Originally posted on December 24, 2006 @ 5:45 pm
The Capitol building in Washington, DC has 365 steps to represent every day of the year.
Thanks Snapple!
Originally posted on December 24, 2006 @ 5:45 pm
The Capitol building in Washington, DC has 365 steps to represent every day of the year.
Thanks Snapple!
Originally posted on December 23, 2006 @ 3:40 pm
Thanks to Snapple, I bring you Real Fact #193:
The year that read the same upside down was 1961. That won’t happen again until 6009.
The year 6009. That’s so crazy to think about… four thousand years from now.
I can hear my friend Felix saying “Good grief!” to this post :)
On that note, here are 5 mind bending questions about the year 6009 to ponder while you relax over the holiday break:
Just a small heads up, over the next few days I’ll be updating my Unusual Trivia page, so be sure to check it out.
Originally posted on October 17, 2006 @ 8:24 am
So for a very long time, we’ve had the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World:
Indeed, some pretty amazing places and things.
Well this morning my friend Jennifer let me in on a website dedicated to selecting the New 7 Wonders of the World where users like you and I can vote on what should be the new 7 wonders. Pretty neat idea.
The New7Wonders Foundation, which is the body behind the New7Wonders campaign, has the express aim of documenting, maintaining, restoring and reconstructing world heritage under the motto:
“OUR HERITAGE IS OUR FUTURE.”
The “New7Wonders Foundation” calls on all citizens of the world to support it.
Through film, television, the Internet and books, people shall be alerted to the destruction of nature and the decay of our man-made heritage.
Monuments in jeopardy, perhaps in a dangerous state of decay, can be saved by publicizing their beauty and highlighting their plight to the international community.
As of this post, there is approximately 263 days for people to vote on what they feel should be the new 7 wonders of the world.
After I’ve made my choices, I’ll post them as a comment and please do the same if you participate in this vote as I’m interested in knowing what my readers feel should be considered a “wonder of the World”.
Originally posted on October 6, 2006 @ 11:27 am
For those of you who come to read my Unusual Trivia page, I just did another round of updates.
As a teaser, one of the updates I find very interesting:
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
I actually find them all interesting, so what are you waiting for? Go check them out now! :)
If you know of any unusual trivia that should be on my page, let me know and I’ll add it to my ever growing page giving you full credit if you’d like.
Also, if you’ve provided some unusual trivia to me in the past and I didn’t include a credit link and you want one, let me know that too and I’ll get you fixed up.
Originally posted on July 12, 2006 @ 11:43 pm
Tonight I needed to reboot a client server running Windows Small Business Server 2003 because it locked up and I couldn’t get to it remotely.
While I was waiting for the thing to reboot, I grabbed a Snapple from the clients break room fridge. For those of you who know which client I’m speaking about, yes I did put a dollar into the donation cup.
After I finished the Snapple, I was reading the “Real Fact” that they place under the bottle cap. Here is what it said:
The speed limit in NYC was 8 mph in 1895.
That’s really interesting because roughly 111 years later the average freeway speed limit here in the United States is between 55-70 mph depending on which freeway you’re traveling on and which State.
The average speed limit on city streets is between 30-45 mph.
Thanks Snapple for “Real Fact” #153 and for my Kiwi Strawberry drink!