Fact Of The Day

[Mirage]

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

[Chase]

"Given enough time, a hypothetical monkey typing at random would, as part of its output, almost surely produce all of Shakespeare's plays." - as the Infinite Monkey Theorem states.
While in the infinite monkey theorem, "monkey" is used as a metaphor as an abstract device that produces an endless random sequence, in the year 2003 the University of Plymouth MediaLab Arts course used a £2,000 grant from the Arts Council to study the literary output of real monkeys. They left a computer keyboard in the enclosure of six Celebes Crested Macaques in Paignton Zoo in Devon in England for a month, with a radio link to broadcast the results on a website.
The monkeys only produced five pages and urinated and pooped on the keyboards. Those five pages contained almost exclusively the letter S.

[Rainbowmum]

^ Love that one.

Approximately 40,000 tons of meteoric dust hits the Earth each year.

[Mirage]

Martin Luther King Jr. was a Trekkie

[monk]

The original Toby jugs were modelled on Harry 'Toby' Elwes, a Yorkshireman.

[Rainbowmum]

The sun, when it becomes red giant, in 5 billion years, will expand to a size that it will engulf the orbit of Venus, in 5 billion years.

[partisan]

There is a man who is allergic to Wi - Fi, its a condition called "electromagnetic sensitivity"

[Rainbowmum]

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Mars hosts the highest peak in the solar system, named Olympus Mons, with a height of around 80,000 feet(2400 meters) which is more than 2.5 times the height of Mount Everest.

[partisan]

Its physicaly impossible to lick your own elbow (dont try it!)

[Mirage]

In 1983, a Japanese artist, Tadahiko Ogawa, made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of ordinary toast.