If you fall down a certain height the air friction will rip off your clothes. That's why people who were thrown out of planes during plane crashes have been found naked and many suicide jumpers are missing their shoes. (source: Mary Roach's Stiff)
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You're changing it. He's not saying that if person A takes 366 random people. One of them will have the same birthday as him. What he is saying is that if you take a group of 366 people. Two of them have to share a birthday. Which is wrong yes because it should be 367 people to take into account every four years there is an extra day in the year.4RM3D said:
And this is true. Since the longest year contains 366 days. If you take 366 people and they each have a different birthday, then the 367th person can only have a birthday someone else allready has.
If you say:If I meet 367 people, there is a 100% chance that one of those people will have the same birthday. Then he is wrong. And that is what you are saying
Thank you for quoting JLU, its an amazing show. Question was actually inspiration for Rorschach.Arkvoodle said:
Probably. And it would be an ugly site.Kadoodle said:
Some species of trees from the Cecropia genus have a mutualistic relantioship with aztec ants. The ants inhabit the hollow body of the tree and bite the hell off invaders and other attackers.
Tree sloths have evolved a thick layer of fur to protect them against the ant offense so that they could feed on the trees leaves.
In Brazil, those trees are known as "embaúbas".
There is a good plant monster possibility here.
If a female Komodo dragon swims to an island without male Komodo dragons, she can spontaneously lay eggs that produce only males. Within a generation they can reform genetic stability.
The water the flows by my apartment fell on a Butte across town six months ago and petered through the aquifer to come up in a spring at Reed College nearby, so the water only surges if there was a heavy rain six months ago.
Armadillos are always born twins, so most genetic research is done on them. Armadillos can walk along the bottom of a stream, or can inflate their innards to float across.
The water the flows by my apartment fell on a Butte across town six months ago and petered through the aquifer to come up in a spring at Reed College nearby, so the water only surges if there was a heavy rain six months ago.
Armadillos are always born twins, so most genetic research is done on them. Armadillos can walk along the bottom of a stream, or can inflate their innards to float across.
-Cats can contract AIDS
-"Almost" is the longest english word in alphabetical order, rhytm is the longest without a vowel
-Theoreticlly Jupiter would float if place in a large enough body of water
-Jackie Chan, Arnold Swazenegger and Salvyster Stollone were noticed by agents after starring in pornos
-The South African potato has unique immune boosting properties found nowhere else in the world
-The current Julian calender (BC, AD ect) will be off by 10 days somewhere near 2150
-"Almost" is the longest english word in alphabetical order, rhytm is the longest without a vowel
-Theoreticlly Jupiter would float if place in a large enough body of water
-Jackie Chan, Arnold Swazenegger and Salvyster Stollone were noticed by agents after starring in pornos
-The South African potato has unique immune boosting properties found nowhere else in the world
-The current Julian calender (BC, AD ect) will be off by 10 days somewhere near 2150
Um, no. When performing calculations you should end an equasion in the same format you begin with. You're already starting with a fraction so you should end with one. If however, you are converting, then you don't need to round as you began with a fraction (wich is a decimal number, just expressed in a different format).Warr5718 said:
A frog's tongue isn't actually stretchy; it is simply folded in the mouth. When it goes to capture an insect, the tongue just folds out, and then folds back in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YPieceOfEden said:
"...represents either a vowel or a consonant in English."
This seems appropriate (sorry can't embed images)
http://surethingchief.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/SOMETIMESYheader.jpg
Also, why would the calender be out?
Because it has no backbone, a seventy-pound octopus can squeeze through a hole the size of a silver dollar.
The amount of gold dissolved in the oceans is nearly ten million tons, which is about 180 times the total amount of gold dug in mines in the entire history of humanity.
Screw it, here's the link to these facts: http://wambooli.com/fun/fyi/
I kept it open since the last time there was a fun facts thread for times like this
The little girl who voiced Ducky in the first few Land Before Time films was murdered by her own father.
For fellow aussies, Australian banknotes feature a small watermark of the coat of arms (usually next to the portrait in the middle), hold those suckers up to a light and see for yourself.
For fellow aussies, Australian banknotes feature a small watermark of the coat of arms (usually next to the portrait in the middle), hold those suckers up to a light and see for yourself.
Lichtenstein is the largest exporter of dentures.
One cup of Green tea has more vitamin C than an orange.
One cup of Green tea has more vitamin C than an orange.
Ok...so WAAAAY back someone made a comment about goldfish being the only animals to see into infra-red and ultra-violet. Not true, and in fact the most advanced eyes on the planet belong to the Mantis Shrimp. They have somehting like 15 different types of photoreceptors. When your striking at 10 to 20 m/s underwater you need good eyes i guess.
R136a1 is the name of the brightest and most massive star. VY Canis Majoris is the largest. It would take 11,400,000,000,000,000 Earths to fill VY Canis Majoris.
R136a1 is the name of the brightest and most massive star. VY Canis Majoris is the largest. It would take 11,400,000,000,000,000 Earths to fill VY Canis Majoris.