"Random fact of the day" thread.

[Agow95]

if you walk into a Nuclear power station with a pocket full of brazil nuts, you will set off the radioactivity alarms, yes, brazil nuts emit radiation, also, they aren't even nuts, but seeds.

 

[Queen Michael]

You might get in trouble with the mods unless you write something.

 

[dontlooknow]

if you walk into a Nuclear power station with a pocket full of brazil nuts, you will set off the radioactivity alarms, yes, brazil nuts emit radiation, also, they aren't even nuts, but seeds.

I see you have good taste in TV.

Edit: ha, 'good taste in TB' wasn't quite what I was aiming for.

 

[Agow95]

if you walk into a Nuclear power station with a pocket full of brazil nuts, you will set off the radioactivity alarms, yes, brazil nuts emit radiation, also, they aren't even nuts, but seeds.

I see you have good taste in TV.

Edit: ha, 'good taste in TB' wasn't quite what I was aiming for.

Ha, for a second I thought you were talking about totalbiscuit (youtube channel) but my dad (a physicist) told me about the radioactivity thing but I got the seed bit from the QI book of general ignorance, here's another fact, Strawberries and raspberries aren't berries, but watermelons are.

 

[Eddie the head]

We don't orbit around the sun. We orbit around a common center of gravity with the sun.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Miss Piggy and Yoda are the same voice actor...

Also Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was written by Ian Fleming, the author and creator of James Bond.

Coca Cola is made ever so slightly different in each factory... this is because of the secret recipe, and how it was transferred to the different factories, meant that it was interpreted differently in different places, and different ammounts of ingredients are used...
-This explains how you can legitimately prefer Coke from a Bottle, than a can, or Coke on tap... as it is actually a slightly different drink!

 

[Mr.Someone]

Both the winter when Napoleon invaded Russia, and the winter in which Hitler invaded Russia were among the coldest in Russian history.

In Paraguay(might be Uruguay) dueling is legal as long as both parties are registered blood donors

When one man tried to assassinate Andrew Jackson he nearly died when both his pistols malfunctioned and Jackson proceeded to Beat the assassin nearly to death with his cane.

The most prolific serial killer in the U.S. was not sentenced to death, though the second most prolific was.

Herman Goring was incredibly fat and he had to have his car customized for him to fit comfortably, though of all the Nazi leaders he was one of the very few that was fine with and even encouraged to a point for people to make fun of him and his girth.

You are more likely to die from drowning in a tub then to be killed by a terrorist attack.

Seagulls can sleep while flying.

Pepsi also started out as a medicine for an upset stomach, and it was named Pepsi because it contains the enzyme Pepsin.

 

[DoPo]

We share similar genetics to that of a banana.

Yes, 50% of the DNA, if I remember correctly.

Did you know that there is no word you can write with the bottom row of the keyboard? It's True, go ahead and try it if you don't honestly believe me..

Zzz. [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/zzz]

So, other trivia. Geek stuff, beware: in Unix (also later on and Linux), a popular program for reading files is more. Later a different one was created that had some extra features and was slightly better overall (less loading time, for example). And the second one is called less. Why? Because now you can officially say "less is more" to both mean that the two essentially do the same and that less is more advanced.

EDIT:

Strawberries and raspberries aren't berries, but watermelons are.

And now my world is shattered!

 

[DionysusSnoopy]

The universe is actually flat.

and it is a beige colour

Banana trees can walk

Mauna Loa is the tallest mountain from base to peak

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

I suppose I should get out as well, before anyone picks me up on it, is that the quote I used in my profile name does not actually exist, as in Shelock Holmes never actually said it in one of the stories! It is a misquote from a section of 'the crooked man' which was first was actually said in a film adaption.

I do like the line though, which is why I usd it! It's elementary, my dear Watson, elementary... has a nice ring to it!

 

[KillKill]

oranges used to be called noranges.

 

[Lectori Salutem]

When set to to play the Doctor, wanted a more somber look for the Doctor (like what the 1st Doctor wore)... but got overruled. In other words- that brightly-colored mess of a costume was not his fault, though the Audio Dramas did give him a more subtle-looking outfit.

You might want to consider including the fact that you are talking about Colin Baker into your post

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

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A british soldier landed in normandy during ww2 with a long bow and killed german soldiers with it[/quote]

That is gosh darn awesome! You have made my month with this fact! Are there any books on him?

 

[Super Six One]

Dogs cannot look up, it's true big Al says so!

 

[Royta]

You cannot, on any Windows operating system, name a folder "CON".
So funny.

 

[wintercoat]

Strawberries and raspberries aren't berries, but watermelons are.

And now my world is shattered!

Yup, they're called aggregates. The things you call seeds are the actual fruit. The fleshy part is like a nutrient sack for the fruit.

Did you know that potatoes are part of the nightshade family and that it's skin contains a toxin that irritates the bowels, and can cause upset stomach and really, really bad gas.

 

[baconsarnie]

We don't orbit around the sun. We orbit around a common center of gravity with the sun.

Thats wrong to, we do orbit the sun and the sun in turn orbits the galactic core. You need to look up the definition of orbit, we cant orbit both.

Technically it is correct, the same as in a binary star system, but with the sun and earth the centre of rotation is (i think) inside the sun itself, or at least close enough to not make any difference when approximating.

 

[Oly J]

Dyslexia, ironically enough, is quite a hard word to spell,

lol but seriously

in England, it is illegal to die in the house of commons
it is also legal to kill a scottsman in the city of York if he happens to be carrying a bow

 

[Scarecrow]

Zetta is a prefix in the metric system denoting a factor of 10 to the power of 21 or 1000000000000000000000. It can also be used as an adjective, thanks to one crazy Japaneses video game character.

 

[RubyDragoon]

Cheeble is the cry of the African Bull Hamster. I bought a button that stated "Cry Cheeble! And unleash the hamsters of war!" and the person who sold it to me passed this random bit of information onto me upon doing so.