- The Fat man by Fats Domino, recorded in 1949 is considered by some to be the first rock n roll song, because it has a back beat through the entire song.
- Your foot is the exact length from the crook of your elbow to your wrist.
- Golf clubs didn't always have numbers, they used to have fun names like play club; brassie; spoon; baffy; mashie; niblick and jigger.
- A survey of 1,000 US adults showed that 39% would consider quitting if their employers weren't flexible about remote work. The generational difference is clear. Among millennials and Gen Z, that figure was 49%
- Poka-Yoke is a Japanese manufacturing design technique that ensures that components can only be assembled one, correct way. Tesla is incorporating that technique into their manufacturing process as well.
- 1 in 5 customers polled said they would skip the iPhone 13 because of superstition.
- There's a koi fish that lived 226 years in Japan (1751-1977).
- There is a phone booth known as "The Telephone of the Wind" on a hill overlooking the ocean in Otsuchi Town in Northeastern Japan. It is connected to nothing, but people come to 'call' family members lost during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
- The Kyoto Aquarium has a flowchart illustrating the complicated romantic relationships and breakups between their penguins.
- X-rays of children's mouths are bizarre. The second set of teeth to replace baby teeth are already grown and lodged in their skulls. So you'll see two rows of teeth and its freaky looking. They don't grow in when the old ones fall out, they are already loaded in the chamber waiting to get launched.
- Many mammals produce vitamin C in their liver. Not humans.
Friday, June 25, 2021
Things I learned lately 25 June
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