Random fact thread

[cuteycindyhoney 13,306]

Under the right conditions, aluminum has been shown to "heal" minor scratches due to it's crystalline structure.  The scratch does have to be VERY minor. Practically microscopic. 

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.

 

I get the distinct feeling that Teddy Roosevelt would have been a brony, if the show existed back then!
 

Now

 

I'm confused because according to the translation of both autonomous decision should be the same as free will...

 

"I will choose free will!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpCASVFyQoE

 

I just couldn't resist!

[Holiday Agnaktor 1,436]

• Here is an exciting snail fact.

Did you know that snails...

Sometimes flip their digestive systems as they mature?

[20% Cooler Than Cake 161]

There are currently two people on record that were born in the 1800s and are still alive today: Susannah Mushatt Jones and Emma Morano.  Both were born in 1899.

[TePineer 82]

We are closer to 2017 than we are to 2007.

[cmarston1 5,959]

By the end of season 6 there will have been 143 episodes of FIM aired on television.

The amount of time watching every episode would consist of 3146 minutes or 52.433 hours.

Edited January 20, 2016 by cmarston1

[ChikaChan 7,323]

Pigs are smarter than dogs! x3

[Rarity Is Best Pony 634]

A flock of crows is known as a murder.

[Lisa 5,553]

If you want to put the age of the Pyramids of Giza into a little perspective. The Pyramids of Giza are to the Romans what the Romans are to us at the moment. So when you think about the Romans and the Roman Empire, you think "wow, that's pretty long ago" right? That's exactly how the Romans would've thought about the Pyramids of Giza. 

[Artimis Whooves 1,576]

 

 

By the end of season 6 there will have been 143 episodes of FIM aired on television. The amount of time watching every episode would consist of 3146 minutes or 52.433 hours.

Well that's almost a whole day!

[GiFTGewEhrSCHutzen-4 8,828]

Well here goes. WWE star Sheamus, back in his pre-WWE days, he used to be a bodyguard of U2 frontman, Bono.

[Lisa 5,553]

Well that's almost a whole day!

 

Uh.. That is a day. In fact, it's two days and little bit more. A day is 24 hours long.

[Artimis Whooves 1,576]

 

 

Uh.. That is a day. In fact, it's two days and little bit more. A day is 24 hours long.

I know, I was making a Jeff Dunham  reference...

[Socrates 43]

You are in fact, actually in a cave tied up, looking at a wall with a fire behind you and all you see is shadows of people putting statues of things that actually do exist in the outside world, but you have been tied up in the cave since you were born and the only real tree for you is the shadow of the sculpture of the tree put up by someone.

[I used to be a stranger 7,993]

Although most people just think of "plastic" as one kind of material, there are hundreds of varieties of plastics, some of which are recyclable and some which aren't. Plastics are actually more varied than wood.

[Snow 7,008]

during ww2 nazi gemany used petrol engines instead of diesel engines in all of its tanks, the reason behind this is petrol engines require less parts and therefor are easier to mass produce.
this lead to engine overheating and high fuel consumption, for larger tanks like the 57 ton tiger 1 and the 68 ton tiger II running out of fuel was a major problem and lead the to destruction of many unrecoverable vehicles by their crews to prevent them falling into the hands of the advancing allied armies.

[Techno Universal 2,575]

Have you noticed the cutie map glitch at the start of MLP epesode 12 in season 6? It's like it's running a bootup process. So is Loran Foust hinting something about equestria that we don't see?

Edited October 16, 2016 by Techno Universal

[Flutterbattyyy 331]

• There are 10 glaciers on Mount Adams, 12 on Mount Hood, and 25 on Mount Rainier.

Washington is the most glaciated state in the contiguous U.S.

Colorado does not have the most rugged set of mountains in the U.S., that honor goes to Washington's very own North Cascades.

Multnomah Falls, Oregon, is not the second highest perennial waterfall in the U.S., contrary to local tourist guides. (Again, WA boasts this title xD)

Fluttershy is best poni. Fact. 

[Artimis Whooves 1,576]

Quicksand is a non-newtonian fluid

[cmarston1 5,959]

Frankenstein is the name of the creator and not the creation.

[Luminance 2,186]

The Mazda Miata is the best selling sports car of all time.

[Glacies Frost 428]

Glass is in fact not a liquid, but an amorphous solid with particles that move so slowly that "melting" is impossible at room temperature.

Edited October 19, 2016 by GlaciesFrost

[Luminance 2,186]

Coconut palms can grow in California.

[Artimis Whooves 1,576]

Homestuck started on april 13th 2009 and ended on april 13th 2016

[I used to be a stranger 7,993]

Glass is in fact not a liquid, but an amorphous solid with particles that move so slowly that "melting" is impossible at room temperature.

 

Glass is an amorphous solid, which means it's not a crystal. As a matter of fact it's sort of like a silica-based plastic, except instead of long chains of repeating molecular structures, it's one giant molecular glob. Every pane of glass you see is one giant molecule.

 

The urban legend that it "slowly melts" is based upon a different mechanical property of semi-crystalline materials called Creep, which behaves like melting in slow motion. (If you put an iron frying pan into an oven at 500ºF for six months, it would look like it half-melted. This is what creep is like.) Glass is subject to creep if it is extremely poorly made and contains large amounts of iron impurities.

 

Mass-manufactured glass achieves its clear flatness by being floated across molten baths of tin when it's still yellow-hot.

[Artimis Whooves 1,576]

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