26Boeing 747 Fuel Capacity
A Boeing 747 can carry roughly 63,000 gallons of fuel. This weighs approximately 400,000 lbs, which is about nearly as much as the empty plane itself.
27. When you stand, your body compensates for gravity by constricting blood vessels, ensuring that enough blood returns to your brain. In people with orthostatic hypotension, this mechanism fails and their blood pressure drops, leading to dizziness, lightheadedness, blurred vision, and fainting.
28. The 1931 best picture nominee ‘Trader Horn’ was the first non-documentary filmed in Africa. While filming, one of its crew members was eaten by a crocodile, another was stampeded by a rhinoceros, and the lead actress suffered a career-ending illness.
29. Since the 12th century, Europeans were eating Egyptian mummies as medicine.
30. Babe Ruth is part of the first recorded no-hit by the committee in 1917 except he never recorded an out. He punched out the umpire and was ejected after walking the first batter. Ernie Shore finished the game with no hits.
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31Ticks
Ticks are not insects but are a type of arachnid (like scorpions & spiders).
32. The ‘New Madrid Seismic Zone’ is a major earthquake zone that’s located in the Southern and Midwestern United States, stretching to the southwest from New Madrid, Missouri. This fault zone was responsible for a magnitude 7.0 earthquake in the early 1800s. The nature of the bedrock there means quakes can shake an area 20x bigger than quakes in California. There is a 1 in 10 probability of the area being hit by another earthquake in the next 50 years.
33. In 1922, Deputy Prime Minister to Ireland Kevin O'Higgins ordered the execution of Rory O'Connor, who was the best man at his wedding only one year prior.
34. There are 225 varieties of owls, with wingspans ranging from 10 inches to 5 feets.
35. Arctic foxes strongly prefer to dive in a north-easterly direction. They are more likely to make a kill if they jumped along the invisible axis, especially when their prey was hidden by snow. If they pounced to the northeast, they killed on 73% of jumps compared with 18% in other directions.
