Interesting And Weird Facts About The World You Probably Didn’t Know (30 Pics)

Pitch perfect.

Cool!

They benefit from high altitude, a culture which values good runners and an unusually high percentage of their muscle mass is posture muscle (endurance) rather than twitch (strength). Funnily on the west coast of Africa (the ultimate origin of many Jamaicans) the twitch/posture ratio is reversed, which makes for very good sprinters and other sports requiring explosive power.

IQ tests are flawed, though. They only adapt to one type of affinities. They're inventing various kinds of IQ tests and IQ groups because of that. And exploring various kinds of ways to measure intelligence.

When Jesus was alive, the Stonehenge was already a ruin. It's sometimes hard to grasp where everything is in relation to each other on the historical timeline

"If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends. Make it last 7 years - friendship never eeeeeehends" ♬♪

I still believe in you, Pluto!

Australia's diameter is 600km wider than the moon's. The moon sits at 3400km in diameter, while Australia's diameter from east to west is almost 4000km.

Yep... I had to Google it to believe it

I knew this already! I knew something!!!

...but were they edible?

But I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more...

P-please... I already do this...

A good stance, but difficult to execute due to pressure from the school and classmates, I would assume.

Lot of the most sucessfull IT parents do this.

Not sure how I feel about this. We use iPads in our house to write books, animate movies, read comics, research, and take classes. I don't feel like that is a waste of time. I see it as a tool and tools can be used for good or not so great ways.

He still can't escape that he ruined many other people with his iPads

no, he just let other, browner kids make them for slave wages

That's like saying the inventor of chocolate cake doesn't think his kids should just eat chocolate cake or a maker of whisky saying he doesn't want his kids to drink it.

good for him. and omg and wow.

Steve jobs had one kid and she was well into adulthood when the ipad came out and had a strained relationship with Steve most of her life so this "fact" is very false

He knew the possible damage they could impose. Honestly so much garbage on the internet your kids can stumble across it's horrifying. My kids both have tablets and I have to watch them while they use them because freaky stuff pops up. Outside time is so much better but I allow it for resting time

Yeah. But how old were his kids? Kids for the last 10 years basically popped up on front of touch screen. That's all they know.

Smart man

Interesting...

Steve Jobs limited the time he spent with his kids to a minimum...

Otherwise not known for his devotion to fatherhood.

Because Steve Jobs was a control freak

Smart man. It pitiful seeing all the younger people wandering around with their noses in their phones.

um anyone got a definition of "minimum" please ?

Technology is the collection of techniques, skills, methods, and processes used in the production of goods or services or in the accomplishment of objectives, such as scientific investigation. He was pretty cruel, then. I presume you mean ICT.

Hypocrisy much

Curious!

Older people should take like Internet safety classes to prevent this from happening.

I once saw a document about sloths. One of them fell in the water, where an aligator was. But He manage to swim away *mindblow*!!!!

Her great line on SNL: “If I ever wanted get in touch with old friends, I’d have to use a Ouija board.”

Why though?

They are the best gift!!!

Lots of airports do this. It stops passengers having to wait

Well Nintendo the company, not their first video game product.

He was kind of a jerk.

In Finland we used to watch a Disney cartoon on Christmas Eve too! At least when I was a kid, don't know about kids today

She was Great for a reason.

Now there’s a fine title for an Irish ballad...

You can't drink it though, wrong kind of alcohol.

Well that may be, plus cacao’s theobromine (an alkaloid similar to caffeine), but who the hell drinks three cups of pure dark chocolate a day anyway?

And the Japanese National anthem is only 4 lines long.

I found my spirit animal.

I need a bit more clarity on this... Can anyone explain?