Archive for the ‘just plain trivia’ Tag
Todays post will contain a few little known facts about everything. There’s no theme just twenty odd bits of information you might find interesting. Lets get started . . .
- Cable television was introduced in Pennsylvania in 1948.
- The first drive-in movie theater was constructed in Camden, NJ in 1933.
- Talcum powder kills ants.
- A cats sense of smell is fourteen times more acute than that of a human.
- William Henry Harrison had the shortest term in office as President. He passed away just thirty-one days after his inauguration.
- The first umbrella factory was established in Baltimore, Maryland in 1928.
- Musicians Billy Joel, singer Wayne Newton, and actor Cary Grant were all high school dropouts
- The jackfruit which is indigenous to India, can weigh as much as a hundred pounds.
- The native name for Greenland is Kalaallit.
- Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa, rises to the height of 19,431 feet.
- FDR had the first presidential airplane but it wasn’t called Air Force One until JFK was elected.
- To convert degrees Fahrenheit to Celsius, subtract 32 degrees and divide by 1.8.
- The minimum wage instituted in 1938 in the United States was $.25 an hour.
- Peter Merholtz is credited with coming up with the term “blog”.
- Pu Yi was two years old when he became the Emperor of China in 1908. He abdicated the throne 6 years later.
- In 1780 Pennsylvania became the first state to abolish slavery.
- The first professional basketball game was held in 1896 in Trenton, NJ.
- Coco Chanel named her perfume Chanel #5 because five was her lucky number.
- Pornography is the Greek word for “the writings of prostitutes.”
- Most people dream for two hours in an eight hour night of sleep.
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EVERYTHING YOU DIDN’T KNOW YOU NEEDED TO KNOW
- Abraham Lincoln lost five different elections prior to becoming a United States president.
- There are 13 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.
- The only word that begins and ends with the letters “und” is the word underground.
- Due to contrasting gravity, a person normally weighing 200 pounds on earth will weigh just 76 pounds on Mars.
- Recycling one glass jar will save enough energy for three hours of television.
- A tsunami can move at the same speed as a jet plane.
- You could fit almost 900,000,000,000,000 footballs into the Grand Canyon.
- Rio de Janeiro means River of January.
- Sometimes when you are sleeping, your brain is busier than when you’re awake.
- The left and right sides of your body are controlled by the opposite sides of your brain.
- In Japan you can buy square watermelons, specifically created to stack more easily in supermarkets.
- Wild lions usually do not kill more than 20 times a year.
- Crocodiles along the banks of the Nile River are accountable for over 1000 deaths per year.
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And last but not least some information that I hope our
current generation of scientists are paying attention to.
1. The First Law of robotics is a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. The Second Law of robotics is that a robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. The Third Law of robotics is that a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
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SPECIAL THANKS TO ISAAC ASIMOV
