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Now every time you take a picture, the wheel has not quite made it all the way around; maybe it will have gone 350 degrees around, so it's 10 degrees behind the first frame.

 

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The next frame it will have gone another 350 degrees, making it now 20 degrees behind the first frame, and so on. When you play the film back, it will look like the wheel is moving backwards, even though you know it was going forwards.

 

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The opposite effect happens when you take pictures a bit slower than the rotation rate.

 

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. It gets more complicated when the wheel does not rotate at a constant rate, like when a car accelerates.

 

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The next time you watch TV or go to the movies, watch the wheels as a car speeds up.

 

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You might see the wheel appear to go backwards, them stop, then go forwards, all while the car is moving forwards.

 

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The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

 

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If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19.

 

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You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

 

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In the UPC, the lines???the Universal Product Code???hold 11 numbers, each of which is a code that describes the product.

 

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The size, weight, and manufacturer or distributor, for example, are each represented by a number.

 

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The numbers are in the form that computers can read, 0's (black lines) and 1's (white lines).

 

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The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

 

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Eskimos never gamble.

 

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20252 is Smokey the Bear's own zip code.

 

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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.

 

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The external tank on the space shuttle is not painted.

 

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If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium.

 

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Zip code 12345 is assigned to General Electric in Schenectady, NY.

 

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Success magazine recently declared bankruptcy.

 

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The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons.

 

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I call bull shit

 

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prove it

 

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The first crossword puzzle appeared in 1913 in an American paper called "World." It was devised by its editor Arthur Wynne.

 

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It was of 32 words and diamond shaped. There were no black boxes in the puzzle.

 

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Some 30,000,000 Americans slave over crosswords in newspaper, journals, and paperback books.

 

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The hardest crossword puzzles according to experts appear in two British papers: "The London Times" and "Observer."

 

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." Only few readers can complete these and it takes them 2 to 3 hours.

 

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The record time for completing a "Times" puzzle was an incredible 3 minutes and 45 seconds by a British diplomat named Roy Dean in 1970.

 

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The largest crossword puzzle ever published had 2631 clues across and 2922 clues down.