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How the music industry has changed in 30 years

This pie chart from digitalmusicnews.com shows how the music industry has changed in 30 years based on revenue of the different formats. If you missed a slide, the animation will restart at the end.

A Snail Can Sleep for 3 Years – and More Random Facts

The original game of “Monopoly” was circular.
It costs more to buy a new car today in the US than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the “New World”.
One-fourth of the world’s population lives on less than $200 a year.
Ninety million people survive on less than $75 annually.
The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English alphabet.
The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world?

Random Facts About the Human Body

Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.
The eye of a human can distinguish 500 shades of the gray.
Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles (96.5 km) per hour.
Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
Babies’ eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
Dead cells in the body ultimately go to the kidneys for excretion.
The smile is the most frequently used facial expression. A smile can use anywhere from a pair of 5 to 53 facial muscles.
One out of 20 people have an extra rib.
People with darker skin will not wrinkle as fast as people with lighter skin.
Human blood travels 60,000 miles (96,540 km) per day on its journey through the body.
85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube.
It takes food seven seconds to go from the mouth to the stomach via the esophagus.
Women’ hearts beat faster than men.
In one day your heart beats 100,000 times.
Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.

Ice Cube’s ‘Good Day’ Date Has Been Found

Donovan Strain of Murk Avenue has finally identified what we’ve all been wondering. Just what day was Ice Cube singing about in his 1993 hit “It Was a Good Day”. By analyzing the events in the lyrics the date was narrowed down to January 20, 1992.

Here’s his reasoning:

CLUE 1:

“went to short dogs house,
they was watching Yo MTV
RAPS”
Yo MTV RAPS first aired:
Aug 6th 1988

CLUE 2:
Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on:
Feb 23 1993

CLUE 3:
”The Lakers beat the Super
Sonics”
Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release of the single FEBRUARY 23 1993 where the Lakers beat the Super Sonics:
Nov 11 1988 114-103
Nov 30 1988 110-106
Apr 4 1989 115-97
Apr 23 1989 121-117
Jan 17 1990 100-90
Feb 28 1990 112-107
Mar 25 1990 116-94
Apr 17 1990 102-101
Jan 18 1991 105-96
Mar 24 1991 113-96
Apr 21 1991 103-100
Jan 20 1992 116-110

CLUE 4:
Dates of those Laker wins over SuperSonics where it was a clear day with no Smog:
Nov 30 1988
Apr 4 1989
Jan 18 1991
Jan 20 1992

CLUE 5:
“Got a beep from Kim, and
she can fuck all night”
beepers weren’t adopted by mobile phone companies until the 1990s. Dates left where mobile beepers were availible to public:
Jan 18 1991
Jan 20 1992

CLUE 6:
Ice Cube starred in the film “Boyz in the hood” that released late Summer of 1991, but was being filmed mid-late 1990 early 1991 and Ice Cube was busy on set filming the movie Jan 18 1991 too busy to be lounging around the streets with no plans. Ladies and Gentlemen..

The ONLY day where:
Yo MTV Raps was on air
It was a clear and smogless day
Beepers were commercially sold
Lakers beat the SuperSonics
and Ice Cube had no events to attend was…

JANUARY 20 1992
National Good Day Day

9 Ways Chapstick Can Save Your Life

Chapstick as a survival product? There are many uses for this often forgotten item.

1. Chapped lips

2. In extreme cold weather, you can rub it on the exposed parts of your face. The thin layer helps prevent heat loss by limiting radiation and air convection.

3. Lubrication for your fire bow drill, ect.

4. It is a great FIRESTARTER! It works just like petroleum Jelly. You can rub it on a piece of cloth, lint from your pocket, a cotton ball, gauze pad from your first aid kit, or even on natural tender. I always have a cotton ball or two stuffed in my matchcase to keep the matches from ratteling around and in my little pill vial I use to carry some basic medicines.
5. Emergency waterproofer. You can even use it to plug a small hole in your tent, poncho, or tube tent that is leaking in the rain.

6. Rub it on a hot spot on your foot to help prevent a pending blister (lubricant).

7. Mix it with some black ash and rub under your eyes to keep the glare down (great for desert or snowy terrain)
8. Do the same above to camo your face for hunting, works much better than mud and is kind of water resistant.

9. Not as good as oil, but I think it is a decent expedient rust preventitive to rub on carbon steel knives.

from threprepared.com

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