35 Weird Facts You Never Heard Of

1Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

2. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

3. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

4. The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.

5. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

6. There are more chickens than people in the world.

7. Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

8. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”

9. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

10. All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20.

11. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

12. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”.

13. All 50 States are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

14. Almonds are a member of the peach family.

15. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.

16. Maine is the only State whose name is just one syllable.

17. There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

18. The characters “Bert” and “Ernie” on Sesame Street were named after “Bert the cop” and “Ernie the taxi driver” in Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

19. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

20. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

21. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

22. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

23. Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

24. Los Angeles’ full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula.”

25. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

26. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

27. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

28. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

29. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

30. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

31. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

32. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

33. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

34. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

35. “Stewardesses” is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

source: madconomist.com

Study Tips for Math at Home (para imo ni Bon ^_^)

Make photocopies of textbook problems.

Math books give you sample problems to solve, but they often don’t give you enough similar problems to help you understand a process. You can photocopy or scan a page with good samples and re-work the problems several times, perhaps once a day. By solving the same problems over and over, you’ll better understand the processes that you go through.

Buy used textbooks.
Sometimes we don’t understand a concept because the explanation is just plain bad or it’s not written in a way we can understand. It’s good to have an alternate text that gives alternate explanations and additional sample problems to work out. Many used book stores will have inexpensive texts.

Study actively.
Don’t just work out a problem. Draw pictures and diagrams of a process and make up stories to go along with them. If you are an auditory learner you may want to make brief recordings of yourself defining some terms or processes.

Auditory Learning Tips
Tactile Learning Tips
Visual Learning Tips

Read actively.

Use sticky note flags to mark important things in your chapter or things you need to ask about in class. If you have a sample problem that you’ve worked out and you’d like to have similar problems for additional practice, mark it with a flag and ask the teacher in class.

Read the end of your assigned chapter first. Take a look at the problems you’ll be solving to get a preview of your goals. This gives your brain a framework to work with.

Make flashcards for terms.

Flashcards are good for visual and tactile learners. They reinforce information as you see it and as you create it with your own hand.

Use college prep study guides.

If you can’t find an old textbook to use in addition to your class text, try using an SAT, ACT, or CLEP study guide. They often provide great explanations and sample problems. You can also find free online study guides for these tests.

Take breaks.

If you come across a problem that you don’t understand, read it over a few times and try—but then walk away from it and make a sandwich or do some other small task (not other homework). Your brain will continue to work on the problem subconsciously.

Study Tips for Math In Class

Review yesterday’s notes before class.

In the minutes before class starts, look over notes from yesterday. Determine if there are any sample problems or concepts you should ask about.

Record lectures.

If the teacher allows it, record your class. You will often find that you miss small steps in your notes or you don’t quite pick up on an explanation that the teacher gives. A class recording will pick up everything. Auditory learners will really benefit from listening.

Remember, just because your math class lasts 45 minutes, don’t think you’re going to end up with 45 minutes of lecture to listen to. You’ll find that the actual talking time is about 15 minutes.

Ask for extra sample problems.

Ask your teacher to solve sample problems. That’s a teacher’s job! Don’t let a topic go by if you don’t get it. Don’t be shy.

Draw anything the teacher draws.

If the teacher makes a drawing on the board, you should always copy it. Even if you don’t think it’s important at the time or you don’t understand it at the time. You will!

Study Tips for Math Tests

Review old tests.

Old tests are the best clues to future tests. They are good for establishing a strong foundation for the newer information, but the also provide insight as to how the teacher thinks.

Practice neatness.

How unfortunate would it be to miss a test question out of sloppiness? It’s important to make sure you can line up problems neatly so you don’t confuse yourself, and also to make sure you can tell your sevens from your ones.

Find a study partner.

You’ve heard it before, but it’s worth repeating. A study partner can test you and help you understand things you can’t get on your own.

Understand the process.

You sometimes hear that it doesn’t matter how you come up with the right answer, just as long as you get there. This is not always true. You should always strive to understand an equation or a process.

Is it logical?

As you work out a story problem, always give your answer the logic test. For example, if you are asked to find the speed of a car traveling between two distances, you are probably in trouble if your answer is 750 mph.

Apply the logic test as you study so you don’t repeat a faulty process during your test.

Weird Facts

1.Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!

2. In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals!

3. A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!

4. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!

5. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix)
purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch

6.Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different!

7.Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy!

8. Clinophobia is the fear of beds!

9. Pinocchio is Italian for “pine eye”!

10. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is “uncopyrightable”!

11. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!

12. There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!

13. Most lipstick contains fish scales!

14. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

15. Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!

16. Porcupines float in water!

17. Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!

18. In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!

19. Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

20. When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!

21. A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!

22. A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!

23. The electric chair was invented by a dentist!

What is Phobia?

A PHOBIA is an extreme fear or morbid dread on something.

Ordinary fear is not a phobia. Yes, fear alone does not distinguish a phobia. Both fear and avoidance must be evident.

The word Phobia is Greek, therefore any word that is connected to it should be Greek, however, this rule has been broken many times in the past especially within the medical profession. They have used a Latin word affixed to the Greek stem to form some phobia names. the language pundits frown on this but it has happened time and time again over the years and these words become accepted.

Three different Categories of Phobias:

1. Agoraphobia (with and without panic attacks)
=> Irrational anxiety about being in places from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing.

2. Social Phobia
=>Irrational anxiety elicited by exposure to certain types of social or performance situations, also leading to avoidance behavior.

3. Specific Phobia
=> Persistent and irrational fear in the presence of some specific stimulus which commonly elicits avoidance of that stimulus, i.e., withdrawal.

SUBTYPES:

* animal type – cued by animals or insects.
* natural environment type - cued by objects in the environment,
such as storms, heights, or water.
* blood-injection-jury type – cued by witnessing some invasive
medical procedure.
* situational type-cued by specific situation, such as public
transportation, tunnels, bridges, elevators, flying, driving, or
enclosed spaces.
* other type – cued by other stimuli than the above, such as
choking, vomiting, or contracting an illness.

Sixty Amazing-but-True Facts!

• In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi.

• The increased electricity used by modern appliance parts is causing a shift in the Earth’s magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa.
• The idea for “tribbles” in “Star Trek” came from gerbils, since some gerbils are actually born pregnant.
• Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile penises.
• Johnny Plessey batted .331 for the Cleveland Spiders in 1891, even though he spent the entire season batting with a rolled-up, lacquered copy of the Toledo Post-Dispatch.
• Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching and swelling.
• The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren’t for the fact that the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over.
• The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.
• The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there’s no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball.
• Legislation passed during WWI making it illegal to say “gesundheit” to a sneezer was never repealed.
• Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but don’t do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound.
• SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.
• Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers.
• Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender’s system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.
• Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.
• The first McDonald’s restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich.
• The Air Force’s F-117 fighter uses aerodynamics discovered during research into how bumblebees fly.
• You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite.
• Silly Putty was “discovered” as the residue left behind after the first latex condoms were produced. It’s not widely publicized for obvious reasons.
• Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.
• The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver.
• The sport of jai alai originated from a game played by Incan priests who held cats by their tails and swung at leather balls. The cats would instinctively grab at the ball with their claws, thus enabling players to catch them.
• A cat’s purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry White.
• The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his “signature” on the keyboard.
• The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour period contains enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3 feet of a 4-lane concrete freeway.
• King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.
• Because printed materials are being replaced by CD-ROM, microfiche and the Internet, libraries that previously sank into their foundations under the weight of their books are now in danger of collapsing in extremely high winds.
• In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation.
• Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons for Police and Fire Departments, but they were replaced with * and # when the project was cancelled in favor of developing the 911 system.
• Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
• Calvin, of the “Calvin and Hobbes” comic strip, was patterned after President Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy.
• Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game.
• Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.
• You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.
• To human taste buds, Zima is virtually indistinguishable from zebra urine.
• Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth during a game. For Canadians who don’t play hockey, that figure drops to five out of ten.
• A dog’s naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.
• A team of University of Virginia researchers released a study promoting the practice of picking one’s nose, claiming that the health benefits of keeping nasal passages free from infectious blockages far outweigh the negative social connotations.
• Among items left behind at Osama bin Laden’s headquarters in Afghanistan were 27 issues of Mad Magazine. Al Qaeda members have admitted that bin Laden is reportedly an avid reader.
• Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern fuel.
• At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.
• Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas.
• If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go blind and leave behind its weight in honey.
• Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.
• Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs.
• Centuries ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or more limbs amputated in order to prevent the purchaser from running away to avoid repayment of the loan. Hence an expensive purchase was said to cost “an arm and a leg.”
• When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold Krugerrands in his small intestine.
• Aardvarks are allergic to radishes, but only during summer months.
• Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe used today.
• If you part your hair on the right side, you were born to be carnivorous. If you part it on the left, your physical and psychological make-up is that of a vegetarian.
• When immersed in liquid, a dead sparrow will make a sound like a crying baby.
• In WWII the US military planned to airdrop over France propaganda in the form of Playboy magazine, with coded messages hidden in the models’ turn-ons and turn-offs. The plan was scrapped because of a staple shortage due to rationing of metal.
• Although difficult, it’s possible to start a fire by rapidly rubbing together two Cool Ranch Doritos.
• Napoleon’s favorite type of wood was knotty chestnut.
• The world’s smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.
• Due to the natural “momentum” of the ocean, saltwater fish cannot swim backwards.
• In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.
• It is nearly three miles farther to fly from Amarillo, Texas to Louisville, Kentucky than it is to return from Louisville to Amarillo.
• The “nine lives” attributed to cats is probably due to their having nine primary whiskers.
• The original inspiration for Barbie dolls comes from dolls developed by German propagandists in the late 1930s to impress young girls with the ideal notions of Aryan features. The proportions for Barbie were actually based on those of Eva Braun.
• The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops in mid-flight, arriving safely back at his cave completely dry.

  
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