Yes it really happened
Re: Yes it really happened
Both my grandfathers fought at Gallipoli and at least 1 of their brothers perished there
Re: Yes it really happened
Army or Navy, Noosard?
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Re: Yes it really happened
Ernie
You didnt mention the air force
You didnt mention the air force
Re: Yes it really happened
1) Polar Bears
They Can Swim For Days
If necessary, polar bears can just keep swimming for days at a time in order to find food. They can hold their breath for up to 2 minutes and their nostrils automatically seal shut in order to prevent them from ingesting water.
They're also such adept swimmers because they're physiology was designed to navigate water—according to the WWF their giant paws help them paddle and move along while they hold their hind legs flat and use them as a rudder.
2) More Polar Bears
They Have an Incredible Sense of Smell
They have a strong sense of smell, being able to catch a whiff of prey up to half a mile away. In fact, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) says that these apex predators can smell a seal through three feet of packed snow. They can also sniff out a seal on ice up to 20 miles away.
3) And Finally Polar Bears
Polar Bears Can Have Pals
Although polar bears are mostly solitary creatures—with the exception of breeding season and when a mother is raising her cubs—they sometimes do hangout in groups called sleuths. Polar bears also have an excellent memory and are able to remember other bears they've met even if they've gone several years without seeing one another.
4) Sriracha sauce (Huy Fong Foods)
over 20,000,000 bottles produced each year
5) One of the famous Kings from Egypt
Tutankhamun or Tut was an Egyptian pharaoh , who is famous as the boy individual. It is believed that he was an eighteenth dynasty pharaoh, whose rule is estimated to be between 1333 BC - 1324 BC. One of the most interesting facts about individual Tut is that he became a ruler at the age of nine.
They Can Swim For Days
If necessary, polar bears can just keep swimming for days at a time in order to find food. They can hold their breath for up to 2 minutes and their nostrils automatically seal shut in order to prevent them from ingesting water.
They're also such adept swimmers because they're physiology was designed to navigate water—according to the WWF their giant paws help them paddle and move along while they hold their hind legs flat and use them as a rudder.
2) More Polar Bears
They Have an Incredible Sense of Smell
They have a strong sense of smell, being able to catch a whiff of prey up to half a mile away. In fact, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) says that these apex predators can smell a seal through three feet of packed snow. They can also sniff out a seal on ice up to 20 miles away.
3) And Finally Polar Bears
Polar Bears Can Have Pals
Although polar bears are mostly solitary creatures—with the exception of breeding season and when a mother is raising her cubs—they sometimes do hangout in groups called sleuths. Polar bears also have an excellent memory and are able to remember other bears they've met even if they've gone several years without seeing one another.
4) Sriracha sauce (Huy Fong Foods)
over 20,000,000 bottles produced each year
5) One of the famous Kings from Egypt
Tutankhamun or Tut was an Egyptian pharaoh , who is famous as the boy individual. It is believed that he was an eighteenth dynasty pharaoh, whose rule is estimated to be between 1333 BC - 1324 BC. One of the most interesting facts about individual Tut is that he became a ruler at the age of nine.
Re: Yes it really happened
1) The largest living animal in the world is the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus), a beast measuring upwards of 100 feet (30 meters) long
2) With a wingspan measuring up to 11.5 feet (3.5 meters) long, the wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) is the largest living bird on Earth.
The largest bird species on record (Pelagornis sandersi) is now extinct. Its wingspan measured between 20 and 24 feet (6.1 and 7.3 m), twice as long as the modern wandering albatross's wingspan, said Daniel Ksepka, a paleontologist and curator of science at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut.
The heaviest living bird is the ostrich, which weighs an average of 244 lbs. (111 kilograms). The heaviest extinct bird is either the elephant bird (Aepyornis maximus) or the moa (Dinornis robustus). While the science community is split, "if you put a gun to my head, I would say Aepyornis maximus and go with 500 kg [1,100 lbs.] as the likely mass," Ksepka said. "They were, of course, flightless."
3) Out of 41 species, the reticulated python is the longest python (and snake) on record.
The longest known reticulated python measured 26.2 feet (8 m) long, longer than five grand pianos lined up. It was found at a construction site in Malaysia in April 2016, and died shortly after its capture, Live Science previously reported.
That Malaysian snake was longer than Medusa, the longest captive snake in the world, which measured 25.1 feet (7.7 m), according to Guinness World Records
4) After decades of upgrades to a fleet of notoriously cramped Sikorsky VH-3 Sea Kings, the White House has tasked Lockheed Martin with a dramatic, $6.1-billion makeover of Marine One, the presidential helicopter, starting this summer. The goal: to fit a mobile Oval Office into the tight quarters of a chopper. The new fleet will consist of 23 VH-71 aircraft, each of which will have 200 square feet of cabin space, nearly double the Sea individual’s 116.
Aside from the legroom, the copter will incorporate major upgrades to the old defense and communications systems. Equally important is that the aircraft is flight-proven—the $110-million bird is derived from a European-built AgustaWestland EH101, currently doing military service for Canada and the U.K. Here, an inside look at the revamped Marine One, set to gradually go into service between 2009 and 2014.
Fuselage: Made of high-strength reinforced aluminum alloy, it can withstand crash impacts in excess of 15 Gs.
Engine: The VH-71 can shift from three 3,000-horsepower turboshaft engines to two, whereas the twin-engine Sea individual must land if one engine fails.
Rotor: Five flared rotor blades increase the craft’s efficiency by up to 30 percent over conventional designs when flying at 150-knot cruising speed.
Defense System: The VH-71s, like the EH101s they are modeled on, will probably feature radar-warning receiv-ers, laser detectors and flare dispensers to deflect anti-aircraft missiles.
Cabin: Measuring eight feet wide and 25 feet long, the cabin will include a lavatory and a galley kitchen. The fold-down stair spares the president from ducking during photogenic entrances and exits.
Communications: More room for communications hardware means the president will have secure and continuous access to all White House and Pentagon computer systems and data streams.
5) WIKIPEDIA
Wikipedia (/ˌwɪkɪˈpiːdiə/ (About this soundlisten) wik-ih-PEE-dee-ə or /ˌwɪkiˈpiːdiə/ (About this soundlisten) wik-ee-PEE-dee-ə) is a multilingual online encyclopedia created and maintained as an open collaboration project[4] by a community of volunteer editors using a wiki-based editing system.[5] It is the largest and most popular general reference work on the World Wide Web,[6][7][8] and is one of the most popular websites ranked by Alexa as of January 2020.[9] It features exclusively free content and no commercial ads, and is owned and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization funded primarily through donations.[10][11][12][13]
Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.[14] Sanger coined its name,[15][16] as a portmanteau of "wiki" (the Hawaiian word for "quick")[17] and "encyclopedia". Initially an English-language encyclopedia, versions of Wikipedia in other languages were quickly developed. With at least 6,019,536 articles,[note 3] the English Wikipedia is the largest of the more than 290 Wikipedia encyclopedias. Overall, Wikipedia comprises more than 40 million articles in 301 different languages[18] and by February 2014 it had reached 18 billion page views and nearly 500 million unique visitors per month.[19]
In 2005, Nature published a peer review comparing 42 hard science articles from Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia and found that Wikipedia's level of accuracy approached that of Britannica,[20] although critics suggested that it might not have fared so well in a similar study of a random sampling of all articles or one focused on social science or contentious social issues.[21][22] The following year, Time magazine stated that the open-door policy of allowing anyone to edit had made Wikipedia the biggest and possibly the best encyclopedia in the world, and was a testament to the vision of Jimmy Wales.[23]
Wikipedia has been criticized for exhibiting systemic bias, for presenting a mixture of "truth, half truth, and some falsehoods",[24] and for being subject to manipulation and spin in controversial topics.[25] Wikipedia has been criticized for gender bias, particularly on its English-language site, where the dominant majority of editors are male. However, Edit-a-thons have been held to encourage female editors and increase the coverage of women's topics.[26][27] Facebook announced that by 2017 it would help readers detect fake news by suggesting links to related Wikipedia articles. YouTube announced a similar plan in 2018
2) With a wingspan measuring up to 11.5 feet (3.5 meters) long, the wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) is the largest living bird on Earth.
The largest bird species on record (Pelagornis sandersi) is now extinct. Its wingspan measured between 20 and 24 feet (6.1 and 7.3 m), twice as long as the modern wandering albatross's wingspan, said Daniel Ksepka, a paleontologist and curator of science at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut.
The heaviest living bird is the ostrich, which weighs an average of 244 lbs. (111 kilograms). The heaviest extinct bird is either the elephant bird (Aepyornis maximus) or the moa (Dinornis robustus). While the science community is split, "if you put a gun to my head, I would say Aepyornis maximus and go with 500 kg [1,100 lbs.] as the likely mass," Ksepka said. "They were, of course, flightless."
3) Out of 41 species, the reticulated python is the longest python (and snake) on record.
The longest known reticulated python measured 26.2 feet (8 m) long, longer than five grand pianos lined up. It was found at a construction site in Malaysia in April 2016, and died shortly after its capture, Live Science previously reported.
That Malaysian snake was longer than Medusa, the longest captive snake in the world, which measured 25.1 feet (7.7 m), according to Guinness World Records
4) After decades of upgrades to a fleet of notoriously cramped Sikorsky VH-3 Sea Kings, the White House has tasked Lockheed Martin with a dramatic, $6.1-billion makeover of Marine One, the presidential helicopter, starting this summer. The goal: to fit a mobile Oval Office into the tight quarters of a chopper. The new fleet will consist of 23 VH-71 aircraft, each of which will have 200 square feet of cabin space, nearly double the Sea individual’s 116.
Aside from the legroom, the copter will incorporate major upgrades to the old defense and communications systems. Equally important is that the aircraft is flight-proven—the $110-million bird is derived from a European-built AgustaWestland EH101, currently doing military service for Canada and the U.K. Here, an inside look at the revamped Marine One, set to gradually go into service between 2009 and 2014.
Fuselage: Made of high-strength reinforced aluminum alloy, it can withstand crash impacts in excess of 15 Gs.
Engine: The VH-71 can shift from three 3,000-horsepower turboshaft engines to two, whereas the twin-engine Sea individual must land if one engine fails.
Rotor: Five flared rotor blades increase the craft’s efficiency by up to 30 percent over conventional designs when flying at 150-knot cruising speed.
Defense System: The VH-71s, like the EH101s they are modeled on, will probably feature radar-warning receiv-ers, laser detectors and flare dispensers to deflect anti-aircraft missiles.
Cabin: Measuring eight feet wide and 25 feet long, the cabin will include a lavatory and a galley kitchen. The fold-down stair spares the president from ducking during photogenic entrances and exits.
Communications: More room for communications hardware means the president will have secure and continuous access to all White House and Pentagon computer systems and data streams.
5) WIKIPEDIA
Wikipedia (/ˌwɪkɪˈpiːdiə/ (About this soundlisten) wik-ih-PEE-dee-ə or /ˌwɪkiˈpiːdiə/ (About this soundlisten) wik-ee-PEE-dee-ə) is a multilingual online encyclopedia created and maintained as an open collaboration project[4] by a community of volunteer editors using a wiki-based editing system.[5] It is the largest and most popular general reference work on the World Wide Web,[6][7][8] and is one of the most popular websites ranked by Alexa as of January 2020.[9] It features exclusively free content and no commercial ads, and is owned and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization funded primarily through donations.[10][11][12][13]
Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.[14] Sanger coined its name,[15][16] as a portmanteau of "wiki" (the Hawaiian word for "quick")[17] and "encyclopedia". Initially an English-language encyclopedia, versions of Wikipedia in other languages were quickly developed. With at least 6,019,536 articles,[note 3] the English Wikipedia is the largest of the more than 290 Wikipedia encyclopedias. Overall, Wikipedia comprises more than 40 million articles in 301 different languages[18] and by February 2014 it had reached 18 billion page views and nearly 500 million unique visitors per month.[19]
In 2005, Nature published a peer review comparing 42 hard science articles from Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia and found that Wikipedia's level of accuracy approached that of Britannica,[20] although critics suggested that it might not have fared so well in a similar study of a random sampling of all articles or one focused on social science or contentious social issues.[21][22] The following year, Time magazine stated that the open-door policy of allowing anyone to edit had made Wikipedia the biggest and possibly the best encyclopedia in the world, and was a testament to the vision of Jimmy Wales.[23]
Wikipedia has been criticized for exhibiting systemic bias, for presenting a mixture of "truth, half truth, and some falsehoods",[24] and for being subject to manipulation and spin in controversial topics.[25] Wikipedia has been criticized for gender bias, particularly on its English-language site, where the dominant majority of editors are male. However, Edit-a-thons have been held to encourage female editors and increase the coverage of women's topics.[26][27] Facebook announced that by 2017 it would help readers detect fake news by suggesting links to related Wikipedia articles. YouTube announced a similar plan in 2018
Re: Yes it really happened
Cancelled in 2009, Dodo. I remember this prototype in the Westland flight test hangar at Yeovil when I was working a Chinook CH-47 modification. How old is this info you're sourcing?After decades of upgrades to a fleet of notoriously cramped Sikorsky VH-3 Sea Kings, the White House has tasked Lockheed Martin with a dramatic, $6.1-billion makeover of Marine One, the presidential helicopter, starting this summer. The goal: to fit a mobile Oval Office into the tight quarters of a chopper. The new fleet will consist of 23 VH-71 aircraft, each of which will have 200 square feet of cabin space, nearly double the Sea individual’s 116.
Aside from the legroom, the copter will incorporate major upgrades to the old defense and communications systems. Equally important is that the aircraft is flight-proven—the $110-million bird is derived from a European-built AgustaWestland EH101, currently doing military service for Canada and the U.K. Here, an inside look at the revamped Marine One, set to gradually go into service between 2009 and 2014.
Fuselage: Made of high-strength reinforced aluminum alloy, it can withstand crash impacts in excess of 15 Gs.
Engine: The VH-71 can shift from three 3,000-horsepower turboshaft engines to two, whereas the twin-engine Sea individual must land if one engine fails.
Rotor: Five flared rotor blades increase the craft’s efficiency by up to 30 percent over conventional designs when flying at 150-knot cruising speed.
Defense System: The VH-71s, like the EH101s they are modeled on, will probably feature radar-warning receiv-ers, laser detectors and flare dispensers to deflect anti-aircraft missiles.
Cabin: Measuring eight feet wide and 25 feet long, the cabin will include a lavatory and a galley kitchen. The fold-down stair spares the president from ducking during photogenic entrances and exits.
Communications: More room for communications hardware means the president will have secure and continuous access to all White House and Pentagon computer systems and data streams.
Here's some evidence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_ ... 71_Kestrel
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1) Submarines
The Russian Navy's Typhoon Class submarine tops the list of the world's biggest submarines, closely followed by Russia's newest submarine the Borei Class, Oscar II Class, and the US Navy's enormous Ohio Class. Naval-technology.com profiles the world's biggest submarines, based on submerged displacement. (Last updated: June 2019)
2) Smallest Sub
The smallest submarine was made by Pierre Poulin (Canada) and has a displacement of 620 kg (1366.9 lb). Its official dive was made in the Memphremagog Lake, in Magog, Quebec on 26 June 2005. The smallest submarine called ‘BIG’ (620 kg including the weight of pilot) made by Pierre Poulin was easily capable of turning through 360 degrees and ascending and descending under its own power. The pilot, Pierre Poulin, controlled the submarine from a watertight compartment, stayed submerged for 43 minutes to a depth of 5 m and covered a distance estimated at 1.500 ft from the launch area.
3) What CBS television newsman tearfully announced the President's death?
answer: Walter Cronkite
Cronkite could barely speak as he made the announcement and removed his glasses to wipe tears from his eyes. Following the official announcement of the President's death all three major networks suspended their regular program and provided commercial-free coverage of this national tragedy for the next four days. Regular programming resumed on Tuesday, November 26th--the day after the funeral and burial. President Johnson had declared Monday, November 25th a "National Day of Mourning".
4) What does a 'double header' mean?
answer: Two games played on the same day
Double headers are generally played because a previous game was cancelled, and had to be rescheduled.
5) In the formula for the area of the circle, A = pi x r^2, what does r represent?
answer: Radius
This formula was known to the ancient Greeks and was derived by Archimedes of Syracuse. In geometry, a radius of a circle is a line from the center of the circle to the perimeter or in other words, half the diameter of the circle.
The Russian Navy's Typhoon Class submarine tops the list of the world's biggest submarines, closely followed by Russia's newest submarine the Borei Class, Oscar II Class, and the US Navy's enormous Ohio Class. Naval-technology.com profiles the world's biggest submarines, based on submerged displacement. (Last updated: June 2019)
2) Smallest Sub
The smallest submarine was made by Pierre Poulin (Canada) and has a displacement of 620 kg (1366.9 lb). Its official dive was made in the Memphremagog Lake, in Magog, Quebec on 26 June 2005. The smallest submarine called ‘BIG’ (620 kg including the weight of pilot) made by Pierre Poulin was easily capable of turning through 360 degrees and ascending and descending under its own power. The pilot, Pierre Poulin, controlled the submarine from a watertight compartment, stayed submerged for 43 minutes to a depth of 5 m and covered a distance estimated at 1.500 ft from the launch area.
3) What CBS television newsman tearfully announced the President's death?
answer: Walter Cronkite
Cronkite could barely speak as he made the announcement and removed his glasses to wipe tears from his eyes. Following the official announcement of the President's death all three major networks suspended their regular program and provided commercial-free coverage of this national tragedy for the next four days. Regular programming resumed on Tuesday, November 26th--the day after the funeral and burial. President Johnson had declared Monday, November 25th a "National Day of Mourning".
4) What does a 'double header' mean?
answer: Two games played on the same day
Double headers are generally played because a previous game was cancelled, and had to be rescheduled.
5) In the formula for the area of the circle, A = pi x r^2, what does r represent?
answer: Radius
This formula was known to the ancient Greeks and was derived by Archimedes of Syracuse. In geometry, a radius of a circle is a line from the center of the circle to the perimeter or in other words, half the diameter of the circle.
Re: Yes it really happened
1) The solstice is in June. On or between which of these dates does it occur?
answer: Between 20th and 22nd
In the northern hemisphere it is the summer solstice. In the southern hemisphere it is the winter solstice.
2) What did people feed cows which spread the 'mad cow disease'?
answer: Fellow cows
Cows aren't supposed to be carnivore-cannibals, as they are herbivores. The causative organism of BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or 'mad cow disease') can be found in most parts of a cow's body, but is most easily transmitted in the nervous tissue.
3) People kill over one billion pigs annually worldwide, an average of 23 million pigs a week . Three countries kill about 85 per cent of the world's pigs: China, European Union and United States, respectively about 12 million, five million and two million pigs per week.
4) According to a 2013 report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 6.6 million cows were commercially slaughtered in the U.S. in 2012, which results in an average of 18,032 cows killed each day. Including steers and heifers, a total of 32.95 million cattle were commercially slaughtered, which averages to 90,027 killed each day.
In 2012, the retail equivalent value of the entire U.S. beef industry was worth $85 billion. The amount of beef consumption in the U.S. came to a total of 25.8 billion pounds. U.S. beef exports totaled 2.46 billion pounds, bringing a total of $5.11 billion to the American economy. The top export markets for U.S. beef were Canada (467 million pounds valued at $1.18 billion) and Japan (450 million pounds valued at $1 billion).
5) The slowest moving fish is the pygmy seahorse, which swims at speeds of approximately 0.1 miles per hour. These tiny creatures are also the smallest fish, with a measurement of only 2 centimeters in length.
answer: Between 20th and 22nd
In the northern hemisphere it is the summer solstice. In the southern hemisphere it is the winter solstice.
2) What did people feed cows which spread the 'mad cow disease'?
answer: Fellow cows
Cows aren't supposed to be carnivore-cannibals, as they are herbivores. The causative organism of BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or 'mad cow disease') can be found in most parts of a cow's body, but is most easily transmitted in the nervous tissue.
3) People kill over one billion pigs annually worldwide, an average of 23 million pigs a week . Three countries kill about 85 per cent of the world's pigs: China, European Union and United States, respectively about 12 million, five million and two million pigs per week.
4) According to a 2013 report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 6.6 million cows were commercially slaughtered in the U.S. in 2012, which results in an average of 18,032 cows killed each day. Including steers and heifers, a total of 32.95 million cattle were commercially slaughtered, which averages to 90,027 killed each day.
In 2012, the retail equivalent value of the entire U.S. beef industry was worth $85 billion. The amount of beef consumption in the U.S. came to a total of 25.8 billion pounds. U.S. beef exports totaled 2.46 billion pounds, bringing a total of $5.11 billion to the American economy. The top export markets for U.S. beef were Canada (467 million pounds valued at $1.18 billion) and Japan (450 million pounds valued at $1 billion).
5) The slowest moving fish is the pygmy seahorse, which swims at speeds of approximately 0.1 miles per hour. These tiny creatures are also the smallest fish, with a measurement of only 2 centimeters in length.
Re: Yes it really happened
1) Soothe a jellyfish sting
The exact healing capabilities of Coca-Cola on jellyfish stings remains a topic of debate but according to an Australian study from 1993, Coca-Cola reduced the pain and the reaction to a sting between 25 to 75 percent. Vinegar is a potential (if controversial) option, but who’s running around with vinegar in their bag at the beach?
2) Kazuo Sakamaki (酒巻和男, Sakamaki Kazuo, November 8, 1918 – November 29, 1999) was a Japanese naval officer who became the first Japanese prisoner of war of World War II captured by U.S. forces.
Sakamaki was one of ten sailors (five officers and five petty officers) selected to attack Pearl Harbor in two-man Ko-hyoteki class midget submarines on 7 December 1941. Of the ten, nine were killed (including the other crewman in his submarine, Kiyoshi Inagaki). He had been chosen for the mission due to his large number of siblings. Sakamaki had set an explosive charge to destroy his disabled submarine, which had been trapped on Waimanalo Beach, Oahu. When the explosives failed to go off, he swam to the bottom of the submarine to investigate the cause of the failure and became unconscious due to a lack of oxygen. The book Attack on Pearl Harbor claims that his sub hit four coral reefs and sank. Sakamaki was found by a U.S. soldier, David Akui, and was taken into military custody. When he awoke, he found himself in a hospital under U.S. armed guard. Sakamaki became the first Japanese prisoner of war in U.S. captivity during World War II and was stricken from Japanese records and officially ceased to exist. His submarine was captured intact and was subsequently taken on tours across the United States as a means of encouraging the purchase of war bonds.[1][2]
After being taken to Sand Island, Sakamaki requested that he be allowed to kill himself, which was denied. Sakamaki spent the rest of the war in prisoner-of-war camps in the continental United States. At the war's end, he was repatriated to Japan, by which time he had become deeply committed to pacifism.[2]
Outside of writing a memoir, Sakamaki refused to speak about the war until 1991, when he attended a historical conference in Texas. He reportedly cried at the conference when he was reunited with his submarine for the first time in 50 years.
3) Which World War II leader's "lost diaries" were found and published by the German magazine "Stern" on April 23, 1983 and were very quickly exposed as complete forgeries?
The answer was Adolf Hitler
The "Hitler Diaries", a series of 60 small books that were alleged to contain the writings of the reviled Nazi Germany leader were purchased by the "Stern" magazine for 9M Deutschmarks (roughly 3.5M USD at the time) from unnanmed sources. The documents were supposedly authenticated and handwriting verified by experts hired by the magazine. Within days of the diaries release questions as to authenticity were raised. By the middle of May 1983 the German Federal Archives had declared the diaries grotesque fakes made on modern paper filled with obvious historical inaccuracies. The scandal caused not only editors at "Stern" to resign but also editors of the UK's "Sunday Times" and US magazine "Newsweek". The hoax led to several books, movies and a multi-episode British television mini-series.
4) Can you name the crooner who drove the girls crazy back in the day, and later went on to sing a song extolling the virtues of the Big Apple when he recorded "New York, New York"?
The answer was Frank Sinatra
He assured us that if we could make it there, we'd make it anywhere, in 1979. The song had been the theme from the Liza Minelli film "New York, New York" (1977), and in it she belted out a great version of the song as well. The music was composed by John Kander and the lyrics were penned by Fred Ebb. Francis Albert Sinatra's rendition which told us that he "wanted to wake up in the city that doesn't sleep" was recorded for Reprise Records, and every year it is the closing song at the rookie graduating class festivities for the New York City Police Department.
5) Prince Edward Island Canada has her potatoes and her lobsters as a claim to fame but other provinces have famous foods too. What is the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia famous for?
The answer was apples
Every year tourists come from all over to catch the Apple Blossom Festival in the spring and enjoy the pastoral scenery and the region's history. Fort Anne in Annapolis was founded in the early 1600's and was one of the very first settlements in North America.
The exact healing capabilities of Coca-Cola on jellyfish stings remains a topic of debate but according to an Australian study from 1993, Coca-Cola reduced the pain and the reaction to a sting between 25 to 75 percent. Vinegar is a potential (if controversial) option, but who’s running around with vinegar in their bag at the beach?
2) Kazuo Sakamaki (酒巻和男, Sakamaki Kazuo, November 8, 1918 – November 29, 1999) was a Japanese naval officer who became the first Japanese prisoner of war of World War II captured by U.S. forces.
Sakamaki was one of ten sailors (five officers and five petty officers) selected to attack Pearl Harbor in two-man Ko-hyoteki class midget submarines on 7 December 1941. Of the ten, nine were killed (including the other crewman in his submarine, Kiyoshi Inagaki). He had been chosen for the mission due to his large number of siblings. Sakamaki had set an explosive charge to destroy his disabled submarine, which had been trapped on Waimanalo Beach, Oahu. When the explosives failed to go off, he swam to the bottom of the submarine to investigate the cause of the failure and became unconscious due to a lack of oxygen. The book Attack on Pearl Harbor claims that his sub hit four coral reefs and sank. Sakamaki was found by a U.S. soldier, David Akui, and was taken into military custody. When he awoke, he found himself in a hospital under U.S. armed guard. Sakamaki became the first Japanese prisoner of war in U.S. captivity during World War II and was stricken from Japanese records and officially ceased to exist. His submarine was captured intact and was subsequently taken on tours across the United States as a means of encouraging the purchase of war bonds.[1][2]
After being taken to Sand Island, Sakamaki requested that he be allowed to kill himself, which was denied. Sakamaki spent the rest of the war in prisoner-of-war camps in the continental United States. At the war's end, he was repatriated to Japan, by which time he had become deeply committed to pacifism.[2]
Outside of writing a memoir, Sakamaki refused to speak about the war until 1991, when he attended a historical conference in Texas. He reportedly cried at the conference when he was reunited with his submarine for the first time in 50 years.
3) Which World War II leader's "lost diaries" were found and published by the German magazine "Stern" on April 23, 1983 and were very quickly exposed as complete forgeries?
The answer was Adolf Hitler
The "Hitler Diaries", a series of 60 small books that were alleged to contain the writings of the reviled Nazi Germany leader were purchased by the "Stern" magazine for 9M Deutschmarks (roughly 3.5M USD at the time) from unnanmed sources. The documents were supposedly authenticated and handwriting verified by experts hired by the magazine. Within days of the diaries release questions as to authenticity were raised. By the middle of May 1983 the German Federal Archives had declared the diaries grotesque fakes made on modern paper filled with obvious historical inaccuracies. The scandal caused not only editors at "Stern" to resign but also editors of the UK's "Sunday Times" and US magazine "Newsweek". The hoax led to several books, movies and a multi-episode British television mini-series.
4) Can you name the crooner who drove the girls crazy back in the day, and later went on to sing a song extolling the virtues of the Big Apple when he recorded "New York, New York"?
The answer was Frank Sinatra
He assured us that if we could make it there, we'd make it anywhere, in 1979. The song had been the theme from the Liza Minelli film "New York, New York" (1977), and in it she belted out a great version of the song as well. The music was composed by John Kander and the lyrics were penned by Fred Ebb. Francis Albert Sinatra's rendition which told us that he "wanted to wake up in the city that doesn't sleep" was recorded for Reprise Records, and every year it is the closing song at the rookie graduating class festivities for the New York City Police Department.
5) Prince Edward Island Canada has her potatoes and her lobsters as a claim to fame but other provinces have famous foods too. What is the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia famous for?
The answer was apples
Every year tourists come from all over to catch the Apple Blossom Festival in the spring and enjoy the pastoral scenery and the region's history. Fort Anne in Annapolis was founded in the early 1600's and was one of the very first settlements in North America.
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1) Civil War
On this day in 1864, the first Union inmates begin arriving at Andersonville prison, which was still under construction in southern Georgia. Andersonville became synonymous with death as nearly a quarter of its inmates died in captivity. Henry Wirz, who ran Andersonville, was executed after the war for the brutality and mistreatment committed under his command.
The prison, officially called Camp Sumter, became necessary after the prisoner exchange system between North and South collapsed in 1863 over disagreements about the handling of black soldiers. The stockade at Andersonville was hastily constructed using slave labor, and was located in the Georgia woods near a railroad but safely away from the front lines. Enclosing 16 acres of land, the prison was supposed to include wooden barracks but the inflated price of lumber delayed construction, and the Yankee soldiers imprisoned there lived under open skies, protected only by makeshift shanties called “shebangs,” constructed from scraps of wood and blankets. A stream initially provided fresh water, but within a few months human waste had contaminated the creek.
Andersonville was built to hold 10,000 men, but within six months more than three times that number were incarcerated there. The creek banks eroded to create a swamp, which occupied a significant portion of the compound. Rations were inadequate, and at times half of the population was reported ill. Some guards brutalized the inmates and there was violence between factions of prisoners.
Civil War "Andersonville" 1996 complete Original TV-Movie. Part One
Civil War "Andersonville" 1996 complete Original TV-Movie. Part Two
2)The Mongol Empire (1206–1368) was the largest empire in world history, which was made up of most of the territories from southeast Asia to eastern Europe. The empire was founded by Genghis Khan who has been criticized today for his violent tactics. The Mongols were known for their brutality, annihilating towns that refused to surrender to their reign. The tactics the Mongols used, such as beheading their enemies, killing about 10% of the existing population. This formed psychological terror to nearby towns causing some to surrender before the Mongols could use any force.
3) If you think the world's biggest retailer is Walmart, think again. If you think Amazon is the biggest online retailer, wrong again. Both titles go to Alibaba.
China's online sales giant moves almost three times as much merchandise as Amazon and, when you count its subsidiaries, it has inched past Walmart as the biggest retailer. Alibaba is making a foray into the American e-commerce market with AliExpress, which is already the sixth-biggest online-shopping site in the US.
4) The World Bank poverty line, globally, is an income of $1.90 per day. By 2015, only 0.7% of the Chinese population were at or below the poverty level, with about 9.9 million in this category out of a population of 1.35 billion.
China's own national poverty line is higher, and even by that metric, only 3.1% of the population - 30.5 million people - lives in poverty.
Meanwhile, in the US, 12.3% of the population falls below the national poverty line, which in the 48 contiguous states is $12,490 a year for an individual or $25,750 a year for a family of four, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. That's 39.7 million Americans living in poverty.
5) Lunar New Year is celebrated for a whole week each year, usually sometime in February. Many people travel home and buy gifts. Chinese consumers spent the equivalent of $149 billion in 2019, according to Bloomberg.
On this day in 1864, the first Union inmates begin arriving at Andersonville prison, which was still under construction in southern Georgia. Andersonville became synonymous with death as nearly a quarter of its inmates died in captivity. Henry Wirz, who ran Andersonville, was executed after the war for the brutality and mistreatment committed under his command.
The prison, officially called Camp Sumter, became necessary after the prisoner exchange system between North and South collapsed in 1863 over disagreements about the handling of black soldiers. The stockade at Andersonville was hastily constructed using slave labor, and was located in the Georgia woods near a railroad but safely away from the front lines. Enclosing 16 acres of land, the prison was supposed to include wooden barracks but the inflated price of lumber delayed construction, and the Yankee soldiers imprisoned there lived under open skies, protected only by makeshift shanties called “shebangs,” constructed from scraps of wood and blankets. A stream initially provided fresh water, but within a few months human waste had contaminated the creek.
Andersonville was built to hold 10,000 men, but within six months more than three times that number were incarcerated there. The creek banks eroded to create a swamp, which occupied a significant portion of the compound. Rations were inadequate, and at times half of the population was reported ill. Some guards brutalized the inmates and there was violence between factions of prisoners.
Civil War "Andersonville" 1996 complete Original TV-Movie. Part One
Civil War "Andersonville" 1996 complete Original TV-Movie. Part Two
2)The Mongol Empire (1206–1368) was the largest empire in world history, which was made up of most of the territories from southeast Asia to eastern Europe. The empire was founded by Genghis Khan who has been criticized today for his violent tactics. The Mongols were known for their brutality, annihilating towns that refused to surrender to their reign. The tactics the Mongols used, such as beheading their enemies, killing about 10% of the existing population. This formed psychological terror to nearby towns causing some to surrender before the Mongols could use any force.
3) If you think the world's biggest retailer is Walmart, think again. If you think Amazon is the biggest online retailer, wrong again. Both titles go to Alibaba.
China's online sales giant moves almost three times as much merchandise as Amazon and, when you count its subsidiaries, it has inched past Walmart as the biggest retailer. Alibaba is making a foray into the American e-commerce market with AliExpress, which is already the sixth-biggest online-shopping site in the US.
4) The World Bank poverty line, globally, is an income of $1.90 per day. By 2015, only 0.7% of the Chinese population were at or below the poverty level, with about 9.9 million in this category out of a population of 1.35 billion.
China's own national poverty line is higher, and even by that metric, only 3.1% of the population - 30.5 million people - lives in poverty.
Meanwhile, in the US, 12.3% of the population falls below the national poverty line, which in the 48 contiguous states is $12,490 a year for an individual or $25,750 a year for a family of four, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. That's 39.7 million Americans living in poverty.
5) Lunar New Year is celebrated for a whole week each year, usually sometime in February. Many people travel home and buy gifts. Chinese consumers spent the equivalent of $149 billion in 2019, according to Bloomberg.
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A popular misconception about the term digger. Like many things from New Zealand, Australia quickly adopts like Russell Crowe and the famous Finn brothersDoodoo wrote: ↑February 29, 2020, 5:48 am1) The ANZAC's most famous campaign was on a peninsula in Turkey. Several other nations fought alongside them. What was the name of this peninsula?
answer Gallipoli
This campaign is very important in any discussion of Australian history. It is one the focus points of the emergence of Australian identity. Legends such as Simpson and his donkey and the culture of the Aussie Digger were born there.
2) What is the name of Philadelphia-produced snack cake?
answer: Ho Ho
As a nation, USA consumes 200 million Ho Hos a year! Philadelphia and its five surrounding counties, plus central and southern New Jersey, the rest of eastern and central Pennsylvania, all of Delaware and Maryland, and northern and western Virginia are the No. 1 Ho Ho-consuming area in the country: 14.3 million Ho Hos a year.
3) Why were miniature Dachshunds bred?
answer: To fit into rabbit holes
Even though their name means 'badger dog', mini Dachshunds were actually bred to fit into rabbit holes and attack rabbits. The standard Dachshund is too big to fit into those holes.
4) Which movie contained the famous 'shower scene'?
answer: Psycho
The shower scene ran about 45 seconds, had more than 40 cuts, 78 camera set-ups and no actual nudity (because it had to get past the censors). Hitchcock himself held the knife for the close-ups.
5) SONGKRAN
Put all your important stuff and electronic devices into a zip-lock plastic bag – passport, camera, money. Even better, leave your valuable things at home or in the hotel safe. If you head outside on the Songkran days, you WILL get wet, so don’t act surprised or get angry if someone hurls a bucket of water at you as you wander down the street. It will be done with a smile and with the best of intentions. Save your Sunday clothes for church or a visit to meet the mother-in-law.
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I had a bumper sticker in Texas that read 'Beam me up Scotty'. I often wish I could find one in Udon Thani
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1) Contrary to popular lore, there was no epidemic of suicides—let alone window-jumpings—in the wake of the Stock Market Crash of 1929. “In the United States the suicide wave that followed the stock market crash is also part of the legend of 1929. In fact, there was none,” wrote economist John Kenneth Galbraith in his book The Great Crash 1929.
2) The larger-than-life comedic star John Candy dies suddenly of a heart attack on March 4, 1994, at the age of 43. At the time of his death, he was living near Durango, Mexico, while filming Wagons East, a Western comedy co-starring the comedian Richard Lewis.
3) With Union troops closing in on the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, in early April 1865, President Jefferson Davis and the rest of his government fled southward, allegedly carrying with them a considerable amount of gold, silver and other coins. But when Union officers caught up with Davis on May 10, near Irwinville, Georgia, he was reportedly carrying only a few dollars with him
So what happened to that missing Confederate treasure? Its fate has remained a mystery for more than 150 years, fueling a wealth of local legends in the South and elsewhere, and even inspiring Hollywood movies like The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) and Sahara (2005), based on the book by Clive Cussler.
4) In the first military action in the 45-year history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), U.S. fighter planes shoot down four Serbian warplanes engaged in a bombing mission in violation of Bosnia’s no-fly zone.The United States, 10 European countries, and Canada founded NATO in 1949 as a safeguard against Soviet aggression. With the end of the Cold War, NATO members approved the use of its military forces for peacekeeping missions in countries outside the alliance and in 1994 agreed to enforce U.N. resolutions enacted to bring about an end to the bloody conflict in the former Yugoslavia. In 1994 and 1995, NATO planes enforced the no-fly zone over Bosnia-Herzegovina and struck at Bosnian Serb military positions and airfields on a number of occasions
On December 20, 1995, NATO began the mass deployment of 60,000 troops to enforce the Dayton peace accords, signed in Paris by the leaders of the former Yugoslavia on December 14. The NATO troops took over from a U.N. peacekeeping force that had failed to end the fighting since its deployment in early 1992, although the U.N. troops had proved crucial in the distribution of humanitarian aid to the impoverished population of Bosnia. The NATO force, with its U.S. support and focused aim of enforcing the Dayton agreement, proved more successful in maintaining the peace in the war-torn region.
5) A DC-10 jet crashes into a forest outside of Paris, France, killing all 346 people on board, on March 3, 1974. The poor design of the plane, as well as negligent maintenance, contributed to the disaster.
2) The larger-than-life comedic star John Candy dies suddenly of a heart attack on March 4, 1994, at the age of 43. At the time of his death, he was living near Durango, Mexico, while filming Wagons East, a Western comedy co-starring the comedian Richard Lewis.
3) With Union troops closing in on the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, in early April 1865, President Jefferson Davis and the rest of his government fled southward, allegedly carrying with them a considerable amount of gold, silver and other coins. But when Union officers caught up with Davis on May 10, near Irwinville, Georgia, he was reportedly carrying only a few dollars with him
So what happened to that missing Confederate treasure? Its fate has remained a mystery for more than 150 years, fueling a wealth of local legends in the South and elsewhere, and even inspiring Hollywood movies like The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) and Sahara (2005), based on the book by Clive Cussler.
4) In the first military action in the 45-year history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), U.S. fighter planes shoot down four Serbian warplanes engaged in a bombing mission in violation of Bosnia’s no-fly zone.The United States, 10 European countries, and Canada founded NATO in 1949 as a safeguard against Soviet aggression. With the end of the Cold War, NATO members approved the use of its military forces for peacekeeping missions in countries outside the alliance and in 1994 agreed to enforce U.N. resolutions enacted to bring about an end to the bloody conflict in the former Yugoslavia. In 1994 and 1995, NATO planes enforced the no-fly zone over Bosnia-Herzegovina and struck at Bosnian Serb military positions and airfields on a number of occasions
On December 20, 1995, NATO began the mass deployment of 60,000 troops to enforce the Dayton peace accords, signed in Paris by the leaders of the former Yugoslavia on December 14. The NATO troops took over from a U.N. peacekeeping force that had failed to end the fighting since its deployment in early 1992, although the U.N. troops had proved crucial in the distribution of humanitarian aid to the impoverished population of Bosnia. The NATO force, with its U.S. support and focused aim of enforcing the Dayton agreement, proved more successful in maintaining the peace in the war-torn region.
5) A DC-10 jet crashes into a forest outside of Paris, France, killing all 346 people on board, on March 3, 1974. The poor design of the plane, as well as negligent maintenance, contributed to the disaster.
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1) In 1528, Henry VIII slept in a different bed every night—and not in the way you might think. It was fear of disease that drove him to move almost daily that summer. an individual was terrified of sweating sickness, a deadly epidemic that is nearly forgotten today.
Scientists are still fascinated by the mysterious disease, which swept through Europe multiple times during the Tudor period. Beginning in 1485, five epidemics plagued England, Germany and other European countries. But the epidemic's origins and even the identity of the disease remain murky. It came on without any warning and did not seem preventable. People would feel a sudden sense of dread, then be overtaken with headache, neck pains, weakness and a cold sweat that covered the entire body. Fever, heart palpitations and dehydration followed. Within three to 18 hours, 30 to 50 percent of people afflicted with the illness were dead.
Henry VIII remained scared of it throughout his entire reign. Members of his court were stricken. And then just as mysteriously as it arose, sweating sickness quickly vanished. The last epidemic was in 1551. No matter what its cause, the disease left its mark. When William Shakespeare wrote Henry IV, Part 2 in 1600, a half-century after the last English outbreak, he had one of his most famous characters, Falstaff, die of "a sweat."
2) Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia a landlocked country located in western-central South America. The capital is Sucre, while the seat of government and financial center is located in La Paz. The largest city and principal industrial center is Santa Cruz de la Sierra, located on the Llanos Orientales (tropical lowlands), a mostly flat region in the east of the country.
The sovereign state of Bolivia is a constitutionally unitary state, divided into nine departments. Its geography varies from the peaks of the Andes in the West, to the Eastern Lowlands, situated within the Amazon Basin. It is bordered to the north and east by Brazil, to the southeast by Paraguay, to the south by Argentina, to the southwest by Chile, and to the northwest by Peru. One-third of the country is within the Andean mountain range. With 1,098,581 km2 (424,164 sq mi) of area, Bolivia is the fifth largest country in South America, after Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Colombia (and alongside Paraguay, one of the only two landlocked countries in the Americas), the 27th largest in the world, the largest landlocked country in the Southern Hemisphere and the world's seventh largest landlocked country, after Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Chad, Niger, Mali and Ethiopia.
3) Switzerland’s main access points are wired to blow in case of an attack – one of the country’s defense strategies is to demolish every main road, bridge and railway access into Switzerland in case of a foreign invasion, with at least 3,000 locations around the country prepared to blow at a moment’s notice.
4) Switzerland boasts some of the world’s most famous inventions – they created Velcro, cellophane, the Swiss Army Knife, absinthe, the potato peeler, Helvetica font, LSD, muesli, edible chocolate gold and milk chocolate to name a few. They were also pioneers in introducing bobsleigh, tobogganing and luge as a competitive sport to the world. Swiss scientists are also leading research in using LSD to treat mental illness and pain. Switzerland continues to lead the world in innovation, topping the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) ranking in 2017 for the seventh year in a row, ahead of the US (4th) and UK (5th).
5) Women did not gain the vote at federal level until 1971 – and they are still underrepresented in political life, despite Switzerland often being praised as a model of direct democracy.
Scientists are still fascinated by the mysterious disease, which swept through Europe multiple times during the Tudor period. Beginning in 1485, five epidemics plagued England, Germany and other European countries. But the epidemic's origins and even the identity of the disease remain murky. It came on without any warning and did not seem preventable. People would feel a sudden sense of dread, then be overtaken with headache, neck pains, weakness and a cold sweat that covered the entire body. Fever, heart palpitations and dehydration followed. Within three to 18 hours, 30 to 50 percent of people afflicted with the illness were dead.
Henry VIII remained scared of it throughout his entire reign. Members of his court were stricken. And then just as mysteriously as it arose, sweating sickness quickly vanished. The last epidemic was in 1551. No matter what its cause, the disease left its mark. When William Shakespeare wrote Henry IV, Part 2 in 1600, a half-century after the last English outbreak, he had one of his most famous characters, Falstaff, die of "a sweat."
2) Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia a landlocked country located in western-central South America. The capital is Sucre, while the seat of government and financial center is located in La Paz. The largest city and principal industrial center is Santa Cruz de la Sierra, located on the Llanos Orientales (tropical lowlands), a mostly flat region in the east of the country.
The sovereign state of Bolivia is a constitutionally unitary state, divided into nine departments. Its geography varies from the peaks of the Andes in the West, to the Eastern Lowlands, situated within the Amazon Basin. It is bordered to the north and east by Brazil, to the southeast by Paraguay, to the south by Argentina, to the southwest by Chile, and to the northwest by Peru. One-third of the country is within the Andean mountain range. With 1,098,581 km2 (424,164 sq mi) of area, Bolivia is the fifth largest country in South America, after Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Colombia (and alongside Paraguay, one of the only two landlocked countries in the Americas), the 27th largest in the world, the largest landlocked country in the Southern Hemisphere and the world's seventh largest landlocked country, after Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Chad, Niger, Mali and Ethiopia.
3) Switzerland’s main access points are wired to blow in case of an attack – one of the country’s defense strategies is to demolish every main road, bridge and railway access into Switzerland in case of a foreign invasion, with at least 3,000 locations around the country prepared to blow at a moment’s notice.
4) Switzerland boasts some of the world’s most famous inventions – they created Velcro, cellophane, the Swiss Army Knife, absinthe, the potato peeler, Helvetica font, LSD, muesli, edible chocolate gold and milk chocolate to name a few. They were also pioneers in introducing bobsleigh, tobogganing and luge as a competitive sport to the world. Swiss scientists are also leading research in using LSD to treat mental illness and pain. Switzerland continues to lead the world in innovation, topping the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) ranking in 2017 for the seventh year in a row, ahead of the US (4th) and UK (5th).
5) Women did not gain the vote at federal level until 1971 – and they are still underrepresented in political life, despite Switzerland often being praised as a model of direct democracy.
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1) If Antarctica's ice sheets melted, all of the worlds oceans would rise by 60 to 65 meters (200 - 210ft) - everywhere.
2) One of the biggest icebergs ever broke free from the Ross ice shelf, Antarctica in 2000. Given the catchy name, B-15, It was 295km (183 miles) long and 37km (23 miles) wide, with a surface area of 11,000 sq km (4,250 square miles) above water - and 10 times bigger below.
It was similar in size to The Gambia, Qatar, The Bahamas, Connecticut and some other places I'm not really sure about the size of. Over the next three years, it broke into several pieces called B-15A, B-15B etc.
Bonus fact! - In 2005 the largest piece of B-15, B15A (100km by 30km by now) was broken up further by an ocean wave that originated more then 8,300 miles (13,500 km) away in the Gulf of Alaska during a huge storm. The wave generated took 6 days to travel the length of the Pacific Ocean to reach Antarctica.
3) Most polluted country Bangladesh: 83.3 µg/m3
Bangladesh has the highest levels of PM2.5 pollution in the world, at an average rate of 83.3 µg/m³. The situation is worst in the capital Dhaka, which recently ranked seventh worst on IQAir’s Air Quality Index – an independent live-air quality monitor for cities. The government has tried introducing measures such as fining polluters and encouraging use of lower-emission brick kilns, yet campaigners say it’s not enough. “The authorities have no interest in combating air pollution. They are doing nothing effective,” Abdul Matin, general secretary of Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon, told the Dhaka Tribune.
4) Biggest Restaurant
The Damascus Gate Restaurant, also called as the
Bawabet Dimashq, is the current world’s biggest restaurant. This restaurant is located within a suburb in Damascus, Syria that is just off the road in between the airport and the city. It is a family-owned business that opened its services to the public last 2002. On May 29, 2008, it was distinguished by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest restaurant in the world.
Dimensions
The Damascus Gate Restaurant has a total dining area of 54,000 square meters. The total seating capacity of the world’s biggest restaurant is around 6,014 people. The total kitchen area of the restaurant is 2,500 square meters. During the peak hours of their operation, a total of 1,800 employed staff does the actual work of catering to customers’ needs. Within the premises of the restaurant are various fountains, waterfalls, and replicas of archaeological ruins found within Syria.
There are a total of six different culinary themed sections within the Damascus Gate Restaurant. These are Syrian, Middle Eastern, Iranian, Arab, Chinese, and Indian cuisine. The kitchen of the restaurant is compared to a production line. A chef must be efficient enough to prepare about 25 to 30 individual helpings of the restaurant’s famous dishes – everything done under a minute. For example, a chef should make a bowl of hummus every two seconds. To help out the chefs, there are about 200 kitchen staff employed in the world’s biggest restaurant.
5) Biggest Banks
Crédit Agricole , France .
Bank of America .
BNP Paribas, France .
HSBC Holdings PLC, United Kingdom .
JPMorgan Chase & Co, United St
2) One of the biggest icebergs ever broke free from the Ross ice shelf, Antarctica in 2000. Given the catchy name, B-15, It was 295km (183 miles) long and 37km (23 miles) wide, with a surface area of 11,000 sq km (4,250 square miles) above water - and 10 times bigger below.
It was similar in size to The Gambia, Qatar, The Bahamas, Connecticut and some other places I'm not really sure about the size of. Over the next three years, it broke into several pieces called B-15A, B-15B etc.
Bonus fact! - In 2005 the largest piece of B-15, B15A (100km by 30km by now) was broken up further by an ocean wave that originated more then 8,300 miles (13,500 km) away in the Gulf of Alaska during a huge storm. The wave generated took 6 days to travel the length of the Pacific Ocean to reach Antarctica.
3) Most polluted country Bangladesh: 83.3 µg/m3
Bangladesh has the highest levels of PM2.5 pollution in the world, at an average rate of 83.3 µg/m³. The situation is worst in the capital Dhaka, which recently ranked seventh worst on IQAir’s Air Quality Index – an independent live-air quality monitor for cities. The government has tried introducing measures such as fining polluters and encouraging use of lower-emission brick kilns, yet campaigners say it’s not enough. “The authorities have no interest in combating air pollution. They are doing nothing effective,” Abdul Matin, general secretary of Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon, told the Dhaka Tribune.
4) Biggest Restaurant
The Damascus Gate Restaurant, also called as the
Bawabet Dimashq, is the current world’s biggest restaurant. This restaurant is located within a suburb in Damascus, Syria that is just off the road in between the airport and the city. It is a family-owned business that opened its services to the public last 2002. On May 29, 2008, it was distinguished by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest restaurant in the world.
Dimensions
The Damascus Gate Restaurant has a total dining area of 54,000 square meters. The total seating capacity of the world’s biggest restaurant is around 6,014 people. The total kitchen area of the restaurant is 2,500 square meters. During the peak hours of their operation, a total of 1,800 employed staff does the actual work of catering to customers’ needs. Within the premises of the restaurant are various fountains, waterfalls, and replicas of archaeological ruins found within Syria.
There are a total of six different culinary themed sections within the Damascus Gate Restaurant. These are Syrian, Middle Eastern, Iranian, Arab, Chinese, and Indian cuisine. The kitchen of the restaurant is compared to a production line. A chef must be efficient enough to prepare about 25 to 30 individual helpings of the restaurant’s famous dishes – everything done under a minute. For example, a chef should make a bowl of hummus every two seconds. To help out the chefs, there are about 200 kitchen staff employed in the world’s biggest restaurant.
5) Biggest Banks
Crédit Agricole , France .
Bank of America .
BNP Paribas, France .
HSBC Holdings PLC, United Kingdom .
JPMorgan Chase & Co, United St
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1) Erich Alfred Hartmann (19 April 1922 – 20 September 1993) was a German fighter pilot during World War II and the most successful fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. He flew 1,404 combat missions and participated in aerial combat on 825 separate occasions.
2) On March 7, 1876, 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention–the telephone.
The Scottish-born Bell worked in London with his father, Melville Bell, who developed Visible Speech, a written system used to teach speaking to the deaf. In the 1870s, the Bells moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where the younger Bell found work as a teacher at the Pemberton Avenue School for the Deaf. He later married one of his students, Mabel Hubbard.
While in Boston, Bell became very interested in the possibility of transmitting speech over wires. Samuel F.B. Morse’s invention of the telegraph in 1843 had made nearly instantaneous communication possible between two distant points. The drawback of the telegraph, however, was that it still required hand-delivery of messages between telegraph stations and recipients, and only one message could be transmitted at a time. Bell wanted to improve on this by creating a “harmonic telegraph,” a device that combined aspects of the telegraph and record player to allow individuals to speak to each other from a distance.
With the help of Thomas A. Watson, a Boston machine shop employee, Bell developed a prototype. In this first telephone, sound waves caused an electric current to vary in intensity and frequency, causing a thin, soft iron plate–called the diaphragm–to vibrate. These vibrations were transferred magnetically to another wire connected to a diaphragm in another, distant instrument. When that diaphragm vibrated, the original sound would be replicated in the ear of the receiving instrument. Three days after filing the patent, the telephone carried its first intelligible message–the famous “Mr. Watson, come here, I need you”–from Bell to his assistant.
3) Hitler reoccupies the Rhineland, violating the Treaty of Versailles Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany.
The Treaty of Versailles, signed in July 1919–eight months after the guns fell silent in World War I–called for stiff war reparation payments and other punishing peace terms for defeated Germany. Having been forced to sign the treaty, the German delegation to the peace conference indicated its attitude by breaking the ceremonial pen. As dictated by the Treaty of Versailles, Germany’s military forces were reduced to insignificance and the Rhineland was to be demilitarized.
In 1925, at the conclusion of a European peace conference held in Switzerland, the Locarno Pact was signed, reaffirming the national boundaries decided by the Treaty of Versailles and approving the German entry into the League of Nations. The so-called “spirit of Locarno” symbolized hopes for an era of European peace and goodwill, and by 1930 German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann had negotiated the removal of the last Allied troops in the demilitarized Rhineland.
However, just four years later, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party seized full power in Germany, promising vengeance against the Allied nations that had forced the Treaty of Versailles on the German people. In 1935, Hitler unilaterally canceled the military clauses of the treaty and in March 1936 denounced the Locarno Pact and began remilitarizing of the Rhineland. Two years later, Nazi Germany burst out of its territories, absorbing Austria and portions of Czechoslovakia. In 1939, Hitler invaded Poland, leading to the outbreak of World War II in Europe.er reoccupies the Rhineland, violating the Treaty of Versailles
4) Dutch forces surrender to the Japanese after two months of fighting.
Java is an island of modern-day Indonesia, and it lies southeast of Malaysia and Sumatra, south of Borneo and west of Bali. The Dutch had been in Java since 1596, establishing the Dutch East India Company, a trading company with headquarters at Batavia (modern-day Jakarta), which the Dutch commandeered in 1619. The Dutch East India Company began to assert greater and greater control over the Muslim kingdoms of the East Indies, transforming them into vassal states, with peasants growing rice, sugar, pepper, and coffee for the Dutch government. The company was dissolved in 1799 because of debts and corruption, and the Dutch government took control of the East Indies directly.
The British supplanted the Dutch in Java for a brief period (1811-1816), but the Dutch returned to power, slowly granting native Javanese more local control, even giving them a majority on the People’s Council. But on January 11, 1942, the Japanese declared war on the Royal Dutch government with its invasion of Borneo and the Island of Celebes, a date that also marked the beginning of the end of the Dutch presence in the East Indies. Sumatra was the next site of Japanese occupation, with paratroopers and troops landing from transports on February 14-16. Seven thousand British and Australian troops reinforced the Dutch fighters on Java, but the Allies pulled out of the fight in late February at the approach of two more large Japanese invasion forces that arrived on March 1.
The Dutch finally ended all resistance to the superior Japanese forces on March 8, surrendering on Java. Java’s independence of colonial control became a final fact of history in 1950, when it became part of the newly independent Republic of Indonesia.
5) The German company Bayer patents aspirin on March 6, 1899. Now the most common drug in household medicine cabinets, acetylsalicylic acid was originally made from a chemical found in the bark of willow trees. In its primitive form, the active ingredient, salicin, was used for centuries in folk medicine, beginning in ancient Greece when Hippocrates used it to relieve pain and fever. Known to doctors since the mid-19th century, it was used sparingly due to its unpleasant taste and tendency to damage the stomach.
In 1897, Bayer employee Felix Hoffmann found a way to create a stable form of the drug that was easier and more pleasant to take. (Some evidence shows that Hoffmann’s work was really done by a Jewish chemist, Arthur Eichengrun, whose contributions were covered up during the Nazi era.) After obtaining the patent rights, Bayer began distributing aspirin in powder form to physicians to give to their patients one gram at a time. The brand name came from “a” for acetyl, “spir” from the spirea plant (a source of salicin) and the suffix “in,” commonly used for medications. It quickly became the number-one drug worldwide.
Aspirin was made available in tablet form and without a prescription in 1915. Two years later, when Bayer’s patent expired during the First World War, the company lost the trademark rights to aspirin in various countries. After the United States entered the war against Germany in April 1917, the Alien Property Custodian, a government agency that administers foreign property, seized Bayer’s U.S. assets. Two years later, the Bayer company name and trademarks for the United States and Canada were auctioned off and purchased by Sterling Products Company, later Sterling Winthrop, for $5.3 million.
Bayer became part of IG Farben, the conglomerate of German chemical industries that formed the financial heart of the Nazi regime. After World War II, the Allies split apart IG Farben, and Bayer again emerged as an individual company. Its purchase of Miles Laboratories in 1978 gave it a product line including Alka-Seltzer and Flintstones and One-A-Day Vitamins. In 1994, Bayer bought Sterling Winthrop’s over-the-counter business, gaining back rights to the Bayer name and logo and allowing the company once again to profit from American sales of its most famous product.
2) On March 7, 1876, 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention–the telephone.
The Scottish-born Bell worked in London with his father, Melville Bell, who developed Visible Speech, a written system used to teach speaking to the deaf. In the 1870s, the Bells moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where the younger Bell found work as a teacher at the Pemberton Avenue School for the Deaf. He later married one of his students, Mabel Hubbard.
While in Boston, Bell became very interested in the possibility of transmitting speech over wires. Samuel F.B. Morse’s invention of the telegraph in 1843 had made nearly instantaneous communication possible between two distant points. The drawback of the telegraph, however, was that it still required hand-delivery of messages between telegraph stations and recipients, and only one message could be transmitted at a time. Bell wanted to improve on this by creating a “harmonic telegraph,” a device that combined aspects of the telegraph and record player to allow individuals to speak to each other from a distance.
With the help of Thomas A. Watson, a Boston machine shop employee, Bell developed a prototype. In this first telephone, sound waves caused an electric current to vary in intensity and frequency, causing a thin, soft iron plate–called the diaphragm–to vibrate. These vibrations were transferred magnetically to another wire connected to a diaphragm in another, distant instrument. When that diaphragm vibrated, the original sound would be replicated in the ear of the receiving instrument. Three days after filing the patent, the telephone carried its first intelligible message–the famous “Mr. Watson, come here, I need you”–from Bell to his assistant.
3) Hitler reoccupies the Rhineland, violating the Treaty of Versailles Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany.
The Treaty of Versailles, signed in July 1919–eight months after the guns fell silent in World War I–called for stiff war reparation payments and other punishing peace terms for defeated Germany. Having been forced to sign the treaty, the German delegation to the peace conference indicated its attitude by breaking the ceremonial pen. As dictated by the Treaty of Versailles, Germany’s military forces were reduced to insignificance and the Rhineland was to be demilitarized.
In 1925, at the conclusion of a European peace conference held in Switzerland, the Locarno Pact was signed, reaffirming the national boundaries decided by the Treaty of Versailles and approving the German entry into the League of Nations. The so-called “spirit of Locarno” symbolized hopes for an era of European peace and goodwill, and by 1930 German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann had negotiated the removal of the last Allied troops in the demilitarized Rhineland.
However, just four years later, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party seized full power in Germany, promising vengeance against the Allied nations that had forced the Treaty of Versailles on the German people. In 1935, Hitler unilaterally canceled the military clauses of the treaty and in March 1936 denounced the Locarno Pact and began remilitarizing of the Rhineland. Two years later, Nazi Germany burst out of its territories, absorbing Austria and portions of Czechoslovakia. In 1939, Hitler invaded Poland, leading to the outbreak of World War II in Europe.er reoccupies the Rhineland, violating the Treaty of Versailles
4) Dutch forces surrender to the Japanese after two months of fighting.
Java is an island of modern-day Indonesia, and it lies southeast of Malaysia and Sumatra, south of Borneo and west of Bali. The Dutch had been in Java since 1596, establishing the Dutch East India Company, a trading company with headquarters at Batavia (modern-day Jakarta), which the Dutch commandeered in 1619. The Dutch East India Company began to assert greater and greater control over the Muslim kingdoms of the East Indies, transforming them into vassal states, with peasants growing rice, sugar, pepper, and coffee for the Dutch government. The company was dissolved in 1799 because of debts and corruption, and the Dutch government took control of the East Indies directly.
The British supplanted the Dutch in Java for a brief period (1811-1816), but the Dutch returned to power, slowly granting native Javanese more local control, even giving them a majority on the People’s Council. But on January 11, 1942, the Japanese declared war on the Royal Dutch government with its invasion of Borneo and the Island of Celebes, a date that also marked the beginning of the end of the Dutch presence in the East Indies. Sumatra was the next site of Japanese occupation, with paratroopers and troops landing from transports on February 14-16. Seven thousand British and Australian troops reinforced the Dutch fighters on Java, but the Allies pulled out of the fight in late February at the approach of two more large Japanese invasion forces that arrived on March 1.
The Dutch finally ended all resistance to the superior Japanese forces on March 8, surrendering on Java. Java’s independence of colonial control became a final fact of history in 1950, when it became part of the newly independent Republic of Indonesia.
5) The German company Bayer patents aspirin on March 6, 1899. Now the most common drug in household medicine cabinets, acetylsalicylic acid was originally made from a chemical found in the bark of willow trees. In its primitive form, the active ingredient, salicin, was used for centuries in folk medicine, beginning in ancient Greece when Hippocrates used it to relieve pain and fever. Known to doctors since the mid-19th century, it was used sparingly due to its unpleasant taste and tendency to damage the stomach.
In 1897, Bayer employee Felix Hoffmann found a way to create a stable form of the drug that was easier and more pleasant to take. (Some evidence shows that Hoffmann’s work was really done by a Jewish chemist, Arthur Eichengrun, whose contributions were covered up during the Nazi era.) After obtaining the patent rights, Bayer began distributing aspirin in powder form to physicians to give to their patients one gram at a time. The brand name came from “a” for acetyl, “spir” from the spirea plant (a source of salicin) and the suffix “in,” commonly used for medications. It quickly became the number-one drug worldwide.
Aspirin was made available in tablet form and without a prescription in 1915. Two years later, when Bayer’s patent expired during the First World War, the company lost the trademark rights to aspirin in various countries. After the United States entered the war against Germany in April 1917, the Alien Property Custodian, a government agency that administers foreign property, seized Bayer’s U.S. assets. Two years later, the Bayer company name and trademarks for the United States and Canada were auctioned off and purchased by Sterling Products Company, later Sterling Winthrop, for $5.3 million.
Bayer became part of IG Farben, the conglomerate of German chemical industries that formed the financial heart of the Nazi regime. After World War II, the Allies split apart IG Farben, and Bayer again emerged as an individual company. Its purchase of Miles Laboratories in 1978 gave it a product line including Alka-Seltzer and Flintstones and One-A-Day Vitamins. In 1994, Bayer bought Sterling Winthrop’s over-the-counter business, gaining back rights to the Bayer name and logo and allowing the company once again to profit from American sales of its most famous product.
Re: Yes it really happened
1) LONGEST HOCKEY GAME
Stanley Cup playoff game that did go past two overtimes, with date, score, round, time of overtime and game-winning goal:
March 24, 1936 - Detroit 1, Montreal Maroons 0, semifinal, 116 minutes, 30 seconds, Mud Bruneteau.
2) Welcome to the smallest town in Canada: Tilt Cove in Newfoundland and Labrador. The tiny town has a population of just four people. Its boom days as a copper mining hub are just a distant memory but the people who live there love it for its quiet beauty.
3) Next time you complain your home/apartment/condo is too small, think about the occupants of 128 Day Avenue, a property near Dufferin and Rogers Road. With a footprint of just 29 square metres, the house is officially the smallest in the city. It was something of a minor celebrity a few years back, appearing on the Ellen DeGeneres Show in January 2008.
According to its official site (yep, it's that famous), the home was shoehorned into the space between two existing properties by Arthur Weeden, a contractor involved with a series of west end building projects, in 1912. The tiny parcel of land was originally marked out for laneway access but somehow the curb stones were never lowered to allow vehicular access, rendering the gap useless.Weeden pounced, building a pint-sized home, barely an arm's span wide, for him and his wife. They lived there together for 20 years, content in the tiny space, tending to their vegetable garden and bunking down for the night in the single rear bedroom behind the kitchen.
When Weeden died, the house passed through several owners. In 2010, the last time it was on the market, owners asked $180,000 - $1968 a square metre - for the smallest house in the city, well below the $400,000 average for the city. The publicity surrounding the sale reached its height when talk show host Ellen DeGeneres featured the property on her show.
The main floor of the bungalow features a living room, kitchen, and sleeping quarters with Murphy bed (the room is too small to accommodate a normal bed and furniture.) A hatch in the kitchen leads down to a small basement.
4) On Friday, October 13, 1307 ...
The French rounded up thousands of Knights Templars and tortured them as heretics. Some wonder whether this was the beginning of the whole Friday the 13th mythology (if it is a myth …).
5)On Friday, November 13, 1829 ...
Ten thousand people gathered to watch Sam Patch jump into New York’s Genesee River from atop the Genesee Falls. Only weeks earlier, he’d leaped off Niagara Falls and into the Niagara River and survived. He wasn’t as lucky this time.
Stanley Cup playoff game that did go past two overtimes, with date, score, round, time of overtime and game-winning goal:
March 24, 1936 - Detroit 1, Montreal Maroons 0, semifinal, 116 minutes, 30 seconds, Mud Bruneteau.
2) Welcome to the smallest town in Canada: Tilt Cove in Newfoundland and Labrador. The tiny town has a population of just four people. Its boom days as a copper mining hub are just a distant memory but the people who live there love it for its quiet beauty.
3) Next time you complain your home/apartment/condo is too small, think about the occupants of 128 Day Avenue, a property near Dufferin and Rogers Road. With a footprint of just 29 square metres, the house is officially the smallest in the city. It was something of a minor celebrity a few years back, appearing on the Ellen DeGeneres Show in January 2008.
According to its official site (yep, it's that famous), the home was shoehorned into the space between two existing properties by Arthur Weeden, a contractor involved with a series of west end building projects, in 1912. The tiny parcel of land was originally marked out for laneway access but somehow the curb stones were never lowered to allow vehicular access, rendering the gap useless.Weeden pounced, building a pint-sized home, barely an arm's span wide, for him and his wife. They lived there together for 20 years, content in the tiny space, tending to their vegetable garden and bunking down for the night in the single rear bedroom behind the kitchen.
When Weeden died, the house passed through several owners. In 2010, the last time it was on the market, owners asked $180,000 - $1968 a square metre - for the smallest house in the city, well below the $400,000 average for the city. The publicity surrounding the sale reached its height when talk show host Ellen DeGeneres featured the property on her show.
The main floor of the bungalow features a living room, kitchen, and sleeping quarters with Murphy bed (the room is too small to accommodate a normal bed and furniture.) A hatch in the kitchen leads down to a small basement.
4) On Friday, October 13, 1307 ...
The French rounded up thousands of Knights Templars and tortured them as heretics. Some wonder whether this was the beginning of the whole Friday the 13th mythology (if it is a myth …).
5)On Friday, November 13, 1829 ...
Ten thousand people gathered to watch Sam Patch jump into New York’s Genesee River from atop the Genesee Falls. Only weeks earlier, he’d leaped off Niagara Falls and into the Niagara River and survived. He wasn’t as lucky this time.
Re: Yes it really happened
1) Urinating in a pool is dangerous for your heart.
Though definitely unsanitary, peeing in a pool might seem harmless for your health. After all, urine is sterile, as is chlorine. As it turns out though, urine and chlorine create dangerous chemicals when combined. In fact, that so-called "pool smell" is actually the scent of those chemicals, as Xing-Fang Li, an environmental chemistry professor who conducted research on the topic, told NPR. One of those chemicals—cyanogen chloride—is classified as a chemical warfare agent and can damage your heart and lungs. Other byproducts, called nitrosamines, can even cause cancer.
2) Eating eggs improves your reflexes.
If you want to be able to respond more quickly, you can start by having an omelette for breakfast. Eggs contain an amino acid called tyrosine, which the body synthesizes into norepinephrine and dopamine, compounds that increase energy and alertness and improve mood. In a 2014 study published in the journal Neuropsychologia, researchers even found that tyrosine enhances our response time and improves our intellectual performance, not unlike a medical stimulant like Ritalin or Modafinil.
3) Your blood makes up nearly one-tenth of your total body weight.
When you look at how much you weigh on the scale, you probably think that number is compromised of fat and muscle. But did you know that your blood makes up 8 to 10 percent of your total body weight? Hematologist and oncologist Daniel Landau, MD, explained to Live Science that the average adult has anywhere from 1.2 to 1.5 gallons of blood flowing through their veins.
4) Humans are the only animals with chins.
Try to picture another animal besides a human with a chin. You're probably not able to, right? Well, that's because humans are the only animals with chins. Of course, other animals have jaws, but as anthropologist James Pampush told The Atlantic, "only humans have chins." Though scientists aren't entirely sure why we have this feature, one theory is that our chins make it easier for us to chew. Who knew?
5) More than half of your bones are in your hands and feet.
There are 206 bones in the adult human body. And with 27 bones in each hand and 26 in each foot, these skeletal structures are the most complex, amounting to 106 bones total between all four limbs, according to the BBC.
Though definitely unsanitary, peeing in a pool might seem harmless for your health. After all, urine is sterile, as is chlorine. As it turns out though, urine and chlorine create dangerous chemicals when combined. In fact, that so-called "pool smell" is actually the scent of those chemicals, as Xing-Fang Li, an environmental chemistry professor who conducted research on the topic, told NPR. One of those chemicals—cyanogen chloride—is classified as a chemical warfare agent and can damage your heart and lungs. Other byproducts, called nitrosamines, can even cause cancer.
2) Eating eggs improves your reflexes.
If you want to be able to respond more quickly, you can start by having an omelette for breakfast. Eggs contain an amino acid called tyrosine, which the body synthesizes into norepinephrine and dopamine, compounds that increase energy and alertness and improve mood. In a 2014 study published in the journal Neuropsychologia, researchers even found that tyrosine enhances our response time and improves our intellectual performance, not unlike a medical stimulant like Ritalin or Modafinil.
3) Your blood makes up nearly one-tenth of your total body weight.
When you look at how much you weigh on the scale, you probably think that number is compromised of fat and muscle. But did you know that your blood makes up 8 to 10 percent of your total body weight? Hematologist and oncologist Daniel Landau, MD, explained to Live Science that the average adult has anywhere from 1.2 to 1.5 gallons of blood flowing through their veins.
4) Humans are the only animals with chins.
Try to picture another animal besides a human with a chin. You're probably not able to, right? Well, that's because humans are the only animals with chins. Of course, other animals have jaws, but as anthropologist James Pampush told The Atlantic, "only humans have chins." Though scientists aren't entirely sure why we have this feature, one theory is that our chins make it easier for us to chew. Who knew?
5) More than half of your bones are in your hands and feet.
There are 206 bones in the adult human body. And with 27 bones in each hand and 26 in each foot, these skeletal structures are the most complex, amounting to 106 bones total between all four limbs, according to the BBC.
Re: Yes it really happened
1) Fingernails grow faster on your dominant hand.
The American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) says that a fingernail takes around six months to grow from base to tip and that toenails can take up to a year to do the same. But there are some factors that make nails grow faster. According to the AAD, fingernails grow faster on your dominant hand, as well as on your bigger fingers. They also grow faster during the daytime and during the summer months.
2) The average adult spends more time on the toilet than they do exercising.
It can be hard to fit a workout into your daily routine. But of course, you can't really deny your regular need to do your business in the bathroom. That's why, according to a 2017 study by British non-profit UKActive, adults spend an average of 3 hours and 9 minutes on the toilet each week, compared to around 1 hour and 30 minutes being physically active during that same time span.
3) Consuming hot liquids can cool you down.
It may sound counterintuitive, but drinking hot tea or coffee can actually help cool you down on a hot day. That's because of increased perspiration, according to a 2012 study published in the journal Acta Physiologica. As your sweat evaporates, you wind up feeling cooler than you did at first sip.
"What we found is that when you ingest a hot drink, you actually have a disproportionate increase in the amount that you sweat," study author Ollie Jay told Smithsonian magazine. "Yes, the hot drink is hotter than your body temperature, so you are adding heat to the body, but the amount that you increase your sweating by—if that can all evaporate—more than compensates for the added heat to the body from the fluid."
4) And people who eat chocolate on a near-daily basis are thinner than those who don't.
As if treating your skin wasn't enough of an excuse to eat chocolate daily, a 2012 obesity study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found that people who consume chocolate more often tend to be thinner. The results were consistent, regardless of the type of chocolate consumed. Those who ate any kind of chocolate at least five times a week were statistically thinner than the rest of the subjects. Woo-hoo!
5) Basking in the morning sun helps with weight loss.
In addition to that fun-size Snickers snack, spending your mornings in the sun should be a part of your weight loss plan. A 2014 study published in the journal PLOS One found that exposure to morning sunlight has a positive effect on body mass index (BMI).
According to the research, just 20 to 30 minutes of natural light in the morning—even on a not-so-sunny day—is enough to impact BMI. Without sufficient light, the body may have trouble regulating metabolism, which can eventually cause weight gain.
The American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) says that a fingernail takes around six months to grow from base to tip and that toenails can take up to a year to do the same. But there are some factors that make nails grow faster. According to the AAD, fingernails grow faster on your dominant hand, as well as on your bigger fingers. They also grow faster during the daytime and during the summer months.
2) The average adult spends more time on the toilet than they do exercising.
It can be hard to fit a workout into your daily routine. But of course, you can't really deny your regular need to do your business in the bathroom. That's why, according to a 2017 study by British non-profit UKActive, adults spend an average of 3 hours and 9 minutes on the toilet each week, compared to around 1 hour and 30 minutes being physically active during that same time span.
3) Consuming hot liquids can cool you down.
It may sound counterintuitive, but drinking hot tea or coffee can actually help cool you down on a hot day. That's because of increased perspiration, according to a 2012 study published in the journal Acta Physiologica. As your sweat evaporates, you wind up feeling cooler than you did at first sip.
"What we found is that when you ingest a hot drink, you actually have a disproportionate increase in the amount that you sweat," study author Ollie Jay told Smithsonian magazine. "Yes, the hot drink is hotter than your body temperature, so you are adding heat to the body, but the amount that you increase your sweating by—if that can all evaporate—more than compensates for the added heat to the body from the fluid."
4) And people who eat chocolate on a near-daily basis are thinner than those who don't.
As if treating your skin wasn't enough of an excuse to eat chocolate daily, a 2012 obesity study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found that people who consume chocolate more often tend to be thinner. The results were consistent, regardless of the type of chocolate consumed. Those who ate any kind of chocolate at least five times a week were statistically thinner than the rest of the subjects. Woo-hoo!
5) Basking in the morning sun helps with weight loss.
In addition to that fun-size Snickers snack, spending your mornings in the sun should be a part of your weight loss plan. A 2014 study published in the journal PLOS One found that exposure to morning sunlight has a positive effect on body mass index (BMI).
According to the research, just 20 to 30 minutes of natural light in the morning—even on a not-so-sunny day—is enough to impact BMI. Without sufficient light, the body may have trouble regulating metabolism, which can eventually cause weight gain.