Raewyn
Master Black Belt
Apparently in Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting licence!!
Trivia and obscure facts
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Chronuss
Senior Master
astronomers can only account for 4% of the matter in the universe, that which is luminous...the other 96% is either dark energy or dark matter.
we can detect heat radiation that occurred ten raised to the -43 seconds after the Big Bang.
in 1997 more than a half a billion transistors were made...every second.
because of moths finding their ways into mainframes and shorting out vacuum tubes, the process of fixing computer related errors has always been known as "debugging."
we can detect heat radiation that occurred ten raised to the -43 seconds after the Big Bang.
in 1997 more than a half a billion transistors were made...every second.
because of moths finding their ways into mainframes and shorting out vacuum tubes, the process of fixing computer related errors has always been known as "debugging."
just to make this a bit more astounding...that's this many seconds:Chronuss said:
0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000001
also...
The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle is 166.94 mph by Fred Rompelburg.
The research spacecraft Helios B came within a record 27 million miles of the Sun.
65 million years ago the impact of an asteroid is estimated to have had the power of 10 million H-Bombs.
oooh...this was good
An adult Colombian poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill 1,000 humans.
An adult Colombian poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill 1,000 humans.
Raewyn
Master Black Belt
bignick said:off the top of my head...an electron travels about 2/3 the speed of light in copper...10% of all humans ever born are alive today...can't sneeze with your eyes open(no your eyeballs won't fly out)...somBruce lee's left leg was shorter than his right, and he was extremely near sighted...and had an undescended testicle...
i had to look some of these up:
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Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.
Why cant we humans do that!!!!
how about this...the universe is infinite in all directions....
making me the center of the universe
making me the center of the universe
Chronuss
Senior Master
so are you calling yourself a super-massive a-...er...black hole...? 
Raewyn
Master Black Belt
Chronuss said:so are you calling yourself a super-massive a-...er...black hole...?
Chronuss
Senior Master
a picture known as the Hubble Deep Field was taken in 1995 that includes a minor spec in the sky slightly smaller than the visible width of a dime at seventy-five feet that shows over 1500 galaxies.
one of Mercury's "days" are longer than one of it's "years"
Chronuss
Senior Master
the Pentagon has more floor space than the Empire State Building.
Xequat
Black Belt
The largest single cell of any living creature on Earth is an ostrich egg.
Chronuss
Senior Master
an ostrich's kick is able to kill a lion...so much for an oversized chicken dinner.
In a recent 5 year period, 24 residents of Tokyo died while bowing to other people.
bignick said:
actually...the decibel level of a humpback whale call has nothing to do with the water...the water certainly affects how far it can travel (measured up to 160 km underwater) ...but the calls can be in greater than 190 dB...which is well above the pain threshold for humans...which is around 130 dB...if they were to do it above water it would be just as loud...it just wouldn't carry as far...
also, i beleive the moon fact is referring the fact that moon came from the earth...hence..it's material the same age....
also, i beleive the moon fact is referring the fact that moon came from the earth...hence..it's material the same age....
another one:
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are best known as the creators of the Apple computer, but before they became PC technology darlings, they designed a popular arcade game for Atari called 'Breakout'.
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are best known as the creators of the Apple computer, but before they became PC technology darlings, they designed a popular arcade game for Atari called 'Breakout'.
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Baytor
Guest
King George VI's first name was "Albert".
The hundred years war lasted 116 years.
Chinese gooseberries come from New Zealand.
The Russians celebrated the October Revolution in November.
The hundred years war lasted 116 years.
Chinese gooseberries come from New Zealand.
The Russians celebrated the October Revolution in November.
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Akula
Guest
There is a Discovery Channel show called Mythbusters that tests various urban legends, sorry to say, but the duck's quack does echo. They found the waveform has a unique shape and the echo meshes so close to the origin that it's percieved as one.
Any way...a few more.
All polar bears are left handed
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class
Americans eat around 18 acres of pizza a day
Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, dogs, only about 10
Any way...a few more.
All polar bears are left handed
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class
Americans eat around 18 acres of pizza a day
Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, dogs, only about 10
These scare me~!!!
Human sperm comes in three varieties, mixed. Some drive toward the egg, the other two exist only to kill, or to obstruct, other men's sperm. The relative proportions found in semen depends on the man's belief at the time of ejaculation about whether his are the only sperm there.
This says a lot about our evolutionary past~!
Each cell in your body contains symbiotic bacteria called mitochondria, which have their own DNA and reproduce by themselves. All your mitochondria came from your mother. Mitochondria in men have no way to propagate, so your mother's mitochondria's genes benefit if she has more female offspring. Your mitochondria have genes for several proteins that would interfere with development of male babies; but they are blocked by others in the nucleus. There's a war on..
You can become immune to scorpion venom. Catch a centipede, and discard its head. Mash the rest, and then scratch your arm and wipe a bit of the juice on the scratch.
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh?
Human sperm comes in three varieties, mixed. Some drive toward the egg, the other two exist only to kill, or to obstruct, other men's sperm. The relative proportions found in semen depends on the man's belief at the time of ejaculation about whether his are the only sperm there.
This says a lot about our evolutionary past~!
Each cell in your body contains symbiotic bacteria called mitochondria, which have their own DNA and reproduce by themselves. All your mitochondria came from your mother. Mitochondria in men have no way to propagate, so your mother's mitochondria's genes benefit if she has more female offspring. Your mitochondria have genes for several proteins that would interfere with development of male babies; but they are blocked by others in the nucleus. There's a war on..
You can become immune to scorpion venom. Catch a centipede, and discard its head. Mash the rest, and then scratch your arm and wipe a bit of the juice on the scratch.
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh?
