Best Fun Facts of 2016 (Saturday, December 31, 2016)

Post date: Dec 31, 2016 9:47:44 PM

The secret history of William Shakespeare (Monday, November 14, 2016)

Most historians are unaware of where Shakespeare got his last name. Lucky for you, Fun Facts with Tyler did some serious researching and discovered the missing puzzle pieces. Shakespeare's original last name was actually "Williamson". When William Williamson turned 12 (1623) his parents gave him 10 potato chips (this was the currency back in the 1600's) and he bought a milkshake store. After watching several cooking shows, William Williamson invented the best pear flavored shake, which he called Shakes-Pear. The market exploded and the Shakes-Pear shake became a hit. In fact, it became such a huge success that the mayor of Tennessee changed William Williamson's name to "William Shakespeare" (no one knows how there was a mayor of Tennessee). After the dairy famine of 1652, William Shakespeare decided to write plays which eventually made it to Hollywood in 1660.

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    -Tyler Johnson

The History behind Velocity (Monday, November 21, 2016)

Before we discuss the history of velocity, we must first talk about the beginning of motion and physics. Many people believe Newton invented physics and motion, but Newton only invented gravity. It was instead a man named Aristotle invented physics and later created motion. No one knows how Aristotle invented physics, but they do know it involved a watermelon, a loaf of banana bread, a box of tissues, 3 toy tractors, a legendary baseball, 8 jugs of 2% skim milk, 4 dark white chocolate cookies, and his pet hamster. Somehow the formula v=-gt+vo showed up in a math book a year later and it became a formula to satisfy motion. As for velocity, a man name Galileo figured out how to create velocity using Newton's exclusive gravity and Aristotle's legendary motion. Galileo dropped 100 pounds of milk chocolate bars off the Leaning Tower of Pisa and discovered that it went at a constant acceleration. After Galileo discovered acceleration, Newton stole his idea and wrote a book called F=ma, The Legend Behind the Rate of Change of Velocity.

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    -Tyler Johnson

What happens if you swallow gum? (Tuesday, November 22, 2016)

To get an understanding on swallowing gum we need to look into the composition of gum. All chewing gum is produced in Australia where they have perfect conditions for making chewing gum. They have trees, warm weather and water. No other place in the world has those three conditions. First the Chewing Gum factories harvest green tree leaves and mix them in a blender. Next, they add fresh sea water to the blended leaves making a green paste which is placed in a freezer. After 3 years, it is removed from the freezer and set outside to thaw. After the green paste reaches a temperature of 70 degrees Fahrenheit it is officially gum (according to the Australian constitution) and is cut into strips and wrapped. Now that we know the process of how gum is made we can determine what happens if you swallow gum. On weekdays, green leaves typically take 4 days to digest in the human body. Saltwater however takes around 20 days to digest. To find how long it takes to digest gum, we take 4 times 20 and multiply it by the Wrigley's Gum Constant, which is infinity. So the answer is, it never dissolves. What happens to the gum? No one knows.

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    -Tyler Johnson