Friday's Five Fun Facts

Hi blog!

Today we're just going to focus on some interesting things. Learn stuff!

1. Humans love alliteration: Alliteration is a tool used by many authors to garner attention to a certain phrase. It's particularly useful at eliciting emotion. The title of this blog post is an alliteration. Alliteration is the use of the same letter or sound at the beginning of a series of words. For example: All aardvarks adore alliteration. Notice that all of the first letters of each word is "A"? Alliteration!

2. There is a dolphin-to-human translator: Kind of, it's being developed now. Researchers studying dolphins were able to teach dolphins certain "words" (in the form of clicks and whistles and other dolphiny noises obviously), such as "seaweed", and got the dolphins to mimic the noises. Seaweed happened to be the first word picked up by a pod of wild dolphins the team had been studied for twenty-five years. The full story can be found here: Dolphin-to-Human Translator

3. There has been a lot of war: In the last 3500 years, it is estimated that there has only been 230 years with no wars at all. Yea. Only 6.6% of the last 3500 years have had no war at all. Ponder that.

4. There is very likely an infinite number of yous: If the universe is infinite, everything that can ever happen within the realm of physics MUST happen. There are an infinite number of Earths, an infinite number of yous, and you have done everything possible. Even if the universe isn't infinite, there is a possibility that there is an infinite number of universes, meaning there are an infinite number of parallel yous running about on some other version of Earth.

5. Vending machines are evil: More people are killed by vending machines worldwide every year than they are by sharks. 10-13 people a year are killed by vending machines, while sharks kill less than 10 people per year on average. Most of these deaths are caused by a person shaking a vending machine and having it fall on them and crushing them to death. It is probably the worst death you could suffer, especially if it's a cheap brand of soda, like RC Cola. "Oh Mrs. Smith, how did your son die?" Are you REALLY going to say he was killed by an RC Cola vending machine. No, you say he was eating alive by a shark. 

Well that's what you get today blog, I hope you like it!

Sincerely, your fact-loving tyrant, Andrew