FYI - Top gear tests the effects of lightning on a car. Pretty funny

 

The word tattoo was first mentioned in explorer James Cook's records from his 1769 expedition to the South Pacific.

"What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast."
-Edith Wharton

 

The average heartbeat is 72 times per minute. In the course of one day it beats over 100,000 times. In one year, the heart beats almost 38 million times. By the time you are 70 years old, on average, it's made it to 2.5 billion beats.


"I danced with passion to spite the music."
-Gelsey Kirkland

 

Hurricanes in the Northern Hemisphere rotate counterclockwise (west to east) and move through the ocean clockwise (east to west). In the Southern Hemisphere, hurricanes rotate clockwise (east to west) and move counterclockwise (west to east). These motions, known as the Coriolis effect, are caused by the Earth's rotation.



"Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
-Dylan Thomas

 

"A face is too slight a foundation for happiness."
-Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu


A blue whale's head is so wide that an entire professional football team -- about 50 people -- could stand on its tongue.

 

Grizzly bears run as fast as the average horse.

 

"You play through it. That

 

Candy corn has been around for more than a century. George Renninger of the Wunderlee Candy Company invented it in the 1880s.



"Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them."
-Louise Bogan

 

19% of people sleep with their pets.

 

Fried potatoes were first introduced in the United States by Thomas Jefferson in the late 18th century. Jefferson had come across them while he was in Paris. The actual French fry is an American invention but received its name based on the origin country of fried potatoes



"All of life is a foreign country."
-Jack Kerouac