Author Topic: Random Facts That You Know!!! (Read 348462 times)

jaybug · « **Reply #900 on:** September 27, 2009, 07:39:52 pm »

Quote from: Wuntvor on September 24, 2009, 11:06:20 pm

Quote from: kurosakiichigo666 on September 24, 2009, 08:55:14 pm
A chunk of pure calcium (sodium does this as well) will explode when placed into water. I watched a video of a guy throwing a chunk of calcium into a pond and it shot straight up and made a sound as loud as a gunshot, came back down into the pond. It kept doing that until the calcium had dissolved. In fact, any mineral that belongs to the far left column of the periodic table will do this. They are known as the alkali metals and all react explosively to water. Waaay cooler than vinegar and baking soda, but also more expensive.

Looks at his calcium pill and glass of water... Puts the calcium pill back in the bottle and closes the cupboard.

Makes you wonder how your bones and the water in your body get along so well.

And what about clams? Their whole shell is calcium carbonate.

Cesium is the most explosive of the alkali metals. Two grams will blow up your bathtub.
Sodium will catch fire when exposed to water, hence that's why it is stored in oil, to keep the water out.

Go left and down for reactivity, and and up and right too, on the periodic table of elements.

Flourine is the most reactive element of all.

You cannot use iron in the fusion process. Any star that tries, goes nova.

Sakis01 · « **Reply #901 on:** September 27, 2009, 09:52:23 pm »

Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.

jaybug · « **Reply #902 on:** September 28, 2009, 05:12:35 pm »

My cat Lucy, is definite proof of that. sigh. I wish her awake hours didn't include my sleep hours. Because she needs so much love and attention then. sigh.

Sakis01 · « **Reply #903 on:** September 28, 2009, 07:44:42 pm »

Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are.

jaybug · « **Reply #904 on:** September 28, 2009, 08:23:42 pm »

women are more likely to use a non-violent method of suicide.

Sakis01 · « **Reply #905 on:** September 28, 2009, 09:01:22 pm »

It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.

Vassa · « **Reply #906 on:** September 28, 2009, 09:07:22 pm »

Women are more likely to attempt suicide, men are more likely to commit.

kurosakiichigo666 · « **Reply #907 on:** September 28, 2009, 10:14:23 pm »

Quote from: jaybug on September 27, 2009, 07:39:52 pm

Quote from: Wuntvor on September 24, 2009, 11:06:20 pm
Quote from: kurosakiichigo666 on September 24, 2009, 08:55:14 pm
A chunk of pure calcium (sodium does this as well) will explode when placed into water. I watched a video of a guy throwing a chunk of calcium into a pond and it shot straight up and made a sound as loud as a gunshot, came back down into the pond. It kept doing that until the calcium had dissolved. In fact, any mineral that belongs to the far left column of the periodic table will do this. They are known as the alkali metals and all react explosively to water. Waaay cooler than vinegar and baking soda, but also more expensive.

Looks at his calcium pill and glass of water... Puts the calcium pill back in the bottle and closes the cupboard.

Makes you wonder how your bones and the water in your body get along so well.

And what about clams? Their whole shell is calcium carbonate.

Cesium is the most explosive of the alkali metals. Two grams will blow up your bathtub.
Sodium will catch fire when exposed to water, hence that's why it is stored in oil, to keep the water out.

Go left and down for reactivity, and and up and right too, on the periodic table of elements.

Flourine is the most reactive element of all.

You cannot use iron in the fusion process. Any star that tries, goes nova.

Calcium carbonate is not pure calcium. It's bonded with carbon, hence "carbonate"

Sakis01 · « **Reply #908 on:** September 28, 2009, 10:16:39 pm »

Gah enough with the physics! It's hurting my brain!!!!!!!!!

The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.

kurosakiichigo666 · « **Reply #909 on:** September 28, 2009, 10:29:46 pm »

It's chemistry silly

Cherry Chocolate Dr. Pepper is possibly the most disgusting soda I've ever had. It's right up there with.......Diet Dr. Pepper....

jaybug · « **Reply #910 on:** September 28, 2009, 10:30:49 pm »

Quote from: Wuntvor on September 24, 2009, 11:06:20 pm

Quote from: kurosakiichigo666 on September 24, 2009, 08:55:14 pm
A chunk of pure calcium (sodium does this as well) will explode when placed into water. I watched a video of a guy throwing a chunk of calcium into a pond and it shot straight up and made a sound as loud as a gunshot, came back down into the pond. It kept doing that until the calcium had dissolved. In fact, any mineral that belongs to the far left column of the periodic table will do this. They are known as the alkali metals and all react explosively to water. Waaay cooler than vinegar and baking soda, but also more expensive.

Looks at his calcium pill and glass of water... Puts the calcium pill back in the bottle and closes the cupboard.

Makes you wonder how your bones and the water in your body get along so well.

I'd like to go to Waco, Texas where they make 'real' Dr. Pepper, just the way it was originally invented.

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Calcium carbonate is not pure calcium. It's bonded with carbon, hence "carbonate"

Just making sure Wuntvor knows that.

Imagine taking calcium carbide pills.

Sakis01 · « **Reply #911 on:** September 28, 2009, 10:50:01 pm »

Chemistry/Physics they're in the same category when I took my 1st science class in high school.

The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.

Moriko Aikibo · « **Reply #912 on:** September 28, 2009, 11:47:13 pm »

In the language Tagalog or Fillipino, the word for he and she are the same: Siya, I think...There is no gender differentiation.

soundninja12 · « **Reply #913 on:** September 29, 2009, 03:31:24 pm »

Quote from: Vassa on September 28, 2009, 09:07:22 pm

Women are more likely to attempt suicide, men are more likely to commit.

That's depressing...

Sakis01 · « **Reply #914 on:** September 29, 2009, 03:44:44 pm »

Indeed. -_-;;;

Paul Revere rode on a horse that belonged to Deacon Larkin.

jaybug · « **Reply #915 on:** September 29, 2009, 06:45:56 pm »

The world's first university was founded in Great Zimbabwe. About 100 years before Oxford began.

Cassiopeia · « **Reply #916 on:** October 10, 2009, 01:47:35 am »

There's no J Street in Washington D.C.

TomtheFanboy · « **Reply #917 on:** October 10, 2009, 05:45:46 am »

San Diego California and Forest Grove Oregon both use trees as street names, in alphabetical order. Ash, Birch, Cedar, etc.
For "P" Forest Grove uses Ponderosa while SanDiego uses Palm.

jaybug · « **Reply #918 on:** October 14, 2009, 10:11:55 pm »

Eugene, uses the names of presidents for naming streets, but in no order that I can fathom.

I live on Honkers street. If you had turned right instead of left from 1st street, you would be on Honer street. Honkers to the left, Honer to the right. Idiots.

NARUNIK · « **Reply #919 on:** October 16, 2009, 08:21:22 pm »

The puberty rode for me..is streight with fullthrottle..

Im 12 and im almost done with puberty..

soundninja12 · « **Reply #920 on:** October 18, 2009, 12:08:42 pm »

Quote from: NARUNIK on October 16, 2009, 08:21:22 pm

The puberty rode for me..is streight with fullthrottle..

Im 12 and im almost done with puberty..

I call BS...

NARUNIK · « **Reply #921 on:** October 18, 2009, 01:14:44 pm »

WOW...You ask the locker boys at school...They ill answer "THE HAIREST **** EVER!

jaybug · « **Reply #922 on:** October 19, 2009, 07:22:23 pm »

Vexille, from the anime, is irl, a group of Swiss Gaurd a the Vatican.

wolfy2491 · « **Reply #923 on:** October 20, 2009, 07:05:36 am »

Bernese Mountain Dogs don't freaking care what's around you. If they knock it over, they sit there and stare at it. Then look up at you like "What? I didn't do it? XP"

My stupid dog just knocked over my glass of water.

Cyprus · « **Reply #924 on:** October 22, 2009, 01:08:00 pm »

Samantha Bond is the actress's name that has played miss Moneypenny in the bond movies for years.

kurosakiichigo666 · « **Reply #925 on:** October 24, 2009, 02:57:46 am »

^^^ Awesome.

Fact: Home is where the hearthstone is.

wolfy2491 · « **Reply #926 on:** December 05, 2009, 06:51:09 am »

Fact: The SATs suck.

NARUNIK · « **Reply #927 on:** December 05, 2009, 10:29:52 am »

FACT: I AM WAY TO SEXY FOR MY BOX.

superjaz · « **Reply #928 on:** December 05, 2009, 06:06:15 pm »

Fact, I am smart.
twice co-workers have told me things that I knew to be untrue but they believe it it even when I say its wrong, case in point

coworker, thought you could get aids from a mosquito (you can't)
another told me she would never eat angus beef because she thought it came from the cows butt.

I was like "yeah...um I think its a breed of cow..." her "no its a cut"
it is totaly a breed of cow, comes from scotland originaly

dshwshr55 · « **Reply #929 on:** December 05, 2009, 06:43:16 pm »

Fact: Jack-In-The-Box brainwashes

NARUNIK · « **Reply #930 on:** December 08, 2009, 04:54:35 pm »

FACT- THERE IS OVE 100 TRILLION AMOUNTS OF SPERM IN ONE EJACULATION.

TanisNikana · « **Reply #931 on:** December 08, 2009, 05:36:26 pm »

Quote from: NARUNIK on December 08, 2009, 04:54:35 pm

FACT- THERE IS OVE 100 TRILLION AMOUNTS OF SPERM IN ONE EJACULATION.

RELATED FACT - SEX ED IS TAUGHT TO STUDENTS IN THE SEVENTH GRADE.

NARUNIK · « **Reply #932 on:** December 08, 2009, 05:38:39 pm »

6th for me actually.. We had a change of things at our school.

TanisNikana · « **Reply #933 on:** December 08, 2009, 05:40:27 pm »

Well now that you know, you mustn't tell anyone. Ever.

FACT:170% of Americans support Sarah Palin. (Source: Fox News)

TomtheFanboy · « **Reply #934 on:** December 08, 2009, 08:51:02 pm »

Quote from: TanisNikana on December 08, 2009, 05:40:27 pm

FACT:170% of Americans support Sarah Palin. (Source: Fox News)

ROFL

TanisNikana · « **Reply #935 on:** December 09, 2009, 01:00:58 pm »

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=nutrition+in+one+cubic+lightyear+of+butter

Wuntvor · « **Reply #936 on:** December 10, 2009, 01:59:27 pm »

Quote from: TanisNikana on December 09, 2009, 01:00:58 pm

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=nutrition+in+one+cubic+lightyear+of+butter

A neat site TanisNikana, thanks for introducing me to it!

MiriaRose · « **Reply #937 on:** December 10, 2009, 04:04:16 pm »

Quote from: TanisNikana on December 08, 2009, 05:36:26 pm

Quote from: NARUNIK on December 08, 2009, 04:54:35 pm
FACT- THERE IS OVE 100 TRILLION AMOUNTS OF SPERM IN ONE EJACULATION.
RELATED FACT - SEX ED IS TAUGHT TO STUDENTS IN THE SEVENTH GRADE.

Girls began that in 4th grade, but boys didn't until 6th.

And that is a fact.

princessmoon · « **Reply #938 on:** December 10, 2009, 04:27:06 pm »

Quote from: MiriaRose on December 10, 2009, 04:04:16 pm

Girls began that in 4th grade, but boys didn't until 6th.

And that is a fact.

LOL. That was funny ~~

"The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket."

KHking · « **Reply #939 on:** December 10, 2009, 06:08:08 pm »

platypus lay eggs

NARUNIK · « **Reply #940 on:** December 10, 2009, 10:03:30 pm »

Quote from: MiriaRose on December 10, 2009, 04:04:16 pm

Quote from: TanisNikana on December 08, 2009, 05:36:26 pm
Quote from: NARUNIK on December 08, 2009, 04:54:35 pm
FACT- THERE IS OVE 100 TRILLION AMOUNTS OF SPERM IN ONE EJACULATION.
RELATED FACT - SEX ED IS TAUGHT TO STUDENTS IN THE SEVENTH GRADE.
Girls began that in 4th grade, but boys didn't until 6th.

And that is a fact.

Woah...First thing I ever learned about this stuff..Or the time I was supposed to learn about it was in 4th grade..But in 4th all we learned about was H.I.V. This a fact.

Oh...and Pie is good.- FACT...

Wuntvor · « **Reply #941 on:** December 11, 2009, 12:57:27 pm »

Quote from: princessmoon on December 10, 2009, 04:27:06 pm

"The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket."

I was watching Myth Busters the other day and they were trying to cook a turkey on a radar dish. Makes me wonder if they actually put out enough to melt chocolate. The one expert did state that the power used was much lower than a microwave. It is possible that after finding the melted chocolate someone was smart enough to figure out that they were being cooked as well.

Quote from: NARUNIK on December 10, 2009, 10:03:30 pm

Oh...and Pie is good.- FACT...

I have a really nice mud & cow pie combo for you to try. YUM! I agree MOST pie is good, but not all pie is good. - FACT.

PS. - Pi gives me headaches when doing math. Pie aren't squared it is round!

Griff_the_dragoon · « **Reply #942 on:** December 11, 2009, 01:22:13 pm »

Quote from: KHking on December 10, 2009, 06:08:08 pm

platypus lay eggs

And on top of this one (sence i did a research paper on this animal in 4th grade)
The male platypus is the only mammal that is poisonous
it has 15cm long stingers on its back legs

TomtheFanboy · « **Reply #943 on:** December 11, 2009, 02:19:06 pm »

Quote from: Wuntvor on December 11, 2009, 12:57:27 pm

Quote from: NARUNIK on December 10, 2009, 10:03:30 pm
Oh...and Pie is good.- FACT...
I have a really nice mud & cow pie combo for you to try. YUM! I agree MOST pie is good, but not all pie is good. - FACT.

Ahhhh.... but he didn't say "Pie tastes good."
A cow pie is good because it is in one spot as opposed to splattered thinly across a couple square yards.
Mud pie has too many definitions to get into right now.

The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo, was published in French in 1869 and eventually became a silent film that would inspire the look of The Joker.

TanisNikana · « **Reply #944 on:** December 15, 2009, 01:14:13 pm »

"The thing that boggles my mind is that a photon was emitted from the center of a star 13.5 billion years ago, and it traveled--through some miracle--unobstructed through its own galaxy, and past an unimaginable number of galaxies, stars, dust clouds, planets, nebulae, and somehow it landed in our galaxy. In our solar system. around our planet. and somehow that photon ended up not only hitting that tiny telescope, but hitting the exact spot of the light sensor that is only a few inches in area, and that was only pointed in that direction for a few moments." -enotzen

DancingTofu · « **Reply #945 on:** December 15, 2009, 08:54:41 pm »

Despite occupying 40 minutes of your precious time, playing through the All Cup Tour on 50cc in Mario Kart Double Dash will not unlock any new content, unless you have everything unlocked, in which case it will change the start screen background image.

jaybug · « **Reply #946 on:** December 15, 2009, 10:28:47 pm »

The very first thing cooked in a microwave was popcorn. I don't think they gave any to Arthur Clark.

It takes millions of years for a photon to reach its' way from the center of a star to space. It's just so darn think inside those ya know.

kylite · « **Reply #947 on:** December 16, 2009, 12:38:09 pm »

it is wet outside

princessmoon · « **Reply #948 on:** December 16, 2009, 07:24:25 pm »

kylite is correct.

NARUNIK · « **Reply #949 on:** December 18, 2009, 06:17:23 pm »

Afro Samurai is to be watched with CAUTION. -FACT!

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