Things you did not know

[stompy]

It's never Lupus.

Ha ha, good point. Now, are you short of Vicoden or something?

Fact: You can die from drinking too much water.

Yeh, I believe it's a hundred glasses in one day.

 

[Lukeje]

Fact: You can die from drinking too much water.

Yeh, I believe it's a hundred glasses in one day.

Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide!

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Fact: You can die from drinking too much water.

Yeh, I believe it's a hundred glasses in one day.

Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide!

Damn...just what I thought.

 

[stompy]

Fact: You can die from drinking too much water.

Yeh, I believe it's a hundred glasses in one day.

Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide!

Yeh, it causes babies to be born with problems (I originally put malformed, but that doesn't sound quite right...)!

Actually, that makes sense. If you're body is deprived of oxygen for too long, you will have brain problems.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

If the Stealth Bomber Blackbird was made out of gold, it would cost less than the actual one.

 

[spudgun]

there is only 1 poisonous shroom in the first Mario game not including donkey kong

 

[spudgun]

Per the Glass = Liquid/Solid thing, I've heard multiple versions. In school, I was taught "amorphous solid, just an incredibly slow-moving one." Then, a bit later, I read a PopSci article where some VERY bored scientist measured glass very, very accurately, over the course of 2 decades, and found that it moved not at all, so he extrapolated that it simply doesn't ever. It doesn't prove anything, but I thought I would add what I knew of the matter.

most of the "proof" that ppl use to say it's a REALLY slow moving liquid are really examples of different/poorly made glass, those being windows for the 17th-19th century because they are wavy (poorly made glass) or the medieval glass, which was explained previously

this is one of those issues that ppl hear one thing but don't listen to ppl with expertise in the field, ie chemists.

another one is hitler was rejected by the freemasons when he applied and they were the first group he went after before the jews

I'm sorry but chemists are not experts on the states of matter by any definition. Physicists are.... and I happen to be well trained in both... chemical engineering bachelors and a masters in polymer science and one in polymer engineering.

Glass is a liquid.

ye gods you dont need science to see glass is a solid (by the way im a biologist)
the reason the glass from perioids long gone was wavy or thicker at the bottom is because they wre crap at making glass and stood the moulds upwards

 

[Anarchemitis]

Science has yet to name that thing where you're about to walk into someone and you both step to the right/left until one of you steps aside.

 

[Leonhardt93]

Science has yet to name that thing where you're about to walk into someone and you both step to the right/left until one of you steps aside.

Man i just hate that...

 

[Lukeje]

Per the Glass = Liquid/Solid thing, I've heard multiple versions. In school, I was taught "amorphous solid, just an incredibly slow-moving one." Then, a bit later, I read a PopSci article where some VERY bored scientist measured glass very, very accurately, over the course of 2 decades, and found that it moved not at all, so he extrapolated that it simply doesn't ever. It doesn't prove anything, but I thought I would add what I knew of the matter.

most of the "proof" that ppl use to say it's a REALLY slow moving liquid are really examples of different/poorly made glass, those being windows for the 17th-19th century because they are wavy (poorly made glass) or the medieval glass, which was explained previously

this is one of those issues that ppl hear one thing but don't listen to ppl with expertise in the field, ie chemists.

another one is hitler was rejected by the freemasons when he applied and they were the first group he went after before the jews

I'm sorry but chemists are not experts on the states of matter by any definition. Physicists are.... and I happen to be well trained in both... chemical engineering bachelors and a masters in polymer science and one in polymer engineering.

Glass is a liquid.

ye gods you dont need science to see glass is a solid (by the way im a biologist)
the reason the glass from perioids long gone was wavy or thicker at the bottom is because they wre crap at making glass and stood the moulds upwards

Can we please not have this argument again? (see the about 3 pages of posts dedicated to this subject; everything was covered there)...

 

[Sparkly Weasel]

Internet rules:
34- If it exists there is pron of it
35- There are no girls on the internet
36- If it exists, someone has a fetish for it
37- NEVER MENTION THE STATE OF MATTER GLASS EXISTS IN!

 

[Calobi]

Internet rules:
34- If it exists there is pron of it
35- There are no girls on the internet
36- If it exists, someone has a fetish for it
37- NEVER MENTION THE STATE OF MATTER GLASS EXISTS IN!

Technically Rule 35 is agreed to be that if no porn of it exists, someone is making it. There are no girls on the Internet is earlier in most cases I do believe. There are a lot of different versions of "the rules."

 

[dekkarax]

Science has yet to name that thing where you're about to walk into someone and you both step to the right/left until one of you steps aside.

ooh ooh wait I know what to call it lets call it bob!

Fact: You can die from drinking too much water.

indeed, excess of water causes cells to explode.


anyway, more obscure factage =)

facts
you DON'T need to drink two litres of water a day
In the UK cheese was banned from advertising during kids programs..and may still be
the sport football (english football) was invented in Sheffield, my home town

debatable
in WW2 The Japanese, instead of researching neuclear bombs, researched death rays and made a working prototype, however, for it to be battle effective, the power supply had to be more than all of Japan's power plants combined

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

The ratio of rats to humans in any city is approximately 1:1.

Except in Alberta, we have a Rat Patrol actually there's one...

what a Rat really looks like, I've NEVER seen a real one, only in pictures and movies.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

Fact: You can die from drinking too much water.

Yeh, I believe it's a hundred glasses in one day.

actually it's less than that, you don't die from the water you die from having a full bladder, a lady recently died of this on a radio contest called wee for a wii

an article
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070114.wwater0114/BNStory/International/home

the lawsuit for it
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0125073wii1.html

Fact: People who play the lotto with any consistency are unlikely to ever break even to how much they've spent on losing tickets, even if they win the jackpot.

most ppl who win the lotto are broke a couple years later, most end up declaring bankruptcy

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

Science has yet to name that thing where you're about to walk into someone and you both step to the right/left until one of you steps aside.

Man i just hate that...

It's called the "Canadian Shuffle" in Canada, except when your about to step aside you both laugh a little, feel awkward and say sorry, then proceed along your way.

 

[Kayevcee]

Ah the internet, where men are men, women are also men, and children are undercover police officers.

So... facts, eh? Try these fellas on for size:

If it's hotter than 30*C, the pectins in green plants start to release methane. This is why satellites monitoring emissions found high methane levels over equatorial rainforests.

Burping cows get a bad rep, too. The largest man-made source of methane on Earth right now is actually from anaerobic bacteria in the waterlogged soil used to grow rice.

-Nick

 

[the monopoly guy]

debatable
in WW2 The Japanese, instead of researching neuclear bombs, researched death rays and made a working prototype, however, for it to be battle effective, the power supply had to be more than all of Japan's power plants combined

that is true
93% of the internet is pron