Interesting Facts
It might not be an interesting fact, but I discovered recently that The Carpenters didn’t write the song Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft, so for 45 years I had no knowledge of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaatu_(band).
Richard Feynman's Lectures on Physics are timeless: their main strength is in demonstrating how to reason about physics. You may not know all the lectures are completely online:
Volume 1: https://t.co/yDpyRVjdVz
Volume 2: https://t.co/oEctaDi5Sv
Volume 3: https://t.co/eXS03nuH5c pic.twitter.com/Qbk1qeosC6— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) November 12, 2022
Stephen Cunnane made this clip to help breakdown animal gaits for animators and artists, but it's very useful to learn how dogs walk too
[full video: https://t.co/pVo1zT6p97]pic.twitter.com/Iff14dD3DE
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) November 19, 2022
This rotating circles tricks you into believing the shaped are 3D, but they're not
[location, Marwell Zoo, Winchester, UK]
[source: Jessie Younghusband School]pic.twitter.com/cjCxPJ1976— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) November 20, 2022
Manganese Nodules are found at the bottom of the ocean and they contain all the components needed for electric car batteries. Its estimated there are enough nodules to create over 200 million batteries and their worth is estimated up to 16 trillion dollars https://t.co/g1XBrr8pQg pic.twitter.com/lOK2jIM25v
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) November 21, 2022
In 1951, Adelbert Ames created the mind-boggling ‘Ames Window’. It’s so effective that even when you know how it works you can’t break the illusion
[video from The Curiosity Show: https://t.co/DF82ASFj1a]pic.twitter.com/lm7aoCBxVs
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) November 23, 2022
Quote from Lois Hi on November 23, 2022, 10:10 pm
In 1951, Adelbert Ames created the mind-boggling ‘Ames Window’. It’s so effective that even when you know how it works you can’t break the illusion
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) November 23, 2022
Ames Window - Amesing! That is really unbelievable!👏🏻👏🏻
The Penrose triangle, is an impossible object, an optical illusion consisting of an object which can be depicted in a perspective drawing, but cannot exist in reality
[read more: https://t.co/ADqTvfKAHz]
[📹 Satsuki_8198, YT: https://t.co/44Yc2Yc0C6 ]pic.twitter.com/TrBQBX0fX0— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) November 24, 2022
Today, @NASA_Orion will break the record for farthest distance of a spacecraft designed to carry humans to deep space and safely return them to Earth. This record is currently held by Apollo 13.
Hear from Apollo astronauts and flight directors on the future of #Artemis: pic.twitter.com/fH35MXFfS3
— NASA (@NASA) November 26, 2022
Fun fact: the northernmost point of Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the southernmost part of Brazil
[read more: https://t.co/rPgN1nMJKy] pic.twitter.com/wDJp2EkBVt
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) December 2, 2022
Pac-Man grossed $1 billion in quarters in its first year of release. In the following year, 1982, it earned $6 billion in quarters, which was more than the combined amount of money spent in Vegas casinos and US movie theaters that year
[read more: https://t.co/o2nGmnJmXw] pic.twitter.com/YvtyWJ9ffk
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) December 15, 2022
You can play Pac-Man here for free. Not sure about phones but you can just use arrow keys on PC 😎
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was only created in 1939 for an advertising campaign for a US department store in Chicago. pic.twitter.com/XM0L8AGmJO
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) December 22, 2022
The story of Dr. Khurshid Guru, who created a nebulizer on an Air Canada flight, using a water bottle, a cup, oxygen, and an adult inhaler to help an asthmatic toddler breath
[read more: https://t.co/QsYdjIflao] pic.twitter.com/KwTeEkIory
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) December 29, 2022