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The daily fact for August 3, 2017 was "Winnie the Pooh is banned in China, it is censored by the government." This is actually because China believes that Winnie the Pooh looks too much like president Xi JinPing, according to BBC news.
I have to admit. Winnie the Pooh kind of looks like president Xi Jinping.
China is not the only place that has banned Winnie the Pooh. Polish officials have blocked a school from
using Winnie the Pooh as its mascot. One counselor stated: "The problem with that bear is it doesn't have
a complete wardrobe. It is half naked which is wholly inappropriate for children!"
Well, all in all, I guess a formerly friendly children's character has turned into a whole new riot.
Sorry guys and gals this is a bit late for this month. But to make it up, I'll add a few more facts to the list! Credit to Aileen Liang. 1. In chess, there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves. 2. The average age an American receives a first romantic kiss is 13 years old. 3. The Apollo 11 only had 20 seconds left of fuel when it landed. 4. About 1/3 of American adults are at least 20% above their recommended weight. 5. It's illegal to be fat in Japan. (No, seriously. There's a law for adults that your waistline has to be under a certain length.) 6. Driving 55mph instead of 65mph increases your mpg by 15%. (Around 55mph is where the mpg is the lowest... don't drive at 55mph unless you have to.) 7. 58% of school kids say pizza is their favorite cafeteria food. 8. The average American drinks 3.4 cups of coffee a day. ToO MuCH CafFiNe!!! 9. 1 out of every 2000-3000 babies are born with a tooth. 10. You are ...
Space & Science Informant May 2017 By: Daniel Domingos Hey guys! Daniel here. I'll be posting one of these every month. They contain new (or old) and exciting facts that are space and/or science - related. It can take a photon (light particle) 40,000 years to go from the sun's core to it's surface, then only 8 minutes to Earth. The core of a star reaches 16,000,000 degrees Celsius. A grain of sand this hot can kill you from 150 kilometers (93.2 miles) away. Venus rotates around the sun opposite to the direction of the rotation of the other planets. The Earth's rotation is decreasing at approximately 0.17 milliseconds per year. If it continues at this rate, in around 140,000,000 years, the length of a day will be 25 hours. Earth is the most dense planet in the solar system, with around 5.52 grams per cubic centimeter During the 1950s, the US considered exploding a nuclear bomb on the moon The exoplanet PSR-B1620-26b is the oldest planet in the univ...
First of all, this post was inspired by ViHart, if you don't know who she is, she's got some pretty interesting mathematical videos on youtube, so check that out. Ok. Go back to when you were in elementary school and you had to memorize all these equations with pi, and you sort of got it, but you didn't really understand. Well, that's not your problem. It's not the teacher's problem either. It's pi's problem. The problem with pi and pi day is just like the problem with Christopher Columbus and Columbus Day. Sure, he was a real man that did some stuff, but he DIDN'T discover America, he DIDN'T discover that the world was round, and, let's face it, he was kind of a bad person. Radians are a very convenient way of measuring angles. Two pi radians in a circle, pi radians a half circle. Now say I'm baking I pie, and I invite my friends over to have some. "How much pi do you want?" Your friend wants a tenth of the p...
this is short XD
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