Did You Know? by Dragoon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s this is all about things you might have not known Or just didn't think about. en-us 2020-10-02 20:07:32 UTC 2024-06-02 23:15:16 UTC hello@padlet.com https://media.istockphoto.com/vectors/did-you-know-hand-drawn-vector-lettering-phrase-vector-id1132414957?k=6&m=1132414957&s=612x612&w=0&h=YCUkxqx8Jv_12aSEAT1xgYbqQ6_kmDVxczxzwm5Y5UI= Did You Know? #1 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799035949 Today we are fairly confident that the Milky Way is probably between 100,000 and 150,000 light years across. The observable Universe is, of course, much larger. According to current thinking it is about 93 billion light years in diameter.]]> 2020-10-02 20:15:41 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799035949 Did You Know #2 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799117155 Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. According to radiometric dating and other sources of evidence, Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago. Earth's gravity interacts with other objects in space, especially the Sun and the Moon, Earth's only natural satellite.]]> 2020-10-02 20:58:54 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799117155 Did You Know? #3 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799119730 The largest known star in the universe is UY Scuti, a hypergiant with a radius around 1,700 times larger than the sun.]]> 2020-10-02 21:00:27 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799119730 Did You Know? #4 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799122480 The smallest known star right now is OGLE-TR-122b, a red dwarf star that's part of a binary stellar system. This red dwarf the smallest star to ever have its radius accurately measured; 0.12 solar radii. This works out to be 167,000 km. That's only 20% larger than Jupiter.]]> 2020-10-02 21:02:12 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799122480 Did You Know? #6 c_hunterbuffington https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799124338 Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks boast many of the world's largest trees by volume. The General Sherman Tree is the largest in the world at 52,508 cubic feet (1,487 cubic meters).]]> 2020-10-02 21:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799124338 Did You Know? #5 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799124447 The smallest planet in our solar system is Mercury and the largest planet is Jupiter.]]> 2020-10-02 21:03:30 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799124447 Did You Know by Mrs B c_hunterbuffington https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799124605 2020-10-02 21:03:37 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799124605 Did You Know? #7 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799130641 The largest stone is called the “Star of Africa I,” or “Cullinan I,” and at 530 carats, it is the largest-cut fine-quality colorless diamond in the world.]]> 2020-10-02 21:07:42 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799130641 Bet You Knew. #1 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799132614 Among Us becomes world's most downloaded mobile game in 2020 so far.]]> 2020-10-02 21:08:56 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799132614 Did You Know? #8 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799135918 Blue whales are the largest animals ever to have lived.]]> 2020-10-02 21:11:07 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799135918 Did You Know? #9 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799139725 The Etruscan shrew, is the smallest mammal by mass, weighing about 1.8 grams (0.063 oz) on average.]]> 2020-10-02 21:13:38 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799139725 Did You Know? #10 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799144812 Mosquitoes. AFP Mosquitoes are estimated to kill about 725,000 people every year.]]> 2020-10-02 21:17:16 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799144812 Did You Know? College! c_hunterbuffington https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799152146 2020-10-02 21:22:29 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799152146 colour codes. galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799154535 -BLUE Blue means that it is from the creator.
-RED Red means that it is from members.
-green means it is from a user not a member or creator that was allowed.

]]> 2020-10-02 21:24:09 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799154535 Did You Know? #11 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799182731 In the Pacific Ocean, somewhere between Guam and the Philippines, lies the Marianas Trench, also known as the Mariana Trench. At 35,814 feet below sea level, its bottom is called the Challenger Deep — the deepest point known on Earth.]]> 2020-10-02 21:45:11 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799182731 Did You Know? #12 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799184959 The high elevation of the East Antarctic Plateau and its proximity to the South Pole give it the coldest climate of any region on Earth. The lowest air temperature ever measured by a weather station, minus 89 degrees Celsius (minus 128 degrees Fahrenheit), was recorded there at Russia's Vostok Station in July 1983.]]> 2020-10-02 21:46:59 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799184959 Bet You Knew #2 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799187701 A day on Earth is near 24 hours.]]> 2020-10-02 21:49:03 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799187701 Did You Know? #13 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799830059 Another way to measure a day is to count the amount of time it takes for a planet to completely spin around and make one full rotation. This is called a sidereal day. On Earth, a sidereal day is almost exactly 23 hours and 56 minutes.

]]> 2020-10-03 15:43:02 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799830059 Did You Know? #14 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799831317 2016 showed the most disliked video game trailer, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, which stands at over three million dislikes. It became YouTube's second-most-disliked video within two weeks of being released.]]> 2020-10-03 15:44:40 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799831317 Did You Know? #15 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799838337 Planck time is the time light takes to travel one Planck length. Theoretically, this is the smallest time measurement that will ever be possible. Smaller time units have no use in physics as we understand it today. The TU (for Time Unit) is a unit of time defined as 1024 µs for use in engineering.]]> 2020-10-03 15:53:04 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799838337 Did You Know? #16 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799839572 'The' is the most used word in the English-speaking world because it's an essential part of grammar and communication.]]> 2020-10-03 15:54:27 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799839572 Did You Know? #17 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799845450 Right now, the least used emoji is "input symbol for Latin letters (🔤)," which is a blue square with lowercase 'abc' on it.]]> 2020-10-03 16:01:57 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799845450 Did You Know? #18 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799850076 In the Julian calendar, the average (mean) length of a year is 365.25 days. In a non-leap year, there are 365 days, in a leap year there are 366 days. A leap year occurs every fourth year, or leap year, during which a leap day is intercalated into the month of February. The name "Leap Day" is applied to the added day.]]> 2020-10-03 16:07:42 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799850076 Bet You Knew. #3 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799853367 millions
Rank Channel Subscribers
1 | T-Series | 154
2 | PewDiePie | 107
3 | Cocomelon  | 94
4 | SET India | 83]]> 2020-10-03 16:11:43 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799853367 Maybe You Knew? #4 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799856060  10 of the Fastest Growing YouTube Channels
  • Cocomelon.
  • Urban Gardening.
  • Hello Seven.
  • Just Eat.
  • That Pedal Show.
  • Dude Perfect.
  • T-Series.
  • Morgz
                       
]]> 2020-10-03 16:15:00 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799856060 Maybe You Knew? #5 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799862168 Pet dogs don't beat out cats, fish, or birds in sheer numbers, but more households have at least one dog in them than any other pet, making dogs the most popular pet in the world. Recent surveys show cats are a close second, followed by fish (12%), birds (6%), and other pet types (6%)]]> 2020-10-03 16:22:13 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799862168 Did You Know? #20 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799868260 The Rock. Dwayne Johnson, known as The Rock, is the most famous person in the world. He became popular during his days as a WWE champion wrestler until he moved on to become a Hollywood movie star.]]> 2020-10-03 16:29:28 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799868260 Did You Know? #21 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799871362 Most-followed celebrities on Instagram in 2020
  • Leo Messi: 125.8 million followers. ...
  • Beyoncé: 129.5 million followers. ...
  • Kylie Jenner: 140.7 million followers. ...
  • Kim Kardashian: 144.1 million followers. ...
  • Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson: 150.2 million followers. ...
  • Selena Gomez: 153.7 million followers. ...
  • Ariana Grande: 159.9 million followers. ...
  • Cristiano Ronaldo: 196 million followers.
]]> 2020-10-03 16:33:31 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799871362 Did You Know? #22 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799877371 The "super-Jupiter" Kappa Andromedae b, shown here in an artist's rendering, circles its star at nearly twice the distance that Neptune orbits the sun. With a mass about 13 times Jupiter's, the object glows with a reddish color.]]> 2020-10-03 16:41:02 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799877371 Did You Know? #23 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799881277 The alien planet, a so-called "super-Earth," is called 55 Cancri e and was discovered in 2004 around a nearby star in our Milky Way galaxy. After estimating the planet's mass and radius, and studying its host star's composition, scientists now say the rocky world is composed mainly of carbon (in the form of diamond and graphite), as well as iron, silicon carbide, and potentially silicates.]]> 2020-10-03 16:46:02 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799881277 Did You Know? #24 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799883450 Researchers don't know for sure, because the massive, gassy world is one of the darkest planets astronomers have ever detected. According to a new paper posted April 17 in the preprint journal arXiv, the planet known as WASP-104b is "darker than charcoal" and may swallow up to 99 percent of the light its local star sheds upon it. ]]> 2020-10-03 16:48:45 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799883450 Did You Know? #25 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799886549 A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing—no particles or even electromagnetic radiation such as light—can escape from it. The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass can deform spacetime to form a black hole.]]> 2020-10-03 16:52:56 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799886549 Did You Know? #26 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799889756 In general relativity, a white hole is a hypothetical region of spacetime and singularity which cannot be entered from the outside, although energy-matter and light can escape from it.]]> 2020-10-03 16:57:24 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799889756 Did You Know? #27 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799894273 The sun is now in the middle of its life cycle, and will explode in about 4-5 billion years In the few hundred million years before the explosion, it will swell up and become a red giant as big as the Earth's orbit. It will therefore swallow the Earth.]]> 2020-10-03 17:01:55 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799894273 Did You Know? #28 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799895264 The exoplanet known as PSR B12620-26 b is the oldest known planet in the universe, with an estimated age of about 13 billion years.]]> 2020-10-03 17:03:07 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/799895264 Did You Know? #29 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/800080361 Earth is estimated to be 4.54 billion years old, plus or minus about 50 million years. Scientists have scoured the Earth searching for the oldest rocks to radiometrically date.]]> 2020-10-03 20:36:43 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/800080361 Bet You Knew. #6 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/800081497 There are eight planets in our Solar System.]]> 2020-10-03 20:38:37 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/800081497 Did You Know? #30 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/800083484 For those of you who like to see gigantic numbers written out in full, around 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 planets in our observable Universe, and that's only counting planets that are orbiting stars.]]> 2020-10-03 20:41:53 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/800083484 Did You Know? #31 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801588432 The Goliath birdeater belongs to the tarantula family Theraphosidae. Found in northern South America, it is the largest spider in the world by mass and size, but it is second to the giant huntsman spider by leg span.]]> 2020-10-05 01:50:30 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801588432 Did You Know? #32 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801602935 With a price tag of $12.5 million and a selling price of $18.7 million after taxes, the one-off Bugatti La Voiture Noire is officially most expensive new car ever.]]> 2020-10-05 01:59:10 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801602935 Did You Know? #33 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801613587 The 100-foot long stretched limo has a whopping 26 wheels and two separate driver's cabins. To make the American Dream even more special, Ohrberg decided to give it some of the most outrageous amenities, which include a helipad.]]> 2020-10-05 02:05:57 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801613587 Did You Know? #34 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801622485 The Peel P50 is a three-wheeled microcar originally made from 1962 to 1965 by the Peel Engineering Company on the Isle of Man. It was listed in the 2010 Guinness World Records as the smallest production car ever made.]]> 2020-10-05 02:11:18 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801622485 Did You Know? #35 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801625209 Patu digua is a very small species of spider. The male holotype and female paratype were collected from Rio Digua, near Queremal, Valle del Cauca in Colombia. By some accounts it is the smallest spider in the world, as males reach a body size of only about 0.37 mm - roughly one fifth the size of the head of a pin.]]> 2020-10-05 02:12:53 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801625209 Did You Know? #36 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801631774 The Brazilian wandering spider (a ctenid spider) is a large brown spider similar to North American wolf spiders in appearance, although somewhat larger. It has a highly toxic venom and is regarded (along with the Australian funnel-web spiders) as among the most dangerous spiders in the world.]]> 2020-10-05 02:16:40 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801631774 Did You Know? #37 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801715592 The estimated percentage of left handed people across the globe is 8-15%, with most figures studies suggesting it is 10-12%. Taking the average of 11%, this would mean that 836,000,000 people are left handed across the globe, out of a population of 7.6 billion.]]> 2020-10-05 03:07:07 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801715592 Did You Know? #38 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801725574 The summer has been the top season for births in the United States, according to records kept by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and August often wins the title as the month during which the most babies are born.]]> 2020-10-05 03:13:31 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801725574 Did You Know? #39 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801726926 The tongue is a muscle with glands, sensory cells, and fatty tissue that helps to moisten food with saliva. ... For instance, if salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to identify it.]]> 2020-10-05 03:14:27 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801726926 Did You Know? #40 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801729641 The average person takes around seven minutes to fall asleep.]]> 2020-10-05 03:16:14 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801729641 Did You Know? #41 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801733337
  • In geometry, the rhombicosidodecahedron, is an Archimedean solid, one of thirteen convex isogonal nonprismatic solids constructed of two or more types of regular polygon faces.
  • It has 20 regular triangular faces, 30 square faces, 12 regular pentagonal faces, 60 vertices, and 120 edges.

    • ]]>     2020-10-05 03:18:32 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801733337     你知道吗？ ＃42 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801737440 Mandarin Chinese. Interestingly, the hardest language to learn is also the most widely spoken native language in the world.


    ]]>     2020-10-05 03:20:53 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801737440     Did You Know? #43 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801744073 Bears have undeveloped carnassial teeth, which are large teeth found in many carnivorous mammals, used for shearing flesh and bone in a scissor like way. Bears have 42 teeth.]]> 2020-10-05 03:25:07 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801744073 Did You Know? #44 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801747878 The largest bird of the animal kingdom, Ostrich, has large eyes too. So large in fact, that it is bigger than its own brain. At 2 inches in diameter, Ostrich's eyes are great for their terrestrial lifestyle as they have huge photoreceptors.]]> 2020-10-05 03:27:45 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801747878 Did You Know? #45 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801752414 study shows that a lemon contains 70 percent sugar and strawberry contains only 40 percent of sugar. The tanginess of a lemon is due to its high amount of citric acid.]]> 2020-10-05 03:30:53 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801752414 Did You Know? #46 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801754858 By triangulating that data, Google can know even more about you, because they track you across websites using cookies that respond to their ad code. In this way, they know what you search for when you use Google, but also any time you surf the Web.]]> 2020-10-05 03:32:39 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801754858 D galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801759106 2020-10-05 03:35:45 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801759106 Did You Know? #47 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801759266 Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the world's wealthiest person for the third year in a row, worth $113 billion.]]> 2020-10-05 03:35:52 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801759266 Did You... #48. galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801766195 US President Donald Trump has been named the most powerful person on the planet, that’s according to the CEOWORLD magazine ranking of the people shaping global politics and policy.]]> 2020-10-05 03:40:35 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801766195 Did You Know? #49! galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801768917 obsters blood is colorless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue? ... The bluish tint of a lobster's blood is due to the presence of copper found in the blue haemocyanin molecule in their blood. Human's red colored blood is due to iron being the oxygen carrier]]> 2020-10-05 03:42:10 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801768917 people? people you might know about? galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801772952 Howard Phillips Lovecraft (US: /ˈlʌvkræft/; August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer of weird and horror fiction, who is known for his creation of what became the Cthulhu Mythos. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft spent most of his life in New England.]]> 2020-10-05 03:45:01 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801772952 Did You Know? #49.5 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801783827 Switzerland eats the most chocolate equating to 10 kilos per person per year]]> 2020-10-05 03:52:41 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801783827 Did You Know? #49.9 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801788840 Australia is the only continent without any current volcanic activity, but it hosts one of the world's largest extinct volcanoes, the Tweed Volcano. ... Topography plays a central role in envisioning the volcano at its climax and in deciphering the landscape evolution that has occurred since then.]]> 2020-10-05 03:56:26 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801788840 Did You Know? #49.99 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801805644 1 googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros]]> 2020-10-05 04:08:03 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801805644 Did You Know? #49.999 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801812764 your skin is the largest organ making up the human body

    I don't want to search any more...]]>     2020-10-05 04:13:05 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801812764     Did You Know? #49.9999 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801819760 apples are more effective at waking you up in the morning than coffee


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    .......wash your hands....]]>     2020-10-05 04:23:31 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801829397     No tree hugging ;n; galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801834225 tree hugging is forbidden in china

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    ]]>     2020-10-05 04:39:38 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801855822     Did You Know? #49.99999999 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801860762 more people die from falling coconuts then from shark attacks




    ]]>     2020-10-05 04:42:29 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801860762     Did You Know? #49.999999999 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801874019 not all your taste buds are on our tongue (10% are on the insides of you cheeks)

    ]]>     2020-10-05 04:50:08 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/801874019     Did You Know? #50 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/804405966 The current world population is 7.8 billion as of October 2020 according to the most recent United Nations estimates elaborated by Worldometer. The term "World Population" refers to the human population (the total number of humans currently living) of the world.]]> 2020-10-05 18:50:08 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/804405966 Did You Know? #51 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/804418249 At any time, it is estimated that there are some 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) individual insects alive. In the United States, the number of described species is approximately 91,000. The undescribed species of insects in the United States, however, is estimated at some 73,000.]]> 2020-10-05 18:53:37 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/804418249 Did You Know? #52 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/804466343 O. megalodon was not only the biggest shark in the world, but one of the largest fish ever to exist. Estimates suggest it grew to between 15 and 18 metres in length, three times longer than the largest recorded great white shark.]]> 2020-10-05 19:07:21 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/804466343 Why? no tree hugging ;-; galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/804491942 Tree hugging is forbidden in china. In China, you can get into trouble for hugging trees. After the mass tree hugging outside China's imperial garden, Zhongnanhai, a few years ago, the Chinese government concluded that the tree huggers were a dangerous cult and a threat to national unity.]]> 2020-10-05 19:15:34 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/804491942 Did You Know? #53 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/804500562 The tallest man ever in medical history for whom there is irrefutable evidence is Robert Wadlow, who when last measured on 27 June 1940 was found to be 2.72 m (8 ft 11.1 in) tall. He remains the tallest person in the world, ever.]]> 2020-10-05 19:18:19 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/804500562 Did You Know? #54 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/804506204 That was a French woman, Jeanne Calment, who passed away at 122 years, 164 days in 1997. Born January 2, 1903 in Japan, Kane Tanaka was confirmed as the oldest person alive by the Guinness World Records back in March.]]> 2020-10-05 19:20:11 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/804506204 Did You Know? #55 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/804519348 The Gutenberg Bible, also known as the 42-line Bible, is listed by the Guinness Book of World records as the world's oldest mechanically printed book – the first copies of which were printed in 1454-1455 AD.]]> 2020-10-05 19:24:23 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/804519348 Did You Know? #56 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/804528586 Over the years, there has been some controversy over what constitutes the world's longest novel. The Guinness Book of World Records gives the honor to Marcel Proust's elephantine Remembrance of Things Past, weighing in at 9,609,000 characters (including spaces).]]> 2020-10-05 19:27:21 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/804528586 Did You Know? #57 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/804536603 The current Guinness World Record holder for the world's smallest reproduction of a printed book is “Teeny Ted from Turnip Town,” a children's story etched using an ion beam onto pure crystalline silicon by Simon Frazer University in Canada. It measures 70 by 100 micrometers, marginally larger than Aniskin's.]]> 2020-10-05 19:29:44 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/804536603 Did You Know? #58 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/804550572 Leonardo da Vinci's Codex of Leicester, also known as the Codex Hammer, is the most expensive book ever sold.]]> 2020-10-05 19:34:13 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/804550572 Did You Know? #59 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/804560666 Antilia has around 60 floors? ... The home has 27 floors with extra-high ceilings, which can survive an earthquake of 8 on the Richter scale. Every floor is the same height as an average 2 storeyed building. The ceilings are so high that buildings of equivalent height may have as many as 60 floors.]]> 2020-10-05 19:37:29 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/804560666 Did You Know? #60 galacticdragon https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/804566826 The zircon crystals from Australia's Jack Hills are believed to be the oldest thing ever discovered on Earth. Researchers have dated the crystals to about 4.375 billion years ago, just 165 million years after the Earth formed. The zircons provide insight into what the early conditions on Earth were like.]]> 2020-10-05 19:39:37 UTC https://padlet.com/galacticdragon/7di604ih42tm4n6s/wish/804566826