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Sir Isaac Newton was only 23 years old when he discovered the law of universal gravitation.

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A 2" X 4" is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".

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striges), kobiecego demona o ptasich szponach żywiącego się krwią. W niejasny sposób wierzenia te, prawdopodobnie za pośrednictwem ludów bałkańskich, zostały zaadaptowane przez Słowian, nakładając się częściowo na postaci upiora i wampira. Strzyga była istotą, której pochodzenie i sposób działania były podobne do tych dwóch stworów, dlatego uważa się, że w polskich wierzeniach ludowych mamy do czynienia z jedną postacią znaną w różnych regionach pod kilkoma różnymi nazwami. Pierwsze udokumentowane wzmianki o "strigoi" pochodzą z manuskryptu Contra incubum, alias latalecaem z XV wieku.

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folk-lore „wiedza ludu”) – symboliczno-artystyczna dziedzina kultury ludowej, mająca charakter wieloskładnikowy, niejednolity i synkretyczny. == Historia pojęcia i jego zakres == Termin „folklor” wprowadził do obiegu naukowego brytyjski pisarz William Thoms w 1846 roku, określając nim najstarsze składniki kultury takie jak „pradawne zwyczaje, obyczaje, obrzędy, zabobony, ballady, przysłowia etc. ”. Z biegiem czasu termin ten upowszechnił się na całym świecie, a zwłaszcza w Europie, gdzie sprzyjały mu panujące wówczas prądy umysłowe, a w szczególności gloryfikujący kulturę ludową romantyzm.

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Ants closely resemble human manners: When they wake, they stretch & appear to yawn in a human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.

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Bingo is the name of the dog on the box of Cracker Jacks.

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All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

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Wolves and dogs can mate to produce fertile offspring.

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In 2023, mixed amphetamine salts (Adderall) was the 15th most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than 32 million prescriptions.

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Greece's national anthem has 158 verses.

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The catfish has over 27000 taste buds (more than any other animal)

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The oldest dog on record – a Queensland Heeler named Bluey – was 29 years, 5 months old.

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More people speak English in China than the United States.

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The ancient Mbaya Indians of the Gran Chaco in South America believed that humans originally lived underground until dogs dug them up.

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US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.

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Moskstraumen is unusual in that it occurs in the open sea, whereas most other tidal flows are observed in confined straits or rivers.

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According to the researcher Enzo Emanuele, in light of the comparative lack of neurochemical studies on the early stage of romance, "it would not be surprising that a diversity of biological mechanisms could be involved", due to the complexity of love.

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The author is unknown; the title was given centuries later. It is one of the best-known Arthurian stories, with its plot combining two types of folk motifs: the beheading game and the exchange of winnings. Written in stanzas of alliterative verse, each of which ends in a rhyming bob and wheel, it draws on Welsh, Irish, and English stories, as well as the French chivalric tradition. It is an important example of a chivalric romance, which typically involves a hero who goes on a quest that tests his prowess.

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com, where he has researched and written articles debunking fakelore and a variety of popular myths including The Amityville Horror, and the claim that humans only use 10% of their brains.

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" Ill Repute reformed with original members, (except Carl Valdez replaced by Chuck Shultz) Before a standing-room-only crowd in the City Council Chambers of Port Hueneme, Ill Repute was presented a Proclamation from then-Mayor Jonathan Sharkey on April 7, 2014, for "their revolutionary musical talent".

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A pound of houseflies contains more protein than a pound of beef

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Cats only sweat through their paws and nowhere else on their body

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Cats respond most readily to names that end in an \ee\" sound."""

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The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

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In one stride, a cheetah can cover 23 to 26 feet (7 to 8 meters).

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Firehouses have circular stairways originating from the old days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

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There are up to 60 million feral cats in the United States alone.

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The catfish has the most taste buds of all animals, having over 27,000 of them.

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The class includes the only extant order Pantopoda (lit.

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The gulf is thought to be one of the most ecologically diverse seas on Earth and is home to more than 5,000 species of micro-invertebrates.

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Squid can change colour for camouflage and signalling.

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Following his defeat to Leon Spinks, Ali regained the heavyweight title in their September 15, 1978 rematch, becoming the first boxer to win the championship three times.

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The vetrovnjak, recorded in parts of western Serbia, fought against a bringer of bad weather imagined as a black bird.

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Since vortex rings are a surprisingly stable fluid dynamical phenomenon (a form of topological soliton), the best way to recover from them is to laterally steer clear of them, in order to re-establish lift, and to break them up using maximum engine power, in order to establish turbulence.

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The airport is located 7 miles (11 km) from Center City Philadelphia and has 22 airlines that offer nearly 500 daily departures to more than 130 destinations worldwide.

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The Cooper hijacking is the only documented unsolved case of air piracy in the history of commercial aviation.

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Besides traditional electronic hardware, these computational paradigms can be implemented on alternative physical media such as biomolecules (DNA, RNA), or trapped-ion quantum computing devices.

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Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!

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Coca-Cola would be green if coloring weren’t added to it.

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Researchers at the Texas Department of Highways in Fort Worth determined the cow population of the U.S. burps some 50 million tons of valuable hydrocarbons into the atmosphere each year. The accumulated burps of ten average cows could keep a small house adequately heated and its stove operating for a year.

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A dog's sense of smell is reduced by up to 40 percent when he's overheated and panting.

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It is impossible to lick your elbow.

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Pugs and other dogs with short muzzles have a peculiar head-type known as "Brachycephalic."

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Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!

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The smallest bat, and one of the smallest extant mammals, is Kitti's hog-nosed bat, which is 29–33 mm (1.

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Two-thirds of the world`s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

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The pupils of a goat`s eyes are square.

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Dogs sweat through the pads of their feet.

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Donkeys kill more people than plane crashes.

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The oldest known breed is likely the Saluki, originally trained by Egyptians to help them track game.

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There`s a systematic lull in conversation every 7 minutes.

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6 in) bumblebee bat to the 30 metres (98 ft) blue whale—possibly the largest animal to have ever lived.

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The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft.

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Studies have shown that children laugh an average of 300 times/day and adults 17 times/day, making the average child more optimistic, curious, and creative than the adult.

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The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra`s "Its A Wonderful Life."

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A dog's nose is wet because it helps to clean their face.

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It broadens the scope of the first and second waves of feminism, which largely focused on the experiences of women who were white, cisgender, and middle-class, to include the different experiences of women of color, poor women, immigrant women, and other groups, and aims to separate itself from white feminism by acknowledging women's differing experiences and identities.

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A dog’s heart beats up to 120 times per minute, or 50% faster than the average human heartbeat of 80 times per minute.

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The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

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Superman is a superhero created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, first appearing in issue #1 of Action Comics, published in the United States on April 18, 1938. Superman has been regularly published in American comic books published by DC Comics since then, and has been adapted to other media including radio serials, novels, films, television shows, theater, and video games. Superman is the archetypal superhero: he wears an outlandish costume, uses a codename, and fights evil and averts disasters with the aid of extraordinary abilities. Although there are earlier characters who arguably fit this definition, it was Superman who popularized the superhero genre and established its conventions.

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The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London

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You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

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A Russian dog named Laika was the first animal in space, traveling around Earth in 1957.

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Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.

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Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp is the second popular novel from American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was first published in two volumes by Phillips, Sampson and Company in 1856. Although it enjoyed better initial sales than her previous, and more famous, novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, it was ultimately less popular.

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A genre of arts criticism, literary criticism or literary studies is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical analysis of literature's goals and methods. Although the two activities are closely related, literary critics are not always, and have not always been, theorists.

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It is illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California.

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The first automobile race ever seen in the United States was held in Chicago in 1895. The track ran from Chicago to Evanston, Illinois. The winner was J. Frank Duryea, whose average speed was 71/2 miles per hour.

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A literal translation of a standard traffic sign in China: "Give large space to the festive dog that makes sport in the roadway."

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If done perfectly, a rubix cube combination can be solved in 17 turns.

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The S in Harry S. Truman did not stand for anything.

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In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.

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In Canada and the United States, the North American beaver is often referred to simply as "beaver;" however, this can cause some confusion because another distantly related rodent, Aplodontia rufa, is often called the "mountain beaver".

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The Cat Fanciers Association (CFA) recognizes 44 breeds of cats.

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Endal was the first dog to ride on the London Eye (the characteristic ferris wheel in London, England), and was also the first known dog to successfully use a ATM machine.

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The Ancient Egyptian word for cat was mau, which means "to see".

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Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.

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Flyball, a dog sport consisting of relays, hurdles, and ball retrieving, was developed in the late 60s, and the first tournament was held in 1983.

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A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.

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This can be coined as a 'jump-to-conclusions' bias that can increase the spread of pseudoscientific beliefs.

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Zor-El is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. A Kryptonian, he is the younger brother of Jor-El, husband of Alura, father of Supergirl, and paternal uncle of Superman. Traditional depictions of Zor-El in Golden Age and Silver Age DC Comics stories portrayed him as a benevolent scientist concerned for his daughter Kara, acting similarly to his older brother Jor-El in sending his child to safety on Earth.

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Jasmine is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Pictures' 31st animated film Aladdin (1992). Voiced by Linda Larkin – with a singing voice provided by Lea Salonga – Jasmine is the spirited daughter of the Sultan, who has grown weary of her life of palace confinement. Despite an age-old law stipulating that the princess must marry a prince in time for her upcoming birthday, Jasmine is instead determined to marry someone she loves for who he is as opposed to what he owns.

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Stargate SG-1 (abbreviated as SG-1) is a military science fiction adventure television series within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Stargate franchise. The show, created by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner, is based on the 1994 science fiction film Stargate by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich. The television series was filmed in and around the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The series premiered on Showtime on July 27, 1997, and moved to the Sci Fi Channel on June 7, 2002; the series finale aired on Sky1 on March 13, 2007.

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He is depicted as a heavily scarred immortal who awakens in a mortuary without any memory of his identity or previous lives, and seeks to uncover the origin and consequences of his condition. Unlike a fully customizable role-playing game avatar, the Nameless One has a fixed appearance and an extensive pre-existing history, while the player determines his character class, abilities, moral alignment and responses during play. This tension between an authored identity and player agency is central to his characterization. His tattoos further embody this tension, functioning as records of his forgotten history and as symbols of the consequences of his past and present actions.

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In English folklore, Herne the Hunter is a ghost associated with Windsor Forest and Great Park in the English county of Berkshire.

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Spain ceded the territory to the United States, and Filipino revolutionaries declared the First Philippine Republic.

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Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor. He was one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1970s. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck the 12th-greatest male star of Classic Hollywood Cinema. After studying at the Neighborhood Playhouse with Sanford Meisner, Peck began appearing in stage productions, acting in more than 50 plays and three Broadway productions.

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The Sixth Sense is a 1999 American psychological thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It stars Bruce Willis as a child psychologist whose patient (Haley Joel Osment) claims he can see and talk to the dead.

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The French Connection is a 1971 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by William Friedkin and starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, and Fernando Rey. The screenplay, by Ernest Tidyman, is based on Robin Moore's 1969 book of the same name about narcotics detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso. It tells the story of their fictional counterparts, New York Police Department detectives Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle and Buddy "Cloudy" Russo, in pursuit of wealthy French heroin smuggler Alain Charnier (played by Rey).

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A Clockwork Orange is a novel by the English writer Anthony Burgess, published on 17 March 1962. It is set in a near-future society that has a youth subculture of extreme violence. The teenage protagonist, Alex, narrates his violent exploits and his experiences with state authorities intent on reforming him.

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The Godfather is a crime novel by Italian American author Mario Puzo. Originally published on 10 March 1969 by G. P.

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Science fiction often explores human responses to the consequences of these types of projected or imagined scientific advances. The precise definition of science fiction has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. It contains many subgenres, including hard science fiction, which emphasizes scientific accuracy, and soft science fiction, which focuses on social sciences. Other notable subgenres are: space opera, which emphasizes pure adventure in a universe in which space travel is common; cyberpunk, which explores the interface between technology and society; and climate fiction, which addresses environmental issues.

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The average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first grade.

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Officially, Spokane goes by the nickname of Hooptown USA, due to Spokane's annual hosting of the Spokane Hoopfest, the world's largest 3-on-3 basketball tournament.

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It was ranked first on the American Institute of Architects' list of America's Favorite Architecture in 2007.

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M is a 1931 German mystery thriller film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Peter Lorre as Hans Beckert, a serial killer who targets children, in his third screen role. Both Lang's first sound film and an early example of a procedural drama, M centres on the efforts of both a city's police force and its criminal syndicates to apprehend a serial child-murderer. The film's screenplay was written by Lang and his wife Thea von Harbou.

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The Aviator is a 2004 epic biographical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by John Logan. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes, Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn, and Kate Beckinsale as Ava Gardner. The supporting cast includes John C.

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Mulholland Drive is a 2001 mystery film written and directed by David Lynch. Its narrative is characterized by surrealist and neo-noir elements, and follows an aspiring actress (Naomi Watts) newly arrived in Los Angeles, where she befriends a car crash victim (Laura Harring) who is suffering from amnesia. Meanwhile, a Hollywood director (Justin Theroux) must deal with interference from the criminal underworld while casting his latest film.

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Local Hero is a 1983 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and produced by David Puttnam. It stars Peter Riegert, Burt Lancaster, Denis Lawson, Peter Capaldi, and Fulton Mackay. Riegert plays an American oil company representative who is sent to a village on the west coast of Scotland to purchase the town and surrounding property to build an oil refinery.

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She is best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series. Her work was first published in 1959, and her literary career spanned nearly sixty years, producing more than twenty novels and more than a hundred short stories, in addition to poetry, literary criticism, translations, and children's books. Frequently described as an author of science fiction, Le Guin has also been called a "major voice in American Letters". Le Guin said that she would prefer to be known as an "American novelist".

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