"Random fact of the day" thread.

[FolkLikePanda]

Michael Jackson helped compose the music for Sonic 3 on the MegaDrive/Genesis

 

[owen20011993]

snales have sex once in their lifetime, but it takes them 12 hours

 

[Hasido]

you can count to 1023 on your fingers with out committing anything to memory.

No you can't, that requires thumbs as well.
Further, if you include all digits, it also requires that you are capable of raising your ring finger independently of all your other fingers, which only a small percentage of the human race can do.

oh so your one of those people that are adamant that the thumb should not be included when someone says fingers, even though that for almost all intents and purposes it can function the same way?

and you don't have to extend the ring finger completely, so long as an attempt to extend it is significantly different from not extending it, the system can work.

 

[Maze1125]

you can count to 1023 on your fingers with out committing anything to memory.

No you can't, that requires thumbs as well.
Further, if you include all digits, it also requires that you are capable of raising your ring finger independently of all your other fingers, which only a small percentage of the human race can do.

oh so your one of those people that are adamant that the thumb should not be included when someone says fingers, even though that for almost all intents and purposes it can function the same way?

This is a thread of "interesting facts".
If someone can point out that "peas are not vegetables but seeds" then I can point out that that thumbs are not fingers, but both are digits.

and you don't have to extend the ring finger completely, so long as an attempt to extend it is significantly different from not extending it, the system can work.

Well, if we can count "half-up", why not count it on every digit? Giving each one, bar the ring finger, three different positions, down, half-up and fully up. Allowing you to count up to at least 26243.