January 17, 2024 • 1 min
How many websites are there?
Where do 90% of the population live?
What's the average height for the NBA?
Can watching a scary movie actually be good for your health?
Where do 90% of the population live?
What's the average height for the NBA?
Can watching a scary movie actually be good for your health?
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(00:00):
Well that was kind of random.Mel Time for random facts with Mel Taylor
Useless information, conversation starters, orjust makes you a little smarter. Smarter,
Let's take a look today at yourrandom facts, and I got some
good ones. I feel like thereare now about one point one three billion
(00:22):
websites, but only two hundred millionare actually active. The rest are mainly
just park domains trying to sell them. Ninety percent of the people in the
world live in the Northern Hemisphere.Sushi means sour rice in Japanese because the
Japanese believed that the most important ingredientis the rice, not the fish.
(00:43):
The average height in the NBA hasgone up about three inches since the league
started in the late nineteen forties.It started at six' three, now
it's six' six. And watchingblood curdling horror movies can actually thicken your
blood, and that interesting fear causesin increased in a blood clotting protein called
factor eight. That is a looktoday at your random facts.
Well that was kind of random.Mel Time for random facts with Mel Taylor
Useless information, conversation starters, orjust makes you a little smarter. Smarter,
Let's take a look today at yourrandom facts, and I got some
good ones. I feel like thereare now about one point one three billion
(00:22):
websites, but only two hundred millionare actually active. The rest are mainly
just park domains trying to sell them. Ninety percent of the people in the
world live in the Northern Hemisphere.Sushi means sour rice in Japanese because the
Japanese believed that the most important ingredientis the rice, not the fish.
(00:43):
The average height in the NBA hasgone up about three inches since the league
started in the late nineteen forties.It started at six' three, now
it's six' six. And watchingblood curdling horror movies can actually thicken your
blood, and that interesting fear causesin increased in a blood clotting protein called
factor eight. That is a looktoday at your random facts.
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