Fact-A-Day from Harry K. Harry K. Jones on 17 Jun 2008 10:00 am
Fact-A-Day from Harry K. – June 17, 2008
In the spirit of C.A.N.I. (Continuous And Never-ending Improvement), here are this week’s new facts—one for each day of your coming week. Pass them on to others to keep the spirit alive or invite your friends and family to visit our blog where they can also view previous entries.
- Emerson Moser, who was Crayola’s senior crayon maker, revealed upon his retirement that he was blue-green colorblind and couldn’t see all the colors. He molded over 1.4 billion crayons in his 37-year career.
- Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive two hours before you leave.
- Henry Ford did not invent the automobile. It was the invention of several 19th century engineers, paramount among them being two Germans, Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz. What Ford did was too mass-produce automobiles and provide cheap service for them.
- If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
- If you paint graffiti in Rome, you could get the death penalty.
- If you walked the entire length of the China’s Great Wall, you would be walking farther than the distance between New York City and Miami, Florida. The wall stretches for more than 1,500 miles. The driving distance between New York and Miami is just over 1,250 miles.
- In 70 years of life your heart will beat 2.5 billion times and you will take 650 million breaths.
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