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This is the number of Legos sold each year
Laid end to end, the number of LEGO bricks sold in a year would reach more than five times around the world.
what was Play-doh originally sold as?
Before kids were playing with Play-Doh, their parents were using it to remove soot and dirt from their wall coverings by simply rolling the wad of goop across the surface.
When it was just a fledgling company with no advertising budget, inventor Joe McVicker talked his way in to visit Bob Keeshan, a.k.a. Captain Kangaroo. Although the company couldn’t pay the show outright, McVicker offered them two percent of Play-Doh sales for featuring the product once a week. Keeshan loved the compound and began featuring it three times weekly.
This is the first company to sell slime
In 1976, Mattel Toys (the company that makes Barbie) was the first to sell slime! It caught on and became so popular that other rival toy companies created different recipes. So the slime wars began!
Who applied for a patent on the telephone on Valentine’s Day in 1876.
Alexander Graham Bell
First launched in September of 1998, it was only delivering 10,000 daily search inquiries. Yet, a year after, it already skyrocketed to 3.5 million search processes and 50 million pages due to its high demand.
This is the number of Lego bricks per person on Earth
On average there are 80 LEGO bricks for every person on Earth.
This is the number of Play-doh cans that have sold
Since 1956, more than 3 billion cans of Play-Doh have been sold. That’s enough to reach the Moon and back a total of three times. (Not bad for a wallpaper cleaner.)
The place where slime mould is often found
Slime mould is often found on damp and rotting vegetation. There are over 900 species of slime mould, and some of them are named after the things they look like. For example, the bright yellow slime mould, Fuliga septica, is also known as Dog Vomit Mould!
What was launched in 2005, revolutionizing video sharing and online content?
Youtube
The world’s population who have never used a phone.
one third
This is the number of Lego sets sold during Christmas season
During the Christmas season almost 28 LEGO sets are sold each second
What color was Play-doh when it first came out?
Back when it was still a household product, Play-Doh came in just one dud of a color: off-white. When it hit stores as a toy in the 1950s, red, blue, and yellow were added. These days, Play-Doh comes in nearly every color of the rainbow—more than 50 in total—but a consumer poll revealed that fans' favorite colors are Rose Red, Purple Paradise, Garden Green, and Blue Lagoon.
This is the number of pints the body produces of slime each day
Talking of natural slime, your body is one of the best slime factories going. Did you know you produce two pints of body slime (called mucus) every day! It's a really important substance for your body protecting your throat and lungs clear and stopping your body dry out!
Penn and this person born on February 14
Teller
The circumference is approximately 25,000 miles, with a mass of 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons and a surface area of around 200,000,000 square miles.
Earth
This is the world's largest population
LEGO Minifigures are the world’s largest population, with over 4 billion of them around the world!
This is the year Hasbro trademarked the Play-doh scent
Want to smell like Play-Doh? You can! To commemorate the compound’s 50th anniversary, Demeter Fragrance Library worked with Hasbro to make a Play-Doh fragrance, which was developed for “highly-creative people, who seek a whimsical scent reminiscent of their childhood.”
Anyone who has ever popped open a fresh can of Play-Doh knows that there’s something extremely distinctive about the smell. It’s so distinctive that, in early 2017, Hasbro filed for federal protection in order to trademark the scent, which the company describes as “a unique scent formed through the combination of a sweet, slightly musky, vanilla-like fragrance, with slight overtones of cherry, and the natural smell of a salted, wheat-based dough.”
Name two ways slugs use slime
Slugs use their gross slime for protecting their soft bodies whilst they move and climb over rough surfaces. It also protects them from fungal infections, which can cause the slugs to burst! Slugs can also use slime trails to find mates.
Especially if you're a Hagfish. To scare away enemies, hagfish produce LOADS of mucus. When they get stressed, the unique holes lining their eely bodies secrete stuff that reacts with seawater to form sticky, clear slime! According to the stories of unfortunate human Hagfish botherers, a single adult fish can fill 57 and a half coke cans full of slime in minutes!
Astronomer James Bradley presents his discovery of the wobbling motion of the Earth on its axis to the Royal Society, London in this year
1747
The frequency United States discards 220 million tons of outdated computers and other electronic equipment.
one year
How many Lego bricks produced per one million fail?
The moulds used to produce LEGO bricks are accurate to within two-thousandth of a millimeter (0.002 mm!). Because of this high degree of accuracy, there are only around 18 bricks in every million produced that fail to meet the company’s high quality standard.
This is the percent Play-doh could fool fingerprint scanners
When biometric scanners were a bit more primitive, people discovered that you could make a mold of a person’s finger, then squish Play-Doh in the mold to make a replica of the finger that would actually fool fingerprint scanners. Back in 2005, it was estimated that Play-Doh could actually fool 90 percent of all fingerprint scanners. But technology has advanced a lot since then, so don’t go getting any funny ideas. Today's more sophisticated systems aren’t so easily tricked by the doughy stuff.
What is added to create color?
To make slime sticky AND harmless, scientists use two main ingredients: polyvinyl alcohol and borax powder (containing boric acid and sodium borate). When the ingredients are added in the correct amounts, the perfect slime is created. Colour is added using food dye. Legend states that toy slime was made by accident and at first the scientists thought it was useless. That is until a kid got their hands on it and the scientists realized they’d created the worlds greatest toy!
In 1844, John C. Frémont and his party become the first Europeans to discover this lake during his second expedition through the American West
Lake Tahoe