May 2010
19 posts
Four hundred million years ago there were 400,...
As long as humans have lived on Earth, the day has been 24 hours long. But humans are just a blip in the history of the planet. Not long after the Earth formed more than four billion years ago, a day was less than ten hours long. Four hundred million years ago there were 400 22-hour days in a year. Why the changes? Earthquakes, hurricanes, ice ages, even El Niño have an effect. But...
Anonymous asked: How short do you have to be to be legally considered a midget? I'm 5'1", please tell me midgets are shorter...
Drinking and driving is safer than texting while...
For the record, we don’t condone either.
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Tall Men Earn More Money Than Short Men
An Australian study, which backs up previous studies from the United States and England, has found that each 2 inches of height equals 12 month of extra experience, or about $800 a year in extra pay.
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Twitter processed 1.76 BILLION tweets in April, or...
And did we mention, we have a Twitter too? FOLLOW!
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Unrelated: Sorry for being MIA/AWOL the last few months. I needed an interwebs vacation, but I’M BACK. FACTS FOR EVERYONE! -jdel
Kids who eat candy regularly are more likely to...
A British study of 17,000 children born in the ’70s found that 69 percent of those who were arrested for a violent crime by the age of 34 ate candy “every day” while growing up.
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The brain is 70% fat.
(The Essential Book of Useless Information)
Hair and fingernails do not continue to grow after...
Rather, the skin dries and shrinks away from the bases of hairs and nails, giving the appearance of growth.
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George Washington did not have wooden teeth as...
According to a study of Washington’s four known dentures performed by a forensic anthropologist from the University of Pittsburgh, the dentures were made of gold, hippopotamus ivory, lead, human and animal teeth (including horse and donkey teeth).
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A flipped coin will land in the same position it...
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The average amount of time a woman can keep a...
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Goldfish do not have a 3 second memory.
They have been trained to navigate mazes and can recognize their owners after an exposure of a few months
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You can't see the Great Wall of China from space.
In fact, none of the Apollo astronauts reported seeing any man-made object from the Moon. The misconception is believed to have been popularized by Richard Halliburton decades before the first moon landing.
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Hey. How are you? Hows your day? Going well, I...
That’s called flattery. You use it on people to get what you want. Like, maybe, recommended for the educational section in the directory.
http://www.tumblr.com/directory/recommend/educational/ohyeahfacts
Hitler's favourite drink was apple juice. In fact...
From the History Channel special on operation Foxley, the British plan to assassinate Hitler