Fun Facts

[Dman979]

Wow. Obviously, À = (22/7)!

Delaware used to be part of PA.

[Ethanadams]

ummm okay?

fun fact if you type telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl. into command prompt you can watch star wars episode 4

(dont need to be italicsed though

[Xannari Ferrows]

Doubt it.

Fun fact(s): You read this, you thought that was stupid, you read everything so far fairly fast, you're getting sick of this, and you're smirking.

[HafCoJoe]

My face: ._____.

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Did you know that earlier this week, a pack of squid was redefined as a "squad"?

[Ethanadams]

nice but i dont really belive it

fun fact a soon as you load you computer after restarting it and open command prompt as the administrator and type tree you can see every thing get loaded on

[Xannari Ferrows]

??????????????????

Fun fact: I didn't understand a word of that.

[Astrofox]

@ Xannari; you can watch episode IV of Star Wars with telnet.

Anyway, did you know that Venus has a quasi-satellite called 2002Ve68?

It was the first Quasi-moon to be discovered.

[Dman979]

Quasi moon?

According to XKCD, if you press the first link in Wikipedia that is not Bolded, Italicized, or in Paren's, you will always end up at philosophy. But that is not true. There is a providence in India that links to a town, and visa versa. See if you can find it!

[Ethanadams]

found it

fun fact copy ksp 4 times ontoo your hard drive (do more if you whant)

then go to command prompt and type tree

[Dman979]

Did you? I forgot which one it is. Send me the link?

If you laid out all the bones in a snake end to end, you would have a snake with a deformed jaw.

[LN400]

Haven't thought about that but you're right!

Fun fact: Even the most sincere smile is superficial.

[Ethanadams]

didnt find it sorry i was joking also yes yes you would with the snake.

fun fact if you delete you C: in your computer your computer will no longer be functionall

[Dman979]

Hmm, don't think I'll try that.

Fun Fact: First person to find a page that doesn't eventually link to Philosophy and posts it here while following the rules above gets repped!

Edit: Found two myself, on the first try!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awareness

[Ethanadams]

i think that might be against the rules?

fun fact this fact is neither fun or a fact it is a statement on how this is not fun or a fact

[Xannari Ferrows]

This is a fact.

Fun fact: Though what you may be stating is true to you, it may not be to others. In fact, we cannot ever say anything is a genuine fact.

[LN400]

That is debatable.

Fun fact: The sum of 1+2+3+.... = -1/12 has its use in physics.

[Flymetothemun]

I'm not sure if it's a fact. How would adding many numbers together get a negative fraction? If it is though, that's cool.

Fun fact: Putting a nail gun up against your screen and pulling the trigger a few times will break your screen.

[LN400]

That is very true and a not so fun fact to realize too late.

(that sum is in fact true and it can be shown. It is also true that it is being used in physics. What's more, all the facts I have posted, how weird they might sound, are indeed facts )

Fun fact: There is more than one set of rules in maths and if you follow some basic rules of logic, you can pretty much come up with your own set of rules that are as valid as any other accepted set of rules.

[windows_x_seven]

Huh, that's new.

Fact: Pants were invented by sailors in the sixteenth century to avoid Poseidon's wrath. It was believed that the sight of naked sailors angered the sea god.

[Dman979]

Yep, there's nothing like getting mooned to anger the god of tides (see what I did there???)

George Patton was probably a dyslexic and had a high-pitched voice.

[LN400]

Is that a probable fact?

Fact: Pants were invented by sailors in the sixteenth century to avoid Poseidon's wrath. It was believed that the sight of naked sailors angered the sea god.

(The pants wearing people from around the 6th century BC would like to say something about that.)

Huh, that's new *snip*

(That's how we got non-Euclidean geometry, by renouncing Euclid's 5th axiom about parallell lines)

Fun fact: The word 'factoid' originally meant an unsubstantiated or false statement believed to be true only because it's been repeated many times. It later got a secondary meaning of being a trivial fact which indicates the meaning of the word factoid has become a factoid.

[justidutch]

Fun fact:

The longest word in use is 189,819 characters long. Albeit a scientific word, and it's validity is in dispute. It is the chemical name of titin, the largest known protein.

The 45-letter word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest English word that appears in a major dictionary.

[windows_x_seven]

Knew that.

Fact: During the Great Depression, the Tennessee Valley Authority outlawed pet rabbits, forcing many to hot glue-gun long ears onto their pet mice.

[windows_x_seven]

Fact: The plural of surgeon general is surgeons general. The past tense of surgeons general is surgeonsed general.

[General Rarity]

Amazing.

Fun Fact: The T-72 was a cheaper alternative to the highly effective but expensive T-64 Main Battle Tank.