Interesting facts about yo-yo

Interesting facts about yo-yo


The most interesting fact about the yo-yo is that 'The yoyo is one of the world’s oldest toys. It actually comes in second place, behind the doll.'

• Yo-yos are now one of the hottest toy collectibles and many models have values in the 100’s even thousands of dollars. 
• The earliest surviving yo-yo dates to 500 BCE and was made using terra cotta skin disks.
• In 1978, dentist and yo-yo celebrity Tom Kuhn patented the “No Jive 3-in-1” yo-yo, creating the world's first "take-apart" yo-yo, which enabled yo-yo players to change the axle.
• Originally manufacturing yo-yos from wood, yo-yo technology improved in the 1960s when the industry switched to plastic. Benefits of a plastic yo-yo include the uniform weight distribution only possible with plastic, as the natural variations in wood density are undesirable for an even spin.
• The 1980’s were an important stage for yoyos. The first clutch (come back without pulling) yoyo was invented by the yomega yoyo company and so were the first ball bearing yoyos. 
• The first metal yoyos were created and in the 1990’s the yoyo world championships started.
• The current highest price paid for a collectible yo-yo is $16,029.00.
• One of the most famous tricks on the yo-yo is "walk the dog". This is done by throwing a strong sleeper and allowing the yo-yo to roll across the floor, before tugging it back to the hand.
• English historical names for the yo-yo include bandalore (from French) and quiz. French historical terms include bandalore, incroyable, de Coblenz, emigrette, and joujou de Normandie (joujou meaning little toy)                                                    
• Most modern yo-yos are made from a "take-apart" design, designed to be taken easily apart and reassembled by the player. This design was first created by Tom Kuhn. This enables the replacement of yo-yo components, including the string, renewable friction sources, or even trans-axle components.
• A number of yo-yo accessories are available as "after-market" modifications—players buy items separately from the yo-yo to augment performance over the original model shipped from the factory.
• Some yo-yoers have their yo-yo modified (or modded) by themselves or by a yo-yo 'Modder' to achieve desired performance.
• The operation of a yo-yo comes from rotational inertia causing the string to be wound in the opposite direction returning the yo-yo. When the string is connected to the shaft with a loop, the yo-yo will continue to spin at the end of the string instead of returning, unless the yo-yo is jerked slightly allowing the slack string to bind and allowing return.
• The World Yo-Yo Contest is held every year in Orlando, Florida and is hosted by YoYoGuy.comduring early August or late July.  This contest takes the winners from national yo-yo contests around the world and pits them against each other.
• Japanese players in particular have risen to the top of the yo-yo world. The eleven-time, double-handed world champion Shinji Saito—considered the best in the world—is Japanese.

Interesting posts:

Florida Doctor Collects Yo-Yos - Story of 'Meisenheimer' a dermatologist who loves collecting yo-yos. With nearly 6,000, he owns the largest yo-yo collection in the world.

Interesting facts about toilegami

Sometimes, when you go into a fancy hotel, you find the end of the toilet paper roll folded up into an interesting shape.  We know that these folds are called origami but this form of toilet paper art is called “toilegami.”

  Toilet paper origami is called 'Toilegami' and it is practiced in many hotels worldwide. Basically, the cleaning staff folds the first piece of toilet paper on the roll into a shape. It is not only a marketing trick but there are two main reasons of adopting this creative art in toilets.

Purpose of toilegami:

1. It is a way of assuring guests that the bathroom has been cleaned.
2. To impress or delight guests with the management's creativity and attention to details. 

 Interesting facts:

• Stephen Gill, a British photographer has published a book of pictures of folded hotel toilet paper from various nations. 
•  An automated toilet paper folding machine called Meruboa was invented in Japan. With the push of a lever the device folds the first sheet of toilet paper into a triangle. 
• As part of a $1 billion renovation of the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, in 2006, the typical triangular fold practice was stopped as one of a number of changes in order to give customers an impression that the hotel was special. 
• The Eldorado Hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico, also imprints its name and logo on the ends of its toilet paper — a practice done by supervisors checking the work of the housekeepers 
• The Tickle Pink Inn, a motel in Carmel Highlands, California, folds the ends of its toilet paper into fan-like designs, mirroring the folds of its bathroom washcloths Hotel toilet paper folding is such an institution that in the horror movie 1408 it is used as one of the eerie happenings noticed by the main character—after using the toilet paper, he finds it mysteriously has been freshly folded over. 

Toilet paper folding or toilegami has attracted the attention of observers within the hotel industry and beyond it, involving both sober discussion of the practice as a marketing move as well as wry commentary with various degrees of seriousness. The practice has been considered an emblematic example of a meme copied across the world from a hotel to another until the point that most of them now do it.

Source of pictures: 'tporigami'

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Interesting facts about the day and year you were born

Our day of birth, month, year or time is not only important to get a birth certificate which is an important document to prove your age. Your horoscope is also judged by your birth date, and knowing your horoscope shows some personality trends which help you define what kind of characteristics you may have etc.
This article is about having fun while searching for information or related facts about the day or year you were born.

'Day of Birth' offers interesting facts about the day and year you were born. It is quite easy to use the site, as you need to enter your birth date at provided box and next page tells you the day of the week that you were born on.

Site tells you other fun things such as: your star sign, how old you are, what season you were born in, how long until your next birthday, and how many days/hours/seconds you have been alive (assuming 12:00 midnight so the last two are approximations only). All times and dates are calculated to 12AM on your date of birth, with times based on GMT Standard Time.

The site also provides links to other websites, so you can find more information such as famous people or events that share your birthday.

Related and useful sites:

* '0800-Horoscope' offers free horoscopes and astrology information and you can get your free birth chart by entering your birth date for free.

* 'Birth time.info'  is another site  with information about horoscope, birth chart, etc.

Discover interesting and fun facts around you at - 'Uphaa'

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'Uphaa.com' is one of the top 50000 sites in the world and it gets more than 1 million readers each month. It provides the odd, funny and bizarre things around the world.



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