Random Fact

[Anarchemitis]

Hypnotism is only putting the human mind into a highly relaxed state at which it is very open to suggestion. The brain will only follow these suggestions if it finds they are appreopriate or 'good'. In a hypnotized stat, you are unlikely to kill yourself at someones request unless you are/were suicidal in the first place.

 

[Corven]

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

 

[Xhumed]

The word "salary" comes from Roman soldiers being paid in salt.

 

[Xhumed]

Objects can go faster than the speed of light. Science only dictates that somethind cannot accelerate faster than the speed of light.

But to reach that velocity, one must accelerate in the first place, unless the object in question going faster than light to begin with, like at creation.

Tachyons, apparently, do this. In theory anyway.

 

[TheGhostOfSin]

Energy is equal to Mass travelling at the speed of light multiplied by it's own mass at the speed of light.
(E=MC^2)

Do you mean E=MC2?
On a related note Albert Einstein never compleated High School

 

[ElephantGuts]

In one small town in northen California, if you are bored of the music of 'Weird Al' Yankovic, you can be pronounced legally dead.

Are you serious? California just became a lot cooler, and stranger, in my opinion.

Seriously? Wow.

Dude.

How did that come about?

I'm gonna go look that up.

Did you know that sodomy is any form of sexual penetration not for procreational purposes?
Note: That was the most general definition I ever found, though some tend to get really specific...)

 

[Elusive]

Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.

 

[Displaced]

Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.

Sound travels faster at night

 

[Anarchemitis]

Cheese whiz is gray before adding colorant.

Coca Cola is green as well.

 

[Elusive]

There are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the bones fuse together).

 

[ElephantGuts]

In one small town in northen California, if you are bored of the music of 'Weird Al' Yankovic, you can be pronounced legally dead.

Could you (or someone) tell me where you got that information, or atleast the name of the town or something, because I couldn't find it in a search. Unless you were lieing.

 

[COR 2000]

There is no law that makes blowing up a nuclear bomb a crime. This is because everyone figured that no one would actually be stupid enough to detonate one.

 

[Jamanticus]

The blue whale is so huge that a child could crawl through it's aorta with room to spare.

Spoiler: And another thing

This is now one of my top favorite threads of all time.......I'm gonna dredge up some really fun facts in the next few days..........And glass is not a liquid, although it is an amorphous solid, just like cotton candy and polystyrene.

 

[this_was_a_mistake]

The Hawaiian word for gay is "Mahu"

 

[chomesuke]

Once, entire Netherlands was condemned to death by The Spanish Inquisition for hearsay.
To make it clear, around those times that where 13 million people.

Also, the order was given roughly 10 miles from my home.


And Cor, there is, seeing that that is considered terrorism, I think it is illegal.

 

[COR 2000]

And Cor, there is, seeing that that is considered terrorism, I think it is illegal.

True, but I think it might have been referring to just blowing one up in a stockpile. Of course, it was a while back that I saw this law, so i might've been (slightly) mistaken.

I've also heard that in Colorado, it's illegal to throw a missile at a car. Not shoot a missile at a car, throw a missile with your bare hands at a car.

 

[Anarchemitis]

There is no law that makes blowing up a nuclear bomb a crime. This is because everyone figured that no one would actually be stupid enough to detonate one.

Although there are stipulations by the UN regarding Disturbing World Order and/or Peace.

Our local star Sol's gravity affects a volume in the shape of a sphere 4 lightyears in radius.

The Chernobyl Inncident was not a Nuclear Melt-Down, but a cooling system failure that resulted in a Steam explosion blowing the reactor core open. Additionally, none of the nuclear fallout was Uranium. Uranium is the fuel in Reactors, and decays into other hazardous isotopes of other elements, such as Krypton, Heavy Iodine, Potassium, Bismuth & Antimony. Currently the most present radioisotope in the Zone of Alienation is Cesium-137.

 

[the monopoly guy]

Spoiler: And another thing

This is now one of my top favorite threads of all time.......I'm gonna dredge up some really fun facts in the next few days..........And glass is not a liquid, although it is an amorphous solid, just like cotton candy and polystyrene.

Begone vile being! Begone!
Seriously, wasn't someone put on probation for mentioning the state of glass? Everyone got real sick of it real fast.

The mentioning of the state of glass is really, really, really annoying.

 

[insane44]

you can get drunk from chocolate in large amounts, a football weighs less inflated with helium

 

[Anarchemitis]

You can get drunk from Soy Sauce too.

It is significantly easier to convert Gold into Lead than the other way around, much to the dismay of Alchemists.
[sup]197[/sup]Au + n > [sup]198[/sup]Au (halflife 2.7 days) > [sup]198[/sup]Hg + n > [sup]199[/sup]Hg + n > [sup]200[/sup]Hg + n > [sup]201[/sup]Hg + n > [sup]202[/sup]Hg + n > [sup]203[/sup]Hg (halflife 47 days) > [sup]203[/sup]Tl + n > [sup]204T[/sup]l (halflife 3.8 years) > [sup]204[/sup]Pb! (halflife 1.4x1017 years)

Gold is the most malleable and ductile metal there is. If you were precise enough, you could stretch a kilogram over the entire surface area of a baseball field without any holes.