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February 27th, 2010 | Published under Facts | No Comments

McDonald’s is a favorite among many Americans. But, this fast food giant is also a favorite the world over. As you’re reading this, people are getting their instant satisfaction from one of the thousands of locations found around the world. Since the beginning, McDonald’s has been making headlines for their creativity and unique marketing ideas. The history of this fast food restaurant is filled with fun and interesting facts. Here are just a few of those fun facts.

Fun Facts about McDonald’s #1: Antarctica is the Only Continent without a McDonald’s

McDonald’s has locations across the world. They have made their mark on six continents, but they have yet to open a fast food restaurant in Antarctica.

Fun Facts about McDonald’s #2: They Serve 46 Million People Everyday

Everyday, some 46 million people turn to McDonald’s for their instant satisfaction. While, the choices they make may vary from country to country, you can bet that people are happy with the choices McDonald’s has to offer. Another fun fact is that Ronald McDonald speaks 25 different languages in order to entertain all those people.

Fun Facts about McDonald’s #3: 100 Billion Burgers and Counting

McDonald’s has sold well over 100 billion hamburgers. This fact really isn’t all that shocking when you think about all the locations around the world. In fact, there are over 30,000 locations. That’s a lot of burgers being served up everyday.

Fun Facts about McDonald’s #4: The Shrewsburg, England Location Has a Lot of History

In England, you will find a McDonald’s location that is housed by an extremely old building. In fact, one of the walls of this location dates back to the 13th century. It’s rare for McDonald’s to have historic locations in America. Americans are known for building bigger and better things. Even the location that housed the first McDonald’s drive thru was tore down and rebuilt.

Fun Facts about McDonald’s #5: The People of Moscow Really Enjoy Fast Food

The most popular international McDonald’s location is located in Moscow. The location is found on Pushkin Square and serves an outstanding number of people each day. In fact, this one location serves an amazing 40,000 people each day.

Fun Facts about McDonald’s #6: Some of the Busiest Locations are in Hong Kong

Next to America and Moscow, Hong Kong has some of the busiest McDonald’s locations. In fact, Hong Kong has ten of the busiest locations in the world. You can even find a McDonald’s in the Kuala Lumpur Tower which happens to be the tallest building in the world and is located in Malaysia.

Fun Facts about McDonald’s #7: The Big Mac Was Introduced in 1968

One of the tastiest, and hardest to prepare, hamburgers was introduced in 1968. To this day, Big Macs are one of the most popular choices on the McDonald’s menu.

Fun Facts about McDonald’s #8: Happy Meals Have Been Served Since 1979

Many people in their 20s and 30s will tell you that their childhood included many Happy Meals. Happy Meals were first served in 1979. Being a child of the 80s, I can tell you that Happy Meals have changed a lot over the years. At one time you could find tasty cookies in your Happy Meal and you had a choice of a cheeseburger, hamburger, or chicken nuggets. You also got to choose your flavour of soft drink. Now kids can choose different sides and even get chocolate milk or Powerade.

Fun Facts about McDonald’s #9: One out of Every Eight People Have Worked There

This is an interesting fact that many people find hard to believe. But, it’s true. And, believe or not, many of the people who have worked at McDonald’s say that there are many benefits to working for this fast food giant.

Fun Facts about McDonald’s #10: Many Famous People Have Worked at McDonald’s

Several famous people worked at McDonald’s before making it big. Pink, Sharon Stone, and Shania Twain all worked for this company. Even some talented writers have worked for this fast food giant.

From Associated Content.

Shift Happens

March 15th, 2009 | Published under Facts | No Comments

Here’s a cool video about facts of our modern society, and the amazing future waiting around the corner.

Some Facts About LukeHimself.Net

April 13th, 2008 | Published under Facts | No Comments

Here’s a random blog idea, a few facts about this very blog, LukeHimself.Net:

• LukeHimself.Net contains currently contains 365 blogs.
• My first blog was published on the 2nd of February, 2005.
• There are currently 420 comments on my blog.
• My domain LukeHimself.Net was orginally LukeHimself.com, which now remains vacant.
• Ben Jennings aKa ‘The Germ’ is one of my highest commenters, with Chau running a close second.
• My most viewed blog is Luke’s Top 10 XR6 Turbos.
• One of the most popular search engine terms leading to my site are “g-unit” and “g unit”.
• The category with the most posts is Humour, with 113 blogs.
• The category with the least posts is Travel, with only 3 blogs.

That’s all the facts I can think of at the moment! Hope you enjoyed it.

If The Universe Was A Year…

October 18th, 2007 | Published under Facts | No Comments

If the life of the universe was scaled down to one year,
50 years would be 0.125 seconds
100 years would be 0.25 seconds
400 years would be 1 second
1000 years would be 2.5 seconds
2000 years would be 5 seconds
10,000 years would be 25 seconds
100,000 years would be 4 minutes and 10 seconds
1 million years would be 41 minutes and 40 seconds
2 million years would be 1 hour, 23 minutes and 20 seconds
10 million years would be 6 hours, 56 minutes and 40 seconds
100 million years would be 2 days, 21 hours, 26 minutes and 40 seconds

The universe would have formed in the first 4.5 seconds on the year.
The Earth and Sun would form around August 13th.
The oceans would form around August 23rd, 1PM.
Life would form on Earth around September 3rd.
Dinosaurs would be wiped out on December 29th at 1PM.
Humans would first appear on December 31st, around 11:55PM.
You would be born somewhere in the last tenth of a second before midnight, December 31st.

Did you know?

June 16th, 2007 | Published under Facts | 3 Comments

Some beaches have black sand. It’s true, the guy on Family Guy told me. Some people seem to know this quite commonly already, while others are quite surprised. Personally, I can’t remember if I was aware of them or not. Here’s a snapshot:

Some Interesting Facts About The Sun

April 28th, 2007 | Published under Facts | No Comments

The Sun’s pretty cool. It’s a huge burning formation that does so much for this Earth; light, heat and energy. I was thinking the other day, I wonder how long it would take it travel to the sun (if you had a craft to travel and resist the heat of course) which brought me to a whole bunch of cool Sun Facts!

Will the sun someday swallow the Earth?
“In about 5 billion years, the hydrogen in the center of the Sun will start to run out, the helium will get squeezed, and this will speed up the hydrogen burning. Our star will slowly puff into a red giant and will eventually eat all of the inner planets, even the Earth.”

There are millions, maybe billions of stars in the universe; but why is the Sun the only one that lights up the Earth?
“The Sun, at an average distance of 149 000 000 km (92.8 000 000 miles) to the Earth, is the closest star to our planet. The next closest star is Proxima Centauri, at 4.2 light years (39 700 000 000 000 kilometers or 24 700 000 000 000 miles) of distance, is too far away!”

Does the sun have a shadow?
“In order for the Sun to even have a shadow, there would have to be a larger source of light nearby. Since there isn’t a larger star close enough that the light from it would actually surround the Sun, then no, the Sun doesn’t have a shadow.”

How much does sunlight weight?
“Sunlight does not have mass, therefore it doesn’t weigh anything, on Earth or anywhere else in the Universe!”

Does the sun gain or lose heat?
“The size and temperature of the Sun change very, very little over time, to the point that they are considered constant.”

If you traveled the speed of light towards the sun, would you be sped up the gravitational pull?
“It seems that the answer would be no. If you are going the speed of light, you are then travelling at the fastest speed possible. The force of gravity from the Sun could not pull hard enough to make you reach a speed even close to that. You wouldn’t even know the Sun was pulling on you.

Here’s a great example. Let’s say you have a toy car and you want it to go down a ramp you made. Tie a string to the car and pull it down. Soon, the car will be traveling faster than you can pull, and the string will go limp. You’re pulling isn’t making a difference anymore!”

Why does the Sun appear red during sunsets?
“The Sun looks red during a sunset because of Earth’s atmosphere. When the Sun goes down, we see it through gases and dust that are in the sky. The color it appears to be depends on what is in the air. If you see red, it is because all the other colors are being absorbed by the particles, but the color red is being reflected.

This is also what causes the sky to look all different colors. This is actually one good reason to have pollution! If the air was cleaner, we wouldn’t have such pretty sunsets!”

How many Earth’s can fit in the Sun?
“Over 1.3 million Earths could fit inside of the Sun. The Sun actually contains about 99% of the mass in the solar system, so it makes sense”

What is the closest you could get to the Sun without it being deadly?
“Actually, the only thing which protects us from being killed by the Sun right now is our atmosphere. The Sun’s rays are very powerful, and if the atmosphere did not exist, we would very quickly get a sunburn so bad it would kill us!”

What would happen if the Earth moved closer to the Sun?
“If the Earth moved closer to the sun, the atmosphere would disappear, the oceans would boil and evaporate, and every living thing on Earth would die!”

Pretty cool ey! I still love the 1.3 million Earths could fit in the Sun. And I didn’t forget my original question.”

How long would it take to travel to the Sun, if all factors were made possible?
“If you were to travel in a car at top speeds in the freeway, it would take about 10 million years to travel one light year. We wouldn’t live that long so we will never travel one light year. Even the probes astronomers sent into space never reached 1 light year away from Earth. The farthest we have ever reached was .0016 of a light year. It is beyond human knowledge. We don’t have the technology to travel one light year.”

And that sums it up another blog! Hope you liked it.

Reference http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/kids_space/qsun_eff.html

Some interesting facts!

March 2nd, 2007 | Published under Facts | No Comments

Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee’s head and 2 larger ones in front.

Count the number of cricket chirps in a 15-second period, add 37 to the total, and your result will be very close to the actual outdoor Fahrenheit temperature.

One-fourth of the world’s population lives on less than $200 a year. Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.

Butterflies taste with their hind feet.

Only female mosquitos bite and most are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.

In eighteenth-century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.

More February Facts!

February 11th, 2007 | Published under Facts | No Comments

Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.

More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money throughout the world.

One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.

Right-handed people live, on average; nine years longer than left handed people.

In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.

A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel.

A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if a strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results. This is true for all foods.

Ninety percent of all species that have become extinct have been birds.

There is approximately one chicken for every human being in the world.

The average person spends 6 months of their life sitting at red lights.

Nearly 80% of all animals on earth have six legs.

February Facts

February 9th, 2007 | Published under Facts | No Comments

When you sneeze, air and particles travel through the nostrils at speeds over160km/h. During this time, all bodily functions stop, including your heart, contributing to the impossibility of keeping one’s eyes open during a sneeze.

Annual growth of WWW traffic is 314000%.

60% of all people using the internet, use it for pornography.

In 1778, fashionable women of Paris never went out in blustery weather without a lightning rod attached to their hats.

Sex burns 360 calories per hour.

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.

Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it.

The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.

More than 2 billion pencils are manufactured each year in the United States. If these were laid end to end they would circle the world nine times.

The pop you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas burning.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

Larry Lewis ran the 100-yard dash in 17.8 seconds in 1969, thereby setting a new world’s record for runners in the 100-years-or-older class. He was 101.

In a lifetime the average human produces enough quarts of spit to fill 2 swimming pools.

It’s against the law to doze off under a hair dryer in Florida, against the law to slap an old friend on the back in Georgia and against the law to play hopscotch on a Sunday in Missouri.

Barbie’s measurements, if she were life-size, would be 39-29-33.

The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft.

One third of all cancers are sun related.

It has been estimated that humans use only 10% of their brain.

Valentine Tapley from Pike County, Missouri grew chin whiskers attaining a length of twelve feet six inches from 1860 until his death 1910, protesting Abraham Lincoln’s election to the presidency.

Some Facts & Myths of Coca-Cola

January 17th, 2007 | Published under Facts | 6 Comments

Coca-Cola’s a huge business and I’m sure lots of you, just like me, love a good glass of Coke.
Here’s some facts and myths you may have or not have heard about Coca-Cola.

Facts (True)
-Coca-Cola was once considered anti-Semitic for refusing to do business in Israel.
-Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine.
-Coca-Cola recalled an advertising poster due to an x-rated image hidden within it.

Myths (Not True)
-Coca-Cola became carbonated by accident.
-Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide.
-Combining Coca-Cola and aspirin will get you high.
-Coca-Cola was originally green.
-A mixture of Mentos and Coca-Cola killed two Brazilian children.
-The Mormons own the Coca-Cola Company.
-The acids in Coca-Cola make it harmful to drink.
-The modern image of Santa Claus was created by Coca-Cola.
-Only two people in the company know Coca-Cola’s formula, and each of them only knows half of it.
-A tooth left in a glass of Coca-Cola will dissolve overnight.
-Coca-Cola used to send a salesman out to purchase a piece of Coca-Cola chewing gum once a year to protect its trademark on the product.
-Diet Coke and/or Diet Pepsi contain more calories than stated, with their producers opting to pay a fine.