Random Trivia

[AffreuxLex]

According to Google's Ngram Viewer, the very first time the word Kerbal ever appeared in print was 1872.

[Flixxbeatz]

Dihydrogen Monoxide kills more people than drinking water.

[The Destroyer]

NASA peaked in books at 1968, and again at 1985

Way higher than ESA, and SpaceX isn't mentioned.

Turns out that Bye is used more than Goodbye, and Hello is used less often than both.

And with the following list:

NASA, Computer, Hi, Bye, Goodbye, Hello, and rocketry, computer far surpassed.

Edited July 23, 2013 by The Destroyer

[Crown]

[...]the very first time the word Kerbal ever appeared in print was 1872.

Dynamite was invented 1866. Coincidence?

[TheCanadianVendingMachine]

The F1 engine is can toast toast faster than your average toaster

Just blew your mind...

[Coneshot]

Plywood was invented about 3400 B.C. by the Ancient Mesopotamians

[Pinduli]

If you took all the empty space in space and compressed it into a tiny ball, you would have a tiny ball of empty space.

[alaskafish]

Two cats walked into a bar

One orderd H Two Oh

The other one ordered H two Oh too.

The other cat died.

Not a trivia... but a joke....

[spikeyhat09]

a wood chuck would chuck as much wood as a would chuck could chuck if a wood chuck would chuck wood

[Pinduli]

Two cats walked into a bar

One orderd H Two Oh

The other one ordered H two Oh too.

The other cat died.

Not a trivia... but a joke....

A good one at that, made me chuckle.

[TheCanadianVendingMachine]

37/40 of all statistics are made up

[spikeyhat09]

a neutrino walks into a bar, the bartender says "we don't serve neutrinos here", the neutrino says "it's okay, im just passing through"

a virus particle walks into a bar, the bartender says "we don't serve viruses here", the virus replaces the bartender and says "now we do"

two bacteria walk into a bar, the bartender says "we don't serve bacteria here", the bacteria say "it's okay, we're staph"

Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar, and doesn't

[spikeyhat09]

in all seriousness i think this thread needs closing

[CoriW]

in all seriousness i think this thread needs closing

I can't even tell if this thread has de-railed or not, that's just how random it is.

[bogpad]

a neutrino walks into a bar, the bartender says "we don't serve neutrinos here", the neutrino says "it's okay, im just passing through"

oh oh oh, I know a neutron joke too!

a neutron walks into a bar and says "How much for a beer" the bartender replies: "For you, no charge"

[Flixxbeatz]

Tylo is actually a massive ball made up of Tylenol.

[kookoo_gr]

KSC= Kennedy Space Center (from the Apollo mission reports)

[Hello moto]

A cats penis has backward facing spines, so that's why you hear the females loudly meowing.

[0x7be]

in all seriousness i think this thread needs closing

Hmm.... that is quotation of one of Roman politicians, I think...

[spikeyhat09]

oh oh oh, I know a neutron joke too!

a neutron walks into a bar and says "How much for a beer" the bartender replies: "For you, no charge"

it was a neutrino joke not a neutron joke

[Kimberly]

Well, on the topic of subatomic particles:

A proton is sitting in a bar, heavily drunk.

"Bartender, give me another!" he says.

"Are you sure about that?" the concerned bartender asks.

"I'm positive."

[BurntPhoenix]

during the cold war, the CIA surgically implanted microphones and radios into cats so they could sneak into foreign ambassador meetings. all the tech worked, but the feline got run over by a taxi during field testing...

[SpaceSphereOfDeath]

Did you know jebadiah is denser then lead and more radioactive then a chicken on a unicycle attacking the Beast from Sedna!!! on the Death Star!?

[CalculusWarrior]

You can tell that people are waiting for the next update when threads like this start appearing...

[Akinesis]

Trivia: If you placed two grains of sand in a vast cathedral, that cathedral would be more dense with sand than the universe is with stars

Joke: Why can't you trust atoms? Because they make up everything!!

Edited July 23, 2013 by Akinesis