Fun Facts

[heng]

Fun fact: 2 is the only number where n + n, n x n and n^n all have the same answer.

n - n: 0

n / n: 1 (or undefined)

+, *, ^: 2

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can anyone come up with something for 3 or does it end here?

[ChrisSpace]

Fun Fact: Worms eat their own solid waste.

[Xeldrak]

Fun Fact: Yuri Gagarin ejected from his capsule 7km above the ground (as planned). The Soviet Union kept this little fact for themselves. The reason behind this planned deception was to get around a slight technicality. According to the International Aeronautical Federation (FAI), unless the spacecraft landed with person still inside it would not count as a space flight.

[Fisk02]

Somewhat true.

Fact: Mud can also carry bad diseases.

fun--->HAHA THATS FUN CAUSE YOUR AVATAR IS RARITY AND RARITY HAS MUD IN HER FACE WHEN SHE IS IN THE SPA

LAUGH YOUR MORON!!!

[MartGonzo]

Fun Fact: Yuri Gagarin ejected from his capsule 7km above the ground (as planned). The Soviet Union kept this little fact for themselves. The reason behind this planned deception was to get around a slight technicality. According to the International Aeronautical Federation (FAI), unless the spacecraft landed with person still inside it would not count as a space flight.

Didn't know that, interesting.

I read this once in an astronomy book but obviously have no way of checking it.

To draw a scale map of the solar system with the Earth at 1mm diameter would require a piece of paper 12km square.

[ChrisSpace]

I read this once in an astronomy book but obviously have no way of checking it.

To draw a scale map of the solar system with the Earth at 1mm diameter would require a piece of paper 12km square.

It can actually be checked quite easily using math. Earth has a diameter of ~12750 km, so this 'drawing' would have a scale of 1: 12 750 000 000. For simplicity let's round this up to 1: 13 billion. That means a 12km x 12km square would have a corresponding size of 156 x 156 billion kilometers. A bit big, actually.

[heng]

Fun fact: You will not be able to fold that map 12(*) times in the middle to fit it into your pocket.

(*)number varies with pocket-size

-- update

Fun Fact: That annoying clicking sound in the kitchen in the middle of the night, that is so hard to track down? Check your water heater (standalone appliance)... It may have been running dry for at least a week, constantly turning on and off... Kudos to whoever designed the automatic shutdown on that thing. Saved my life!

Edited August 17, 2015 by heng

[WinkAllKerb'']

fun fact: weapon are like weak pun, sometime they could make you react even if you not intended too.

[Xeldrak]

Fun Fact: This whole "Scientists have proven that Bumblebees can't fly!" thing is utter nonsense.

[pTrevTrevs]

The Ottoman Empire still existed the last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series

[ChrisSpace]

Fun fact: The French language has 17 different words for 'surrender'

Fun fact: A flacon 9 rocket consumes roughly the same amount of kerosene in its ascent to orbit as a boeing 747 does in a 10-hour flight.

[Xeldrak]

Fun Fact: To make sure that Stafford and Cernan don't try to land on the Moon during Apollo 10 Nasa deliberately short fueled the LM ascend stage. If they had tried to land on the Moon they couldn't have gotten off.

[WinkAllKerb'']

Fun Fact: sometime i resist to play the games i like the most because i have an exact idea of the time i will spent on them whenever i re-launch them xDr

[Flymetothemun]

Fun fact: You will not be able to fold that map 12(*) times in the middle to fit it into your pocket.

(*)number varies with pocket-size

Huh, I've always folded maps back to their original form factor (Pay attention to how the creases go, it's possible and very easy) and stuck them in my back pocket. Sticks out, but that makes it easier to grab, and it isn't like sitting on it will hurt it. And I think everyone knows that, except in extreme cases, you can only fold a piece of paper in half 7 times before it becomes more like rolling than folding.

[ChrisSpace]

Fun fact: 0 is an infinitely small number

[K3achas]

Fun fact: -infinity is more so.

[windows_x_seven]

Fact: The occupation of court jester was invented accidentally, when a vassal's epilepsy was mistaken for capering.

[ChrisSpace]

Fun Fact: Ebola was technically an airborne virus, however it was really bad at being airborne so it rarely transmitted that way.

[WinkAllKerb'']

fun fact: it's a joke ; a boot copy past that just suit and office as a word suit wich excel in power pointing the access.

[justidutch]

Fun fact:

Learned is the more common past tense and past participle of the verb learn. Learnt is a variant especially common outside North America. In British writing, for instance, it appears about once for every three instances of learned. In the U.S. and Canada, meanwhile, learnt appears only once for approximately every 500 instances of learned, and it’s generally considered colloquial.

[Guest]

Fact: In Greek myth, the craftsman Daedalus invented human flight so a group of Minotaurs would stop teasing him about it.

[WinkAllKerb'']

fun fact: people farting is more common than people using learnt, farting win xDr & ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[NathanBros]

Fun fact: Chances are high that you have viruses actives in your computer.

[WinkAllKerb'']

fun fact: sChar(e) lies ? Dare Win ! Noe prefered to build an ark xDr (Notice that both are frustrating to achieve ,'')

[WinkAllKerb'']

Fun fact: most people like jesus, but most people dislike roschach caracter in the watchmen movies fun thing about that is both sacrified themselves for earth sake so people that love/dislike only one of thoose two might had miss something in the stories headlines ... oh yup it's all about model sheet food coating somehow.

Edited October 14, 2015 by WinkAllKerb''
some related survey are available somewhere i heard ; )