Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., March 11, 2016
Jimi Hendrix's parents refused to buy him a guitar.
Niagara Falls flows at about 100,000 cubic feet per second. Almost twice that amount is diverted from the Niagara River for electric power generation.
According to Sky News, American police killed about 1,000 people last year, many of them unarmed. Many U.S. forces adopt what is informally known as the "21-foot rule." Police officers keep that distance from someone with a sharp weapon, and will shoot if the suspect closes that gap.
According to a 2013 U.S. Census Bureau study, the average American spends 26 minutes traveling to work each way. For more than 76%, that time is spent in a car, alone, while 9.4% carpooled, 5.2% took public transportation, and 0.6% rode a bicycle.
The gas cells of many early zeppelins were made of "goldbeater's skin" – cattle intestines beaten to a pulp and then stretched. It took 250,000 cattle to make one airship.
