Trivia and obscure facts

[Raewyn]

Apparently in Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting licence!!

 

[Chronuss]

astronomers can only account for 4% of the matter in the universe, that which is luminous...the other 96% is either dark energy or dark matter.

we can detect heat radiation that occurred ten raised to the -43 seconds after the Big Bang.

in 1997 more than a half a billion transistors were made...every second.

because of moths finding their ways into mainframes and shorting out vacuum tubes, the process of fixing computer related errors has always been known as "debugging."

 

[bignick]

we can detect heat radiation that occurred ten raised to the -43 seconds after the Big Bang.

just to make this a bit more astounding...that's this many seconds:

0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000001

also...

The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle is 166.94 mph by Fred Rompelburg.
The research spacecraft Helios B came within a record 27 million miles of the Sun.

65 million years ago the impact of an asteroid is estimated to have had the power of 10 million H-Bombs.

 

[bignick]

oooh...this was good

An adult Colombian poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill 1,000 humans.

 

[Raewyn]

off the top of my head...an electron travels about 2/3 the speed of light in copper...10% of all humans ever born are alive today...can't sneeze with your eyes open(no your eyeballs won't fly out)...somBruce lee's left leg was shorter than his right, and he was extremely near sighted...and had an undescended testicle...

i had to look some of these up:

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Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.







Why cant we humans do that!!!!

 

[bignick]

how about this...the universe is infinite in all directions....

making me the center of the universe

 

[Chronuss]

so are you calling yourself a super-massive a-...er...black hole...?

 

[Raewyn]

so are you calling yourself a super-massive a-...er...black hole...?

 

[Chronuss]

a picture known as the Hubble Deep Field was taken in 1995 that includes a minor spec in the sky slightly smaller than the visible width of a dime at seventy-five feet that shows over 1500 galaxies.

 

[bignick]

one of Mercury's "days" are longer than one of it's "years"

 

[Chronuss]

the Pentagon has more floor space than the Empire State Building.

 

[Xequat]

The largest single cell of any living creature on Earth is an ostrich egg.

 

[Chronuss]

an ostrich's kick is able to kill a lion...so much for an oversized chicken dinner.

 

[bignick]

In a recent 5 year period, 24 residents of Tokyo died while bowing to other people.

 

[OULobo]

Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.

The Earth is 4.56 billion years old...the same age as the Moon and the Sun.

Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

The call of the humpback whale is louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles away.
QUOTE]

I have to be a nitpick. There are no human tapeworms, only beef or portk tape worms that infect humans. The one you are describing is a beef tapeworm.

The moon theoretically was formed when a large peice of space debris hit the still molten Earth and blew off a peice into orbit.

Black widows only sometimes kill their mates.

A pigs penis is corkscrew shaped.

The humpback call is only loud because it is under water where sound waves can travel farther. Above water, the decibel level isn't that impressive.


New ones:

There are lakes in the world that are so acidic that they can dissove an entire steel crane in approximatly 15-30min.

Some Great White Sharks actually jump out of the water to attack prey.

 

[bignick]

actually...the decibel level of a humpback whale call has nothing to do with the water...the water certainly affects how far it can travel (measured up to 160 km underwater) ...but the calls can be in greater than 190 dB...which is well above the pain threshold for humans...which is around 130 dB...if they were to do it above water it would be just as loud...it just wouldn't carry as far...

also, i beleive the moon fact is referring the fact that moon came from the earth...hence..it's material the same age....

 

[bignick]

another one:

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are best known as the creators of the Apple computer, but before they became PC technology darlings, they designed a popular arcade game for Atari called 'Breakout'.

 

[Baytor]

King George VI's first name was "Albert".

The hundred years war lasted 116 years.

Chinese gooseberries come from New Zealand.

The Russians celebrated the October Revolution in November.

 

[Akula]

There is a Discovery Channel show called Mythbusters that tests various urban legends, sorry to say, but the duck's quack does echo. They found the waveform has a unique shape and the echo meshes so close to the origin that it's percieved as one.

Any way...a few more.

All polar bears are left handed

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class

Americans eat around 18 acres of pizza a day

Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, dogs, only about 10

 

[KenpoTess]

These scare me~!!!

Human sperm comes in three varieties, mixed. Some drive toward the egg, the other two exist only to kill, or to obstruct, other men's sperm. The relative proportions found in semen depends on the man's belief at the time of ejaculation about whether his are the only sperm there.

This says a lot about our evolutionary past~!

Each cell in your body contains symbiotic bacteria called mitochondria, which have their own DNA and reproduce by themselves. All your mitochondria came from your mother. Mitochondria in men have no way to propagate, so your mother's mitochondria's genes benefit if she has more female offspring. Your mitochondria have genes for several proteins that would interfere with development of male babies; but they are blocked by others in the nucleus. There's a war on..


You can become immune to scorpion venom. Catch a centipede, and discard its head. Mash the rest, and then scratch your arm and wipe a bit of the juice on the scratch.

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