Believe It Or Not
- The most common phobia is the fear of public speaking.
- If you could fold a piece of paper in half 103 times it would be as thick as the observable universe. Really?
- The answer is simple: Exponential growth. The average paper thickness in 1/10th of a millimeter (0.0039 inches.) If you perfectly fold the paper in half, you will double its thickness. Things get interesting quickly.
- Folding the paper in half a third time will get you about the thickness of a nail.
- Seven folds will be about the thickness of a notebook of 128 pages.
- 10 folds and the paper will be about the width of a hand.
- 23 folds will get you to one kilometer—3,280 feet.
- 30 folds will get you to space. Your paper will be now 100 kilometers high.
- Keep folding it. 42 folds will get you to the Moon. With 51 you will burn in the Sun.
- Now fast forward to 81 folds and your paper will be 127,786 light-years, almost as thick as the Andromeda Galaxy, estimated at 141,000 light-years across.
- If you fold a paper in half 103 times it’ll get as thick as the Universe
- 90 folds will make your paper 130.8 million light-years across, bigger than the Virgo Supercluster, estimated at 110 million light-years. The Virgo Supercluster contains the Local Galactic Group—with Andromeda and our own Milky Way—and about 100 other galaxy groups.
- If you fold a paper in half 103 times it’ll get as thick as the Universe
- And finally, at 103 folds, you will get outside of the observable Universe, which is estimated at 93 billion light-years in diameters.
- The trend of baggy shorts in the NBA was started by Michael Jordan because he wanted to wear his UNC shorts under his Bulls shorts.
- Michael Jackson wanted to do a Harry Potter musical but J.K. Rowling said no.
- New York’s Yellow Cabs are yellow because John Hertz, the company’s founder, learned from a study that yellow was the easiest color for the eye to spot.
- Shakira, a singer songwriter, has an IQ of 140 making her a “Genius”.
- “Guardians of the Galaxy” actor Chris Pratt was discovered waiting tables at a Bubba Gump Shrimp Restaurant in Hawaii by Tommy Chong’s daughter. She offered him a role in the movie on the spot.
- The time machine in “Back to the Future” was originally going to be a refrigeratory, but was changed when the creators thought kids would trap themselves in fridges while replicating the scene.
- The Grumpy Cat franchise is worth $100 million.
- Dragonflies have 6 legs like all insects – but they can’t use them to walk.
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