Useless Facts, The Best Kind of Facts

[scatmanfan]

Unless you're 32, you haven't lived for a billion seconds. I actually did the math on that one, as it seemed preposterous. 32 isn't exact, but I didn't go so far into the math as to see EXACTLY when you'd hit a billion seconds.

 

[Talal Provides]

Sharks have seven senses.

That isn't actually that many, we have loads, for example:
Touch,Pressure ,Pain (Damage), Temperature, Balance, Hearing, Vision, Taste, Smell, Sexual Pleasure, Hunger, Thirst etc..

Well, they have everything we have, plus they can detect motion and electricity.

 

[The Night Shade]

There are some species of rabbits that eat they own excrement

 

[Jonluw]

About one out of three people flush the toilet while still sitting on it.

 

[sms_117b]

For every power (above 1000 and under 1/1000 especially) your brain struggles exponentially to imagine it.

Try it, imagine a meter, now 10, 50, and 100 meters out infront of you, now 400, still with me? Now try 1000m that last one a lot harder? Try the same with a birds eye view of people in a building.

Spoiler: Want to go one further?

Try looking at the astro-scale, lets start with the pop-culture distance of a light year approx 300 000 000 meters / second x 31 557 600 seconds approx 9.46x10^15 m (or approx 6x10^12 Miles) Now in astro light years arn't used, parsecs are, 1 Parsec = 3.1x10^16 m = 3.2 Light years, a galaxy is anywhere from 10 to 100 parsecs accross, Mega-parsecs between galaxies, potentially a giga-parsec in the Hubble Ultra deep field, a totally in comprehensible distance, and I have to understand it!

as for the other way, try imagining something smaller than a mm with a ruler around, then go smaller.

 

[OmegaAlucard777]

About 100 people die every year from cocanuts falling upon their heads.

 

[Rockchimp69]

Sharks have seven senses.

That isn't actually that many, we have loads, for example:
Touch,Pressure ,Pain (Damage), Temperature, Balance, Hearing, Vision, Taste, Smell, Sexual Pleasure, Hunger, Thirst etc..

Well, they have everything we have, plus they can detect motion and electricity.

Fair point, you don't happen to know how they detect electricity do you?

 

[fgdfgdgd]

The phrase: "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is a grammatically valid sentence. Don't believe me? Look it up.

 

[ThatLankyBastard]

It costs approximately 0.8 Cents to make a penny

 

[Jadak]

If you click your index and thumb together, the noise isn't coming from your fingers rubbing against each other but your finger hitting your palm

I wasn't aware that anyone ever actually thought it was anything else... Why would you get a that noise from rubbing? That doesn't even make sense.

 

[Talal Provides]

Sharks have seven senses.

That isn't actually that many, we have loads, for example:
Touch,Pressure ,Pain (Damage), Temperature, Balance, Hearing, Vision, Taste, Smell, Sexual Pleasure, Hunger, Thirst etc..

Well, they have everything we have, plus they can detect motion and electricity.

Fair point, you don't happen to know how they detect electricity do you?

They have a series of receptors on their nose, they're the little black dots you see when you look at a shark's face up close, and they're sensitive enough to detect the electricity traveling through the nervous system of a small fish. That's the scariest thing about sharks to me, they have receptors that are there to detect living things.

Another thing about sharks that's kind of scary, the sharks that are alive today have remained fundamentally unchanged for 300 million years. They're such perfect animals that they have had no need to evolve.

 

[Canid117]

Male Platypus are venomous and can put you into an agonizing hospital stay for months.

(Useless to anyone who doesn't live in Australia.)

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

You only ever breathe through one nostril at a time, never both.

I breathe through both. If I put my thumbs just slightly over each nostril I can feel the suction.

 

[Rockchimp69]

Out of the millions of races of animal on our planet, only 1 known race has biological immortality. That is to say, it can keep on living forever as long as it isn't killed or doesn't run out of food.

 

[Talal Provides]

Out of the millions of races of animal on our planet, only 1 known race has biological immortality. That is to say, it can keep on living forever as long as it isn't killed or doesn't run out of food.

And they're immortal because every time they have sex, they revert back to being a child.

 

[Numachuka]

You only ever breathe through one nostril at a time, never both.

I am breathing through both right now. I can feel it if I breath out through my nostrils.

 

[ThatLankyBastard]

Theoretically, the chances of flipping a coin and getting heads is 1/3...
The formula for theoretical probability is

"# successful outcomes"
______________________

"# possible outcomes"

So according to Theoretical Probability, when flipping a coin there are 3 possible outcomes; heads, tails, landing perfectly on it's side!

 

[Rockchimp69]

Out of the millions of races of animal on our planet, only 1 known race has biological immortality. That is to say, it can keep on living forever as long as it isn't killed or doesn't run out of food.

And they're immortal because every time they have sex, they revert back to being a child.

Although most of them never survive much longer than the average human, between 40 and 70 years I believe but I can't really remember.

 

[Jadak]

There's such a thing as infinity not being large enough.

Example: draw a circle. Realize that there are an infinite number of points on that circle. Draw a line that connects every single one of those points with the center of the circle. The number of lines, by definition, is infinity.

Now, draw a larger circle around the smaller one and extend the lines that you drew from the smaller circle. The infinite lines that you drew from the initial circle are not enough to meet the infinite number of points on the new circle.

Umm... Wrong? You can't draw a "perfect" circle, so there will always be a finite number of points on both circles, regardless of how closely spaced those points end up being.

 

[Da Joz]

Walruses have a bone in their penis called a schwing.