An interesting facts thread.

[Quaxar]

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.

Ooo, someone's been reading xkcd recently!

At the turn of the 20th century there was much fuss about the human ancestry due to all the discoveries of australopitheci in africa and early homo in java and china. Many people felt like the cradle of humanity should be where its most advanced examples are, so of course Europe.
In 1912 an excavation in East Sussex discovered what came to be known as the <url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piltdown_Man>Piltdown Man and thereby concluded that humans developed in Britain. Unfortunately, in 1953 biologists finally, after decades of doubts, properly proved it to be the skull of a medieval man combined with the lower jaw of an orang-utan and a few chimp teeth thrown in because at that point you might as well go all the way.

In 1917 H.P. Lovecraft used the piltdown man in one of his short stories, Dagon, and in one later story as well. And in 1994 Mac's new Power Macintosh 6100 was codenamed "piltdown man" during its development.

 

[Grumpy Ginger]

Here is another freaky animal sex fact:
Polar bears have a bone inside their Penis like many mammals,however whenever they mate with females they keep on going until the bone breaks

 

[klown]

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Surprisingly I knew that before this weeks What If, I was super excited when he mentioned the particle.

 

[Quaxar]

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Surprisingly I knew that before this weeks What If, I was super excited when he mentioned the particle.

Fair enough, just sounded really familiar.

The escherichia coli bacteria (yes, it's that E.coli) can replicate its whole genome and split into two new cells in about ten minutes, which is pretty darn fast considering it has over 4.5 million base pairs.

 

[jdogtwodolla]

Clouds...[small]wait for it[/small]... Float

Despite what health commercials may tell you, White breads don't make you regular. Only wheat and Whole Grain breads can do that.

 

[Henkie36]

All polarbears are left handed.

Ants can carry twenty times their own weight, drag fifty times their own weight, and always fall on their left side after being poisoned.

A pig's orgasm can last up to thirty minutes.

A day on Venus is shorter then a year on the same planet.

The Earth is the only planet in our solar system to have only one moon. (Not counting Pluto)

The longest war in history was between the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands and the Scilly Islands on the southwest end of the UK. Not a shot was ever fired, and no soldier was ever killed during the 335 years the war lasted.

The monarch of England is also the monarch of France.

The first scene to be shot for Titanic was the famous drawing scene (awkward), which was actually drawn by James Cameron himself.

For that same movie, a one-in-one replica of the ship was built of the Mexican coast.

In conclusion: I bet everyone who bothered to read all of this wants to be a pig in his or her next life.

Spoiler

I'm a massive Milla Jovovich fan.
I'm madly attracted to Milla Jovovich.
I have over 200 Milla Jovovich fakes on my computer.
I have all Milla Jovovich's music on my phone.
My Desktop wallpaper is Milla Jovovich.
My phone wallpaper is 3 Milla Jovovich's.
I kiss a picture of Milla Jovovich good night every night.
Talking about Milla Jovovich gives me a raging stiffy.
Milla Jovovich is 5' 8''.
Milla Jovovich's "bust" is 34-24-34 inches.
Milla Jovovich's waist is 86-61-86 cm.
Milla Jovovich is a Sagittarius.
Milla Jovovich was born the year of the Rabbit.
Milla is short for Militza.
Milla Jovovich has blue eyes.
Milla Jovovich is left handed but shoots and plays guitar with her right hand.
Milla Jovovich's dress size is 6.
Milla Jovovich's shoe size is 9 and a half.
Milla Jovovich is Russian Orthodox Christian.

And there you have it.

Captcha: Puppy love. It's more than that captcha, much more.

For such a fan, I would expect you to mention the following facts:

She had her first marrige annuled by her mother, seeing how she wasn't of age yet.

In order to get pregnant, she first had to gain 12 pounds, otherwise her body simply wouldn't cope with the stress.

She had to dub every line in Resident Evil: Apocalypse because she originally did them in her natural voice and it just didn't sound right to her.

 

[Redingold]

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.

No, no, no, no, no.

If you're going to use that many significant figures for the beta value of the oh-my-god particle, you could at least use an accurate value for the speed of light.

The speed of light is exactly 299792458ms[sup]-1[/sup], putting the speed of the oh-my-god particle at 299792457.9999999999999985310169558ms[sup]-1[/sup]

 

[Plasmadamage]

Mario was named after the designers Italian landlord.
Also, his huge nose was so that you could tell which generation he was facing in 1st generation graphics

Pandas are an evolutionary failure. They are herbivores with the bodies and metabolism of carnivores.

Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals co-existed for several thousand years. We may even have worked together to hunt in some places.

Typing Google into Google will not destroy the internet.

Typing Bing into Bing on the other hand...

 

[the_bearpelt]

They finally figured out a couple years ago why women crave chocolate when they're on their period. Turns out chocolate is a mild hormone balancer. So there's a totally legit reason to get your girlfriend/wife chocolate when she demands it on her period: it actually DOES help a little bit.

 

[Bestival]

All freshwater eels, both the European and American species, are born in the same place, a seaweed- and vine-clogged section of the ocean south of Bermuda known as the Sargasso Sea. From this location, the eels migrate to various parts of the world, the American eels to North America, the European eels to Europe. The trips may take as long as three years. Once they arrive at their destination, the males remain at the river mouths while the females move farther upstream, finally settling in small island lakes and ponds. They remain there for ten to fifteen years, until they receive a strange instinctive call back to the sea. Swimming against great river currents, leaping upward like salmon, sometimes leaving the water altogether to crawl along great stretches of land, the female eel finally makes her way back to the sea, where she joins the male. Then they swim together directly to the Sargasso Sea. Here they mate, spawn, and die.

My dad told me that one. While I was looking for a nice wall of text to quote about it, I also found this:

The White Shark:

Has teeth that rank on a scale of hardness with steel.

Is the only creature in the sea with no natural enemies; even killer whales normally avoid it.

Can survive brain damage better than any animal in the world.

Never gets sick. It has mysterious antibodies that give it immunity to practically every known bacterial invader. It is also one of the few animals known to be completely immune to cancer.

Can hear sounds a mile away.

Is always hungry; no matter how much it eats, its appetite is never satisfied?it lives in a state of continual hunger.

 

[cookyt]

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.

Wait a minute, that's faster than the currently accepted speed of light (2.99792×10[sup]8[/sup] m/s). If you're sure about that number, then there must have been a mistake in the measurement.

 

[Bestival]

and of course .... dogs cant look up

Sure they can, have you ever met a dog!? Just stand near one with some food and they can't look anywhere but up...

https://www.google.nl/search?q=dog+looking+up&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:nlfficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=nl&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=FVylUOnfJo2N0wW6h4GQCA&biw=1068&bih=887&sei=GlylUPClCMfM0AWFyIDQDQ

 

[Lt._nefarious]

I'm a massive Milla Jovovich fan.
I'm madly attracted to Milla Jovovich.
I have over 200 Milla Jovovich fakes on my computer.
I have all Milla Jovovich's music on my phone.
My Desktop wallpaper is Milla Jovovich.
My phone wallpaper is 3 Milla Jovovich's.
I kiss a picture of Milla Jovovich good night every night.
Talking about Milla Jovovich gives me a raging stiffy.
Milla Jovovich is 5' 8''.
Milla Jovovich's "bust" is 34-24-34 inches.
Milla Jovovich's waist is 86-61-86 cm.
Milla Jovovich is a Sagittarius.
Milla Jovovich was born the year of the Rabbit.
Milla is short for Militza.
Milla Jovovich has blue eyes.
Milla Jovovich is left handed but shoots and plays guitar with her right hand.
Milla Jovovich's dress size is 6.
Milla Jovovich's shoe size is 9 and a half.
Milla Jovovich is Russian Orthodox Christian.

And there you have it.

Captcha: Puppy love. It's more than that captcha, much more.

This man...someone get him a medal.

Finally, someone who is impressed by my creepy number of Milla Jovovich facts...

 

[Quaxar]

The White Shark:

Is the only creature in the sea with no natural enemies; even killer whales normally avoid it.

Um, killer whales will often attack it just for fun and play with the corpse for a time. Orcas are assholes, they'll even try to fuck with a blue whale if they're in a big enough group.
<youtube=W8GaDuCvYbE>
But a shark's skin is actually an evolutionary rest stemming from their descendants, the <url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placodermi>Placodermi, which were bone-plate armored fish from around 380 million years ago. And due to its structure nothing will stick to this skin, not even bacteria; that's why we're starting to use a synthetic version to protect a ship's hull, reduce water drag and even keep medical surfaces clean without disinfectants.

All polarbears are left handed.

I do so hate that fact and it's painful to see it repeated over and over again on the internet. Please <url=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.393598-An-interesting-facts-thread#15915797>see this post I made on page 1 for a falsification and maybe edit it out of your post if you're willing.

 

[Bestival]

The White Shark:

Is the only creature in the sea with no natural enemies; even killer whales normally avoid it.

Um, killer whales will often attack it just for fun and play with the corpse for a time. Orcas are assholes, they'll even try to fuck with a blue whale if they're in a big enough group.
<youtube=W8GaDuCvYbE>
But a shark's skin is actually an evolutionary rest stemming from their descendants, the <url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placodermi>Placodermi, which were bone-plate armored fish from around 380 million years ago. And due to its structure nothing will stick to this skin, not even bacteria; that's why we're starting to use a synthetic version to protect a ship's hull, reduce water drag and even keep medical surfaces clean without disinfectants.

All polarbears are left handed.

I do so hate that fact and it's painful to see it repeated over and over again on the internet. Please <url=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.393598-An-interesting-facts-thread#15915797>see this post I made on page 1 for a falsification and maybe edit it out of your post if you're willing.

Yeah I was just copy pasting that off some site, and thought it a bit weird. Mostly because it makes it sound like Killer Whales are like the ultimate badasses... But if Sharks are the only creature with no natural enemies, then what the fuck is attacking the Killer Whales!? ( Aside from the Japanese.)

 

[dvd_72]

The speed of light is not constant. It actually varies depending on the medium it is travelling in. What is constant however is the speed of light in a vacuum, which remains constant even in a reletavistic frame of reference.

Light is an electromagnetic wave. Sure, everyone seems to know that, but do you know what that means? It means that light is made up of an oscillating electric field and an oscillating magnetic field. The fields oscillate at right angles to each other and to the direction of travel. The waves also support each other; as the electric field changes it causes a change in the magnetic field as per the equations of electromagnetism. The changing magnetic field (which was induced by the changing electric field) induces a change in the - you guessed it - electric field. Neither can exist without the other.

An old recipe for the antibacterial hand sanitiser you see all over the place, and especially in hospitals, had a curious trait. While initially killing almost all the bacteria on your hand, the gel that the alcohol was emulsified in was actually the perfect breeding ground for bacteria! After the alcohol evaporated your hand would quickly become a hotbed for new bacterial growth. The recipe has since changed.

The sea sponge is the most terifying creature on earth. One can blend two seperate sponges together and they will separate back into the two individual sponges. No amount of cutting or smashing will kill them. They are all but immortal. This is exaberated in Dwarf Fortress by them being ACTUALLY immortal and capable of killing creatures much larger than themselves by shoving the skull into the brain.

That's all I got for now!

 

[Cyfu]

The sentence "Guess Who" is not a question, but a command, so:

Guess who? - Is Wrong, if you wanted to ask them a question, you would say "Can you guess who?"

The real way to write it would be:

Guess who.

Have someone been watching GameGrumps?

OT:
The universe is beige
It was once an arrestible offence in Norway to be seen wearing a paper clip.
In mormonism, God is married
Worldwide sales of cocaine generate more money than Microsoft, McDonalds and Kellogg's combined.

 

[Quaxar]

The White Shark:

Is the only creature in the sea with no natural enemies; even killer whales normally avoid it.

Um, killer whales will often attack it just for fun and play with the corpse for a time. Orcas are assholes, they'll even try to fuck with a blue whale if they're in a big enough group.
<youtube=W8GaDuCvYbE>
But a shark's skin is actually an evolutionary rest stemming from their descendants, the <url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placodermi>Placodermi, which were bone-plate armored fish from around 380 million years ago. And due to its structure nothing will stick to this skin, not even bacteria; that's why we're starting to use a synthetic version to protect a ship's hull, reduce water drag and even keep medical surfaces clean without disinfectants.

All polarbears are left handed.

I do so hate that fact and it's painful to see it repeated over and over again on the internet. Please <url=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.393598-An-interesting-facts-thread#15915797>see this post I made on page 1 for a falsification and maybe edit it out of your post if you're willing.

Yeah I was just copy pasting that off some site, and thought it a bit weird. Mostly because it makes it sound like Killer Whales are like the ultimate badasses... But if Sharks are the only creature with no natural enemies, then what the fuck is attacking the Killer Whales!? ( Aside from the Japanese.)

They are <url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apex_predator>apex predators so they're actually the very top. Probably why they're such assholes.

The sea sponge is the most terifying creature on earth. One can blend two seperate sponges together and they will separate back into the two individual sponges. No amount of cutting or smashing will kill them. They are all but immortal. This is exaberated in Dwarf Fortress by them being ACTUALLY immortal and capable of killing creatures much larger than themselves by shoving the skull into the brain.

Oh, but they're simple to kill by something we humans are immune to. Because even at the start of its development every cell already has a fixed function in the grown sponge so while you can take a developing human cell cluster, divide it and thus end up with absolutely normal twins if you separate a sponge's cell cluster it is pretty much screwed.
We even have maps with which you can predict what each developing sponge cell's function is going to be.

 

[AdamxD]

sir christopher lee is a badass.

He also reads LotR once every year...

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.

I'm pretty sure he auditioned for the role of Gandalf first too, but wasn't properly considered due to age concerns.

 

[shootthebandit]

the only member of ZZtop not to have a beard is drummer frank beard