The Beatles featured two left-handed members: Paul, whom everyone saw holding his Hoffner bass left-handed, and Ringo, whose left handedness is at least partially to blame for his "original" drumming style.
The Beatles performed their first U.S. concert in Carnegie Hall.
The Beatles song "A Day in the Life" ends with a note sustained for forty seconds.
The Beatles song 'Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and The Beatles at a religious retreat in India.
Friday, May 15, 2015
A Weather Eye
A normal raindrop falls at about seven miles per hour.
A downburst is a downward-blowing wind that sometimes comes blasting out of a thunderstorm. The damage looks like tornado damage, because the wind can be as strong as an F2 tornado, but debris is blown straight away from a point on the ground, not lifted into the air and transported downwind.
A wind with a speed of seventy-four miles per hour or more is designated a hurricane.
An inch of snow falling evenly on 1 acre of ground is equivalent to about 2,715 gallons of water.
At any given time, there are eighteen hundred thunderstorms in progress over the earth's atmosphere.
A cubic mile of fog is made up of less than a gallon of water.
The two hottest months at the equator are March and September.
A rainbow can only occur when the sun is forty degrees or less above the horizon.
Meteorologists claim they're right 85 percent of the time.
A downburst is a downward-blowing wind that sometimes comes blasting out of a thunderstorm. The damage looks like tornado damage, because the wind can be as strong as an F2 tornado, but debris is blown straight away from a point on the ground, not lifted into the air and transported downwind.
A wind with a speed of seventy-four miles per hour or more is designated a hurricane.
An inch of snow falling evenly on 1 acre of ground is equivalent to about 2,715 gallons of water.
At any given time, there are eighteen hundred thunderstorms in progress over the earth's atmosphere.
A cubic mile of fog is made up of less than a gallon of water.
The two hottest months at the equator are March and September.
A rainbow can only occur when the sun is forty degrees or less above the horizon.
Meteorologists claim they're right 85 percent of the time.
Weird Science
One hundred seven incorrect medical procedures will be performed by the end of the day today.
Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.
Two and five are the only prime numbers that end in two or five.
Fifty-one percent of turns are right turns.
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times but more like 4,950. The head picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
If you yelled for eight years, seven months, and six days, you would have produced enough energy to heat one cup of coffee.
The strength of early lasers was measured in Gillettes, the number of blue razor blades a given beam could puncture.
The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that it breaks the sound barrier; the crack of the whip is actually a tiny sonic boom.
Clouds fly higher during the day than at night.
Moisture, not air, causes superglue to dry.
Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to power a TV for three hours.
Iron nails cannot be used in oak because the acid in the wood corrodes them.
Bacteria, the tiniest free-living cells, are so small that a single drop of liquid contains as many as fifty million of them.
Life on Earth probably developed in an oxygen-free atmosphere. Even today there are microorganisms that can live only in the absence of oxygen.
Stainless Steel was discovered by accident in 1913.
If we had the same mortality rate as in the 1900s, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.
Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.
Two and five are the only prime numbers that end in two or five.
Fifty-one percent of turns are right turns.
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times but more like 4,950. The head picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
If you yelled for eight years, seven months, and six days, you would have produced enough energy to heat one cup of coffee.
The strength of early lasers was measured in Gillettes, the number of blue razor blades a given beam could puncture.
The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that it breaks the sound barrier; the crack of the whip is actually a tiny sonic boom.
Clouds fly higher during the day than at night.
Moisture, not air, causes superglue to dry.
Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to power a TV for three hours.
Iron nails cannot be used in oak because the acid in the wood corrodes them.
Bacteria, the tiniest free-living cells, are so small that a single drop of liquid contains as many as fifty million of them.
Life on Earth probably developed in an oxygen-free atmosphere. Even today there are microorganisms that can live only in the absence of oxygen.
Stainless Steel was discovered by accident in 1913.
If we had the same mortality rate as in the 1900s, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.
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