How To Be As Smart As Stucky

I’m tired of carrying the damn load around here.  You people need to wake the fuck up and start edumuhcating yourselves.  I’m looking at you Llpoh, and a few others. Here’s the Basic Minimum Shit you need to know.  Each is worthy of a separate post. So, do some damn research and get moving. 

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1. When Twister was introduced in 1966, critics denounced it as “sex in a box”
2. There are more lifeforms living on your skin than there are people on Earth.
3. OJ Simpson was originally cast to be the Terminator, but the studio was afraid no one would buy him as a remorseless killer.
4. 20% of office coffee mugs contain fecal matter.
5. If you were to remove all the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on earth, the entire population of earth would fit in an apple.
6. A CIA program called “Acoustic Kitty” implanted batteries, microphones, and antennae in cats in order to spy on Russian embassies.
7. The three wealthiest families in the world have more wealth than the poorest 48 nations.
8. The world’s largest traffic jam lasted 10 days with cars moving only .6 miles per day.
9. Over 200 corpses have been left on Mt. Everest as way points for climbers
10. Adjusted for inflation John D Rockefeller was the richest man in the modern world with a net worth ten times that of Bill Gates.
11. All the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck at 4:20.
12. There are more possible iterations in a game of chess than there are atoms in the universe.
13. Forbes estimated in 2011 that Scrooge McDuck had a net worth of $44.1 billion.
14. Two-thirds of the people on earth have never seen snow.
15. The sound effects for the famous shower scene in Psycho was created by stabbing a casaba melon.
16. There are more vacant houses than homeless people in America.
17. The Wooly Mammoth was still alive when the Egyptian Pyramids were built.
18. The average American drinks over 600 sodas a year … or, about 7,200 cubes of sugar.
19. Coca-Cola would be green if coloring wasn’t added to it.
20. If you try to suppress a sneeze you could rupture a blood vessel in your head and die.
21. The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.
22. You are 1% shorter in the evening than in the morning.
23. Currently, it would take over 1,000 years to watch every video on youtube. It will take flash only two more years to post them all on TBP.
24. Reed Hastings was inspired to launch Netflix after racking up a $40 late fee for a VHS.
25. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
26. 15% of the air you breathe in a subway station is human skin.
27. Humans shed 40 pounds of skin in their lifetime.
28. The human body’s strongest muscle is the tongue.
29. Frozen lobsters can come back to life when thawed.
30. In 1918, Charles Jung – an American – created the fortune cookie.
31. French was the official language in England for over 600 years.
32. Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones were freshman roommates at Harvard.
33. Falling coconuts kill more people than shark attacks.
34. The last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series, the Ottoman Empire still existed.
35. The average mattress doubles in weight in ten years due to dust mites and dust mite shit.
36. In 1881 three men served as President … Hayes, Garfield, and Arthur.
37. In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for murdering a child.
38. 25% of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles.
39. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. So is bb’s.
40. Clans that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn down their houses … which is the origin of the term “to get fired”.
41. The term “in a jiffy” relates to time — a “jiffy” is the actual term for 1/100 of a second.
42. The average NFL game has only 12 minutes of actual play time.
43. We eat more than a pound of insects per year.
44. It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, all sucking at once, to drain a human of blood.
45. Blue Whale fart bubbles are large enough to contain a horse.
46. A Blue Whale’s heart is as big as a VW Beetle, and you could swim through its arteries.
47. All British tanks come with tea making equipment.
48. Frederick Baur invented the Pringles can. When he died in 2008, his ashes were buried in one.
49. Google’s founders were will to sell for under one million dollars to Excite in 1999.
50. Velociraptors were only slightly larger than chickens.
51. In a 2008 survey, 58% of British teens thought Sherlock Holmes was a real person …. While 20% thought Winston Churchill was not.
52. Facebook engineers original wanted to call the “like” button the “awesome” button.
53. The current population of Ireland is still 2 million less than the potato famine 160 years ago.
54. The human brain can perform 38 thousand trillion operations per second. The world’s most powerful computer can manage only .002% of that.
55. There is a garbage swirl in the Pacific the size of Texas. McDonalds fish nuggets come from there.
56. Two days before the signing of the Constitution a surviving bill shows an order of; 54 bottles of Madeira, 60 bottles of Claret, 8 bottles of whiskey, 8 bottles of cider, 12 bottles of beer, and 7 bowls of alcoholic punch …. for 55 people.
57. You have a 1 in 200 chance of being related to Genghis Khan.
58. When your own mother was born, she was already carrying the egg that would become you.
59. It takes a photon 200,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to its surface, and then just a little over 8 minutes from the sun’s surface to your eyeballs.
60. Of all the people in history that have reached 65 years of age, half of them are living right now.
61. A mouse can fit through a hole the size of a ballpoint pen.
62. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
63. Human fingers are so sensitive that if they were the size of the earth you could tell the difference between a house and a car.
64. Half of all humans who have ever lived have died from malaria.
65. A hummingbird’s heart beats at more than 1,200 beats per minutes.
66. We humans share 50% of our DNA with bananas.
67. In 30 minutes the human body gives off enough heat to bring a gallon of water to a boil.
68. Airplane food sucks because our sense of smell and taste can decrease by as much as 50% at altitude.
69. “I don’t want to sell my husband” —- oldest example of graffiti found in 1^st century Pompeii
70. 54 million people alive today will be dead within one year.
71. Two-thirds of Africa is in the Northern Hemisphere.
72. Cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon landing than to the building of The Great Pyramid.
73. There are more atoms in a single glass of water than glasses of water in all the oceans of the Earth.
74. The probability than any glass of water you drink also contains at least one molecule once drunk by Cleopatra is practically 100%
75. All the gold mined in the history of the world would fit in a 20x20x20 meter cube.
76. The core of a star can reach 16 million degrees Celsius. A single grain of sand at that temperature would kill you from 100 miles away.

Author: Stucky

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