Random Thoughts V4.0

If you counted at the rate of 100 numbers a minute and kept counting for eight hours a day, five days a week, it would take a little over 4 weeks to count to one million and just over 80 years to reach one billion.

Every day, more than 1,000 gallons of water are lost into space from the top of Earth’s atmosphere. Yet there is about as much water on Earth as there was 3 billion years ago.

Les Miserables has a 3-page, 823-word sentence which is divided by 93 commas, 51 semicolons, and 4 dashes. Rumor has it that someone suffocated from lack of oxygen in the 1940’s just short of the 73rd comma while giving a dramatic reading from the work.

Flag semaphore invented in Europe in 1791 by Claude and Ignace Chappe. Using this form of communication, Napoleon Bonaparte was able to send a message from Rome to Paris in about 4 hours at the rate of 15 characters per minute.

About 40% of the world’s varieties of freshwater fish and more than half of the 8,600 species of birds in the world are in the Amazon River basin area.

The largest stick of incense ever created was nearly 15 feet long and 6 inches in diameter.

Jackie Bibby sat in a bathtub with 35 live rattlesnakes, procuring himself a world record.

The word ‘byte’ is a contraction of ‘by eight.’

The word ‘pixel’ is a contraction of either ‘picture cell’ or ‘picture element’.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”