Tell me something I don't know...

[Rakkana]

In some countries one of the most common causes of suicide is injecting yourself with peanut butter.

 

[Nyxia]

If you replace half the milk of a pancake recipe with fizzy water the outcome is a lot more fluffy.

 

[Nikajo]

let's see, useless information....

If you shave a siamese cat and keep it in a fridge until it's fur has grown back then it will grow back all black. I can explain why if anybody cares

Acctially, I want to know why this happens, and also how you know.

Well basically the fur colour of a siamese cat is based on the enzymic activity in it's skin. Enzymes need to be at a certain temperature in order to be active and a drop in temperature means they won't work, or at least won't work as well as they should. Basically if you look at a normal siamese cat you'll notice it's dark fur is located at the extremities and this is because the extremities are the coldest part of it's body. So if you shave all of it's fur off and keep it under cold conditions it should grow back all black. Obviously I haven't tried this as I'm not into torturing slowly cats

I honestly can't remember where I heard that now though, it's been awhile. I'm pretty sure somebody told me it along time ago. Might be worth seeing if I can find some journal evidence for it at some point.

 

[GuyWithABeard]

Jim Carrey's middle name is "Eugene".

 

[Quaxar]

Cracking your knuckles doesn't cause arthritis, a man won a Nobel for cracking one hand and not the other and proving it.

Actually it was an <url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize>IG Nobel prize, which is a parody that gets awarded to the most weird experiments.

And now to something completely different.
In China eating your meal completely is considered an insult since that'd mean the host hasn't given you enough food.

 

[laol1999]

bart simpson has 16 baby teeth and 16 permanent teeth

 

[Mariakitten]

Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres

It took me 4 years of Pokemon to figure that out. =/

ohhh I never noticed that.
OT: in Fallout 3 theres a rock behind megaton that acts like a container and has a sniper rifle in it along with a strange note. great for low lvls

 

[no one really]

There are a lot of those in pokemon like

Snake = Ekans
Cobra = Arbok

Hmmm, would anyone think any diffrent of me if I said:
Muk = ???
Let your dirty mind all over this one! x D

 

[no one really]

Errr, did you know that you dont get burned by insults, but by fire?

Edit: I'm sorry, it's late... -.-

 

[Blueruler182]

Cracking your knuckles doesn't cause arthritis, a man won a Nobel for cracking one hand and not the other and proving it.

Actually it was an <url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize>IG Nobel prize, which is a parody that gets awarded to the most weird experiments.

And now to something completely different.
In China eating your meal completely is considered an insult since that'd mean the host hasn't given you enough food.

Two things. 1) I count those nobel prizes, and 2) I'm never going to China.

 

[mrdude2010]

not everything times zero equals zero. here are some random cases where math is broken

&#8734; * 0 &#8800; 0

&#8734;/&#8734; &#8800; 1

&#8734;-&#8734; &#8800; 0

1[sup]&#8734;[/sup] &#8800; 1

This is wrong on so many levels, infinity is a concept not a number and as such it cannot be used in the same way as a number. You can say a variable tends to infinity and use that, for example as x tends to infinity x/x = 1 1^x = 1 x*0 = 0 x-x = 0 to find actual solutions to each of the equations. Maths only breaks when your doing something wrong.

yes, infinity is a concept, but there are plenty of ways you can mess with any system of math to mess it up.

/take calculus =p


if you already have, you weren't paying attention when they taught L'Hopital's rule and indeterminate forms, where direct substitution for a limit is not viable

FOR EXAMPLE


lim x->&#8734; for (x^2+4)/(ln|x+5|) ... if you substitute infinity in for x, you get &#8734;/&#8734;, which when a teacher told you a number over a number = 1, such as x/x, means that the limit should equal one. however, &#8734;/&#8734; is not a real answer, so you need to take f'(x)/g'(x) so that 2x/(1/x+5), which gives you (x+5)(2x)/1, where direct substitution yields infinity, which is an answer, so the lim x--> &#8734; = &#8734;, which sorta means there is no limit i guess (^_^)

when working out limits you never substitute infinity in for x, its all about working out the speed at which functions tend to infinity. 2x tends to infinite slower than x^2. When it comes to the limit which you have provided ln¦x+5¦ tends to infinite incredibly slowly meaning that the limit of (x^2+4)/x is much lower than the limit of (x^2+4)/(ln|x+5|). The limit of (x^2 +4)/x is as x tends to infinity is obviously infinity and therefore a limit that is greater than this limit is also infinity.

Sorry dude, but the only kind of maths where maths breaks is where the answer is undefined, such as 5/0 is not infinity or 0 or 5 it is undefined. Everything has an answer or it is undefined, some things mathematitions still need to figure out (Fermat's Last Theorem took hundreds of years to prove) but ultimately everything is solvable or a contradiction.

you're doing exactly the same thing as me but skipping a couple steps.. like if you see 2/(3x+5) as lim x--> &#8734;, (blatantly zero) you mentally notice that as x increases, the bottom number will increase and therefore the number will get smaller and smaller as it draws closer to zero. what you're doing in your head and not realizing is substituting infinity, but since you obviously at least mostly know what you're talking about my explanation is geared more towards someone with a less intuitive grasp of limits


also in some cases if you don't have a claculator and can't tell which particular equation tends towards a certain number faster or slower then what i'm doing is useful

also, what i was describing is useful when the limit isn't infinity, like when you would have lim x-->1+ (ln(x))/(x-1), and you didn't immediately by dint of your math skills realize that the limit was one, you would put in direct substitution, realize that that basically gets you 0/0, then take f'(x)/g'(x) and get 1/x * 1/1, making your limit one because 1/1 * 1 = 1

 

[dbmountain]

Once you reach 11,004 posts, the Escapist servers eat your soul and use that to fuel your next 20,000 posts. They automatically ban you if you pass 35029 because that's when the soul runs out of energy.

Also, In Canada, milk comes in bags.

[sub]It's true. Milk really does come in bags.[/sub]

Hmm, well that would explain why I have to go out and buy a 4L (1 gallon) jug of milk twice a week. I live in Vancouver ^_^

Killer whales are actually a part of the dolphin family

 

[Chamale]

Got more!!!

Simo Häyhä (December 17, 1905 ? April 1, 2002) a finnish sniper, killed around 700 russians in World War II, in under 100 days, without ever using a scope on his rifle.

But: Do you know WHY he never used a scope?

Spoiler

Because the glare off the snow would mess with his aim, and reflect off his scope, giving his position away

Well that, and when you use the scope you have to lift your head slightly higher then when not using one, a risk he didn't feel like taking.

Yes, he did take an artillery shell to the face. He lost his jaw so they made him a prosthetic one. Then he went back to kill some more russians.

He wasn't hit by an artillery shell, he lost part of his jaw to a high-explosive bullet. He didn't go back to kill more Russians, the war ended the day he came out of a coma. Not wanting to fight on the side of Nazi Germany, he retired.

 

[Quaxar]

Cracking your knuckles doesn't cause arthritis, a man won a Nobel for cracking one hand and not the other and proving it.

Actually it was an <url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize>IG Nobel prize, which is a parody that gets awarded to the most weird experiments.

And now to something completely different.
In China eating your meal completely is considered an insult since that'd mean the host hasn't given you enough food.

Two things. 1) I count those nobel prizes, and 2) I'm never going to China.

1) Well then, I just wanted to prevent people from believing someone got a real Nobel Prize for that.
2) Me neither. I don't trust them, they all know Wudang and beat you up when you try to steal the Green Destiny. This I learned from a pretty famous documentary film, maybe you know it too.

 

[Blueruler182]

Cracking your knuckles doesn't cause arthritis, a man won a Nobel for cracking one hand and not the other and proving it.

Actually it was an <url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize>IG Nobel prize, which is a parody that gets awarded to the most weird experiments.

And now to something completely different.
In China eating your meal completely is considered an insult since that'd mean the host hasn't given you enough food.

Two things. 1) I count those nobel prizes, and 2) I'm never going to China.

1) Well then, I just wanted to prevent people from believing someone got a real Nobel Prize for that.
2) Me neither. I don't trust them, they all know Wudang and beat you up when you try to steal the Green Destiny. This I learned from a pretty famous documentary film, maybe you know it too.

1) They're real. Very very real. I've been hit by one...

2) I feel much shame for not knowing the movie you're talking about. I must take my life now. And I may be channeling Japanese now, I'm not sure... I don't think that makes me racist...

 

[Enigmers]

Potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal (burned wood, not BBQ) combined finely in a 75:10:15 ratio will make black powder. Not gun powder, as we know

Couldn't you just simplify that to say 15:2:3?

0/0 has three logical answers. The first is one, because anything divided by itself is one. The second is zero, because zero divided by anything is still zero. The third is either undefined, infinite, or whatever else you think a number becomes after it's divided by zero.

 

[xavix]

Potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal (burned wood, not BBQ) combined finely in a 75:10:15 ratio will make black powder. Not gun powder, as we know

Couldn't you just simplify that to say 15:2:3?

Yes, you could, but 100 grams is a good sized batch, so the ratio I used is more common. You are absolutely right though.

 

[Skullmaster123]

The dot on an i is called a tittle.
Caesar was born by his mother's belly being cut open, hence the term caesarian section/c-section.
The tallest known man died because of a blister on his foot.
Ants invented p.o.w. labor/slavery, take that Mark Twain.
U.S. and Australian soldiers raped and killed thousands of Japanese women and children during WW2.Female hyenas give birth through a penis. Christianity is a rip-off of the cult of Adonis.

 

[Skullmaster123]

The only other animal other than humans that engage in prostitution are chimpanzees.
The more you know!

Similarly, dolphins are the only other animal besides humans who kill for sport/amusement. They also play with the corpse

Not to forget they are the only species besides primates to engage in gang rapes and they will actually kill a newborn to be able to have sex with the mother.
They never tell these facts at exhibitions, no!

They also rape females of other species. Ever seen a sexy girl in a bikini raped by a dolphin?
On another note, the only known natural predator of humans(besides other humans)are polar bears.