Iphone 5 RoadMap

P.V.

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Slow Loris

The slow loris (King Julian in Madagascar is a slow loris), is a quirky creature. Due to its slow metabolism, it can eat things other animals can't digest. Their favorite treat is gum from trees. They also love being tickled.


-HS

Glowfrogs

Frogs occasionally eat enough fireflies that they themselves glow. -JNELZ

Social Media Infographic!

-P.V.

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IPhone Fact!

-P.V.
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Smoked Salmon Vodka!!?!!?!?!?

Through art of diffusion and infusion, they finally made it:

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Google+ Facts

Twitter Facts

-P.V.
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Facebook Facts

-P.V.
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All-Time wins College Basketball

Rank	Team	First Season	Wins	Losses	Ties	Percentage
1	Kentucky	1903	1988	635	1	0.758
2	North Carolina	1911	1984	703	0	0.738
3	Kansas	1899	1970	793	0	0.713
4	Duke	1906	1877	817	0	0.697
5	Syracuse	1901	1753	806	0	0.685
6	Temple	1895	1711	960	0	0.641
7	St. John's	1908	1686	868	0	0.66
8	UCLA	1920	1672	726	0	0.697
9	Penn	1897	1658	949	2	0.635
10	Notre Dame	1898	1651	908	1	0.645

BY Anil Rao

I guess this explains something

Just for fun!

Coke and Mentos

Coke and Mentos react when the pores on the candy's surface catalyze and release carbon dioxide gas from the soda, this results in an excessive amount of foam and can cause the bottle to explode or take off.

 Here is an example of the reaction going terribly wrong.

-Ben Griscom

Food for Facts ;]

- Samantha

Pearls

Pearls melt in vinegar.

-OB

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Niall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity | Video on TED.com

Oblast

Oblast is a type of administrative district used in Slavic countries like Russia. They are similar to states in the U.S.





Above is the flag from the Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia. It is pretty much the coolest flag in the world.

-Ben Griscom

Goldfish Memory

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

-Alberto

Friday!

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-P.V.

Late night gags

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-P.V.

here kitty kitty

Sometimes your cat will find it difficult to find the treats you throw him on the floor. The reason is because cats can't see directly under their own nose


-H.S.

It takes energy from 50 leaves to produce one apple.


-SJ

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Truth About Soft drinks

-Soft drinks, coffee, and tea, while made up almost entirely of water, also contain caffeine. Caffeine can act as a mild diuretic, preventing water from traveling to necessary locations in the body


-Cool Stats 

-P.V. 

Don't ask, don't tell

A Blue Ribbon Commission sponsored by the University of California determined that the "don't ask, don't tell" policy cost the Pentagon at least $363.8 million to implement during its first ten years.

Giraffe

An adult giraffe's tongue is approximately 17 inches long


-OB

TRY THIS while your are bored drinking champagne!

If you put a raisin in a fresh glass of champagne, it will rise and fall continuously.

-Samanthaaa

Wine will spoil if...

Wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles.

-Alberto

Half the United States apple crop is turned into apple products like applesauce and apple juice.

-S.J.

Not so sleepy

Sloths are known for being very slow movers, and quite lazy. This is actually their method of self defense so that they don't get attacked by predators. Just because they are often still and are otherwise slow, doesn't mean that they sleep all of the time. They actually only sleep about nine hours per day!

-H.S.

Strongest Muscle in the Human Body

You may not be able to bench press much with your tongue but it is in fact the strongest muscle in your body in proportion to its size. Well, if you think about it, every time you eat, swallow or talk you use your tongue, it gets quite a workout throughout the day.

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Apples

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

-Ben Griscom

America

In honor of 9/11, why not learn something interesting about American History?

The 33rd president was Harry S. Truman. What is his middle name? His parents were going to give him the name Shippe or Solomon, the names of his grandfathers. They could not agree, so they gave him just an initial, "S."

-H.S.

Alligator or Crocodile?

How can you tell the difference between an American Alligator and an American Crocodile?

Well, one main difference is their teeth. American Alligators' teeth only show if their mouths are open. American Crocodiles, even with their mouths snapped shut, display a tooth on either side of their lower jaw. Other crocs can show a bristle of sharp lower teeth.

If you don't want to get close enough to them to see their teeth, you can tell the difference by their snouts. Alligators have broad snouts while crocodiles have long, tapered ones.

-H.S.

Michigan Shoreline

Michigan has longest freshwater shoreline in the world with 3,000 miles. In addition Michigan also has the second most total shoreline in the United States besting even Florida and only losing to Alaska.

-Ben Griscom

Hookah

Indeed, the recently published researches have showed that hookah tobacco contains a lot of the same additives as in regular cigarettes that have been related to health complications and addiction. Prof. Robert Bain of Georgia Institute of Technology’ School of Chemistry said that the studies demonstrated that one session of hookah smoking could be equaled to almost 100 regular cigarettes, because usual cigarette needs an average of 9 puffs to be smoked and one hookah can be smoked for up to an hour with almost 20 puffs. Therefore, it means that hookah is even more dangerous for health than conventional cigarettes.

-P.V.

Lobsters

It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound

-H.S.

An Apple a Day...

If you followed the old adage, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away" starting from your 5th birthday until you were 75, you will have eaten 25,567 apples. That is the equivalent of the average yearly yield of about 178 apple trees.

-Sam

Another reason to sleep

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

-Samantha

A Fact

Founder of Labor Day

More than 100 years after the first Labor Day observance, there is still some doubt as to who first proposed the holiday for workers.
Some records show that Peter J. McGuire, general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and a cofounder of the American Federation of Labor, was first in suggesting a day to honor those "who from rude nature have delved and carved all the grandeur we behold."
But Peter McGuire's place in Labor Day history has not gone unchallenged. Many believe that Matthew Maguire, a machinist, not Peter McGuire, founded the holiday. Recent research seems to support the contention that Matthew Maguire, later the secretary of Local 344 of the International Association of Machinists in Paterson, N.J., proposed the holiday in 1882 while serving as secretary of the Central Labor Union in New York. What is clear is that the Central Labor Union adopted a Labor Day proposal and appointed a committee to plan a demonstration and picnic.

The First Labor Day

The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City, in accordance with the plans of the Central Labor Union. The Central Labor Union held its second Labor Day holiday just a year later, on September 5, 1883.
In 1884 the first Monday in September was selected as the holiday, as originally proposed, and the Central Labor Union urged similar organizations in other cities to follow the example of New York and celebrate a "workingmen's holiday" on that date. The idea spread with the growth of labor organizations, and in 1885 Labor Day was celebrated in many industrial centers of the country.

Purdue ACL Tears

Fact: Within the past couple years Purdue has suffered 7 ACL tears in football and in men's basketball.

The players include:

Ralph Bolden
Robert Marve X2
Robbie Hummel X2
Rob Henry
Keith Smith

-Ben Griscom

A facts a day ---- reasoning

You may find yourself wondering, why would our blog be called "a facts a day" (at least in the URL)?
FACT:
Since this is run by more than one person, there will be more than one fact some days, and no facts some other days. Average all that out, and that means there will either be one or more fact per day this blog is used (it makes sense if you don't think about it too much).
Hence, "A fact(s) a day"

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