The word DREAM didn't come to mean "sleep images" until the 13th century -- in Old English it
meant "joy," "noise," or "music"
In 1999, Harvard University conducted a study called "Gorillas in Our Midst." Test subjects were instructed to watch people pass a basketball back and forth. Meanwhile, more than 80% of the time subjects failed to notice a person in a gorilla suit walking around the room
The United Nations ranks Norway first among all nations in the category "Quality of Life"
Percent of Americans who can name the Three Stooges when asked to do so spontaneously: 60%
Percent of Americans who can name three past or current Supreme Court justices: 17%
An official census of Panama City in 1610 listed 548 citizens and more than 3,500 African slaves
70% of the San Francisco Bay is less than 12 feet deep
58% of soldiers killed during the American Civil War were positively identified
Money is about 10,000 years old
All McDonald's restaurants in Sweden serve organic food in edible or degradable packaging -- in 2002, the first McDonald's drive-thru window for snowmobiles opened in Piteaa, Sweden
The flush toilet was introduced in 1810
Human saliva has a boiling point that is 3 degrees higher than regular water
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from a centuries old English law that stated a husband could not beat his wife with any object or strap wider than his thumb
Diet Coke was invented in 1982
The can-opener was invented 48 years after the can
More than 400,000 Americans still do not have indoor plumbing
Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president born in a hospital
In the next seven days, 800 Americans will be injured by their jewelry
Shoes wear out faster on the right foot than the left
Least likely time for a bank robbery in the United States: Wednesday, 3 - 6 p.m.
The United States produces more tobacco than it does wheat
Q-Tip cotton swabs were originally called Baby Gays
Every 1,000 years, Spring gets two-thirds of one day shorter
Percent of American men who claim that t.v. has taught them more about life than their parents: 22%
95% of all creatures on earth are smaller than a chicken egg
The Jordanian city of Amman was once called Philadelphia
"Alma Mater" means "bountiful mother"
It takes a plastic container 50,000 years to start to decompose
Microsoft threatened 17 year old Mike Rowe with a lawsuit after Rowe launched a website called MikeRoweSoft.com
The day after George W. Bush won re-election in 2004, Canada's main immigration website received over 115,000 visitors -- in a typical day, the site receives less than 20,000 visits
While American novelist Anne Parrish was browsing a used bookstore in Paris in the 1920s, she happened upon a copy of "Jack Frost and Other Stories," which had been a childhood favorite for her -- as she was explaining to her husband how much she had enjoyed the stories as a child, he happened upon the flyleaf and found the handwritten inscription "Anne Parish, 209 N. Weber Street, Colorado Springs" -- it was Anne's own book that her parents had given away when she was a teenager
One-quarter of all horses in the U.S. died of an epidemic virus in 1872
Greek writer Julius Pollux described the game "apodidraskinda" in the year 150 -- we know the game as "hide-and-seek"
You actually can get blood from a stone, as long as it contains 17% bauxite
Less than 1% of human flatulence is made up of the chemicals that cause odor but they are so pungent that most people can smell them at 1 part per 100 million
Butterflies taste with their feet
It is impossible for a solar eclipse to last longer than 7 minutes, 58 seconds
Plants that are thirsty emit a high pitched sound that the human ear cannot hear
First Republican president of the United States: Abraham Lincoln
The Empire State Building in New York City has 6,400 windows
The custom of shaking hands when greeting originated as a way for men who were strangers to demonstrate they were unarmed
Air becomes liquid at -190 degrees Celsius -- liquid air looks like water with a slight bluish tint
Although toilet paper was invented in China in the late 1300s, it was for Emperors only -- widespread use didn't happen until after 1857 when New Yorker Joseph Gayetty started marketing it
HUH?:
"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost an important part of your life" -- Actress Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign
"I have opinions of my own- strong opinions- but I don't always agree with them" -- Former U.S. President George Bush, Sr.
"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any Governor, and that word is 'Be prepared'" -- Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush
"This is unparalyzed in the state's history" -- Gib Lewis, Texas Speaker of the House
"We are not ready for the unforeseen event that may or may not occur" -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice President
Monday, November 24, 2008
Monday, November 10, 2008
A NOTE TO F*Y*H READERS
I have been reluctant to request donations to support this blog, but my situation necessitates that I do so now. I am on disability and food stamps. These sources of income combined leave me still about 30% below the poverty line in the U.S.
If you enjoy Feed*Your*Head, and have the means to make a donation, please consider helping out by simply clicking the PayPal donation button on the right side of the screen and making a contribution. I appreciate it greatly.
Below is the newest edition, called REVOLUTION, I LOVE YOU. I sent this out Thursday last, but I know most of you won't be reading up until today.
Love and Revolution,
Anarchist Blue
If you enjoy Feed*Your*Head, and have the means to make a donation, please consider helping out by simply clicking the PayPal donation button on the right side of the screen and making a contribution. I appreciate it greatly.
Below is the newest edition, called REVOLUTION, I LOVE YOU. I sent this out Thursday last, but I know most of you won't be reading up until today.
Love and Revolution,
Anarchist Blue
Thursday, November 6, 2008
REVOLUTION, I LOVE YOU
75% of all raisins consumed by Americans each year are eaten at breakfast
73% of girls in Bangladesh are married by age 18
Only 23% of New Zealand households have more than 2 children
In the U.S.., more than 35 million people used an illegal drug last year
To lose one pound of fat, a person must burn about 3,500 calories
Average weight of a newborn in the U.S.: 7 lbs., 6 oz.
Worldwide, only 4% of babies are born on their due date
In 1555, Ivan the Terrible ordered the construction of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow -- when the project was completed he was so taken with its beauty he had the architects blinded so that they would never be able to build anything else more beautiful
Until 1796, one U.S. state was named Franklin -- today, it is known as Tennessee
4 of the first 6 U.S. presidents were 57 years of age at their inauguration -- no other U.S. president has been inaugurated at that age
If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan Project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birthplace is officially listed as a post office box in Albuquerque, NM
Until the age of 5, we laugh about 400 times a day -- by adulthood, we laugh about 15 times a day
Americans spend 5 times more of their life in their car than on vacation
Fourteen years before the Titanic sank, novelist Morgan Robertson published a story about a fictional ship named Titan that struck an iceberg on a foggy April night and sank
Houses were first numbered in Paris in 1463 -- numbering later appeared in Britain in 1708
Globally, more than a billion people survive on less than $1 a day
In London, it rains more often on Thursday than any other day of the week
In the United States, in the three weeks leading up to December 25th, Visa cards alone are used an average of 5,300 times a minute
8% of the world's elderly live in the United States
No disease afflicting humans ever identified by doctors and scientists has ever been fully eradicated
In the U.S., the number one cause of blindness is diabetes
People in Iceland per capita read more books than any other people in the world -- people in France own more pets, people in Sweden eat more candy, and people in the U.S. own more televisions
The first recorded revolution took place around 2500 BC when people in the Sumarian city of Lagash overthrew bureaucrats who were embezzling taxes
More adult American women are living without a husband than are living with one
Less than 25% of the American population over age 25 have a college degree
40% of the world's almonds, 20% of all peanuts, and 8% of the world's sugar end up in candy bars
At normal room temperature, the atoms around us are whizzing by at about 1,000 miles per hour
Being bilingual delays dementia
The Ottoman Empire once had 7 emperors in 7 months -- the unlucky leaders died of (in order): burning, choking, drowning, stabbing, heart failure, poisoning, and being thrown from a horse
Since 2003, the suicide rate for girls in the U.S. between the ages of 10 and 14 has increased 76%
Chances of being born on Leap Day: 1 in 1,500 -- about 187,000 people in the U.S. and 4 million people around the world were born on Leap Day (February 29)
73% of girls in Bangladesh are married by age 18
Only 23% of New Zealand households have more than 2 children
In the U.S.., more than 35 million people used an illegal drug last year
To lose one pound of fat, a person must burn about 3,500 calories
Average weight of a newborn in the U.S.: 7 lbs., 6 oz.
Worldwide, only 4% of babies are born on their due date
In 1555, Ivan the Terrible ordered the construction of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow -- when the project was completed he was so taken with its beauty he had the architects blinded so that they would never be able to build anything else more beautiful
Until 1796, one U.S. state was named Franklin -- today, it is known as Tennessee
4 of the first 6 U.S. presidents were 57 years of age at their inauguration -- no other U.S. president has been inaugurated at that age
If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan Project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birthplace is officially listed as a post office box in Albuquerque, NM
Until the age of 5, we laugh about 400 times a day -- by adulthood, we laugh about 15 times a day
Americans spend 5 times more of their life in their car than on vacation
Fourteen years before the Titanic sank, novelist Morgan Robertson published a story about a fictional ship named Titan that struck an iceberg on a foggy April night and sank
Houses were first numbered in Paris in 1463 -- numbering later appeared in Britain in 1708
Globally, more than a billion people survive on less than $1 a day
In London, it rains more often on Thursday than any other day of the week
In the United States, in the three weeks leading up to December 25th, Visa cards alone are used an average of 5,300 times a minute
8% of the world's elderly live in the United States
No disease afflicting humans ever identified by doctors and scientists has ever been fully eradicated
In the U.S., the number one cause of blindness is diabetes
People in Iceland per capita read more books than any other people in the world -- people in France own more pets, people in Sweden eat more candy, and people in the U.S. own more televisions
The first recorded revolution took place around 2500 BC when people in the Sumarian city of Lagash overthrew bureaucrats who were embezzling taxes
More adult American women are living without a husband than are living with one
Less than 25% of the American population over age 25 have a college degree
40% of the world's almonds, 20% of all peanuts, and 8% of the world's sugar end up in candy bars
At normal room temperature, the atoms around us are whizzing by at about 1,000 miles per hour
Being bilingual delays dementia
The Ottoman Empire once had 7 emperors in 7 months -- the unlucky leaders died of (in order): burning, choking, drowning, stabbing, heart failure, poisoning, and being thrown from a horse
Since 2003, the suicide rate for girls in the U.S. between the ages of 10 and 14 has increased 76%
Chances of being born on Leap Day: 1 in 1,500 -- about 187,000 people in the U.S. and 4 million people around the world were born on Leap Day (February 29)
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