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Twist-Tie Colors
2007-06-05 12:00:00 “The colors of the twist-ties on loaves of bread indicate what day they were delivered (i.e. how old they are.)” [source] Share This More About: Facts , Colors , Twist
Stonewall Jackson
2007-06-04 12:00:00 “Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson , a revered Confederate general during the American Civil War was actually accidentally shot by his own troops and died of infection from the wound.” [wikipedia] Share This More About: History , Facts , Stonewall Jackson , Tone
The Sistine Chapel Frescoes
2007-06-03 11:00:00 “Micheangelo’s frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel took him four years to complete, from 1508 to 1512.” [source] Share This More About: Facts , Apel
The First Billionaire
2007-06-03 05:13:00 “Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world’s first billionaire.” source Share This More About: Facts , Billionaire , Bill , Billion
Jumping The Shark
2007-04-11 21:00:00 From wikipedia.org “Jump ing the shark is a metaphor that was originally used to denote the tipping point at which a TV series is deemed by a viewer to have passed its peak, or has introduced plot twists that are illogical in terms of everything that has preceded them.” [read more] Share This More About: Shark , Ping , Jumping
Jumping The Shark
2007-04-11 21:00:00 From wikipedia.org “Jump ing the shark is a metaphor that was originally used to denote the tipping point at which a TV series is deemed by a viewer to have passed its peak, or has introduced plot twists that are illogical in terms of everything that has preceded them.” [read more] Share This More About: Facts , Shark , Ping , Jumping
Dwarf Planets
2007-04-09 03:31:00 From wikipedia.org “The term “dwarf planet” was adopted in 2006 as part of a three-way classification of bodies orbiting the Sun. Objects that are large enough to have cleared the neighbourhood of their orbit are defined as “planets”, while those which are too small to be in hydrostatic equilibrium are defined as “small solar system bodies”. ... More About: Facts , Planets , Plan , Anet , Dwarf
Dwarf Planets
2007-04-09 03:31:00 From wikipedia.org “The term “dwarf planet” was adopted in 2006 as part of a three-way classification of bodies orbiting the Sun. Objects that are large enough to have cleared the neighbourhood of their orbit are defined as “planets”, while those which are too small to be in hydrostatic equilibrium are defined as “small solar system bodies”. ... More About: Planets , Planet , War , Lane , Plane
A Lifetime of Bed Making.
2007-03-17 05:28:00 LeeLoo200 Submitted this fact in a comment, Thanks! “On average, every human walks 4km in their lifetime from just making their bed. Now thats saying something. HaHa” [source] Share This More About: Facts , Lifetime , Maki , Makin
A Lifetime of Bed Making.
2007-03-17 05:28:00 LeeLoo200 Submitted this fact in a comment, Thanks! “On average, every human walks 4km in their lifetime from just making their bed. Now thats saying something. HaHa” [source] Share This More About: Life , Time , Lifetime , King , Maki
No New Facts?
2007-03-10 23:37:01 Sorry for the lack-of updates recently. There should be some new facts posted in the next few days. If you want to help out, then send in your facts here! Share This More About: Facts , Fact
No New Facts?
2007-03-09 23:07:00 Sorry for the lack-of updates recently. There should be some new facts posted in the next few days. If you want to help out, then send in your facts here! Share This More About: Facts , Site
Colors of the Rainbow
2007-02-25 11:28:01 “The order of the colors of a rainbow is (starting from the outside of the arc and going towards the inside of the arc) red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.” [source] Share This More About: Color , Rain , Colors , Rainbow , Rainbo
Colors of the Rainbow
2007-02-24 23:29:00 “The order of the colors of a rainbow is (starting from the outside of the arc and going towards the inside of the arc) red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.” [source] Share This More About: Facts , General , Colors , Rainbow , Rainbo
Common Words in English
2007-02-10 23:16:02 “The word “the” is the most common word in standard English , followed closely by “be” and “to”.” [source] Share This More About: Word , Words , Common , Comm
Common Words in English
2007-02-10 17:55:00 “The word “the” is the most common word in standard English , followed closely by “be” and “to”.” [source] Share This More About: Facts , Words , Common , Comm
Hair
2007-02-08 12:50:00 “Human Hair is a filamentous outgrowth of dead cells” [source] Share This More About: Facts
$100,000 Bills
2007-02-03 11:10:05 “Most of us know of $500 and $1,000 bills made, but did you know about the $5,000, $10,000, and $100,000? Yes, it’s true. The $5000 and $10,000 notes were actually released into circulation, but the $100,000 notes were only used among Federal Reserve Banks.” [source] Share This More About: Bill , Bills
$100,000 Bills
2007-02-02 19:28:00 “Most of us know of $500 and $1,000 bills made, but did you know about the $5,000, $10,000, and $100,000? Yes, it’s true. The $5000 and $10,000 notes were actually released into circulation, but the $100,000 notes were only used among Federal Reserve Banks.” [source] Share This More About: Facts , Bill , Bills
Washing a Sink is Illegal
2007-01-27 11:06:01 “In Baltimore, Maryland, it is illegal to wash or scrub sinks, no matter how dirty they get.” [source] Share This More About: Legal , Wash , Illegal , Shin , Washing
Water in the Human Body
2007-01-26 11:05:01 “The body of an average young man is 60% water, while the body of an average young woman is 50% water.” [source] Share This More About: Body , Human , Water , Uman
Harry ?S? Truman
2007-01-26 11:05:01 “The middle name of President Harry Truman was just the letter ‘S.’” [source] Share This More About: Uman , Ruma
Strawberry and Fruits
2007-01-23 11:04:01 “According to botanists, a strawberry is not a berry, it is actually an aggregate fruit.” [source] Share This More About: Fruits , Fruit , Strawberry , Berry , Stra
Ring Around the Rosey
2007-01-02 10:51:05 “A common conjecture is that the rhyme is somehow connected to the Great Plague of London in 1665, or perhaps earlier outbreaks of bubonic plague in England. This story is entirely unsupported by textual sources, as there is no mention of the verses, nor written evidence of their existence, before 1881.” [source] Share This More About: Rose , Ring , Round , Rosey
Thundersnow
2006-12-30 10:50:04 “Thunder snow is a particularly rare meteorological phenomenon that includes the typical behavior of a thunderstorm, but with snow falling as the primary precipitation instead of rain. It commonly falls in regions of strong upward motion within the cold sector of extratropical cyclones between autumn and spring when surface temperatures are most likely to be near or below freezing.” [source] Share This More About: Hund , Snow , Under , Hunde
Etymology of Christmas
2006-12-27 10:48:03 From wikipedia.org “After the conversion of Anglo-Saxon Britain in the early 7th century, Chris t mas was referred to as geol[3], the name of the pre-Christian solstice festival from which the current English word ‘Yule’ is derived. The word “Christmas” is a contraction meaning “Christ’s mass.” It is derived from the Middle English Christemasse and Old English Cristes męsse, a phrase first recorded in 1038.” [source] Share This More About: Ology
The First Parachuting Death
2006-12-27 10:48:03 “Robert Cocking was the first person to die in a parachuting accident, after a parachute of his own design (pictured) failed during a test at Vauxhall Gardens in 1837.” [source] Share This More About: Death , Para , First
Space Shuttle Discovery
2006-12-23 22:45:01 From wikipedia.org “Space Shuttle Discovery has flown 33 flights, spent 241.95 days in space, completed 3,808 orbits, and flown 98,710,673 statute miles (158,859,429 km) in total, as of December 2006. It has flown the most flights of all Space Shuttles so far (a title it is likely to keep). Discovery has also flown on more individual flights than any other spacecraft in history and is likely to retain this honor for some time as no planned launch vehicles (neither American nor International) have a designed lifespan of more than 10 flights. Discovery has flown both “return to flight” missions after the Space Shuttle Challenger and Columbia disasters: STS-26 in 1988 and STS-114 in 2005.” [source] Share This More About: Cover , Over , Pace
Joseph Jacquard
More articles from this author:2006-12-22 22:44:02 “In the early 1800s, a French silk weaver called Jose ph -Marie Jacquard invented a way of automatically controlling the warp and weft threads on a silk loom by recording patterns of holes in a string of cards.” [source] Share This 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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