Welcome, welcome, to our latest edition of Heads-UP! Once again we’ve searched the vast resource known as the internet to bring you the best and most interesting facts. So please read and enjoy…
In its first year of growth, a baby blue whale grows faster than it is possible to eat for a human being. In fact, feeding on the milk of his mother, he grows about 90 kg per day, an average catch of one kilo every 16 minutes. – Lisa
For the longest time on this planet, human beings did not know how babies were conceived. – Laurent
The first ‘portable’ computer was created in the 1950s and it looked like a big 20-ton truck. – Victoria F via Boing Boing
There are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible combinations on a Rubik’s cube. That’s 43 quintillions for short. – Cécile
Fine Watchmaking brand H. Moser & Cie launches a website recently dedicated to creating satire surrounding the industry they’re in. It’s called Pioneer chronicles and even features the brand’s CEO in a number of ‘campaign videos’. -Bill
In 1919, a serial killer named the Axeman of New Orleans sent a letter to the newspapers that on the night of March 19 he would kill again, but would spare any place where jazz was playing. That night New Orleans’ dance halls were fully filled, including many jazz house parties and there were no murders that night. – Lynn