Does anyone else find themselves recalling random facts for no apparent reason? Like,
Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest and lost
A kangaroo’s testicles are ON TOP of its penis rather than below.
This is basically what I say whenever someone asks me for a fun fact too roflmao
Today I Learned!
So any sex position where the balls are higher than the penis could be called “kangy style”?
And that’s now my fun fact too lol
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.
The little piece of plastic at the end of a shoe lace is called an aglet.
I learned that from Phineas and Ferb.
Thank you Terraria for this useless piece of info
Pretty sure it was the movie Repossessed with Leslie Nielsen that taught me this one.
Their true purpose is sinister
-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!
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?
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.
rats can’t vomit
This is why rat poison works. There’s no way to get it out quickly once it goes in.
2 facts about the CMOS battery on a motherboard: CMOS stands for “complimentary metal oxide semiconductor”. Its a 2032 watch battery.
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!
If this is true, then 97.5 million cm = ~600 miles. Or, 0.25% of the distance to the moon…a small difference.
It’s not funny anymore if you prove me wrong by math :-)
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.
aha, I knew it! climate change is a hoax! the sun is just getting hotter, it’s all natural! /s
So, possibly stupid question:
Will the sun’s gravity change as it expands, pulling things out of current orbits, or will it just change in size & not in mass?
Great question!
No, the Sun’s diameter will expand greatly but it’s mass will remain mostly the same, if anything it’ll be ejecting significant amounts of stellar matter when it turns into a red giant and will be losing mass.
Mass is what dictates the gravity of a given object. If you replaced the sun with a black hole of the exact same mass, everything in the solar system would retain its exact same orbit outside of those few unfortunate objects that were very close to the sun (much closer than Mercury) when it got swapped out for a black hole of the same mass.
So even though the Sun will eventually swell up into a red giant and eat most, if not all of the inner planets, it’s gravity will remain the same despite its massively increased diameter, and its gravity will get weaker as the red giant ejects stellar matter over its relatively quick life. Eventually it’ll eject its outer layers, creating a new nebula thanks to the star ejecting all of its outer layers and leaving behind the dead core of a star called a white dwarf. These dead stars are often similar in size to the Earth but typically have a mass close to that of our sun.
Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
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
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.
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)
The proportion is about 0.998, and the parent post had it at 0.9998. You move the decimal point by adding 9s. There was one too many. It was off by a decimal place.
Whether you would call that “off by decimal place” or not, it is certainly larger than being off by “a tenth of a percent”. That would mean the error bars of number 0.9998 ± 10% [edit: oops, did i miss a decimal place there. i’ll leave it] would just close the gap.
I like the proportion of the smear, aka, the whole point of your post. I never heard it in those terms. It reminds me of the one where if the earth were a basketball, the moon would be a tennis ball about 9 feet away. I’ll calc out the percent errors if anyone cares.
Eh. It’s fixed now. I appreciate the data correction regardless.
Yeah, come to think of it, “moving the decimal” is wrong too. There must be a term for moving the decimal in the “one minus x” complement.
