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https://www.mariokart64.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl General >> General Discussion >> Post a random interesting fact here! https://www.mariokart64.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1505969051 Message started by Rusty on 09/20/17 at 20:44:11 |
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Title: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Rusty on 09/20/17 at 20:44:11 Subject explains a lot. I'll start. The Babylonian storm god Enlil was so sacred, he was never shown in a personified form. He was instead depicted as a horned cap worn by gods. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Antistar on 09/21/17 at 01:53:52 If I'm correct: Denzel Washington refused a kiss scene with Julia Roberts in The Pelican Brief just because he didn't want to perform any love scene with a white woman. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Master Kek on 09/21/17 at 02:57:36 Random facts are my specialty. I have like 50 books of random shit There are 50 words in Green Eggs and Ham. 49 of them have one syllable |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Orange Slices on 09/21/17 at 04:07:59 Ohio is 3 syllables while being 4 letters long |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Rusty on 09/21/17 at 06:31:48 15392B2C3D2A131D13580 wrote:
I believe it was because he was challenged to write a book using 50 words or less. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Timothy on 09/21/17 at 07:52:41 A duck quack does in fact echo. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by ROM on 09/21/17 at 08:04:45 April 1, 1976 : Ronald Wayne founds Apple Inc, with Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. He receives 10% stake of Apple April 12, 1976 : He sells all his shares for 800 $ thinking the debts of the company would impact his personal assets September 2017 : 10% of Apple roughly represents 75 billion US $. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Master Kek on 09/21/17 at 08:15:49 Apple made a gaming system in the 90s complete with a wireless controller |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Antistar on 09/21/17 at 10:06:43 383231322C324B0 wrote:
I knew it only because of the "random fact" telling the opposite which was often criticized because it was fake. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Saint Nicholas de la USA on 09/21/17 at 23:26:53 No human has ever been able to remain airbone for more than a full second while jumping. (assuming the landing point not lower than where the jump began) Try it. You will always land no more than one second after you leave the ground. Nobody really understands exactly how a bicycle works, from a physics point of view. Virtually any house cat can outrun Usain Bolt. (go ahead, try to chase down a cat) There is no record of a human ever being killed by piranhas. Lightning is just as likely to be ground-to-cloud as it is to be cloud-to-ground, meaning that the earth releases its charge. (Most lightning, however, is cloud-to-cloud) The country of Samoa skipped December 30, 2011 entirely when it changed its time zone from GMT-12 to GMT+12, effectively moving the International Date Line from its west side to its east side. The country did this to be on the same day as Australia, which has been its largest trading partner as of late. Switzerland has special bombs throughout its road network that can be detonated to render the roads impassible in the event of a foreign invasion. The Greek national anthem contains more than 100 verses in full, and nobody has ever been known to memorize the entire song. Whether we realize it or not, when most of us memorize digits, we remember them lexically. In languages where the words for numbers are shorter, native speakers can memorize more digits. While the average English speaker can remember seven digits, the average Cantonese speaker can memorize ten. (Sapir-Whorf at work!) There are no incorporated municipalities in the state of Hawaii. All cities and towns in the state-- including Honolulu-- are considered "census-designated places", which is what the U.S. Census Bureau uses when counting the populations of towns that aren't officially towns (because they are not incorporated). In other words, Hawaii officially has no cities or towns. Conversely, in New England states (and New Jersey) all land is incorporated, except the most rural parts of Maine. Every location in these states is part of a "town" (basically a European-style municipality/commune). In New Jersey they have cities, towns, villages, and townships but they are all incorporated places. Loving County, Texas is the least populated county in the United States, with fewer than 100 people. The arid western county and its seat, Mentone, were featured in a 2000 issue of National Geographic. The only two highways that pass through Loving county are Texas 302 (which goes through Mentone) and FM 652 which goes through the even more remote northwest portion of the county en route to New Mexico. (they do not intersect in the county, either) There are a few other unusually remote counties in the West and Midwest, e.g. Daggett County in Utah. Some Nebraska counties are pretty remote as well, having well under 1,000 people. This is probably common knowledge (especially in Europe) but Spain has two cities, Ceuta and Melilla, which are entirely on the African continent, meaning that Spain actually has a land border with Morocco (which has to be guarded heavily). These two cities were officially part of the region of Andalucia until they received autonomy in the 1990s, meaning that neither city belongs to any region or province of Spain. Spain also has a small town, Llívia, which is surrounded entirely by France. I believe it is part of the Girona province, Catalonia. (Likewise, Germany and Italy each have a small town surrounded by Switzerland, and let's not begin to get into Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassau...) |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by ROM on 09/22/17 at 01:27:43 https://www.google.com/patents/US6115036?dq=inassignee:%22Nintendo+Co+Ltd%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjdpO3Ws5jKAhUS2WMKHYTJA5c4KBDoAQhKMAY This patent from Nintendo describes "a device that permits a user to modify any of the game's moving objects, background screens, music or sound effects" Yes, Nintendo thought about Super Mario Maker as soon as 1994 :) |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono Krysster on 09/22/17 at 05:32:35 @Reply #9 by Nicholas Harvey: I like the fact that ROM added a source, 'cause some facts posted in this topic (like in your list Nick) could be biased, if not BS [smiley=flush.gif] Remember: the distortion of reality is only allowed in Your weirdest dreams -- Meme/Gif -- Fap/sex -- and The end times could be very, very soon, topics! :-* lol -There is no evidence of God's existence and there is no evidence of God's non-existence! Paradoxically, having no proof and no source to show make religion one of the truest facts you'll ever read. -All the American Flags On the Moon Are Now White! .source (https://gizmodo.com/5930450/all-the-american-flags-on-the-moon-are-now-white) -There's Poop on the Moon! .source + link of a list of things left on the Moon (https://gizmodo.com/theres-poop-on-the-moon-1679070982) "96 bags of urine, feces, and vomit" ... "Astrobiologists, for instance, hope to one day inspect that half-century-old feces to see if the crap has undergone any genetic mutations while in space." -No Australian Open Tennis Championships has been played in 1986! "From 1982 to 1985, the tournament was played in mid-December. Then it was decided to move the next tournament to mid-January (January 1987), which meant there was no tournament in 1986. Since 1987, the Australian Open date has not changed"~en.wikipedia.org" 04393B64646161560 wrote:
Can you find something before 1994? This is a clue: SNES game from 1992 named Mario... 062A383F2E39000E004B0 wrote:
Yup and you're referring to the Apple Bandai Pipp!n from 1996 using infrared rays, the Playdia by Bandai using infrared rays did it too in 1994, also wireless controllers (infrared rays) existed on the SNES and Genesis even before, NES, and the first wireless controller was for the Atari 2600 and you can still buy them on eBay. .source (http://retrovolve.com/the-first-wireless-controller-was-for-the-atari-2600/) .source (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4C1ZwEub0Po/S-Hef8tjcrI/AAAAAAAABoY/FKgb7qRcm10/s1600/wireless_2600_ad.jpg) -Nintendo's first arcade video game is 'Laser Clay Shooting System' in 1973 and the arcade video game 'EVR Race' in 1975 is the first one from Nintendo based on racing --horse racing and car racing-- 17 years prior to SMK! .source EVR Race 1 (http://blog.beforemario.com/2017/09/the-evr-mystery-solved-sort-of.html) .source EVR Race 2 (http://blog.beforemario.com/2012/06/nintendo-evr-race-evr-1975.html) .source Laser Clay Shooting System & more (https://kotaku.com/the-gun-game-that-nearly-broke-nintendo-5794640) |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Rusty on 09/22/17 at 06:24:38 The first known correspondence calling Japan Nihon (land of the rising sun) was a letter sent from Japan's Prince Shoutoku to the Chinese emepror. It reads: "From the sovereign of the land of the rising sun (nihon/hi izuru) to the sovereign of the land of the setting sun. How are you doing?" |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Mr.Nosey on 09/22/17 at 09:11:23 7C5B515A5D5E53416D7A534044574B320 wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_and_motorcycle_dynamics I thought your first point about 1 second airtime seemed fishy too, but after a quick google it seems that it's reasonable enough. My contribution, the word factoid means a false or incorrect fact. But the meaning has now obviously changed because everyone uses it to refer to 'small' facts like the ones in this thread. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Master Kek on 09/22/17 at 10:25:09 You've never actually seen your face; only pictures and reflections of it |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Etch on 09/22/17 at 14:14:41 Suffice to say, not everyone in a topic about facts are posting facts...moving on! [smiley=flush.gif] 11282329292E3F286D6D6D5A0 wrote:
Holy shit, so the French landed on the Moon first after all! Wait, then that means you...no it can't be... 0F363D3737302136737373440 wrote:
Sure seems that way, my brother from a different mother?!? As for my fun fact, I've had a contact explosive go off in my left hand and made out with minor injuries! http://www.mariokart64.com/mkds/archives/lold.jpg |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Harambey on 09/26/17 at 22:14:38 http://https://i.pinimg.com/736x/56/eb/97/56eb97fae756999c42d7cd1ea7d79a90--pine-apple-funniest-pictures.jpg English sucks ;D |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Master Kek on 09/27/17 at 04:27:15 0A2330232F20273B737A72420 wrote:
But what is ananas in Japanese? |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Saint Nicholas de la USA on 09/27/17 at 07:42:03 The Japanese just borrow the English word, according to my Merriam-Websters Japanese-English dictionary it's painappuru (written in katakana). Spanish is one other major language that doesn't use ananas or a variant thereof; in Spanish the word for pineapple is piña. While we're on the subject of dumb English fruit names, let's not forget about our friend the GRAPEFRUIT! Dumb fruit names aren't exclusive to English, however; in both French and German, the name for a potato translates as "earth apple". |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Kleenex on 09/27/17 at 08:35:23 183F353E393A3725091E372420332F560 wrote:
We also have an equivalent of potato though ;D |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Harambey on 09/27/17 at 08:45:35 Ground potatoes! Called like that because, unlike other potato varieties, they grow in the ground! Well, that makes |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Master Kek on 09/27/17 at 09:21:55 694E444F484B4654786F465551425E270 wrote:
Aren't potatoes vegetables though? |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Saint Nicholas de la USA on 09/27/17 at 13:48:25 Yes, but one thing they aren't is apples. Every language has its share of misnomers, really. English just stands out as having a lot. The guinea pig is neither a pig nor is it from Guinea (or New Guinea). A lot of misnomers are the result of corruption-- taking a foreign word and replacing it with an English word that just sounds similar but doesn't mean the same thing. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Etch on 09/27/17 at 14:41:30 It's more of a cognate than anything, literally transliterated... But yea, some words are just that way because they are! lol |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Saint Nicholas de la USA on 09/27/17 at 19:11:57 The record for firing an arrow the farthest distance with a bow, is held by a man with no arms. There are whales alive today who were around when Herman Melville wrote Moby Dick. Beneath the Nile is an even larger underground river. On rare occasion, a location will be temporarily declared to be the territory of another country. The maternity ward in a Canadian hospital was declared to be Dutch territory so that a Dutch princess could be born there and legally be born in the Netherlands. There was also a court whose nationality was temporarily changed so that a specific trial could take place there (sorry, I don't know any details). A few soldiers buried outside of their home countries have also had their grave plot ceded to their home countries; e.g. there are graves of British soldiers on North Carolina's outer banks whose plots officially belong to the United Kingdom. I think the United States also owns the gravesites of its WWII soldiers buried in Normandy (as seen in Saving Private Ryan). If current demographic trends continue, it is estimated that by the year 3000 there will be no Japanese people left in the world, due to their low fertility rate. (I would also imagine that the world would be running out of Russians-- heck, any white people for that matter-- by this time as well) There is a language in Spain's Canary Islands that consists entirely of whistling. Not a bad idea if you think about it, any language without consonant sounds can be understood over longer distances (no doubt also the reason why yodeling was invented) and is a lot less likely to be misunderstood. Actually any time you mishear or otherwise fail to correctly understand another person's speech (i.e. asking someone to repeat something), there's a good chance you still heard the correct vowels, just not the consonants. People with hearing loss tend to miss distinguishing consonant sounds since the consonant sounds are higher in frequency. (One must wonder why there aren't more consonant-free languages in the world, if consonants are an obstacle to the comprehension of speech. Aeieaio uu iai eai oi eiioo auaao?) I'll let the picture speak for itself for this next bit of trivia: http://pbs.twimg.com/media/B7BhvH3IYAAps4u.jpg:large A similar case could be made for some Chinese cities, even Shanghai. You can determine the gender of an Icelander just by their last name. Men have surnames (er, sir-names?) ending in -sson while women's last names end in -dottír. (The suffixes mean "son" and "daughter", of course.) I suppose that transgender Icelanders would switch to the other suffix? Nobody knows who wrote Beowulf. Nobody is sure where the Basque language originated from. We aren't even sure if Japanese has any relatives. Ainu (the language-- and also the name-- of Japan's indigenous people) isn't even related to it. Most bizarrely, the language that has been found to have the most resemblances to Japanese is-- get ready for this-- Zuni, spoken in New Mexico by Native Americans on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. There is an aboriginal language in Australia that has no words for "left" or "right". This is significant because it forces its speakers to think of everything in terms of north/south/east/west. I'm not sitting in front of my computer right now, I'm sitting west of it. This kind of lexicon may seem like it's making it unnecessarily cumbersome to communicate relative locations, but because their language forces them to imagine everything as north/south/east/west, members of the tribe that speak it are incredibly good at navigation. (And we call it the Sapir-Whorf "hypothesis".) In some languages, especially in Asia, verbs have no tenses. The same form of the verb is used whether the action is happening in the past, present, or future. e.g. In 1985, Ronald Reagan is the President of the United States. Next week, I am 33 years old. etc. This lack of tenses is believed to make Asians better at planning for the future. It forces them to think of the future as something that exists, rather than something that doesn't exist yet. Heck, some astrophysicists think that "time" is merely a sensation experienced by the observer and that all points in time-- from the Big Bang to the heat death of the universe and everything in between-- dinosaurs, Jesus Christ, the Middle Ages, the disco era of the '70s-- exists simultaneously. Elvis is still alive, but in a time period that we aren't currently observing. The 26th century in which mankind is colonizing planets all across the Milky Way (or, alternatively, languishing on a decaying Earth ruined by their own stupidity, Idiocracy-style) is already here. It always has been here, it's just that we're not currently observing ourselves there. "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." -Einstein |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by JawsTheShark on 09/27/17 at 20:00:48 Here's a true fact: Most "facts" in this thread are propaganda. The only true fact is "EXPERIENCE." Otherwise, it's made up. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono Krysster on 09/28/17 at 00:00:09 09223430172B26102B223128430 wrote:
http://img110.xooimage.com/files/b/5/a/grjj-532247b.png Wooow! Hey fishman you are the only propaganda on the MB, I warn you comrade you are in the wrong topic here we talk about fact not fap and I'm gonna give you the "EXPERIENCE" you are facting-- first check the tree of knowledge above! ::) Done?! As you can see facts are part of Social Sciences and SSs are the current state that evolution has reached, for now, and you are saying: "the only true fact is experience", ok so guess when experience started by looking at the picture once again! ::) Done?! Yeah, this is the true algorithm of life and experience so you are 5.800.000 years late, maybe even 700 million lol, no matter what (or when) you retard-- beware Jaws I don't have to wonder anymore why your name sounds like Sharknado, ok? ;D No propaganda; facts are right or maybe half biased half bullshit (@Reply #24?) but not propaganda! Oh and you're fired by the way so go to pool and fap or pee IDC, but then poop your shit in the NoFap Thread only next time please thank you! [smiley=lolk.gif] http://img110.xooimage.com/files/7/f/5/djfjk-53225ca.png #Heresatruefact |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Kleenex on 09/28/17 at 09:00:19 I always thought potatos were starches of whatever how do you call that :-? |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by JawsTheShark on 09/28/17 at 09:07:23 5E676C6666617067222222150 wrote:
http://img110.xooimage.com/files/b/5/a/grjj-532247b.png Wooow! Hey fishman you are the only propaganda on the MB, I warn you comrade you are in the wrong topic here we talk about fact not fap and I'm gonna give you the "EXPERIENCE" you are facting-- first check the tree of knowledge above! ::) Done?! As you can see facts are part of Social Sciences and SSs are the current state that evolution has reached, for now, and you are saying: "the only true fact is experience", ok so guess when experience started by looking at the picture once again! ::) Done?! Yeah, this is the true algorithm of life and experience so you are 5.800.000 years late, maybe even 700 million lol, no matter what (or when) you retard-- beware Jaws I don't have to wonder anymore why your name sounds like Sharknado, ok? ;D No propaganda; facts are right or maybe half biased half bullshit (@Reply #24?) but not propaganda! Oh and you're fired by the way so go to pool and fap or pee IDC, but then poop your shit in the NoFap Thread only next time please thank you! [smiley=lolk.gif] http://img110.xooimage.com/files/7/f/5/djfjk-53225ca.png #Heresatruefact[/quote] Thanks for proving my point. You have NO life experience, you confessed the previous in this post quoted. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by EgixBacon on 09/28/17 at 10:04:48 Annnnnyway, getting back on topic... Here are some other languages where the word for 'pineapple' is NOT some variation of 'ananas' (sourced from Wikipedia): Afrikaans: Pynappel Atikamekw (indigenous language spoken in Quebec): Cikokominan Min Nan Chinese: Ông-lâi Min Dong Chinese: Uòng-lì Tagalog/Central Bikol/Pampanga (all different regional languages spoken in the Philippines): Pinya Mongolian: [ch1061][ch1072][ch1085] [ch1073][ch1086][ch1088][ch1075][ch1086][ch1094][ch1086][ch1081] (Khan borgotsoy) Nahuatl (indigenous language of Mexico): Matzahtli Fijian: Vainaviu Tahitian: Painapo Quechua (indigenous language of South America): Chirimaway Northern Sotho: Phaeneapole Tongan: Fain[ch257] Vietnamese: D[ch7913]a Please note that I haven't included any languages that I don't know how to read (e.g. Hindi, Arabic, other languages that use similar scripts). In case you're wondering about Welsh, our word for it is pîn-afal (pronounced 'peen-a-val') but Welsh Wikipedia doesn't seem to have a page for that. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Diamond. on 09/28/17 at 12:14:10 072C3A3E1925281E252C3F264D0 wrote:
You'd make a great teacher Jaws. Have you ever considered becoming one? |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Antistar on 09/29/17 at 00:53:23 What if he's actually already one? We know few things about the man. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Master Kek on 09/29/17 at 02:55:33 5C7063787E2927110 wrote:
He's not a man. He's a shark |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono Krysster on 09/29/17 at 07:05:05 290E07070C071A620 wrote:
We also have an equivalent of potato though ;D[/quote] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBuZ8pUdaOI[/media] I guess if Nicholas will get la patate French prank without subtitles or googling ;D but I like how they use the potato camera meme in the U.S.-- you still have your potato as phone Nick?-- fact! 5B767E7270717B527E6C6B7A6D1F0 wrote:
You'd make a great teacher Jaws. Have you ever considered becoming one?[/quote] Be sure he's already an awesome teacher and if one day I need a Ph.D. in bullshit I'll subscribe to him [smiley=roll.gif] 2C00121504132A242A610 wrote:
He's not a man. He's a shark[/quote] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7kWioiyKik[/media] Don't worry, a shark trapped in a pool isn't 2oo Dangerous at all, and btw I'll handle 'little fish man' in the NoFap Thread... ;D (I warned him, right!) http://https://i.imgur.com/o2ZUCa9.png #EndOfBrainwashing |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by JawsTheShark on 09/29/17 at 20:11:29 6E434B4745444E674B595E4F582A0 wrote:
You'd make a great teacher Jaws. Have you ever considered becoming one?[/quote] You assume I'm dense enough to believe this is a sincere post? ;D Nah, I work for a bank. Better opportunities here! |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Saint Nicholas de la USA on 09/29/17 at 21:56:41 I get it... you're a loan shark! ;D |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Diamond. on 09/30/17 at 05:04:12 I think you should consider becoming a part time teacher, Jaws. I bet you have tons of experience which makes you full of knowledge |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono Krysster on 09/30/17 at 07:48:40 6E434B4745444E674B595E4F582A0 wrote:
5B706662457974427970637A110 wrote:
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Remember Jaws: 416C64686A6B61486476716077050 wrote:
The neverending trolling story of Diamond! (undoubtedly) ;D ;D ;D 5D766064437F72447F76657C170 wrote:
1E352327003C31073C35263F540 wrote:
The neverending bullshit story of JawsTheShark? (idk) [smiley=ninja.gif] #TheManVersusFact |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Etch on 09/30/17 at 08:17:57 http://i.imgur.com/e78eNuR.png |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono Krysster on 09/30/17 at 08:52:16 712B707278707A2E2E1B0 wrote:
Yep I love it Master 8-) but tell me what do you think about my card 'cause I prefer this one.. http://img110.xooimage.com/files/c/0/2/vcntre-53265cb.png ..and you know why?!-- this paper is flexible as me, just a little bit strEtchy as you, and switchable for cleaning shark poop off no matter how [smiley=happy.gif] |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Etch on 09/30/17 at 09:06:00 Good question, deserves a poll... Front because it was printed that way, lol. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Supy on 09/30/17 at 19:02:36 Front roll all the way. Drives me nuts when I'm at someone's house and they have a back roll. I'll flip it to a front roll ;D |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Antistar on 10/01/17 at 00:21:42 2F752E2C262E247070450 wrote:
Both front and back are cool, we just need to alternate. (oh this is about toilet paper? okay sorry) |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by TvL on 10/02/17 at 04:47:30 In spite of what a well-known song would have you believe, lions don't live in jungles and they sleep during the day. At no point in any of the Tarzan books does he swing on a vine. Coal-fired power stations emit more radiation than nuclear plants, due to trace amounts of uranium and thorium in coal that are released by burning it. The world's largest tyre manufacturer is LEGO. The nazi-salute is often believed to have been used by the Romans, but there is no contemporary statue, painting or literary reference describing this gesture. The first known appearance is in a 1784 French painting. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Antistar on 10/02/17 at 05:49:21 675B5C5E52406C457F330 wrote:
wat |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Harambey on 10/02/17 at 05:56:39 6A46554E481F11270 wrote:
wat[/quote] Yup, 318 MILLION of those tiny toy tyres a year. Apparently the Guinness Book of World Records counts them as real tyres. Now other tyre manufacturers can totally forget their hopes of getting this record [smiley=kickbutt.gif] |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono Krysster on 10/03/17 at 06:31:21 If God has not forgotten you on Planet Earth you could live 44.725 days at best, but if you are the next 'forgotten' you have a chance to beat Jeanne Calment's World Record by only one day! If God exists, it's a fact! ;D http://https://i.imgur.com/O2Zad1C.gif |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by ROM on 10/03/17 at 07:36:33 There are many counterintuitive statements that can be formulated with the birthday paradox, and one that always amazes me, which is probably the most known is the following : In a classroom of 23 students, there's 50% chance that two of them are born the same day. This number rises to 99,9% for a classroom of 70 students. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Master Kek on 10/03/17 at 07:38:11 764F444E4E49584F0A0A0A3D0 wrote:
I can't accomplish anything in 44.725 days :( |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by ALAKTORN on 10/03/17 at 09:24:09 7B46441B1B1E1E290 wrote:
How does that work…? With 23 students, you could have them all be in sequential order 1–23 of Jan, and that’s only using 1 month out of 12… |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Mr.Nosey on 10/03/17 at 10:22:20 7578757F607B667A340 wrote:
How does that work…? With 23 students, you could have them all be in sequential order 1–23 of Jan, and that’s only using 1 month out of 12…[/quote] Think not of just the number of students, but the possible number of pairs of students - because the statement involves two people. In a group of 23, there's 253 pairs ((23*22)/2). Consider each pair a comparison of their birthdays. The chance of the comparison giving different birthdays is 364/365 (only one day gives a match). And the chance of all comparisons giving no match is (364/365)^23 ~= 0.5 |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Dr Ivo Robotnik on 10/03/17 at 10:45:14 You can easily see how true this is if you have a few friends on facebook, with birthday notifications on. Even when I had facebook for just a couple of months, I had ~50 friends, and was getting notifications for more than 1 person's birthday on the same day every so often. I have currently 214 friends, and whenever I have a notification, it's usually at least 2 (sometimes 3) on 1 day. And I probably miss some peoples because their birthday is private. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by TvL on 10/03/17 at 12:05:12 6E6A68667A746B7677030 wrote:
How does that work…? With 23 students, you could have them all be in sequential order 1–23 of Jan, and that’s only using 1 month out of 12…[/quote] Think not of just the number of students, but the possible number of pairs of students - because the statement involves two people. In a group of 23, there's 253 pairs ((23*22)/2). Consider each pair a comparison of their birthdays. The chance of the comparison giving different birthdays is 364/365 (only one day gives a match). And the chance of all comparisons giving no match is (364/365)^23 ~= 0.5[/quote] This. In fact, if you generalize the problem to n "birthdays" and k people (say: drawing k numbers at random from {1,2,...,n}), then, in the limit that n is much larger than k, the probability that all birthdays are distinct is: p ~= exp[-k(k-1)/(2n)] (where exp[x] = ex and e = 2.718...) This clearly shows that it is indeed the total number of pairs k(k-1)/2 that should be compared to n, and that the probability quickly becomes zero when it's much bigger than n. So, for example, if you're drawing numbers uniformly at random from between 1 and 1,000,000, you'd only need to draw 1178 of them to get a 50% probability of at least two of them being the same. If you drew 5000, it'd be 99.9996%. You get the same formula (in the same limit) when you consider k(k-1)/2 independent pairs, that each have a probability of 1-(1/n) sharing the same birthday, as Mr.Nosey calculated. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Orange Slices on 10/04/17 at 02:59:22 Today I learnt that the capital of California was Sacramento. I always thought it was LA |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Antistar on 10/04/17 at 03:22:13 Could have been San Francisco too. There are weird capitals in the world, just like Ottawa for Canada (instead of Montreal or Toronto for example), Canberra in Australia (could have been Sydney or Melbourne). Pretty sure there's a list of "unexpected" capitals somewhere on Wikipedia. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Diamond. on 10/04/17 at 03:57:04 6954474841436454491414260 wrote:
Is that the only US state you didn't know the capital of, because there are other weird capitals as well |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Orange Slices on 10/04/17 at 04:19:17 6D40484446474D64485A5D4C5B290 wrote:
Is that the only US state you didn't know the capital of, because there are other weird capitals as well[/quote] I only know the names of around 30 states in total to be honest |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Master Kek on 10/04/17 at 08:06:46 0835262920220535287575470 wrote:
The capital is always whatever town is smack in the exact middle of the state |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Diamond. on 10/04/17 at 12:14:43 5F7361667760595759120 wrote:
The capital is always whatever town is smack in the exact middle of the state[/quote] Not always. For example Juneau isn't in the middle of Alaska, and St. Paul isn't in the middle of Minnesota |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Saint Nicholas de la USA on 10/04/17 at 12:33:38 State capitals generally tend to be located near the "center of population"; i.e., the point in a state from which an equal number of people live in each direction. In states that have two main cities (e.g. Missouri, Pennsylvania, or Kentucky) the capital tends to be in a third city located between those two, to be fair to people in both cities. For instance, if St. Louis was the capital of Missouri, it wouldn't be fair to those in Kansas City that would have to travel all the way across the state to visit their capital. And vice versa. So Jefferson City splits the difference. In Virginia, Richmond sits halfway between the state's two primary population concentrations, the Capital District (DC suburbs) and the Tidewater (Norfolk, Virginia Beach, et al.). Basically capital sites are usually chosen to be fair to everybody. There are exceptions though, such as the aforementioned Juneau. Carson City is probably pretty far from Nevada's center of population as well (Nevada has perhaps the most uneven population distribution of any state, with the Las Vegas area/Clark County having more people than the entire rest of the Italy-sized state). You can't say that Wyoming's center of population is really anywhere near Cheyenne, which is close to the state's southeast corner. And yes, many more Californians live south of Sacramento than live north of it. But most state capitals are fairly well-placed, so that few people in America have to drive all the way across their state to reach their capital. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono Krysster on 10/04/17 at 13:32:00 http://img110.xooimage.com/files/f/0/0/gfjk-532e140.png A random interesting fact it would be good to know is "what is the capital of the 51st state?" Don't tell me it's Carson City, I believe Area 51 is connected to the moon [smiley=ninja.gif] |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Orange Slices on 10/04/17 at 15:04:58 I'll just list all the US states I know: California New York Washington state Oregon New Mexico Nevada Arizona North Dakota South Dakota North Carolina South Carolina East Virginia West Virginia Mississippi Massachusetts Wyoming Wisconsin Illinois Colorado Indiana Rhode Island Hawaii Alaska Kentucky Ohio Georgia Idaho Texas Florida Nebraska Tenessee Alabama That's it |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Etch on 10/04/17 at 15:21:54 6B47555243546D636D260 wrote:
Like Florida...[smiley=flush.gif] 1D242F2525223324616161560 wrote:
I hope I live to see an American flag planted on Mars by man! [smiley=thumbsup.gif] 162B38373E3C1B2B366B6B590 wrote:
I just can't... http://https://i.imgur.com/CcaUjfu.png |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Saint Nicholas de la USA on 10/04/17 at 15:46:31 5F62717E777552627F2222100 wrote:
Look up the song "Fifty Nifty United States". That's how I learned how to name all the states... in alphabetical order. In the fourth grade. I suppose that's not a bad effort for an Australian teenager. I knew all of Australia's states when I was your age, but of course there are only seven of them. I know the name and location of all of Canada's provinces, most of Mexico's states, all of Spain's regions, most of the regions of France, Germany, and Italy, all of Austria's regions, about half of China's provinces, but relatively few of the divisions of most other countries. Only Japanese prefectures I could find on a map would be Tokyo, Chiba, and Hokkaido, while Friesland and Flevoland are the only Dutch regions whose locations I am absolutely sure of. I also don't know where most of the UK's ceremonial counties are, off the top of my head. I'm not too good with Switzerland's cantons either, just yet. I do know that Graubunden is the large one at the eastern end and Ticino is the one in the south that protrudes into Italy (and speaks Italian as well). Lots of Swiss cantons are really small and/or have unusual shapes/boundaries. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Master Kek on 10/05/17 at 04:20:36 Lel East Virginia |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Saint Nicholas de la USA on 10/07/17 at 15:55:36 States that chose a good location for their capitals: Mississippi: Jackson is the largest city and near the center of the state. It also splits the difference between the Gulf Coast and the southern Memphis suburbs, the next two largest concentrations of population. (Southaven, in particular, has grown a lot in the past couple of decades, and is now the state's third largest city, after Jackson and Gulfport) Oklahoma: OKC, the largest city, is in the middle of the state and within reasonable driving distance of Tulsa, the state's second largest city. Arkansas: Little Rock is both the largest city and centrally located. Tennessee: Nashville is fairly centrally located, is the second largest city (and its metro may be the largest), and splits the difference between Memphis and East Tennessee (Chattanooga, Knoxville, etc.). South Carolina: Columbia is dead-center in the state and the largest city, plus it's a middle ground between two other major concentrations of population: Greenville-Spartanburg in the interior and Charleston on the coast. Maryland: Annapolis is quite a fair compromise between Baltimore and the DC suburbs, the two places where a Marylander is most likely to live. It also has sea access. Alabama: This one is a toss-up between Birmingham and Montgomery. Either one could have worked very well, but Montgomery is the former capital of the Confederacy. Montgomery is also somewhat more centrally located for people in the growing Mobile area. Colorado: Denver is the largest city with the largest metro area, and is convienently close to both Colorado Springs (the second largest city) and northern cities like Fort Collins. Since this state is larger than the UK, it's unavoidable that there will be places in the state that are far from the capital. South Dakota: Pierre splits the difference between Rapid City in the west and Sioux Falls in the east. Iowa: Des Moines is the largest city and has a fairly central location. Probably the best place to put the capital. Indiana: "Indy" may be one of the very best state capital sites in the nation. Not only is it smack in the middle of the state, it's the largest city by far. Although I think the Hoosier State's center of population would be a bit farther north due to the eastern Chicago suburbs, certainly the second-largest population center. Ohio: This may be the best capital city site in the United States. Columbus is not just the largest city and in the center of the state, it also sits halfway between Cincinnati and Cleveland, perhaps the two largest metros. Arizona: Fast-growing Phoenix has the largest metro by far in Arizona and is also fairly centrally located. Missouri: I see no way to be fair to both KC and STL but to put the capital in the middle. Utah: Salt Lake City is both the largest city and sits in the middle of the Wasatch Front region where most of the state's population lives. The downstate area (St. George, etc.) gets shafted, sure, but you can't please everybody in a state the size of Great Britain. Kansas: Topeka is another capital site chosen with the population distribution in mind. It somewhat favors the KC metro over Wichita, the largest city (although there are probably more Kansans in the former). Not good if you live in the western part of the state, although western Kansas is famously empty, with no cities over 40,000 people, and as the case with Utah, there's no way to put a capital in a Great Britain-sized state without having it too far from somebody. Topeka serves to be too far from as few people as possible. Pennsylvania: As with Missouri, we're trying to be fair to both of the big cities on either end of the state. In this case, since Philadelphia is the bigger of the two, Harrisburg's location favors the City of Brotherly Love over the Steel City. New Jersey: In a small state, there's really no bad place to put the capital. Trenton has the benefit of being between the eastern Philly 'burbs and the western NYC 'burbs. Virginia: As mentioned earlier, Richmond is not far from either of the two main population centers of the Old Dominion. It's worth noting, for those who don't know much about VA, that this state kind of has an identity crisis, a split personality if you will. The eastern side of the state is largely urbanized and is where the majority of Virginians live, and is politically liberal (Democratic) like the Northeast; the western side is more mountainous, sparsely populated, and conservative-- decidedly more "Southern" in culture, as Spril can probably tell you. Definitely two states for the price of one. 8-) |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono Krysster on 10/14/17 at 00:20:57 520853515B53590D0D380 wrote:
Good poll, deserves some very interesting facts here... From "How is your set up to wipe your ass?" to Poop Calculator (https://numbertwoguide.com/poop-calculator/) My results: http://img110.xooimage.com/files/e/4/2/sgfftre-533c728.png >> https://numbertwoguide.com/poop-calculator/ PS: 346E35373D353F6B6B5E0 wrote:
I agree now, as you can see maître I followed your instructions, am I a good disciple? :D ;D |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Saint Nicholas de la USA on 10/14/17 at 17:34:52 I often have to flush my toilet twice after a large bowel movement, not all of it goes down the first flush, some of it may backwash into the bowl, often making it look like someone peed without flushing, or there will be bits of shit floating that for whatever reason decided they didn't want to flush down. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Master Kek on 10/15/17 at 09:26:08 7453595255565B4965725B484C5F433A0 wrote:
And you're posting this why? |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono Krysster on 10/15/17 at 10:02:54 4C60727564734A444A010 wrote:
And you're posting this why?[/quote] Hey Kek I see what you're doing there you Master Kreep ;D so don't even try to harass Nick, let him poop in peace m'kay-- there are interesting facts full of meticulous details, thanks for sharing! [smiley=beer.gif] I think the time has come.. give a look at 'the world's longest poop' [smiley=ninja.gif] |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono Krysster on 12/01/17 at 11:03:49 Le Trump posted a random interesting fact there: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/936395008139198464 Don't ask if this true or false but at least he knows the story of his life... Oh God, he's clueless! ;D |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Antistar on 12/01/17 at 12:02:35 6B47555243546D636D260 wrote:
And you're posting this why?[/quote] He forgot there was a "ordinary/boring things" thread I guess. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by DantheMunchlax782 on 12/02/17 at 13:55:03 Gunpei Yokoi's last handhled for Nintendo was the GameBoy Pocket. He made it as a way of saying sorry for the Virtual Boy's flop and that it was his true Goodbye gift. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Harambey on 12/05/17 at 09:36:54 Apparently the food that makes you fart most, after beans, is CHEESE :o |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Harambey on 12/05/17 at 09:48:49 When you see it on a map you're probably surprised to hear that Greenland actually is smaller than that tiny African country right there. [smiley=flush.gif] http://runningwithteamhogan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Greenland-and-DR-Congo1.png |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Saint Nicholas de la USA on 12/05/17 at 10:17:02 That's what you get for using Mercator maps. I always knew Zaire (at about 905,000 square miles) was larger than Greenland (840,000 square miles). I also always knew that it was a lot easier to say "Zaire" than "Democratic Republic of the Congo". I never understood why Mercator was so popular. It completely fucks up the sizes of landmasses near the poles. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono Krysster on 12/05/17 at 12:20:16 7E5953585F5C51436F785142465549300 wrote:
Nick I'm surprised you've never heard of this because The Bible says; the Earth is flat! [smiley=lolk.gif] |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by ΙsaaK on 12/31/17 at 08:59:14 Greenland is made up of ice. Iceland is green on most maps. Were they trying to confuse us? |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Etch on 12/31/17 at 11:12:45 Haha, yep... http://i.imgur.com/H6fw1Vf.png |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Saint Nicholas de Mississippi on 12/31/17 at 14:52:14 Well, this is Greenland as well... http://www.beautiful-views.net/views/towns-greenland-panorama-nuuk.jpg ...Oh, and here's Iceland. :D http://wannabewanderer.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/gullfoss2.jpg |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Diamond on 12/31/17 at 15:31:44 1C3B313A3D3E33210D1A332024372B520 wrote:
http://www.mariokart64.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1470781476 |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono Krysster on 01/01/18 at 05:20:18 With 39 different local time zones in use it takes 26 hours for the entire world to enter the New Year. [smiley=nicewr.gif] #HappyNewYear #TheEarthIsRoundLikeAPotato http://img110.xooimage.com/files/f/6/a/2-53b26c1.gif |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Antistar on 01/09/18 at 03:50:48 Fenner has a new YouTube channel, I hesitated between dislinking his comment or reporting him for spam… ::) http://https://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/660336fenner.png |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Master Kek on 01/09/18 at 04:00:44 1C3023383E6967510 wrote:
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono Krysster on 01/09/18 at 04:46:28 4A66756E683F31070 wrote:
Fixed lol ;D |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono Krysster on 01/12/18 at 04:42:26 I have a question; was the 1938 radio broadcast "The War of the Worlds" by narrator Orson Welles a precursor to "The Fake News"? #CelebratesIts80thAnniversaryThisYear |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Antistar on 02/03/18 at 03:40:38 Don't know where to ask this but I'm pretty sure there was a (recent) "global questions" thread, which was posted in the very late 2017 I guess, and I cannot find it. If anyone knows… |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono Krysster on 02/03/18 at 08:13:26 103C2F3432656B5D0 wrote:
The original questions thread (V1.0) is in the purgatory or was renamed, I guess. The questions thread (V2.0) is your topic: http://www.mariokart64.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1504086840/0#0 |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Antistar on 02/04/18 at 02:31:45 063F343E3E39283F7A7A7A4D0 wrote:
lol dafuq I didn't even remember it had that purpose in the end, this was more or less the one I was looking for, thanks |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Harambey on 02/04/18 at 02:34:43 A random fun fact here, it's all about toilets: Approx. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year [smiley=flush.gif] [smiley=flush.gif] I wonder how many of them tried to flush themselves through the toilet... ::) |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Saint Nicholas de Mississippi on 02/05/18 at 18:32:04 ...You mean like that guy in Trainspotting? ;D Anyway, I think it's worth pointing out that Bruce Springsteen has never had a song go to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono Krysster on 02/07/18 at 14:35:28 Random; "Saint Nicholas de la USA" = Saint Nicholas des USA "Saint Nicholas de Team USA" = Saint Nicholas de la Team USA As we say in French, Nick [smiley=beer.gif] #ItMakesMoreSense |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Antistar on 02/08/18 at 02:40:08 The original "de la…" is some kind of internal meme based on Sami's ridiculous French skills, actually. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by KVD on 02/08/18 at 03:15:59 54786B7076212F190 wrote:
Fixed. ;) |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono Krysster on 02/08/18 at 06:48:12 1935263D3B6C62540 wrote:
Yup! I know I also remember his "de la putain" [smiley=roll.gif] |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Saint Nicholas de Team USA on 02/08/18 at 21:51:39 By ridiculous, do you mean that Sami is ridiculously good at French, because he's learned the language so well after so many repeated trips to France for CDMs? ::) ...Anyway, a few bits of old Nintendo game related trivia. In Super Mario World, the first and third parts of Vanilla Dome 1 are actually parts of the same large area, separated by a thick wall. You can see this by using a Blue Yoshi, you can skip the part with the platform that sinks into the lava (y'know, the part where you get the invincibility star). Or you can just use Lunar Magic with the game's ROM. The Mario Mania guide from Nintendo Power fails to show this. Likewise, the Yoshi's Island Player's Guide fails to show the first and third parts of 1-2, "Watch Out Below!" as being the same area. It's possible to skip the second part (with the helicopter morph) with a well-placed bounce from an enemy. (If you've watched a speedrun of the game, you've probably seen this already... not to mention the numerous ways in which you can trick the game into sending you to a copy of 1-1 that counts as beating the stage that you were originally in) In the original Legend of Zelda, all of the dungeons can be fit into a rectangle, Tetris-style. See the image here. (http://ian-albert.com/games/legend_of_zelda_maps/zelda-dungeons-th.jpg) Presumably the dungeons were put into the game this way to save memory space; each of the nine dungeon entrances leads to the same "dungeon world" but tells the game to load a different color palette for each one. This same technique was used in A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening as well, and can be witnessed using the so-called exploration glitches. In Super Mario World, a Magikoopa has a 1-in-256 chance of turning a block into a 1-up. (Most of the time you get yellow Koopas.) In Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest (aka Mystic Quest Legend), I just found out today that the Level Forest and Alive Forest stages share a single map. The former is the northeast quadrant of the latter's map. If you go east from the beginning of the Alive Forest (later in the game) you can see the same tree patterns you can see by going to the west edge of the Level Forest (near the beginning of the game). Mind = blown. In Super Mario World, Chocolate Island 1 consists of two almost identical areas (besides a third, smaller area situtated over water). One has a Midway Gate, the other doesn't. One has a 3-up Moon in the sky, the other doesn't. One has a yellow ! Block where the other has a green ! Block. When you go down the pipe that causes you to be shot across the large pit from the diagonal pipe, you're actually going from one of the nearly-identical areas to the other. (In Lunar Magic, you can see that there are indeed seemingly two copies of CI1, but there's actually the two parallel halves of the stage-- remember 4-6 form SMB3, where the main difference was the size of the enemies?) In the original Super Mario Bros., you normally get 500 points for kicking a Koopa shell. But kick it on the very last frame before it gets back up (and is able to hurt Mario), and you get 8000 points. (You still get 1000 if you're a little bit early). This works on all versions of the game, and I actually made us of this to get some of my level high scores in Super Mario Bros. DX for the Game Boy Color. You can skip the first Mini-Fortress in World 4 (Giant Land) of SMB3 by using a Hammer to break a rock on the map after 4-3. This opens up an L-shaped path that bypasses the Mini-Fortress. (Of course, you probably already used your Hammer to take that awesome raft ride in World 3...) Also in SMB3, you can skip Piranha Plant levels in World 7 by using the Music Box, which works on them just as it does on Hammer Bros. I only fairly recently noticed that the ? Blocks in SMW still have the "eyes" that turn blocks have, but it's easy to miss them since they are usually covered up by the question mark that continually moves across them. Also in SMW, I've long known that it's possible (but difficult) to eat a Blargg with Yoshi. I've also known for a while that you can kill a Chargin' Chuck with five fireballs. Morton, Ludwig, and Roy can also be dispatched with fireballs, and Iggy and Larry can be pushed around by them, leaving the pipe-dwelling Lemmy and Wendy as the only fireproof Koopalings (that I know of). In all versions of Final Fantasy IV, you can instantly win a random battle on the moon if there is a Grenade (black bomb) enemy present; just cast your weakest lightning spell on the Grenade and watch. :D Also in FF4, the Meteo spell, due to having the "sacred" elemental attribute, will heal Blue Dragons if it is used on them. The only other enemy that absorbs the element is the version of the final boss that is fought in a cutscene. I fairly recently discovered that in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, an enemy stunned by the Hookshot or a Boomerang will always drop a green rupee when defeated. Enemies defeated while dashing with the Pegasus Shoes never drop anything. You know that difficult bonus level in Super Mario 64, Wing Mario Over the Rainbow, where you must fly around with the Wing Cap in the clouds to collect red coins? And if you fall, you end up outside the castle? It's pretty cold up there-- watch what Mario does when you leave him idle for a while. This was my 120th star in my first playthrough of the game, by the way. In Kirby's Adventure on the NES, I only recently learned that you can get a UFO in the very first level of the game. Look for an invisible door at the bottom of the screen by one of the waterfalls later in the stage. (Some of the switches you need to hit for 100% completion are also found behind invisible doors) In Yoshi's Story, go to the Jungle Hut stage on Page 4 and go to the top hut, the one with the spiders (it's the one where the music changes). There's an Easter Egg in this room that I only learned about a few years ago-- throwing eggs at these spiders turns off (and on) the various instruments that make up the song. Each spider controls a different instrument, and the spider in the bottom left resets the music back to normal. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Antistar on 02/09/18 at 02:25:45 50777D7671727F6D41567F6C687B671E0 wrote:
lol nope, exactly the opposite [smiley=roll.gif] |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Danger M on 02/09/18 at 03:49:37 5975667D7B2C22140 wrote:
lol nope, exactly the opposite [smiley=roll.gif][/quote] Sami's french is as good as it needs to be in order to get by in any civilised country. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Master Kek on 03/29/18 at 04:16:21 Cardiovascular disease is the most common way to die |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by アメリカのニコラス・ハｰヴィ on 04/04/18 at 22:13:14 I learned this one today. Over the course of the 20th century, Afghanistan has gone through 19 different flag designs. And they've changed it a couple more times in this century. I got a 1999 National Geographic world atlas at a Goodwill today, I did know that a few national flags had changed since 1999, including Georgia, Myanmar, Rwanda, Libya, Comoros, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but I didn't know about Afghanistan, I thought they had had the green-black-red tricolor for awhile. I am also aware that a few national capitals have been changed (Myanmar built a brand new city from scratch to move their government to from Yangon) and there are at least three or four new independent countries (Montenegro, South Sudan, and Timor-Leste, plus Kosovo if you count that one) but the world map today in 2018 is surprisingly similar to the way it was two decades ago (though the same obviously cannot be said of two decades before that-- the world map of 1999 is closer to the world map of 2018 than it is to even the map of 1989...) |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono Krysster on 04/11/18 at 18:42:20 >>More than half your body is not human (http://www.bbc.com/news/health-43674270) From: .Professor Ruth Ley: "Your body isn't just you." .Professor Rob Knight: "We're finding ways that these tiny creatures totally transform our health in ways we never imagined until recently." .Professor Sarkis Mazmanian: "What makes us human is, in my opinion, the combination of our own DNA, plus the DNA of our gut microbes." Fact: You clone yourself every single time. http://img110.xooimage.com/files/0/2/b/sahggitre-5449354.png @Humans #Parasites |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by アメリカのニコラス・ハｰヴィ on 04/12/18 at 14:38:14 There is more circulating U.S. currency outside the United States than within it. In fact I think I read that as much as 80% of American money is outside the country! |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Shock on 04/12/18 at 17:14:38 My final project in my physics class this semester will be describing and deriving the Unruh effect (http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Unruh_effect). I am finding this to be a very fun project, because the takeaway message is that if you're accelerating, you will see particles with a certain temperature that a stationary observer would not see. Effectively you can disagree with someone about how many particles exist and both of you would be correct from your respective perspectives. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Zarkov on 04/12/18 at 23:04:48 I dont see any change when I accelerate because my car is so fucking slow I might as well be not moving. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono Krysster on 04/20/18 at 13:01:56 29021410370B06300B021108630 wrote:
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^He is said to have fathered at least 1000 children, possibly as many as 2000 from as many as 3000 wives. Genetic analysis has shown he is a male-line ancestor of 0.5% of the world's population. >>The Genetic Legacy of the Mongols (http://www.cell.com/ajhg/abstract/S0002-9297%2807%2960587-4) http://img110.xooimage.com/files/e/8/8/djgrgtre-5456419.png @Humans #Freeloader |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Etch on 04/20/18 at 13:33:38 4E4C434342434E414C5F462D0 wrote:
Let electromagnetism carry the way! http://https://i.imgur.com/HhDFGvp.png |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Master Kek on 06/19/18 at 10:46:40 The Icelandic language abolished the letter Z in 1973 |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by アメリカのニコラス・ハｰヴィ on 06/19/18 at 14:32:02 Nonuse of certain letters is the norm across most languages. Few foreign languages regularly use all 26 letters of the English alphabet (German being the only one I can think of, and even there, Q and Y are pretty rare). K and W are extremely rare in French and Spanish and basically only used in loanwords, but are still in the Scrabble sets for those languages (worth 10 points). In Italian, J, X, and Y are almost never used, in addition to the aforementioned K and W; they are used so infrequently, in fact, I believe the Italian Scrabble game omits these letters altogether! In Scandinavian languages, including Icelandic, not only do you never see Z, you rarely encounter Q's either, usually only in proper names that date back to a time when Q was used in the language, e.g. Husqvarna. And as with the Romance languages, W is extremely rare also, and does not appear in the Scrabble sets for North Germanic languages, although players may be allowed to use a blank tile to represent W, along with any other English letters omitted from the set, in the handful of words with these letters in those languages that are legal in Scrabble. Slavic languages never use W either, except Polish, perhaps due to German influence; and the Upper and Lower Sorbian languages, which are spoken in Germany. Eastern European languages (including Hungarian, which is unrelated) have a noticeable lack of Q and X as well. Technically there's no Y in the Hungarian alphabet, but since it is used in the digraph letters GY, LY, NY, and TY (which all have their own Scrabble tiles), we cannot say that Y is unused in Hungarian. These omissions of letters from the alphabets of various languages can tell us about how our alphabet evolved. As Romance languages dervied from Latin, it is safe to say that the ancient Romans did not have K or W in their alphabet, and that these letters were added later. It is more widely known that J and U are also recent additions, as they were formerly variants of I and V, so Julius was actually spelled "Ivlivs". It's not just our Roman alphabet where the use or nonuse of certain letters varies from language to language; the Cyrillic alphabet, being used to write a variety of languages-- most famously Russian, but also many other Eastern European languages, as well as Mongolian and Central Asian languages that are more related to Turkish than to Russian-- has several letters that are specific to one language or closely related group of languages. Ukrainian has i and ï, neither of which is in Russian, while the bl and ë of Russian are not used in Ukrainian. Belarusian has y with a breve, which Russian doesn't have. Serbian also has some letters that are not in Russian. In Central Asia, some letters not used in Russian are completely unique, while others are variants of Russian letters that have diacritics added. One could in fact argue that there is no single "Cyrillic alphabet" because each language that uses Cyrillic script actually has a slightly different alphabet! This in fact basically happens with all alphabets that are used to write multiple languages, especially ones that are unrelated. Arabic script, for instance, is bound to have some different letters for the alphabets in Arabic, Farsi, and Urdu, as each language modifies the alphabet to fit its own phonetic inventory (the linguistic term for the complete set of phonemes, i.e. sounds, used in a language). |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Vladimir Putin on 06/19/18 at 21:31:30 7C50424554437A747A310 wrote:
And do they know Steven Wartjes over there? |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Antistar on 06/19/18 at 22:04:10 625B505A5A5D4C5B1E1E1E290 wrote:
And do they know Steven Wartjes over there?[/quote] Arkov nice |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by MKDSLeone on 06/19/18 at 22:06:04 674B584345121C2A0 wrote:
And do they know Steven Wartjes over there?[/quote] Arkov nice[/quote] I see what you did there Ntistar ;D |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by アメリカのニコラス・ハｰヴィ on 06/23/18 at 19:10:09 Do Icelanders solve crossword pules edited by Will Short? Do they listen to a rock band from Texas called "Top"? Or would they prefer ja music? Do they have Pia Hut restaurants in Iceland? What does two minus two equal in Iceland... ero? Is there a oo in Reykjavik? Do they drive to the oo in Mada cars? Do Icelanders have ippers on their jackets and jeans? Does Verion provide cell phone service in Iceland? Are they familiar with the Mask of Orro? I heard Iceland was a pretty amaing place. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by EgixBacon on 06/24/18 at 07:01:55 0F2822292E2D20321E092033372438410 wrote:
I would imagine that they wouldn't leave out the letter entirely just because it doesn't exist in their native alphabet. Just as an example, the Spanish alphabet does not include the letters k or w, but that doesn't mean that when they want to look up facts about something on the internet, they go to Iipedia... Edit: Okay, well, technically it does, but those letters aren't used in native words. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Kleenex on 06/24/18 at 08:09:13 Does that mean that Icelanders have to mod their GBA to perform MTs? [smiley=bath.gif] |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Master Kek on 06/24/18 at 08:25:09 There are no McDonald's in Iceland There are plenty of KFCs and Subways, however |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by アメリカのニコラス・ハｰヴィ on 06/24/18 at 20:38:46 There used to be McDonald's in Iceland, but they closed all their locations there a few years ago. It's one of the few markets that the chain has exited. One of the Caribbean island nations (Barbados, if my memory serves me) only had McDonald's for a few months in 1996! Even today, only about half of the world's countries have at least one McDonald's restaurant. Most of the ones that don't are in the Third World-- in fact only about three or four of Africa's 60 or so countries have the Golden Arches. McDonald's does not want to operate in markets where Joe Normal can't afford their products. In fact it wasn't until well into the 1990s that even South Africa got its first Mickey D's, though this could be due to apartheid (I always assumed the chain was reluctant to enter the apartheid-era market out of fears that the restaurants there would likely have been made segregated or even off-limits to blacks, and McDonald's has always marketed itself as a place for everyone, regardless of race or social status) |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Antistar on 07/04/18 at 11:08:50 More like an interesting quote, but I wanted to point out this, which I particularly enjoyed: 747B716C7F79607B7170707B150 wrote:
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by アメリカのニコラス・ハｰヴィ on 10/24/18 at 12:19:00 Been a while since somebody posted here, this thread should be kept alive. I just did some math and realized that Shaquille O'Neal (at 7'2") is closer to my height (5'8", on a good day) than to the height of the tallest man on record, Robert Wadlow (8'11"). Shaq is 18" taller than I am, but Wadlow was 21" taller than Shaq. Blew my mind when I noticed this. In fact, if you're 5'5", Shaq is as close to your height as he is to Wadlow's. Just imagine, for a moment, Mr. Wadlow taking to the court... |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Master Kek on 10/24/18 at 14:31:13 52757F7473707D6F43547D6E6A79651C0 wrote:
But how tall are you on a bad day? |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Antistar on 10/25/18 at 06:09:21 "Let's Sing 2019" is the first and only game released on two Nintendo platforms that do not even chronologically follow each other (Wii and Switch, no Wii U version). See you soon for some other incredible video game trivia. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Master Kek on 10/25/18 at 07:13:54 You think new games for the Wii in 2018 is weird? The Famicom wasn't discontinued in Japan until 2003. The N64 was discontinued before it |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Harambey on 10/25/18 at 09:04:01 Interesting fact: Poop is the same as poop. Thus, all poop is the same and the same is all poop. the same = all poop the sme = ll poop themes = poop ll Poop ll can also be seen as the second version of a movie, a movie is based around themes. Thus, poop is a movie. You know what else is a movie. Titanic. Thus, Titanic is poop. Another word for 'poop' is 'shit'. This is 100% proof that Titanic is shit. [smiley=beer.gif] |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Digital9 on 10/25/18 at 13:53:43 ^This is false. I have found an error in your proof: the same = all poop =/=> the sme = ll poop, but rather the same = all poop ==> the*a^(-1). sme = ll poop*a^(-1). furthermore, the sme =/= themes, but rather the sme = the mes. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Antistar on 10/26/18 at 10:40:30 416D7F78697E4749470C0 wrote:
SFC was discontinued in 2001 iirc. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Master Kek on 10/26/18 at 10:52:33 65495A4147101E280 wrote:
SFC was discontinued in 2001 iirc.[/quote] SFC was the same time as the Famicom actually |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by MJL on 11/07/18 at 15:52:53 The richest women in the world made their money from divorce settlements. The richest self made woman made her money from fraud. Your blood turns green if you inject sumatriptan at the dead sea. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Darren on 11/15/18 at 23:21:20 English is only the 2nd most spoken language in the world (983 million speakers), behind Mandarin Chinese (1.1 billion speakers) |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Master Kek on 11/16/18 at 03:59:55 011201243737202B450 wrote:
Yet another reason to nerf China [smiley=lolk.gif] |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Spec on 11/16/18 at 08:11:19 Depends on the source you consult. While Mandarin has by far the most L1 speakers (first language) with around 950million, english has such a wide spread with tons of fluent L2 speakers (second language) in India and Pakistan and Europe, puts English at around 1.15 billion speakers in total, above mandarin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Martijn Veldhuis on 11/20/18 at 06:39:03 657665405353444F210 wrote:
Interesting |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Saint-Nicholas des É.-U. on 11/21/18 at 11:40:35 20143D370B283D3B580 wrote:
I would have guessed 2-3 billion people are conversant in English, though many of these are probably only as good at speaking and understanding English as I am at French. As far as I'm aware, India is, at the end of the day, an English-speaking country. The government operates in English, news is in English, court proceedings are held in English, advertisements are in English, road signs are in English (but may also include Hindi and/or a local language), and universities teach their courses in the medium of English. Make no mistake, there are hundreds of millions of Hindi speakers, but Hindi originates in the north of the country, while southern India uses a variety of other languages including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, and Orishan. Western India has many speakers of Gujarat and Punjabi. All of these parts of India that are away from the Delhi/Uttar Pradesh area, would prefer English over Hindi as they perceive New Delhi as trying to force Hindi on the whole country, so I've heard. Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar were all part of a large British South Asian colony in the past, so English should be widely understood in these countries as well. They all drive on the left side of the road, and Myanmar still uses Imperial measurements. Cricket, a sport that originated in the UK, is hugely popular all across South Asia. I would imagine that cricket coaches speak to their players in English, and the announcers at matches would speak English. So that's close to 1.5 billion potential English speakers right there, although very few may be native speakers and some may only speak the most basic English. In Africa you've got Nigeria, with close to 200 million people now, which has English as its sole official language. English is also the sole official language of Gambia, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, South Sudan, Uganda, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, and is also official in Kenya and Tanzania (with Swahili), Cameroon and Rwanda (with French), Malawi (with Chichewa), and South Africa (with Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa, and a few other southern African languages). I would imagine that people in all of these countries, at least the educated people, would speak English pretty well, though, as with South Asia, there may not be many first-language speakers. English is likely to be the main language of education, mass media, government, and business in any African country where it is official (basically any sub-Saharan country that's not part of the former French, Belgian, or Portuguese empires), so it is expected to be understood by the populace at large. In mainland Europe, English is widely understood especially by the Dutch, Germans, and Scandinavians but also many French and Italians, as this forum can attest. Between Europe, Africa, and the aforementioned South Asia, we've got at least 2 billion potential English speakers. Add the USA (300+ million), the Philippines (90 million), the British Isles (65 million), Canada (30 million), Australia (20 million), New Zealand, Jamaica, Belize, Guyana, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Papua New Guinea, most Caribbean island nations, most Pacific Island nations, second-language English speakers everywhere else not to mention CHINA... you can see why I'm estimating the number of people who are, to some degree, users of English to be upwards of 2 billion if not near 3 billion. So the question I have for you is... ENGLISH, MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT? |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Groggy on 11/23/18 at 13:33:28 http://https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/84101619150487552/515641709023985675/666_The_Number_of_the_Beast.png I must celebrate accordingly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-iRf9AWoyE |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono ⭐⭐ Krysster on 11/23/18 at 19:33:39 07202A212625283A1601283B3F2C30490 wrote:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXbuKqMs4XI[/media] [ch1042][ch1080][ch1085][ch1089][ch1077][ch1085][ch1090] [ch1042][ch1077][ch1075][ch1072] - [ch1093][ch1091][ch1076][ch1096][ch1080][ch1081] [ch1082][ch1080][ch1083][ch1083][ch1077][ch1088] [ch1074] [ch1080][ch1089][ch1090][ch1086][ch1088][ch1080][ch1080] [ch1082][ch1080][ch1085][ch1086] [ch1050][ch1080][ch1085][ch1086][ch1090][ch1077][ch1086][ch1088][ch1080][ch1080] ;D You are living in the Milky Way --our galaxy-- and when you look up at the sky at night, the majority of the dots that you see are stars from our galaxy (Captain Obvious), but, very very few of them are other galaxies outside ours, they look like stars, in the sky they are like simple dots, but they are galaxies-- galaxies that can be seen with the naked eye! |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Saint-Nicholas des É.-U. on 11/23/18 at 20:45:24 744D464C4C4B5A4D0808083F0 wrote:
That's funny, because I'm actually researching population figures of Russian cities and towns right now. As usual with Wikipedia, the best information is in the Russian version of the site, and I can understand little Russian (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNHQW5P3l4A), but enough to identify names of oblasts, autonomous republics and okrugs, krais, rayons, urban-type settlements, and selsovets as well as their populations. I would transliterate the Cyrillic text above as: Vincent Vega - khudshiy killer v istorii kino [Kinoteorii]. The word "kino" to me suggests cinema, as the same word is used in German. Checking my Russian dictionary, the closest word I can find to khudshiy is khuzhe, meaning worse, but khudshiy may be another form of that word, as adjectives in Russian (just as in German and Latin) can take many forms depending on the gender, number, and case of the noun being described. Killer is probably borrowed from English but in Russian it may be primarily used to refer to a hitman. Istorii is certainly another English borrowing, meaning history. So I would probably put this in English as "Vincent Vega - worst hitman in movie history". Kinoteorii is probably either a Russian movie magazine or website, or an entertainment news-magazine program similar to Entertainment Tonight in the USA, and the embedded video might be a segment from said program explaining why Vincent Vega is the worst movie hitman ever. (can't view the video in this browser, so I'm guessing what it is) |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Trevor Shiloh on 11/28/18 at 07:40:40 The previous post contains 1456 characters |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono ⭐⭐ Krysster on 11/30/18 at 23:50:29 323423302934352E2F2A292E460 wrote:
http://https://i.imgur.com/XPJQYrt.png |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono ⭐⭐ Krysster on 12/07/18 at 19:23:10 "There was a fact..." "The world's spiders consume somewhere between 400 million and 800 million tons of prey in any given year. That means that spiders eat at least as much meat as all 7 billion humans on the planet combined, who the authors note consume about 400 million tons of meat and fish each year." .Humans: ~7 billion .Spiders: ?? trillion >>Spiders could theoretically eat every human on Earth in one year (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/28/spiders-could-theoretically-eat-every-human-on-earth-in-one-year/) >>https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-017-1440-1 <-(or same thing but in-depth in the visible "web") "Number 16" was the oldest known spider in the world-- she died at age 43 in Australia this year. (http://www.publish.csiro.au/pc/PC18015) Bye Number 16, you will be missed, but "part of the journey is the end"... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA6hldpSTF8[/media] Also, Thanos disintegrated the most important spider/human in the world ::) maybe I should think about ant facts next time ;D Bonus de la EndGame: >>Humans just 0.01% of all life but have destroyed 83% of wild mammals (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/21/human-race-just-001-of-all-life-but-has-destroyed-over-80-of-wild-mammals-study) #WhenHumansBecomeWorseThanThanos |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono ⭐⭐ Krysster on 12/14/18 at 03:04:24 457C777D7D7A6B7C3939390E0 wrote:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9dsINb64Q0[/media] The jaws of this dracula ant go from 0 to 200 mph in 0.000015 seconds!!! "1000 x faster than the snap of a finger"...http://i.imgur.com/mIgczwE.png http://https://i.imgur.com/6NDrbTo.png #Enjoy |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Master Kek on 12/27/18 at 09:20:20 After having sex, a male bee's testicles explode and the bee dies Female kangaroos have 3 vaginas China censors the word censorship A guy in England changed his name to Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Antistar on 12/27/18 at 11:22:09 426E7C7B6A7D444A440F0 wrote:
why |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Etch on 12/27/18 at 15:18:00 2C0013080E5957610 wrote:
In case you miss, mammals have a strange variety in sex organs...fucking fur fags. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Groggy on 12/27/18 at 20:13:12 Echidnas have four heads on their dicks. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono ⭐⭐ Krysster on 12/30/18 at 23:07:59 Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber was born on April 11, 1918 in Paris, at 1:00 PM... Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber died on April 11, 2018 in Paris, at 1:00 PM... He died on his 100th birthday, at precisely the same minute, the same day, 100 years later. .Link (https://www.sudouest.fr/2018/04/11/l-ex-depute-et-patron-de-presse-jean-claude-servan-schreiber-est-decede-4364191-4774.php) .Tweet (https://twitter.com/SchreiberServan/status/984034318266888192) @JCSS #R.I.P.2018 |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Master Kek on 01/01/19 at 09:06:15 King Tut was mummified with an erect dick Hitler had only one testicle |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by hahaae on 01/02/19 at 02:52:15 476B797E6F78414F410A0 wrote:
Well, was he well-endowed? |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Etch on 01/02/19 at 04:23:53 The true curse of the pharaoh, you looked at his dick thus activating his trap card...so die. http://https://i.imgur.com/qX2QySI.png |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Antistar on 01/02/19 at 09:14:23 I'm still confused looking at the 7 people who voted "back roll" on that topic poll. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Groggy on 01/03/19 at 03:37:52 062A392224737D4B0 wrote:
When I was a kid, sometimes I used to switch the rolls to backwards, because I thought it looked cool. I look back on that nowadays, and I realize that my younger self was a fucking dumbass. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Groggy on 01/20/19 at 01:07:22 Today, I learned that lineworkers had to replace 6,823 utility poles in the Gulf Power service area after Hurricane Michael damaged or knocked them down. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Saint-Nicholas des É.-U. on 01/20/19 at 19:28:31 ^ I can believe it. With Katrina it was surely in the tens of thousands. We really need to stop and appreciate the people who work so hard to bring our lives back to normal after a major natural disaster like this. They certainly don't get the thanks that they deserve. Things like electricity and clean running water, we so often take for granted. I should stop and be glad that we haven't had any extended power outages like the one we had after Katrina. In August and September, that means no air conditioning, either... |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Groggy on 01/26/19 at 12:51:25 Last night, I learned that earrape versions of the Windows NT 5.0 startup and shutdown themes exist. I have no idea why, when the unaltered versions of that OS's startup and shutdown themes are already earrape on their own. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Saint-Nicholas des É.-U. on 01/26/19 at 19:20:35 ^ Are you talking about the opening sound that resembles the famous THX "Deep Note" sound you often hear while starting a movie? I disabled the startup and shutdown sounds on my own computer (XP here) because if you forget to turn the speakers off after listening to online radio, that four-note shutdown fanfare can be a little loud. :P |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Groggy on 01/26/19 at 20:13:42 47606A616665687A5641687B7F6C70090 wrote:
I believe you're thinking of the correct one, yes. I've heard that comparison before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaskM97eN_s What were Microsoft thinking? |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Trevor Shiloh on 03/11/19 at 06:48:21 carrots were originally purple |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Saint-Nicholas des É.-U. on 03/11/19 at 07:50:27 ^ It was the Dutch who bred them to all be orange, since it's the color of Dutch royalty. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Trevor Shiloh on 03/11/19 at 08:07:32 So Trump was Dutch royalty? Now that's an interesting fact |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Max28 on 03/11/19 at 08:14:00 Mt. Everest was calculated to be exactly 29,000 ft. in the 1850's, but scientists decided to add an extra 2 ft. to their calculation to make it appear more accurate. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Master Kek on 03/11/19 at 08:23:16 They sold the Wii in the UAE I'm hoping to win one just to see if it's the same as a normal NTSC-U Wii |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Saint-Nicholas des É.-U. on 03/11/19 at 09:36:08 ^ I would guess that the UAE is a PAL territory. The games are probably in English (UK/Australian version), since I've never heard of a Nintendo game being localized into Arabic. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Master Kek on 03/11/19 at 12:44:49 694E444F484B4654786F465551425E270 wrote:
UAE Nintendo products are in NTSC tho. They can play NTSC-U games |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono ⭐⭐ Krysster on 03/11/19 at 18:29:30 7854464150477E707E350 wrote:
UAE Nintendo products are in NTSC tho. They can play NTSC-U games[/quote] NTSC-U/C. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Saint-Nicholas des É.-U. on 03/11/19 at 19:11:50 That's strange. I thought all of the Middle East was PAL. But I also thought that China was PAL, it turns out that they too get NTSC games. That, I don't understand at all. NTSC doesn't seem like it would be compatible in a 50Hz country, but then again, half of Japan is 50Hz from what I understand. It seems that whether a country is 50Hz or 60Hz does not necessarily indicate whether they play NTSC or PAL games. I do wonder when Nintendo expanded their market into the UAE. It couldn't have been that early; I'm only aware of the SNES being officially released in USA, Canada, Brazil, Western Europe, Japan, South Korea, and perhaps Hong Kong and Taiwan. It can be assumed that Latin America imported official Nintendo games from the USA while New Zealand imported from Australia, and some Eastern European countries may have imported from Western Europe. In the '90s most games outside of these areas (and even some within them) were bootleg. Eastern Europe had the Pegasus, Russia had the Dendy, and other countries produced their own "Famiclones", as they're often called, so maybe more of the world than I first realized is familiar with the act of Mario growing big with Mushrooms and stomping on Goombas. The "Did You Know Gaming?" channel on YouTube has in fact recently posted a very interesting video on the Dendy and how it shaped gaming culture in Russia. I'm aware that game developers are now officially localizing games for Russia, but I've only recently been aware that Russians have been playing classic Nintendo games on these knockoff consoles for possibly about as long as I've been playing them. But the Middle East... that's a market for video games that I never knew existed. I guess people on the Arabian Peninsula have more to do nowadays than just drill for oil, form terrorist groups, sell carpets, or ride around in the desert on camels. ;) (Okay, they also build half-mile high skyscrapers, gigantic malls and aiports, and a bridge long enough to connect Bahrain to Saudi Arabia across the freakin' Persian Gulf. Not to mention artificial islands in the shape of a map of the world...) |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Master Kek on 03/27/19 at 06:05:30 Delaware is the only state without commercial passenger flights |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Max28 on 03/27/19 at 06:08:21 Delaware is depressing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cluzlwAS92I |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Saint-Nicholas des É.-U. on 03/29/19 at 11:43:35 I've read that every time you breathe, on average, you breathe in one molecule that was one breathed by Jesus Christ. If that's true, we've all breathed molecules of air that were also breathed by such legendary people as George Washington, Thomas Edison, Elvis Presley, or Tom Hanks. Maybe you've even breathed in an air molecule that I've also breathed. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Master Kek on 03/29/19 at 11:55:15 02252F2423202D3F13042D3E3A29354C0 wrote:
Oh no |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono ⭐⭐ Krysster on 03/29/19 at 12:25:59 1A3D373C3B3835270B1C352622312D540 wrote:
Oh shit :-X ::) |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Max28 on 03/29/19 at 13:40:25 Cities ranked by highest carbon emissions: 1. Gulfport, United States 2. Mohammed Bin Zayed City, UAE 3. Abu Dhabi, UAE 4. Singapore 5. Hulun Buir, China 6. Al-Jahrah, Kuwait 7. Litong, China 8. New Orleans, United States 9. Detroit, United States 10. Tongliao, China |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono ⭐⭐ Krysster on 03/29/19 at 13:45:46 5A766F252F170 wrote:
What??? [smiley=roll.gif] [smiley=roll.gif] [smiley=roll.gif] |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Max28 on 03/29/19 at 14:04:18 La butthole de la Harvey is not to be messed with. It's rumored to melt whole ice cubes. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Master Kek on 03/29/19 at 14:15:00 103C256F655D0 wrote:
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Master Kek on 05/18/19 at 10:26:07 The US government considered Mandela to be a terrorist until 2008 |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Sonne Surge on 05/19/19 at 05:50:56 1E3220273621181618530 wrote:
Why did they retract? by definition, Mandela was a terrorist http://https://i.imgur.com/VUJ0dgP.jpg http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/mandellaterrorist-457x300.jpg |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Trevor Shiloh on 05/19/19 at 14:53:29 nick fury eats diagonal toast in age of ultron |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Etch on 05/19/19 at 15:14:57 112D2C2C271137302527420 wrote:
I think that was part of the package deal by delisting the ANC, blowhards in the gov't that ignore history basically. Earlier on fears were stoked because the Cold War was at its height and they were seen as a belligerent. It's still a shithole country so job well done! |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by ★Chrono★ ★Krysster★ on 09/24/19 at 00:36:09 http://https://i.imgur.com/u8FL9HN.jpg But the random interesting fact here is when you apply this^ to Nick you can double the results: 23 tons lmao ;D hey Nick it's a fucking heavy truck class 8, gratz! [smiley=nicewr.gif] |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by MJL on 10/07/19 at 12:28:29 The latitude of the great pyramid at Giza is the same as the speed of light in meters per second. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Harvey Kartel on 11/11/19 at 23:55:12 I was looking at my world atlas earlier tonight and noticed this when I was looking at the Caucasus region: The country of Azerbaijan-- and each of its four neighbors-- all use different alphabets. Azerbaijan uses the Roman alphabet (the one you're reading right now), Russia of course uses Cyrillic, Iran uses Arabic, while the other two, Armenia and Georgia, each have their own unique alphabet used nowhere else. So that's five different alphabets used within a fairly small region of the world. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Harvey Kartel on 11/21/19 at 01:08:54 If you go from Afghanistan to Pakistan to India to Bangladesh to Myanmar to Thailand, you will be advancing your clock by 30 minutes at each border crossing. (Iran uses GMT+3:30, but I can't find any country using +4:00 that borders both Iran and Afghanistan, so I can't continue this chain westward to a +3:00 country) |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Harambey on 11/21/19 at 01:12:02 1E3933383F3C31230F183122263529500 wrote:
If you cross the border between Afghanistan and China, you'll be advancing your clock by 3 1/2 HOURS just by stepping across it. That's a bigger time difference than flying from Boston all the way to Los Angeles, achieved by simply stepping across the border. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Harvey Kartel on 11/21/19 at 01:12:28 And if you go from India to Nepal, you gain... 15 minutes. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Harambey on 11/21/19 at 01:18:51 On the topic of time zones, most American states use daylight savings time, but Arizona doesn't. This becomes strange when you know that the Navajo reservation which is partly in Arizona, does use daylight savings time. And inside the Navajo Reservation, the Hopi Reservation is part of Arizona which therefore doesn't follow daylight savings time. And, inside the Hopi Reservation, there is an enclave of the Navajo reservation that does follow daylight savings time. That means you can travel in a straight line through that enclave and have to change your clock 7 times in the process, all while driving inside the same state. Now that's an exciting road trip! |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Master Kek on 11/21/19 at 07:27:07 lol fuck time zones |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Harvey Kartel on 11/21/19 at 11:44:29 While I wouldn't do away with time zones-- we all live our lives around the sun, whether we'll admit it or not-- there are certainly ways to make time better. For one thing, we can take a hint from Arizona (and Hawaii) and do away with daylight savings time. The older I get, the more I realize how pointless it really is. All you're doing is using your clock to fool you into thinking that the sun is staying out an hour longer, and all of society goes along with it, from work and school schedules to TV schedules, conspiring to make you believe that just because it's still daylight after Jeopardy! goes off, the sun must be staying up an hour longer. But just stop to think about how the earth moves, and it all falls apart. The earth's rotation doesn't give a shit what time is on your clock. It rotates 360 degrees every 23 hours and 56 minutes, and the same point on Earth faces the sun (we call this "solar noon") every 24 hours, no matter how you set your clocks forward or backward the previous night. I used to wonder why we even bothered to set our clocks back in the fall and couldn't just use DST year-round, since I like the "later" sunsets of DST (being such a late riser), until I was in Dallas on a chilly October morning when the sun wouldn't come up until like 8 AM. It was then that I realized that October is too late to be having DST, and March is frankly too early for it (I was also in Dallas on a similarly chilly and dark March morning). If I grew up in Dallas I'd often be waiting for the school bus in the dark, but where I live, it was never dark at the bus stop (do note that DST was shorter back when I was in school; it wasn't extended to March-November until 2007, so the March mornings of my childhood are lighter than the ones of today) Another problem with time is that some places are in the wrong time zones. In Spain people famously do everything later in the day than most of the world. Being in the +1 time zone is to blame; most of Spain is farther west than most of the UK yet Spain is one our ahead of the UK. It's worse for people living in western regions especially Galicia. At least Portugal was smart enough to keep GMT (though I heard they briefly tried GMT+1 but it worked poorly for them, since they were way too far ahead of solar time). Spain should NOT be in the same time zone as Poland; given the amount of longitude separating these two countries, Spain being on +1 is basically like putting the aforementioned Dallas (where March and October DST mornings are dark enough as it is) on New York's time. China needs to rethink its decision to use one time zone (based on Beijing's solar time, of course) across a country bigger than the US. It really throws clocks out of whack in places like Urümqi or Lhasa. Imagine waiting until 10 AM for the December sun to rise just because you were arbitrarily assigned the time zone of a city two or three "solar hours" to the east. It would basically be like giving New York's time zone to Los Angeles. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Etch on 11/21/19 at 15:34:32 587F757E797A7765495E776460736F160 wrote:
Reeducation camp for you! ;D Actually, in Florida there was a vote to keep daylight saving in effect year round. Pretty sure states can't go back to doing whatever the fuck they want without federal approval otherwise we'll be back to the era in cartoons where there was a clock for each municipality! |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Harvey Kartel on 11/21/19 at 17:24:18 6B316A68626A603434010 wrote:
This was basically how it was done until the 1800s and the invention of high-speed transportation and telecommunication (i.e. the railroad and telegraph). Once people and news could get from one town to another faster than a horse could gallop, the government mandated time zones in order to standardize time within particular regions. Your town now had the same time as the next town over, and anything that involved travelling between towns could finally be coordinated properly. Keeping the same time year-round is more common in places closer to the equator, including Florida (Hawaii is one of the states that doesn't use DST), since the sun more or less rises and sets at the same time throughout the year. However, putting Florida on permanent daylight time would put it out of sync, clock-wise, with the rest of the East Coast (including NY and DC) during times of the year like these when we are on standard time. (Why do we call it "standard" time anyway now when we only use it for about a third of the year? Shouldn't the time we call daylight time be the real "standard" since we now use it from March to November? What are we gonna do next, extend DST into February?) If we're gonna use DST at all, my suggestion would be to go back to the pre-2007 practice of starting it in April... but ending it much earlier, in early- to mid-September (we'll say the weekend after Labor Day), when the daylight hours are about the same as they were in early April, when DST started. This limits DST to less than half of the year, making standard time, well, the standard as it would be used for the majority of the year (nearly 7 months). You still get to enjoy your sunlit evenings during the part of the year that you most want to be outside (if you don't live in the hot, humid Gulf South, that is), and once Labor Day has passed, the kids are back in school and all the "summer" attractions (water parks, etc.) have closed, you'll have more light in the mornings (which would be starting to get cooler) to help you wake up as you head off to work and school. Because it's just harder to wake up and be energized on a cold, dark fall morning when the natural world around you is telling you to stay in bed. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Harvey Kartel on 01/23/20 at 02:19:44 There's a city in eastern Thailand called "Roi Et". This name literally means "King And" in French. And guess what country "The King And I" takes place in... ;D |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono Krysster on 01/23/20 at 23:44:45 4E6963686F6C61735F486172766579000 wrote:
Ah I see, and Thailand is also a place close to South Pacific-- the location of the famous King Hippo ;D do you sea? ;D |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Master Kek on 02/14/20 at 15:51:57 I liked reading this http://www.graphgraph.com/2014/03/jeopardy-and-wheel-of-fortune-airtimes-in-graphs-and-maps/ |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Harvey Kartel on 02/19/20 at 12:22:51 I get Jeopardy! at 6:00 (on the local CBS affiliate) and Wheel of Fortune at 6:30 (on the ABC affiliate). I think all programming between 3 and 7 is up to the local stations, not the networks. This is when all of the syndicated programs air, along with local and nationl news shows. On my ABC affiliate, the schedule goes like this: 3:00 Kelly Clarkson 4:00 local news 4:30 Inside Edition 5:00 local news 5:30 national news 6:00 local news 6:30 Wheel of Fortune The CBS affilate shows a Jeopardy rerun (from the previous season) at 4, Entertainment Tonight is on at 4:30, national news is still 5:30, new episodes of Jeopardy air at 6 and this then is followed by local news. On the New Orleans NBC affiliate (which our cable provider recently dropped), ET comes on at 6:30. When I was a kid, Jeopardy was on even earlier, at 4:30 on the New Orleans CBS affiliate, but Wheel has always been at 6:30. Until the past decade or so, we did not have our own CBS or NBC affiliates, we watched the New Orleans stations instead. Now our ABC station (WLOX) also has a CBS channel while our Fox station (WXXV) has added an NBC channel. Our cable provider has been phasing out the New Orleans stations here; for a time we couldn't see Jeopardy! because it only aired on the New Orleans Fox affiliate (WVUE) and that station got dropped. But when WLOX introduced its CBS channel it picked up Jeopardy and we were able to see it again. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Harvey Kartel on 03/04/20 at 01:12:43 I recently discovered a channel on YouTube called "Lost in the Pond". It's the observations of a British expat living in the United States (currently Chicago) and the things about America that surprise him the most. In a video about U.S. geography, he mentions that the Grand Canyon, if placed in Great Britain, would stretch all the way from Brighton to Liverpool. (I think that's about half the length of the entire island?) I believe the upstream end of the canyon does extend into Utah, so this may not be too surprising, but above all this makes the UK seem really, really small. In another video about American weather, he mentions that Indiana (where he once lived) actually has colder winters than Scotland (and lists several other states, giving how many degrees they are, on average, colder than Scotland). I never thought of Indiana as having particularly severe winters, but I've always imagined Scotland as a place that might get really, really cold (being as far north as it is). If Scotland is actually milder than Indiana, imagine Scots' surprise when they plan a winter visit to a place like Minneapolis (which is on a par with southern France in terms of latitude). The same YouTuber also compared the size of Ben Nevis with the size of Denali (Mt. McKinley). The two really don't compare... |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Harvey Kartel on 03/28/20 at 20:33:32 If Matt Ballard and I both floated straight up off the ground from our backyards, until both of us reached the height at which the International Space station orbits... we would still be closer to our homes on the ground than we would be to each other! (The ISS orbits at a height of 205 miles, per a Google search. Monroe, Louisiana is about 230 miles from Gulfport, Mississippi as the crow files. Also, due to the curvature of the Earth, Matt and I would be even father apart than that if we both floated 205 miles straight up from our respective locations on Earth) I made up this "fact" after reading that if you sail far enough out into the ocean, the closest other people to you may be astronauts on the ISS. Addendum: The ISS can actually be seen with the naked eye. In the above scenario, that means Matt and I might be able to see each other floating in space without telescopes, assuming we're wearing white spacesuits and the sun is illuminating both of us. We would probably see each other as small stars. (Binoculars might help, though.) |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono Krysster on 03/28/20 at 21:49:36 5572787374777A6844537A696D7E621B0 wrote:
The origin of the first American flag is unknown but legend has it that this is how the Stars and Stripes was inspired^ http://https://i.imgur.com/bnSh68y.jpg [smiley=johncleese.gif] |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by flanders on 04/10/20 at 14:43:33 The poll that goes with this post reminds me of this interesting tidbit - the original patent drawing for the toilet paper roll shows the roll in the front ;D https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toilet-paper-roll-patent-US465588-0.png |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Mango Man on 04/12/20 at 03:36:11 Russian researchers allegedly defrosted 2 50,000 year old nematodes in 2018, and they proceeded to just keep on living like they always did [smiley=lolk.gif] Source (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-roundworms-allegedly-resurrected-russian-permafrost-180969782/) |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono Krysster on 04/13/20 at 05:39:52 65474B4354494865260 wrote:
>>Rolls of toilet paper used per person per year (https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/fzxhsc/rolls_of_toilet_paper_used_per_person_per_year_oc/) *before coronavirus outbreak Oh shit.. USA #1 again 8-) (wash your ass :P [smiley=flush.gif] ), I'm surprised to see Japan ranked 4 in the world. 7277787D6365160 wrote:
>permafrost >many future surprises (like a mountain of poop!) *after coronavirus outbreak Also, Thomas Voss a.k.a. Mango Man once said "You miss 100% of the shits you don't take", on 29/02/1980 http://i.imgur.com/g4ZcaA6.png *way before the coronavirus circulation These are just a few facts refreshing to smell like a shitstorm :D |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Harvey Kartel on 04/18/20 at 01:53:44 Recently read somewhere that the combined weight of all the world's bacteria is greater than the combined weight of all the world's animals. And plants. Add up the weight of all humans, elephants, whales, and trees on earth and it's still less than the germs. The unicellular organisms of the world actually outweigh the multicellular ones. It's believed that the average human body is home to ten trillion bacteria (which make up about 3% of your total body weight!), and there are estimated to be about five nonillion total in the world. That's a 31-digit number, by the way-- and more than the estimated total number of stars in the universe. One gram of soil may contain as many as a billion bacteria. A single drop of pond water can have over a million, along with about ten million viruses. An acre of land (about the size of a football field) typically has about one ton of bacteria living in its soil. Most bacteria are just a couple of microns in size. The largest, however, is nearly a millimeter in size, or about as big as the head of a pin. It's found in the South Atlantic off the coast of Namibia. Its size compared to that of the average bacterium is like the size of a blue whale compared to the size of a newborn mouse. There are estimated to be more than ten nonillion viruses in the world's oceans alone. The average virus is less than a tenth of a micron in size-- that's 100 nanometers. It is a small fraction of the size of a bacterium. Yet if all of the world's viruses were placed in a line, it is estimated that the line would reach for 200 million light years. If you are sick with the flu there may be as many as 100 trillion influenza viruses in your body, duking it out with your immune system. Microbiology is fascinating indeed. I knew that bacteria and viruses were very small and numerous in the world, but it wasn't until I did a bit of research (inspired by the COVID-19 outbreak, of course) that I learned just how small and how numerous bacteria and viruses are. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono Krysster on 04/18/20 at 07:04:36 >Imagine counting atoms >bacteria, humans, same world Nick in English, plural form; bacterium, bacteria, bacterias, bacteriae? |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono Krysster on 04/25/20 at 20:37:49 >>https://mobile.twitter.com/DrTajikSohail/status/1254010609575788544 Unbelievable [smiley=nicewr.gif] |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Mango Man on 04/26/20 at 05:29:46 1E272C2626213027626262550 wrote:
Reminds me of the man that survived both atomic bombs on Japan (https://www.history.com/news/the-man-who-survived-two-atomic-bombs) |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono Krysster on 05/08/20 at 17:29:27 French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's great-nephew U.S. Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Bonaparte) created the FBI (the BOI) in 1908. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Chrono Krysster on 05/13/20 at 18:28:38 Based on true facts; Bill Gates and Paul Allen established Microsoft on April 4, 1975, with Gates as the CEO, and my parents got married the day after on April 5, 1975, when I was already in my mother's womb as the OCD [smiley=ninja.gif] [smiley=johncleese.gif] [smiley=happy.gif] |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by trigger863 on 05/21/20 at 20:31:34 not interesting, but Discord and Roblox are the same age rating on the App Store, 12+ |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Mango Man on 05/22/20 at 06:48:48 Quote:
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by flanders on 05/22/20 at 10:26:26 27222D283630430 wrote:
Trigger bro just follow the rules [smiley=uzi.gif] |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Harvey Kartel on 07/13/20 at 00:50:52 France's longest land border is not with Spain or Germany, but rather... Brazil. I've known for a little while now that French Guiana is fully a part of France (think Alaska or Hawaii vis-à-vis the USA) but I just learned tonight that the French-Guiana/Brazil border (or should I say, the France/Brazil border) is longer than any of France's European borders. Pour ceux qui ne sont pas français, France consists of 101 départements, or departments. 96 of them are in Europe and the other five are scattered across the world. They are Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, Reunion, and Mayotte, the last of which only became a department about ten years ago (most of you French Karters probably grew up in a France that had exactly 100 departments). The five non-European departments are called DOMs, or Departements Outre-Mer (Overseas Departments). There are also collectivities (COMs) and territories (TOMs) that are semi part of France but are not part of the EU and may or may not use the Euro. Their relation to France is similar to Puerto Rico's with the USA. Most COMs/TOMs are in the Pacific Ocean (French Polynesia, which contains Tahiti, is probably the most famous one) but one of them, St. Pierre & Miquelon, sits next to Newfoundland (and used to be a DOM until the 1980s, therefore, there was once a piece of France sitting mere miles off the Canadian coast!) French Guiana may best be known for Devil's Island (essentially a French Alcatraz) and in more modern times, the space center at Kourou. Growing up I never realized that French Guiana et al. were actually integral parts of France and just thought of them as dependencies instead, since a country other than the USA couldn't possibly have parts of it lying clear across the ocean. (The fact that hardly any maps or atlases of France include the DOMs didn't really help.) It kinda blows my mind that France extends as far west as the Lesser Antilles and as far south as northern Madagascar off the southeastern African coast! By the way I've heard that France will soon have exactly 100 departments again, as Alsace's two departments (Bas-Rhin & Haut-Rhin) are to be merged into a single one next year. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Master Kek on 07/24/20 at 10:14:50 The Nissan 370Z launched in the Philippines today It's been out everywhere else since 2009... |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Harvey Kartel on 08/09/20 at 08:09:28 Lying awake in bed this morning, the math nerd in me thought of this. First of all, who has seen the 1989 Disney live-action comedy, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids? You remember just how small those kids got, right? Well, even in their shrunken form, the kids are still closer in size to their full-sized parents, than the moon is to the size of the sun. (We're told that the shrunken kids are a quarter of an inch tall, so we'll say that Wayne Szalinski's shrink ray reduces size by a factor of 250. The sun is larger than the moon by a factor of about 400) On a related note, if you were suddenly as large as Polaris, the North Star, then Earth would be microscopic to you. The size ratio between Polaris and Earth would be like your size versus that of a paramecium (about 50 microns). And that's a star that's only 37 times the diameter of the sun... (some stars are believed to be 1000-2000 times the sun's diameter... if you were as large as one of these stars, Earth would be the size of a typical bacterium to you) |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Ω Krysster on 08/31/20 at 01:47:40 2A13181212150413565656610 wrote:
http://https://i.imgur.com/drWBW89.png The American Western silent film "The Lucky Horseshoe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lucky_Horseshoe)" was released 95 years ago, yesterday (August 30, 1925)! This fact was done randomly. And since the question of the poll of this thread is "How is your set up to wipe your ass?" .Front Roll .Back Roll So I'm adding this new question right here right now "How is your set up to get lucky?" http://https://i.imgur.com/VKLQJu5.png .Legs Up http://https://i.imgur.com/znydl63.png .Legs Down I don't know, I mean I don't have a definitive answer to which way is good luck for a horseshoe? But Google (from archive.azcentral.com) says: "there are two schools of thought on this matter. Some people say you should hang the horseshoe with the ends - the heels - pointing up so the good luck it brings won't drain out. Others say the heels should be pointing down so the good luck falls on anybody passing through the doorway." Spaghetti western bonus: Time to remember the movie "My Name Is Nobody" with Jack Beauregard's farewell letter (I have to mention this letter is a must read, thank you): Dear Nobody, dying is not the worst thing that can happen to a man. Look at me... I've been dead for three days now, and have finally found my peace. You used to say that my life was hanging by a thread. Maybe so, but I'm afraid it's your life that's hanging by a thread now. And there's quite a few people who'd like to cut that thread. Yeah, I guess it's your way of feeling alive. See, there's a whole difference between you and me: I always try to steer away from trouble, while you seem to be looking for it all the time. But I must admit, you've been able to solve your share, even if you like others to take the credit. This way, you can remain a "nobody." You got it all nicely figured out. But you gambled too big this time, and there's too many people who know you're "somebody" after all. And you won't have much time left for playing your funny games. They'll make life harder and harder for you, until you too will meet somebody who wants to put you down in history. And so you'll find out that the only way to become a nobody again is to die. Anyhow, from now on, you'll be walking in my boots, and maybe you won't be laughing so loud anymore. But you can still do one thing: you can preserve a little of that illusion that made my generation tick. Maybe you'll do it in your own funny way, but you'll be grateful just the same. I guess looking back, it seems we were all a bunch of romantic fools. We still believed that a good pistol and a quick showdown could solve everything. But then, the West used to be wide-open spaces with lots of elbow room, and you never ran into the same person twice. By the time you came along, it was changed. It got smaller and crowded, and I kept bumping into the same people all the time. But if you're able to run around in the West peacefully catching flies, it's only 'cause fellows like me were there first. Yeah, the same fellow you want to see written up in history books, 'cause people need something to believe in, like you say. But you won't be able to have it your own way much longer, 'cause the country ain't the same anymore, and I'm already feeling a stranger myself. But, what's worse, violence has changed, too. It's grown, and got organized, and a good pistol don't mean a damn thing anymore. But I guess you must know all this, 'cause it's... your kind of time, not mine. And I also figured out the moral to your grandpa's story, the one about the cow that covered the little bird in cowpie to keep it warm, and then the coyote hauled it out and ate it. It's the moral of these new times of yours: Folks that throw dirt on you aren't always trying to hurt you, and folks who pull you out of a jam aren't always trying to help you. But the main point is, when you're up to your nose in shit, keep your mouth shut. This is why people like me gotta' go, and this is why you faked that gunfight to get me out of the West clean. Anyhow, I was getting to be one more old-timer, and the years don't make wisdom, they just make old age. One can be young in years and old in hours, like you. I guess I'm talking like a damn preacher, but it's your fault; what can you expect of a national monument? Well, keep your mind and your heart open, and if you ever meet one of those men you almost never meet, you can keep each other company, and it won't be so lonely for you. They say distance makes friendship grow stronger. Maybe so, 'cause after three days without you dogging my tracks, I kinda' miss you. I really gotta' sign off now, so even if you've been a stinkin' nosy troublemaker all the time, thanks for everything just the same. P.S.: Just one more piece of advice from an old-timer: When you're getting a shave and a cut, be sure the right man's wearing a jacket! Also, Henry Fonda truly had a beau regard. ~lucky or visionary~ |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Ω Krysster on 11/03/20 at 22:34:19 022E3C3B2A3D040A044F0 wrote:
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So you're telling me that you had Einstein Syndrome? ::) And the interesting facts are: In 1952, Albert Einstein was offered the Presidency of the Jewish state but he declined to be the President of Israel! In 1952 again, the remains of Louis Braille, the inventor of the braille code, were transferred to the Pantheon in Paris 100 years after his death! Question: 100 years after Albert Einstein, who will win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2021? |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Etch 2.0 on 02/16/21 at 12:26:30 Quote of the day: "The stupid neither forgive nor forget, the naive forgive and forget, the wise forgive but do not forget." Now can you tell me this interesting fact about what you are; the stupid, the naive, the wise? Oh, and about me... the fool does not forgive but forget. lol |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by Harvey Kartel on 05/03/21 at 10:58:50 All four members of Queen were born during Harry S Truman's presidency. So were all four members of ABBA. My dad, and several of my aunts and uncles, were also born during Truman's administration, but Eisenhower was in office by the time my mother was born. There are probably many other musical acts whose members were all born during the same presidential administration-- pretty sure all four Beatles were born during FDR's time in office, and possibly all of the Rolling Stones as well. I would imagine there are many more recent bands whose members were all born during the Reagan era, I believe Hanson was one of the first. Most of us Karters were probably born during Ronald Reagan's two presidential terms, but some of the younger ones were born when George H. W. Bush or Bill Clinton was in office. |
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Title: Re: Post a random interesting fact here! Post by InnovΔ on 05/03/21 at 13:22:01 6A4D474C4B4845577B6C455652415D240 wrote:
You're forgetting about the entire Mario Kart Wii playerbase who was born well after George W. Bush left office (which was after the game was released (Where are all these 11 year olds getting Wiis from?)) |
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