10 fun facts

Today I don't really have anything big to talk about, but there are a lot of little things. So I thought I'd tell you some fun facts that have nothing to do with each other. Just because, you know, fun facts are fun.

1. Humming birds can fly backwards. They also flap their wings up to 80 times per second and their hearts can beat 1260 times a minute (normal human heart rate is 60-100 beats per minute).

2. In HIMYM, when Barney got hit by a bus in the end of season 3, the bus was driving the wrong way on a one-way street. Just in case you haven't noticed. I could give you more HIMYM fun facts, but maybe I'll save that for later.

3. Dumpster diving is legal in Finland. However, breaking (or finding some other way) into a fenced or locked area to get to the dumpster is illegal.

4. Apparently the oldest found fossil of an animal with fur is (was in 2006) 164 million years old. As in there were mammals at the same time as dinosaurs. For some reason I always thought mammals came after all the dinosaurs died off. Though according to wiki answers the first big mammals appeared 65 million years ago. Don't know what big means, though.
I so much want to study evolution.

5. 200 million years ago there was only one continent, Pangaea. You probably already knew this, though. But here's a map for you of how the continents were formed:

I took it from here.

6. I'm going to Barcelona in May!

7. The guy who played Dibala (the African dictator in House s6e4) is also the voice of Darth Vader. I googled this after he was on the last episode of The Big Bang Theory.

8. If you have a pizza, and the radius is z, and thickness is a, it's volume is Pi*z*z*a.

9. Blue eyes developed earlier in human evolution than light skin.

10. The Earth spins around itself about 465 meters per second and around the Sun about 30 km per second. Just think about it.

This week I'm not putting in the thing I have had in all the other posts that no one cares about. I would've also given you the fun fact of there being a jelly fish species that doesn't die of old age, but you already know that.

I don't know what else. I'll write something more interesting next week.

~matu