Interesting Trivia

The YKK on your zipper stands for:

Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikigaisha:

DID YOU KNOW 3.14 is PIE backwards.

DID YOU KNOW The dot over an i is called a tittle:

DID YOU KNOW Cashews grow like this: Moreover, you can't buy them in the shell. The shell is poisonous!

And pineapples like this:

Now let's shrink things down. 

Here's what Velcro looks like close up:

Here's what chalk looks like under a microscope:

And here's what sand looks like under a microscope:

Speaking of sand, there are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach on Earth:

 Thanks to Carl Sagan for this knowledge.

Speaking of things that are huge, a Blue Whales heart is so big, a small child can swim through the veins:

There's enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of water:

Let's think bigger: If you dug a hole to the center of the Earth and dropped a book down, it would take 45 minutes to reach the bottom: 

Here's what Jupiter would look like if it were the same distance to Earth as the Moon:

And here's what a sunset on Mars looks like:

DID YOU KNOW There are more bacteria cells in your body than actual body cells:

 Anywhere from 2 to 9 pounds of them. We're more bacteria than we are human!

  

DID YOU KNOW 

John Tyler, the 10th President of the United States, has a grandson that's alive today: 

 John Tyler had a son, Lyon, when he was 63. Lyon had a son, Harrison Tyler, at 75.

Update - April 2024 - he's still alive!              Wikipedia

DID YOU KNOW 

A compressed spring weighs more than a relaxed one: 

JUST THINK: We know more about the surface of the moon than the bottom of the ocean:

Speaking of the ocean, there are more atoms in a glass of water than glasses of water in all the oceans on Earth:

Now let's talk about time:

Speaking of time: The Ottoman Empire still existed the last time the Chicago Cubs won a World Series:

Keep this in mind, too:

The Great Pyramid was built circa 2560 BC.

and Cleopatra lived 69 BC - 30 BC.

and the first Moon landing was in 1969, AD.

 which means Cleopatra lived closer to the Moon landing than she did to the building of the Great Pyramid.

Speaking of the pyramids, they were as old to the Romans as the Romans are to us:

Should we keep going? 

The difference in time between when Tyrannosaurus Rex and Stegosaurus lived is greater than the difference in time between Tyrannosaurus Rex and now: 

Here's one more: 

In 1903 the Wright Brothers flew for the first time

38 years later, in 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor 

 and 28 years later, in 1969, man landed on the Moon.

That's 66 years.

  

Also, did you know that since Pluto was discovered,

it hasn't yet completed its orbit around the sun?

                                             

 Will complete in 2178!

After the Lowell Observatory obtained further confirmatory photographs, news of the discovery was telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory on March 13, 1930. One Plutonian year corresponds to 247.94 Earth years; thus, in 2178, Pluto will complete its first orbit since its discovery.