Kids have been working on this all week. Last week's fact was from my 13 year old but this week we are stepping it up. Today's fact is from my 5 year old, which she learned from her abcmouse lessons.
Kiwi birds are the only bird with nostrils at the end of its beak.
Thanks she was keeping an eye out for fun facts while doing her lessons this week because she saw how excited her brother was that his fact won last week. He offered up a couple facts as well but we decided to go with the little one's fact.
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.
Philosophers have pondered the shape of bananas for a long time, arguing until the sun goes down as to why theyāre curved.
Bananas go through a process called ānegative geo-tropism.ā This process causes the fruit to grow upwards toward the sun instead of the ground. This, in turn, gives the banana its familiar curved shape.
Did you know that Italian farmers can use the wheels of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese as collateral when they borrow money from a bank called Credito Emiliano?
The IP over Avian Carriers (IPoAC) is a humorous internet protocol that is described in RFC 1149, a document within the computer network community. It was published on April 1, 1990, as an April Fools' Day joke. The protocol suggests using homing pigeons to carry internet protocol (IP) traffic. Interestingly, it was actually implemented and tested in 2001 by the Bergen Linux user group. They sent nine packets of information over a distance of approximately 5 km (3.1 miles) using pigeons, and although the packet loss was high due to one of the pigeons going missing, it demonstrated that even the most unconventional methods could be used to transmit data!
This is wilde story - the luckiest dumb personOr how to sell winter gloves in the Caribbean and make a fortune.
1. Buying all the worthless Continental Currency
In 1775, the 13 American colonies went to war with the UK. To fund the war, American Congress started printing āContinental Currency.ā But they overprinted it. To the tune of $241 million! The currency flooded the market and became all but worthless. No one would accept it. When the war veterans started coming back, American colonies paid them in the worthless Continental currency. And the veterans found themselves destitute.
To help the veterans out, leaders like John Hancock asked people to start buying the currency. And they themselves bought a little bit too. But almost no one else did. No one else except our Dexter.
Timothy Dexter not only spent all his money buying the Continental currency, but spent his wifeās fortune too. Why? Because a great person like John Hancock supported it.
The currency remained worthless. But in 1788, after ratifying the US constitution, the Congress declared that they would buy back these old Continental Currency at 1% of their value. Dexter, who had bought it at a much much cheaper rate, suddenly found he was rich beyond his wildest dreams!
He bought 2 shipping vessels with his profits and bought a mansion and moved to a place where rich folks lived.
2. Shipping warming pans to one of the hottest regions.
Figuring out that Dexter would do anything to gain his peersā acceptance, one of his rich neighbours recommended that Dexter should ship warming pans in the West Indies and sell them there. West Indies is hot and humid. Why would anyone need pans that were used to warm beds in the winter? But yet they did! The West Indians found that these pans made great tools to stir molasses. The sugar plantation owners bought all the pans for 79% higher price!
3. Lets try that again!
The same trick was tried again, and this time Dexter shipped winter woolen gloves to equatorial Polynesian islands. And again luck helped him out. When Dexterās ship landed in hot Polynesia, they were just in time to sell all their gloves to a Portuguese ship sailing to Siberia!
4. Shipping coal to the leading producers of coal in the world
Someone else tried to take advantage of Dexterās naivety again. And told him he should sell coal to Newcastle. Unknown to Dexter, Newcastle was one of the leading producers of coal in the world at that time! But luckily for Dexter, when his ships landed there, there was a strike at the coal mines! Newcastle factories bought his coal at a premium!
The story goes on and on - and Dexter get richer and richer...
Action Summary:
Do things that no one else does. Because your goal is to be correct when no one else is.
I still don't know why one of my friends that never drink beer, is farting all day long whenever you ask him to do it.
Instead, I am drinking a lot of beer and eat fruits and I barely can fart...
In the world of quantum physics, two particles can become entangled in such a way that the state of one instantly influences the state of another, no matter the distance between them. This phenomenon is so strange that Einstein referred to it as "spooky action at a distance."
You can't use entanglement to send information faster than light. You can think of it like having two magic boxes that when opened will show up or down, and you can be 100% certain the other box shows the other value when opened. You can't specify which value you see when you open the box.
In the last 20 years I never went to a doctor/medic/hospital. I wasn't sick at all.
20 years ago I went to do only some check up on my status, to see if I am dead.
The medic told me that I have a big liver and I should be dead. I am still healthy and drinking beer all fucking day!
STOP believing the bullshit that doctors said to you, They just want to sell you drugs and keep you alive to pay them!
I am not afraid to die! Who is afraid that will catch a so called "virus" that will kill him is a dumb moron that do not enjoy his life and do not deserve to live on this beautiful planet.
is very well and filtering all my beers ššš
I think moving into a less stressful place is a big achievement.
I was never in my life so in peace, happy and healthy, like I am here, now.
However you want to call it, I believe there are infectious agents which require a living host to replicate. But you don't? You don't believe something like this is possible by nature?
You've just defined the parasite, not a virus...
Are not the same.
YOUR body is made from so called viruses, it cannot survive without them.
But what makes you sick is yourself, your own body controlling these little things inside you. When those are dead, must be ejected out, so your body responds to that dead thing in many ways. That's why you say "I feel sick"... you are just ejecting things that you don't need in your body.
When you are cold, with flu, your body is cleanse itself. So let it cleanse, don't feed it with bullshit crap pills and vaccines!
But what makes you sick is yourself, your own body controlling these little things inside you. When those are dead, must be ejected out, so your body responds to that dead thing in many ways. That's why you say "I feel sick"... you are just ejecting things that you don't need in your body.
that's exactly what I've learned last year, yet we are being trained to put poisons inside when our body is doing its work.
Yuri Knorozov was a Soviet linguist who deciphered the Mayan script in 1953. He had a habit of listing his Siamese cat Asya as a co-author to many of his works; however, his editors would always remove her. Knorozov would also use this photo with Asya as his official author photo and would get upset whenever his editors would crop her out.
Deciphering the Mayan script was extremely challenging because there was no Rosetta Stone to provide translations into other languages. The only clues that remained were from Mayan stelae (stone monuments) that were scattered throughout several different ruins.
Knorozov worked in isolation in the Soviet Union and was able to make major advancements without ever stepping foot in Central America. His breakthrough was rejecting the notion that the Maya glyphs were based on an alphabet but rather a syllabary (a set of written characters representing syllables).
When Knorozov published his work, he was attacked and dismissed by several prominent academics, most notably, J. Eric S. Thompson, a British scholar who believed that the Mayan script was anti-phonetic and based on ideographic principles. It also did not help that Knorozov published his research during the height of the Cold War when Western scholars were quick to dismiss the works of Soviet scholars as being tainted by Marxist ideology.
It took decades for Knorozov to finally receive the recognition he deserved. One of Knorozov's earliest supporters was an American Anthropology professor at Yale by the name of Michael D. Coe who would later go on to write, "Yuri Knorozov, a man who was far removed from the Western scientific establishment and who, prior to the late 1980s, never saw a Mayan ruin nor touched a real Mayan inscription, had nevertheless, against all odds, made possible the modern decipherment of Maya hieroglyphic writing."
Tortoise fact to quote from the neighbours daughter;
āThe oldest tortoise in the whole world is called Jonathon and he is 190 years oldā¦ thatās reallllllly old. Like my Grandmaā
Her older sister asked the other neighbour if his wife left him because all his hair fell out. I thought her dad was going to have heart failureā¦ lol.
You donāt need an alarm clock to wake up at a specific time. A teacher of mine back in high school told us he had never used an alarm clock in his life, heād just tell himself exactly what time to wake up the next morning and it would happen. I donāt know what the standard deviation was, but seemed to be highly accurate the way he described it
The Twitter bird actually has a name ā Larry.
When Twitter was founded in 2006, its logo was purchased from a stock image website. The bird logo has had small changes to its appearance in the years since. It wasnāt until the 2010s that a Twitter employee revealed that itās actually called Larry.
Twitter has since confirmed this and stated that the name comes from Larry Bird, who is a famous Hall of Fame basketball player. The species of Larry the Bird remains a secret!
Yes, I use to make my own granola bars with honey and keep them for long time.
Just all kind of nuts and honey. Nothing else added.
I still have some from 5 years ago and are in perfectly stage to be eaten. Delicious.
If you're a cat lover, then you may be surprised by this interesting fact: Cats can't taste anything that's sweet. That's probably why they can't get enough of their favorite salty snack.
Fun fact. I didn't know how to weld until I opened my welding and custom fab shop, yet my welds are very well respected by gold-arm welders in the area, and my products are the finest and admired by everyone who sees them š
I learned how to weld in one day, steel and aluminum, and many welders don't wanna mess with aluminum š¤£
Los Angeles original name is āEl Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula.ā
Spanish colonists founded the city that is now known as Los Angeles in 1769. And in 1781, another group of 44 settlers made the new town their home.
The Spanish governor named the city, El Pueblo de Nuestra SeƱora la Reina de los Ćngeles de PorciĆŗncula. In English, this means āThe Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of PorciĆŗncula.ā
As the name is quite a mouthful, it became shortened until it finally became Los Angeles. So now, Los Angeles is just āThe Angels.ā
not really. I eat carrots very often because I do work in the sun and lots of efforts.
Carrots are good to deal with that.
What they do is your tan in the sun will have a better color, but not making your skin orange.
But I see your comment as a joke in regards of Bitcoin.
You actually lose a large percentage of your taste buds while on an airplane. This might explain a lot about those less-than-stellar in-flight meals, or why you find yourself craving the saltiest foods while in the sky.
To be fair, you don't "lose" them in the "they die off and have to grow back" sense... you lose a ton of sensitivity due to the air pressure decrease, but it recovers once the pressure returns when you land. Growing back would take days/weeks.
1. Buying all the worthless Continental Currency
2. Shipping warming pans to one of the hottest regions.
3. Lets try that again!
4. Shipping coal to the leading producers of coal in the world