Penguin's Cupboard Of Trivia

[penguin007 27]

OK just a thread where you may have found out something completely random and want to share it. 

OK I'll start which of the rolling stones sang at Queen Elizaberth's coronation?

It was Keith Richards, he was part of the choir who sang there and at that time he had a perfect singing voice not what he has now after smoking god knows what for 40 years

Cant wait to hear some more trivia from people

Will

[Schulmanator 5,815]

That's WEIRD!!!!!!!!!!!

Did you know the first President of the USA is NOT George Washington? It's John Hanson!

http://www.marshallhall.org/hanson.html

[Inusion X 1]

Congress passed laws that actually took away the first amendment in some cases. During WWI the espionage and sedition acts were passed that forbid anyone from talking bad about the government. One man, Eugene Debs, was thrown in prison. While in prison, he ran for president as a socialist and received 913,664 votes.

[penguin007 27]

Great trivia there if asked who was the first presidnet I would say Washington so Im now wrong.

OK another Ive fished out.

The Bejjing national stadium cost 3.5 billion yaun

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

Here is a piece of trivia from my pen pal Mike, who sometimes needs to amuse himself.

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In my spare time I some times wonder about some "big picture things".

One is "How fast is our planet is travelling through space?"

I did some googling and found out that it is going very fast - much faster than I thought. ... 67,062 miles per hour.

Whereas the speed of sound is 761.2 mph (at sea level) the earth is hurling through space at just over 88 times the speed of sound (at sea level).

My (abbreviated) google research follows, if you are interested ... it surprised me.

Mike

Values of the Speed of Sound:

One of the most common questions we receive is fow fast is the speed of sound, and as was pointed out earlier, there is no single value to quote. The speed of sound, also known as Mach 1, changes throughout the atmosphere based on the temperature at any given altitude. Probably the most important value to remember, however, is the speed of sound at sea level. Based on the standard atmospheric model, this value has been defined to be

a.. 1,116.4 ft/s
b.. 340.3 m/s
c.. 761.2 mph
d.. 1,225.1 km/h
e.. 661.5 knots

If you were to reach Mach 1, or "break the sound barrier," at sea level, the above speed is how fast you would have to travel in order to do so.

At what speed does the earth move around the sun?

67,062 miles per hour

Let's calculate that. First of all we know that in general, the time it takes to travel a distance is equal to the length of that distance, divided by the speed at which you travel that distance. If we reverse that, we get that the speed is equal to the distance traveled over the time taken.

We also know that the time it takes for the Earth to go once around the Sun is 1 year. So in order to know the speed we just have to figure out the distance traveled by the Earth when it goes once around the Sun. To do that we will assume that the orbit of the Earth is circular (which is not exactly right, it is more like an ellipse, but for our purpose it will do just fine). So the distance traveled in one year is just the circumference of the circle. (remember that the circumference of a circle is equal to 2*pi*Radius)

The average distance from the Earth to the Sun is 149,597,890 km. Therefore in one year the Earth travels a distance of 2*Pi*(149,597,890)km. This means that the velocity is about:

velocity=2*Pi*(149,597,890)km/1 year

and if we convert that to more meaningful units (knowing there is 365 days in a year, and 24 hours per day) we get:

velocity=107,300 km/h (or if you prefer 67,062 miles per hour)

So the Earth moves at about 100,000 km/h around the Sun (which is 1000 times faster than the speeds we go at on a highway!)

[jimbob1000 3]

Mike

Values of the Speed of Sound:

One of the most common questions we receive is fow fast is the speed of sound, and as was pointed out earlier, there is no single value to quote. The speed of sound, also known as Mach 1, changes throughout the atmosphere based on the temperature at any given altitude. Probably the most important value to remember, however, is the speed of sound at sea level. Based on the standard atmospheric model, this value has been defined to be

a.. 1,116.4 ft/s

b.. 340.3 m/s

c.. 761.2 mph

d.. 1,225.1 km/h

e.. 661.5 knots

If you were to reach Mach 1, or "break the sound barrier," at sea level, the above speed is how fast you would have to travel in order to do so.

At what speed does the earth move around the sun?

67,062 miles per hour

Let's calculate that. First of all we know that in general, the time it takes to travel a distance is equal to the length of that distance, divided by the speed at which you travel that distance. If we reverse that, we get that the speed is equal to the distance traveled over the time taken.

We also know that the time it takes for the Earth to go once around the Sun is 1 year. So in order to know the speed we just have to figure out the distance traveled by the Earth when it goes once around the Sun. To do that we will assume that the orbit of the Earth is circular (which is not exactly right, it is more like an ellipse, but for our purpose it will do just fine). So the distance traveled in one year is just the circumference of the circle. (remember that the circumference of a circle is equal to 2*pi*Radius)

The average distance from the Earth to the Sun is 149,597,890 km. Therefore in one year the Earth travels a distance of 2*Pi*(149,597,890)km. This means that the velocity is about:

velocity=2*Pi*(149,597,890)km/1 year

and if we convert that to more meaningful units (knowing there is 365 days in a year, and 24 hours per day) we get:

velocity=107,300 km/h (or if you prefer 67,062 miles per hour)

So the Earth moves at about 100,000 km/h around the Sun (which is 1000 times faster than the speeds we go at on a highway!)

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That is probably the most confusing post I have ever read at this forum, fascinating, weird and confusing and pretty long too.

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

Originally posted by: jimbob1000

That is probably the most confusing post I have ever read at this forum, fascinating, weird and confusing and pretty long too.quote>

If that confuses you, play closer attention in school.

[penguin007 27]

OK another peice of trivia from me the top score ever in a 20/20 cricket match in England is exactly 250 runs which was scored at 12.25 runs an over by Somerset

Will