Most people over the age of 10 have 4 to 6 dreams every night. Those numbers times 365 days in one year makes for between 1,460 and 2,190 dreams every year. We dream during REM periods (which is when we have Rapid Eye Movement in our sleep) which can range anywhere from 5 minutes to half an hour long. In the course of one night this happens multiple times.
"Wait a minute!" you might be thinking, "I don't remember having 4 different dreams in one night, and I certainly don't remember having over 1,000 dreams this year." The fact of the matter is, you forget between 95% to 99% of all the dreams you have. That may seem kind of high, but most of your dreams don't really interest you enough to make you want to remember them.
Dreams are commonplace and don't require enough concentration to force you to remember them. In that sense, they are similar to other routine actions you do throughout the day like driving or tying your shoes. You don't remember most of the time you do those things either.
Source: http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/FAQ/index.html
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
BMW used to manufacture airplanes.
The company we now know as BMW actually started as Rapp-Motorenwerke, a company that manufactured low-quality aircraft engines in a converted bicycle factory near Munich back in 1913. That company later merged with another more successful engine company called Gustav Flugmaschinefabrik, to form Bayerische Flugzeug-Werke (Bavarian Aircraft Works) aka BFW. After securing a contract with the German military they again changed names in 1916 to Bayerische Motore Werke or BMW for short. They then produced the war planes that the Germans used in the first World War.
As part of the Versailles Treaty at the conclusion of WWI, Germany was no longer allowed to produce military aircraft (though, they still did). BMW still secretly produced airplane engines but with the decreased demand for military aircraft engines and a weak post-war German economy, business was struggling. They had to branch out and produce engines for trucks, boats, farming equipment, motorcycles, and finally in 1928, automobiles.
During World War II, BMW found itself producing military vehicles and even rockets for Nazi Germany's military. Though their Munich plant was destroyed during the Allied invasion of Germany, the company survived the war, and was allowed to repair vehicles for the Allied troops during the postwar reconstruction. In the decades after the War, BMW gained international renown for its cars. However, if you look at their logo, it's actually a picture of a propeller, in reference to the company's past.
Source: http://www.bmwdrives.com/bmw-history.php
As part of the Versailles Treaty at the conclusion of WWI, Germany was no longer allowed to produce military aircraft (though, they still did). BMW still secretly produced airplane engines but with the decreased demand for military aircraft engines and a weak post-war German economy, business was struggling. They had to branch out and produce engines for trucks, boats, farming equipment, motorcycles, and finally in 1928, automobiles.
During World War II, BMW found itself producing military vehicles and even rockets for Nazi Germany's military. Though their Munich plant was destroyed during the Allied invasion of Germany, the company survived the war, and was allowed to repair vehicles for the Allied troops during the postwar reconstruction. In the decades after the War, BMW gained international renown for its cars. However, if you look at their logo, it's actually a picture of a propeller, in reference to the company's past.
Source: http://www.bmwdrives.com/bmw-history.php
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Facebook paid $8.5 million to acquire the domain name 'fb.com'.
How much money did Facebook fork over when it acquired Fb.com last year? A cool $8.5 million, more than 42 times the amount the company originally paid for Facebook.com.
In case you were wondering, the previous holder of the domain wasn't an incredibly shrewd domain squatter. It was actually held for a long time by the American Farm Bureau Federation, who owned fb.com to redirect to their actual website, fb.org. Facebook acquired the domain sometime last year from the American Farm Bureau Federation. At its annual meeting in Atlanta, the non-profit revealed that it earned $8.5 million on the sale of fb.com, according to Reuters.
The last high-profile domain purchase by Facebook was for Facebook.com, all the way back when it was known as TheFacebook. The company paid $200,000 in August 2005 to acquire the domain, 42.5 times less than what Facebook spent to acquire fb.com. While the Facebook.com purchase was expensive for the company back then, it’s an investment that has clearly paid off. The company is obviously hoping that fb.com will also pay off.
In case you were wondering, the previous holder of the domain wasn't an incredibly shrewd domain squatter. It was actually held for a long time by the American Farm Bureau Federation, who owned fb.com to redirect to their actual website, fb.org. Facebook acquired the domain sometime last year from the American Farm Bureau Federation. At its annual meeting in Atlanta, the non-profit revealed that it earned $8.5 million on the sale of fb.com, according to Reuters.
The last high-profile domain purchase by Facebook was for Facebook.com, all the way back when it was known as TheFacebook. The company paid $200,000 in August 2005 to acquire the domain, 42.5 times less than what Facebook spent to acquire fb.com. While the Facebook.com purchase was expensive for the company back then, it’s an investment that has clearly paid off. The company is obviously hoping that fb.com will also pay off.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7 am, you will arrive in Honolulu at approximately 7:45 pm the previous day.
Due to a massive gap in time zones, Honolulu is 19 hours behind Tokyo. Subtracting the 7 hour and 45 minute flight time between these two cities gives us a trip difference of 11 hours and 15 min. Therefore, you would actually land in Hawaii more than 11 hours before you left Japan!
Sunday, April 24, 2011
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