Random fact thread

[Kira Dogeikage 230]

The answer to the universe is 42

It's actually the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything. It only works in base-13 though.

 

Also, Theodore Roosevelt's family pets consist of the following: a small bear named Jonathan Edwards; a lizard named Bill; guinea pigs named Admiral Dewey, Dr. Johnson, Bishop Doane, Fighting Bob Evans, and Father O'Grady; Maude the pig; Josiah the badger; Eli Yale the blue macaw; Baron Spreckle the hen; a one-legged rooster; a hyena; a barn owl; Peter the rabbit; and Algonquin the pony.

Edited June 5, 2015 by Jellal Fernandes

[HaroldGenhi 82]

The reason that nightvision is green is because humans can notice a larger amount of shades and hues of green than any other color. This is due to primarily due to evolutionary focus on finding plants to eat.

 

The caffeine found in coffee and other plant leaves serves as a natural insecticide.

 

Your gut bacteria is unique to your body.

 

The base "e" system was originally designed to help calculate compound interest. It was later found to be a perfect constant for population growth and other physical calculations.

 

People lost their lives over if there should be a number, zero, or not. Most opponents to the inclusion of the number asked why you'd need to measure nothing.

 

The sky's color depends mostly on the angle of the sun to the atmosphere. From the viewer to the horizon, as the angle decreases the sky will be more red. This is due to the index of refraction of the atmosphere's effect of varying wavelengths of light.

 

Speaking of wavelengths, the grating you see on the door to your microwave is there to prevent the waves from escaping the machine as the holes are too small for the wave to pass through it.

 

Speaking of microwaves, all it does is vibrate the hydrogens on the side of the oxygen. This vibration is what heats the product.

 

We are running out of helium, chocolate and tequila.

 

You can fit all of the planets in our solar system between the Earth and Moon with some clearance.

 

Seasons are dictated by the angle of the Earth to the Sun.

 

Planck's constant was a number that was just made up to allow for mathematical models for data.

 

The thickness of the ozone layer is 3 millimeters.

[Time Shield 402]

The number one sci-fi series with the most episodes is Doctor Who.  Number two is Star Trek.

 

It currently costs 1.7 cents to mint a penny, and 8 cents to mint a nickel.

[MoltenKitten 341]

During the opening battle of star wars episode 3 a kitchen sink can be seen when a nearby CIS ship explodes as home-age to the term "everything plus the kitchen sink".

[Spacethunder 108]

Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour

[I used to be a stranger 7,993]

Messerchmitt Me 163 is the only rocket-powered aircraft that achieved operational status

 

Bell X1, Rockwell X15, Saunders-Roe SR.53, Boeing X20 Dynasoar, LLTV, Reaction Motors XLR11, Republic XF91, Virgin Galactic SpaceShipOne, SpaceShipTwo

[Time Shield 402]

Dr. Who currently have 12 doctors.

 

13, if you count the War Doctor.

[Time Shield 402]

There's a 13th doctor in the show?

 

He didn't have a number, he came between 8 and 9 in the story.

[1111 1,284]

Carrots use to be purple.

Carrots used to be many colors like white,blue and yellow. 

[Clover Heart 978]

Laughs don't come in barrels. They come from inside you as your body's response to delight.

[Rasydan 43]

 

 

 

Bell X1, Rockwell X15, Saunders-Roe SR.53, Boeing X20 Dynasoar, LLTV, Reaction Motors XLR11, Republic XF91, Virgin Galactic SpaceShipOne, SpaceShipTwo

Sorry,i mean fighter. Forgot about it

[Noshiro 24]

Free oxygen is toxic in the body if it is unbound as it can form free-radicals and react with proteins. So breathing 100% O₂ for long enough can kill you.

[I used to be a stranger 7,993]

Free oxygen is toxic in the body if it is unbound as it can form free-radicals and react with proteins. So breathing 100% O₂ for long enough can kill you.

...at sea level.

 

Oxygen toxicity occurs when you breathe pure oxygen at high or regular pressure. However it is not harmful if you breathe it at low pressure, which is what astronauts do. (Low pressure atmosphere is also less stressful on spaceship hulls when protecting from the vacuum of space.)

[Chacobos 160]

I am reading this thread right now.

 

 

There's your random fact 

[Time Shield 402]

I am reading this thread right now.

 

 

There's your random fact

No you're not, you were typing a reply at the time. Facts only please.

[Noshiro 24]

...at sea level.

 

Oxygen toxicity occurs when you breathe pure oxygen at high or regular pressure. However it is not harmful if you breathe it at low pressure, which is what astronauts do. (Low pressure atmosphere is also less stressful on spaceship hulls when protecting from the vacuum of space.)

 

Thanks for the correction~

[Smarts 1,622]

Did you know beaver butts emit goo that is used for vanilla flavouring?

[Lisa 5,553]

Every time you look into space, you're looking back in time.

[BurningEmber 38]

If you squint really really hard, you can't see a lot!

[Love//Hack 819]

There's a national Nutella day

Girls see grass greener than boys can

The second person to survive from Nirganda Falls died from slipping on a orange peel

As a teen Obama smoked Cocaine and I think pot as well

The most children a woman had was literally and seriously 69 with many twins, triplets, etc as well as a few single children.

A couple was in a photograph from Disney land a few years before even meeting each other and becoming a couple and then married later.

Girls tend to act more mature to adults than boys because girls grow up and start puberty earlier

Video gamers are more likely to lucid dream than non-gamers.

[Christmasy Britty 2,553]

There is a no kill animal shelter in Charleston called Pet Helpers that will take any animal no matter what, their soul goal is to help animals get adopted and find their forever home

[I used to be a stranger 7,993]

Astatine (element ²⁰⁷At) has never been observed. It's radioactive half life is so short that it will always heat itself up, turn into a gas and accelerate its own decay into lighter elements before it can be seen, even with high speed cameras.

Some theoretical chemists have predicted it may be shiny and black, but we will probably never know for sure.

Edited June 15, 2015 by Blue

[Littlecandylulu903 415]

I happen to know somebody in here.

[darkwingmare 1,319]

We're all going to die someday, but living in the present is all you should be doing.

The Velociraptor noises in Jurassic Park were made from a dolphin and a walrus.

Edited June 15, 2015 by darkwingmare

[Ninja(Pinkie)Midget 180]

Most people know about the aurora borealis, or northern lights.  What most people don't know is that this phenomena has a different name when it occurs in the southern hemisphere.  Aurora australis