Category: Weekly Facts

  One of the first lighters was invented by the German chemist named Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner in 1823.  The match was used in China around the 577 AD.  The Zippo lighter was invented by George Grant Blaisdell in 1932.  Friction matches (invented by John Walker) and safety matches are still used today.       

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The U.S. and Canadian border is the longest border in the world without military.  It is around 5,525 miles or 8,891 kilometers long.  The 13 states touching Canada is Alaska, Michigan, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, New York, Washington, North Dakota, Ohio, Vermont, New Hampshire, Idaho, and Pennsylvania.  The eight provinces touching the U.S. is Ontario, British

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The element of Mercury was named after the planet.  The element of Mercury is silver in color and the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.  Think old thermometers.  The symbol for Mercury is Hg that comes from hydrargyrum meaning liquid silver in Greek.  The planet Mercury, on the other hand, is made mostly

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A person walks an average of 7,500 steps a day.  Based on this a person will have walked around 216,262,500 steps or 111,000 miles until the age of 80.  This is about three to five times around the Earth at the equator. The color green can symbolize many things including but not limited to nature,

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  Skin is the largest human organ on your body.  Not hard to believe because we shed around 600,000 particles of skin every hour.  It translates into about one and half pounds of skin every year.  If you’re lucky enough to live to age 70, you will have lost 105 pounds and even luckier by

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Between 269 to 306 billion email messages are sent every day so that makes around 3.7 billion email users.  Of these emails, about 45% to 55% is spam so that makes around 14.5 billion spam email messages sent every day.           Mr. Potato Head was invented by George Lerner in 1949. 

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  What constituted the fashionable woman changed over time but cleavage remained a vital part of display and dress.  In the 14th century, Western culture emphasized lower necklines and tight clothes.  Corsets are still in use as well as taping and surgery in relation to cleavage.       We all sneeze, some more forceful

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I spent some of Saturday working and then stood in line for three hours to vote for who I wanted to be the Democratic candidate to run against Trump in November 2020.  I remember a long time ago in my Political Science class how important it was to vote (in the semi-Democracy the U.S.A has),

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The human body produces enough saliva during your lifetime to fill two swimming pools.  We produce up to 2 to 4 pints a day and if your mouth is really dry like mine is, chew gum or suck on something, but also stay hydrated.       If an egg floats in water, has it

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The five interlocking Olympic rings are black, blue, red, white, and yellow because at least one of these colors appears on every flag.  It has a white background and was created by Pierre de Coubertin in 1913, released in 1914, and first used at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium.     The total

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Don’t whisper into someone’s ear when they are moose hunting in Alaska because it’s illegal to do this.   How do they monitor this?  Do they take the word of someone who reports this?  This would be classified as a stupid law to most people.   One pound of peanut butter can contain up to 150

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I started a new position at my current company.  I’m busy and more busy.  There is not a moment to spare.  I will not be probably including as much information this time or photos.  Here are the weekly facts for this week.  Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational and judge risks more

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Office desks have 400 more times bacterial than a toilet seat.  Think about it.  You sneeze, blow your nose, eat and drink, blow dust from it.  Other people come to your desk and touch your stuff.  It’s a dirty surface so clean it more than less.     It takes about fifteen minutes for a

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