AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING CXLVI
1. Only married Amish men are allowed to grow beards.
2. The flight deck of an aircraft carrier is one of the most dangerous work places on earth. A single mistake can cause a sailor to be blown off the deck or sucked into a jet engine. The catapult cables that launch the jets thrust a 48,000-pound aircraft 300 feet, from zero to 165 miles per hour in two seconds. The ship is always pitching and rolling, and the noise level during takeoff can cause immediate eardrum rupture (without protection) at 150+ decibels.
3. The Great Wall of China was largely funded through a tax on salt.
4. The city and country with the largest number of homeless people is Manila (3,000,000) and its country, the Philippines (4,500,000).
5. Mel Blanc, known as The Man With 1,000 Voices, voiced Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote, Yosemite Sam, and Pepe Le Pew. His epitaph reads "That's All Folks", which was his sign-off at the end of the Looney Tunes cartoons.
6. The Hindu trinity of gods: SHIVA - the destroyer, BRAHMA - the creator, and VISHNU - the preserver,
7. The Bodhi Tree or "tree of awakening" or "tree of enlightenment" refers to the original tree under which Siddhartha Gautama, the spiritual teacher who became known as the Buddha, is said to have attained enlightenment. According to Buddhist texts, the Buddha meditated without moving from his seat for seven weeks (49 days) under this tree. The Bodhi Tree remains a powerful symbol in Buddhism since it represents a human being's capacity to attain enlightenment and find the joy and peace of Nirvana.
8. A "tomato can" is a boxer or fighter with less or diminished skills. A top tier boxer can easily defeat him, and often schedule fights to build up a history of victories.
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