March 14, 2012

• entertaining myself at the airport…PART 2!

  STUFF I HAVE NOTICED:

  1. Everyone has cleared out….so the most popular flight times must be 11,12ish
  2. people lose a LOT of stuff (just since I’ve been here since 11ish—-a black backpack/coat, walking cane and baggy of toiletries)
  3. lots of people are going to florida (go figure)
  4. the gate i’m chillin in only has 1 outlet unless you want to go awkwardly sit by the place where people file into the flight
  5. ALL OF THE STORES HAVE THE SAME STUFF (grrrrr D:) (except for those random stores that are like dunkin donuts, a silver place , an ice cream place etc)
  6. the only outlet that i am using is right in the sun and it makes me feel good, but very tired WAH
  7. there is no lady that scans our tickets and lets us in? (maybe this is the only fligth in this gate today??!)
  8. the airport blocks youtube (but apparently not netflix?) (THIS MAKES 0 sense…netflix totally takes up more space than youtube….)
  9. THE “SMOKING IS PROHIBITED” ANNOYING VOICE REPEATS…IDK HOW OFTEN
  10. most of the people that are around me right now are not business looking
  11. each gate has a spinny thing with ads or something on it?

   

  AND NOW FOR RANDOM FACTS from OMG FACTS

  • You can’t hum while holding your nose closed.  (OMG FACTS)

  • 2% of Earth’s people have red hair. (AKA NO SOUL)

  • When you put a seashell next to your ear, it’s the sound of your blood surging in your veins, not the ocean.

  • The Bible is the number one most shoplifted book of all time. (I would not have thought this)

  • There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.

  • If you walk and talk with someone, eventually you will synchronize your steps with each other.

    

    Interpersonal synchronization of stepping happens when people walk side-by-side. Little is known about this, but it has practical uses in therapy. In 2009, this phenomenon was the subject of a study to help impaired people in rehabilitation. Subjects were paired together to walk on treadmills side-by-side. The result? People started walking faster to keep up with their partners.

    Plus, as OK GO has demonstrated, it can be awesome.

  • Having blue eyes is actually a mutation. Before the mutation occurred, all humans had brown eyes.

    Biology nerds know that these mutations often occur in the womb. In this case, the OCA2 gene, which is also involved in the production of melanin, is disrupted to make the eyes blue rather than brown.

  • Your earlobes line up with your nipples. (LOL!)

  • If you take your age and multiply it by 7, then multiply it by 1,443 the product repeats your age 3 times.

  • Believe it or not, you actually CAN’T see the Great Wall of China from Space!

    

  • Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command ‘go hang yourself.’

  • In Topeka, Kansas it is illegal to sing the alphabet on the streets at night. It is also illegal to install a bathtub, and you may not scream in a haunted house.
    

  • The human mind can maintain social relationships with up to 150 people!

  • You can overdose and die from coffee.

    

    There is such a thing as a lethal dose of caffeine. Medical literature contains reports of people dying from ingesting large amounts of caffeine, often through unconventional means, such as injecting caffeine straight into the bloodstream or having a coffee enema (literally putting coffee in your butt!).

    It takes ten grams of caffeine in one sitting to kill a person, which would literally take between 80 and 100 cups of coffee, which is pretty hard to do. If you want to know how many cups of coffee will kill you, check out this calculator.

  • If you look at the sun RIGHT NOW, you are technically looking back in time. It takes eight minutes for light from the sun to reach Earth.

  • No matter how hard you squeeze the two ends of an egg, it will NEVER break.

  • Einstein’s final words died with him-the nurse at his bedside didn’t speak German!

  • Over 2500 left-handed people a year are killed from using equipment made for right-handed people.

  • The faster you move, the heavier you get. You’re heavier when you run than when you’re standing still.

    

    The more energy you put into something, the more mass it accumulates. So if you’re moving fast, you gain weight. It’s only a tiny, temporary weight gain, but if you were traveling close to the speed of light your mass would increase rapidly.

    Other weird physics facts:

    All the matter that makes up the human race can fit into a sugar cube. This is because atoms are mostly empty space. If you crammed all the atoms in all human beings together, without any wasted space, they wouldn’t be any bigger than a sugar cube. However, that sugar cube would weigh 5 BILLION TONS.

    Light doesn’t always travel at the speed of light. The speed of light is only constant in a vacuum. When it passes through matter it can slow down. Photons (light particles) pass through water at 3/4ths the regular speed of light. Light was once slowed down to 38 miles per hour.
    (source)

  • If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died from battle wounds; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

  • On the 10-piece Chicken MgNugget box for McDonalds, there is a picture of 11 McNuggets.

  • Odds are, any memory you believe you have before the age of 4 isn’t real. They are false memories and have usually either been told to you by someone else, or you made them up without knowing it.

    It’s called ‘Childhood amnesia’ and it means, generally, that won’t remember anything that happened until you’re about 4 years old. Some people can remember things from age 2, but it is rare. There are many theories why, but generally it is assumed this is because your brain hasn’t developed enough to be able to form, store, and retrieve memories. In general the earliest memories of females are earlier and more vivid than those of males.

  • A violin contains 70 DIFFERENT pieces of wood.

  • KERMIT THE FROG IS LEFT HANDED

  • The math measurement Pi has been accurately calculated to 1.24 trillion decimal places.

    

    When you divide the circumference of a circle by the diameter of a circle, the number you get has an infinite number of decimal places. Numbers that do this are called “irrational”.

    Since this number is particularly important, we use this symbol (?) or just call it “pi” rather than expressing it with regular numerals.

    The Bible once mistakenly referred to Pi as being just 3, with no decimals. Even at the time that passage was written, that was a grossly inaccurate estimate.

    This is the longest estimate we’ve ever had of how long pi is. That number would be 310 million pages long and would take about 2.4 terabytes of hard drive space to store on a computer. That means that one number could takeThe Average Person Has between 1,460 and 2,190 Dreams A Year. up more space than a 1/2 million mp3s

  • Put two straws in your mouth: one inside a drink and one outside it. You won’t be able to drink through either straw. Try it!
    

  • The first number that will use the letter “A” is thousand.

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    The Average Person Has between 1,460 and 2,190 Dreams A Year.

    

  • Each of the main characters in Spongebob Squarepants was inspired by one of the seven deadly sins.

    

    This surprising revelation was made in the audio commentary included with the episode “Plankton!” on the DVD boxset of the show’s first season. The disc does not establish which characters match up with each sin, but as an avid Spongebob fan, I believe the comparisons are fairly straightforward:

    1. Greed (Mr. Krabs) – this is by far the most obvious comparison that can be made. The avarice of Eugene Krabs is made painfully clear throughout the series. He is constantly thinking of ways to turn a profit, even if it involves taking advantage of his friends or putting them in harmful situations! In one episode, he sings a song called “If I Could Talk to Money”…and there’s even a wiki page devoted to compiling all of his greedy plans!

    2. Envy (Plankton) – another no brainer. With all of Krabs’ wealth and good fortune, there has been an equal amount of hard luck and failure for his archrival, Sheldon Plankton. Plankton owns a struggling restaurant called “The Chum Bucket” and is consumed with the desire to achieve the success of his adversary. His life’s goal is to steal the Krabby Patty formula from his Krabs and drive his primary competitor out of business.

    3. Sloth (Patrick) – the guy lives under a rock for crying out loud! If that isn’t enough to convince you, in the episode “Big Pink Loser” Patrick is given an award for ‘doing absolutely nothing longer than anyone else’. He then proceeds go back under his rock to protect his title.

    4. Pride (Sandy) – the fact that Sandy Cheeks is from Texas alone should almost suffice for this one. She is a squirrel that is very proud of her heritage, so much so that in one episode she nearly moved back home! Sandy also takes a great deal of satisfaction in being the only land critter living down in Bikini Bottom among all the fishy folk. Though generally a good-natured individual, Sandy is quick to spout off about the greatness of the Lone Star state or to show off her athleticism in a karate match or a weightlifting contest.

    5. Wrath (Squidward) – Squidward Tentacles has no qualms about expressing his negative outlook on life, whether it be by describing how much he hates his job at the Krusty Krab or through outward disdain for his two obnoxious neighbors. He is portrayed as a general failure who refuses to acknowledge his own personal flaws. This constant self-denial manifests itself in a sarcastic sense of humor and resentment toward the society that doesn’t ‘appreciate’ his creativity and clarinet…erm…”skills”.

    6. Gluttony (Gary) – now this one’s a bit trickier. Those who have watched a great deal of the series will have noticed a number of jokes about Spongebob having to remember to feed his pet snail. To be honest, Gary doesn’t do a whole lot besides eating and meowing, and the meowing is often due to the fact that he is hungry. Once when Spongebob hadn’t fed his pet, Gary is shown eating parts of their couch! In another episode, Gary runs away from home because Spongebob forgot to feed him for a while. Another time when Spongebob had amnesia, Gary ate a year’s supply of snail food and became morbidly obese! This proves beyond a doubt that when left to his own devices, Gary would rather do nothing but eat.

    7. Lust (Spongebob) – our final analogy is probably the least apparent because we typically think of ‘lust’ in a sexual sense. However, the alternative definition for lust is simply “a passionate desire for something”. In this sense of the word, it cannot be denied that our absorbent yellow friend is an extremely lustful creature. Spongebob has a lust for life that is incomparable to most other cartoon characters – he yearns for the affections of both friend and foe alike, is eager to please, and will often stop at nothing to complete a task.

  • The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69.

  • Jason Earles plays a teenager in Hannah Montana but he’s really 33.

    

    Jason Earles plays Jackson Stewart on Hannah Montana. In the show he is a teenager, but in real life the actor is 33 years old.

  • The Letter ‘R’ is on the left side of the keyboard, and ‘L’ is on the right side.

  • The Pokemon Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan are based off of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.

    Approximately 95% of software in China is pirated.

    

  • The original pack of Skittles doesn’t contain the color blue. Therefore, you CAN’T actually taste the rainbow.
  • An olive tree can live over 2000 years!  
  • OMG FACTS IS AMUSING ME SO MUCH RIGHT NOW….HUZZZZAH!!!!
     

   

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