Tell me something I don't know...

[Eggsnham]

You would be surprised.

Mwahahahahaha...

So... That's why there's a camera in my window... I've been wondering about.

 

[Rakun Man]

Facts about Christopher Columbus (Some obvious, others not)
-Although being supported by the Spanish Monarchy, he is Italian
-Is credited with discovering America, when Lief Ericksson and the viking had established a community in America many years earlier, when they returned to America, everyone was dead, and thus never returned. So Christopher Columbus popularized America.
-Columbus landed on a small island off the coast of Cuba, he believed he had made it to India, and called the Natives, Indians.
Now it gets good...
-Contrary to popular belief, the world at that time knew that the earth was round and believed it to be its accurate size, the Americas were simply an ocean.
-Columbus believed that the Earth was 1/3 of its actual size.
-Columbus killed more people than Hitler
-Pre-Columbus, Native Americans had cities many times larger than the largest European city at the time, Paris.

 

[Eggsnham]

the nazis invented ecstacy to keep the guards in the Death camps awake so they could save having to hire too many people to do shifts. look it up, its true.

No, they invented Crystal Meth-amphetamines. Meth keeps you awake, Ecstasy makes you orgasmic.

 

[Lamppenkeyboard]

60% of the time, it works everytime.

Ahhh... It stings the nostrils.

In a good way.

 

[Blueruler182]

There were designs for a computer one hundred years before the first computer was released, but because of lack of funding and political interest, it was never made. We're one hundred years behind technologically because of it.

You on about the Charles Babbage Analytical Machine?
I wouldn't necessarily say we are 100 years behind, I highly doubt it would have sped up the creation of the transistor, if you mean 100 years behind computationally.

I honestly don't remember anymore.

 

[Ldude893]

Defenestration: The act of throwing something out a window

You got that off of Spectacular Spider-Man. I respect you for that.

No, I got that from an SAT book.

 

[bassdrum]

Rudolph the red nose reindeer is actually female. Male reindeer always shed their antlers before winter and Rudolph is always shown with antlers. Only females have antlers in winter.

Wait... so that entire film is about transexual reindeer? I think I have a new appreciation for holiday movies.

OT: Um... apparently 97% of all statistics are made up.

[sub]But does that include this one? The world may never know...[/sub]

 

[Nautical Honors Society]

There is no such thing as a 100% efficient engine, I don't know if this is common knowledge or not.

 

[likalaruku]

The crabs & lobsters we eat are not that distantly related from scorpions & spiders. Yum.

 

[Blueruler182]

Defenestration: The act of throwing something out a window

You got that off of Spectacular Spider-Man. I respect you for that.

No, I got that from an SAT book.

I don't respect you nearly as much.

 

[LogieBear]

A Male Tapir ( a small furry animal the size of a large dog, and has a short elephant-like trunk) has the largest Penis To Body ratio size compared to any other mammal.
Its only 1ft and a half of the ground, must be tough.
Google a pic, its actually amazing =)

 

[mrdude2010]

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

∞ * 0 ≠ 0

∞/∞ ≠ 1

∞-∞ ≠ 0

1[sup]∞[/sup] ≠ 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->∞ for (x^2+4)/(ln|x+5|) ... if you substitute infinity in for x, you get ∞/∞, which when a teacher told you a number over a number = 1, such as x/x, means that the limit should equal one. however, ∞/∞ 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--> ∞ = ∞, which sorta means there is no limit i guess (^_^)

 

[mrdude2010]

for the botanist: apple seeds contain arsenic or cyanide (i forget which)and peanut shells are an ingredient in dynamite.

I do not know about apple seeds, but almonds contain a relatively high amount of hydrogen cyanide, although you'd probably throw up before ingesting a lethal dosis.

almonds are a yes. it's why cyanide smells of almonds. just googled it. definitely cyanide in apple pips

semtex also smells of almonds

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

It is illegal to shoot any animal besides whales from inside cars in Tenesesse.

I can't spell Tenesesse.

The world's biggest wedding inside a bathroom had 8 couples saying I do.

Their are more telephones then people in D.C.

It's been calculated that there are more possible ways for a chess game to end up then there are stars in the universe.

 

[triggrhappy94]

Moon is the one of the awesomest Scifi movies ever.
i put it on my ipod so i have something to do during finals

 

[Moosh50]

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 did it while lying on the border.
He also survived an almost direct hit artillery shell, being dragged back to his cabin, and being tortured by the Russians, who left him to die after a day.

He was never captured by the russians.

 

[savandicus]

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

∞ * 0 ≠ 0

∞/∞ ≠ 1

∞-∞ ≠ 0

1[sup]∞[/sup] ≠ 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->∞ for (x^2+4)/(ln|x+5|) ... if you substitute infinity in for x, you get ∞/∞, which when a teacher told you a number over a number = 1, such as x/x, means that the limit should equal one. however, ∞/∞ 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--> ∞ = ∞, 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.

 

[searron]

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.