| My friends keep telling me that I'm going to become Ross from "Friends" because I am a history major. "You're going to be a college professor of paleontology and ride roller blades across New York City to get to your classes!"I want to study archaeology and ancient civilizations and I have an endless knowledge of useless, yet somewhat interesting, facts. That's why I created this page. |
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| Useless Information |
| Ross: "Did you know that salt water taffy isn't made with salt water. It's actually made with fresh water that's been salted." |
| Did You Know... |
| *The Sphinx was actually weathered by water, not sand and wind, making it hundreds of years older than scientists originally believed. Egyptologists believed that the Sphinx was built in 2500 BC in the time of the pharaoh Chephren, but this evidence of water erosion disproves that date. |
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| *In Medieval music, seven modes were used in composing: Ionian (C-C), Aeolian (a-a), Dorian (D-D), Phyrigian (E-E), Lydian (F-F), Mixolydian (G-G), and Loerian (B-B). |
| *In Old English (12th century) a rabbit was called a coney (plural: conies). |
| -------------More to come soon- when I have time to think of them!------------- |
| *In history, the first widespread use of trench warfare was during the American Civil War, not World War I. |
| *A comet's tail always points away from the sun. |
| *An object must travel 40,000 kilometers an hour to escape the Earth's gravity. |
| *As a result of a sixteenth-century law, all Venetian gondolas had to be painted black. (A gondola is a long narrow flat-bottomed boat with a high prow and stern used on the canals of Venice.) |
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| *There are four different types of penicillin: penicillin-G types, ampicillin, penicillinase-resistants and antiseudomonal. |
| *In religion, stigmata is the the term given to the appearance of wounds or scars corresponding to those of the crucified Christ on a human's body. |
| *Electric eels actually do produce electricity. |
| *Travelling on the tube (the London Underground) for 40 minutes is the equivalent of smoking two cigarettes. |
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