New on LowEndTalk? Please Register and read our Community Rules.
All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
Comments
Manhattan used to be known for its oysters.
When the Dutch arrived in Manhattan, they saw massive oyster beds around the city coastline. It is for this reason that Ellis Island and Liberty Island earned the names ‘Little Oyster Island’ and ‘Big Oyster Island.’
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep his head cool. He changed it every two innings.
Every year 56,000,000 people attend major league baseball games.
A wind tunnel near Flat Iron can raise the skirts of female passersby.
Back then, men would gather outside the infamous building just to watch such instances.
In 18th century England, gambling dens employed someone whose job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.
A Costa Rican worker who makes baseballs earns about $2,750 annually. The average American pro baseball player earns $2,377,000 per year.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
The star Antares is 60,000 times larger than our sun. If our sun were the size of a softball, the star Antares would be as large as a house.
rattlecattle wanted something else, but I never got any requests for what. So I started doing some city facts for DC location citys. I got more palettes what those instead ?
PAGE 435
Megastructure
In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.
It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
New York has a 150 feet-deep hole.
Found between 36th and 37th street in Park Avenue is a hole as deep as the height of a 15-story building.
Color palette is fine.
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
Unclaimed bodies in NYC are buried in Hart Island.
The island lies off the coast of the Bronx and is not open for public access. By 1869, the island has been home to around 1 million buried bodies.
The nitrogen gas tanks around New York is not as scary as people think.
Their posts on the street corners around the city are optimal for their job of keeping underground telephone wires dry.
Brooklyn can easily be the 4th largest city in the United States.
If Brooklyn were its own city and not a part of New York City, it’s large enough to take the 4th spot in the biggest U.S. cities.
ok
lol
Women blink nearly twice as often as men.
Most of the dust particles in your house are dead skin.
There is a company that will (for $14,000) take your ashes and compress them into a synthetic diamond to be set in jewelry for a loved one.
There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.
The longest bout of hiccups lasted nearly 69 years.
Babies is born without kneecaps. They appear between the ages of 2 and 6.