Category: Weekly Facts

The world’s first skyscraper was the Home Insurance building in Chicago.  It was 138 feet tall with 10 stories, built in 1885, and demolished in 1931. There are 12 federal reserve banks in the U.S. created under the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.  They are Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis,

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The most abused drug in the world is caffeine.  There’s about 47 mg of caffeine in 8 ounces of black tea and 96 mg of caffeine in 8 ounces of coffee.  Green tea has less caffeine at 28 mg and obviously decaf has the least amount of caffeine.   Emerson Spartz flew from Chicago to London

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The costliest Apple product is the Mac Pro that can price as high as around 52,000 dollars. There’s a long list of things that can kill or shrink brain cells, but the brain does have the ability to repair itself by growing new cells.  It is called neurogenesis. Oklahoma has more manmade lakes than any

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Flying car prototypes do exist like the Terrafugia Transition and LaBiche FSC-1. The last execution by hanging in the United States was in 1996 in Delaware and last execution by electric chair in 2018 in Tennessee. Four is the only number that has the same amount of letters as its actual value. Spongebob Squarepants creator,

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In the late 1800s and early 1900s it was thought to be good to bath your baby in lard for their first bath in Europe and America. Sharing makeup, combs and brushes, nail clippers, razors, and toothbrushes are good way to spread infections and diseases. The highest mountain is Mount Everest/Sagamatha/Chomolungma at 8,848 meters or

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Composting can be done in high altitudes and lower temperatures but with more patience and skill. Chris Putnam hacked into Facebook and made thousands of profiles to look like MySpace profiles and then Facebook hired him as an engineer. The oldest known brewery is in Haifa, Israel that was probably used in rituals. Humans look

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The longest mustache belongs to Ram Singh Chauhan from Italy.  It is 14 feet or 4.29 meters long. Melatonin was created by Richard Wurtman to help with insomnia. French fries are usually dipped in ketchup (highly American style) or mayonnaise (highly un-American style) but other things include guacamole, ranch dressing, barbeque sauce, malt vinegar, melted

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Saturn is named after the Roman god of agriculture and is the slowest moving planet.  Around 75% of Americans don’t have a plan for retirement. The highest paid teachers are in Luxembourg at $138,000 while the lowest highest paid teachers are in Estonia at $17,000. Tasmania, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, and Estonia are some countries

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Workplace bullying affects between 20 to 30% of people. Most of the bullies are men and women who bully tend to bully other women.  Disneyland was built in one year and finished in 1955 and cost 17.5 million dollars.  Cost of admission was one dollar.  Left-Handers Day started in 1992 to make awareness of the

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A mosquito’s saliva acts as an anesthetic, and only pregnant females bite humans. Fastest speed of a baseball thrown was done by Aroldis Chapman at 105.1 mph.  The summer and winter on Uranus lasts 42 years each. The spots of light you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes  It is seeing light

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This is for next week but at this rate, aren’t all these weeks just blending together like one nice vegetable soup during the winter. Besides I’m trying to move the pending blog entries into the posted blog entries for some reason. Probably because things have been sitting there for a while and want to clear

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Beaver castor sacs hold castoreum that is used in some perfumes, as a food additive, and flavor contributor to cigarettes.  Bookkeeper and its derivatives are the only words in the English with three consecutive double letters. The oldest hotel in the world is Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan that was built in 705 in Hayakawa, Japan.  It

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Tiger shark embryos fight each other in their mother’s womb for survival because they are often fertilized by different males.  A 150-pound adult would weigh 57 pounds on Mercury but 136.5 pounds on Venus and would weigh the most on Jupiter at 351 pounds. S.O.S is for MAYDAY and not Save Our Ship when people

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