You learn something new everyday

[DoW Lowen]

Hi everyone... how are you? Good? Good? That's great to hear...

Anyway. They say you learn something new everyday, and just in case it's close to midnight and you're racking your brain out and you need a quick dose of general knowledge, you can simply find it here.

So feel free to post any little interesting facts, fun facts or trivia in here.

Note: I checked the search bar, nothing of this type here, so if it's done before, i apologize.

 

[Arcticflame]

Apparently not today.

Now with text in the box present

Most tech-heads will know this, but Aluminium foil boosts wireless signal.

I knew this, but I never did try it out until I used it about a week ago, wrapped it around an arial in a sort of concave shape towards my PC in the other room, and it boosted my signal by a bar (very low to low).

I removed the aluminium foil, deciding it looked too silly to keep on there, and happened to see an esky lid which was using a weird metallic insulator, put it behind my wireless router signal.

And fell off my chair. My Wireless signal went straight from very low to excellent.

Perhaps there's more to this tin foil hat business then meets the eye.. hmm...

 

[DoW Lowen]

Apparently not today.

My bad, i re-edited it. Accidentally didn't post anything.

 

[theultimateend]

Hi everyone... how are you? Good? Good? That's great to hear...

Anyway. They say you learn something new everyday, and just in case it's close to midnight and you're racking your brain out and you need a quick dose of general knowledge, you can simply find it here.

So feel free to post any little interesting facts, fun facts or trivia in here.

Note: I checked the search bar, nothing of this type here, so if it's done before, i apologize.

By being conscious you learn something new everyday regardless of if you realize it or not. The very act of being alive and able to intake sensations from your outside world (in whatever form) helps to create stronger bonds and new understandings of things even if only on the subconscious level.

 

[Finnboghi]

Hi everyone... how are you? Good? Good? That's great to hear...

Anyway. They say you learn something new everyday, and just in case it's close to midnight and you're racking your brain out and you need a quick dose of general knowledge, you can simply find it here.

So feel free to post any little interesting facts, fun facts or trivia in here.

Note: I checked the search bar, nothing of this type here, so if it's done before, i apologize.

By being conscious you learn something new everyday regardless of if you realize it or not. The very act of being alive and able to intake sensations from your outside world (in whatever form) helps to create stronger bonds and new understandings of things even if only on the subconscious level.

Or you could play WoW all day.

 

[theultimateend]

Hi everyone... how are you? Good? Good? That's great to hear...

Anyway. They say you learn something new everyday, and just in case it's close to midnight and you're racking your brain out and you need a quick dose of general knowledge, you can simply find it here.

So feel free to post any little interesting facts, fun facts or trivia in here.

Note: I checked the search bar, nothing of this type here, so if it's done before, i apologize.

By being conscious you learn something new everyday regardless of if you realize it or not. The very act of being alive and able to intake sensations from your outside world (in whatever form) helps to create stronger bonds and new understandings of things even if only on the subconscious level.

Or you could play WoW all day.

You'd still learn new things. Social interactions being the first thing off the top of my head.

If you want to experience what it is like to not learn something new die (or possibly get in a coma but I'm not even sure of that), otherwise you'll never accomplish it.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Fascination beyond the realm of moments ago!

[img_inline width=400 caption="Lemme guess.. you want to go left, correct? This is due to the hidden lighsource, casting warm colour and light onto the street, attracting the eye. If this is not the case for you, its just because you are curious more than you are disconcerted by the cool colours, the grays and blues."]http://www.visitravenholm.com/ravenholm.jpg[/img_inline]
Regardless of what your favorite colour is, your eye will always drift or become attracted to Redder shades, and lighter colours.
Along side that effect, Level design in video game rigorously follows the effect of either having angles that give visual motion to a certain direction, or have something that sticks out (an organic object in industrial scenery, or something round in a boxy level) to direct the player subliminally. This compounded with lighting effects of attention getting (Bright lights or gradients on walls) direct the player so he or she does not get lost.

 

[TheIceface]

Apparently people don't like being told when they're wrong... This one came as a shock to me, although I don't expect I'll stop slamming people in the face with the truth anytime soon. Truth hurts and pain builds character.

 

[Auron555]

It's better to have fought and lost than to never have fought at all.
OR
It's better to have a desire to win than a fear to lose.

You have to live up to your T-Shirt (Hopefully someday printed on a T-Shirt)

 

[DoW Lowen]

Here's a life saving fact.

Icebergs are not made of saltwater, but are in fact made from freshwater sources inland. So if you're lost at sea, and you happen to come across an iceberg than just chip off a chunk and drink it. When the newspapers ask how you did it, make sure to quote me.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Most tech-heads will know this, but Aluminium foil boosts wireless signal.

I knew this, but I never did try it out until I used it about a week ago, wrapped it around an arial in a sort of concave shape towards my PC in the other room, and it boosted my signal by a bar (very low to low).

I removed the aluminium foil, deciding it looked too silly to keep on there, and happened to see an esky lid which was using a weird metallic insulator, put it behind my wireless router signal.

I love this website. Galaxy's best practical jokers.

 

[Valiance]

Coolant flush is F.
Override shutdown is O.

(Mechwarrior 3)

You can eject a CD with a paperclip.

 

[sneakypenguin]

I learned you can blow up Glocks by shooting "hot" rounds +P and +P+
Or also repeatedly chambering a round can cause a catastrophic failure.


The more you know *plays NBC chime that goes with it*

 

[Klagermeister]

The South Pole is colder than the North Pole.
A group of ferrets is called a business.
Leonardo da Vinci was autistic.
Fat is what makes food taste good.
Salt has over 10,000 uses.
3% of all households have a jar of anchovy paste in the fridge (EWWWW).
Bubble gum is pink because that's the only color the inventor had left.
The name "SPAM" comes from "Spiced Ham".
Realtors are not allowed to use the phrase "Master bedroom" for fear of promoting slavery.
Buddha's real name was "Siddhartha Gotama".
1 in every 4 million lobsters is bright blue.
Mr. Rogers, from the famous kids' TV show, was a sniper in the Vietnam War.
Charlie Chaplin once lost a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Ozzy Osbourne once worked in a slaughterhouse.
Oxygen is what causes you to age, and therefore die.
The word "nerd" was coined by Theodore Giesel, AKA Dr. Seuss.
You can make a deadly TAZER out of a disposable camera.
Platypuses are deadly.
Technically speaking, pillbugs are crustaceans.

 

[Bolverk]

The South Pole is colder than the North Pole.
A group of ferrets is called a business.
Leonardo da Vinci was autistic.
Fat is what makes food taste good.
Salt has over 10,000 uses.
3% of all households have a jar of anchovy paste in the fridge (EWWWW).
Bubble gum is pink because that's the only color the inventor had left.
The name "SPAM" comes from "Spiced Ham".
Realtors are not allowed to use the phrase "Master bedroom" for fear of promoting slavery.
Buddha's real name was "Siddhartha Gotama".
1 in every 4 million lobsters is bright blue.
Mr. Rogers, from the famous kids' TV show, was a sniper in the Vietnam War.
Charlie Chaplin once lost a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Ozzy Osbourne once worked in a slaughterhouse.
Oxygen is what causes you to age, and therefore die.
The word "nerd" was coined by Theodore Giesel, AKA Dr. Seuss.
You can make a deadly TAZER out of a disposable camera.
Platypuses are deadly.
Technically speaking, pillbugs are crustaceans.

What's funny is half of those are off the back of the Libra disposable pads...

Random crap I know and can't seem to forget:
-When a fly takes off, it jumps backwards.
-Lettuce has been grown and cultivated for more than 2500 years.
-Kermit the Frog has 11 points on his collar.
-The bullfrog is the only known animal that never sleeps.
-Female elephants produce only one offspring every 5 years.
-The African Eagle, swooping at nearly 200km an hour can brake to a halt in six meters.
-Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
-A violin contains about 70 individual pieces of wood.
-The brain is 74% water.
-Most newborns cry without tears until they are 3 to 6 weeks old.
-The scales on the underside of a snake are called 'scutes'.
-Cooking and freezing does not affect the heat of chilli.
-In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10
-It takes about 550 peanuts to make one jar of peanut butter.
-The koala is one of the few land animals that does not require water to survive.
-The garfish has green bones.



I've just realised I know way too much stupid crap that will never come in handy...

 

[Knight Templar]

In video games, players will allmost allways head for higher ground, that goes triple in zombie games.

 

[DoW Lowen]

For every person on earth there are 200 million insects. That's a f***ing scary thought.

If there was a war between humanity and every insect in the world, who would win?

 

[ExplosionProofTaco]

Fredrick the 1st, First Emperor of the holy roman empire drowned in 1190 after he jumped in an arabic lake without removing his armour after marching hundreds of miles in the desert. Age of empires 2 teaches you things.

I just got my learners yesterday. Not many people know that.

 

[Shade Jackrabbit]

House centipedes can move at speeds of 30cm/s. Their bite is venemous akin to a wasp's sting, yet it doesn't pierce the skin as often. They eat all insects smaller than themselves, including spiders.