Davidson” Barbie.
This dolls distinctive feature is a birth mark on her face
that changes position with every new release of the doll
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In the Sahara Desert there is a town named Tidikelt,
which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years
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The most senior crayon maker Emerson Moser
retired after making 1.4 billion crayons for Crayola.
It was then that he revealed that he was actually colorblind
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There are mirrors on the moon.
Astronauts left them so that laser beams could be bounced off of them from Earth.
These beams help give us the distance to the moon give or take a few meters.
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Tobacco kills more Americans each year
than alcohol, cocaine, crack, heroin, homicide,
suicide, car accidents, fire and AIDS combined
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The oldest bird on record was Cocky, a cockatoo, who lived in London Zoo.
He ceased being Cocky at the age of 82.
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There were 13 couples celebrating their honeymoon on the Titanic
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In July 1874, a swarm of Rocky Mountain locusts flew over Nebraska
covering an area estimated at 198,600 square miles.
It is estimated that the swarm contained about 12.5 trillion insects.
These insects became extinct thirty years later
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Honorificabilitudinitatibus
is the longest English word that consists strictly
of alternating consonants and vowels
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In Haiti, only 1 out of every 200 people own a car which is ironic
considering approximately 33% of the country’s budget on imports
is spent on equipment for fuel and transportation.
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The largest diamond found in the United States was a 40.23 carat white diamond.
It was found in 1924 at Murfreesboro, Arkansas at the Prairie Creek pipe mine,
which later became known as the Crater of Diamonds State Park.
The diamond was named “Uncle Sam” after the nickname of its finder,
Wesley Oley Basham, a worker at the Arkansas Diamond Corporation.
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In 1903 Mary Anderson invented the windshield wipers
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The song with the longest title is
“I’m a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank
on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama
Doin’ Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o,
Hirohito Blues”
written by Hoagy Carmichael in 1945.
He later claimed the song title ended with ‘Yank’ and the rest was a joke
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