Interesting Little Facts … Scientific and others

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[martinus]

These 15 Weird Facts Will Sound Totally False, But They’re Not.

#1. Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.

#2. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.

#3. France was still executing people by guillotine when
Star Wars: A New Hope hit theatres.

#4. Nintendo was originally a trading card company.

#5. If the sun were the size of a white blood cell
then the Milky Way Galaxy would be the size of the United States.

#6. There are more stars in space than there
are grains of sand on every beach in the world.

#7. For every human on Earth there are 1.6 million ants.

#8. The total weight of all those ants, however, is about the same as all the humans.

#9. On Jupiter and Saturn it rains diamonds.

#10. There are more fake flamingos in the world than real ones.

#11. A strawberry is NOT a berry.

#12. A banana IS a berry.

#13. An octopus has three hearts.

#14. There are 10 times more bacteria in your body than actual body cells.

#15. New York City is farther south than Rome, Italy

[Lover]

69 facts about Germany:

    Germans are the second largest beer consumers in the world, after the Irish (of course).
    Beer is officially considered a food in Bavaria.
    Michael Ballack does not like beer.
    Germany is Europe’s largest economy.
    The most popular German surname (Nachname) is Müller.
    Chancellor Angela Merkel has a Barbie doll made after her.
    Historically, Germany was known as the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the Weimar Republic.
    31% of the country has been kept with forests and woodlands, with Hesse having the most.
    There are over 300 kinds of bread in Germany.
    There are also bread museums.
    There are 35 dialects of the German language.
    The Wittelsbachs ruled Bavaria for 738 years.
    Munich is further north than any major US city (excluding Alaska).
    German is the official language of 5 countries: Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein. It is also spoken in Northern Italy and the French provinces of Alsace and Lorraine.
    Germany is the first country to adopt Daylight Saving Time (DST) in 1916.
    2% of Germans do not own cell phones.
    Gummy bears were invented by a German.
    The balcony of the hotel Michael Jackson dangled his son over is in Berlin.
    While it is called Oktoberfest, it actually starts in Steptember.
    The first Oktoberfest was a wedding celebration for Prince Ludwig of Bavaria.
    65% of the Autobahn (highway) has no speed limit.
    The Cologne Cathedral took 632 years to build. (Bill Bryson in Neither Here Nor There (p. 88) wrote: “It is absolutely immense, over 500 feet long and more than 200 feet wide…It can hold 40,000 people. You can understand why it took 700 years to build – and that was with German workers. In Britain they would still be digging the foundations.”)
    The first printed book was in German.
    German is the third most commonly taught language worldwide.
    When JFK visited Berlin, he infamously said “Ich bin ein Berliner,” which also translates to “I am a jelly donut.”
    Hugo Boss designed the official uniforms for the Nazi Party and Hitler Youth. (I did an assignment on this for German class if anyone is interested in reading more about it)
    To ask for a beer in a pub, you would use your thumb to indicate “one” rather than your index finger (watch Inglorious Basterds for improper examples of ordering beer)
    Til Schweiger, sometimes known as the “German Brad Pitt,” is born one day after Pitt.
    The longest word published in the German language is Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft (79 letters). Try saying that five times fast.
    Famous Bavarians include Pope Benedict XVI, Richard Wagner, Richard Straus, Thomas Mann, Levi Strauss, and Rudolf Diesel.
    The Berlin Wall fell in 1989.
    The world’s tallest cathedral is in Ulm.
    Berlin has the largest train station in Europe.
    Holocaust denial is a crime in Germany.
    German is spoken by more than 100 million people worldwide.
    There are over 150 castles in Germany.
    The Christmas tree (Tannenbaum) tradition came from Germany.
    Freiburg is the warmest German city.
    There are over 60 beer gardens in Munich.
    Germany has over 400 zoos, the most in the world.
    There are over 1,000 kinds of sausages in Germany.
    Germany borders 9 countries (Austria, France, Switzerland, Denmark, Belgium, Luxemburg, Holland, Czech Republic, and Poland).
    Berlin is nine times bigger than Paris.
    Most taxis in Germany are Mercedes.
    In the 4th grade, German kids are placed into Hauptschule, Realschule or Gymnasium, which pretty much determines if you will go to university or straight to the work force (Gymnasium is the highest level).

Why they’re so smart. Inventions and contributions to the world of arts:

    Albert Einstein, the most recognized scientist in the world, was German and born in Ulm.
    Einstein married his cousin.
    There is a rumour that Einstein failed his first University Entrance Exam (he didn’t).
    Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz created the first motor-driven vehicles
    Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, originally used for printing the Bible.
    Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovered the X-rays in 1895.
    The cuckoo clock is invented in Germany in the 17th century.
    Other notable German inventions include: the telephone, diesel engine, aspirin, fluorescent lamp, and the pregnancy test.
    There are 102 German Nobel laureates as of 2009.
    Adidas was founded by the Bavarian, Adolf “Adi”Dassler.
    His other brother, Rudolf Dassler founded Puma.
    Famous German composers include Beethoven, Schumann, Bach, Wagner, Strauss, and Handel.
    Famous philosophers include Nietzsche, Marx, Kant and Hegel.

Facts about football:

    The Deutscher Fußball-Bund was found in 1900 in Leipzig.
    The Bayern Munich is the most successful team in the Bundesliga having won the champions league four times (1974, 1975, 1976, 2001)
    Nicknames for Bayern Munich include Der FCB, Die Bayern, Die Roten and FC Hollywood.
    10% of Bayern’s shares are owned by Adidas.
    Franz Beckenbauer is nicknamed “Der Kaiser”
    The DFB won 3 times in 1954, 1974, 1990, and their wins are represented by the three stars on their logo.
    Rudi Voller told Michael Ballack to take his number 13.
    Ballack’s favourite cologne is “Romance” for men by Calvin Klein (Guys – take note).
    Mesut Ozil (of Turkish descent) recites verses of the Koran before kick-offs.
    Lukas Podolski paid a 5000 euro fine and admitted to being an “idiot” after slapping Ballack’s face during a qualifying win against Wales when Ballack shouted at him over a misplaced pass.
    There’s more soccer fan clubs in Germany than anywhere else in the world.

[Brandybee]

The Cologne Cathedral took 632 years to build. (Bill Bryson in Neither Here Nor There (p. 88) wrote: “It is absolutely immense, over 500 feet long and more than 200 feet wide…It can hold 40,000 people. You can understand why it took 700 years to build – and that was with German workers. In Britain they would still be digging the foundations.”)

Our Polish builders are the best.

[AusWoody]

Cough BULLSHIT Cough

Other notable German inventions include: the telephone,

let me  point you to this gentleman

Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922)[4] was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.[N 3]

further info
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell

[Lover]

@ Brandy:
William McGuire “Bill” Bryson, OBE, FRS (/ˈbraɪsən/; born December 8, 1951) is a best-selling American author of humorous books on travel, as well as books on the English language and science. Born in the United States, he was a resident of Britain for most of his adult life before returning to America in 1995. In 2003 Bryson and his wife and four children moved back to Britain, living in the old rectory of Wramplingham, Norfolk. He served as the chancellor of Durham University from 2005 to 2011.[1][2][3][4]

Bryson came to prominence in the United Kingdom with the publication of Notes from a Small Island (1995), an exploration of Britain, and its accompanying television series. He received widespread recognition again with the publication of A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003), a book widely acclaimed for its accessible communication of science.

It wasn't a german nor me at all who said this…but I admit, I had to laugh reading this

[Lover]

Woody, google Johann Philipp Reis. Bell was the 1st who got a patent – he was clever and smart

[AusWoody]

hmm i really dont  have much respect for Edison, i will take the info on reis  under advisement  tho

[Brandybee]

@Lover
It wasn't a german nor me at all who said this…but I admit, I had to laugh reading this

Me too.  :-*  However…  it still doesn't get you out of wearing an English Footy shirt

xxx

[Peeka]

[maron211177]

Why noone ever listens to me?

[martinus]

Why noone ever listens to me?

Hands Maron the right size cup of coffee

[Peeka]

How much milk would Santa drink if he had to stomach all the milk at every house?

Assuming a standard glass of milk is 8 fluid ounces, that means Santa drinks about 137 million gallons of milk over the night, or about 4 million gallons of milk every hour.
Assuming the good boys and girls in the U.K. stick to tradition and leave a glass of sherry, Santa would be able to skip 4.2 million glasses of milk. He would, however, be drinking 1.3 million bottles of Sherry wine in an hour.

Will Santa go into a sugar coma from eating so many sweets?

Definitely. If Santa were a person, he'd have late-onset diabetes by the third hour. Assuming each household in the whole world leaves out two chocolate chip cookies (we're using Pillsbury ready-bakes. Hey, it's the holidays), that means at every house he would stack up 170 calories, 14g of sugar, and 8g of fat. In total, that'd be 374 billion calories, 33,000 tons of sugar, and 151,000 tons of fat.

How long would it take Santa to work off the calories just from those cookies?

Assuming Santa's running an 8-minute mile, he'd have to run for about 109 centuries to burn off those calories.

How fast does Santa need to travel to deliver all his presents?

Let's just assume Santa's going to travel in a straight line, because my brain can't physically figure out the math on his route. A straight line around the equator is about 25,000 miles. Not counting the Earth's rotation or relative elevation (Santa is flying, after all), Santa and his reindeer would be traveling at 694 mph. To actually cover the entire population, Santa would be travelling somewhere above Mach 2. One site estimated that the force of air friction at that speed would heat up the reindeer much like a shuttle re-entering the atmosphere, igniting them immediately. Santa, on the other hand, would get hit with more than 17,000 gs (the force of gravity per unit mass), or more than 4 million pounds of force. Even the most optimistic estimates say that 100 gs (or even as low as 6 gs) of sustained force would probably kill a person. But Santa is magic and therefore not dead. It's okay, kids!

How much weight is Santa slogging around with him?

Two quick assumptions. Let's pretend all 2.2 billion people a) have been “nice” and b) that they all want an action figure, like this Batman figure from Amazon. At a weight of 7.2 ounces, that means Santa's sleigh would be hauling 500,000 tons of toys. Good thing they didn't wish for a Holiday Wishes Barbie, which would up the total to nearly 700,000 tons.

He's a real superhero, isn't he?  

[denisee40]

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Vibrators were invented for something else
The vibrator was originally invented in the 19th century as a way to reduce “hysteria.” That seems a little extreme. However, we do not recommend testing that theory by taking away a woman's vibrator to see if she goes into a hysterical fit. That's just dangerous.

[martinus]

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