Did you know..?

[dammit]

Post all your did you know facts (but make sure they're not urban myths!)

The following are all from a book "Moths that Drink Elephants Tears" by Matt Walker and all facts are referenced (though I won't type those out).

1. Did you know that the average person in the UK will eat 550 poultry, 36 pigs, 36 sheep and 8 cattle in their lifetime?

2. Did you know that Mega Bats, the group that includes larger fruit-eating bats such as flying foxes, where once classified as flying primates?

3. Did you know that male goats become sexually aroused when they see female goats mounting eachother?

[Q-Man]

Lesgoats!

[Chevron]

Did you know that the Wright bros. called their first plane the "Wright flyer 1"?

[Miktar]

Did you know . . .
Sometimes size does matter.
If you’re one in a million in China . . .
There are 1,300 people just like you.
In India, there are 1,100 people just like you.
The 25% of the population in China with the highest IQ’s . . .
Is greater than the total population of North America.
In India, it’s the top 28%.
Translation for teachers: They have more honors kids than we have kids.
Did you know . . .
China will soon become the number one English speaking country in the world.
If you took every single job in the U.S. today and shipped it to China . . .
China would still have a labor surplus.
During the course of this 8 minute presentation . . .
60 babies will be born in the U.S.
244 babies will be born in China.
351 babies will be born in India.
The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs . . .
By the age of 38.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor . . .
1 out of 4 workers today is working for a company they have been employed by for less than one year.
More than 1 out of 2 are working for a company they have worked for for less than five years.
According to former Secretary of Education Richard Riley . . .
The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 didn’t exist in 2004.
We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist . . .
Using technologies that haven’t been invented . . .
In order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.
Name this country . . .

Richest in the World
Largest Military
Center of world business and finance
Strongest education system
World center of innovation and invention
Currency the world standard of value
Highest standard of living
= England. In 1900.

Did you know . . .
The U.S. is 20th in the world in broadband Internet penetration.
(Luxembourg just passed us.)
In 2002 alone Nintendo invested more than $140 million in research and development.
The U.S. Federal Government spent less than half as much on Research and Innovation in Education.
1 out of every 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met online.
There are over 100 million registered users of MySpace.(August 2006)

If MySpace were a country, it would be the 11th-largest in the world (between Japan and Mexico)*
The average MySpace page is visited 30 times a day.

Did you know . . .
We are living in exponential times.
There are over 2.7 billion searches performed on Google each month.
To whom were these questions addressed B.G.?
(Before Google)
The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the population of the planet.
There are about 540,000 words in the English language . . .
About 5 times as many as during Shakespeare’s time.
More than 3,000 new books are published . . .
Daily.
It’s estimated that a week’s worth of New York Times . . .
Contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18th century.
It’s estimated that 40 exabytes (that’s 4.0 x 1019) of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year.
That’s estimated to be more than in the previous 5,000 years.
The amount of new technical information is doubling every 2 years.
It’s predicted to double every 72 hours by 2010.
Third generation fiber optics has recently been separately tested by NEC and Alcatel . . .
That pushes 10 trillion bits per second down one strand of fiber.
That’s 1,900 CDs or 150 million simultaneous phone calls every second.
It’s currently tripling about every 6 months and is expected to do so for at least the next 20 years.
The fiber is already there, they’re just improving the switches on the ends. Which means the marginal cost of these improvements is effectively $0.
Predictions are that e-paper will be cheaper than real paper.
47 million laptops were shipped worldwide last year.
The $100 laptop project is expecting to ship between 50 and 100 million laptops a year to children in underdeveloped countries.
Predictions are that by 2013 a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computation capability of the Human Brain . . .
By 2023, a $1,000 computer will exceed the computation capability of the Human Brain . . .
First grader Abby will be just 23 years old and beginning her (first) career . . .
And while technical predictions further out than about 15 years are hard to do . . .
Predictions are that by 2049 a $1,000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the human race.

[Chippit]

The dog who played Lassie in the original Lassie films was male.

[dammit]

The dogs who played Lassie in the original Lassie films was male.

Plural. I'm not sure (checking up now) but i think it was 4 dogs.

[Chippit]

Plural. I'm not sure (checking up now) but i think it was 4 dogs.

The first dog to play Lassie. This was the only animal who played Lassie in the original film, Lassie Come Home. Many others came afterwards, though the original was this single male.
Most of the latter incarnations of Lassie are descendants of that one.

[dammit]

oooo, my bad. Sorry :)

[ShellShok]

Did you know that Charlie Chaplin took part in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest and came third?

[Oeaks]

WW! facts:
During World War 1 the British shot 268 of their men for 'desertion'
The Germans shot 48
The Russian gave up on shooting their own soilders]
Australia shot none

A game Australian soilders would play with german POW's called free the prisoner was played like so:
What you need: 1 grenade, 1 german prisoner
Rules: take a prisoner who want to be free, take him to the prison entrance gates and place the grenade in his back pocket. Pull out the pin (giving him 5 seconds), hold the prisoner for the count of 2 let him go and tell him to run. if he get the grenade out of his pocket in the remaining 3 seconds, then he wins and is free to go.

'orrible, ain't it?

[FEN1X]

35% of people using personal ads for dating are already married!
A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
Babies that are breastfed are more likely to be slimmer as adults than those that are not breastfed.
While humans and most species are divided into only two sexes, mushrooms contain over 36,000 sexes!
A sea snail changes is sex to mate with itself.
You have no sense of smell when you're sleeping!
An albatross can sleep while it flies!
Animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike!
Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn?t a federal crime to assassinate the President.
A coffee tree yields about one pound of coffee in a year.
On average, it takes 660 days from conception for an elephant to give birth.
Hummingbirds can't walk.

and my personal one

Cats make over 100 different vocal sounds; dogs can make about ten.

[wir]

Cats make over 100 different vocal sounds; dogs can make about ten.

Cats > Dogs


The average human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap.

More than ten people a year are killed by vending machines.(<-- LOL)

[dammit]

On average, it takes 660 days from conception for an elephant to give birth.

..which is nearly two YEARS. Amazing stuff

[Banlam]

Cats > Dogs
More than ten people a year are killed by vending machines.(<-- LOL)

dare i ask: "How?"

[Q-Man]

Did you know:

In Soviet Russia, OPPINION HAS YOU!

[ironwolf]

A game Australian soilders would play with german POW's called free the prisoner was played like so:
What you need: 1 grenade, 1 german prisoner
Rules: take a prisoner who want to be free, take him to the prison entrance gates and place the grenade in his back pocket. Pull out the pin (giving him 5 seconds), hold the prisoner for the count of 2 let him go and tell him to run. if he get the grenade out of his pocket in the remaining 3 seconds, then he wins and is free to go.

'orrible, ain't it?

hahahahahahahah I bet the aussies could get the grenade out their pocket if they did that.

[DaBaish]

Did you know - I'm 18 years old.

[ShadowMaster]

Did you know - I'm 18 years old.

Gasp!

Then please act like it.

On topic.

A normal Rubik's cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible combinations.
A 3x3x3x3(4D) Rubik's cube has more combinations than there are atoms in the universe.

[Oeaks]

More people are killed every year by coconuts then by sharks.
Though they don't make as thrilling movies.

[Polly_77]

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