August 5th is known as National Underwear Day – the perfect day to add some new, confidence-boosting pieces to your underwear collection.
100 Mind-Blowing Pieces Facts
Glitter may have originated on a ranch. According to local lore, a man by the name of Henry Ruschmann from Bernardsville, New Jersey, invented glitter by accident in 1934 while working on a cattle ranch. The New York Times reports that in the popular origin story, Ruschmann, a machinist, was trying to find a way to dispose of scrap material by crushing it into tiny pieces. Plastic went in, glitter came out, and the rest is commonly accepted as history.
A snail has 2,500 teeth. These teeth can be found on their tongue that’s covered in ridges. Snails eat by rubbing their tongue on their food while the ridges cut it into tiny pieces.
3 Musketeer chocolate bars used to have 3 flavours. These candy bars came in three breakable pieces and were originally made for sharing. Each candy bar contained a different flavour – strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla.
People used bread as an eraser before. Before Edward Naime invented the eraser in 1770, people used rolled-up pieces of white bread to erase things.
A classic violin is made with 70 different pieces of wood. Associated with class and elegance, the earliest version of a violin emerged in the1500s in Italy. The first known creator of the violin was Andrea Amati. He had been commissioned by the Medici family to create an instrument like a lute, but easier to play.
Scientists have taught rats to drive. According to an experiment, rats can learn how to drive. Scientists made tiny cars with an aluminium floor and a “steering wheel” made out of three copper bars. When the rat stood on the car’s aluminium floor and touched the copper bars, it would start an electrical charge that moved the car. By the end of the experiment, they had taught the rats to steer the car in different directions by touching different copper bars. Their secret? Froot Loops. The scientists conditioned the rats to manoeuvre in different ways by rewarding them with cereal pieces.
Spotted dick is a dish. We know what you’re thinking, but spotted dick is a British dessert popularized in 19th century England. It is a pudding made traditionally with suet and dried fruit, often served with custard. “Spotted” referred to the dried fruit pieces, while “dick” and “dog” were terms widely used for pudding at the time.
The tallest LEGO tower of all time is 112 feet high. On August 20th, 2013, a group of students from Delaware, USA built the tallest Lego tower in the world. The tower stood at 112 feet tall and was built using over 500,000 pieces of Lego.
The most M&Ms eaten with chopsticks while blindfolded is 20 pieces. The most M&Ms eaten in a minute (while blindfolded and with chopsticks) is 20 M&Ms. It was achieved by Ashrita Furman of the U.S. on December 8, 2011.
Lego bricks can be combined in nearly a billion ways. Six pieces of the standard eight-studded Lego bricks can be combined in 915,103,765 ways.
Play-Doh was invented as a wallpaper cleaner. Play-Doh was initially invented to remove soot and dirt from wallpaper. Antique restorers still use it for refurbishing antique pieces. However, Play-Doh was officially recognised as a toy in 1954.
Mr. Potato Head used to be made of actual potatoes. When Mr. Potato Head was first released in 1952, the toy only included eyes, noses, and mouths. For the potato body, kids were expected to provide their own. However, due to the possible safety hazards of the sharp pieces, the plastic body was provided in 1964.
Space junk is any human-made object orbiting Earth that no longer serves a useful purpose. Scientists estimate there are about 500,000 pieces of space junk today, including fragments from rockets and satellites, and everyday items like spanners dropped during the construction of the International Space Station!
If a starfish is split into five pieces, so long as each piece contains part of the central disc, then five starfish will survive.
The Style Wars began in the 1970s and introduced the concept of bombing. Graffiti artists created bigger and bigger pieces in an attempt to achieve fame. They would often “bomb,” or “hit,” one area, which meant painting many surfaces in an area. For the sake of time, they often threw up tags instead of complex pieces.
Over 970 Million Pieces of Malware are Distributed Across the Internet. The growth of malware seems to have no end, as over 970 million copies of malware are circulating the Internet. Every year, malware keeps increasing by nearly 100 million.