Random Facts

[Red Ketchup]

Really? I seriously thought it was one of those biological impossibilities???

Oh well, there goes another urban legend!

Red

[bpm1]

i have gas

[StoneGRMI]

i have gas

me too

[Tock]

Little known facts:
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27% of kids who get into glue-sniffing got their start by sniffing Scotch tape.


The Eiffel Tower is not, contrary to popular belief, made out of eiffel.

[3bd]

An Aggie survey found that 80% of all putts hit short did not make it.

[RANA]

58.3% of all statistics are made up

[batlin]

58.3% of all statistics are made up

OH MY GOD!!! you Avatar is hillarious!!!!!HAHAHAHAHA
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[DSM4Life]

OH MY GOD!!! you Avatar is hillarious!!!!!HAHAHAHAHA
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You can join in when im done.

[RANA]

OH MY GOD!!! you Avatar is hillarious!!!!!HAHAHAHAHA
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I had to, Pewn started it and I had to finish it.

[RANA]

Hey what's the speed of dark?

[goodcents]

Hey what's the speed of dark?

Same as speed of light

[bpm1]

Hey what's the speed of dark?

dark doesnt travel, its just a lack of light

[RANA]

dark doesnt travel, its just a lack of light

I know I am just trying to be a smart-ass...

[Tock]

I was surprised when I discovered this, but electrons traveling through wires don't travel at the speed of light. Anyone know how fast they do travel (through wires, anyway)?

[RANA]

I was surprised when I discovered this, but electrons traveling through wires don't travel at the speed of light. Anyone know how fast they do travel (through wires, anyway)?

only millimeters per second

[novastepp]

when you die your hair continues to grow for a couple of months.

[bpm1]

I know I am just trying to be a smart-ass...

uh, yea, i knew that

[novastepp]

If you dug a well to the centre of the Earth, and dropped a brick in it, it would take 45 minutes to get to the bottom – 4,000 miles down.

[novastepp]

It would take a modern spaceship 70,000 years to get from the nearest star to earth.

[novastepp]

In space, astronauts cannot cry because there is no gravity.

[novastepp]

A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.

[bpm1]

I was surprised when I discovered this, but electrons traveling through wires don't travel at the speed of light. Anyone know how fast they do travel (through wires, anyway)?

i believe its 60ft per second, id have to look up my electrical reference book to be sure

[novastepp]

If you were to take 1 lb. of spiders web and stretch it out it would circle the whole way around the world!

[novastepp]

Of all the animals on earth the mosquito has contributed to the deaths of more people than any other animal.

[novastepp]

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

[novastepp]

The blue whale has a heart the size of a small car and its blood vessel is so broad, that a person could swim through it.

[l2elapse]

Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.

[Tock]

The blue whale has a heart the size of a small car and its blood vessel is so broad, that a person could swim through it.

Are blue whales blue? Are big whales big? Are right whales right? Do pilot whales fly? Do killer whales work for the mob?

[RANA]

Are blue whales blue? Are big whales big? Are right whales right? Do pilot whales fly? Do killer whales work for the mob?

Wow, you left out sperm whale

[Tock]

i believe its 60ft per second, id have to look up my electrical reference book to be sure

How would they measure such a thing? Do they put a tag on one of them and follow where it goes and how far?

It's a mystery to me . . .

Electron tubes made more sense, too, than transistors . . .

[Tock]

Wow, you left out sperm whale

It was on the tip of my tongue . . .

[RANA]

It was on the tip of my tongue . . .

Gross, unless you are a HOT chick

[D-Bo Dre]

Heres a good one to look out for on SuperBowl Sunday...

According to U.S. Law, a beer commercial can never show a person actually drinking beer.

[RANA]

How would they measure such a thing? Do they put a tag on one of them and follow where it goes and how far?

It's a mystery to me . . .

Electron tubes made more sense, too, than transistors . . .

http://howthingswork.virginia.edu/page1.php?QNum=1190

"Amazingly enough, the speed at which electric power travels through a wire is very different from the speed at which electrons move through that wire. In most wires, electric power travels at very nearly the speed of light while the electrons themselves travel only millimeters per second! This statement is true whether the electricity is traveling in a copper wire or a superconductor!

To understand how this difference in speeds is possible, think about what happens when you turn on the water to a long hose. If that hose is already filled with water, water will immediately begin pouring out of the hose's end even though the water is flowing quite slowly through the hose. While the water itself moves slowly, the water's effects travel through the hose at the speed of sound in water--several miles per second! Water at the end of the hose "knows" that you have opened the faucet long before new water from the faucet arrives.

Similarly, when you turn on a flashlight, electrons begin to flow out of the battery's negative terminal at speeds of only a few millimeters per second. But these electrons don't have to travel all the way to the light bulb for the bulb to light up. When these electrons leave the battery, they push on the electrons in front of them, which push on the electrons in front of them, and so on. They produce an electromagnetic wave that rushes through the wire at an incredible speed. As a result, electrons begin flowing through the light bulb only a few billionths of a second after the first electron left the battery. So while the electrons that carry electricity through the power grid flow rather slowly, the power they deliver moves remarkably fast."

[Flagg]

Are blue whales blue? Are big whales big? Are right whales right? Do pilot whales fly? Do killer whales work for the mob?

Blue whales apparantly have the biggest cocks in the world, measuring in at an impressive 6ft long.

[qualityclrk1]

Blue whales apparantly have the biggest cocks in the world, measuring in at an impressive 6ft long.

2nd largest.......

[DSM4Life]

Blue whales apparantly have the biggest cocks in the world, measuring in at an impressive 6ft long.

Now that is a nice fact !!

[Renesis]

Theres some other creature of the sea that has the longest penis to body ratio. I think its penis is longer then its body. It is something similar to a barnacle.

[UberSteroids]

IBM Blue Gene is the World's fastest Supercomputer.

It has the ability to process 478 trillion free floating operations every second.

Just to give an idea,

Your home PC has one CPU, the newer ones with dual or quad core CPU and roughly about 512MB - 4GB Memory.

The Blue Gene has 212,992 CPU's with 73,728GB of memory.

That is amazing...

Say hello to the terminator in the near future.

"Hi guys, you are now terminated..."