11 interesting facts about machines and technology
1. The microwave oven was invented after the researchers walked through the radar tube and the chocolate bar in the pocket melted.
2. 23% of all photocopier failures worldwide are caused by people sitting on it and copying cigarette butts.
3. "Stewardess" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
4. 71% of office workers stopped on the street to be investigated and agreed to give up their computer passwords in exchange for chocolate bars.
5. The electric chair was invented by the dentist.
6. The Boeing 767 airliner consists of 3,100,000 individual components.
7. The first fax machine was patented in 1843, 33 years before Alexander Graham Bell showed the phone.
8. Hershey's kisses are called because they make them look like they are kissing the conveyor belt machine.
9. "Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using only one line of keys on the keyboard.
10. In 1980, there was only one country in the world without a telephone: Bhutan.
11. More than 50% of people in the world have never made or received a call.
11 cool facts about English
1. In English, it has nothing to do with the month, orange, silver or purple.
2. It is said that "the sixth sheep chief is sick of the sixth sheep" is the most difficult tongue twister in English.
3. "Go" is the shortest complete sentence in English.
4. The term "rule of thumb" is derived from ancient English law, which states that you cannot defeat your wife with anything other than your thumb.
5. The term "whole 9 yards" comes from a World War II fighter pilot in the South Pacific. When arming their aircraft on the ground, these 0.50 caliber machine gun ammunition belts were measured to an accuracy of 27 feet before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilot fired all their ammunition at the target, it would be "whole 9 yards".
6. Only four words in English end with "-dous": huge, terrible, amazing and dangerous.
7. The word "proof" is based on the Romans' practice of having men swear on their testicles when they made a statement in court.
8. In England in the 1880s, "pants" was considered a dirty word.
9. According to many language experts, the most difficult phrases to build are palindromes, a sentence or a group of sentences that read the same sentence backwards and forwards. Some examples: Red rum, sir, is murder. A man, a plan, a canal-Panama.
10. The dot that appears on the letter i is called the "title".
11. If you want to spell out the numbers, you need to wait until 1000 to find the letter A.
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