"Each year 16 million thunderstorms happen around the world, and at any given moment, there are about 2,000 thunderstorms in progress."

*looks outside*

Hmmm... well it is raining here, so yeah I guess it's correct-ish.

 



 

A chef's hat has exactly 100 pleats. Officially known as a "toque", it is traditionally made with 100 pleats, meant to represent the 100 ways to cook an egg.

the song Gangsta's in Paradise by Coolio was the first Rapper song to sell a million copies? Is this true? I thought I seen this info on wikipedia and if it is it blew my mind.

It's not really new or unusual. In American school, we don't learn how historic lines match up. Meaning that I didn't realize that the Christ was born AFTER Western Europe was settled. Vikings located North America 1900 years BEFORE Amerigo Vespucci did. All this among many others.

Harry Truman was one of the poorest presidents of the US, with a net worth way below 1 million USD. He's responsible for the president pension fund.

Shibari (or Japanese Rope Bondage) evolved from a martial art known as Hojōjutsu. It focused on subduing and restraining of prisoners/criminals/etc nonlethally with a length of strong cord. The Japanese had to come up with creative ways to restrain people due to the lack of iron on their island and thus the shortage shackles, manacles, handcuffs and so on. They were too busy using the metal to forge katanas so they can chop each other.

People push you to your limits, and when you finally fight back you are the one who is in the wrong and they think you are the mean one.

Men started the trend of high heels with persian cavalry soldiers as could better grip into the stirrups,  it then became an upper middle class thing to say I own horses,  women just followed in their footsteps.

A random fact that I just recently found out about is that Father_OMalley is not an actual priest. He has had no training and has never been ordained. 

I'm not sure how he could possibly run around claiming to be of the holy order. 

Was Googling it because of a discussion with a parent (go figure):

Reading in poor lighting or using a computer in the dark does not in fact have any negative effects on your vision.

He's a fraud?! All them hours alone in the confession box... And he was lying to me?! :(

No two genomes in different beings are really identical, not even in uniovular twins. A Crayfish is more of an individual than for example an alga, such as a ribbon of kelp, although the alga often differs from others of its kind much more than a crayfish ever does.

I recently got told that no number before one thousand has the letter A in it (the and doesn't count)