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Look around you, there are awesome facts about everything in our surroundings. In today’s post, we will share some of them.
#1 Martin Steel (marathon swimmer) swam the entire Mississippi 68 days... that’s approximately 34.5 miles a day!
#2 The world's oldest hotel sits at the foot of the beautiful Akaishi Mountains. Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan was founded by Fujiwara Mahito in 705 A.D, and it has been in operation ever since.
#3 Boston Typewriter Orchestra was founded in 2004 and its members make use of old typewriters to produce different unique sounds that they turn into music—and they have an album too
#4 The ashes of Fredric Baur, the man who created the notable Pringles can, was buried in... a Pringles can after he passed away in 2008.
#5 Evidence shows that extinct ‘Kumimanu biceae penguins’ once stood close to 6 feet tall and weighed more than 200 pounds.
#6 There are about 2,000 thunderstorms occurring on Earth, at any given time
#7 Michelangelo wrote a poem about hating the Sistine Chapel
#8 The letter Z was removed from the English alphabet for 200 years
#9 Dopamine released by your brain makes you get the goosebumps when listening to music.
#10 In Japanese language, the term "black belt" translates to "First Step"
#11 French poodles aren't exactly of French origin. They are greatly believed to have first been bred in Germany
Engage us in the comment section by telling us what you think about these random facts...
I love these stories but I wish they would tell us more about the "Whys". Why was the letter Z dropped? Why did Michelangelo hate the Sistine Chapel? I would hate it too if I had hung upside down all those years painting it. Hahaha
mjbchloe, more likely because Pope Julius II forced him to to the task. Having to be on his back for so long would definitely have aggravated his attitude, but he didn’t want to do it in the first place. His passion was sculpting as is noted by Perk below. His first major work was the Pieta which was carved from a single block of marble and completed in 1500 at the advanced age of 25. He may be best known for David, but I would argue the Pieta is his finest effort.
kbow, I am well aware of that, however as you know in the case of both of those words the X is pronounced as Z. Which is an example of what my colleague who was learning English found confusing.
