There's a somewhat obscure movie called Willow that George Lucas wrote and produced. The main character is a midget. Perhaps that was a compromise for not getting midget Skywalker?Radoh said:
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That's been one of my favorite pieces of trivia for years. I just think it's crazy.DJjaffacake said:
Sorry to burst your bubble mate, but there'd be no point. Without an atmosphere, can't hear anything, and even then, all you'd hear is the rumbling/whining of the rover's engine. :/DigitalSushi said:
I didn't realise women could have a bust and a waist that was simultaneously three measurements... of which two are the same... -_-Lt._nefarious said:
He also reads LotR once every year...Reincarnatedwolfgod said:
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The kiwi has the shortest beak of all the birds.
Why? Because a beak is measured from tip to nostrils and a guess where a kiwi's nostrils unconventionally are.
On an unrelated topic, venus is the only planet to rotate clockwise and this clip from The Abyss is 100% true, no special effects, that breathing liquid thing is actually the real stuff.
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The kiwi has the shortest beak of all the birds.
Why? Because a beak is measured from tip to nostrils and a guess where a kiwi's nostrils unconventionally are.
On an unrelated topic, venus is the only planet to rotate clockwise and this clip from The Abyss is 100% true, no special effects, that breathing liquid thing is actually the real stuff.
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also he was one of the main consultants for the Peter Jackson lord of the rings films. and He is the only one involved in the films to actually meet J.R.R. Tolkien in person.SckizoBoy said:
An addition to this:Vegosiux said:
The period where your eyes are effectively inactive is called a saccade, but you're brain actually fills in the time lost with whatever your eye happens to be looking at after it finishes moving. This is why if you look quickly at the second hand on a clock it will appear to remain there much longer than subsequent pauses between ticks.
Interesting facts? Well...
-Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards
-Dolphins are notorious sex fiends (yeah, forget Flipper!)
-Chimpanzees are our closest relatives genetically
-Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards
-Dolphins are notorious sex fiends (yeah, forget Flipper!)
-Chimpanzees are our closest relatives genetically
Lightning starts at the ground not the skyDVS BSTrD said:
Space has no centre or edge but the area the universe fills does.
There will come a time in the distant future where the ever increasing speed of the universe's spreading that the relative speeds of the different stars that no star light (other than the suns ofc) will ever catch up to us and the night sky will be completely dark.
If you look up at the stars in the night sky you can be looking back up to 13 billion years in time!
Noob Saibot , Is the backwards spelling of the two MK franchise creators Ed Boon and tobias..GrimTuesday said:
Great Britain's Great is a a size thing to differentiate it from the small one in France.
Football (the real one not the American attempt) Is named because you play it on foot not from horseback not because you mostly use your feet.
and of course .... dogs cant look up
A giant squid has a 2 meter penis.
Julia Roberts once swallowed an entire vole.
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The previous fact is false
Julia Roberts once swallowed an entire vole.
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The previous fact is false
The first ten ammendments(you know, the bill of rights which give freedom of speech & all that stuff) in the US Constitution were proposed in 1789...
but Massachusetts, Georgia, and Connecticut did not agree to it until 1939.
That is 150 years later. To agree to freedom of speech. And fair trials.
That is all.
but Massachusetts, Georgia, and Connecticut did not agree to it until 1939.
That is 150 years later. To agree to freedom of speech. And fair trials.
That is all.
The word 'HONCHO' (as in leader/boss) is Japanese; but has been shifted incorrectly into English due to a 'semantic slip'.
Being a Japanese speaker, someone one day told me 'honcho is Japanese' and I didn't believe them - because I couldn't think of kanji for 'hon' that possibly be related to rank or position. When they showed me the word in Japanese I saw that it is actually, HANcho.
The problem is, when American GIs heard Japanese people say 'hancho', they spelt it as if 'a' was an 'o' (North American o's are closer to an 'a' vowel sound than an 'o' sound - think of how a British English speaker says 'hot dog' as opposed to the American English speaker's 'hot dog').
So, when the Americans wrote the word down, they would guess the spelling based on pronunciation - and to them 'HANCHO' would be spelt 'HONCHO'.
Err ... and a reverse 'semantic slip'.
Cunning in English means to be clever, perhaps unconventionally/evilly so. In Japanese, 'kanningu suru' (the Japanified term) means 'to cheat'. So when a Japanese person calls you 'cunning', they are calling you a cheat.
Being a Japanese speaker, someone one day told me 'honcho is Japanese' and I didn't believe them - because I couldn't think of kanji for 'hon' that possibly be related to rank or position. When they showed me the word in Japanese I saw that it is actually, HANcho.
The problem is, when American GIs heard Japanese people say 'hancho', they spelt it as if 'a' was an 'o' (North American o's are closer to an 'a' vowel sound than an 'o' sound - think of how a British English speaker says 'hot dog' as opposed to the American English speaker's 'hot dog').
So, when the Americans wrote the word down, they would guess the spelling based on pronunciation - and to them 'HANCHO' would be spelt 'HONCHO'.
Err ... and a reverse 'semantic slip'.
Cunning in English means to be clever, perhaps unconventionally/evilly so. In Japanese, 'kanningu suru' (the Japanified term) means 'to cheat'. So when a Japanese person calls you 'cunning', they are calling you a cheat.
I started writing this like 5 hours before I actually hit post, so this may have been already said.
-The fastest known object with mass ever recorded clocked in at 2.9999999999999999999999853×10[sup]8[/sup] meters per second. It was a single proton that had the kinetic energy equal to a baseball moving at 55 miles per hour. Scientists are still a unsure how it got moving that fast.
-The fastest known object with mass ever recorded clocked in at 2.9999999999999999999999853×10[sup]8[/sup] meters per second. It was a single proton that had the kinetic energy equal to a baseball moving at 55 miles per hour. Scientists are still a unsure how it got moving that fast.
Of course Mars has an atmosphere, its composed mainly of Carbon Dioxide, so there's something there for some sort of sound to travel, like spooky Mars wind.... because it'd probably be at a different wavelength or some other things a clever scientistmans would saySckizoBoy said:
Mars probably doesn't have a nightclub though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queimada_Grande_IslandSurpheal said:
yep, the nasty effects include necrosis of brain tissue
...Well, someone has to do it.
The Fact Sphere has 99 unique soundbytes.
The Fact Sphere lists 22 accurate facts.
The Fact Sphere has 7 subjective statements. Of these, 5 explicitly refer to the Fact Sphere itself.
The Fact Sphere never makes it to Space.
The Fact Sphere and the other corrupted cores are voiced by Nolan North, as is Nathan Drake.
Contrary to popular opinion, not everything in Australia wants to kill you. The Irukandji Jellyfish wants to make you suffer.
The sting of an Irukandji Jellyfish is not usually fatal with proper treatment, though those experiencing Irukandji Syndrome often express a belief and/or desire that it was.
The Flying Squirrel does not actually fly. It just falls with style.
Many people reading this post will do so in the Fact Sphere's voice.
The Fact Sphere has 99 unique soundbytes.
The Fact Sphere lists 22 accurate facts.
1.The billionth digit of Pi is 9.
2.Humans can survive underwater. But not for very long.
3.A nanosecond lasts one billionth of a second.
4.Honey does not spoil.
5.The atomic weight of Germanium is seven two point six four.
6.An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
7.Rats cannot throw up.
8.Iguanas can stay underwater for twenty-eight point seven minutes.
9.The moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days.
10.A gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds.
11.According to Norse legend, thunder god Thor's chariot was pulled across the sky by two goats.
12.Tungsten has the highest melting point of any metal, at 3,410 degrees Celsius.
13.Gently cleaning the tongue twice a day is the most effective way to fight bad breath.
14.The Tariff Act of 1789, established to protect domestic manufacture, was the second statute ever enacted by the United States government.
15.The value of Pi is the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter in Euclidean space.
16.The Mexican-American War ended in 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
17.In 1879, Sandford Fleming first proposed the adoption of worldwide standardized time zones at the Royal Canadian Institute.
18.Marie Curie invented the theory of radioactivity, the treatment of radioactivity, and dying of radioactivity.
19.At the end of The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, Konstantin kills himself.
20.If you have trouble with simple counting, use the following mnemonic device: one comes before two comes before 60 comes after 12 comes before six trillion comes after 504. This will make your earlier counting difficulties seem like no big deal.
21.Hot water freezes quicker than cold water.
22."The situation [Chell is] in is very dangerous
2.Humans can survive underwater. But not for very long.
3.A nanosecond lasts one billionth of a second.
4.Honey does not spoil.
5.The atomic weight of Germanium is seven two point six four.
6.An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
7.Rats cannot throw up.
8.Iguanas can stay underwater for twenty-eight point seven minutes.
9.The moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days.
10.A gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds.
11.According to Norse legend, thunder god Thor's chariot was pulled across the sky by two goats.
12.Tungsten has the highest melting point of any metal, at 3,410 degrees Celsius.
13.Gently cleaning the tongue twice a day is the most effective way to fight bad breath.
14.The Tariff Act of 1789, established to protect domestic manufacture, was the second statute ever enacted by the United States government.
15.The value of Pi is the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter in Euclidean space.
16.The Mexican-American War ended in 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
17.In 1879, Sandford Fleming first proposed the adoption of worldwide standardized time zones at the Royal Canadian Institute.
18.Marie Curie invented the theory of radioactivity, the treatment of radioactivity, and dying of radioactivity.
19.At the end of The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, Konstantin kills himself.
20.If you have trouble with simple counting, use the following mnemonic device: one comes before two comes before 60 comes after 12 comes before six trillion comes after 504. This will make your earlier counting difficulties seem like no big deal.
21.Hot water freezes quicker than cold water.
22."The situation [Chell is] in is very dangerous
The Fact Sphere has 7 subjective statements. Of these, 5 explicitly refer to the Fact Sphere itself.
The Fact Sphere never makes it to Space.
The Fact Sphere and the other corrupted cores are voiced by Nolan North, as is Nathan Drake.
Contrary to popular opinion, not everything in Australia wants to kill you. The Irukandji Jellyfish wants to make you suffer.
The sting of an Irukandji Jellyfish is not usually fatal with proper treatment, though those experiencing Irukandji Syndrome often express a belief and/or desire that it was.
The Flying Squirrel does not actually fly. It just falls with style.
Many people reading this post will do so in the Fact Sphere's voice.