The fun facts thread---share your useless trivia!
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Was that a Shaun of the Daed referance?Count Igor said:
OT: Uh, don't know any off the top of head that hasn't alreay been said.
I was a member of my schools reach team (which is kind of like jeopardy) we made it to the provincial level of competion so I learned all kinds of random facts, for example...
-The popes ring is called the fishermens ring and is destroyed open his death
-The Color Purple was nominated for 8 acadamy awards but won none
-An orcastra allways tunes to an oboe because it has the purest sound
-Their are only two books of the bible written by women, Ruth and Ester
-Louis the XIV of France was the Sun King
-Canada has been a country longer then Germany
-Spain was a crumbling failing empire untill they accedently discovered the Americas, They then took the wealth from the natives and became a super power ( they thought the Aztec city was El deraldo the legendary city of gold)
-Pachabel is considered the one hit wonder of the classical world
Those are off the top my head but I'm sure more will pop in
-The popes ring is called the fishermens ring and is destroyed open his death
-The Color Purple was nominated for 8 acadamy awards but won none
-An orcastra allways tunes to an oboe because it has the purest sound
-Their are only two books of the bible written by women, Ruth and Ester
-Louis the XIV of France was the Sun King
-Canada has been a country longer then Germany
-Spain was a crumbling failing empire untill they accedently discovered the Americas, They then took the wealth from the natives and became a super power ( they thought the Aztec city was El deraldo the legendary city of gold)
-Pachabel is considered the one hit wonder of the classical world
Those are off the top my head but I'm sure more will pop in
-A retrovirus makes DNA from RNA. Normally RNA is made from DNA.
-In addition to being more prone to color blindness, men see colors worse than women. This is believed to be a result of evolution. While men hunted women would gather and needed to better differentiate between berries.
-North Sentinel Island is the only island to never have any contact with the outside world, be it due to invasion or otherwise. The island has natives and they are to be left alone by law.
-Discordant sounds instill fear in us. Horror movies use discordant sounds in their music to get that fear response out of us.
-In addition to being more prone to color blindness, men see colors worse than women. This is believed to be a result of evolution. While men hunted women would gather and needed to better differentiate between berries.
-North Sentinel Island is the only island to never have any contact with the outside world, be it due to invasion or otherwise. The island has natives and they are to be left alone by law.
-Discordant sounds instill fear in us. Horror movies use discordant sounds in their music to get that fear response out of us.
Unless I was lied to in more than one documentary and lecture, Spain had only recently "liberated" the Iberian peninsula from the Moors (as in a year or so prior to the rediscovery of the Americas) and were at the height of their power in recent memory. Before the discovery, the "Empire" consisted of only a portion of what is now called Spain.coolkirb said:
there is an element on the periodic table called kryptonite because it has the exact chemical structure as it did in superman comics
There is an element called Krypton (element 36) which existed before Superman did. It was discovered in 1898. The name comes from the Greek "kryptos", meaning "mysterious" (since it was rather difficult to discover, as it is very rare in nature and forms no ores or other compounds), the same root from which we get the word "cryptic".mitchell271 said:
If indeed there were such a thing as "kryptonite", it would be some kind of oxide ore by naming convention, but since krypton is nonreactive except under extreme temperature and pressure situations in a lab (where it can be forced to react with halide ions, because everything reacts with halide ions given the proper motivation---they're the slutty girl in the football locker room of the periodic table), it would be impossible to create actual kryptonite, and nobody knows what the compound would look or act like (but I'm fairly sure it wouldn't look a damn thing like the stuff in the Superman comics, which suggests a cubic-structure poor metal with some sort of impurity to provide the color, something an oxide of krypton without question would not be.)
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Orchestras tune to Oboes on an A. Why they tune to an Oboe is because the components and its reed are the least affected by atmospheric changes such as altitude and humidity, than any other instrument. Therefore it is the most effective method of tuning apart from electronic means (which would create a "purer" sound because of electric devices such as a tuner which could create a perfect sine wave.)coolkirb said:
Pipe Organs can create the most amount of notes in a given second than any traditional instrument because an organist has the ability to play on three different manuals at once.
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More fun music trivia!Anarchemitis said:
You can tune a pair of piccolo players by shooting one of them!
Also, it is ideal for the third of a given chord to be slightly flat relative to the root, and the fifth to be slightly sharp. Conveniently, for trombones first position F is sharp, Bb is perfect, and D is flat. This works perfectly for Bb major chords, but maybe not for other things. This means that to play an actual in-tune F on a trombone, you actually have to play it at a slightly flattened first-position.
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OT: Chocolate is actually poisonous to humans but it's such a small amount that you'd have to eat for a week straight before it affects you.
OT: Chocolate is actually poisonous to humans but it's such a small amount that you'd have to eat for a week straight before it affects you.
Ahhh, the ignition temp for mild steel in the chemical reaction for oxy cutting is a shade over 600 deg celcius.
Edit: The ultimate in trivia: The word trivia is from the Latin, tri (three) vium (road). This is because at the meeting of three roads one could alwasys find the local women gossiping. NOW THAT"S TRIVIA!!!
Edit: The ultimate in trivia: The word trivia is from the Latin, tri (three) vium (road). This is because at the meeting of three roads one could alwasys find the local women gossiping. NOW THAT"S TRIVIA!!!