##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Find Out What Moon Dust Smells Like Text Version The gravity on the Moon is about 17% what it is on the Earth. So if you weigh 200 pounds on Earth, you will weigh 34 pounds on the Moon.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Find Out About the First Website Ever Made Text Version Berners-Lee, the creator of the Web, chose the name “World Wide Web” because he wanted to emphasize that, in this global hypertext system, anything could link to anything else. Alternative names he considered were: “Mine of Information” (Moi); “The Information Mine” (Tim); and […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Houdini Facts Text Version Harry Houdini died in Detroit, Michigan on Halloween in 1926. Contrary to popular belief, he didn’t die in a performance, but rather died of a ruptured appendix. Houdini had been suffering from appendicitis for several days when J. Gordon Whitehead decided to test Houdini’s claim that […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why Salt Enhances Flavor Text Version The word “salad” comes from the ancient Roman practice of salting leaf vegetables; “salad” literally means “salted”.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and More Interesting Simpsons Related Facts Text Version The last name of the creator of the Simpsons, Matt Groening, is pronounced “Graining”, not “Growning”.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn the Difference Between Jelly and Jam Text Version Fruit “butters” are generally just a variety of jelly. All the fruit is strained out to leave the juice. The juice is then heavily enriched with a variety of things, such as pectin, and then can be whipped or cooked down until it becomes […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn What the M’s in M&Ms Stand For Text Version The “M&M” was modeled after a candy Forrest Mars, Sr. encountered while in Spain during the 1930s. During the Spanish civil war there, he observed soldiers eating chocolate pellets with a hard shell of tempered chocolate. This prevented the candies from melting, which […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and for more Interesting Facts About Oranges Text Version Navel oranges are named for their belly-button-like formations on the opposite side from the stem. As a general rule, the bigger the navel in the orange, the sweeter it will be.
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Please help me welcome Julia as a regular contributing writer to Today I Found Out. Julia is yet another talented writer from BuzzFactory, along with Noreen who joined Today I Found Out about five months ago and occasionally contributes articles, as well as makes the awesome infographics you’ll find in the Infographic section on Today I Found Out. Julia will […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and More Prohibition Related Facts Text Version The word “prohibition” comes from the Latin “prohibitionem”, meaning “hindering or forbidding”. It was used to mean “forced alcohol abstinence” as early as 1851.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn the Difference Between an Idiot, a Moron, and an Imbicile Text Version Before “Down’s Syndrome” was called such, people with Down’s syndrome were called “Mongolian idiots” and the syndrome itself was called “mongolism”. This comes from the fact that people thought that Down’s syndrome individuals resembled Mongolians. So next time you feel […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Read More Interesting Twinkie Facts Text Version Twinkies were created in 1930 as ladyfinger-shaped spongecakes. They were first thought up by James A. Dewar, the vice president of Continental Bakeries who sold under the Hostess brand. Dewar sought to put the machines used to make cream filled strawberry shortcake to good use when […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Microwave Facts Text Version The first known documented use of the term “microwave” was in 1931 in a Telegraph & Telephone Journal: “When trials with wavelengths as low as 18 cm were made known, there was undisguised surprise that the problem of the micro-wave had been solved so soon.”
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##EMBED## Click Here to Learn Why Toilets Are Also Called Johns Text Version The 1960 movie “Pyscho” is thought to be the first movie where a toilet is shown being flushed. The momentous flushing took place just before Janet Leigh’s character takes a shower and subsequently gets stabbed to death.
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##EMBED## Click Here to Read More Interesting Worm Related Facts Text Version According to research done at the Rothamsted Experimental Station, depending on soil quality, there can be anywhere from 250,000-1.75 million earthworms per acre of land. Poor quality soil will have closer to the 250,000 range; good quality soil, such as farm land, will have closer to the 1.75 […]
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##EMBED## Click Here to Learn How One Way Mirrors Work Text Version The Italian town of Viganella gets no direct sunlight for about seven weeks each winter. In order to solve this problem, in 2006, a computer controlled mirror was installed which is approximately 25 feet by 15 feet. The mirror is controlled such that it reflects sunlight into the […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for More Interesting Simpson Related Facts Text Version In the Arabic broadcast of The Simpsons episodes, Homer drinks soda instead of beer and eats Egyptian beef sausages instead of hot dogs.
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##EMBED## Click Here for More Interesting Civil War Related Facts Text Version The total number of American deaths during the Civil War were about 292,000 in battle, which was about 2% of the population, and about 625,000 total killed as a result of the war (including those dead of disease and the like, which was a major problem in soldier’s […]
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