http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queimada_Grande_IslandSurpheal said:
yep, the nasty effects include necrosis of brain tissue
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yep, the nasty effects include necrosis of brain tissue
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The Fact Sphere has 99 unique soundbytes.
The Fact Sphere lists 22 accurate facts.
The Fact Sphere has 7 subjective statements. Of these, 5 explicitly refer to the Fact Sphere itself.
The Fact Sphere never makes it to Space.
The Fact Sphere and the other corrupted cores are voiced by Nolan North, as is Nathan Drake.
Contrary to popular opinion, not everything in Australia wants to kill you. The Irukandji Jellyfish wants to make you suffer.
The sting of an Irukandji Jellyfish is not usually fatal with proper treatment, though those experiencing Irukandji Syndrome often express a belief and/or desire that it was.
The Flying Squirrel does not actually fly. It just falls with style.
Many people reading this post will do so in the Fact Sphere's voice.
The Fact Sphere has 99 unique soundbytes.
The Fact Sphere lists 22 accurate facts.
1.The billionth digit of Pi is 9.
2.Humans can survive underwater. But not for very long.
3.A nanosecond lasts one billionth of a second.
4.Honey does not spoil.
5.The atomic weight of Germanium is seven two point six four.
6.An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
7.Rats cannot throw up.
8.Iguanas can stay underwater for twenty-eight point seven minutes.
9.The moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days.
10.A gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds.
11.According to Norse legend, thunder god Thor's chariot was pulled across the sky by two goats.
12.Tungsten has the highest melting point of any metal, at 3,410 degrees Celsius.
13.Gently cleaning the tongue twice a day is the most effective way to fight bad breath.
14.The Tariff Act of 1789, established to protect domestic manufacture, was the second statute ever enacted by the United States government.
15.The value of Pi is the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter in Euclidean space.
16.The Mexican-American War ended in 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
17.In 1879, Sandford Fleming first proposed the adoption of worldwide standardized time zones at the Royal Canadian Institute.
18.Marie Curie invented the theory of radioactivity, the treatment of radioactivity, and dying of radioactivity.
19.At the end of The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, Konstantin kills himself.
20.If you have trouble with simple counting, use the following mnemonic device: one comes before two comes before 60 comes after 12 comes before six trillion comes after 504. This will make your earlier counting difficulties seem like no big deal.
21.Hot water freezes quicker than cold water.
22."The situation [Chell is] in is very dangerous
2.Humans can survive underwater. But not for very long.
3.A nanosecond lasts one billionth of a second.
4.Honey does not spoil.
5.The atomic weight of Germanium is seven two point six four.
6.An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
7.Rats cannot throw up.
8.Iguanas can stay underwater for twenty-eight point seven minutes.
9.The moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days.
10.A gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds.
11.According to Norse legend, thunder god Thor's chariot was pulled across the sky by two goats.
12.Tungsten has the highest melting point of any metal, at 3,410 degrees Celsius.
13.Gently cleaning the tongue twice a day is the most effective way to fight bad breath.
14.The Tariff Act of 1789, established to protect domestic manufacture, was the second statute ever enacted by the United States government.
15.The value of Pi is the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter in Euclidean space.
16.The Mexican-American War ended in 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
17.In 1879, Sandford Fleming first proposed the adoption of worldwide standardized time zones at the Royal Canadian Institute.
18.Marie Curie invented the theory of radioactivity, the treatment of radioactivity, and dying of radioactivity.
19.At the end of The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, Konstantin kills himself.
20.If you have trouble with simple counting, use the following mnemonic device: one comes before two comes before 60 comes after 12 comes before six trillion comes after 504. This will make your earlier counting difficulties seem like no big deal.
21.Hot water freezes quicker than cold water.
22."The situation [Chell is] in is very dangerous
The Fact Sphere has 7 subjective statements. Of these, 5 explicitly refer to the Fact Sphere itself.
The Fact Sphere never makes it to Space.
The Fact Sphere and the other corrupted cores are voiced by Nolan North, as is Nathan Drake.
Contrary to popular opinion, not everything in Australia wants to kill you. The Irukandji Jellyfish wants to make you suffer.
The sting of an Irukandji Jellyfish is not usually fatal with proper treatment, though those experiencing Irukandji Syndrome often express a belief and/or desire that it was.
The Flying Squirrel does not actually fly. It just falls with style.
Many people reading this post will do so in the Fact Sphere's voice.
Ooo, someone's been reading xkcd recently!klown said:
At the turn of the 20th century there was much fuss about the human ancestry due to all the discoveries of australopitheci in africa and early homo in java and china. Many people felt like the cradle of humanity should be where its most advanced examples are, so of course Europe.
In 1912 an excavation in East Sussex discovered what came to be known as the <url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piltdown_Man>Piltdown Man and thereby concluded that humans developed in Britain. Unfortunately, in 1953 biologists finally, after decades of doubts, properly proved it to be the skull of a medieval man combined with the lower jaw of an orang-utan and a few chimp teeth thrown in because at that point you might as well go all the way.
In 1917 H.P. Lovecraft used the piltdown man in one of his short stories, Dagon, and in one later story as well. And in 1994 Mac's new Power Macintosh 6100 was codenamed "piltdown man" during its development.
Here is another freaky animal sex fact:
Polar bears have a bone inside their Penis like many mammals,however whenever they mate with females they keep on going until the bone breaks
Polar bears have a bone inside their Penis like many mammals,however whenever they mate with females they keep on going until the bone breaks
Fair enough, just sounded really familiar.klown said:
The escherichia coli bacteria (yes, it's that E.coli) can replicate its whole genome and split into two new cells in about ten minutes, which is pretty darn fast considering it has over 4.5 million base pairs.
Clouds...[small]wait for it[/small]... Float
Despite what health commercials may tell you, White breads don't make you regular. Only wheat and Whole Grain breads can do that.
Despite what health commercials may tell you, White breads don't make you regular. Only wheat and Whole Grain breads can do that.
All polarbears are left handed.
Ants can carry twenty times their own weight, drag fifty times their own weight, and always fall on their left side after being poisoned.
A pig's orgasm can last up to thirty minutes.
A day on Venus is shorter then a year on the same planet.
The Earth is the only planet in our solar system to have only one moon. (Not counting Pluto)
The longest war in history was between the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands and the Scilly Islands on the southwest end of the UK. Not a shot was ever fired, and no soldier was ever killed during the 335 years the war lasted.
The monarch of England is also the monarch of France.
The first scene to be shot for Titanic was the famous drawing scene (awkward), which was actually drawn by James Cameron himself.
For that same movie, a one-in-one replica of the ship was built of the Mexican coast.
In conclusion: I bet everyone who bothered to read all of this wants to be a pig in his or her next life.
She had her first marrige annuled by her mother, seeing how she wasn't of age yet.
In order to get pregnant, she first had to gain 12 pounds, otherwise her body simply wouldn't cope with the stress.
She had to dub every line in Resident Evil: Apocalypse because she originally did them in her natural voice and it just didn't sound right to her.
Ants can carry twenty times their own weight, drag fifty times their own weight, and always fall on their left side after being poisoned.
A pig's orgasm can last up to thirty minutes.
A day on Venus is shorter then a year on the same planet.
The Earth is the only planet in our solar system to have only one moon. (Not counting Pluto)
The longest war in history was between the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands and the Scilly Islands on the southwest end of the UK. Not a shot was ever fired, and no soldier was ever killed during the 335 years the war lasted.
The monarch of England is also the monarch of France.
The first scene to be shot for Titanic was the famous drawing scene (awkward), which was actually drawn by James Cameron himself.
For that same movie, a one-in-one replica of the ship was built of the Mexican coast.
In conclusion: I bet everyone who bothered to read all of this wants to be a pig in his or her next life.
For such a fan, I would expect you to mention the following facts:Lt._nefarious said:
She had her first marrige annuled by her mother, seeing how she wasn't of age yet.
In order to get pregnant, she first had to gain 12 pounds, otherwise her body simply wouldn't cope with the stress.
She had to dub every line in Resident Evil: Apocalypse because she originally did them in her natural voice and it just didn't sound right to her.
No, no, no, no, no.klown said:
If you're going to use that many significant figures for the beta value of the oh-my-god particle, you could at least use an accurate value for the speed of light.
The speed of light is exactly 299792458ms[sup]-1[/sup], putting the speed of the oh-my-god particle at 299792457.9999999999999985310169558ms[sup]-1[/sup]
Mario was named after the designers Italian landlord.
Also, his huge nose was so that you could tell which generation he was facing in 1st generation graphics
Pandas are an evolutionary failure. They are herbivores with the bodies and metabolism of carnivores.
Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals co-existed for several thousand years. We may even have worked together to hunt in some places.
Typing Google into Google will not destroy the internet.
Typing Bing into Bing on the other hand...
Also, his huge nose was so that you could tell which generation he was facing in 1st generation graphics
Pandas are an evolutionary failure. They are herbivores with the bodies and metabolism of carnivores.
Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals co-existed for several thousand years. We may even have worked together to hunt in some places.
Typing Google into Google will not destroy the internet.
Typing Bing into Bing on the other hand...
They finally figured out a couple years ago why women crave chocolate when they're on their period. Turns out chocolate is a mild hormone balancer. So there's a totally legit reason to get your girlfriend/wife chocolate when she demands it on her period: it actually DOES help a little bit.
All freshwater eels, both the European and American species, are born in the same place, a seaweed- and vine-clogged section of the ocean south of Bermuda known as the Sargasso Sea. From this location, the eels migrate to various parts of the world, the American eels to North America, the European eels to Europe. The trips may take as long as three years. Once they arrive at their destination, the males remain at the river mouths while the females move farther upstream, finally settling in small island lakes and ponds. They remain there for ten to fifteen years, until they receive a strange instinctive call back to the sea. Swimming against great river currents, leaping upward like salmon, sometimes leaving the water altogether to crawl along great stretches of land, the female eel finally makes her way back to the sea, where she joins the male. Then they swim together directly to the Sargasso Sea. Here they mate, spawn, and die.
My dad told me that one. While I was looking for a nice wall of text to quote about it, I also found this:
The White Shark:
Has teeth that rank on a scale of hardness with steel.
Is the only creature in the sea with no natural enemies; even killer whales normally avoid it.
Can survive brain damage better than any animal in the world.
Never gets sick. It has mysterious antibodies that give it immunity to practically every known bacterial invader. It is also one of the few animals known to be completely immune to cancer.
Can hear sounds a mile away.
Is always hungry; no matter how much it eats, its appetite is never satisfied?it lives in a state of continual hunger.
My dad told me that one. While I was looking for a nice wall of text to quote about it, I also found this:
The White Shark:
Has teeth that rank on a scale of hardness with steel.
Is the only creature in the sea with no natural enemies; even killer whales normally avoid it.
Can survive brain damage better than any animal in the world.
Never gets sick. It has mysterious antibodies that give it immunity to practically every known bacterial invader. It is also one of the few animals known to be completely immune to cancer.
Can hear sounds a mile away.
Is always hungry; no matter how much it eats, its appetite is never satisfied?it lives in a state of continual hunger.
Sure they can, have you ever met a dog!? Just stand near one with some food and they can't look anywhere but up...zumbledum said:
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Finally, someone who is impressed by my creepy number of Milla Jovovich facts...AsurasEyes said:
Um, killer whales will often attack it just for fun and play with the corpse for a time. Orcas are assholes, they'll even try to fuck with a blue whale if they're in a big enough group.Bestival said:
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But a shark's skin is actually an evolutionary rest stemming from their descendants, the <url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placodermi>Placodermi, which were bone-plate armored fish from around 380 million years ago. And due to its structure nothing will stick to this skin, not even bacteria; that's why we're starting to use a synthetic version to protect a ship's hull, reduce water drag and even keep medical surfaces clean without disinfectants.
I do so hate that fact and it's painful to see it repeated over and over again on the internet. Please <url=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.393598-An-interesting-facts-thread#15915797>see this post I made on page 1 for a falsification and maybe edit it out of your post if you're willing.Henkie36 said:
Quaxar said:
Yeah I was just copy pasting that off some site, and thought it a bit weird. Mostly because it makes it sound like Killer Whales are like the ultimate badasses... But if Sharks are the only creature with no natural enemies, then what the fuck is attacking the Killer Whales!? ( Aside from the Japanese.)
The speed of light is not constant. It actually varies depending on the medium it is travelling in. What is constant however is the speed of light in a vacuum, which remains constant even in a reletavistic frame of reference.
Light is an electromagnetic wave. Sure, everyone seems to know that, but do you know what that means? It means that light is made up of an oscillating electric field and an oscillating magnetic field. The fields oscillate at right angles to each other and to the direction of travel. The waves also support each other; as the electric field changes it causes a change in the magnetic field as per the equations of electromagnetism. The changing magnetic field (which was induced by the changing electric field) induces a change in the - you guessed it - electric field. Neither can exist without the other.
An old recipe for the antibacterial hand sanitiser you see all over the place, and especially in hospitals, had a curious trait. While initially killing almost all the bacteria on your hand, the gel that the alcohol was emulsified in was actually the perfect breeding ground for bacteria! After the alcohol evaporated your hand would quickly become a hotbed for new bacterial growth. The recipe has since changed.
The sea sponge is the most terifying creature on earth. One can blend two seperate sponges together and they will separate back into the two individual sponges. No amount of cutting or smashing will kill them. They are all but immortal. This is exaberated in Dwarf Fortress by them being ACTUALLY immortal and capable of killing creatures much larger than themselves by shoving the skull into the brain.
That's all I got for now!
Light is an electromagnetic wave. Sure, everyone seems to know that, but do you know what that means? It means that light is made up of an oscillating electric field and an oscillating magnetic field. The fields oscillate at right angles to each other and to the direction of travel. The waves also support each other; as the electric field changes it causes a change in the magnetic field as per the equations of electromagnetism. The changing magnetic field (which was induced by the changing electric field) induces a change in the - you guessed it - electric field. Neither can exist without the other.
An old recipe for the antibacterial hand sanitiser you see all over the place, and especially in hospitals, had a curious trait. While initially killing almost all the bacteria on your hand, the gel that the alcohol was emulsified in was actually the perfect breeding ground for bacteria! After the alcohol evaporated your hand would quickly become a hotbed for new bacterial growth. The recipe has since changed.
The sea sponge is the most terifying creature on earth. One can blend two seperate sponges together and they will separate back into the two individual sponges. No amount of cutting or smashing will kill them. They are all but immortal. This is exaberated in Dwarf Fortress by them being ACTUALLY immortal and capable of killing creatures much larger than themselves by shoving the skull into the brain.
That's all I got for now!
Have someone been watching GameGrumps?Nuuu said:
OT:
The universe is beige
It was once an arrestible offence in Norway to be seen wearing a paper clip.
In mormonism, God is married
Worldwide sales of cocaine generate more money than Microsoft, McDonalds and Kellogg's combined.