Fun Facts

[Shaylee]

Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci did not like each other.

 

[Friday]

Statistically speaking, you have as much chance of dying in an airplane crash as being stuck by lighting WHILST being eaten by a shark.

I love that stat.

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[Rose White]

Before railroads time of day was determined by a local professional timekeeper. It didn’t matter much if the time in one location synced up with that of another.

 

[Friday]

Before railroads time of day was determined by a local professional timekeeper. It didn’t matter much if the time in one location synced up with that of another.

Yep, yep.

Midday. High noon. A serious distinction.

One I’ve fallen back on more times than I can approximate.

Oh-dark-thirty.
PreDawn
Dawn
Early morning
Mid morning
Late morning
Noon
High noon
Early Afternoon
Midafternoon
Late Afternoon
Evening
Twilight
Dusk
Just dark
Moon & Star Phases (moon horizon, moonrise, etc.)

TBH?!? I think the variation is both more accurate & more human than stupid digital clocks and their 15y minute increments. If not more accurate than texting.

 

[LivB]

Hippos "sweat" a reddish substance that acts as sunscreen too. N also they cant swim, they just boing along off the bottom real fast.

 

[Shaylee]

You cannot outrun a fart.

 

[Rose White]

they just boing along

Or torpedo along when chasing humans apparently!

 

[Freddyt]

Or torpedo along when chasing humans apparently!

Hippos kill more people than lions every year. They are seriously fast in the water. Plus they like to stay submerged so you can not see them in muddy water.

 

[Rose White]

I don’t know how fun this one is but I found it interesting. The US leases Guantanamo Bay from Cuba for roughly $4,000 per year. Every year they send the rent payment but Cuba has never cashed the checks since the Cuban Revolution in 1959 and Castro said that one was only accidentally deposited.

The lease began in 1903 as part of the Platt Amendment to the Treaty of Paris—which was originally supposed to give Cuba their freedom from Spain. (Spoiler: they were freed from Spain but got a new overlord.). There is no expiration to the lease.

Bonus facts: Guantanamo gets their water from a desalination plant brought from Point Loma Naval Base.

There was a Hooters there from 1987-1994. The Navy owns and operates all the franchised companies present there: McD’s, Starbs, etc.

 

[Freddyt]

Running yelling and screaming when a bee is nearby increases the likelihood of being stung.......

If you eat Bananas, bees wasps and other insects are drown to the sweet smell of them on your skin....... When I used to help my dad with his honey bees - there was no eating bananas in the summer.

 

[Rose White]

The word salad comes from the same word as salt because it’s salted greens.

 

[Rose White]

Based on data collected by the Kepler space telescope it appears that 20-50% of the 100 billion sun-like stars in our Milky Way have rocky planets in their habitable zones.