July 31, 2024

The balance beam is a small and thin beam, which is raised by a stand on both sides. These beams are made up of leather-like material. The measurements should be: 4.07 feet in height, 16 feet in length, and 3.9 inches in width. Female gymnasts exclusively perform this event.

- topendsports.com

July 30, 2024

The average MLB pitch speed for fastballs is 93.3 mph. On average, breaking balls like sliders and curveballs are thrown at around 80-85 mph. Relief pitchers typically throw faster pitches compared to starting pitchers, averaging around 95 mph. The average pitch speed for changeups is around 80-85 mph. The slowest average pitch speed in MLB history by a pitcher was around 48 mph.

- gitnux.org (July 17, 2024)

July 29, 2024

The LEGO name is made from the first two letters of the Danish words LEG GODT, meaning “play well.”

- Museum of Science + Industry Chicago

July 28, 2024

In 2005, the National Science Foundation published an article regarding research about human thoughts per day. The average person has about 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day. Of those, 95% are exactly the same repetitive thoughts as the day before and about 80% are negative.

- Dent Neurologic Institute

July 27, 2024

Ice cream cones were invented at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri by concessions vendors as a way for people to eat ice cream easily while they enjoyed the fair.

- Ben & Jerry's (September 12, 2017)

July 26, 2024

Located in the heart of Hartford, Connecticut, this building served as a home to all three branches of Connecticut state government from 1796 to 1878. Some of our state’s most important stories of freedom, democracy, and civic action – from the Amistad and Prudence Crandall trials to the Constitutional Convention of 1818 – connect to this National Historic Landmark.

- Connecticut’s Old State House, wp.cga.ct.gov

July 25, 2024

In 1922, the Commissioner of Health for Chicago had a scale installed in the lobby of City Hall. Any and all passersby were invited to come in, step on, and find out what they weighed. City residents soon flocked to the building and lined up all day long to check their weight. The scale was the hottest ticket in town. Thirty years earlier, most Americans had no idea what they weighed — nor did their physicians. Doctors and hospitals had had scales since the 1870s; they just weren’t a part of standard health evaluations. Certainly, there were sociocultural attitudes and biases about body size and shape, but weight was a subjective concept. It wasn’t until the turn of the century when a confluence of events gave rise to both a massive interest in quantifying weight and the tools to do so — one tool in particular: the bathroom scale.

- Kelsey Miller, medium.com (February 15, 2021)