This is Ed Ranks Everything's 200th post. Remember how I ranked my first 100 rankings as my 100th post? Well, I'm not doing any nonsense like that again.
This is an article written in 2011 that I found when doing a quick Google search about the number 200. And that's about the limit of my ambitions for putting any research into this set of rankings. I will rank the facts about 200 presented in this article. Yep, that's it. The bold is what the article says (or a summary thereof). The regular text is my snarky commentary.
14. The Roman Emperor during 200AD was Septimius Severus - This was clearly a
copy/paste fact where they looked at the Wikipedia entry for 200AD and
then when writing the article forgot to mention why they mentioned him with relation
to 200AD. The article just states he was emperor at the time and was born in Africa. Wikipedia
notes that he visited Syria that year, which is what the article writers
probably forgot to include. Dumbasses.
13. 200 years before the article was written in 2011, the French admiral Louis-Antoine de Bougainville died, aged 81 - Literally nobody knows who this is.
12. The Greek mathematician Diophantus of Alexandria was born in 200AD - Literally nobody knows who this is.
11. In Greek mythology, Typhon the Titan, “father of all monsters” had 200 fire-flashing eyes, two for each of his 100 heads - I think they're cheating with this factoid. Technically the fact is that Typhon has 100 heads. Having 200 eyes is just a sub-fact to his 100 heads. This fact might as well be that he has 200 nostrils or 200 ears.
10. The “classical” period of Mayan civilization began in Central America around 200AD - Around 200? That's not even specifically 200. VAGUE!
9. Two hundred Japanese executives die on the golf course each year - I can find nothing to verify this factoid. This seems like bullshit to me.
8. The Japanese sent a huge fleet to invade Korea in 200AD - This is the entity of the factoid provided. I wish there was some follow-up. Did they win? Did they lose? You don't expect me to do my OWN research, do you?
7. Each dandelion flower head produces 200 seeds - Sure, that's sort of interesting.
6. The world’s human population in 200AD is estimated to have been 257 million - By 2018 statistics, that's less than the current population of Indonesia (266 million).
5. A quarter of the world’s wealth is controlled by just 200 companies - That's an interesting fact! Depressing... but interesting.
4. Jean-Antoine Nollet, the Abbot of the Grand Convent of Carthusians in Paris, performed an experiment where he linked 200 monks together and electrocuted them to show how fast electricity moves - Yeah, this is exactly what random factoids are all about. I LOVE this factoid!
3. Two hundred miles a day was the average daily distance covered by the Pony Express - Gosh golly, that's interesting! I feel so much smarter now that I know this.
2. In the Old Testament, David bought his wife with a dowry of 200 Philistine foreskins (by murdering 200 people, of course) - Remember to live your lives according to the great morals taught to you in the bible, kids! Women are property that you can buy and mass murder is A-OK so long as you do it to a different race/culture/religion!
1. In 1991, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mozart’s death in 1791, Triumph International, Japan’s second-largest lingerie company, made a musical bra with blinking lights which played 20 seconds of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. But Mozart didn't actually write Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - Oh, Japan!
This is an article written in 2011 that I found when doing a quick Google search about the number 200. And that's about the limit of my ambitions for putting any research into this set of rankings. I will rank the facts about 200 presented in this article. Yep, that's it. The bold is what the article says (or a summary thereof). The regular text is my snarky commentary.
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| Inventor of the eye roll. |
13. 200 years before the article was written in 2011, the French admiral Louis-Antoine de Bougainville died, aged 81 - Literally nobody knows who this is.
12. The Greek mathematician Diophantus of Alexandria was born in 200AD - Literally nobody knows who this is.
11. In Greek mythology, Typhon the Titan, “father of all monsters” had 200 fire-flashing eyes, two for each of his 100 heads - I think they're cheating with this factoid. Technically the fact is that Typhon has 100 heads. Having 200 eyes is just a sub-fact to his 100 heads. This fact might as well be that he has 200 nostrils or 200 ears.
10. The “classical” period of Mayan civilization began in Central America around 200AD - Around 200? That's not even specifically 200. VAGUE!
9. Two hundred Japanese executives die on the golf course each year - I can find nothing to verify this factoid. This seems like bullshit to me.
8. The Japanese sent a huge fleet to invade Korea in 200AD - This is the entity of the factoid provided. I wish there was some follow-up. Did they win? Did they lose? You don't expect me to do my OWN research, do you?
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| Go ahead and count 'em |
6. The world’s human population in 200AD is estimated to have been 257 million - By 2018 statistics, that's less than the current population of Indonesia (266 million).
5. A quarter of the world’s wealth is controlled by just 200 companies - That's an interesting fact! Depressing... but interesting.
4. Jean-Antoine Nollet, the Abbot of the Grand Convent of Carthusians in Paris, performed an experiment where he linked 200 monks together and electrocuted them to show how fast electricity moves - Yeah, this is exactly what random factoids are all about. I LOVE this factoid!
3. Two hundred miles a day was the average daily distance covered by the Pony Express - Gosh golly, that's interesting! I feel so much smarter now that I know this.
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| A trophy-collecting, weirdo serial killer. |
1. In 1991, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mozart’s death in 1791, Triumph International, Japan’s second-largest lingerie company, made a musical bra with blinking lights which played 20 seconds of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. But Mozart didn't actually write Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - Oh, Japan!
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