• Which is the only animal capable of living forever? Which food was the inspiration for
PAC-MAN? Here are 15 useless but incredible facts.
15 – A high school student designed the current American flag
• In 1958 when he was just 17 years old, Robert Heft submitted a design for the new
50 star US flag. • The previous flag was 48 but Robert's
design aimed to include both Alaska and Hawaii, which were soon to become official states.
• He initially received a B- from his teacher, but he asked if they would change his grade
if his design were chosen. • When it was officially selected, his grade
was altered to an A, and he even received a phone call from President Eisenhower.
14 – H. A. Rey fled the Nazis with the manuscript for Curious George
• Hans Rey and his wife Margret were both living in Paris, writing children's books
when the Nazi's entered France. • Both of them were Jewish and decided to
flee with the other refugees. Hans built two bicycles to help them escape.
• While trying to leave France they had their bags searched, and a copy of what was
to become 'Curious George' was inside. • They were let go and eventually found
their way to New York where the book was published. • George's original name was 'Fifi'
but the US publisher changed it to "George". 13 – The US Government paid $16 million
dollars for the Zapruder film • In 1963 Abraham Zapruder captured the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy on film. He was one of only three people filming
that day at Dealey Plaza in Dallas. • His record is the most complete, and was
used in the investigations into the event, and in films and documentaries such as Oliver
Stone's JFK. • The filmstrip runs a total of 26 seconds
and is kept in national archives. • The original film was declared public
record and in 1999 a panel awarded $16 million to the Zapruder family for the footage.
12 – Starfish can regrow themselves from a single arm
• This can take months or years, and only certain starfish can achieve this.
• These starfish or sea stars – which aren't actually fish – do this by storing
vital organs in their arms. While most other starfish need their disc or body to regenerate
lost limbs. • Most other sea stars can only regrow single
arms, which they can loose on purpose as a form of defence against predators.
11 – 1 in 200 people are "related" to Genghis Kahn
• Well sort of anyway. It turns out that the Y-chromosome – which only males have
– that Genghis carried is found in 8 per cent of the population around central Asia.
• This totals about 16 million males, which is 0.5 per cent of the world's population.
• This dominant Y-chromosome is thought to originate 1000 years ago and was carried
by Genghis Khan and his sons. • They were notorious for raping and pillaging
the places they conquered, and probably give Kal Drogo and the Dothraki army a run for
their money. 10 – There is an annual "rain of fish"
in Honduras • In May or June each year, in the town
of Yoro, fish are thought to rain from the sky during thunderstorms. When the storm passes
there are fish scattered everywhere. • This has happened for the past 100 years
and is still a bit of a mystery. • This scientific phenomenon, called "fish
rain", could be caused be tornados gathering up fish from the ocean or flooding from nearby
rivers. • The legend goes that a Spanish missionary
in 1860 prayed to God for food for the poor, and the rain of fish was the answer to his
prayer. 9 – The heart of a Blue Whale is nearly
the size of a golf cart • Speculation had it that the heart of a
blue whale – the biggest of any animal – was the size of a Volkswagen Beetle.
• When a deceased Blue Whale washed up on the shore of a beach, scientists had the chance
to really find out how it measured up. • It wasn't quite the size of a small
car, but at 180 kilograms or 400 pounds it is still large.
• They also have massive arteries to pump the blood around their bodies – even if
a human can't swim through one like previously thought.
8 – Pizza is what inspired the shape of Pac Man
• In 1979 when 27-year-old Toru Iwatani was staring at a pizza with two slices missing,
he noticed it made the shape of a mouth, and Pac-man was born.
• He also admitted, that he was inspired by the Japanese character for mouth.
• An employee of Namco at the time, Toru named the iconic character 'Pakkuman'
after the Japanese onomatopoeic phrase "paku-paku taberu" – the sound of a mouth opening
and closing. • The name was changed from Puck-man to
PAC-MAN in North American to prevent uncreative vandals from changing the "P" to an "F".
7 – The only immortal species is a Jellyfish • Humans have wondered for centuries if
they could live forever, and they may have something to learn from 'Turritopsis dohrnii',
also known as the "Immortal Jellyfish". • These tiny animals – only millimetres
long - have the ability to regenerate themselves by changing their cell structure.
• They do this by returning to an earlier stage of life – regenerating from sexual
maturity back into the polyp stage. • They do this when attacked or when sick,
and have the potential to do it forever. However, most immortal jellyfish will die from these
causes at some stage in their life anyway. 6 – Our sense of smell and taste decreases
on an airplane • Anyone who has travelled in economy class
knows the food isn't that great. Although, the problem can't be blamed on the cooking
alone. • Scientists have found that because of
the altitude, our taste for sweet and salt decreases by about 30 per cent.
• This also isn't helped by the fact that the humidity is as dry as a desert and so
our sense of smell and taste are similar to when we have a cold.
• Airlines are finding clever ways to counteract this – even serving food on china with steel
cutlery is thought to make the food taste better.
5 – Pirates didn't wear patches to cover their missing eye
• It is assumed that most pirates lost their eye in a sword fight. While this was probably
true for some, the reason is thought to be much more clever.
• Since pirates would have to go above and below deck often, especially if they were
raiding another ship, it would pay to be able to adjust vision for both.
• Since our eyes take much longer to adjust to darkness – up to 25 minutes – pirates
would use a patch to keep one eye ready for the dim conditions.
4 – There is a swirl of garbage in the Pacific Ocean
• Called the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch", its size can vary as well as the density of
garbage, and there are actually two separate collections across the ocean.
• Despite the name it isn't actually a landfill in the middle of the ocean. It mainly
consists of particles of plastics; however there are larger items floating in parts of
the ocean. • This is because plastic doesn't break
down, but instead forms into micro pieces, which can be eaten by fish, harming the marine
life in the ocean. 3 – Dinosaurs are thought to have had feathers
• Recent discoveries have led scientist to conclude that dinosaurs aren't as closely
related to reptiles, as Jurassic Park would have us believe.
• The name dinosaur itself comes from the Greek for "formidable lizard" but the
dinosaurs are more like prehistoric birds. • Researchers have found that modern birds
may have evolved from a group of feathered dinosaurs.
• This is supported by the discovery of a chunk of amber dating back 99 million years,
which contains a preserved dinosaur feather. 2 – Mona Lisa was hung in a bathroom
• The famous painting by Leonardo Da Vinci has been stolen, hidden from the Nazi's
and, after Da Vinci's death, it ended up with King Francois I of France.
• Da Vinci's assistant sold the Mona Lisa to the King for 4000 gold coins - close to
10 million dollars today. • It is said that the King hung the painting
where he and his guests would bathe and smoke, damaging the painting over the decades.
1 – It can take a photon over 100,000 years to reach the surface of the sun
• Then eight minutes to go from the sun's surface to Earth. This is because of the density
of the sun and the way it produces energy. • It is not exactly the same photon that
travels from the core - where it emerges as gamma rays - to the surface.
• The atoms are continuously reabsorbing each other, every few millimetres, never moving
in a straight line. • Eventually though the gamma rays get bigger
until they become visible light.
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