I received a list of interesting "facts" through e-mail today, and I was intrigued by all the useful information. So inspired was I by this list that I decided to come up with a fact list all my own.
Did you know...
...that 4 out of 5 people make up 80% of the population?
...that if you drive your car at the speed of light and turn on your headlights, you are probably outdriving your headlights and should slow down?
...that the tiger is the only animal besides the other large cats that is a large cat?
...that, while creating calculus, Newton accidently discovered a new trade route between Halifax and New Delhi, leading to the invention of the cotton gin?
...you are twice as likely to be half as bad as someone that is good at something?
...that if you drop a bowling ball and a feather at the same time in a place with no atmosphere, you should probably quickly find some sort of breathing apparatus?
...pi is the ratio between the circumference of a circle and the volume of fruit filling inside?
...I farted?
...blue is the only color besides red or yellow that can be used to make other colors but not be made from other colors?
...that Benjamin Franklin was the uncle of Thomas Edison?
...if you smash both your kneecaps with a hammer, you're dumb as shit?
...the opposite of "ostrich" is "malignant?"
...a duck has no mass, and nobody knows why?
...the first dollars were used as shoe padding, and it wasn't until the invention of numbers that they were used for monetary trading?
...the Eskimos have 47 ways to tell you they have only one word for snow?
...eating spaghetti is not the best way to handle radioactive fallout?
...this is the dumbest thing I have ever made?