Random fact thread

[4april 374]

Harvard has an acceptance rate of around 4.7%. I would imagine that this is due to many applicants more than their extremely high selectiveness.

 

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) has an acceptance rate of less than 2%.

 

There is no such thing as a free market - immigration restrictions are an example of regulations.

[Telferi 6,906]

• First man on the moon than it had been invented a trolley suitcase.

Nintendo was founded in 1889

The blue whale arteries so large that a person could swim through them

Scotland's national animal is the unicorn

If you fall into kidney transplant, the doctors of the original organs implanted and allowed to remain there a third kidney.

A 5-year-old girl was the world's youngest mother.

In Australia there was a war, "Emu war", considered to as where the emus won.

When the first Star Wars movie was screened, the French still used the guillotine.

Diamond Rain falls on Jupiter and Saturn.

Mammoths were still alive when they built the pyramids of Giza.

[I used to be a stranger 7,993]

There are ten million, million, million, million, million, million, million, million, million particles in the known universe that we can observe.

 

=10*10⁶*10⁶*10⁶*10⁶*10⁶*10⁶*10⁶*10⁶*10⁶ = 10^1+(6*9) = 10⁵⁵ "particles".

While I applaud your attempt at trying to convey the stupendousness of the universe, your number is less than half as large as it should be.

 

The estimated mass of the universe is 10⁸⁵ kilograms.

 

If the entire universe was made only of protons (essentially hydrogen gas), this would mean there would be [10⁸⁵*1000 (grams/kg) * 6.022*10²³ (atoms per gram, according to Avogadro's number)] =~ 6.022*10¹¹¹ protons.

 

However, the universe is made of many kinds of particles, such as electrons and muons. Many of these particles we don't understand, so we can't really count them yet. In fact many kinds of particles we've never even seen before, such as virtual particles or whatever's responsible for dark energy. At least on the basis of electrons being very tiny and light compared to protons, the number of particles in the universe is probably a much larger number than the one I just gave.

[Star Racer 198]

The suggested word count for a novel in my age range in anywhere from 60 thousand to 100 thousand.

I am currently at around three or four thousand with my novel.

All books used to be hand written before the invention of the printing press. This invention hwlped promote reading.

[Drunk Not I Am 1,070]

The DMR spam in hardcore BF4 is the most annoying mechanic in that game. 

[Tinkh_ 239]

We have more than one or two dreams per night.

[SilyGeny 369]

We don't see nothing when we close our eyes, we see the inside of our eyelids.

[Brony Mata 134]

Shoe Polish can be used to kill werewolves

Edited November 8, 2015 by Brony Mata

[green 331]

Your only as old as you feel.

[Adash 193]

The United Nations can win a Nobel Peace Prize

[Star Racer 198]

Aparently, your team color can help determine your chances at winning if you dont make a conscous effert to think about it.

 

Red typically induces agression and/or fear, putting you at an advantage in games like halo, where you have to react quickly and the like.

Blue, however, induces calmness and logical thinking. This helps in games where you need to plan out your attack.

 

Of course, thats what they say. I tend to suck online either way.

[I used to be a stranger 7,993]

 

Astronaut space suits have cooling systems that only work in vacuums. If they were in a pressurized environment like in an atmosphere, they would clog up with ice and slowly overheat the suit.

[Time Shield 402]

 

Most people here scratched their nose shortly after viewing that image.

[Pinkiebow 48]

The internet is not as scary as it seems JK it totally is

[----------------------- 171]

The mammoths were alive during the construction of the Great Pyramids.

[Star Racer 198]

In a marching band competition, the judges very well could go on and not notice a fairly large mistake you make, such as forgetting a phrase if you are in a large enough band. They just pick up on your facial expression, such as when you cringe at a sour note.

[I used to be a stranger 7,993]

The Karman Line is the international definition of the boundary between "space" and the "atmosphere". For Earth, the Karman Line is 100km altitude, or 328 084 ft.

 

The Karman Line is defined as the point at which, if you were flying in an aircraft through the thinning atmosphere, you would need to be traveling faster than what's necessary to maintain a stable orbit, in order to maintain lift. Effectively the point where the difference between a plane and a satellite is moot. Theodore Karman figured it out in the 1950s, and his mathematical model which predicted that region of the sky stated that it was very near 100km. Standards International liked the concept but replied with "Let's just make it 100km and call it square." and Karman was like "Whatev."

 

The US Air Force defines space as any altitude above 100 000ft. This is significantly less than  the definition used everywhere else, but makes for a useful buzz-phrase when amateur balloonists and high performance military aircraft enter the region.

 

The International Space Station and Space Shuttle operate at an altitude of roughly 400km, or 1.3 million ft. The highest commercial aircraft go is roughly 40 000 ft.

Edited November 13, 2015 by Blue

[Catpone Cerberus 23,591]

Dinosaurs were alive before they died.

[MoltenKitten 341]

The book "Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan" by Morgan Robertson is about the largest ocean liner in the world hitting an iceberg and sinking in the north Atlantic while en route to New York. The book was published 14 years before the Titanic sank.

 

All of the White Star Line's ship names ended in ic (Examples: Titanic, Britannic, Olympic, Baltic)

 

The Olympic and Titanic were both the same size however, the Titanic weighed slightly more and so it was considered bigger

 

The Titanic did not have a room numbered 13

 

The most expensive thing to sink with the Titanic (other than the ship itself) was a brand new Renault automobile

 

I really like the Titanic

[I used to be a stranger 7,993]

The Olympic and Titanic were both the same size however, the Titanic weighed slightly more and so it was considered bigger

 

Both the Britannic and Olympic went on for service careers as hospital ships and transports in World War I.

The Britannic hit a mine and sank in the Aegean sea in 1916, killing 30.

The Olympic became known as "Old Reliable", and was retired in 1935 after suffering a minor collision with a ship called the Nantucket.

 

All members of the Olympic class of ocean liners were noted for having poor steering characteristics, owing to their proportionately very small rudders.

Edited November 18, 2015 by Blue

[Scrubbed user 3,416]

Women have a higher risk of getting pregnant than men.

[LunaDream 331]

The tallest building in the world is in Dubai. It is called the Burj Khalifa and it is 2,717 ft. tall. 

[PastelBread 147]

10% of the world's population is left handed.

[PastelHorses 69]

Women Over 30 in the UK got the vote in 1918

[Catpone Cerberus 23,591]

This sentence is on page 19 in this thread.

Edited November 23, 2015 by The Cerberus