Knowledge Sharing - Day 5
1. The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).2. India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
3. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out. (DON'T TRY IT, DUMBASS)
4. During the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years, it was deemed more feasible to send their shirts to Hawaii for servicing.
5. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads.
6. About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.
7. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
8. Over a course of about eleven years, the sun's magnetic poles switch places. This cycle is called "Solarmax".
9. There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.
10. Upper and lower case letters are named "upper" and "lower" because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case letters.
