Monstro, the whale was not only Pinocchio and Gepetta is inspired from Moby Dick (a bit obvious) but from the Terrible Shark in the original story “Pinocchio” by Carlo Collodi too.
http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/The_Whalers
Month: April 2014
Fact #182
Monstro, the whale that swallows pinocchio and Gepetto also appears 2 years earlier in The Whalers, with Mickey Donald and Goofy.
Fact #181
A study shows that one way Chinese netiizens avoid censorship is neologism. If their keywords are censored then simply invent a new word for it.
http://static.usenix.org/events/foci11/tech/final_files/Knockel.pdf
Fact #180
The largest ketchup bottle is a 170 feet (52 m) tall water tower.
Fact #179
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
Fact #178
The fastest Pony Express ride was 7 days, 17 hours and was carrying Lincoln’s inaugural address. (Pony Express was how they delivered mail in the US before using the railway. Its basically a relay of riders crossing America. Just in case you didn’t know).
http://www.brainofbrian.com/facts-records.html
Fact #177
The gold in reserve in the USA mostly belongs to foreign accounts and isn’t located in Fort Knox but in New York
check fact number 9:
http://listverse.com/2012/04/24/10-new-facts-to-make-you-seem-smarter/
Fact #176
Did you know the sun was an almost perfect sphere?
The incredible part about this is that it’s the closest to a perfect sphere that has been observed in nature.
Fact #175
The largest ever tomato on record was grown in Oklahoma in 1986, weighed 7lbs 12oz and made enough sandwiches for 21 people.
http://www.express.co.uk/fun/top10facts/398350/Ten-things-you-never-knew-about-tomatoes
Fact #174
– According to a Time Magazine article published in 1945, the longest pregnancy on record is 375 days (as opposed to the usual 280 days). Amazingly, the delivered baby was only 6 pounds, 15 ounces.
– Nigeria has the highest twinning rate in the world at around 4.5%. Some experts attribute this number to the large consumption of yams in Nigeria.
http://facts.randomhistory.com/2008/11/10_pregnancy.html
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