A useless fact you know
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nah I think relative to an angle perpendicular to the sun, magnetic north is closer to the north pole than 23 degrees I believeKirkby said:
A game related one;
Many of you know that the Missingno. in Pokemon RB, which gives you 126 of any numeric item you want, is battled by first talking to Viridian city's grumpy coffee guy and watching him catch a weedle. Then you would go to Cinnabar Island a surf up the East Coast in pure Pauly D fashion. But why does this work?
Now the astute gamer may notice that [PLAYER CHARACTER] bears little resemblance to Grumpy Coffee Man, which means the Game Developers had to invent a new back sprite just for that one dude. However, whilst that guy was showing you how to enslave little beasties, the game needed somewhere to store the information for [PLAYER CHARACTER]'s back sprite, which just happened to go in pokédex no. 000, which means that since it's in the pokédex, the cart counts it as a pokémon.
Now, to the coast of Cinnabar. The green buffery thing that you can surf on is technically still part of cinnibar island. If you go onto the sea, you will notice the tiniest pause as the game loads up Route 20 and all the Tentacool you can shake a stick at. The problem with the green buffery thing is that you surf on it. According to the Cart, anywhere you can surf, you can run into wild pokémon. however, since we are still in a town, the cart has no pokémans loaded. Oh Noes!
What follows is a brain fart on the cartridge's behalf, where it scrambles for pokémon data. Instead of just plopping a tentacool in there (LIKE EVERY OTHER GODDAMN PIECE OF WATER) It goes for the most recently used data, residing in no. 000. But it's not pokémon data, It's player data. and the cart, acting very much the disgruntled minimum wage employee, shrugs and throws it at you anyway. The result is missingno.
I lost track of what I was typing, so I'll just sum up here:
TL
R MISSINGNO. IS YOU! To achieve the reward, you must first overcome yourself! Who knew Game Freak was full of psychology drop outs?
Also! The Qwerty keyboard an standard on the majority of western computers is the way it is because, in Ye' Olde days when typewriters were invented, letters that commonly went together (like S and H) wouldn't get stuck together and make every letter sound like it was being dictated by Sean Connery. Since then, nobodies bothered to change it, even though there is no need for it now.
Many of you know that the Missingno. in Pokemon RB, which gives you 126 of any numeric item you want, is battled by first talking to Viridian city's grumpy coffee guy and watching him catch a weedle. Then you would go to Cinnabar Island a surf up the East Coast in pure Pauly D fashion. But why does this work?
Now the astute gamer may notice that [PLAYER CHARACTER] bears little resemblance to Grumpy Coffee Man, which means the Game Developers had to invent a new back sprite just for that one dude. However, whilst that guy was showing you how to enslave little beasties, the game needed somewhere to store the information for [PLAYER CHARACTER]'s back sprite, which just happened to go in pokédex no. 000, which means that since it's in the pokédex, the cart counts it as a pokémon.
Now, to the coast of Cinnabar. The green buffery thing that you can surf on is technically still part of cinnibar island. If you go onto the sea, you will notice the tiniest pause as the game loads up Route 20 and all the Tentacool you can shake a stick at. The problem with the green buffery thing is that you surf on it. According to the Cart, anywhere you can surf, you can run into wild pokémon. however, since we are still in a town, the cart has no pokémans loaded. Oh Noes!
What follows is a brain fart on the cartridge's behalf, where it scrambles for pokémon data. Instead of just plopping a tentacool in there (LIKE EVERY OTHER GODDAMN PIECE OF WATER) It goes for the most recently used data, residing in no. 000. But it's not pokémon data, It's player data. and the cart, acting very much the disgruntled minimum wage employee, shrugs and throws it at you anyway. The result is missingno.
I lost track of what I was typing, so I'll just sum up here:
TL
R MISSINGNO. IS YOU! To achieve the reward, you must first overcome yourself! Who knew Game Freak was full of psychology drop outs?Also! The Qwerty keyboard an standard on the majority of western computers is the way it is because, in Ye' Olde days when typewriters were invented, letters that commonly went together (like S and H) wouldn't get stuck together and make every letter sound like it was being dictated by Sean Connery. Since then, nobodies bothered to change it, even though there is no need for it now.
what he said was absolutely right, you CAN see the moon from the Great Wall, i'm pretty sure in that thing.Jroo wuz heer said:
3/4 people make up 75% of our population
Hippos cant swim
Rhinos dont have horns
there is no such thing as a fish
Hippos cant swim
Rhinos dont have horns
there is no such thing as a fish
Actually a falsehood gained from the observation that old church and cathedral windows were thicker at the bottom, leading to the theory that it's very slowly running. But in fact during the periods in which these windows were made glass-making wasn't a precise process, leading windows thinner at one end than the other and obviously they put thick end at the bottom.Hister said:
I think that serves as both a debunking and a useless fact in itself.
Btw, I highly advise all non-UK peeps to check out the greatness that is Q.I. I only say non-UK guys because everyone from Britain and Ireland probably already regularly prays to Lord Fry.
Jean Reno's given name was Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jiménez, as his parents fled from Spain to Morocco to escape Franciso Franco's regime. I found this really weird for some reason. I mean, he's pretty much the first guy that comes to mind when trying to think of French actors.
Unfortunately your first useless fact is in fact a useless myth; Glass is a solid (it does not flow). It is however amorphous which is where the liquid analogy comes from - it freezes into a static version of what it looked like as a liquid; it doesn't crystallise when it freezes.Hister said:
Useless fact 2: A Super-Cooled liquid still flows - indeed some can be made to flow upwards. Supercooled helium will flow up and out of glass beaker.
Useless fact 3: The best way for someone reading this to hurt them self is by super heating a cup of water in the microwave to see if it works (which it does), until you move it and it boils all over your face and hand because the surface tension breaks...