What are the facts you remember for no specific reason
What are the facts you remember for no specific reason
Does anyone else find themselves recalling random facts for no apparent reason? Like,
Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest and lost
White green, green, white blue, orange, white orange, blue, white brown, brown.
California Cows Don't Dance the Fandango
Steps for laser printing:
Cleaning, Charging, Drawing, Developing, Transferring, Fusing
I've known this for over 20 years and never used it. Thanks catchy mnemonics!
Are you making a crossover cable or installing it for the government? Those are the only places that I know of that A is used regularly. Nearly everywhere else uses B in my experience.
Are you making the assumption I am from North America?
Every place I have worked in Australia and Europe uses green first.
Really? I wasn't sure which one I "should" use so I looked at a cable that I had laying around (probably came with a cable modem or something?) and was able to see the wire colors through the connector and it was A. So that's what I've been using when making patch cables or wiring my house.
I guess my question is what's your experience with where B is used? Mostly I'm just curious, it probably doesn't really matter for me since I only do networking work in my house.
I managed to memorize it for a test in networking class. The teacher was surprised someone actually managed to get it right.
T568-A guy I see
I'm a B guy myself.
The little piece of plastic at the end of a shoe lace is called an aglet.
Laser is an acronym and doesn’t have a god damned Z in it.
Laser is no longer an acronym. It's now an anacronym, which means it's its own word (despite originally being an acronym)
Source: Wikipedia
Well TIL!
TIL - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
That reminds me, so is SCUBA, RADAR and MODEM...I miss the old History Channel shows, especially Modern Marvels
SCUBA: Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (Blew my mind for some reason when I learned that)
RADAR: Radio Detection and Ranging (I've watched alot of WWII documentaries)
MODEM: Modulation Demodulation (I've worked in tech)So is Tuba: Terrible Underwater Breathing Apparatus
Also, Lithuania is really good at making the fancy ones, like ones for research, variable frequency ones, femtosecond ones, etc.
I had to look it up, but we're #13 by global export value (not counting laser diodes)
Seth McFarlane slept in one morning and missed his plane home. Little did he know that this exact plane hit the World Trade Center.
Orcas are a natural predator of the moose
Orcas are a natural predator of everything that his the ocean. Fun fact, orcas have been known to toy with seals by catapulting them with their tails. I believe I remember seeing at least one baby seal got seventy feet in the air before returning to the sea (and its inevitable death).
Ohio is the only state that doesn't share any letters with mackerel
obvious proof for ohio not being real
Sharks have existed on earth longer than trees have.
2 facts about the CMOS battery on a motherboard: CMOS stands for "complimentary metal oxide semiconductor". Its a 2032 watch battery.
Also, the 2032 numbering indicates its physical size: it's 20mm x 3.2mm. There are for example 2025's (like in my car remote) that are 20mm x 2.5mm.
And CMOS refers to what the battery was powering on the motherboard (a small amount of CMOS static RAM) rather than anything about the battery itself. I don't know if motherboards still use any static RAM, the batteries might only be there to power the clock these days, making the name just a historical convention.
It goes beyond button batteries too. Lots of batteries use the same system. For instance, many flashlights run off of 18650 cells.
-All of the planets in the solar system can fit between the earth and the moon -Stoplights detect your presence with an electromagnetic field using wires and not pressure -There is a receiver above stoplights that EMS vehicles can trigger to change the light red for everyone -We left astronaut poop on the moon -The numbers on a toaster are not always in minutes -Most common mold is not dangerous when ingested or inhaled unless you are allergic -Celeste Tea was founded and made by a cult, maybe still is -Christian Science had laws passed in the majority of states in the 80s that prevented prosecution of child abuse due to religious practices -The statistical value of a human life in the US is 10 million at dollars -Jellyfish reproduce and are birthed as polyps on the ocean floor -The chiral version of the sugar molecule would taste identical to sugar but is indigestible, we have no practical ways to produce it though afaik -Only one president has failed to release his tax documents -There are multiple US presidents who were likely gay
I’ll stop there, and yes these facts do rotate through my head for no real reason, they’re just fun!
How to get all kremkoins in Donkey Kong Country 2, through a cheat:
- Enter the cabin with the map and the life balloon. Leave without touching anything.
- Collect the banana bunch over the pirate crocodile. Go back to the cabin, now pick the life.
- Repeat the above. You'll see a kremkoin over the map. Pick it and you got 75 kremkoins.
In no moment you can touch the two lone bananas close to the entrance of the cabin.
...it has been decades since I played this game, and I almost never used the cheat above (it's less fun than finding all bonus stages). Why do I still remember this?
I still remember the cheat for the first game. Down Y Down Down Y when cranky appears in the title to play bonus stages.
I remember this one too! There was also B A↓B↑↓↓Y (bad buddy) to switch when you wanted in 2P, instead of waiting until the arsehole playing with you to switch it.
Plus LRR LRR LR LR for DKC3. Then you'd insert a cheat and... I don't remember them. Damn.
Male bedbugs have a knife-like penis. To have sex, they stab the females in the thorax with it because the females don't have genitalia. The semen is then injected directly into the female's main body cavity for insemination
This goes by the pleasant sounding scientific name of "traumatic insemination".
I don't like you
Okay?
If I was able to remember them on cue I would probably be a lot more interesting of a person.
The topic has to seed first and then all of the information I know about it rushes in.
The buttons on suit jackets are a holdover from a time that buttons were new, and therefore fashionable. Well to do sorts had buttons all over their suits, even in places that would be considered silly these days.
When buttons were new and therefore fashionable? I feel like buttons predate suits by a wide margin.
Maybe it was for a new kind or material of button? This factoid is from long ago and is half remembered.
Similar fact - ties, as in neck or bow, are the only common men's clothing item that serve no practical purpose.
Tegucigalpa is the capital of Honduras. No idea where I learned that
About 30-some years ago I borrowed a book of facts from the library, and the two I remember are:
- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
- Pound for pound, grasshoppers are 3x as nutritious as steak.
I have no idea if they're true, but they're burned into my brain.
The Moon is moving away from the Earth by approximately one inch per year. Which also means that millions of years ago it was much bigger in our sky.
I believe it's closer to 1,5cm per year.
And if you reverse extrapolate that some 65 million years, you'll see that the real reason why the dinosaurs ied out was because they all got hit in the head with moon!
To add to this, the sun will expand into a red giant in approximately 5 billion years, which is likely to consume both Earth and the Moon. This will happen before the Moon is able to leave Earth's orbit, so it'll shrink in the sky but odds are it won't leave the Earth's orbit before both are destroyed by the expanding sun in the future.
On top of that, the sun is slowly getting hotter as it gets older, so in approximately 1 billion years, the sun will have gotten hot enough to render most, if not all of the Earth uninhabitable for life as we know it.
Space is fascinating.
rats can't vomit
This is why rat poison works. There's no way to get it out quickly once it goes in.
Stanislav Petrov's name, for some weird reason. Lots of people can tell the story but just refer to him as 'a radar operator'.
The only guy to shoot down an F-117? Lazerpig just mentioned him in a video a week ago
You are thinking of Zoltán Dani? That is another good story. Petrov was famous for not being aggressive.
Platypuses hunt underwater using bioelectric sensors in their bills. Also, you cannot beat the final boss in X-Men for Sega Gamegear unless you are using Iceman.
The solar system is
99.98%99.86% (see thread) sun. The rest is comparable to a blood draw from a human.The earth is a blood smear on a slide.
The sun is about 1000 times the mass of Jupiter. You're off a decimal place.
Edit: That in and of itself is a quotable fact. The real number rounds to 1053. So it's about 5% off. It's a meaningless coincidence.
Better ones include that our moon can produce both total and annular eclipses, and (geometrically) all the other planets fit between the earth and moon, but not by much.
Not a decimal place, a tenth of a percent. The sun is 99.86% of the solar system.
Wikipedia has a fine pie chart featuring Jupiter and Saturn (which is 90% of the Solar System mass not in the sun)
0.14% of a 90KG human is still only 126ml so still about a blood draw.
Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth.
Aibohphobia is the (unofficial) fear of palindromes
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
That is just as cruel as forcing speech impaired people to pronounce the word speech-language pathologist.
Bananas are 4011 when buying them.
What
most grocery stores have a number system so that a cashier can punch in a number to ring up a certain product. this is especially useful for fruit and vegetables, as often times it doesn't have packaging and doesn't have a barcode. the vast majority of groceries use 4011 as the number for bananas.
I'd imagine it's because the number 4011 is already used in production and logistics of bananas, so the grocery stores just stick to the barcode/number that bananas already have on their box when they get delivered. that's just a guess though.
4011 is the PLU code for bananas. This is the number the cashier types in to weigh and sell them to you. Bananas are usually one of the cheapest items per pound in a grocery store, so I've "heard rumors" from a "friend" that if you type this number into a self checkout machine, whatever you weigh is charged as bananas instead of saffron or black truffles or whatever.
The USS Texas in WW2 partially sunk itself (flooded watertight compartments, if I remember correctly) to gain a higher elevation to shoot fortified bunkers farther inland than it could reach otherwise. I learned this on Reddit and never forgot it, oddly enough.
Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
Octopi have three hearts
Don't they also have nine brains (one little one in each tentacle, and a larger central brain)?
My understanding is that it's not that simple. By your logic, humans also have several brains. for example, your spine is doing some processing on the signals from your limbs. it's how that reflex works when the doctor hits your knee with a hammer. the signal travels to your spine, the spine recognizes some pattern, and returns a signal to jerk your leg. the signal doesn't need to reach your head to trigger the reflex. basically, your whole nervous system is the brain, it's just that the vast majority of your nervous system is inside your head.
it's the same for octopi, but much more extreme. I think they have like 50% of their nervous system in their 'brain', and the rest is distributed across their tentacles.
feel free to correct me, I wrote this entirely based on my memory so I might be off.
Hyponatraemia occurs when sodium levels in the blood stream drop below 135 mmols/L.
I work in IT and this in no way applies to any aspect of my life (so far)
I have experienced this, would not recommend
Bicycle wheels with quick release axles have 9.525mm diameter, rounded up to 10mm. This is because the sizing is not actually metric, but 3/8 inch so imperial.
This is why it's most commonly called 9mm qr (quick release) /facepalm
To be fair, 0.5mm is a good clearance foe that application
2.2lbs to a KG
Should probably make an effort to know so many as a Canadian but only know the one conversion
5cm to 2 inches. It's slightly off but good to a 30cm = one foot.
Useful when converting penis measurements.
If you try to use the god mode code from Doom in Heretic, it kills you and tells you not to cheat.
IDDQD
Forever remember it
I think the 2nd Descent game worked in a similar fashion. Entering a cheat code from the first Descent game would reduce you to 1% shields and health.
Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest and lost
This is an urban legend
Can we have a citation please?
From what I can tell,every account that people have cited as evidence for Charlie Chaplin losing a look a like contest are anecdotal and cant be verified.
But Dolly Parton really did lose in a Dolly Parton lookalike contest - and the winner was a drag artist (pretty sure it was a drag competition, and Dolly entered it for a laugh).
The Roman names for the three fates are Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos.
Actually, I suppose there is a reason I remember this, it's because of Golden Sun.
male otters have a pocket to store their favourite rock. They use this rock to bash females unconcious and rape them.
Dolphines are whales. People keep doubting me, whenever I bring that up :D
Aren't dolphins, whales and orcas all part of the cetacean group?
Why do people keep doubting you?! They are the exact same but a little bit smaller. Nobody bats an eye when we say that lions and tigers are cats... people are dumb.
XcQ, link stays blue
in Earthbound, there's an exploit where you can have technically infinite PP if you put a Magic Truffle to the last slot of your inventory and buy a good amount of Ketchup Packets.
When you use the Magic Truffle in a battle, only just a Ketchup Packet will be consumed but not the truffle - you still gain 90 PP.
I before e but not after c
That's weird.
Don’t forget the rest:
“…and in long “a” such as neighbor and weigh.”
I have a lot of specifications stuck in my head from previous jobs. A fun one is that precast concrete bridge beams aren't just concrete and rebar. They typically have a bunch (20-30 or more depending on size) of 13 mm steel cables that are each under about 13,000 kg of tension. The cables are pulled to a specific tension in the concrete form, the concrete is poured around them, then the cables are cut at each end.
Carrots are good for your eyes. I learned it from the movie Shoot'em Up where Clive Owen plays an assassin and he eats carrots because it's good for his eyes.
I've heard this is not true, but it was a lie by the UK government to cover up the invention of radar and the cracking of the enigma code.
While the US uses the imperial system for most things the pharma/medical industries use the metric system
As does the auto industry, aerospace...
Outside of construction and plumbing plenty of stuff is metric here. Even our weird imperial units are based on metric units.
