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10 Fun Facts About The Michelin Man

Probably inspired the Pillsbury Dough Boy.

No, actually ...

And?

Bibendum was well before that ...

Yeah well I said inspired by, obviously tire boy came first.

How about Stay Puft ?

That's a direct copy ....
Fuck them if they say otherwise ...

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 "a take on the number "googolplex," which is the digit 1 followed by a googol zeroes (or 10100 zeroes)."

Did you know the word "googol" was coined by Carl Sagan's daughter?

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>>When Hatch Labs launched its revolutionary dating app in 2012, it was called Matchbox, a coy reference to igniting the flame of romance. However, since the name undoubtedly sounded too similar to Match.com<<

I'm completely positive this had nothing to do with their decision to rename.


These guys were obviously never children.

Hahahaha ....
Either way, I'm sure someone had a copyright issue within ....

Did you know the word "googol" was coined by Carl Sagan's daughter?

Close ...
"Googol" was coined/invented by Edward Kasner in the 1920s and referenced later in his book in the 1940s ...
He proposed "Googolplex" a little later on ...
Sagan helped to quantify it ...

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Silly name for a silly sum
Googol is the label for 10 to the hundredth power (10100), or 1 followed by 100 zeros. Invented by Edward Kasner, the American mathematician referenced the quantity extensively in his 1940 book, "Mathematics and the Imagination." Kasner intended the number to serve as an example for students in showing how a number could be so incredibly large, it could baffle their minds.

While the term wasn’t more universally accepted and used until his book’s publishing, Kasner dated its creation to 1920 when he asked his 9-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta, what he should call the number. Milton appropriately responded that such a silly sum required an equally silly name, from which the term "googol" was coined.

Googolplex
After naming googol, Milton proposed the further term of "googolplex," describing it as “one, followed by writing zeros until you get tired.” Rather than gauging a mathematician’s skill by their endurance in writing zeros, Kasner adopted a more formal interpretation of 10 followed by googol zeros, as opposed to a googol’s 100 zeros. To quantify a googolplex, astronomer and astrophysicist Carl Sagan gave the example of filling the entire volume of the observable universe with fine dust particles roughly 1.5 micrometers in size. From this, the total number of different combinations in which these particles could be arranged would equal approximately one googolplex.

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That's interesting, sort of contradicts what Carl had to say in the series Cosmos. But that was a long time ago and I may be mistaken.

The internet is subjective ...
So's my memory at times ...

I meant to post this earlier but apparently I composed it offline and didn't post it...

I could have gotten that idea from his book >The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a candle in the dark<
I read that  decades ago.

The things I really remember from the 1980 Cosmos series are Stardust (we are all it) and Powers of Ten. So I probably did get that notion from the series and not the book. I must have the details about origination of the term wrong.

If it was on Cosmos it was on broadcast TV and at the time I couldn't re-analyze the information back and forth like we mostly can today.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081846/

It's all good ....
I'm sure you aren't the only one to have had the same take-away ...

Wombat poop is cube-shaped

The answer given seem to indicate that over time what we want will become true.

...So it can balance on a log and mark your territory ... brilliant!

Assuming the wombat actually ever thought about that to influence its shit.

Strange but I have seen similar dog poop, (may have been stepped on).

I know; right ...
It's fascinating how things evolve ...
(Take that Creationists!)

Here's another interesting article:
The History of the Glove Compartment ...

Driving an automobile in the early 20th century may have been an exciting experience, but it certainly wasn’t the most comfortable one. Known as “horseless carriages,” early cars didn’t have roofs so drivers were open to the elements. Even when vehicles became enclosed, they still didn’t have heaters. Furthermore, roads weren’t paved well – if at all – so drivers had to hold on to a shaking steering wheel. And let’s not forgot that power steering had yet to be invented, so turning the steering wheel could be a struggle. This is all to say that early motorists needed a good pair of driving gloves ...

... the idea of storing one’s driving gloves in this space was not a given. That idea can be traced back to a woman named Dorothy Levitt. One of Britain’s first female race drivers, Levitt was an automotive pioneer. Among her many accomplishments in the field was publishing “The Woman and the Car,” a book filled advice for owning and driving an automobile. One such tip informed readers, “You will find room for these gloves in the little drawer under the seat of the car. This little drawer is the secret of the dainty motorist.”

AAA kick-started its roadside assistance service back in April 1915, when five motorcyclists working for the Automobile Club of St. Louis founded the “First Aid Corps.”

The group didn’t wait to be called. They drove through the city’s streets on Sundays looking for stranded motorists, making minor engine and tire repairs for free, for members and nonmembers alike. They helped 24 folks on that first Sunday and 171 by the end of the first month.

The service was wildly popular. The club was flooded with grateful letters, including one from Carl Simons, manager of the St. Louis branch of Studebaker Corp., after his inner tube was repaired by one of the mechanics.

“I don’t know who was the originator of this service idea, but it is the most splendid feature we can call to the attention of prospective (AAA) members,” wrote Simons. “And you may rest assured that every purchaser of a Studebaker car will be solicited by me personally to become a member of the St. Louis Automobile Club.”

Studebakers may not be around anymore, but the rest, as they say, is history.

https://magazine.northeast.aaa.com/daily/life/cars-trucks/roadside-services/how-roadside-assistance-was-born/

1. A human head remains conscious for around 20 seconds after being decapitated.
It's probably thinking "this is weird".

2. A body decomposes four times faster in water than on land.

3. Within three days of death, the enzymes from your digestive system begin to digest your body.
Y U DO DIS BODY?!

4. About 153,000 people worldwide die everyday.
But around double that number are born everyday. Hello population problem.

5. When a person dies, their sense of hearing is the last to go.
Ear today, gone tomorrow!

6. You can't die of 'old age', only from diseases brought on by age.

7. Men who are hanged get a death erection, known as rigor erectus.
Pretty awkward for the family, I assume.

8. In some cases, bodies develop a corpse wax that can preserve the remains for years.
They must have had SUCH oily skin.

9. Forensic scientists can tell how long it has been since death by looking at the species of insect on the body.
These CID guys are crazy.

10. The skin around the finger and toenails dries and contracts after death, making it look as though they have grown.

11. Dead bodies swell up like balloons after about four days, due to the release of gases and liquids.
Is that why they float in water?

12. The Zoroastrian Parsi community in India offers its dead to vultures rather than burying/burning them.
This has Prometheus written all over it.

13. The Turritopsis Dohrnii jellyfish is officially known as the only immortal creature in the world. It lives forever.
They'll probably take over the world one day.

14. More than 7000 people die annually due to the doctor's bad handwriting.

15. Left handed people die 3 years earlier than right handed people.
Sorry lefties

Source :- Scoopwhoop

That was cool.

*bows*

I try ...

Random Trivia:
The inventor of the flexible catheter was Benjamin Franklin.
He invented it because his brother suffered from kidney/bladder stones.

>>The inventor of the flexible catheter was Benjamin Franklin.<<

That is a good bite of trivia, so I had to look it up.
https://www.urotoday.com/urinary-catheters-home/history-of-urinary-catheters.html

I removed the last one I had myself! But that must have been like a piece of silver jewelry back in his day. Finely detailed and small enough to fit. 

Right ....

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