Does anyone else find themselves recalling random facts for no apparent reason? Like,
Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest and lost
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.
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.
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
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)
The little piece of plastic at the end of a shoe lace is called an aglet.
Thank you Terraria for this useless piece of info
I learned that from Phineas and Ferb.
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!
And that’s now my fun fact too lol
So any sex position where the balls are higher than the penis could be called “kangy style”?
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.
male otters have a pocket to store their favourite rock. They use this rock to bash females unconcious and rape them.
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.
Tegucigalpa is the capital of Honduras. No idea where I learned that
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”.
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.
Karl Marx got drunk one night and, after being kicked out of a bar in London where he got drunk, went around London and almost got arrested sabotaging the lamp posts with rocks with his colleagues who were also drunk.
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.
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.
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.
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
