Weekly Facts #22

Humps on camels are fatty tissue and despite their tall height, are used to carry people and cargo. Most camels only have one hump, but two humped camels do exist. They use the fatty humps when food is scarce and can go without water if needed for weeks.

The longest game of chess that is possible is 5,949 moves and possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game is 318,979,564,000.

A Hershey’s Kiss ranges from 21.43 to 22.86 calories. It takes about five minutes of walking at 4.0 pace and three minutes of jogging at 5.0 pace to burn off one Hershey Kiss. The company is also responsible for the biggest chocolate bar made. The Reese’s Take 5 was 5,943 pounds and 5.5 feet long.

Languages are mainly broken into three categories of Romance, Germanic, and Indigenous. Romance languages evolved from Latin including but not limited to Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Romanian. Germanic languages are divided into west, north, and east. The western includes but not limited to English, German, and Dutch. The north includes but not limited to Danish, Swedish, Norwegian. The east of Gothic and a few other tribes. Indigenous languages are used primarily in the Americas including but not limited to Southern Quechua, Guarini, Kichwa, Mapuche, and Navajo.

Uranus and Neptune are the two planets with the strongest surface winds. Uranus winds can get up to 560 mph or 900 kph and Neptune winds can get up to 1,500 mph or 2,400 kph.

The human coronavirus was first found in 1965. It generally causes a fever, headaches, coughing, and shortness of breath. SARS and MERS are two types of coronavirus out of the seven. The lifespan of this current coronavirus lives on surfaces from 3 hours to 7 days.