Did you know...
-The tsunami down by Indonesia moved the North Pole about 1 inch?
Also about the tsunami: The tsunami also shortened our day by a millionth of a second.
-That a fever isn't caused by an illness it's cause by your body to make it hard for some bacteria
and such from reproducing?
- That people once thought that you could get HIV from using the same toilet that an infected
person?
- That during the Renaissance, there was a law that you could only dress a certain way depending
on your social status and wealth?
- Ashley Simpson was booed at the Orange Bowl (this isn't really educating, i just thought it was
funny considering i don't like her music)?
- That Mozart's last piece before he died wasn't finished so someone else (I think it was a student
of his or something) completed it for him?
- Beetholven's piano teacher said he was hopeless?
- Lucille Ball (Lucy on "I Love Lucy") was told by her drama teacher that she should try any other
profession except acting?
- Gailileo was imprisoned by the Catholic Church for thinking that the Earth rotated around
the Sun (turns out he was right...which was really a slap in the face for the Catholic Church)?
- J.R.R Tolkein actually created his own languages? He made some based on some of his favourite
languages...one of them Welsh.
- There are over 600 types of germs in your mouth? (Ewe...)
- I hate rap, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, and Ashley Simpson?
- The Muslims invented algebra?
- People would say the gods were angry if someone got sick or a lot of people died way
back?
- That scorpions are arachnids?
- Scientists believe than men started to appear first in East Africa?
- If you drop a bowling ball and a tennis ball off the side of a building, (canceling out human
error) at the exact same time, they will both hit the ground at the same exact moment?
- Way back, people with headaches would have doctors dig holes in the person's head, going to the
source of the ache?
- That the fourth smoke stack of the ship Titanic was actually fake and served only
for looks?
- Scientists still have not discovered the use of the apendix?
- During the holidays, online sales increased 25%?
- That without boogers, you'd have lots of germs penetrate the body and cause viruses, and
disease?
- Michaelangelo, when he painted in the Vatican, painted the skin of a man (the man had had his
skin torn off) and that the face of that skin was Michaelangelo's?
- That CERN was the first place to create antimatter?
- Just a drop of antimatter coming in contact with matter woudl have the explosion power of a ten
kilometer bomb?
- I'm running out of random facts?
- Many christian symbols are pagan?
- The composer of "The Nutcracker Suite" hated the piece, but turned out to be one of the most popular
things he ever wrote?
- 65% of adults that are living in the United States are overweight?
- According to Michael Crighton's research, global warming isn't really a big issue, and that it
is just a money making thing for some environmental organizations?
- Seinfeld was actually originally written as a show about how a comic gets his material?
- If you cook foil in the microwave it makes pretty and colourful sparks? (don't try that at home...or
anywhere else. it could start a fire, like i almost did)
- People during the Renaissance would dump their waste and trash into the streets which ended up
causeing the Black Plague?
- You would have to walk three miles to walk the peremeter of the Louvre in Paris, France?
- That there are so many pictures in the actual collection of the Louvre that not all
of them could actually fit inside the building?
- Sound travels at 700 miles per hour?
- If you leave something that is rusted in Coke, the coke will eat at the rust and literally de-rust
the object?
- The latin on the back of the one dollar bill is translated to "A New World Order"?
- Scientists have discovered plants (or was it animals....I'll get back to you all on that) that
do not need sunlight to survive?
- A sneeze is so fast and powerful, that if you didn't close your eyes when you sneezed, your eyes
could pop out of their sockets?
- Michaelangelo insulted artists such as Da Vinci, Raphael, and even himself?
- Winston Churchill failed 6th grade (which is amazing, considering he ended up becoming the Prime
Minister of England)?
