Some facts are nothing more than a reiteration of what you were already suspecting, but other facts are so surprising that it takes convincing from several sources before you believe them. Here, we present our list of the top 10 facts that will blow your mind. Get ready, and get set, because you're about to read some things you might need to look over twice to believe! Check them out for yourself below.
Number Ten: Every You Do Something Nobody Else Has Done Every Time You Shuffle a Deck of Cards. Every time you (or someone else) shuffles a deck of cards, no matter how many times that deck has been shuffled before, it's probably the only time the cards have been arranged exactly in that order. In fact, there are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than there are atoms in the universe. The number of atoms in the universe is 133 followed by 48 zeroes, while the number of ways you can shuffle a deck of cards is 80 followed by 66 zeroes.
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Following with our card-related theme, the only king in a deck of cards that doesn't have a mustache is the king of hearts. There are several stories behind why this may be. One story alleges that back when cards were being made by copiers, unskilled copiers botched his mustache, and the axe he was holding eventually became a sword.
Number Eight: You Can Draw a 35-Mile Line With One Pencil. The graphite within a single pencil is enough for your to draw one line that is 35 miles long. In case you didn't know, graphite is the crystalline form of carbon and is the most stable form of carbon under regular conditions.
Number Seven: You Can't Fold a Regular Piece of Paper More Than Seven Times. This might sound crazy, but it's true! Try folding a normal sheet of paper eight times, and you won't be able to do it. Interestingly, if you could fold a piece of paper 42 times, it would be thick enough to go all the way to the
The SAN policy controls whether a newly discovered disk is brought online or stays offline, and whether it turns out to be read/write or if it remains read-only.
The team has always had a great defense during the Jeff Fisher Era, but for the first time the team finally has a legitimate playmaker on offense, and that guy is Todd Gurley. Gurley leads the NFL in rushing yards per carry with 6.7. Despite only playing in five games, Gurley is fifth in the entire league in rushing yards. The Rams are a serious threat to qualify for a wild car spot and are clearly the second best team in the NFC West.
The United States of America is known for many things and accomplishments, one of these accomplishments would be the longest standing constitution still in use. This is quite impressive but, how did the constitution set up such a successful government? In the discussion there will be an evaluation of how the government was original set up and what key changes have been made over time; then go into great detail about the function, power, and make up of each of the three main branches of the government: the legislative branch, the executive branch, and the judiciary branch; finally we shall discuss how these branches interact and balance each other out. This will hopefully bring a deeper understanding and insight to the workings and processes of the American government.
The young Fortnatious lived in a town called Tilted Towers. The town is filled with different types of loot that everyone wants. However, he also lived on an island with a total of 100 people. The island was pretty big, it had 18 different locations and many more side locations.
Unit 10 was a closure for the previous four units in the process of inventing Canada. This unit based on the earliest resources on Canadian history and on the first nations whom lived in this country. This resources were about pre-Cartier and his explorations. Some nations, for example the people who lived in St. Lawrence valley – whom did not have a specific name to be called at- and historians still lacking enough evidence on their existence or what happened with them. These people who are identified as St. Lawrence Iroquoians were lived in the contact area which means the conquerors reached them first. The Iroquoians were exposed to all the dangers Europeans carried into the native lands, different types of diseases they were not immune
California was a land with many possibilities at least that’s what the forty niners thought. In 1848 the gold deposits of California were discovered and the news spread across the world. But on December 5 1848 the president of the United States gave a speech about the gold to encourage western expansion. About 53,000 americans traveled to California during the gold rush. The forty niners had to face many challenges on their way to California such as their journey over sea, their journey over land, and how they were going to make money.
What made English 099 easy for me? English 099 was the most stressful class that I took this semester. Being able to write a good essay, to have a good grammar on the essay was very difficult for me. Although English 099 was difficult and stressful, I learned so many new things in class that it became my favorite class. Every day we were learning something new that .There are three papers that professor Hogan gave us that helped me understand English 099, and they are the pink folder, the reading portfolio, and most important the conjunction paper.
Theres is no secret that the blatant civil rights violations imposed on blacks in America through racial segregation laws served as an injustice to all American citizens in the mid-1900s. At the heart of the segregation battle was the obvious mistreatment, both physical and emotional, bestowed onto African Americans by their white counterparts, especially in the South. After decades of harsh mistreatment, African American leaders sought out to challenge, and ultimately change, the laws and legislation drafted by their government centuries before those men and women existed. Though peaceful protests were a common method of action blacks chose to partake in, many of these individuals were met commonly with acts of violence from angry southerners
“Gender the quality is not a woman's issue, it is a human issue. It affects us all”. What does that mean? It means that all people are created equal in God's eyes. Yet this is still a serious topic that has been going on for ages and ages. Even in the sports industry. In today's world there is been a new law called Title IX. Title IX has been around for a long time now, yet it still creates a controversy. Many people put title IX only with sports, but that is what it is only involved in. It is involved in things like education, occupational things also. This paper will talk about Woman's life before Title IX, Title IX his head a kooky past history., who and what it applies to, how it has helped men and woman, how it has helped woman, if it
There are many reasons why I believe I am an excellent candidate for English 9 Honors. Some of these ways include, I have enjoyed reading and writing from a young age. I am a hard worker and never give up until I get the job done. I am very eager to learn, create and put forth my best work.
I am interested in taking English 9 Honors because I hope my future career will be based on English skills such as writing and reading. In my future, I hope to be a lawyer, which is a more difficult job and I will need an advanced level of English skills. I thought taking an advanced level of English will help me reach my goal of becoming a lawyer. I also decided to take this class because I really love and understand the topic of English. I have always loved to read on my own time and in school and adored writing, from poems to stories and many other writing forms. Since I have the pretty good understanding of English I want to work harder to learn more about English skills. In English 9 honors my expectations regarding this class is a more
One of the earliest sparks to the civil rights movement of the fifties and sixties was the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision on May 17th, 1954. The court effectively ruled that the segregation of public schools was unconstitutional. Soon after the Supreme Court’s ruling, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) began to find black students to lead the integration. The subsequent desegregation of all-white public schools was immediately met with extreme hostility in the south, due to residents’ devotion to white supremacy. The first racial integration began during the 1957-1958 school year at Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Originally, seventeen students chose to integrate
Upon entering English 111 on-line class, I had not taken an English class on-line before. In the past I have taken several other basic classes. English has always been a struggle for me, mainly writing and grammar. Neither, writing or grammar has come natural to me. The biggest challenge for me is putting my thoughts into words.
High Card: 5 cards no numbers / same interest. The highest card as the winner, with the highest and the lowest 2.
Obviously, you're nothing without a solid deck. Being this isn't only a card game — it's a collectible card game — you must ensure you keep an impressive group up and running. You can have four duplicates of any one kind of card in your deck, much like the tenets of the Pokémon