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35 Weird Facts You Never Heard of


35 Weird Facts You Never Heard of

Article by Manish Shah

1. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

2. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

3. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

4. The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.

5. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

6. There are more chickens than people in the world.

7. Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

8. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”

9. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

10. All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20.

11. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

12. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”.

13. All 50 States are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the bill.

14. Almonds are a member of the peach family.

15. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.

16. Maine is the only State whose name is just one syllable.

17. There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.


18. The characters “Bert” and “Ernie” on Sesame Street were named after “Bert the cop” and “Ernie the taxi driver” in Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

19. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

20. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

21. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

22. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

23. Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

24. Los Angeles’ full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula.”

25. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

26. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

27. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

28. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

29. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

30. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

31. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

32. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

33. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

34. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

35. “Stewardesses” is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

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List Of 10 Weird Sports


List Of 10 Weird Sports

We are all aware of popular sports, yet there are some sports that are not well known, but have a universal popularity.

Urban Golf

So you don’t want to get all that healthy exercise and walk the golf green. There is another alternative however, called Urban golf. This is where the players attack an innocent warehouse wall with their golf ball.

Bike Polo

The only way to play polo is on bikes, when you don’t have any horses. This rapidly growing sport is quickly developing an international competitive calendar.

Unicycle Sport

Once only witnessed on stage, or in circuses, the unicycle has grown to be a global phenomenon. From balancing acts and acrobats, to mountain racing, to unicycle hockey, the one wheeler has become an instant wonder.

Roller Derby

Players Roller Derby pride themselves on their mixture of punk grit and attitude, plus real athletic ability. The women’s Flat-Track Derby Association hosted its roller derby’s first national championship tournament in 2007.

Wife Carrying

Finland first introduced wife carrying as a sport where male competitors race while carrying a female team mate. The goal is for the male to carry the female, whose aim is to keep the balance, over a particular obstacle course, in the quickest time.

The carrying holds alter between piggyback, fireman’s carry, to Estonian style, where the women clings on upside-down, with her legs wrapped around her partner’s shoulders, as she hangs on to his waist. Major competitions are held in Monona, Finland, Sonkajarvi, Wisconsin and in Marquette, Michigan.

In Finland, the prize is the female’s weight in beer.

Moustache Championships

Growing a moustache and beard is a serious business, as seen at the biennial World Beard And Moustache Championships, where men display their carefully manicured extraordinary beards and moustaches. Categories include full beard freestyle, goatee and Dali moustache.

Of course you must have all the proper tools, from brushes, combs and scissors, to moustache wax and moustache nets.

Recreational Sport of Zorbing

While many see this only as a recreational sport, there is a growing interest in Zorbing. Each competitor ‘walks’ down a set trail, tucked inside a car-sized globe of plastic, reaching speeds of up to 50 kms per hour. Not a sport for the weak hearted and there are medical limitations.

Cardboard Tube Duelling

We are all familiar with the knights of old dueling in their coats of armour. Modern knights are very serious about their Cardboard Tube Duelling. Dressed in cardboard box amour, the competitors duel with cardboard tubes.

Snow Polo

The old sport of Snow Polo was once common with Turkish emperors. It is played on compacted snow on flat ground, or a frozen lake.

However, polo has not been restricted only to horseback. There are now BMX polo, yak polo, elephant polo, canoe polo, camel polo, golfcart polo, and underwater polo.

 

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Weird Facebook and Wonderful Youtube!

Weird Facebook and Wonderful Youtube!

Article by Qusai Zakir









We all seem to have Facebook, and it seems that over 600 million others have as well! Facebook has become extremely popular extremely fast.

If you dont know what Facebook(I hope thats nobody reading this!), Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, and of January 2011, Facebookhas more than 600 million active users.

Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, Mark is now a billionaire ( Lucky little boy!)

More than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month and over 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages).

Mark even has a movie all about Facebook.

The Social Network (2010)

You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.

On the night of 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and begins working on a new idea, Facebook From blogging and programming, He starts what will soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in Friendship and communication. After six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is a billionaire, but for this Success, both personal and legal complications arise.

Youtube is weird. Did you know that April 23, 2005 was when Youtube had its First video of only 19 seconds? And that by july 2006, there was over 500 million views and 65,000 videos uploaded every day!

May 2010 – Youtube reaches 2 Billion+ views a day!

The well-Known You tube

My last post was all about Facebook, And it seems that Facebook has 46.2 years of videos watched on it, every day!

The most ever subscribers a account has had is 2,159,951 and counting! And that was achieved by NigaHiga with his extremely funny videos.

YouTube was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim in 2005. The three founders knew each other from working together at another Internet start up, PayPal.

The domain name YouTube.com was registered on Valentine’s Day in 2005.

The first video to ever be uploaded to YouTube Wasn’t the best. In the San Diego Zoo it shows co-founder Jawed Karim in front of the elephant enclosure going on, It has gained over 4,282,497 views since its upload date on April 23, 2005.

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