Random Facts: 05/13/12
Since 1978, the cost of college tuition in the United States has gone up by over 900 percent. In 2010, the average college graduate had accumulated approximately $25,000 in student loan debt by graduation day. According to very extensive research detailed in a book entitled "Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses", 45 percent of U.S. college students exhibit "no significant gains in learning" after two years in college.
Elektro, the world's first humanoid robot, debuted in 1939. Built by Westinghouse, the seven-foot-tall walking machine "spoke" more than 700 words. Elektro later appeared in the 1960 B movie Sex Kittens Go to College. Leonardo da Vinci drew up plans for an armored humanoid machine in 1495. Engineer Mark Rosheim has created a functional miniature version for NASA to help colonize Mars.
Americans consume an average of 200 pounds of meat, 31 pounds of cheese, 16 pounds of fish, and 415 pounds of veggies on an annual basis. In the 1950s, the meat and poultry consumed per person on average was 138 lbs a year, which means that meat consumption has increased by around 45 percent over the past 60 years.
It took two jolts of electricity to kill convicted murderer Frank J. Coppola when he was executed by electrocution in 1982, the second of which caused Coppola's head and leg to catch fire. When Jimmy LEe Gray was executed by asphyxiation in 1983 for murderin a three-year-old girl, his gasps for air were so desperate, authorities cleared the room of witnesses. His lawyer reports that he died banging his head against a steel pole in the gas chamber.
Unlike many other fishes, seahorses swim upright, and their eyes can move independently. The female seahorses deposits up to 1,500 eggs in the male's pouch, which they are supposed to carry until fully developed, tiny seahorses are emerged. Seahorses never nurture their young after birth, leaving them susceptible to predators.
Only 2% of high school couples end up married and not divorcing. Men in a relationship lie twice as often as women do.
A solar flare is an enormous explosion in the solar atmosphere, involving sudden bursts of particle acceleration, plasma heating, and bulk mass motion. It is believed to result from the sudden release of energy stored in the magnetic fields that thread the solar corona in active regions around sunspots. The largest of solar flares can be equal to billions of one-megaton nuclear bombs!
From 1982 to 1997, cheer-leading accounted for 57% of the catastrophic injuries and fatalities among you female athletes. Sports shooters, especially those who use indoor small-bore rifle ranges, risk lead absorption and intoxication, known to cause symptomatic neuropathy.
Elektro, the world's first humanoid robot, debuted in 1939. Built by Westinghouse, the seven-foot-tall walking machine "spoke" more than 700 words. Elektro later appeared in the 1960 B movie Sex Kittens Go to College. Leonardo da Vinci drew up plans for an armored humanoid machine in 1495. Engineer Mark Rosheim has created a functional miniature version for NASA to help colonize Mars.
Americans consume an average of 200 pounds of meat, 31 pounds of cheese, 16 pounds of fish, and 415 pounds of veggies on an annual basis. In the 1950s, the meat and poultry consumed per person on average was 138 lbs a year, which means that meat consumption has increased by around 45 percent over the past 60 years.
It took two jolts of electricity to kill convicted murderer Frank J. Coppola when he was executed by electrocution in 1982, the second of which caused Coppola's head and leg to catch fire. When Jimmy LEe Gray was executed by asphyxiation in 1983 for murderin a three-year-old girl, his gasps for air were so desperate, authorities cleared the room of witnesses. His lawyer reports that he died banging his head against a steel pole in the gas chamber.
Unlike many other fishes, seahorses swim upright, and their eyes can move independently. The female seahorses deposits up to 1,500 eggs in the male's pouch, which they are supposed to carry until fully developed, tiny seahorses are emerged. Seahorses never nurture their young after birth, leaving them susceptible to predators.
Only 2% of high school couples end up married and not divorcing. Men in a relationship lie twice as often as women do.
A solar flare is an enormous explosion in the solar atmosphere, involving sudden bursts of particle acceleration, plasma heating, and bulk mass motion. It is believed to result from the sudden release of energy stored in the magnetic fields that thread the solar corona in active regions around sunspots. The largest of solar flares can be equal to billions of one-megaton nuclear bombs!
From 1982 to 1997, cheer-leading accounted for 57% of the catastrophic injuries and fatalities among you female athletes. Sports shooters, especially those who use indoor small-bore rifle ranges, risk lead absorption and intoxication, known to cause symptomatic neuropathy.
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