Share an interesting random fact

[ccggenius12]

but after that your fingers just say 'fuck this shit' and stop working? can you elaborate please, because i is confused.

Its a computer joke. there are 1024 units in one unit of memory.

The syrup used to make soda is corrosive enough to eat through metal.

 

[Warr5718]

Technically 5/2=3. You're only supposed to have as many decimals as the original numbers in the equation. So your supposed to round. It's a dumb rule.

 

[Edible Avatar]

This thread is perfect for a mameshiba video:

 

[4RM3D]

This thread is perfect for a mameshiba video:

WTF!? And there is a whole series of this stuff?

Oh well, you know what they say about the Japanese...

 

[lionrwal]

Well, since no one else posted this yet:

The Tardigrade(also known as the water bear) is a microscopic animal that usually lives in moss. At most, they grow to be 1.5 millimeters.

Spoiler: This is it at small magnification

Spoiler: This is it at high magnification

These little animals can survive a few minutes at temperatures up to 151 degrees Celsius, or 303.8 degrees Fahrenheit. They can live for days at -200 C(-328 F), and can survive for a few minutes at one degree above absolute zero.

They can survive for a decade with no water, and can survive 5,000 Gy of gamma rays. To put this into perspective, a human will die at 5 Gy. They can survive extremely low and high pressures.

Best of all, they can survive ten days in outer space.

 

[The Code]

Powdered non-dairy coffee creamer can function as a deceptively powerful incendiary weapon. I s#!t you not, Mythbusters actually proved this.

 

[Sander Seed]

If you fall down a certain height the air friction will rip off your clothes. That's why people who were thrown out of planes during plane crashes have been found naked and many suicide jumpers are missing their shoes. (source: Mary Roach's Stiff)

 

[Kadoodle]

If you burp in space, you effectively vomit, because gravity is not holding the contents of your stomach down.

And to those who say licking your elbow is impossible, I saw someone do it on Blue Peter.

Wait, so if I burp while standing on my head, I'll vomit?

 

[iseko]

For there to be a 100% chance two people share the same birthday there must be 366 people.
A 99% chance is reached by 57 people and a 50% chance by just 23.

This is not true. First of all, there can't be a 100% chance. If you pick 366 random people, you can still be statistically unlucky to not have the same birthday. Heck, even if you pick 3000 random people you still have no guarantee. Even though it is statically unlikely, you never get a 100% chance.

Not sure about the following, but if you say you have a 99% chance you share the same birthday with 57 random people, then you are saying the other 308 days fall within the 1% margin, meaning about 80% off all people have a birthday within the same 57 days of the year. That is just... weird.

You're changing it. He's not saying that if person A takes 366 random people. One of them will have the same birthday as him. What he is saying is that if you take a group of 366 people. Two of them have to share a birthday. Which is wrong yes because it should be 367 people to take into account every four years there is an extra day in the year.

And this is true. Since the longest year contains 366 days. If you take 366 people and they each have a different birthday, then the 367th person can only have a birthday someone else allready has.

If you say:If I meet 367 people, there is a 100% chance that one of those people will have the same birthday. Then he is wrong. And that is what you are saying

 

[deathspa202]

The plastic tips at the ends of shoelaces are called aglets.

Their true purpose is sinister.

Thank you for quoting JLU, its an amazing show. Question was actually inspiration for Rorschach.

 

[4RM3D]

*snip*

I actually already mentioned this (twice) in a reply further back in this thread. The premise wasn't explained very well. When I read the wiki page, I understood what the issue was. See my original reply below.

Just to make life easier I'll link the wiki page = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

I apologise if i explained poorly, I'm just an interested ignoramus.

I first learnt about this at the royal institution Christmas lectures in the nineties. Some damn good stuff on them.

I understand what went wrong, now that I have read the wiki page. As stated:

"The birthday problem asks whether any of the people in a given group has a birthday matching any of the others ? not one in particular."

Now it makes sense.

 

[Grahav]

If you burp in space, you effectively vomit, because gravity is not holding the contents of your stomach down.

And to those who say licking your elbow is impossible, I saw someone do it on Blue Peter.

Wait, so if I burp while standing on my head, I'll vomit?

Probably. And it would be an ugly site.


Some species of trees from the Cecropia genus have a mutualistic relantioship with aztec ants. The ants inhabit the hollow body of the tree and bite the hell off invaders and other attackers.

Tree sloths have evolved a thick layer of fur to protect them against the ant offense so that they could feed on the trees leaves.

In Brazil, those trees are known as "embaúbas".

There is a good plant monster possibility here.

 

[blalien]

Cleopatra lived closer in time to the first moon landing than the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Gives you an idea of how crazy long the Egyptian empire lasted.

 

[Okamipsychonaut]

If a female Komodo dragon swims to an island without male Komodo dragons, she can spontaneously lay eggs that produce only males. Within a generation they can reform genetic stability.

The water the flows by my apartment fell on a Butte across town six months ago and petered through the aquifer to come up in a spring at Reed College nearby, so the water only surges if there was a heavy rain six months ago.

Armadillos are always born twins, so most genetic research is done on them. Armadillos can walk along the bottom of a stream, or can inflate their innards to float across.

 

[4RM3D]

Keanu Reeves is an anagram for the anime series Eureka Seven.

OR, if you prefer

Eureka Seven is an anagram for the actor Keanu Reeves.

Also...

In an average lifetime a person will walk the equivalent of three times around the world.

 

[acturisme]

There are 640 acres in one square mile of land.

 

[Knusper]

If you burp in space, you effectively vomit, because gravity is not holding the contents of your stomach down.

And to those who say licking your elbow is impossible, I saw someone do it on Blue Peter.

Wait, so if I burp while standing on my head, I'll vomit?

Hmm... interesting thought. Oh well I guess my maths teacher was wrong.

 

[PieceOfEden]

-Cats can contract AIDS
-"Almost" is the longest english word in alphabetical order, rhytm is the longest without a vowel
-Theoreticlly Jupiter would float if place in a large enough body of water
-Jackie Chan, Arnold Swazenegger and Salvyster Stollone were noticed by agents after starring in pornos
-The South African potato has unique immune boosting properties found nowhere else in the world
-The current Julian calender (BC, AD ect) will be off by 10 days somewhere near 2150