|
50 Facts
|
View this Thread in Original format
| bassaholix |
From understanding how rainbows work to the reason Santa Claus always wears red; the following are all part of the useless facts many of us are not aware of.
1. The chicken can travel up to 9 miles per hour.
2. In Canada, if a debt is higher than 25 cents, it is illegal to pay it with pennies.
3. Belgium is the only country that has never imposed censorship for adult films.
4. Dustin Hoffman, as Tootsie, wore a size 36C bra.
5. In the country of Tibet, it's good manners to stick your tongue out at your guests.
6. No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.
7. In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes.
8. The world consumes 1 billion gallons of petroleum a day.
9. There are 119 grooves on the edge of a quarter.
10. There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo.
11. There are 42 dots on a pair of dice.
12. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
13. The Granny Smith apple was used as the symbol for the Beatles' Apple Records label.
14. There are 48 teaspoons in a cup: 3 teaspoons make a tablespoon and 16 tablespoons make a cup.
15. There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script.
16. The highest rating given a top quality diamond is D-flawless.
17. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
18. The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad.
19. The name of the camel on the Camel cigarettes pack is Old Joe.
20. The name of the statuette atop the hood of every Rolls Royce car is The Spirit of Ecstasy.
21. The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye.
22. The Amish speak a dialect they call "Mudderschprooch" (Pennsylvania Dutch).
23. Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song "Happy Birthday."
24. A car operates at maximum economy, gas-wise, at speeds between 25 and 35 miles per hour.
25. The sale of chewing gum is outlawed in Singapore because it is a means of "tainting an environment free of dirt."
26. Employees of the Vatican pay no income tax.
27. Felix the Cat's girlfriend was named Phyllis.
28. Hitler was voted Time magazine's Man of the Year in 1938.
29. Mozart once composed a piano piece that required a player to use two hands and a nose in order to hit all the correct notes.
30. Joan Collins was 50 years old when she posed semi-nude for "Play.boy" in 1983. The issue sold-out.
31. In Spain, the TV drama Beverly Hills, 90210 has a more romantic title. It is called Sensation of Living.
32. In the Abbott and Costello "Who's on First" routine, the pitcher's name was Tomorrow.
33. The television show Seinfeld was set in New York City; however, the exterior that was used for Jerry Seinfeld's apartment house is actually in Los Angeles, California.
34. 10% of men are left-handed and 8% of women are left-handed.
35. Twenty-four frames per second are projected in most animated films.
36. What do Harry Anderson, Cindy Crawford, and (Weird) Al Yankovic have in common? They were all valedictorians.
37. Wile E. Coyote has only caught the Road Runner once (May 21, 1980).
38. The cover of the very first issue of Rolling Stone magazine featured John Lennon.
39. A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
40. It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls -- phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine -- are made every day in the United States
41. Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age and race by examining a single strand of hair.
42. It takes 120 drops of water to fill a teaspoon.
43. Pop singer Engelbert Humperdinck's real name is Arnold Dorsey.
44. Greece's national anthem has 158 verses.
45. Nobel prizes are awarded for physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, peace, and economic science. Economic science was added in 1969.
46. Montpelier, Vermont is the only US state capital without a McDonald's.
47. The average American sees or hears 560 advertisements a day.
48. The average life expectancy of a toilet is 50 years.
49. The Barbie doll got her first car in 1962. It was a coral colored Austin Healy manufactured by the Irwin Corporation for Mattel.
50. Nothing can be burned again that has already been burned once. |
|
|
| RachUCF1001 |
Weird Al was Valedictorian? :conf:
I never found him very entertaining and he doesnt appear to be very smart. Where did u find this list, a chain letter in your email? lol Kinda funny and interesting anyway~ hehe xoxo Rach;) |
|
|
| Clyde77 |
| lol singapore with their gum issue lol:D |
|
|
| Nicke |
| Excuse me for aksing, but what is a valedictorian? |
|
|
| Clyde77 |
| The student with the highest academic rank in a class who delivers the valedictory at graduation. |
|
|
| DJ Mikey Mike |
| quote: | Originally posted by bassaholix
39. A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
|
ummm... no :rolleyes: |
|
|
| butterfly |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike
ummm... no :rolleyes: |
why not? |
|
|
| TheTornado |
| Wierd Al was a valedectorian. He graduated from high school when he was 16 years old. He gave his speech on how eventually the polar ice caps would melt and soak the earth or something, and he got pulled off the stage. |
|
|
| DJ Mikey Mike |
| Im sorry but i fail to see how ur average whip can achieve speeds of over 700mph. Im gonna need better proof than a site that says experiments have been carried out, but gives no detail into what experiments were actually carried out and what the results were. I'll ask my physics teacher tomorrow, coz if its true then its fascinating but i want more detail. I no when a concorde goes over speed of sound the sonic boom is huge. Does this mean the sonic boom is proportional to the mass? Hmm.. anywayz. |
|
|
| jinxed84 |
try to think of the speed of the whip at a given point increasing exponentially from the grip >>out during a crack.
when you look at an exponential curve what does it look like. the slope increases (relatively) slowly at first then zoom! almost straight up lookin
same thing with the speed at points on the whip. grip moves slowly tip breaks sound barrier
Edit: forgot to post about the noise level.
im pretty sure it only crcks like that due to the size of the pressure wave as it breaks the sound barrier.
when something is accelerating towards the sound barrier(in air) it builds up a pressure wave infront of it(of air) when it reaches the speed of sound it breaks thorugh the pressure barrier. the air flows around the object and comes back together in the back creating the "boom" or "crack" in this case.
so think about the size of the concorde:Huge and the size of the tip of a whip:Kinda Tiny. now think about the airmass being built up before each respective objects breaks through the pressure wave. the larger the airmass the larger the sonic boom
hope i could help feel free to correct me if im wrong anywhere |
|
|
| occrider |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike
Im sorry but i fail to see how ur average whip can achieve speeds of over 700mph. Im gonna need better proof than a site that says experiments have been carried out, but gives no detail into what experiments were actually carried out and what the results were. I'll ask my physics teacher tomorrow, coz if its true then its fascinating but i want more detail. I no when a concorde goes over speed of sound the sonic boom is huge. Does this mean the sonic boom is proportional to the mass? Hmm.. anywayz. |
Well here's another article with more detail:
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/whipitgood-02a.html |
|
|
|
|
