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Les humains ont envoyé un homme sur la Lune avant même d'avoir mis des roulettes sur les valises
Premier homme sur la Lune : 1969
Les roulettes sur les valises : 1970
Humans put a man on the Moon before they put wheels on luggage⠀ ⠀ {Weekend Repost}⠀ On July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to walk on the Moon. Meanwhile, their fellow humans back on Earth still had to carry their suitcases. Until Bernard Sadow, while on…
Les avions volent plus lentement aujourd'hui que par le passé
Airplanes fly slower today than they did in the past⠀ ⠀ A flight from New York to Houston in 1973 took about 2,5 hours. It now takes almost 4 hours. This slowing down of flights is generalised. One reason has to do with fuel consumption: flying slower uses less fuel and airlines are making…
L'homme qui a inventé les publicités pop-ups s'est officiellement excusé auprès du monde entier
The man who invented pop-up ads has officially apologised to the world. Ethan Zuckerman was the man behind one of the most hated forms of advertising in the late 90s. Zuckerman believes that “advertising is the original sin of the web” and that “the fallen state of our internet is a direct, if…
We hold 0,2 mg of gold inside us An average person weighting 70 kilograms hosts 43 kg of oxygen, 16 kg of carbon, 7 kg of hydrogen… and 0.2 mg of gold. Source (short url): factourism.com/source/human-gold
3h44 est l'heure à laquelle le plus de gens se réveillent pendant la nuit
3:44 AM is the most common time to wake up at night A study on the sleeping habits of 3,000 British citizens figured out, along that many have sleep troubles, that 3:44 in the middle of night was the most common time to wake up. Source: factourism.com/source/3-44
Six briques Lego 2x4 peuvent être combinées de 915,103,765 façons différentes
Six 2×4 Lego bricks can be combined in 915,103,765 different way {Weekend Repost} The Danish mathematician Søren Eilers was intrigued about Lego: there was an official answer to the question of how many different structures could be built from six classic rectangular Lego bricks —which was…
Les vaches qu'on appelle par leur nom produisent 258 litres de lait en plus par an que celles qui ne le sont pas
Cows that are called by name produce 258 litres more milk per year than those who aren’t Cows that are stressed make less milk because of the interference of hormones, and the ones that are anxious are more likely to resist milking. A relaxed and cared about cow, however, is going to give more…
Un crayon peut potentiellement dessiner une ligne de 56km de long
A pencil has the potential to draw a line 56 km long While it hasn’t been tested experimentally, it is estimated than the average pencil contains enough graphite to draw a line 35 miles long before running out.
Nettoyer sa maison est aussi mauvais pour la santé que fumer un paquet de cigarettes
Cleaning the house is as harmful for the health as smoking one pack of cigarettes Cleaning exposes your lungs to chemical sprays and other cleaning agents, which causes damage to respiratory health in the long term. It is especially true for people doing cleaning as their job. A study found out…
Astronauts can vote from space Astronauts aboard the International Space Station, and previously the Mir station, are not exempt of voting duty. They get their ballot as an encrypted PDF in their e-mail inbox, can cast their vote from one of the onboard computers, and send it back to their…
La Bibliothèque Universitaire de Harvard possède de nombreux livres reliés avec de la peau humaine
The Harvard University Library has several books bound in human skin {Weekend Repost} Anthropodermic bibliopegy. That is the proper name for binding books with human leather rather than another animal’s. A morbid practice that was occasionally done in the 19th century and earlier. Some of the…
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