March 10, 2017
Interview with John Mitchinson, co-author of the book 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts To Blow Your Socks Off
Mike Carruthers: If you like fascinating facts you’ll love these – for instance…
John Mitchinson: 10% of all the photographs that have ever been taken were taken in the last 12 months. But what I love is until 1960 half of the photographs that had been taken have been taken of babies.
John Mitchinson, co-author of the book 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts To Blow Your Socks Off…
40% of all the human beings that have ever been born (there’s about 120 billion human beings that have been born) 40% of them haven’t lived past their 1st birthday. Isn’t that an incredible fact? And if you pull back even further 99% of all the species that have ever existed on the planet and are now extinct.
John also discovered that cows moo, birds chirp, and dogs bark with regional accents.
More than 7,000 Americans die each year as a result of doctor’s bad handwriting – so writing out prescriptions that the pharmacist can’t read properly. For 99% of our history as a species human beings have been hunter gathers so the whole of civilization everything that we’ve achieved really has only happened in the last 1% of the time that we’ve been around as a species.
Do you know Wild Bill Hickok brother’s name? It is Tame Bill Hickok and there are some fascinating facts about astronauts.
Of the people who’ve walked on the moon I think 11 of the 12 were members of the boy scouts. And a huge proportion of them something like 22 out of the 29 people who’ve been in space were 1st born children.
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