DID YOU KNOW…?

[Vaughan]

Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.

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If you can't wait to pop every air-filled pocket the minute you pull a piece of bubble wrap out of a package, can you imagine how irresistible it would be if it were covering your walls? Engineer Al Fielding and Swiss inventor Marc Chavannes probably didn't consider that when, in 1957, they invented bubble wrap while trying to create a textured wallpaper by sealing two shower curtains together to trap air bubbles.

[JessiCapri]

Did you know… If a dog is scared of thunder a scarf can be tied around its body to give a sense of security.  This is a most useful trick. It will also work if the dog is scared of the noise of fire crackers, or if you live in Florida, or other war zones, gun fire.

[Vaughan]

There's a Starbucks cup in every shot in the movie Fight Club.

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It's not quite true that there's a Starbucks on every single corner in every major city. But there does happen to be a Starbucks cup in every scene in the 1999 movie Fight Club starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter. The cup's appearance was reportedly inspired by a line in the film, when Norton's character explains, “When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.”

You can view all of the cups on this comprehensive Tumblr page.

https://fightclubstarbucks.tumblr.com/

[Vaughan]

Shakespeare invented more than 1,700 words.

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Shakespeare wrote some of the most beloved and revered pieces of literature the world has ever known, but in order to craft his plays and poems, he sometimes resorted to making up his own words. In fact, The Bard is said to have come up with more than 1,700 words including moonbeam, laughable, eyeball, bump, puking, champion, bedroom, excitement, and zany.

[Vaughan]

The saying “fly off the handle” originates from the 1800s.

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It’s a saying that refers to cheap axe-heads flying off their handles when swung backward before a chop.

[Vaughan]

Thomas Edison didn’t invent most of the stuff he patented.

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It’s fair to say that Edison was one of the world’s most notorious intellectual property thieves.

Of the 1,093 things he smashed a patent on, he stole near enough most of them off real geniuses like Nikola Tesla, Wilhelm Rontgen, and Joseph Swan – the latter of whom originally invented the lightbulb!

Nikola Tesla, (born July 9/10, 1856, Smiljan, Austrian Empire [now in Croatia]—died January 7, 1943, New York, New York, U.S.), Serbian American inventor and engineer who discovered and patented the rotating magnetic field, the basis of most alternating-current machinery.

Wilhelm Roentgen, Professor of Physics in Wurzburg, Bavaria, discovered X-rays in 1895—accidentally—while testing whether cathode rays could pass through glass.

Joseph Swan, in full Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, (born October 31, 1828, Sunderland, Durham, England—died May 27, 1914, Warlingham, Surrey), English physicist and chemist who produced an early electric lightbulb and invented the dry photographic plate, an important improvement in photography

[Vaughan]

The average mammal takes 21 seconds to empty its bladder.

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No one will blame you if you've never bothered to time yourself on the toilet. But you may be interested to know that researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology found that most mammals weighing more than six pounds take 21 seconds to pee. According to Live Science, this oddly consistent time is due to the fact that the urethra is “appropriately scaled” to be a “flow-enhancing device.” And apparently, the perfectly enhanced flow takes 21 seconds to complete.

[Vaughan]

Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Ceres
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
Haumea
Makemake
Eris

[Vaughan]

RAINBOW COLOURS

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[Vaughan]

The top speed of the winning car in the first U.S. race was seven miles per hour.

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Frank Duryea reached a top speed of 7 mph when he raced the second car he had ever built with his brother, Charles, on Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 1895. The Chicago-Times Herald sponsored race featured a 54-mile course that ran from downtown Chicago to Evanston and back.

[Vaughan]

It's illegal to own just one guinea pig in Switzerland.

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Guinea pigs are social animals that prefer the companionship of another guinea pig. That's why it's illegal to own just one of the little critters in Switzerland. Thankfully, if one of your fuzzy pets passes away and you're not ready to commit to another, Switzerland also allows you to rent a guinea pig for your remaining pet.

[Vaughan]

There's a planet that's shaped like a potato.

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Not every celestial object has a shape that's as perfectly majestic as planet Earth. In fact, some of them are downright hilarious to look at. Take Haumea, for example. This dwarf planet is cool for a number of reasons. About the same size as Pluto, Haumea orbits the sun beyond Neptune and has rings similar to Jupiter. But what makes this object even more interesting is that it's shaped like a potato.

[Vaughan]

It only takes six minutes for alcohol to affect your brain.

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Just one drink can quickly go to your head, whether you feel it or not. Researchers at Heidelberg University Hospital found that just six minutes after consuming alcohol, changes are already taking place in the brain. So even if you don't feel tipsy right away, you're definitely not totally sober either.

[Vaughan]

“Q” is the only letter that doesn't appear in any U.S. state name.

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Q is the only letter that doesn't appear in any U.S. state name, from Alabama to Wyoming and everything in between.

[Vaughan]

King Tut owned a dagger from outer space.

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King Tutankhamun had lots of cool toys, but one of his most intriguing may have been a dagger, discovered in his tomb in 1925, made of meteoric metal. It wasn't until recently that scientists were able to confirm the material, using a technique called portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry. They determined that the dagger's composition of iron, nickel, and cobalt “strongly suggests an extraterrestrial origin.”

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The iron blade of an ornate dagger buried with Egypt’s King Tutankhamen in the 14th century B.C. likely came from a fallen meteorite.
The blade’s composition of iron, nickel and cobalt “strongly suggests an extraterrestrial origin.” and is nearly identical to the composition of a meteor found in the seaport city of Marsa Matruh, 150 miles west of Alexandria, Egypt.

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