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Some people collect stamps. Others prefer art. And since you've clicked on this link, we're guessing you enjoy gathering interesting facts. A connoisseur of curiosity, a hoarder of trivia and perhaps even, a walking Wikipedia.
One can never have enough knowledge. The more random the better. You might never use the information you learn in a meaningful or life-altering way. But you probably will bring it up casually during a coffee date, or a boring moment of awkward silence. If your cup of facts is running dry, head over to a corner of the internet aptly called Random Facts.
The community is dedicated to sharing intriguing, unusual, and thought-provoking facts from across the world. They cover everything from science and history to everyday curiosities. You'll find gems like "cheese is the most stolen food in the world" and "frogs can freeze solid in winter... then thaw back to life in spring." Who could possibly resist?
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#1
70% Alcohol is a better disinfectant than 99% Alcohol (extra water content slows evaporation, therefore increasing surface contact time and enhancing effectiveness).
Booker 2 weeks ago
I learned in my biochem courses that higher concentrations of isopropyl alcohol can cause a more rapid unfolding of cell proteins, causing them to coagulate into a shell on the inside of cell membrane, inhibiting penetration to the proteins deeper in the cell. I never thought about it, but extending the time (instead of evaporating) that isopropyl alcohol maintains contact with the cells' proteins has to make protein unfolding more effective.
Forrest Hobbs 2 weeks ago
Alcohols don't kíll spores. But ethanol and isopropanol are pretty good otherwise. The US CDC says this: "Ethyl alcohol, at concentrations of 60%–80%, is a potent virucidal agent". Link follows.
KatWitch57 2 weeks ago
This is an attempt to explain why a 'disinfectant' made largely of alcohol, runs out of 'working efficacy' (evaporates) because most users don't put the bl**dy lid back on properly!
Bruce Mardle 2 weeks ago
That's fortunate. You can't distil dilute ethanol to more than 95.6% ethanol. (There are various ways of making purer ethanol.)
M O'Connell 2 weeks ago
That's why we use Isopropanol for antiseptic purposes.
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#2
Cheese is the world's most stolen food.
Bruce Mardle 2 weeks ago
I recently saw a photo (possibly on another BP page) of a block of cheese in a security box, in a shop. Someone commented "You know you're in a rough neighborhood when...".
Nova Rook 2 weeks ago
There was a cheese smuggling ring busted in Niagara in 2012. Canadians cops would pick up wheels of mozzarella in the US and sell it to pizzerias in Canada. "What are you in for?" - "Cheese smuggling."
Nova Rook 2 weeks ago
Added detail - I remember this one and the year because we were visiting Niagara on the Lake that year and they were celebrating the War of 1812 and had banners everywhere saying 1812. 1812 was also my pin number at the time and it really made me anxious so I changed it that trip.
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Bill Swallow 2 weeks ago
Comment from WWI - "There are two types of soldiers in the trenches. Those who dream of chocolate, and those who dream of cheese".
Load More Replies... RomanceRadish 2 weeks ago
I'd like clarification if it's fancy cheese that's worth money, or "regular" cheese stolen by hungry humans.
Auntriarch 2 weeks ago (edited)
Both. Organised crime steals high value cheese. Edit: last year Neal's Yard Dairy lost £300,000 worth of cheese to fraudsters posing as French distributors.
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#3
The creator of the fire hydrant is unknown because the documents for the fire hydrant was destroyed... in a fire.
Geoffrey Scott 2 weeks ago
Steven Wright: "Used to work at a fire hydrant foundry...couldn't park anywhere NEAR the place"
BeesEelsAndPups 2 weeks ago
Frederick Graff, chief engineer of Philadelphia's Waterworks, invented the modern fire hydrant in 1801. The patent was indeed destroyed in a patent office fire 1836. Birdsill Holly Jr later improved the design with the modern valve system and cast iron models, that are pretty much exactly what we use today, in the 1860s. There have since been a number of improvements. But even though we lost the original patent, there is a lot of surrounding documentation for us to know who actually filed it. Before Graff's hydrant, fire-fighters would drill into the water-mains, and bring in horse drawn pumps.
QuincyForrest 2 weeks ago
Fire hydrants have a non-symmetrical nut on top for opening the water valve. Takes a special wrench that only firefighters are supposed to have. This is to prevent unauthorized opening and releasing of water from a fire hydrant .
#4
In 2015, Japan declared Godzilla as an official citizen.
WubiDubi 2 weeks ago
He's the son of immigrants (German and Scottish). Don't forget.
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Colleen Glim 2 weeks ago
The librarian wishes to have a word. And that word is Ook!
Load More Replies... KatWitch57 2 weeks ago
Intelligent politicians make good use of symbols which increase a positive worldwide profile, and cost nowt!
Colleen Glim 2 weeks ago
Intelligent politician is an oxymoron these days
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#5
The UNICORN is the national animal of SCOTLAND.
BeesEelsAndPups 2 weeks ago
And the Dragon is the national animal of Wales and Bhutan. The Chollima (kind of a pegasus) is the national animal of North Korea. Hungary and Indonesia have a mythical bird creature as their national animals. China has the Panda, which we now know are just painted dogs. /s
Lila Allen 2 weeks ago
Now I'm angry that we have a range of mythological creatures available and the US chose a goofy, hate filled, bird.
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UKGrandad 2 weeks ago
Deliberately chosen because in mythology the unicorn is the natural enemy of the lion, and the lion is the national animal of England, the 'auld enemy' of Scotland.
UKDeek 2 weeks ago
If you look at the Coat of Arms for the United Kingdom, it depicts the unicorn with a crown around its neck which is connected to a chain. This is in reference to the power of the Scottish kings of past, being so powerful that they managed to tame the mighty unicorn.
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BlackCatWithWhiteSocks 2 weeks ago
Yep and we are proud of our national animal. Greetings from Scotland everyone
David Houde 2 weeks ago
Lake Superior State University in Northern Michigan will issue a "hunting license" for unicorns.
Grumpy old man 2 weeks ago
Texas is the only state where it's legal to shoot a Bigfoot. If you do the research you'll find the original Bigfoot was a very large escaped s***e who raided homes for food
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A teaspoon of honey is the lifetime work of 12 bees.
Robin Roper 2 weeks ago
I almost feel guilty about eating honey. It's their winter food that bee keepers replace with sugar water - seems they get the short end of the deal
Julie Rogers 2 weeks ago
Good beekeepers only take the excess that isn't needed for winter.
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#7
A cow is more aerodynamic than the Jeep Wrangler.
CD Mills 2 weeks ago
Are you sure about that? I heard about one cow who jumped over the moon...
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Lila Allen 2 weeks ago
Plus less likely to be mistaken for a dumpster by raccoons
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geezeronthehill 2 weeks ago
And the old VW bus was more aerodynamic than a Ferrari. Except in a crosswind.
UKGrandad 2 weeks ago
The Austin Allegro was more aerodynamic in reverse than going forwards.
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#8
Frogs can freeze solid in winter, stop their hearts, and then thaw back to life in spring.
Ace 2 weeks ago
Don't try this at home folks. It's only one particular type of frog that has this ability.
RomanceRadish 2 weeks ago
I once saw a frog waking up in the Spring! The ground was quivering in one little area and I was confused until the li"l frog appeared.
realenancy170 2 weeks ago
Spring peeper frogs do this. You hardly ever see them, they are tiny and well camouflaged. Their calls sound more like birds or crickets and are a welcome sign of spring.
Lila Allen 2 weeks ago
Science usually doesn't recommend the licking of species
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Terry Crinklaw 2 weeks ago
I used to see this every year when I lived in Washington and it's NOT just one species.
TACO Don's Authentic TexMex 2 weeks ago
So you're telling us to throw every frog we find in the freezer. Got it
KatWitch57 2 weeks ago
It is possible that you may have an innovative (and bizarre) definition of consent?
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When a male penguin mates with a female penguin they search the entire beach for the perfect pebble and the places it in front of the female.
dan gerene 2 weeks ago
I went to school where the penguins taught. But there were no pebbles offered.
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Phil Green 2 weeks ago
Not all penguins do this. Emperor Penguins, live on the Antarctic which is not famous for the pebble beaches where they incubate their eggs.
Kelli Wilson 2 weeks ago
I saw a female penguin reject a male penguins pebble once at the zoo. He went about finding a new, better pebble
#10
Horses actually have about 15 horsepower.
Hugo 2 weeks ago
James Watt intended the horsepower to be the rate at which a horse can exert a force of 175 pound weight (to turn a capstan) over an extended period.
Forrest Hobbs 2 weeks ago (edited)
Hugo: James Watt measured the rate of work a typical pit pony could actually perform with continuous effort. He didn't pick a number - he built a dynanometer and measured.
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 2 weeks ago
James Watt chose horsepower as a unit of measurement because most people of the time were familiar with horses. Not pit ponies specifically. Most people were far more familiar with the draft horses who pulled wagons and carts.
Forrest Hobbs 2 weeks ago
Lady Eowyn: the original application for Watt's steam engines was pumping water out of mines - which had been done by horses. It was that sort of horse Watt was wanting to compare to his steam engines. They weren't hugely efficient, but they were better than the earlier Newcomen engines - and coal is cheapest at the coal mine, so...
Load More Replies... dan gerene 2 weeks ago
My lawnmower has 5 horsepower and eats grass. Goats eat grass: ergo, goats have 5 horsepower.
#11
Today I learned that moons can have a moon and they are called moonmoon.
Siege Rook 2 weeks ago
Called "Moonmoon" by *some*. It is an admittedly popular but **entirely informal** term, with no official designation/term settled on by the IAU - however "subsatellite" is the more professional technical term that is (hopefully) rather more likely to find itself in the defined lexicology than any of the current options. * knows if we let the recent generations or internet have any say in it, it'll be something equally inane like "Moony McMinimoon".
BeesEelsAndPups 2 weeks ago
They are also called submoons, and are only theoretical. We've never found one.
Roxy222uk 2 weeks ago
Although we have found asteroids with their own moons. I love space.
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Lila Allen 2 weeks ago
Flashback to the depths of the internet on that one
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#12
The first person convicted of speeding was going eight mph.
UKGrandad 2 weeks ago
A Benz motorised carriage. The driver, Walter Arnold, was stopped after being chased for 5 miles by a policeman on a bicycle. He was fined one shilling plus costs.
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MalayDragon 2 weeks ago
That's up there with the fact about the first motor vehicle accident, apparently it occurred in a small town, the cars that hit eachother were the only two cars in the town.
patricia patricia 2 weeks ago
Yiu really need to be either very stupid or very unlucky to hit the only other car in the town!
Load More Replies... Grumpy old man 2 weeks ago
And men thought women would pass out on 30mph trains. Wasnt it Mercedes herself who not only drove her fathers invention, but could repair and maintain it and if there had been other cars, race it?
UKGrandad 2 weeks ago
No. Mercedes didn't like cars and never even owned one. Also, her father, Emil Jellinek-Mercedes, didn't invent anything. He was an entrepreneur and marketing strategist who registered the Mercedes brand and promoted the company. It was Karl Benz who made the car.
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#13
There were active volcanoes on the moon when dinosaurs were alive.
Jossh Nine 2 weeks ago
....and rhe dinosaurs were all like, "I hope nothing like that happens to us".
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#14
Me and my friend tested how many licks it took to finish a Trader Joe’s lollipop and it took 1393 and hers was 1395.
Jeff White 2 weeks ago
When my Brother did this back in the 1970's using a Tootsie Pop (a completely different lollipop), Tootsie Roll Industries sent him a fancy certificate noting he was now in the order of "The Clean Stick). There was a clean Tootsie roll pop stick on the award.
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Andy Frobig 2 weeks ago
I got over a thousand on a Tootsie once. I'd like to see that owl's credentials
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#15
The prefrontal cortex hasn't fully developed in teens, so the decision making function is taken over by the amygdala, which is also the part of the brain responsible for emotions. This explains why teens usually make rash decisions based on emotions.
Miss Ann Thrope 2 weeks ago
Then dementia takes over and you go back to making rash decisions.
Nikki Sevven 2 weeks ago
Some people's prefrontal cortex never develops, so all their decisions are based on emotion. Looking at you, Orange Troglodyte.
WonderWoman 2 weeks ago
Which is why the age of conscription and the age to join the military is 18 - young people doing the bidding of old people who have money at stake
Shelli Aderman 2 weeks ago
Up until about age 25 or so. Or about 80-something for some people living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
#16
Nostalgia is proven to reduce stress and make you feel less lonely — your brain uses memories to heal.
Manic Mama 2 weeks ago
Like re-reading a book. You know what it's going to say, but you read it anyway, because you love it.
Jossh Nine 2 weeks ago
That is unless you're alone and remembering good times. Yeah, I'm a a pessimist.
#17
When you're in a cold place and you suddenly feel hot don’t take off any clothing, because it means you have hypothermia.
Ace 2 weeks ago
That's a rare phenomenon known as "paradoxical undressing". It's been found in individuals or groups of people who've frozen to death, presumed cause is "changes in peripheral vasoconstriction in the deeply hypothermic person. It represents the last effort of the victim and is followed almost immediately by unconsciousness and death." (From a paper on pubmed 541627)
KatWitch57 2 weeks ago
Ah, such fun .... freezing cold and roasting hot, all at the same time.
Load More Replies... The Big Bad 2 weeks ago
I was stranded during a blizzard on a snowy mountain top once. I was so cold and shaking very bad. What scared me more was the moment I realized the shaking had stopped. Thank God we were found just in time.
Michael Largey 2 weeks ago (edited)
Whenever I feel I'm hot, there is always a woman nearby to advise me otherwise.
liam newton-harding 2 weeks ago
At that point, you are not really thinking clearly, and this advice...for the most part...won't help.
Miss Ann Thrope 2 weeks ago
Unfortunately, as you freeze to death, your thinking becomes muddled and you won't be thinking clear enough to remember this.
Anonymouse 2 weeks ago
unfortunately, you can thank japan unit 731 that tested this out on prisoners of war for these and other extremely accurate information about people as they die by various processes...
michael Chock 2 weeks ago
You should always feel a little cold in a cold environment for another reason too. If you are warm, you are sweating and sweat will carry the cold through your clothing, freezing you faster.
#18
There is a forgotten letter in the English alphabet.
The letter thorn (looks like a p but more of a line on top) was used to represent the th sound. That meant that it would be pe (pretend the p is thorn) there was one issue however. The French couldn’t pronounce it! They used y as a substitute. So ye came into creation. So ye is actually the. The letter became obsolete once printing presses were developed because the English who border France didn’t use the letter. Boom facts.
Hugo 2 weeks ago
Your "ethel" is edh (ð) which (like thorn) still exists in Icelandic. Ash is æ. "5 more" sounds exaggerated.
Load More Replies... BeesEelsAndPups 2 weeks ago
Wow, this is an incredibly wrong "fact". First, English speakers do not use the English alphabet. They use a variation of the Latin alphabet. As Becky points out, there are others as well Æ (ash), Ð (eth/ethel), Þ (thorn), Ƿ (wynn), Ȝ (yogh). The English didn't drop the "thorn" for the letter "y" because of the French. The letter "y" was being used because early printing machines were being imported from Continental Europe, specifically from France and Germany. And they didn't have the "thorn", so English Typesetters were forced to make a decision about what letter to use in its place. By the end of the 15th century they settled on "Y" because it looked the closest to Þ. But that didn't last long. By the beginning of the 17th century "th" was considered the modern approach. That said, the King James bible included "y" and "yt" as replacements for he "thorn".
BeesEelsAndPups 2 weeks ago
FYI, I point out that it's the latin alphabet, because early English speakers also used the Saxon Runic Alphabet prior to moving to a modified Latin Alphabet.
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TotallyNOTAFox 2 weeks ago
We germans still have the ß for a double S, though it seems to get faded out with each new writing reform
Luke Branwen 2 weeks ago
So the French created Ye? Why did they do that to the music industry?
Pernille 2 weeks ago
It is only used in Island, so I wouldn't say it is widely used.
Load More Replies... Nikki Sevven 2 weeks ago
Given that so much of our communication is written, we really need those lost punctuation marks, especially the "sarc mark."
#19
A single bolt of lightning has enough energy to toast 100,000 slices of bread.
BeesEelsAndPups 2 weeks ago (edited)
New American unit of measure for electrical power "SoTs" (slices of toast). The average heat pump runs on 100-300 SoTs or about 6-19 loaves.
Lotekguy 2 weeks ago
Not if you had an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of butter knives.
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Richard Nixon’s resignation letter was 11 words long.
"I hereby resign the office of President of the United States."
Jeff White 2 weeks ago
Vividly. And Nixon, himself, didn't that much wrong. His crazy cronies did. But he covered it up, got caught and had the grace to resign.
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Otto Katz 2 weeks ago
I don't think Nixon was the second worst president, I think that would be Andrew Jackson.
Pollywog 2 weeks ago
Agreed! The Trail of Tears definitely puts him towards the top of the list!
Load More Replies... January Tempis 2 weeks ago
The fact is that on some level, he didn’t really resign. His legacy is where we are living right now.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 2 weeks ago
Gòddamn Gerald Ford pardoned him. 🤬
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James016 2 weeks ago
Beat the waffle that passes for resignation letters from politicians these days
Lila Allen 2 weeks ago
At least you can get yours to resign. Ours just stay there despite multiple felony convictions. It's humiliating.
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The expiration date on a water bottle isn’t for the water, but for the bottle itself...
Roxy222uk 2 weeks ago
Ditto salt. I struggle to laugh when people make a big deal out of their million year old salt ‘going out of date’. No, peeps, it means the packaging after the Best Before date may allow the salt to become moist, clumpy, or claggy, and you can’t take it back to the vendor expecting your money back.
RomanceRadish 2 weeks ago
A dinosaur could've passed any of those water molecules through its body!
Panda McPandaface 2 weeks ago
You mean I've been drinking T Rex p**s? Cool!
Load More Replies... UnclePanda 2 weeks ago
Someone asked if half a bottle of motor oil would go stale. "Well, it's been in the ground in that form for millions of years..."
Roxy222uk 2 weeks ago
I don’t think it has. It’s been fractionally distilled out of crude oil. I genuinely don’t know if any of the fractions are less stable than whole crude oil.
Load More Replies... Zig Zag Wanderer 2 weeks ago (edited)
I always thought that, actually. The plastic can leech into the water.
Geoffrey Scott 2 weeks ago
As a former employee of a multinational water bottler, in Michigan, I DO know that if the bottled water freezes the minerals precipitate into solids causing 'floaties'.
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Philly Bob 2 weeks ago
Like 50 thousand year old Himalayian salt. My container has an expiration date of June 2026. Good thing they dug it up when they did.
Laserleader 2 weeks ago
Yeah thats when the water is so polluted by the plastic front the bottle you shouldn't drink it. I never drink water from any plastic contianerbifbits has been sitting. I only drink water (sadly) and only from glass if its not straight outta the tap.
#22
Japan has one vending machine for every 40 people.
Pandemonium 2 weeks ago
The chip implanted at birth leads all citizens to their assigned vending machine on their 5th birthday
Load More Replies... Kid Murray 2 weeks ago
Google just had a surge of "Does Japan really have vending machines that sell used knickers?" queries. And no, they don't.
#23
It takes 118 hits for the dvd logo to hit the corner.
JkNuss 2 weeks ago
What? I have no idea what this about can someone explain makes no sense - hits of what into what corner???
dean tirmizi 2 weeks ago
Some dvd players had screen saver where the logo bounces around the screen and every now and again it would hit the corner perfectly. look up "the office dvd corner" on youtube
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Brian Droste 2 weeks ago
I had to think about this one for a few seconds to figure out what they meant.
#24
If you go north long enough you will eventually go south but you can go east or west forever.
Michael Largey 2 weeks ago
In the 1960s, Hollywood put out a movie about a historical volcanic eruption, which they titled "Krakatoa, East of Java". When geographers pointed out that the volcano is in fact west of Java, D**k Cavett suggested they change the title to "Krakatoa, Way, Way East of Java".
#25
10% of British people asked in a survey said that Australia was further away than the moon.
Grumpy old man 2 weeks ago (edited)
Also, how do Aussies not just fall off and drop away into space? /s
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amy lee 2 weeks ago
Let's not forget the 2% brain farts who hit the wrong button/ read the question wrong. So only about 8%.
Load More Replies... Siege Rook 2 weeks ago
And yet to hear them tell the story, you'd think stupidity was a uniquely American export.
Michael Largey 2 weeks ago
To export something you must have customers abroad.
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Lotekguy 1 week ago
If you like them, I think we could spare a few million for you. Or, could I at least interest you in trading our Alex Jones for yours?
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Chuck the Cat 2 weeks ago
Maybe they got confused with the fact that Australia is as wide as the moon.
Michael Largey 2 weeks ago
Yes, most Americans think Australia is located between Germany and Italy.
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#26
1961 was the last upside down year till 6009.
RomanceRadish 2 weeks ago
Sorry to be negative but if the human race is alive and well in the year 6009 that'd be shocking.
Michael Largey 2 weeks ago
There have been plenty of upside down years since 1961. The current one, for example.
Savannah greenleaf 2 weeks ago
I did not know what that meant so here is the definition if anyone else is curious: "upside-down" year, also called a strobogrammatic year, where the numerals (1, 9, 6, 1) look the same when rotated 180 degrees (flipped upside down), and the next year with this property won't happen until 6009.". From googles AI overview.
Papa 2 weeks ago
The number is the same when it's rotated 180°. So with 1961 the ones would still be ones, but what is now the 9 would be a 6, and vice versa.
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David McKendrick 3 days ago (edited)
Isn't 3 the same upside down? So 3003, 3113, 3333 come before 6009.
#27
If you're having an asthma attack, drink something with caffeine in it. The caffeine will pry open your lungs and help you breathe (trust me, I have asthma).
Jayjay 2 weeks ago
Did you know that Salbutamol (known as Ventolin in the Netherlands) uses the same neuroreceptors as cafeine? I was told by a lung expert once. So, if you use Ventolin and drink coffee, you might be jumping up and round while still be out of breath. Think carefully.
Mike F 2 weeks ago
If you have ever experienced an asthma attack you know you would grab a live wire if you thought it would bring you relief.
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 2 weeks ago
I've never heard this. Just looked it up. It's a very short term fix. I prefer my inhalers.
Lila Allen 2 weeks ago
It's more of an "in an emergency without your inhaler" kind of fact.
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StretcherBearer 2 weeks ago
I started drinking coffee when I was very young because of this. It works to a point. I used to have to visit the ER as a kid often and get epinephrine injections. Before epi pens in the 70s
Jayjay 2 weeks ago
You must have been bouncing up and down! Prednison nowadays has the same effect. But coffee is always good!
Load More Replies... KatWitch57 2 weeks ago
If you are really having an asthma attack, the chances of you being able to make, let alone consume a cup of coffee, are thin to remote.
#28
The character 'Biang' is the most complex character in the chinese language. It had 59 strokes and is the character for a type of noodle that makes the sound 'Biang' when it is hit against a table.
Chewie Baron 2 weeks ago
When Beijing hosted the 2008 Olympic Games, the order that the countries came out in, was by how many strokes it took to write their name in Mandarin.
Panda McPandaface 2 weeks ago
I want to know what sound all the other varieties of noodle make.
Lil be lil 2 weeks ago (edited)
This Chinese writing consists of characters that combine to describe the noodle and the sound, not the sound of the noodle per se.
#29
The Earth is 1,086,781,292,542,889,208,714,362,880 centimeters cubed.
AdrenalineNod:
Okay but how do you say that number??
Kriilliin:
One octillion, eighty-six septillion, seven hundred and eighty-one sextillion, two hundred and ninety-two quintillion, five hundred and forty-two quadrillion, eight hundred and eighty-nine trillion, two hundred and eight billion, seven hundred and fourteen million, three hundred and sixty-two thousand, eight hundred and eighty centimetres cubed.
Ozymandias73 2 weeks ago
I'm not doing the math but, an average banana is roughly 15-20cm long. Soooooo.....ya.
Load More Replies... DeeDee M 2 weeks ago
What’s crazy is there are people out there who love math enough to figure that out. God bless them.
Rick Murray 2 weeks ago
The problem is that space dust and other rubbish keeps falling down, so that number is out of date by the time you finish saying it.
Andy Frobig 2 weeks ago
Why not say meters cubed, instead? cm³ is for soda, medicine, and engines
#30
The distant part of the sea that is hazy and joins the sky is called the offing.
Lewis KR 2 weeks ago
Hence the phrase "in the offing" for something that is about to occur in thr immediate future. If a ship was 'in the offing' it would soon arrive
Michael Largey 2 weeks ago
I though offing was what happened to you just before they put on the cement shoes.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 2 weeks ago
That was the meaning of “offing” that I thought of first, too.
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MotherofGuineaPigs 2 weeks ago
All the dust the cats disturb when pushing stuff over the edge.
#31
The Four Corners is the only spot in the US where you can stand in four states at once: Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.
Pandemonium 2 weeks ago
Spring break 1981, we stopped there at 2:00 am on the way to somewhere else and yes, I did manage to reach four states with one bladderfull
Load More Replies... Jaya 2 weeks ago
What would happen if you do something illegal at exactly that point, would you get fined 4 times for the same crime? And how about all the places in the world where 3 countries meet, would all 3 countries charge you for the crime?
Andy Frobig 2 weeks ago
I think at Four Corners, it would be the Navajo Nation police you'd have to worry about
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Lila Allen 2 weeks ago
Depends on which state you're standing in at the moment
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#32
In your lifetime, you’ll produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.
Pandemonium 2 weeks ago
Why do you want to know? Are you going to save up your spit at a different rate depending on the answer?
Load More Replies... Nicole Weymann 2 weeks ago
Only if you're frugal and save up. Waste not, want not! ☝️ But maybe people are willing to support you on your journey to fulfil your dream. Might be worth a try on gofundme. Or possibly facebook or craigslist. 🤔
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#33
The average female lifespan is 81.2 years which is 2560723200 seconds.
The average male lifespan is 76.4 years which is 2409350400 seconds.
That’s 151372800 seconds longer for females and it also means you wasted about 20 seconds reading this. If you took 20 seconds to read this and you are a 16yo male you could read this 95238719 more times.
I am bored.
UnclePanda 2 weeks ago
I don't think we should panda to this type of post.
Load More Replies... BeesEelsAndPups 2 weeks ago
Not global average indeed. Globally the average female lifespan is somewhere between 76 years, and for males it's about 70 years. Hard to say without better data. For Japan it's about 88 for women, and 82 for men. It's 82 for women and 77 for men in the US, putting it at 48th in the world. Nigeria is currently the lowest in the world with the averages being 55 and 54 for women and men respectively. That said, this is based on old data, so it's possible things have changed.
Load More Replies... Roxy222uk 2 weeks ago
In London the average life expectancy varies by ten years between north and south Kensington.
#35
There is a punctuation mark used to signify irony or sarcasm that looks like a backwards question mark ⸮
BeesEelsAndPups 2 weeks ago
Fun fact, the Spanish punctuation marks (¿ and ¡) used to start exclamations and questions were added by the Real Academia Española (RAE) in 1750 in order to inform readers that they are beginning a sentence which should be read as a question or exclamation. This is because in many language families, like the Romance family, we do not use the Germanic system of Subject->Verb to Verb->Subject order to denote a question, but rather the act of questioning is only denoted by verbal tone. For instance in English you might say "You do have a pencil" vs "Do you have a pencil". French also has verb swapping behavior, "tu as un crayon" vs "as-tu un crayon", but it is much more highly influenced by Germanic languages like Frankish. The Spanish Academy thought these marks would help to reduce confusion. The rest of us Romance language speakers are stuck with trying to figure it out via context. It should be noted that other language families also lack the Subject/Verb inversion.
Russell Bowman 2 weeks ago
Unicode U+2E2E or in your "character map" Geek Geek Geek
Load More Replies... SchadenFreudian Psychology 2 weeks ago
Everybody on BP needs to use it. 😏
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#36
Louis XIX was a king of france for just 20 minutes.
Chuck the Cat 2 weeks ago (edited)
Which is disputed. Another disputed French reign is Louis XVII's reign, from about 1793 until 1795 when he died in prison as a small child.
Rich Black 2 weeks ago
The French revolution took place in 1789. Louis died in 1844. Between that time they were ALL pretenders in exile
Sailing Leprechaun 1 week ago
You do realize that there was an Empire and a restored Bourbon monarchy in place between 1804 and 1848, right? For most of the period you named France had a king (or emperor) on the throne
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Chocolate milk was invented in Jamaica in the late 1700's.
Kid Murray 2 weeks ago
I still love chocolate milk. It's become a Sunday morning tradition along with bagels and wake n bake.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 2 weeks ago
Does wake n bake mean what I think it means? 🤭
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 2 weeks ago
A quick google search says Jamaicans were drinking a cocao and water drink, and an Englishman brought the idea back, using milk to make a richer drink.
Pollywog 2 weeks ago
No idea why you're being down voted for this comment. Have an upvote!! 😸
Load More Replies... Mera 2 weeks ago (edited)
Credit to Jamaica! The accredited inventor is an Irish physician named Hans Sloane, who found out the local population in Jamaica was already drinking something similar—bitter, made with water, but similar—and mixing grated chocolate with milk and sugar was born. He later brought the recipe back to England!
BeesEelsAndPups 2 weeks ago
True, but the first to drink Chocolate were the Olmecs ~ 1800 BCE. The Jamaicans started adding milk to it to make it less bitter.
#38
On the bottom of every Ferrero Rocher chocolate is a small gold letter that represents which factory line it came off of. Should there be an issue, they can pinpoint where the problem originated.
Daisydaisy 2 weeks ago
Oh no! Now I'm going to have to go out and get myself some Ferrero Rochers to see if this is true! Bugger!
Apatheist Account2 2 weeks ago
I head that these were invented by a prominent Egyptian - Pharoah Roger apparently...
Kid Murray 2 weeks ago
For some reason I suddenly have the urge to hear a Glaswegian say Ferrero Rocher.
TotallyNOTAFox 2 weeks ago
I get a pack as gift for christmas each year, going to look out for it
StretcherBearer 2 weeks ago
I first read this as Fresno Rancher. I will not be checking bottoms of ranchers in Fresno for letters.
Laserleader 2 weeks ago
Ther is nothing printed on the actual chocolates, its just a normal procedure to make a mark on food products to identify their manufacturer plant. Not even weird.
#39
I was today years old when I learned that the color orange was actually named after the fruit.
Hugo 2 weeks ago
Gelbe Rüben (yellow turnips) in the southern half of Germany, whereas rote Rüben (red turnips) are beetroot. And in northern Germany the orange is called Apfelsine, meaning Chinese apple.
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#40
The phobia of phobias is phobophobia.
Pandemonium 2 weeks ago
So, in 1933 when FDR said "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" was he scared of having phobophobia?
Charlie the Cat 2 weeks ago
Ironically Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the name for a phobia of long words.
Speak easy buttercup 2 weeks ago
Im afraid of having a fear of having a fear of phobias! 😳🤔😳
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If you smell something, particles of it get into your nose. Now imagine a public restroom.
Spidercat 2 weeks ago (edited)
Yep. If you smell a fart it means you have someone else's pōo particles in your nose...farticles if you will. EDIT: because BP don't want you to see the naughty word pōo...
Becky Samuel 2 weeks ago
No, that's not correct. A fart is gas. Póop is a solid/liquid mixture. You aren't getting solid bits of feces in your nose.
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George Costanza 2 weeks ago
Not exactly. A smell is a volatile chemical in the air. For instance when you smell a fart or p**p, you're not smelling pieces of p**p, you're smelling gases like H2S that are made by bacteria breaking down your food into p**p. It isn't little solid particles of p**p floating around that actually smell.
Jayjay 2 weeks ago
However, smelling p** you can still get bacteria or viruses in your nose from it. Many viruses are airborne, just like covid... Try not to get any odeurs in your nose :).
Load More Replies... Laserleader 2 weeks ago
Bathroom propaganda garbage. Scents are many different floating gasses and particles and any amount that make you smell it doesnt matter (except for chemically toxic substances). Farts, armpit odor, foot fungus, etc, wont infect you by their particulation odor.
ChugChug 2 weeks ago
If you breathe through your mouth you wont feel the smell. Some argue that sh*t particles will enter your body through your mouth, but if your breathe through your nose, it sort of filters it out. I'm not sure, i just don't like the smell of sh*t so I shut my nose and breathe through my mouth in every sensitive situation...
#42
One gram of uranium is 20 billion calories.
Tucker Cahooter 2 weeks ago
Which I always refuse it if ever the host offers it for dessert, I need to watch my waistline
Michael Largey 2 weeks ago
Eat the uranium and you can watch it in the dark.
Load More Replies... michael Chock 2 weeks ago (edited)
A calorie is a measurement of the energy released when something is burned. It is an old chemistry term, replaced by joules. This is why there are good calories and bad calories, because some energy is easier for your body to use, other energy just gets stored as fat and some energy just gives you cancer (like uranium).
Spark 2 weeks ago (edited)
They are very effective, but after eating even one uranium energy bar, your ϝarts are full of gamma particles. ☢️
Lewis KR 2 weeks ago
One calorie is the amount of heat required (at a pressure of 1 standard atmosphere) to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1° Celsius. A kilocalorie (as used in food) is 1000 times that - so enough to raise the temperature of one kilogram (or 1 litre for all practical purposes) of water by 1° Celsius
liam newton-harding 2 weeks ago
A calorie is a measurement of released energy...Uranium is rather...energetic.
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#43
2520 is the smallest number to have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 as factors.
#44
If all the land on Earth had the population density as NYC, there would be about 5.3 trillion people on Earth.
Nancy Parker 1 week ago
And they would all be dead of starvation. Cities NEED countryside to feed them.
#45
You spend about one-third of your life sleeping — that’s roughly 25 years if you live to 75.
#46
The sun is about 400 times larger than the moon.
Jeff White 2 weeks ago
Not completely inaccurate, but VERY misleading "Fact". The area of the flat circular projection of the Sun (i.e., what we see on Earth) is about 400 times larger than the flat circular projection of the Moon. This is interesting because the Sun is about 400 times farther away from the Earth than the Sun, and thus the Sun disc and Moon disc look about the same size. However, if you say "The Sun", I think of the whole Sun, not just flat projection of the round shape of any circular object. The whole Sun, which I think most would think of as the volume of the whole Sun is approx 1.4 x 10^18 km^3. The volume of the whole Moon is approx 2.2 x 10^10 km^3. Thus the whole Sun compared to the whole Moon is 1.4x10^18 / 2.2x10^10 or 63.6 MILLION times larger
Ace 2 weeks ago
That's a very complicated way of saying that it is indeed 400 times the diameter. not the volume .
Load More Replies... BeesEelsAndPups 2 weeks ago
The diameter of the sun is ~1.392.000 km, and it is about 150 million km from Earth. The diameter of the moon is 3.476 km, with a distance of 384.400 km. So the Sun's diameter is roughly 400,5 moon diameters. And the Sun is also roughly 390,2 lunar orbits from the Earth. This is why a Solar Eclipse almost completely covers the disk of the Sun. That said, the Moon is slowly drifting away from the Earth, so eventually Solar Eclipses will be far less exciting. In about 500 million years the Moon will only occupy about 75% of the solar disk.
Apatheist Account2 2 weeks ago
Indeed, we are lucky to be living in the era when solar eclipses are like this. The dinosaurs would never have seen the "diamond ring" corona effect.
Load More Replies... Norm Gilmore 2 weeks ago
I think the fact is poorly worded. From asking the question 'How many Earth moons would fit in the Sun'-Our Moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun and 27 million times less massive. You would need 64.3 million Moons to equal the Sun
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#47
The top of UPS trucks are white.
Geoffrey Scott 2 weeks ago
For a very good reason. I once worked for a regional trucking outfit in Florida. We had a trailer to unload that was painted black, d**n near k****d us from heat exhaustion.
M O'Connell 2 weeks ago
It's the same reason pleasure craft (yachts) are all white. Comfort of the people who live/work in them is more important than the color scheme.
Tim Douglass 1 week ago
At one time most of them had a translucent roof so they didn't need interior lighting during the day.
#48
Companies use the phrase "military-grade encryption" just as a marketing tactic, since the encryption method used by the military is AES-256, which is the universal standard at this point.
Zig Zag Wanderer 2 weeks ago (edited)
Universal standard? I think not. American standard, perhaps.... America isn't the universe. AND we use much better encryption outside of the US. That pîsses them off mightily, because it means they can't snoop on everyone like they do to their own citizens. (used to write software, with encryption. It had to be deliberately dumbed down encryption to 256 for the American market, just so their government could break it. I wish I was kidding.)
Rick Murray 2 weeks ago
It *IS* a universal standard. Most TLS (the 's' in https) uses AES-256 encryption. There is also RC4 and triple-DES but these are weak and not recommended.
Load More Replies... liam newton-harding 2 weeks ago
Same with Mil-Spec...made to Military Specifications...you know...the Military...that puts stuff out to tender...and chooses the cheapest version (or, conversely, the most expensive version, made with the cheapest materials).
nicholas nolan 2 weeks ago
That's not what that means, at all. It means it's built to a particular standard. The military puts out its standards, rub durability for clothing, vibration resistance for electronics, drop resistance, etc, and then chooses the best bid that meets the standard.
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#49
Alaska is the only state whose name is on one row on a keyboard.
Pandemonium 2 weeks ago
Not on a Dvorak keyboard. (This is a snarky parody of the 'Not true in danish' comment above, and a nerdy flex that I know about non-QWERTY keyboards.)
SuAlfons 1 week ago
Alaska is on one row of my German-Qwertz keyboard. Of all main (English) characters, only Z and Y are switched. (Plus most of the punctuation and placing öäü ß near the upright (ISO) return key)
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#50
Baby shark has the exact rhythm you need to perform CPR at.
Jeff White 2 weeks ago
So, apparently, is "Staying Alive" by the Bee Gee's, which I think a much more apt tune.
Ace 2 weeks ago (edited)
The advantage with Staying Alive is that it's almost impossible to hear it in your head at any other tempo than the original. I recall going back many many years that "Nelly the Elephant" was also proposed... but that's not really appropriate if you know the punk version by the Toy Dolls... Edit: also, of course, some people have managed to avoid baby shark - I've probably heard it at some point, and have certainly heard _of_ it, but have no idea about its tune, or tempo.
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#51
The T. rex (65m years)actually existed closer in history to humans than to the Stegosaurus (145m years).
Tucker Cahooter 2 weeks ago
And here I was thinking we would have a dinosaur, pyramid and Cleopatra free list for a change
Kid Murray 2 weeks ago
Is it ok if I prefer the Power Station version of Bang a Gong?
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Moving Enigma 2 weeks ago
I don't know, I've only read it ten or eleven times on here, I think it's got plenty more milage left in.
Load More Replies... Rick Murray 2 weeks ago
And it bothers me irrationally when films put T's and Stegs in together. Just... FFS, no!
Pandemonium 2 weeks ago
But closer to the building of the pyramids than to the birth of Cleopatra
#52
Bananas contain a natural chemical which can make a person happy. The same chemical is found in a well-known antidepressant.
Made You Look 2 weeks ago
Bananas contain chemicals like tryptophan, an amino acid your body uses to make mood-regulating serotonin, plus antioxidants and magnesium, which support brain health, giving them potential antidepressant and anti-anxiety effect
Zig Zag Wanderer 2 weeks ago
Also contain a natural chemical which is radioactive. 2 bananas a day puts you over the safety limit for working in a nuclear power station. Enjoy!
TotallyNOTAFox 2 weeks ago
Potassium right? A more radioactive food would be brazil nuts, 2 nuts per day are the max. limit recommended to prevent health issues due to the amount of radium they contain
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Bored Birgit 2 weeks ago
What about the blue bananas I learned of yesterday by BP? They are now on my bucket list.
#53
The moon is 1.28 light seconds away.
RomanceRadish 2 weeks ago (edited)
So how long would it take the Millennium Falcon to reach the moon from Earth without going light- speed? I know somebody out there has the math know- how for this task (not me!)
THEVibingShark92 2 weeks ago
Going light speed: The Falcon is said to have a 25,000/LY per day limit. Converting that into light-years/second, that'd be 25,000/86,400, ≈ .28935 LYPS, or ~0.29ly/s. Next, putting the moon-earth distance into light years. The moon is 1.28 light seconds away, assuming we're starting from sea-level and going straight up. One light year is 31,536,000 light seconds. 1.28/31,536,000 ≈ 4.06 x 10^-8. Time = distance/speed, so t = (4.06 x 10^-8ly) / (~0.29...)ly/s ≈ 1.40 x 10^-7 seconds. That's about 140 nanoseconds. So, that would be 0.000000014 seconds, going top speed. So, you could blink, and the Falcon could be in front of you, assuming that you are on the moon. Without going light speed: Theoretically, the Millennium Falcon has insane, gravity-defying capabilities for liftoff, assuming it goes from sea-level. This means that liftoff is not a worry, and it has proved with its light-speed capabilities that it can go to the moon in any desired amount of time, without accounting for fue
Load More Replies... Hugo 2 weeks ago
Well, the distance varies between about 356 and 407 thousand km, so that's 1.19 to 1.36 light-seconds. Admittedly, it doesn't vary that much in the course of a single month. And those distances are measured from centre to centre, so it's a bit less from the nearest point on the moon to a given observer.
#54
It is completely illegal to sell chewing gum in Singapore, and you can only chew it with a medical exemption.
Bruce Mardle 2 weeks ago
I was on a bus a few days ago and could see someone (out of the corner of my eye) chewing for the entire journey. I think he was responsible for the smell of menthol, too, so you could say I was seeing and smelling gum-chewing. (Fortunately, I couldn't hear it.)
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Kim Kermes 2 weeks ago
Keeps people from spitting in on the streets or sticking it to things.
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In prison, cassette tapes are see-through to prevent prisoners from hiding contraband.
dewiCZ:
Not only casette cases, literally everything, TVs, walkmans, radios...
M O'Connell 2 weeks ago
Cassette tapes can't really be used as a weapon, but CDs definitely can be. They also still have typewriters in prisons too. More and more facilities are assigning tablets to each prisoner to simplify things and increase participation in educational programs.
Load More Replies... Zig Zag Wanderer 2 weeks ago
Even earphones. We have a utube guy in Australia that shows gadgets, and occasionally comes up with 'prison' gadgets. All transparent.
KatWitch57 2 weeks ago
I'm in the UK and have heard of unicorns - doesn't make them real either.
Load More Replies... #56
The U.S. has more cows than people in some states like Montana, Wyoming, and North Dakota.
Queen Boudicca 2 weeks ago
They should be eligible - look at all the jack-asses that hold office...
Load More Replies... Chuck the Cat 2 weeks ago
I think Wales also has more sheep than people. Not sure of the ratio though.
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Mel in Georgia 2 weeks ago
Visiting ND this year, I was amazed at just how empty it is. Flat, straight roads going for miles and miles, with nothing but grassland and cows, with the occasional farmhouse. The US is so diverse in its landscapes!
Michael Largey 2 weeks ago
Sssh! You're not allowed to talk about diversity in the US anymore.
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#57
The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.
#58
If two pieces of the same metal touch in space, they will bond together and will be permanently stuck together.
Plentyofoomph 2 weeks ago
Then how are astronauts using metal wrenches to tighten metal bolts?
Norm Gilmore 2 weeks ago
It's not instant and needs special conditions. Found this-- The short answer is yes, the more nuanced answer is no. If you brought two pieces of metal from earth to space they would behave as they do on earth. However with some prep what you are describing would happen and is called cold welding. First you have to remove the oxidation layer and have two identical pieces of metal with the same crystal structure. Then if you put them together and waited for a long time they would join. In cold welding you speed this up by applying a lot of pressure. With no oxidation layer in a vacuum the metals can’t tell themselves apart and will eventually join. It would also probably help if they were single crystal and the grain orientations were aligned to prevent the amount of diffusion that has to take place.
Load More Replies... Zig Zag Wanderer 2 weeks ago (edited)
Only if separated in a vacuum (any vacuum, not just space). And actually only solid metals. Because in the atmosphere, all solid metals form a layer of oxide. Even, surprisingly, gold, I believe. That layer prevents the lone atoms bonding again. If no layer forms (ie in a vacuum) the atoms just join once again as before, because what defines a metal is the free electron, and sharing electrons is what binds atoms together. .
#59
Due to ocean tides and earthquakes days get longer by 1.7 milliseconds each century.
TotallyNOTAFox 2 weeks ago (edited)
The Sumatra earthquake in 2004 was strong enough to shave off 6.8 microseconds of every day after by speeding up the planet's rotation slightly
Hugo 2 weeks ago (edited)
They appear to be getting shorter just now. Could that be because glaciers are melting and the water is flowing to a lower level? Conservation of angular momentum, you know.
My O My 2 weeks ago
It could! Or, you know, wait til the 22nd and you'll have the feeling they're getting longer again /s
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Every single human in history has witnessed the same sun and moon as you have.
Apatheist Account2 2 weeks ago
Not quite. The sun loses 4 million tonnes a second, so it's a bit smaller than it was 5000 years ago. Also, the moon gets hit by asteroids and now has man-made stuff on it, so it's not identical. Astronomers have witnessed them both in different resolutions and wavelengths, so they've seen things that you haven't.
TotallyNOTAFox 2 weeks ago
They also saw the same side of the moon as we always do ( because the rotation and revolution time is the same)
Chuck the Cat 2 weeks ago
Don't click on the article then if you don't care to know these facts.
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No number before 1,000 contains the letter A.
Plentyofoomph 2 weeks ago
Or Irish, Italian, French, Noongar, Spanish, Japanese, and Mandarin
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Ilan Elron 1 week ago
no integer before 1000000000000000000000000000 is spelled with the letter C
Fellfromthemoon 2 weeks ago
Fun fact: no number contains the letter a, if you write them with Roman or Arabic numerals.
#62
In "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley, Rick says the word "Gonna" 40 times.
TotallyNOTAFox 2 weeks ago
Let's never gonna give this fact up, let's never gonna live it down
#63
The average person has less than 2 legs.
FlamingZombies 2 weeks ago (edited)
And on average, people have more than one skeleton. And less than 2 arms.
Hugo 2 weeks ago
Yes, some have only one. Recently I saw a picture (could it have been at BP?) of someone with four legs, but it's extemely rare.
Panda Cat 1 week ago
Parasitic twin. There was an absolutely gorgeous girl born in India with that giving her 2 extra legs. She was considered to be an incarnation of the goddess Kali but her parents allowed surgery anyway.
Load More Replies... Zig Zag Wanderer 2 weeks ago
On average, average means the mean. It depends on the mode of use, in the median.
#64
Bear Grylls is allergic to bee stings.
#65
There is a city in Turkey called "Batman."
Tucker Cahooter 2 weeks ago
John Batman was a key figure in the founding of Melbourne Australia, so there's a lot of Batman references in that city too. Until recently they even had an electorate called Batman; I always wondered if someone ever dressed up as the caped crusader and ran for election on the slogan "Batman for Batman"
UKGrandad 2 weeks ago
Gotham is a village close to Nottingham, and is properly pronounced 'goat-am'.
Chuck the Cat 2 weeks ago
I wonder if it's named after the royal house Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (pronounced Goat-a).
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The average human head has about 100,000 hairs with a similar number of hair follicles.
Huddo's sister 2 weeks ago
I found out the other day that the reason some women's hair changes when they are pregnant is because their hair follicles become suspended. So instead of losing hair regularly, you stop losing it, then post-partum they begin dying off at the same time, which makes some women feel like they are going bald.
#67
There are more possible chess moves than the number of atoms in the known UNIVERSE.
Spidercat 2 weeks ago
Here you go: Metric Estimated ValuePossible Chess Games (Shannon Number)\(\approx 10^{120}\)Atoms in the Observable Universe\(\approx 10^{80}\)The number of potential chess games (known as the Shannon number, a conservative lower bound) is a 1 followed by 120 zeros. The estimated number of atoms in the observable universe is a 1 followed by about 80 zeros. This means there are approximately \(10^{40}\) (ten billion trillion trillion) times more potential chess games than there are atoms in the observable universe.
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Made You Look 2 weeks ago
On the topic of incredible large numbers, there is a basically impossible but small chance you can phase through solid matter! Aka quantum tunneling. Although the probability is astronomically small, effectively zero, less than 1 in 10 to the power of a googolplex 10^10^37, making it practically impossible.
Siege Rook 2 weeks ago
Uhm, close but not quite. The usual stat people quote is the Shannon number, Claude Shannon’s estimate of around 10^120 different possible games of chess, where a “game” means a complete sequence of moves from the starting position to the end that differs by at least one move from any other game. That is more possible games than there are atoms in the ***observable*** universe - roughly 10^80 - which is mostly hydrogen in stars and gas clouds. And that 10^80 only applies to the region of space we can in principle observe, not the entire universe, so the true total number of atoms out there is basically unknowable with our current physics because as far as we know, we have observed only the tiniest fraction of the universe. We simply have no idea how much of it we haven't seen, and we don’t know how big the whole universe is - it might be only a bit bigger than our observable patch or it might be effectively infinite and that "10^80" might be off by orders of magnitude.
Bruce Mardle 2 weeks ago
There are lots of cases of the number of combinations of things being very large.
#68
It takes between 813 and 982 rubber bands to crush a human skull.
Nicole Weymann 2 weeks ago
...just like human skulls have a standard size and thickness (double meaning not quite intended, but quite apt 😁)
Load More Replies... TotallyNOTAFox 2 weeks ago
Honestly, I think that's way too much work even for the most dedicated killer
Load More Replies... Panda Cat 1 week ago
If I were the rubber band installer I’d never make it to anywhere close to that since I’d be on the floor wheezing hoping someone would bring me a cup of coffee. Some of us who are allergic to latex begin to counter react to rubber bands, tires, carrots, bananas, kiwis, and bunnies.
Daisydaisy 2 weeks ago
Oh I pray this was tested on a d-ead person! (Any I can't help but wonder why it was tested at all?)
#69
That 'scratching' you'll sometimes hear when falling asleep is your heartbeat distorted from the pressure on your ear.
Mel in Georgia 2 weeks ago
Don't know how common it is, but I definitely hear it sometimes!
Load More Replies... M O'Connell 2 weeks ago
I'd isolated the sound to my pulse causing my beard stubble to move ever so slightly against the pillow fabric.
Bi.Felicia 2 weeks ago
Nah, I'm pretty sure that scratching I hear while trying to sleep is the mice that run between the walls and the ceiling.
#70
Scallops have teeth and eyes up to 200.
highwaycrossingfrog 2 weeks ago
Actually I think they are trying to say "Scallops have teeth, and up to 200 eyes"
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Pringle cans are the same diameter of the chip to reduce breaking.
#72
California has four times the land area of Tennessee, and more than five times the population.
But Tennessee has eighteen times as many cemeteries as California.
Glix Drap 2 weeks ago
FYI - A cemetery and a graveyard both refer to burial grounds, but a graveyard is typically associated with a church and is often smaller, while a cemetery is a larger burial area that is not linked to any specific church. Essentially, all graveyards are cemeteries, but not all cemeteries are graveyards.
JL 2 weeks ago
Without stating the average size of each state's cemeteries, this 'fact' doesn't tell us much.
KatWitch57 2 weeks ago
And some of us will live and die in non-US-states, amazingly.
Load More Replies... monsieur mabel 2 weeks ago
....have lived in central san diego for over 30 years and have never seen a cemetery....
#73
Whales don’t [pass] of age, if they are older, they are just too weak to swim to the surface and drown…
gvizzle_ 74 2 weeks ago
Old age contributes to weakness, but the immediate cause of death is drowning
Load More Replies... Geoffrey Scott 2 weeks ago
Yes, then, (according to Dave Barry) the Oregon hwy Dept of Transportation attempts to rid the beach of the carcass via dynamite.
Nicole Weymann 2 weeks ago
Operative word being "attempt". I think the idea was similar to the concept of "pre-emptive strike", as decomposition produces gases anyway, which makes the process a lot more potentially spectacular in big animals than in your average compost heap. As far as I remember the experiment was a one-timer, providing a very good example of how to NOT dispose of a decaying whale carcass.
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Men tend to have 6.8 liters of blood as women have 4 liters.
#75
If the United States got a new state, the senate would have 102 seats, and a vote requiring a supermajority (like an impeachment) would requires a minimum of 69 votes.
DeoManus Argentem 2 weeks ago
The senate doesn't impeach, though, the house does. The senate conducts the trial after an impeachment.
Kelly Scott 2 weeks ago
The US should do the same, and also with Congress and the presidency. At the very least, we should make sure the people in there are at least human, not dinosaurs, and that they're still alive and not brain dead.
Load More Replies... Hugo 2 weeks ago
I vote we lend the USA a dozen new states, just for long enough to hold a vote in the senate.
CD Mills 2 weeks ago
Anyone have any idea why this particular fact is so downvoted? It seems to be true. So why downvote a simple fact?
Michael Largey 2 weeks ago
Well, perhaps because it's both obvious and uninteresting. But that's never stopped the moderators before.
Load More Replies... KatWitch57 2 weeks ago
Guess I should stand for the "State of Panic" then.
Load More Replies... #76
If you were to spell out every number (one, two, etc.), you wouldn't use the letter 'b' until you reached one billion.
Rick Murray 2 weeks ago
I'd use one by around three hundred when I'd say "oh bloody hell" and have to start again.
Bi.Felicia 2 weeks ago
Apparently you also wouldn't use the letter 'a' until you've reached one thousand.
#77
Your tongue never fits comfortably in your mouth.
Also, you’re now focusing on both your tongue AND your breathing. You’re welcome.
Huddo's sister 2 weeks ago (edited)
The position your tongue sits in in your mouth usually depends on what your first language is.
UnclePanda 2 weeks ago (edited)
Shouted in my house last night - "Oh, come on Tongue! You've been next to that tooth for over 55 years. How do you not know to get out of the way!?!"
Kelly Scott 2 weeks ago (edited)
My tongue always sits poking my broken tooth. We have "Stop it, STOP IT" conversations daily.
KatWitch57 2 weeks ago
What I don't understand, as a side-sleeper, is why I frequently find I have one more limb than is comfortable??
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997 is the largest prime spelled without the letter o.
Glix Drap 2 weeks ago
I really hope the next Dane I meet doesn't keep coming up with these Danish idiosyncracies as I will seriously think about kìlling them.
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Mike Beck 1 week ago
All the higher ones have either thousand or -illion in the name.
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The longest English word is 189,819 letters long and it would take three and a half hours to say out loud.
Plentyofoomph 2 weeks ago
I think its the name of a chemical, so its not really a word. Thats like reading out a billion digits of pi and calling it a word.
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This is the name of an amino acid and isn’t “technically” an English word in dictionaries. The actual longest word is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which is a lung disease for inhaling volcanic dust.
highwaycrossingfrog 2 weeks ago
It's completely correct. It is the full chemical name for titin, the largest protein
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If you lose the little cup to a Nyquil or Zzzquil bottle, to achieve a 30 mL dose you require 4 capfuls filled to the inside rim.
Ace 2 weeks ago (edited)
Probably easier to just use two tablespoons. And certainly less messy.
RomanceRadish 2 weeks ago
Measuring tablespoons perhaps. Not cutlery, which is inconsistent.
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Becky Samuel 2 weeks ago
These are even worse than usual. They're poorly explained, inaccurate, and have appalling grammar.
Miss Ann Thrope 2 weeks ago
If my mother was at a party that wasn't going well, she's proudly announce a Blue Whale's p***s is six feet long. It never occurred to her why she was never invited back.
Andy Frobig 2 weeks ago
And nobody asked "which blue whale in particular?"
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Actually, you'll never get any time of your life back, even if you enjoy it :)
Load More Replies... Becky Samuel 2 weeks ago
These are even worse than usual. They're poorly explained, inaccurate, and have appalling grammar.
Miss Ann Thrope 2 weeks ago
If my mother was at a party that wasn't going well, she's proudly announce a Blue Whale's p***s is six feet long. It never occurred to her why she was never invited back.
Andy Frobig 2 weeks ago
And nobody asked "which blue whale in particular?"
Load More Replies... Apatheist Account2 2 weeks ago
Actually, you'll never get any time of your life back, even if you enjoy it :)
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