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One year ago this week we sent out our first Wolfram Fun Fact! Since then, we have tweeted nearly 200 Wolfram|Alpha-computed facts, gained over 10,000 followers, and received some pretty amazing submissions from those followers.
To celebrate our first birthday, we thought we would share some of our favorite and most popular Wolfram Fun Facts from the past year:
round(log_12(vitaminC in a cubic light year of coffee/kg)))= meaning of lifehttp://bit.ly/hl98zt #FunFact— Wolfram Fun Facts (@WolframFunFacts)March 16, 2011
#FunFact The density of Saturn is less than the density of water. http://bit.ly/fpPOAX#science— Wolfram Fun Facts (@WolframFunFacts) March 30, 2011
#FunFact Which country in the European Union eats the most bananas per capita? http://wolfr.am/o8PvYG— Wolfram Fun Facts (@WolframFunFacts) August 11, 2011
#FunFact: There are almost 8 times more sheep than people in New Zealand wolfr.am/p902sL— Wolfram Fun Facts (@WolframFunFacts) August 24, 2011
#FunFact If Warren Buffett divided his wealth evenly among all living people, how big would your check be? wolfr.am/r2wRKd— Wolfram Fun Facts (@WolframFunFacts) September 28, 2011
#FunFact 10! seconds is exactly 6 weeks. wolfr.am/tZ2B1y— Wolfram Fun Facts (@WolframFunFacts) November 21, 2011
#FunFact 1 donkey power is equivalent to 0.3353 horsepower.wolfr.am/vUnLtx— Wolfram Fun Facts (@WolframFunFacts) December 2, 2011
#FunFact A nanocentury is about Pi seconds long. wolfr.am/AckgUT#math— Wolfram Fun Facts (@WolframFunFacts) January 17, 2012
If every kid in the US left out 2 cookies and a glass of milk for #Santa, how many calories would he eat? wolfr.am/v06Gjf— Wolfram Fun Facts (@WolframFunFacts) December 21, 2011
And some of the best user-submitted Fun Facts:
RT @Chris_Akiki: #FunFact: The energy of 6.8 trillion Big Macs would power the United States for a year. shar.es/32qBF— Wolfram Fun Facts (@WolframFunFacts) February 7, 2011
RT @rigginsconst: It would require 8.4×10^11 gallons of paint to cover the surface of the moon via @WolframFunFacts [That’s a lot of paint!]— Wolfram Fun Facts (@WolframFunFacts) February 2, 2011
Now that’s a #FunFact! RT @tsilb: About 107 billion people have lived. Ever. http://bit.ly/jd9d25 cc @WolframFunFacts— Wolfram Fun Facts (@WolframFunFacts) May 10, 2011
@WolframFunFactsWhy I like WolframAlpha: wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28ep…— briggsian logarithms (@deka_log) November 22, 2011
Don’t worry about not getting us a birthday present. If you really want to get us something, tweet some fun facts that you find in Wolfram|Alpha to @WolframFunFacts. Thanks for all the support, and here’s to another great year of Wolfram Fun Facts!