Very serious facts here…

A group of swallows is called a gulp.

People that can put wood to a baseball moving 100-mph, are in the 96th percentile. This is a measure of a person's reflex reaction time. That is 4% of the population of Earth. Less than a 8th of one percent of the people in that 4% range have practiced swinging a baseball bat.

It takes about 10 years to learn how to swing a baseball bat. It takes about 10 pitches to find out if you can hit.

You're welcome. I'm Herschel Sterling, and I'm here to help. (and yes, i was in that number)

After reading this #502275 @oracle yesterday, I thought of doing some research on what's a snail, (entirely due to the fact that I doubted that I had ever come accross a snail.

Look what I found —

Snails do things a little differently. They also need oxygen to live and produce carbon dioxide waste, but they don’t all have lungs. Some snails, especially those living in water, breathe using gills. Gills are feather-like organs that take oxygen from the water. This might seem odd to us, but for a snail, it’s as natural as using lungs is for us.

"Shrinkflation" has officially hit the housing market:

Housing affordability continues to hit record lows as prices rise along with rates.

Homebuilders' solution is to simply build smaller homes with the average new home now at 2225 square feet.

This is down ~100 square feet in just 1 year and 250 square feet since 2016.

Bitcoin is often compared to the honey badger because of its resilient and tenacious nature. Just like the honey badger, which is known for its fearlessness and ability to survive against all odds, Bitcoin has proven to be a remarkably resilient digital currency that has withstood various challenges and regulatory hurdles since its inception in 2009.

One interesting parallel is that both Bitcoin and honey badgers are known for "not giving a damn." The honey badger is famous for its fearless attitude and willingness to take on larger predators, and Bitcoin has similarly shown a resistance to external pressures and attempts to control or regulate it.

Additionally, both Bitcoin and honey badgers have a reputation for being difficult to kill. The honey badger's thick skin and aggressive behavior make it a formidable opponent, while Bitcoin's decentralized nature and cryptographic security measures have so far prevented any fatal blows to the cryptocurrency.

So in many ways, the honey badger serves as an apt mascot for the tenacity and resilience of the Bitcoin network. They both exemplify a "don't mess with me" attitude that has helped them survive and thrive against the odds.

In the book All The Countries We’ve Ever Invaded, British historian Stuart Laycock writes, “Out of 193 countries that are currently UN member states, [the British] invaded or fought conflicts in the territory of 171. That’s not far off a massive, jaw-dropping 90 per cent.” But a lot of those incursions are relatively obscure. For instance, the time British troops took the Ionian islands doesn’t make it into many non-Ionian history books. Laycock’s methodology is broad — he includes British pirates, privateers, and armed explorers whose activities were blessed by the government — and his research goes all the way back to the beginning. In a review, the Telegraph notes, “The earliest invasion launched from these islands was an incursion into Gaul — now France —at the end of the second century. Clodius Albinus led an army, thought to include many Britons, across the Channel in an attempt to seize the imperial throne. The force was defeated in 197 at Lyon.”

the largest gold coin in the world is a 1 tonne Australian kangaroo. It has a face value of $1 million.

Clearly demonstrating the usefulness of gold as money...don't spend it all in one place.

Source: National Geographic Kids Almanac 2017

Did you know that in 2013 Forbes named Bitcoin the year's best investment? Because I didn't and nobody told me !

The word for today in french is 'Aujourd'hui'

In the Origins of the French language, the word for today was 'hui' but the people in the marketplace communicating with each other kept getting confused

Because 'hui' sounded like 'oui' for yes

So they kept saying are you saying yes or today!

Eventually the word evolved and quite literally the word is 'In the day of today'

Au (à+le) jour de hui

Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine. In 1834, it was sold as a cure for an upset stomach by an Ohio physician named John Cook. It wasn't popularized as a condiment until the late 19th century!

DIPLOMACY:The art of jumping into troubled water without making a splash.

An FPS gamer has the same reaction speed of a professional military aircraft pilot.

Through the 1980s pagers became popular with young people, and also... drug dealers.

This dragged beepers into a moral panic about adolescent drug use...

Even accounting for inflation producing the 1997 classic Titanic cost MORE than the actual ship! The movie cost $200 million in 1997 or roughly $376 million in today's dollars while the ship cost $7.5 million in 1912 or $231 million in today's money. That just blow my mind!

Movie Cost Titanic Cost U.S. Gov Inflation Calculator

@k00b is very fun when drunk lol :p

Fun Fact: When you die you won't be able to take a single sat with you.

There are 60.000.000 millionaires in the world but only 21.000.000 bitcoin.

Coleco, the company known for Cabbage Patch Dolls and for the Colecovision, one of the great 2nd gen video game consoles, started as a shoe repair company, and their name is a shortening of Connecticut Leather Company.

Fun fact. Words are made up and we don't actually know anything.