Interesting facts

Lilofan · Feb 13, 2022

Trying to microwave your pizza and your hotel room doesn't have a microwave but room has an iron and board and blow dryer. . Lay your pizza on aluminum foil and place on the iron face up. Turn on iron, blow dry the cheese part of pizza, in a few minutes you have a hot reheated pizza slice.

trr1 · Feb 14, 2022

Nine-banded armadillos always have quadruplets, and they’re always identical.

Diamond Dot · Feb 14, 2022

trr1 said:
Our modern interpretation of Santa Claus with a red outfit and white beard is due in large part to holiday Coca-Cola ads that began in 1931. (coca-cola.com)

Unfortunately that one is a myth.

Diamond Dot · Feb 14, 2022

trr1 said:
The tallest building in the world is the Burg Khalifa in Dubai, standing at over 2,700 feet. (skyscrapercenter.com)

Burj Khalifa and the Emirates ad featuring the cabin crew member standing on the very top was not CGI'd, she actually stood there and she is amazing.

Diamond Dot · Feb 14, 2022

trr1 said:
The longest fingernails ever were over 28 feet in total. American Lee Redmond started growing them in 1979 and set the record in 2008. Sadly, she lost her nails in a car crash in 2009. (guinnessworldrecords.com)
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I take it she has a bidet.

Diamond Dot · Feb 14, 2022

Goofyernmost said:
"It is often said that the first interracial kiss on TV was the (involuntary) kiss between Captain James Tiberius Kirk (William Shatner) and translator and communications officer Nyota Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) in the Star Trek episode “Plato’s Stepchildren” that was broadcast on the 22nd of November 1968.

There were other interspecies kisses before that involving Uhura and aliens. (she got around apparently.) However that one was interracial between the same species. It appears that the public had no problem with interspecies, but went crazy with Kirk and Uhura."

In the US, but, in the UK there was an interracial kiss on TV was in 1964 on the UKs Emergency Ward 10

Diamond Dot · Feb 14, 2022

MinnieM123 said:
Ireland has the longest running TV programme in the world. The Late Late Show first aired in 1961, and continues on to the present day.

The Sky At Night on the BBC has been broadcasting without a break every month since 1957

Diamond Dot · Feb 14, 2022

trr1 said:
Wombats are the only animal whose poop is cube-shaped. This is due to how its intestines form the feces. The animals then stack the cubes to mark their territory. (bbc.com)

Why is the Ooh Aah Bird so named? Because it poos cubes.