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Amissio

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The combined weight of all the ants in the world is approximately the same or greater than the combined weight of all human beings.
 

ThatLankyBastard

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

"# successful outcomes"
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"# possible outcomes"

So according to Theoretical Probability, when flipping a coin there are 3 possible outcomes; heads, tails, landing perfectly on it's side!
It would be 1/3, only if all three possibilities would be equally probable...but they aren't...the probability of a coin landing on its side is negligible...
That's Experimental Probability, saying that even though there is a third possibility for the coin flip, the chances of it occurring are astronomical at best. That's why I said THEORETICAL probability.

Theoretical and Experimental probability are two different things...
 
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scatmanfan said:
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.
Using figures at two decimal places you'd have to be 31.775 years old (to three decimal places) to have lived exactly one billion seconds. I just hope I haven't been ninja'd.

Yoda and the Cookie Monster are voiced by the same guy, Frank Oz. In fact a lot of the Sesame Street characters were voiced by Oz and, if I'm not mistaken, he also voiced some Muppets. I'm not sure if he controlled the puppets or not, although I think he did.
 

loc978

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It is illegal to drink beer from a bucket while sitting on any street curb in St. Louis, Missouri.
 

Xlr8DETH

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typewriter is the longest word you can type using only the top row of your qwerty keyboard
 

Klarinette

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TheYellowCellPhone said:
Here's one I hear: Ever 50-72 seconds, someone in the world says mustard.
For some reason, that really makes me laugh.

OT: The only reason Coca-Cola is brown is because the add the colour to it. If they didn't, it would be green.
 

RetroKid

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George Washington actually had to borrow money to go to his own inaguration.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.

A giraffe cleans out its ears out with its 21-inch-long tongue.
 

Littlee300

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pyrosaw said:
DarkRyter said:
People with green eyes can't see dogs.
Load of BS.
You really had to point that out? xD
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A drop of water must contain six or more molecules of water. Five or less would bond together in a ring.
 

subject_87

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In Ethiopia's nature reserves, you can't go hang-gliding (is it hyphenated?) because antelopes mistake it for a vulture and stampede. (I did not find this out via experience.)
 

DuctTapeJedi

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The disorder "Attention Deficit Disorder" does not exist, as far as being defined as a disorder in the DSM. The disorder people are actually referring to is "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Inattentive Type" when they talk about non hyperactive ADHD.
 

Thundero13

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I like cheese, what you want some better facts? fine then:
The ingredients for coca cola are different in America and Europe in that in America they contain high-fructose corn syrup, just like EVERYTHING in America.
Lady GaGa is bisexual, although nowadays that isn't so much of a fact as common knowledge.
The guy I love will never love me back :( umm what was this thread about again oh right random facts, Nintendo originally sold cards.
 

ThatLankyBastard

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badgersprite said:
Did you know that if you say the word 'gullible' really slowly, it sounds just like you're saying 'oranges'?
Hey! Gullible sounds nothing like oranges when said slo-...

...wait a minute