Fact Dump!

As the end of the school year approaches and it is time to begin wrapping up the blog, I have decided to bombard you with the facts I collected over the semester. Facts that dis not make the cut, but were interesting none the less. So without further ado the final Fun Facts of the semester(No Pictures!):

•  Grahams number is so big that all the materials in the world cannot write the number. Most mathematicians don't know it completly but they know it ends with 7.

• Dolly the sheep was not the first animal to be cloned. in the 1880's a german cloned a sea urchin and in 1902 a German named Hans Spemann claoned a salamander. He used a baby's hair to seperate the cells of the embryo. 
• The first cat to be cloned was known as CC (copy cat) and looked completely different from the original.
•  The scream of Tarzan is the same when heard backwards.
• Champagne was not made in France. Champangne was made in England by Don Peringnon who used the grapes found from that region and added the mollases and etc. to make it fizzy in the 1600's. 
• A champagne bottle contains 3 times the air pressure of a car tire and requires a strong glass, which was available in Britain then.
• The patron saint of Ireland was not from Ireland. infarct he was sold to Ireland as a slave.That of course is St. Patrick.
• St. Nicolas was a Turkish saint.
• Ear lobes are hereditary. If parents earlobes are attached to the face then the child's should be as well and vice versa.
• Elephants ears are the biggest in the world but they aren't for hearing but cooling because of the large amount of blood vessels.
• There may be as many as 10 million species of beetle. On average, 1 beetle discovered per hour.
• Pakistan has a sport that is banned excepet for 15 days during the festival of Vasant Panchnami, which is the most dangerous sport existing: Competitive kite flying. The string is a glass string that can decapitate people. The aim of the game is to cut of the other persons kite.
• The largest kite ever made is 48 ft X 34 ft and weighed almost a ton. and takes 50 men to fly it and has 200 stings. 
• The smallest kite is 1.5 inches across. 
• The most number of deaths sustained by women are in the sport of cheer-leading. George bush is the most popular American cheerleader. 
• In 2005 more than 200,000 cheerleader were admitted with cheer-leading related injuries to the hospital.

And finally:

•  Ballet is illegal in Turkmenistan.

Final quote of the week:
Irish saying: "May you get to heaven a half hour before the devil knows your dead."

Yesterday is History!

Our life is created by the events of the past. What we are today is shaped by what was, yesterday. And over time, we have learned many things form our predecessors. But who is to say they did not have some kind of quirk, idiosyncrasy, whimsy, tick, oddity, peculiarity, foible, eccentricity, caprice, anomaly, peculiarity, nonconformity, kink or plain weirdness. So without further ado, five FünFacts about our long glorious and inglorious history:

#5
Ancient Greek did not have a word for the color blue. Plato called it bronze.

#4
The famous 'Creation of Adam' on the roof Sistine chapel was painted by Michelangelo in 1511 but 40 years later, the fingers of God and Adam fell off and were repainted by an unknown papal restorer.

#3
Julius Caesar was very vain an wore the laurel wreath only to cover up his baldness. According to Suetonius, Caesar believed his baldness was a disfigurement he was deeply ashamed

#2
Father Christmas died on may the 30th 1565 in Essex, London. His name was entered in the registry as Father Christmas. It was ok to call old people father if you didn't know their name.the

#1
Spartans always had haircuts before war. before the war of thermophiles, the Persian spies reported an easy victory since the were all getting their hair done.

Quote of the week:
Winston Churchill said to Sandy Baldwin in the house of commons, "History will note that the right honorable gentleman was wrong. I know it will because I shall right the history."


Images Used:
http://www.89thandbroke.com/2011/07/affordable-haircuts-arent-so-hard-to-find/
http://www.empowernetwork.com/cfletes/files/2012/10
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:God2-Sistine_Chapel.png
http://www.claremontportside.com/print-edition/december-2012-issue/the-band-aid-of-affirmative-action/

Kingdom Plantae

The World we live in is filled with more than just humans. And one of those things is plants. The brilliant and eclectic array of plants in this world can me more than spell binding. So without further ado, five FünFacts about the magnificent flora of the world:

#5
Ever seen a black flower? No species of wild plant produces a flower or blossom that is absolutely black, and so far, none has been developed artificially.

#4
One bushel of corn will sweeten more than 400 cans of soda-pop. Finally, all that high fructose corn syrup makes sense. And I though it was something unhealthy!

#3
We all know Tomato is fruit and not a vegetable. But did you know, Pineapple is a berry.

#2
Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew cannabis sativa(marijuana) or as some of you might know it as, 'weed, bro!'  on their plantations. This was before Gonsalvez v Reich, correct?

#1
Where does all this oxygen, that billions of us breathe come from? One would easily think, trees but, 50% of the worlds oxygen comes from algae and not trees. Trees consume more oxygen than they give out.


Quote for the week:
"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
-Erma Bombeck


Images Used:
http://www.facesofgm.com/2011/06/24/ryan-newman-fast-smart-and-caring/#.UYOm9cr_FRc
http://www.etftrends.com/2012/07/corn-prices-lead-agriculture-etfs-on-drought-forecast/
http://naturalfemina.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/spongebob__pineapple.jpg
eofdreams.com/pineapple.html
http://www.vegkitchen.com/recipes/vegetables-all-year-round/tomato-heaven/cool-white-bean-and-tomato-soup/attachment/tomato/

Fallacy - 2!

Now i learned some interesting things while researching for this blog. And one thing I realized is that a lot of the things we believe are FALSE! Its time for another segment of 'Fallacy.' Where I will debunk popular notions and refine them with truth or at least verisimilitude, you decide. So, without further ado five FünFacts that debunk popular notions:

 #5
A popular term for maps is Atlas. Now one would believe that that term originates from Greek mythology, since Atlas, the titan, was gursed to carry the globe on his shoulders.
FALLACY!
Atlas is always shown to carry the Earth but in actuality was punished to carry the heavens by Zeus. The Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator created a series of maps with atlas holding the world and that became very popular. He was the first to use the term Atlas and modern depictions of atlas show him with the world.

#4
It is almost universally believed that the the French word 'encore', which is used at the end of the performance for a repeat, is used by everyone, starting with the French.
FALLACY!
The French dont use the word 'encore'. They actually use 'bis' which means twice.

#3
If I were to ask you which is the driest place in the world, what would you say? some kind of desert, correct?
FALLACY!
The driest place in the world is in Antarctica. There are the dry valleys in Antarctica free from ice and snow that haven't had rain for 2 million years.

Extra fact: Antarctica is also the coldest place and wettest in the world. 70% of the worlds water is in Antarctica in the form of ice and they have wind speeds of up to 200mph.

#2
We all know that a day has 24 hours. But by now, you must know that that is also a
FALLACY!
An average day is always less or more than 24 hours. We assign a standard value to avoid inconsistencies.

#1
When you are having a crummy day and all you want to do is sulk, there is always that one annoying person who'll say in a saccharine tone, 'it takes more muscles to frown that smile you know!'Well, the next time that person tells you that just yell,
FALLACY!
It takes 12 muscles to smile and 11 to frown. So don't smile. It is such a waste of energy!

Quote for the week:
"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing, and if you can fake that, you've got it made" - Groucho Marx


Images Used:
 http://www.atlastrainingcenter.com/OurMission/tabid/96/Default.aspx
http://thefullmoxie.com/2012/05/23/yo-sassy-affairs-with-married-men-yay-or-nay/couch-therapy/
http://everypainterpaintshimself.com/article_images_new/1469759081_aed3c7259b_o.jpg
www.thejoinery.com/sites/default/files/products/810_ShakerWrittingD