Nope, Mythbusters where able to fold a piece of paper as big as a football field 11 times. Boy do I need to get out more.Rabid Toilet said:
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Glass is a liquid, not a solid - you can see this when you see windows on centuries old houses, the glass is thicker on the bottom of the pane.
Every glass of water from your tap has been drunk by at least nine other people before you.
Every glass of water from your tap has been drunk by at least nine other people before you.
Your first point is not exactly true; they used to line glass with lead (that is of course very dense), and there is also evidence that the glass makers, because it's very difficult to get a perfectly flat piece of glass, would put the thicker end at the bottom (because the pane is more structurally stable that way).Blue Sonnet said:
The second quote should technically be "It is very statistically probable that each glass of water you drink has passed through at least nine other people...
the average person has approximately 10^13 cells in their body and
the average person has approximately 10^14 individual bacterial cells in/on their body.
the average person has approximately 10^14 individual bacterial cells in/on their body.
The Bible, the world's best-selling book, is also the world's most shoplifted book.
Blue whales can slow their heart rate to four or five beats per minute in order to conserve oxygen during deep dives.
In 1959, the USSR launched a craft called the Mechta towards the Moon. It missed, and instead became (inadvertently) the first man-made satellite to go into orbit around the Sun.
Blue whales can slow their heart rate to four or five beats per minute in order to conserve oxygen during deep dives.
In 1959, the USSR launched a craft called the Mechta towards the Moon. It missed, and instead became (inadvertently) the first man-made satellite to go into orbit around the Sun.
These were some of the interesting thinks I found on http://www.amusingfacts.com/
The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
The wheelbarrow was invented by the Chinese.
Hitler was voted Time Magazine's man of the year in 1938.
The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star.
Australian Graham Barker extracted his own belly button fluff every day for 18 years acquiring a record-breaking amount of fluff. He hopes to accumulate enough fluff to stuff a pillow.
The most overdue book in the world was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge, England and was returned 288 years later.
Alcohol beverages have all 13 minerals necessary for human life.
The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
The wheelbarrow was invented by the Chinese.
Hitler was voted Time Magazine's man of the year in 1938.
The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star.
Australian Graham Barker extracted his own belly button fluff every day for 18 years acquiring a record-breaking amount of fluff. He hopes to accumulate enough fluff to stuff a pillow.
The most overdue book in the world was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge, England and was returned 288 years later.
Alcohol beverages have all 13 minerals necessary for human life.
It is impossible for a normal human to lick his/her own elbows.
A googol (10^100) is larger than the estimated number of elementary particles in the know universe (10^80) (counts both quarks, gluons, electrons and all others).
There is an old english law, wich has never been declared outdated, that sounds "Every man in the millitary must train achery at least two time a week."
Due to the expansion of the univers it is impossible to measure electromagnetic waves from objects further than (10^10)^29 meters (a hubble volume) away from any observation point.
The first car driving/gunfighting sandbox game in 3d was not GTA3 but Body Harvest for Nintendo 64.
The gamer term w00t is no acronym, and infact it's origin is a very debated matter.
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is the first Zelda game ever to have been released in the start lineup of any nintendo console.
Originally Mario was intended to be a carpenter.
Lua is the fastest computing programming language in the world (the fastest of the most used).
Nokia was originally a manufacturer of rubber boots.
A googol (10^100) is larger than the estimated number of elementary particles in the know universe (10^80) (counts both quarks, gluons, electrons and all others).
There is an old english law, wich has never been declared outdated, that sounds "Every man in the millitary must train achery at least two time a week."
Due to the expansion of the univers it is impossible to measure electromagnetic waves from objects further than (10^10)^29 meters (a hubble volume) away from any observation point.
The first car driving/gunfighting sandbox game in 3d was not GTA3 but Body Harvest for Nintendo 64.
The gamer term w00t is no acronym, and infact it's origin is a very debated matter.
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is the first Zelda game ever to have been released in the start lineup of any nintendo console.
Originally Mario was intended to be a carpenter.
Lua is the fastest computing programming language in the world (the fastest of the most used).
Nokia was originally a manufacturer of rubber boots.
Smae story counts for kangaroo.joethekoeller said:
but not all Eskimos are Inuit. Inuits are only like one tribe of people and the rest would find that insulting.Helmet said: