🤯 Today I Learned
by Joe · 40 things on Twos
- Every time you shuffle a deck of cards its the first time they’ve ever been shuffled in that order
- Peanut butter helps get rid of the coffee jitters
- NFC puts out a magnetic field that creates just enough power to operate the thing that is getting close to it. ie how hotel keys work and now how your iPhone wallet will still work when your phone dies.
- Andrew Huberman and Tom Segura are second cousins
- Eighty-eight is the largest number without an "n" in it
- Michelangelo was not a painter. He needed to learn how to paint in order to complete the Sistine chapel.
- A single microchip has over 100 km of wire in it
- The United States is a registered business in Delaware
- Director of Mrs. Doubtfire, Chris Columbus, said 2 million feet of film was used because Robin Williams did so much improv.
- Wine in the US younger than 8 years old contains ethanol. That is why you should let wine sit in its bottle for 30 minutes and 10 minutes in the glass. This leads to a less headaches/hangovers when drinking it.
- If you have gmail, you basically have infinite email accounts. Just add periods into random spots and it registers as a new email address to websites. If your email is schroedboss@gmail.com, you can use schroed.boss, schro.e.d.boss, etc. All just redirect to schroedboss email.
- Birds always face the wind
- Humans create as much information in two days — as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003.
- 23 lightbulbs were developed before Thomas Edison’s, but his was the first commercially viable.
- Dinosaur literally means “terrible lizard”
- The first passenger flight ever was in 1914 from St. Pete to Tampa bay. It took 20 minutes and the alternative was a 2-hour steam boat ride or a 10-hour train ride. $5 one way or $10 round trip.
- The United States has the biggest agriculture output in the world
- Hydrangeas drink water through their petals
- The QWERTY keyboard was designed with common letters spaced far apart to prevent typists from jamming the metal bars on typewriters
- Bon Iver means "Good Winter" and the artist is from Wisconsin
- People in England don't say "sidewalk" they call it "the pavement"
- TIL volunteer firefighters can’t have a mustache until you fought at least 3 interior fires. Rite of passage.
- The great lakes are all connected (with Niagra Falls near the end) ✌️🤯
- It is bad luck to cheers with a water
- Percentages are reversible. 8% of 25 is the same as 25% of 8 and one of them is usually much easier to do in your head.
- People mistake that caffeine gives you energy in reality it’s blocking the receptors of tiredness. So when you have your caffeine crash, it is because the brain is producing more of what makes you tired
- Typically off a stock split you get a 5-6% bump
- Heat lightning is not a real thing. It’s just lightning when it’s hot out
- Pregnancy is a chronic condition, technically
- I JUST realized "Honk If You're Horny" is a pun.
- Phoebe is the name of the flamingo in the Tampa Bay airport
- The two most popular ice creams are bean flavored (vanilla, chocolate)
- Some of the best used car deals are posted on nursing home bulletin boards
- Elf and Love Actually were released 20 years ago today. Elf grossed roughly $220 million globally on a $33 million budget, while Love Actually earned $244 million on a budget of about $40 million.
- Candles have “memories”
- Polar bears 🐻❄️ , tigers 🐯 , and crocodiles 🐊 , (not sharks 🦈) are the only animals that actively choose to hunt humans
- Mufasa and Darth Vader were voiced by the same actor, James Earl Jones, who unfortunately passed away today.
- Comforters don’t have a long/short side, it’s just a square 🤯
- You can peel ginger root with a spoon
- Add animal fat to any baking recipe that calls for butter or crisco — it adds a richness