Photography And Half-Thoughts By Mitchell Hegman

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Tuesday, January 17, 2023

A Few Mostly Unhelpful Facts

Claiming something is “as American as apple pie” is problematic because apple pie is an English creation.

Thanks to the expansion its steel structural parts, the Eiffel Tower is six inches taller on hot summer days.

The dot found above a lowercase i or j is called a tittle.

Sloths can hold their breath for up to 40 minutes.

Most Muppets are left-handed.

The shape of Pringles potato chips has a scientific name – hyperbolic paraboloids – which can be expressed as the equation z=Ax2+By2.

In 1992, a crate containing 28,000 rubber ducks fell into the Pacific Ocean and spilled out its contents.  These so-called “friendly floatees” have been drifting ashore in various parts of the world for over 20 years.  They have appeared on the beaches of Alaska, Hawaii, Australia, Indonesia, and Chile.

Mitchell Hegman

Source: beano.com

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