Cool Unusual Information (Part 2)

By The Crazy Robot on Sunday, July 20, 2008

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H2O expands as it freezes and contracts as it melts, displacing the exact same amount of fluid in either state. So if the northern ice cap did melt, it would cause absolutely no rise in the level of the ocean.

One hundred seven incorrect medical procedures will be performed by the end of the day today.

The shockwave from a nitroglycerine explosion travels at seventeen thousand miles per hour.

Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who discovered radium, died on July 4, 1934, of radiation poisoning.

If you yelled for eight years, seven months, and six days, you would have produced anough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

If we had the same mortality rate as in the 1900s, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.

The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that it breaks the sound barrier; the crack of the whip is actually a tiny sonic boom.

When Beethoven was a child, he made such a poor impression on his music teachers that he was pronounced hopeless as a composer.

Mozart’s real name was Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart.

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Cool Unusual Information (Part 1)

By The Crazy Robot on Saturday, April 12, 2008

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Filed Under: Comedy, facts

Recently, I’ve bought two books. The Book of Useless Information, and The Ultimate Book of Useless Information: A Few Thousand More Things You Might Need to Know ( But ProbablyDon’t)

Absolutely Obsessed with this “Useless Information”, I read the first book in 2 days, and the second book (shorter) in 1 day. There are three books, the third being the kinda of “greatest hits of The Books of Useless Information”, please pardon my bad memory. (I’m sure it was called something else.) Today, or well 2 1/2 hours ago was Friday, I did a search for strange facts, and I found a farrelly educated website with some facts. The only really problem I have with the site. And I’m not sure I could have ever looked at it longer than I did. And the main reason why this is number one… The best site is atrocious, ugly, poorly programmed, unmotivated, and sad. I can deal with that, most websites are. What I cannot deal with is the exclamation points at the end of every single fact. If it wasn’t for this the website would be awesome. I can’t imaging screaming facts at people, they seem annoyed enough at me for speaking them. But, … for the first part of “Cool Unusual Information”, I will read through and include some of these. At the end, I will include the website link for anybody that has a visual death wish, or perhaps has some kind of super human strength for this sort of design faux pas.

The names of Popeye’s four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!

Poop-eye! ha!

A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun’s surface.

Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive.

Yeah, I got it.

The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins.

So What, China’s Got Them.

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