Didn’t Know That Last Week 19.9.17

19th September 2017

I KNOW NOW I DID NOT KNOW ONE WEEK AGO

1              Morris Villarroel is a life-logger. For six years he has been recording his life in minute detail using a log-book, a camera and a fitness tracker.

 

2              The name for the shape of Pringles is called a ‘Hyperbolic Paraboloid’.

 

3              There are no bridges over the Amazon River.

 

4              Over the last 13 years of his life, Andy Warhol stored 300,000 everyday objects including a fan letters, a lump of concrete, used condoms and thousands of postage stamps in 610 cardboard boxes.

 

5              The largest hunting dinosaur probably ate whole sharks.  Find out more (New Scientist)

 

6              There are warehouses so big they have their own WEATHER.

 

7              When a male bee climaxes, their testicles explode then they die.

 

8              Blue whales heart is the size of a VW Beetle and that you could swim through some of its arteries.

 

9              You replace every particle in your body every seven years. You are literally not the same person you were 7 years ago.

 

10           A pencil has the potential to draw a line 38 miles long.

 

Taken from various internet sites