MysticKenji
Smash Master
"Alaska has a sand desert with dunes over 100 feet high."
"Some salamanders can grow up to five feet in length"
"Some salamanders can grow up to five feet in length"
All true.
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Interesting 'Facts' 2.0
- Thread starter Zook
- Start date
Chi doesn't exist, at least not in the way you're thinking of
Lol, what's with the question mark at the end. Was it a question? If it was, the answer is: no.
Lixivium
Smash Champion
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When I was in middle school, I had a guy bet me $500 that he could fold a piece of paper in half 10 times. He couldn't do it, so he went double or nothing. He still owes me $999.84.
Wait, isn't the myth like, tearing it in half and then put the pieces on top of each other, then the paper would get so thick that no men on earth has the strength to tear it again. (2^7=128 pages on top of each other, try to tear that in half).
True. The giant arctic jellyfish, better known as the Lion's Mane jellyfish, can actually have tentacles up to 200 feet long.
http://stellwagen.noaa.gov/education/adulted/invertid_jellyfish.html
False. The highest temperature ever reached by man was achieved at Fermilab (in Illinois) via proton-antiproton collisions. These produced energies of 2 trillion electron volts; in other words, temperatures of about 2.32e16 degrees Celsius (23,200,000,000,000,000 deg. C). Now that is hot.
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/now/live_events/explaindetector.html
http://www.phys.ksu.edu/personal/cdlin/phystable/econvert.html
As for "what would burn the atmosphere", well, there's really no such thing. You can't just "burn" the atmosphere, though I guess if the earth reached a high enough temperature (like if, say, the sun exploded/swelled) all the atmosphere's gases would heat up so much that they'd escape earth's gravity due to their kinetic energy. I'm not quite sure what this temperature would be though. That's another investigation for another day.
True. It is.
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/gen99/gen99058.htm
Partially True. "Q" also does not appear.
True. At least as far as I know... if there are any other exceptions, please correct me.
False. You really like messing with people AltF4! Anyway, they are accredited. No prestigious college is unaccredited, or any legit college at all for that matter!
http://www.neasc.org/roster/pssma.htm
http://www.wascsenior.org/institutions/
False. The most venomous snake in the world is the inland taipan, though it is not very aggressive; the black mamba is the world's fastest snake, and it is also aggressive to boot.
http://animal.discovery.com/fansites/crochunter/australiazoo/10mostvenomous.html
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/reptiles/black-mamba.html
Heh, if by "conjure up chi" you mean "set yourself on fire", then yes.
True. Several areas have high sand dunes, such as the Nogabahara Dunes or the Great Kobuk Dunes, mostly in northwest Alaska. Some dunes can actually be 200 feet high!
http://alaska.fws.gov/nwr/koyukuk/science.htm
http://www.nps.gov/kova/
True. The world's largest salamander, the Chinese Giant Salamander, grows to be about 4.5 feet in length, though some can grow as long as six feet.
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Publications/ZooGoer/2003/2/GiantSalamander.cfm
The longest word in the English language is:
10 dollars to the man who can pronounce that properly...
Code:
acetylseryltyrosylserylisoleucylthreonylserylprolylserylglutaminyl-
phenylalanylvalylphenylalanylleucylserylserylvalyltryptophylalanyl-
aspartylprolylisoleucylglutamylleucylleucylasparaginylvalylcysteinyl-
threonylserylserylleucylglycylasparaginylglutaminylphenylalanyl-
glutaminylthreonylglutaminylglutaminylalanylarginylthreonylthreonyl-
glutaminylvalylglutaminylglutaminylphenylalanylserylglutaminylvalyl-
tryptophyllysylprolylphenylalanylprolylglutaminylserylthreonylvalyl-
arginylphenylalanylprolylglycylaspartylvalyltyrosyllysylvalyltyrosyl-
arginyltyrosylasparaginylalanylvalylleucylaspartylprolylleucylisoleucyl-
threonylalanylleucylleucylglycylthreonylphenylalanylaspartylthreonyl-
arginylasparaginylarginylisoleucylisoleucylglutamylvalylglutamyl-
asparaginylglutaminylglutaminylserylprolylthreonylthreonylalanylglutamyl-
threonylleucylaspartylalanylthreonylarginylarginylvalylaspartylaspartyl-
alanylthreonylvalylalanylisoleucylarginylserylalanylasparaginylisoleucyl-
asparaginylleucylvalylasparaginylglutamylleucylvalylarginylglycyl-
threonylglycylleucyltyrosylasparaginylglutaminylasparaginylthreonyl-
phenylalanylglutamylserylmethionylserylglycylleucylvalyltryptophyl-
threonylserylalanylprolylalanylserineFalco&Victory
Smash Champion
False. I can tear a 900 page phonebook in half, with my teeth.
Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.(making harder to interpret where the sound came from)
Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
The planet Saturn has a density lower than water. So, if placed in water it would float.
It takes 70% less energy to produce a ton of paper from recycled paper than from trees.
The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.
Sharks are immune to cancer.
Bailey
Smash Hero
Fact: GoldShadow is getting a lot funnnier
Lixivium
Smash Champion
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Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Dahlemense Strain
That's a really lame example though. It's like saying,
"the longest number in the English language is 123456789876543212345678987654321..."
True. In fresh water, sound waves travel at 1,482 meters per second (about 3,315 mph).
Sort-Of True. Really, you're arriving a reasonable number hours AFTER you left, from either perspective taken individually. But yes, you can leave at 4:00 GMT and arrive at 3:00 GMT -5.
True. But...
Basically false. Any amount of water would either be a) small enough to be gravitationally attracted to Saturn and absorbed. or b) frozen, and therefore ice.
Recycling is cool!
True. Poor goldfish.
False. However, they are highly resistant to the effects of most cancers. The Smithsonian has shark tumors on file, if you want to go look. Weirdo.
gunterrsmash01
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I'm retarted.
HeadISBAgent
Smash Apprentice
Yea I remember this in high school physics class...good times. I'm not quite an eloquent story teller as my physics teacher, but basically the cat's tail allows it to orient itself upright when falling and its terminal velocity isn't quite high enough to cause serious damage. When dropped from a building less than 5 stories, the cat basically doesn't have time to orient itself and will likely be injured. Dropping a cat from a building higher than 5 floors would give it enough time to prepare itself for the impact. Ironically some people testing this theory "accidentally" tied the cat's tail to its body and indeed, they got owned dropping from any story both below and above 5.
I believe the approximate maximum number of times a piece of paper can be folded is:
W=(pi)*t*2^(3/2[n-1])
where W=width, t=thickness, and n=number of times to be folded.
I'm pretty sure this equation refers to alternate direction folding though.
MysticKenji
Smash Master
"In just about every species of mammal, the female lives longer than the male."
"The U.S. Army accidentally ordered an 82 year supply of freeze-dried tuna salad mix for troops in Europe." (LOL)
"The U.S. Army accidentally ordered an 82 year supply of freeze-dried tuna salad mix for troops in Europe." (LOL)
Lixivium's right though, I wouldn't really count this as a "word"... it's a chemical formula. Also, it's pretty easy to pronounce, the formula is basically a long string of amino acids like serine, tyrosine, isoleucine, phenylalanine, proline, arginine, and so on... in other words, nearly the whole thing just draws from a pool of 20 amino acid names.
True. The speed of sound in air at room temperature is about 345 m/s, and the speed of sound in water 1483 m/s. The speed of sound traveling through steel is about 4500 m/s.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/sound/souspe2.html
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/sound/souspe.html
Partially True. The density of Saturn is about 0.70 g/ml, as opposed to water, which is about 1.0 g/ml.
However, the actual planet itself would not float, though not quite for the reasons Drab mentioned. Saturn is a gaseous planet and has no solid boundary, so it wouldn't really be possible to float a sphere of gas. Also, water in space would not freeze; since space is a vacuum, it would vaporize and dissipate.
http://astro.uchicago.edu/home/web/lucia/a100/lectures/saturn.html#size
True. Paper made from 100% postconsumer (recycled) content requires about 64% less energy to produce than paper made from fresh, "virgin" wood fiber.
http://recycling.colorado.edu/education_and_outreach/recycling_facts.html
http://www.usu.edu/recycle/factsFigures.htm
http://resourcities.acrplus.org/recycling/recycling_did.htm
Possibly. The goldfish can see slightly farther into the red range than humans can, and goldfish also have a fourth cone type in their eyes (as opposed to the red, green, blue that humans have) that allows them to see slightly further into the UV spectrum. However, I couldn't definitively find anything that shows only goldfish have this range of vision.
http://webvision.med.utah.edu/imageswv/DAWDBOP.JPG
http://www.unm.edu/~toolson/human_cone_response.htm
http://www.springerlink.com/content/r707m74rh46w743j/
False. Like Drab said. It's next to impossible to be immune to cancer, but sharks may have an edge in that they do not have bones (they have cartilage). This means that immune cells (specifically, B-lymphocytes) are already circulating in the blood because they don't need to be produced by bone (since sharks don't have bone). But this is mostly just hypothesis; the fact is, no study has even proven that sharks have a lower incidence of cancer than other animals. They may be just as or almost as susceptible to it as other creatures.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/08/0820_030820_sharkcancer_2.html
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_1_1x_Sharks_Get_Cancer.asp
shadenexus18
Smash Master
Oh only if you lived in Virginia, for seeing such mysterious things is believing bro! My sensai is able to conjure up his chi and boil an egg on his hand rather easliy.
But I will try to see if I can gather up some proof for you.
I lent a guy a quarter in like 6th grade and told him there was a 1000% interest on it a day and he agreed. He hasn't ever paid me back and now 4 years later I'm estimating he owes me $3,650.
HeadISBAgent
Smash Apprentice
Bailey
Smash Hero
Here comes the money.....
Ripple
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the only thing that would happen if you lit a match in a 100% oxygen enviornment would be that the flame is brighter,hotter, and bigger. the atmosphere would not explode, oxygen needs something to combine with inorder to burn, other than more oxygen.
Rage.
Smash Ace
Scorpion is the most available playable character in the Mortal Kombat Series
There is only 1 game he isnt playable in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_kombat_characters
There is only 1 game he isnt playable in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_kombat_characters
Yeah, sort of.
Now really, you couldn't "destroy" or "burn" the atmosphere so that there wouldn't be any gas left. People have this misconception that when something burns, you're losing matter, that you're losing air because it's being consumed in the flame. All that's happening in combustion is a chemical reaction in which the matter is taking other forms;
For example, if you burn propane (C3H8), the resulting combustion reaction with oxygen is as follows:
C3H8 + 5O2 --> 3CO2 + 4H2O
All you're doing by "burning" the fuel (propane) and oxygen is converting it to carbon dioxide gas and water vapor; you end up with more gas than you started with. In the heat, atmospheric nitrogen would also react with some atmospheric oxygen and form nitric and nitrous oxides as well.
So theoretically, if you had enough fuel, you could combust ("burn") all the oxygen in the earth's atmosphere, which would effectively end most life.
Mr.Lombardi34
Smash Ace
A pigeon's feathers weigh more than it's bones.
Hey goldshadow, when are the next interesting facts awards? Those were cool.
Hey goldshadow, when are the next interesting facts awards? Those were cool.
Thanks, I'm glad you liked the whole awards thing!
They were about a week ago, so I think we'll wait about another week (give or take depending on how many posts there are) for the next awards.
So let's keep those facts coming. I'll do the ones I haven't done yet sometime tomorrow.
They were about a week ago, so I think we'll wait about another week (give or take depending on how many posts there are) for the next awards.
So let's keep those facts coming. I'll do the ones I haven't done yet sometime tomorrow.
One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year.
TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
Problem2
Smash Champion
Sonic the Hedgehog is the slowest fictional character characterized of having super speed.
O.o zomg...
Smo
Smash Journeyman
Probably been mentioned before...
All polar bears are left handed.
The alphabet song has the same tune as "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"
The British military employs more musicians than any company in the world.
All polar bears are left handed.
The alphabet song has the same tune as "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"
The British military employs more musicians than any company in the world.
Wow. It's incredible!
Mr.Lombardi34
Smash Ace
One brow wrinkle is the result of 200,000 frowns. (It might be 20,000, I forgot)
The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
The first bike was called a hobbyhorse.
Is it bad for me to just post snapple facts or is that allowed?
The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
The first bike was called a hobbyhorse.
Is it bad for me to just post snapple facts or is that allowed?
Falco&Victory
Smash Champion
One way to tell the age of a fish is by looking at its scales. They have growth rings just like trees. These are called circuli. Clusters of them are called annuli. Each annuli show one year.
Did you know porpoises could surf? They are frequently seen riding the bow wave of a ship. They make no swimming motions and can ride the wake for more than an hour. They can also turn on their side or flip completely around. Surf’s up porpe!
You may have heard someone say, "It’s raining cats and dogs." There have been actual documented cases from all over the world of fish, frogs, dead birds, snakes, snails, beetles, worms and jellyfish raining down from the sky in great numbers, but no reports of showers of cats or dogs.(tornadoes pick them up. Raining frogs ftw)
Salamanders are known to come out of wood when it was burning inside a fireplace, this is because Salamanders hibernate in wood.
The 14-foot-long narwhal is a whale whose tooth can reach up to eight feet long!
Elephants purr like cats do, as a means of communication.
Stryks wants to mate with Optimus Prime
Did you know porpoises could surf? They are frequently seen riding the bow wave of a ship. They make no swimming motions and can ride the wake for more than an hour. They can also turn on their side or flip completely around. Surf’s up porpe!
You may have heard someone say, "It’s raining cats and dogs." There have been actual documented cases from all over the world of fish, frogs, dead birds, snakes, snails, beetles, worms and jellyfish raining down from the sky in great numbers, but no reports of showers of cats or dogs.(tornadoes pick them up. Raining frogs ftw)
Salamanders are known to come out of wood when it was burning inside a fireplace, this is because Salamanders hibernate in wood.
The 14-foot-long narwhal is a whale whose tooth can reach up to eight feet long!
Elephants purr like cats do, as a means of communication.
Stryks wants to mate with Optimus Prime
The moon doesn't produce light, it reflects it from the sun
The Mayans never believed the world would end in 2012, that's just an urban legend
Many sexologists believe that everyone is born with attraction to both sexes, and that only social norms/experiences supress it (not entirely true, I remember reading something like that a month or so ago. Hopefully someone can correct the wrong parts and link more information)
Hedgehog teeth are stronger then diamonds
Goldshadow is a girl
Homo sapiens are incapable of naturally producing red hair, and everyone with it is the result of cross breading with a Neanderthals thousands of years ago
Alaska is technically part of Russia, because America never fully fulfilled the contract required.
Karl Rove is actually a lizard
The Mayans never believed the world would end in 2012, that's just an urban legend
Many sexologists believe that everyone is born with attraction to both sexes, and that only social norms/experiences supress it (not entirely true, I remember reading something like that a month or so ago. Hopefully someone can correct the wrong parts and link more information)
Hedgehog teeth are stronger then diamonds
Goldshadow is a girl
Homo sapiens are incapable of naturally producing red hair, and everyone with it is the result of cross breading with a Neanderthals thousands of years ago
Alaska is technically part of Russia, because America never fully fulfilled the contract required.
Karl Rove is actually a lizard
Falco&Victory
Smash Champion
obviously true, there are no chemical reactions occuring to produce light on the moon
True, that's just where their calender ended
cF=)
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Who the **** thought the moon produced light ?
MysticKenji
Smash Master
"A roach can live up to nine days without its head."
"Dog owners in Turin, Italy can be fined up to $650 if they don't walk their dog at least three times a day!"
"Dog owners in Turin, Italy can be fined up to $650 if they don't walk their dog at least three times a day!"
**** wasn't legal in Texas until the 1980s
Alligators are closer to man genetically then woman are
Mayans built hot air balloons over 1000 years ago and used them to drop rocks on enemy cities
Lions kill more people then guns have each year
The Collesium was actually found by rome, and improved upon. The original makers are a mystery.
Pigs are heavy
Alligators are closer to man genetically then woman are
Mayans built hot air balloons over 1000 years ago and used them to drop rocks on enemy cities
Lions kill more people then guns have each year
The Collesium was actually found by rome, and improved upon. The original makers are a mystery.
Pigs are heavy
Seed of Sorrow
Smash Champion
I hope you mean Il-legal.
Falco&Victory
Smash Champion
I'd like to call 'BS'