Each time I think I have a decent comprehension of the world, I discover another reality that flips my entire impression of learning on its back.
For example, do you have any thought why the coldest places on Earth still need to utilize coolers? What about what number of hearts an octopus has? No doubt, me either...but you're going to discover.
Make sure to remember a couple of these responses to awe your loved ones at your next social event!
Betty White is older than sliced bread
America's sweetheart was born in 1922, just six years before the Chillicothe Baking Company sold the very first loaf of sliced bread on July 7, 1928. As great as sliced bread is, it has nothing on Betty White. In 2010, the USDA Forest Service made White an honorary forest ranger, and a 2011 poll revealed White to be the most popular and trusted celebrity among Americans. Everyone loves Betty!
As a general public, we take a greater number of pictures in two minutes today than were taken in the whole 19th century.Since photography has emerged at the beginning of the 1800s, the number of pictures taken each year increased exponentially to reach a boom in photography at the end of the 20th century.
In the year 2000, we took 85 billion photos (2500 frames per second) and this figure continues to increase with the appearance of new digital technologies. Today, there are more than 2.6 billion mobile phones fitted with cameras in the world and it was even revealed that there was in one month a receipt of 6 billion photographs on Facebook.
Indeed, according to the statistics today, every two minutes, we take as many photos as these taken throughout the 19th century.
Strawberries are not in fact berries - but rather bananas are. Other odd individuals from the berry family incorporate kiwis, pomegranates, and tomatoes.
If strawberries aren't true berries, then what are they exactly? This doesn't flow off the tongue quite as easily as the word "berry," but strawberries are actually considered "aggregate fruits" fruits that develop from multiple ovaries of a single fruit.
Oxford University is older than the Aztecs! Teaching started in Oxford as early as 1096, and by 1249, the University was officially founded. The Aztec civilization as we know it began with the founding of Tenochtitlán in 1325.
Anne Frank was born in 1929, an same year as Martin Luther King Jr. On the off chance that they were still alive today, they'd be 87 years of age.
Eskimos also use refrigerators to keep food from freezing. But why would they if they live in below-zero temperatures? Well, will you just leave meat or food on the table or somewhere if you have a refrigerator in the house? When out on the ice-covered plains, where you won't find refrigerators, Eskimos put food in bags made of seal skins to shield it from exposure.
For every human on earth, there are roughly 1.6 million ants. However, the total weight of the ants is equal to the weight of the humans.
"If we were to weigh all the ants in the world, they would weigh as much as all of the people," said wildlife presenter Chris Packham recently in BBC Four's The Wonder Of Animals: Ants
The nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty" never says that he's an egg. Go ahead, sing it!
It rains diamonds on Jupiter and Saturn.
As the carbon falls towards the planet, it may bond together forming graphite, and as the pressure builds up closer to the planet's core, that graphite may be compressed into the diamond.
Cleopatra was born closer to Steve Jobs' development of the iPhone than the construction of the Great Pyramid.
There are more fake flamingos on the planet than genuine ones.
Plastic flamingos are widely considered to be the stereotypical example of lawn kitsch the American's answer to garden dwarfs. Designed in 1957 by Don Featherstone while working for Union Products, the pink flamingo has gone from a piece of Florida exotica to a symbol of trash culture. Featherstone sculpted his 3-D flamingos from clay, working from photos of the birds in National Geographic.
The species stopped replicating when manufacturer Union Products went out of business on November 1, 2006. However, Faster-Form Corporations now purchased the copyright and plastic molds of Featherstone's original plastic flamingos and will be resuming production in order to save the plastic flamingos from extinction.
Falling coconuts cause about 150 deaths annually. You know, while you were keeping an eye on the sharks.
There are no reliable records on this subject but it is estimated that every year about 150 people dies as a direct cause of this. This number isn't as high as it could be if it is taken into account that there are millions of people living amongst palm trees but, take note, it's still ten times higher than the number of people who die each year from shark attacks!
Shakespeare created the name Jessica for his play, "The Merchant of Venice."
Did you know that Shakespeare lived during the same time as Pocahontas?
Octopuses have three hearts. Two branchial hearts pump blood through each of the two gills, while the third is a systemic heart that pumps blood through the body. Octopus blood contains the copper-rich protein hemocyanin for transporting oxygen.
Sean Connery turned down the role of Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings trilogy because he "didn't understand the part."
Lobster was considered poor people's food until it came into fashion after World War II.
When "Star Wars: A New Hope" hit theaters in 1977, France was still executing people with a guillotine. The practice continued until 1981, when the country abolished the death penalty.
The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland. The Royal Coat of Arms of Scotland, used prior to 1603 by the Kings of Scotland was supported by two unicorns and the current royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom is supported by a unicorn for Scotland along with a lion for England.
The chances of you drinking a drop of water that passed through a dinosaur's body are nearly 100 percent.Most of the water molecules have never been drunk by another human, but almost every single one has been drunk by a dinosaur. This means that in every glass of water you drink, there is a lot of water which has already passed through a dinosaur and come out the other end.
Last but not least, the 1990s are further away than 2030. Where did the time go?!
