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Showing posts with label Facts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facts. Show all posts
Monday, November 3, 2014
Weird Wednesdays: 5 Facts About The Lord of the Rings
Welcome to Inkweb! Today is Wednesday, which means 25 Facts! Today's topic is The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. By this, I really mean The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and The Silmarillion. Obviously, the following contains spoilers. I repeat:
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Weird Wednesdays - 10 Facts About Babies
So, yeah, on Weird Wednesdays, I'll post weird facts about topics I think up or which are suggested by the readers. Submit via comments or email if you have a suggestion. This week's topic is babies.
1. One in every 2,000 babies is born with a tooth.
2. Babies can't taste salt until they are about 4 months old.
3. The inner ear is the only sense organ to develop fully before birth. It reaches adult size by the middle of pregnancy.
4. In 1978, the first baby was born in Antarctica: Emilio Marcos Palma.
5. In the U.S., more babies are born on Wednesday than any other day of the week.
6. Between birth and their second year, babies usually quadruple in size.
7. A blindfolded woman is able to identify her child from other babies by scent alone.
8. Until 7 months old, babies can breathe and swallow at the same time. (Go ahead and try it; you can't.)
9. Babies are born with natural swimming abilities and can hold their breath. However, they quickly lose this ability.
10. A baby will eat an estimated 15 pounds of cereal per year.
1. One in every 2,000 babies is born with a tooth.
2. Babies can't taste salt until they are about 4 months old.
3. The inner ear is the only sense organ to develop fully before birth. It reaches adult size by the middle of pregnancy.
4. In 1978, the first baby was born in Antarctica: Emilio Marcos Palma.
5. In the U.S., more babies are born on Wednesday than any other day of the week.
6. Between birth and their second year, babies usually quadruple in size.
7. A blindfolded woman is able to identify her child from other babies by scent alone.
8. Until 7 months old, babies can breathe and swallow at the same time. (Go ahead and try it; you can't.)
9. Babies are born with natural swimming abilities and can hold their breath. However, they quickly lose this ability.
10. A baby will eat an estimated 15 pounds of cereal per year.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Wednesdays: 25 Facts About the Human Brain
Welcome to Inkweb! Today, I have a compiled list of 25 facts about the human brain.
Concerning the schedule: tomorrow I will be posting a short poem I have composed, and then on Friday will be Cat Monologue #6! On Saturday, I will post HyperLinkzer's suggested short story.
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1. The human brain weighs about 3 lbs.
2. The human brain starts growing at birth and stops growing at approximately eighteen years old.
3. The human brain uses about 20% of the total oxygen in the body.
4. The reason that it doesn't tickle if you touch yourself is that the brain recognizes the difference between your own touch and unexpected external touch.
5. Memories triggered by scent have stronger emotional connections in the brain.
6. Einstein's brain is at a museum in Philadelphia.
7. Most people dream about 1-2 hours a night and have 4-7 dreams during that time period. Just because you can't remember dreams doesn't mean you don't have them.
8. Laughing requires activity in five different areas of the brain.
9. The human brain is 75% water.
10. The brain can feel no pain, in the rain, falling gently on the plain in Spain. :) The brain actually has no pain receptors.
11. Reading aloud and talking often with young children promotes their brain development.
12. While awake, the human brain generates enough power to turn on a lightbulb.
13. Physical illness is highly tied to psychological illness. 50-70% of visits to the doctor for physical ailments are estimated to be related to psychological factors.
14. Every time you recall a memory or have a new thought, you are creating a new pathway in your brain.
15. Brain waves are actually more active when you're dreaming that when you're awake. "When we're asleep, our mind can do almost anything...Now in a dream...we create and perceive our world simultaneously, and our mind does this so well that we don't even know what's happening. That allows us to get right in the middle of that process...by taking over the creating part." Haha, sorry for the Inception quote. It's my favorite movie, and I couldn't resist.
16. Harvard has a "brain bank" where human brains are stored for study.
17. Humans are estimated to think an average of 70,000 thoughts per day.
18. The word "brain" appears 66 times in the plays of William Shakespeare.
19. The hippocampus of a London taxi driver is much larger than the hippocampus of an average person, because London taxi drivers know the city streets by heart, and their brains have grown to accomodate this memorization.
20. 85% of the brain is the cerebrum.
21. Music increases brain organization (both playing and listening).
22. There are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in the human brain.
23. The hearing range the average young adult's brain can interpret ranges from 20 to 20,000 hertz.
24. The average human brain is 167 mm long, 140 mm wide, and 93 mm high.
25. Hmmm...don't have any more facts. Oh well.
Happy end of October and beginning of November! I would try to start growing a mustache for Movember, but I haven't got any facial hair yet. I'll just have to settle for endless noveling...ah, well...
-JW
Concerning the schedule: tomorrow I will be posting a short poem I have composed, and then on Friday will be Cat Monologue #6! On Saturday, I will post HyperLinkzer's suggested short story.
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1. The human brain weighs about 3 lbs.
2. The human brain starts growing at birth and stops growing at approximately eighteen years old.
3. The human brain uses about 20% of the total oxygen in the body.
4. The reason that it doesn't tickle if you touch yourself is that the brain recognizes the difference between your own touch and unexpected external touch.
5. Memories triggered by scent have stronger emotional connections in the brain.
6. Einstein's brain is at a museum in Philadelphia.
7. Most people dream about 1-2 hours a night and have 4-7 dreams during that time period. Just because you can't remember dreams doesn't mean you don't have them.
8. Laughing requires activity in five different areas of the brain.
9. The human brain is 75% water.
10. The brain can feel no pain, in the rain, falling gently on the plain in Spain. :) The brain actually has no pain receptors.
11. Reading aloud and talking often with young children promotes their brain development.
12. While awake, the human brain generates enough power to turn on a lightbulb.
13. Physical illness is highly tied to psychological illness. 50-70% of visits to the doctor for physical ailments are estimated to be related to psychological factors.
14. Every time you recall a memory or have a new thought, you are creating a new pathway in your brain.
15. Brain waves are actually more active when you're dreaming that when you're awake. "When we're asleep, our mind can do almost anything...Now in a dream...we create and perceive our world simultaneously, and our mind does this so well that we don't even know what's happening. That allows us to get right in the middle of that process...by taking over the creating part." Haha, sorry for the Inception quote. It's my favorite movie, and I couldn't resist.
16. Harvard has a "brain bank" where human brains are stored for study.
17. Humans are estimated to think an average of 70,000 thoughts per day.
18. The word "brain" appears 66 times in the plays of William Shakespeare.
19. The hippocampus of a London taxi driver is much larger than the hippocampus of an average person, because London taxi drivers know the city streets by heart, and their brains have grown to accomodate this memorization.
20. 85% of the brain is the cerebrum.
21. Music increases brain organization (both playing and listening).
22. There are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in the human brain.
23. The hearing range the average young adult's brain can interpret ranges from 20 to 20,000 hertz.
24. The average human brain is 167 mm long, 140 mm wide, and 93 mm high.
25. Hmmm...don't have any more facts. Oh well.
Happy end of October and beginning of November! I would try to start growing a mustache for Movember, but I haven't got any facial hair yet. I'll just have to settle for endless noveling...ah, well...
-JW
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Wednesday: 25 Facts About Bears
Hey readers, sorry for the lack of posting yesterday. Poetry is easy to write, but also easy to forget to write. So, here are 25 facts about bears!
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1. The easiest way to tell the age of a bear is to count the rings in a cross section of its tooth under a microscope.
2. Only the polar bear is a true carnivore. All other bears are omnivores.
3. Sun bears' tongues can be up to 10" long.
4. Koala bears are not bears; they are marsupials (like kangaroos, only less hoppy).
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Fact Wednesday: 25 Facts About Books
1. Books are amazing.
2. Books don't have a limited battery life.
3. Books are engaging.
4. Books are better than TV any day. And they cost less. If you leave the TV on, it can get expensive.
5. Books allow us to exercise with our minds.
6. Books give us joy.
7. Books give us sadness. And in the famed words of Sally Sparrow, "[Sadness is] happy for deep people."
8. Books are beautiful.
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9. Books are the imaginations of authors, shared with the world at an incredibly low price. Compared to a movie or a TV show, a book is extremely easy to make.
2. Books don't have a limited battery life.
3. Books are engaging.
4. Books are better than TV any day. And they cost less. If you leave the TV on, it can get expensive.
5. Books allow us to exercise with our minds.
6. Books give us joy.
7. Books give us sadness. And in the famed words of Sally Sparrow, "[Sadness is] happy for deep people."
8. Books are beautiful.
ul.
9. Books are the imaginations of authors, shared with the world at an incredibly low price. Compared to a movie or a TV show, a book is extremely easy to make.
Monday, October 7, 2013
Mad Mondays: 25 Facts About Dragons!
All right, our very first Mad Monday! I deliver, per request, 25 "facts" about dragons! Granted, they aren't actual facts because dragons have not been proven to exist (yet!), but still, it's a fun list.
Sunday, September 29, 2013
25 Facts, One Post: Birds!
Hello! I've got 25 facts to share with you guys today!
1. Birds cannot play foosball.
2. Birds have hollow bones.
3. Most birds are able to fly.
4. The penguin, ostrich, emu, kiwi, and chicken cannot fly.
5. Technically the chicken can fly; the longest recorded chicken flight is 13 seconds.
6. The book Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (absolutely amazing book) has a raven's silhouette on the cover.
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