{"id":25700,"date":"2013-09-11T00:05:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T07:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=25700"},"modified":"2013-09-12T21:46:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T04:46:05","slug":"10-more-random-quick-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2013\/09\/10-more-random-quick-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"10 More Random Quick Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFact 601:<\/strong> The \u201cRed Bull\u201d energy drink gets its name from the Thai energy drink that inspired Dietrich Mateschitz to create Red Bull, \u201cKrating Daeng\u201d, with \u201cdaeng\u201d meaning \u201cred\u201d, and \u201ckrating\u201d being a reddish-brown bovine.<\/p>\n

Fact 602:<\/strong> \u201cHack the System\u201d blogger Maneesh Sethi once hired a woman for $8 an hour to both yell at him and slap him anytime she saw him get off task from what he was supposed to be doing while working. He was having trouble staying focused as his own boss, so thought this would be an easy and cheap solution. It turns out, it worked. His procrastination time while working dropped from 62% to 2% thanks to his slapping employee. This man is a genius.
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\nFact 603: <\/strong>Broccoli, kale, cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, and savoy all come from the same species of plant, brassica oleracea.<\/p>\n

Fact 604:<\/strong> The word \u201cbroccoli\u201d is the plural of the Italian \u201cbroccolo\u201d, which in turn is from \u201cbrocco\u201d, meaning \u201cprotruding tooth, small nail\u201d.<\/p>\n

Fact 605:<\/strong> Buzz Aldrin was the first person to pee while on the surface of the Moon. Take THAT Neil Armstrong.<\/p>\n

Fact 606:<\/strong> Cecil Chubb was the last person to own Stonehenge, purchasing it in 1915 on a whim for about the equivalent of $800,000 today. According to the BBC, he gave it to his wife as a gift, which she in turn didn\u2019t appreciate. Three years later, he donated it to England.<\/p>\n

Fact 607:<\/strong> Magic Johnson signed a $25 million, 25 year contract with the Lakers in 1981, the highest paying contract in sports history at the time. This comprised the bulk of his earnings from his playing career (though of course he didn\u2019t complete the contract). Today, Magic Johnson Enterprises is estimated to be worth nearly $1 billion, including, among many other things, owning several fast food restaurants and 24-Hour Fitness locations\u2026 which is sort of the perfect scheme if you think about it. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Fact 608:<\/strong> Male honeybees (drones) don\u2019t have stingers and are developed from unfertilized eggs from laying worker bees. As to why the males don\u2019t have stingers, the worker bee stingers are actually slightly modified egg laying organs (ovipositor).<\/p>\n

Fact 609:<\/strong> \u201cDrone\u201d comes from the Old English \u201cdran\u201d, meaning \u201cmale honeybee\u201d.<\/p>\n

Fact 610:<\/strong> During mating, the force of the honeybee male\u2019s ejaculation is so strong, the resulting process, including the rupture of the drone\u2019s penis, is sometimes audible making a \u201cpop\u201d noise. The price of the drone\u2019s 1 to 5 second sexual escapade is his life, as his reproductive bits are ripped from his body after climax\u2026 what a buzz kill.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jordan Tan \/ Shutterstock.com MISHELLA \/ Shutterstock.com s_bukley \/ Shutterstock.com Text Version: Fact 601: The \u201cRed Bull\u201d energy drink gets its name from the Thai energy drink that inspired Dietrich Mateschitz to create Red Bull, \u201cKrating Daeng\u201d, with \u201cdaeng\u201d meaning \u201cred\u201d, and \u201ckrating\u201d being a reddish-brown bovine. Fact 602: \u201cHack the System\u201d blogger Maneesh Sethi once hired a woman for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3018,689],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-facts_lists","category-quick-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25700"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25813,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25700\/revisions\/25813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}