Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Did You Know?

Ketchup used to be sold as medicine.

The birthday of the oldest person on Earth, Misao Okawa, is closer to the date the constitution was ratified than now.

Also, the day that Misao Okawa was born, there was a completely different set of people on Earth.

Coconuts and cows kill more people than sharks every year.

German is the second most spoken language in North Dakota.

Norway once knighted a penguin.

The official state VEGETABLE of Oklahoma is the watermelon.

The official Space Jam website has not changed since 1996.


A day on the planet Venus is longer than a year on Venus.

If you are in a room with 23 people, there’s more than a 50% chance that two of the people have the same birthday.

A TI-83 calculator has six times more processing power than the computer that landed Apollo 11 on the moon.

This is what an eclipse on Earth looks like from space:


Cambridge University is older than the Aztec and Inca empires.

Calculus was derived years after Harvard was founded.

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