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Blog City – Day 255

Prompt: This month is Mickey Mouse's Birthday. Let's write about him and his friends.

November 18, 1928.
Mickey first was seen in a single test screening (Plane Crazy). Mickey officially debuted in the short film Steamboat Willie (1928), one of the first sound cartoons. He went on to appear in over 130 films, including The Band Concert (1935), Brave Little Tailor (1938), and Fantasia (1940). Mickey appeared primarily in short films, but also occasionally in feature-length films. Ten of Mickey's cartoons were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, one of which, Lend a Paw, won the award in 1942. In 1978, Mickey became the first cartoon character to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (this is from Wikipedia).
I also did not realize that the first person to be Mickey's voice was Walt Disney himself.
Really remarkable.

Welcome To My Reality – Week Forty – Seven

5. Choose an interesting science fact and share it with us.

First physics law of cartoons.... gravity will not work until you look down. (think of the coyote in the road runner cartoon)

If you apply an electric current to a pickle, the salt in it acts as a conductor and will cause the pickle to glow in the dark.

Some interesting bits:

Rabbits and parrots can see behind themselves without even moving their heads!

Butterflies taste food by standing on top of it! Their taste receptors are in their feet unlike humans who have most on their tongue.

Most of the dust in your home is actually dead skin! Yuck!

Although the Stegosaurus dinosaur was over 9 metres long, its brain was only the size of a walnut.

Humans get a little taller in space because there is no gravity pulling down on them.

Because of the unusual shape of their legs, kangaroos and emus struggle to walk backwards.

A hippopotamus may seem huge but it can still run faster than a man.

Even if an analog clock is broken, at least it shows the correct time twice a day.

Sneezing with your eyes open is impossible.

The trickiest tongue twister in the English language is apparently "Sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick". Give it a try and see for yourself.

From http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/funny.html

Personally, I like the law of cartoons.