Friday, May 24, 2019

Did you know trivia

I love this kind of stuff;


Over 25 years ago, a cargo ship traveling from Hong Kong to the United States accidentally lost a shipping crate in the Pacific Ocean. Inside that crate were 28,000 rubber ducks unwittingly about to embark on many long journeys across the globe. As rubber ducks continue to pop up on shores around the world from Australia to Alaska, they’ve enlightened our understanding of ocean currents. Some have made it all the way to the Atlantic Ocean, while others have been found frozen in Arctic ice. 

The inventor of the frisbee was turned into a frisbee after he died

“Steady Ed” Headrick invented the frisbee in the 1950s, then went on to invent the sport of disc golf in the 1970s. “He lived for frisbee,” his wife said of the inventor of the classic American toy. When he died in 2002, his final wish was to have his ashes turned into, what else, but a frisbee. His son said it was his father’s dream that they play with him after death and that he might even accidentally end up on someone’s roof.

 Roosters have built-in earplugs.

Considering how a rooster’s call can get up to 140 decibels or louder, it might leave one to wonder how the rooster himself keeps from going deaf when that noise is coming right out of its beak. It turns out, the farm fowl have built-in earplugs. Researchers found that when a rooster opens its beak to crow, its external auditory canals close off, preventing sound from coming in and serving as earplugs.


The most requested funeral song in England is by Monty Python.

A survey of funeral directors by Co-operative Funeralcare found that the most requested song to play at funerals in the United Kingdom is “Always Look On the Bright Side of Life” by Monty Python from their irreverent comedy classic Life of Brian. It beat out Frank Sinatra’s “My Way.”

A sea lion once saved a man.

Attempting to end his life by jumping of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, a man named Kevin Hines survived but broke his back. While it seemed he would be not long for this world, a sea lion came to the rescue, swimming beneath him and keeping him afloat until the coast guard arrived.

Indians spend more than 10 hours a week reading, more than any other country in the world

Social media and digital consumption have become so overwhelmingly popular in most parts of the world that it’s easy to forget that for some people, reading is still a primary form of entertainment. According to a recent study, the average Indian spends 10 hours and 42 minutes per week reading. Compare that to America’s five hours and 42 minutes per week. The other countries with the top five highest reading times are Thailand, China, the Philippines, and Egypt.  

Research shows that all blue-eyed people may be related

At least, they may share the same distant ancestor. After studying the DNA of blue-eyed individuals from Scandinavia, Turkey, Jordan, and India, Danish researchers found that they all had identical gene sequences for eye color. They believe this trait comes from a single individual, called the “founder,” whose genes mutated between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago. Before that, everyone had varying shades of brown eyes.

This punctuation mark ?! is called an interrobang

That’s right, the combination question mark-exclamation mark that so many of us overuse in text messages has a name. It was invented in the 1960s by an ad man named Martin Speckter who wanted to lend typographical form to the messages behind advertising campaigns that were both questions and exclamations. Think: “Got milk?!” or “Can you hear me now?!” The interrobang originally looked like this, “‽” but nowadays most people use its two root symbols instead.

Doritos are flammable and can be used as kindling

If you’re ever in a bind, throw some Doritos on the grill and spark them up. Though you can make kindling out of nearly anything, the flavored corn chips are particularly handy because they’ll burn for a long time. In fact, most chips will serve as good fire starters because they’re made of flammable hydrocarbons soaked in oil, according to an investigation by The Star. The more covered in powder-flavoring they are, the longer the fire will last!

The first written use of “OMG” was in a 1917 letter to Winston Churchill

The days were dark during World War I when Europe was at war and world powers like Britain were mobilizing their forces. One celebrated British admiral of the Royal Navy had retired by 1917 when he wrote to Winston Churchill to share his take on the headlines of the day, some of which were so exciting, he wrote, “O.M.G. (Oh! My! God!). How could he have known that the acronym he invented would go on to become one of the most-used phrases in the world?


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