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Mark Twain was born the night Haileys comet passed through the atmosphere, and died the next time it happened
the AIDS virus can only live 3 minutes outside of the human body
aponea (alos apnea)is when a difference in air pressure inside ones lung and outside when someone stops actively breathing, to breath

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Saskwach

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Lukeje said:
Anarchemitis said:
One of the best modern theories of Faster-than-light travel involves making the space-constant ('C', aka the speed of light, 300,000km/s) faster so that the limit of speed allows faster than normal light.
The speed of light in a vacuum is actually EXACTLY 299792458m/s.
I was ready to cry bullshit on the EXACTLY part but I looked it up and you're right. This isn't some cosmic coincidence but more likely because scientists knew the speed of light more accurately than the length of the standard metre, so in 1983 the metre was defined as 1/299,792,458 of a light-second. That's so very bizarre.
 

ThaBenMan

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nilcypher said:
Khell_Sennet said:
Greek mythology pwnz movies for fucked-uppedness.
I think Egyptian mythology, which personally I think Greek mythology poached liberally from, could give it a run for its money.
And also Norse mythology - wherein Odin pinned himself with a spear to the World Tree to gain mystical knowledge, aforementioned Tree has a giant squirrel living in it, and a giant wolf will eat the sun at the end of the world.
 

Unknown_Exile

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sequio said:
Sherlock Holmes used inductive, not deductive reasoning.
That's a misconception, Holmes did use inductive reasoning but he also used abductive reasoning and deductive reasoning, but it's still thought that his primary was deductive reasoning.
 

Calobi

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jim_doki said:
Seaman Staines and Roger the Cabin Boy never, EVER appeared in Captain Pugwash
They did, however, have the worst names in the history of false names. Along with their friend Master Bates.
 

Sparkly Weasel

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Actually, Janus is a combination of Promeuthus (I think that's how you spell him) and his brorther, whom I can't remember.
 

AndiGravity

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Darth Mobius said:
My favorite thought involving theories:

The Manhattan Project scientists feared that the first detonation of a nuclear bomb would ignite ALL of the Hydrogen in the Earth's atmosphere and destroy the world. It was a theory they had... And yet they still pushed the button ANYWAY!
My favorite part of that is the scientists were actually betting with one another over whether or not the Earth would be destroyed. That stuns me. The first time I heard this story when I was thirteeen, I said "yeah, but how were the people betting money the Earth would be destroyed going to collect if they won?"

THOSE were the minds we put in charge of building the most devastating weapon in the history of man.

I would be shocked, but considering the rest of human history....
 

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Hitlers maternal grandmother was a jew

goeblles (gahh spelling) was gay

a cats urine glows under blacklight

Chuck norris lost his virginity at the age 18, he attended a martial arts competition, every woman in a one mile radius was impregnated instantly, they then gave birth to the 1972 miami dophins team, the only undefeated team in the history of the NFL (okay that one was BS)
 

AndiGravity

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smallharmlesskitten said:
Hitlers maternal grandmother was a jew

goeblles (gahh spelling) was gay

a cats urine glows under blacklight

Chuck norris lost his virginity at the age 18, he attended a martial arts competition, every woman in a one mile radius was impregnated instantly, they then gave birth to the 1972 miami dophins team, the only undefeated team in the history of the NFL (okay that one was BS)
Neither of Hitler's grandmothers was Jewish. His known grandparents were Roman Catholic, as were both of his parents. There has been speculation Hitler's paternal grandfather might have been Jewish. One of Hitler's former bodyguards asserted that Hitler's paternal grandmother worked as a servant in the household of a wealthy Jewish family (by the name of Frankenberger) in Graz, and that the head of the household seduced her and got her pregnant.

However, that rumor is unlikely to be true since not only is there no record of a Frankenberger family ever living in Graz, but Jewish people were driven from the region several hundred years before and none returned until almost twenty years after Hitler's father was born. In any case, Hitler's paternal grandmother never revealed the identity of his grandfather, so we'll never know for certain whether or not it's true (though as I said, it's unlikely in the extreme all things considered).

On unique Hitler trivia, though, one of the most likely candidates to be Hitler's paternal grandfather, Johann Heidler, was also Hitler's maternal great-grandfather. Officially, J.G. Heidler, Johann's brother, is listed as Hitler's paternal grandfather. That means the best case scenario is that Hitler's parents were cousins, and entirely likely his parents were uncle and niece.
 

Fire Daemon

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I did not know this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKIyrZnkg70&feature=related]

Anyway, did you know that if all buildings in the world had their roof painted white it would lower the average temperature of the globe by two degree's, canceling out the effect of Global Warming.

By what would I know?
 

jim_doki

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Fire Daemon said:
I did not know did you know that if all buildings in the world had their roof painted white it would lower the average temperature of the globe by two degree's, canceling out the effect of Global Warming.

By what would I know?
KILL THEM

on topic:
Steel cap boots will not cut your toes off
Dry reading allows you to make people think you're psychic
 

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Crap_haT said:
The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.
And written in fermented pokeberry juice.

Cannabis is the number 1 cash crop of Kentucky and Pickens County, Georgia (no proof for the latter but I would be surprised if it wasn't).