"A typical microwave oven consumes more electricity powering its digital clock than it does heating food."
"Mixing your drinks with diet soda gets you drunk 18% faster than regular soda. "
"In a room with 23 people, there is a 50% chance that two people share a birthday. It’s called the birthday problem."
"Nintendo existed at the same time as the Ottoman Empire. Ottoman Empire dissolved in 1922. Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company."
"The original height of Mount Everest was calculated to be exactly 29,000 feet high, but was publicly declared to be 29,002 feet in order to avoid the impression that an exact height of 29,000 feet was nothing more than a rounded estimate."
"According to former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, presently every two days human beings create as much information as we did from the dawn of time until 2003."
"There’s enough space between the Earth and the moon to fit in the all the rest of the planets in the solar system."
"More than 90 percent of the monarch butterfly population has vanished in the last 25 years. "
"The CFPB found that 61 percent of bank profits from consumer checking accounts come from overdraft and insufficient funds fees."
"This portable, ultra-compact Wi-Fi camera allows you to instantly stream and/or record crystal clear video. You can use it as a security cam, wearable body camera, or as a dash cam in your car. "
"Some Native American tribes intentionally bent trees to mark trails and many of those trees still remain today as hidden monuments."
"Elephants know to come to humans for help (like when they’ve been poisoned) and can find us even over long distances."
"In Colgone, Germany it is common to donate your used Christmas trees to the local zoo. An elephant can eat up to 3 of these trees a day and can also use them to clean their teeth. "
"Seinfeld theme song was redone for each episode in order to match the pacing of Jerry Seinfeld’s monologue in the beginning."
"All domestic golden hamsters are descended from one female, probably the one captured in 1930 in Syria."
"A bilingual individual can be dyslexic in one language, but not the other."
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A typical microwave uses about 0.5 watts in standby, or about 3 kilowatts/year. If its full power is 1000 watts, that would be the equivalent of 3 hours of operation over the course of a year. Since there are 180 minutes in 3 hours, and about 360 days in a year, that would be about the same as using the microwave for 30 seconds a day, or 1 minute every other day.
So, it all depends on your usage pattern, but a typical microwave gets used a lot more than that.
just unplug it. you shold do it with most electric stuff like charger (phone or laptop) or television. just get an extension cord with a switch. it saves alot of money.
Nope. Most switched off devices consume so little that I’d take you 20 years to save the money for the cord with a switch
Maybe in the USofA. Everywhere else on the planet, power actually costs quite a bit of money.
also, most countries don't cook with a microwave by default.
Your existence utter nonsnense
it doesn't even say anything about climate change, but yet here you are, expecting some kind of conspiracy behind everything...
Wiki states Mount Everest to be 29,031 ft - and before measuring this height, there were many attempts of measuring it, leading to very different results.
There was no "it's this seemingly suspicious number, so let's change it a little".
it's even worse than that. I think it's about even bits and bytes, and so your stupid dancing video on tiktok can easily exceed all information known to mankind until 2000...
#16 As a dyslexic, I can guess that their first language is the one they are dyslexic in. The second language is coded differently in the brain and therefore the brain coding style has improved by the time they learn it.
not giving a flying f@#k about something is not necessarily the same thing as accepting. On top of that, to most people, being poor isn't anything they spend time thinking about until they become poor themselves - when it's too late.
whatever. Other ZOOs (Artis Amsterdam for example) also collect the Christmas trees
yes they do. Get your facts straight.