Interesting Facts About Miley Cyrus

Born Destiny Hope Cyrus on November 23, 1992, in Franklin, Tennessee, she is the daughter of '90s country star Billy Ray Cyrus. Destiny Hope changed her name to Miley after the nickname she was given as a baby because she was always smiling. She is best known for her role on the Disney series Hannah Montana.

Fun Facts About Miley:


Her favortie food is Chinese. 


She started riding horses when she was only two years old!

Her Dad sometimes calls her Mike.



She is afraid of spiders.


Her favorite cereal is Lucky Charms.

In 2011, Miley Cyrus was named #1 on the 'Top 10 Richest Teens in Hollywood' with $120 million!

Miley attended Heritage Elementary School. She was baptized in Southern Baptist Church before moving to Hollywood in 2005.

Miley Cyrus suffers from a mild heart condition causing tachycardia.

Fun Facts About Alaska

Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait. Alaska is the 4th least populous and the least densely populated of the 50 United States. Approximately half of Alaska's 722,718 residents live within the Anchorage metropolitan area.

Fun Facts About Alaska:

Alaska has 6,640 miles of coastline and, including islands, has 33,904 miles of shoreline.



The Alaska Highway was originally built as a military supply road during World War II. 


Alaska's name is based on the Eskimo word Alakshak meaning great lands or peninsula. 


Dog mushing is the official state sport. The Alaska Legislature adopted it in 1972. 


Alaska was purchased from Russia on March 30, 1867, for $7.2 million ($113 million in today's dollars) at approximately two cents per acre!



Alaska accounts for 25% of the oil produced in the United States.


Joe Juneau's 1880 discovery of gold ushered in the gold rush era.


In 1926 13-year-old Bennie Benson from Cognac, Alaska designed the state flag.


Alaska has an estimated 100,000 glaciers, ranging from tiny cirque glaciers to huge valley glaciers. There are more active glaciers and ice fields in Alaska than in the rest of the inhabited world. The largest glacier is the Malaspina at 850 square miles. Five percent of the state, or 29,000 square miles, is covered by glaciers.

Some Interesting Facts About PitBulls

In the early twentieth century, PitBulls were respected for their loyalty, determination, and bravery. The first decorated canine war hero was a PitBull named Sergeant Stubby. He was, until his death, a guest of every White House administration.

Pitbulls must be taught when young not to pull on the leash because they are amazingly strong as adults.

Pitbulls were originally bred in Britain, and later in other countries in Europe, to bait bulls and bears.

Pits score greater on temperament tests than other dogs - The APBT scored an overall temperament rating of 83.9 percent, compared to the 77 percent score of the general dog population, says the American Temperament Test Society in December 2004.

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The Pit Bull was so popular in the early 1900's they were our mascot not only in World War One, but World War Two as well. They were featured on recruiting and propaganda posters during this time period.

Size:

Pitbulls (American pit bull terriers) range from 30 - 60 pounds
Pitbulls (American Staffordshire terriers)  range from 55 - 65 pounds
Pitbulls (Staffordshire bull terriers)  range from 30 - 40 pounds

Myth - Their jaws have a locking mechanism. FACT - Because of their incredible strength, stamina and tenacity it may appear the jaws have locked onto the object of prey. They can however be pryed apart.

A Few Facts About Germs

The average office desk is home to 20,000 germs per square inch. It harbours 400 times more germs than the toilet, which gets cleaned and disinfected regularly. 




 The average desk harbors 400 times more bacteria than the average toilet seat. With more than 25,000 microbes per square inch, remember to clean your phone with antibacterial wipes at least once a day.


 Bathroom faucets can be more harmful to your health than a toilet seat, and a bathtub may have 100 times more bacteria than the trash can.



In one study, diarrhea-inducing E.coli was found on 10 percent of coffee mugs.


Between 7 and 42 percent of all paper money contained "revolting bacteria."


The dirtiest spots in the kitchen are dishcloths, cutting boards, sponges, and sink handles. Surprisingly, the floor is often cleaner than the sink!

 Germs can live for up to a month!

I'm going to wash my hands now ewwwwwwwwww!:)

Egg Facts

China produces most eggs, at about 160 billion per year. In the US, about 260 million hens produce more than 65 billion eggs per year. A hen can lay about 250 eggs per year.


An egg shell has as many as 17,000 pores over its surface.



There are 150 species of chicken.


Chicken are descendants of the red jungle fowl (gallus gallus spadiceus) that lives in Asia.


In Mergentheim, Germany, if someone falls gravely ill, that person ties a white thread around an egg and places it into a fire. If the shell turns black in the flame, death is not far off.


Occasionally, hens lay eggs with imperfect shells or without shells altogether. In England, such eggs are traditionally called "wind eggs," from the belief that the hen laying them had been impregnated not by the rooster but by the wind.


In 1474, legal proceedings were instituted at Basel against a rooster accused of laying an egg for purposes of witchcraft.

Fact About Sharks

The Swell Shark, found in New Zealand, barks like a dog.

Sharks cannot eat Puffer Fish, because the Puffer Fish inflates like a balloon and pokes the shark’s mouth with its sharp needles.

A Whale Shark weighs about 90,000 pounds. The second largest shark is the Basking Shark. It can be as much as 40 feet long.

Most species of sharks can swim up to 20-40 miles per hour. A Mako Shark has been recorded at more than 60 miles per hour.

Sharks do not sleep the same way as humans do. They might seem as if they are sleeping but they are really just resting!

The bull shark is the only shark that can live in both fresh and salt water. A bull shark may have been responsible for a shark attack that happened in a creek in New Jersey back in 1916.

Sharks have been around for more than 300 million years! They were around before dinosaurs!

Interesting Facts About Pi

The Greek letter π was first adopted for the number as an abbreviation of the Greek word for perimeter (περίμετρος), or as an abbreviation for "periphery/diameter", by William Jones in 1706. The constant is also known as Archimedes' Constant, after Archimedes of Syracuse who provided an approximation of the number during the 3rd century BC, although this name is uncommon today. Even rarer is the name Ludolphine number or Ludolph's Constant, after Ludolph van Ceulen, who computed a 35-digit approximation around the year 1600.




Interesting Facts About Pi:


There is no zero in the first 31 digits of Pi.


The Babylonians found the first known value for Pi in around 2000BC -They used (25/8).



If a billion decimals of pi were printed in ordinary type, they would stretch from New York City, to the middle of Kansas.


Pi in fraction form is - 837393900/266550757.


A rapidly converging formula for calculation of Pi found by Machin in 1706 was pi/4 = 4 * arctan (1/5) - arctan (1/239).


In 1882 Ferdinand Lindemann, proved the transcendence of Pi.


In ancient Greece the symbol for Pi denoted the number 80.