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The brain has no pain. Because there are no nerves that register pain within the brain itself, neurosurgeons can probe the brain while a patient is conscious.


Post anything here that you want to share with others. It can be a fact or a theory of anything. Links are welcome!


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Uranus has an axial tilt of about 95 degrees causing the planet to look like it's fallen over onto its side. This causes Uranus to "roll" around the sun like a ball.

edit: wow, a topic with real potential.

edit2: Japan fanboys/fangirls already struck in the third post -_- *gives up hope for this topic getting interesting*

In Japan, thousands of highschool students will eat a kit kat bar before doing their exams.

Why? Because "Kit Kat" is pronounced kitto katto in Japanese, which sounds very close to kitto katsu, meaning "win without fail". So Kit Kat bars are basically good luck charms!

[snip] Mod Edit: Yeah, that's not a fact, and you're inciting a flame war by doing so. Don't do this again.
"They" once tried credit cards in biopol plastic but it was too soft to endure.

edit2: Japan fanboys/fangirls already struck in the third post *gives up hope for this topic getting interesting*
If you don't want to talk about Japan, keep on talking about space. I found both yours and Mangalover's comments mutually interesting. Neither one detracted from the other. =P

The world record for the long jump is 29.4 feet, or 8.95 meters! That's like jumping over five dudes lined up on the ground head-to-foot!

Your heart is about the size of your fist.

A very stressed octopus will sometimes eat itself.



In Japan, thousands of highschool students will eat a kit kat bar before doing their exams.

Why? Because "Kit Kat" is pronounced kitto katto in Japanese, which sounds very close to kitto katsu, meaning "win without fail". So Kit Kat bars are basically good luck charms!

XD

@hopeless: you're right. Sorry about that Mangaluva :(

Alright, another little fact from space (because I love space)

Although Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system, having the volume of about 760 times the volume of the earth, it only has the mass of 95 times the mass of the Earth, making it the least dense planet in the solar system, and also the only planet in the solar system with a density lower than that of water.

A Rabbit can literally die from being lonely.

Although Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system, having the volume of about 760 times the volume of the earth, it only has the mass of 95 times the mass of the Earth, making it the least dense planet in the solar system, and also the only planet in the solar system with a density lower than that of water.
Pretty cool, and kind of creepy. So you'd just fall through the planet? Till you reached a certain depth, anyway, right?

A very stressed octopus will sometimes eat itself.
Yeah, I do that sometimes, too, when I don't have any Ben & Jerry's around. =(

@hopeless: you're right. Sorry about that Mangaluva :(



Nah, it's alright. :D

back on topic, we spend at least 6 years of our lives dreaming! Within 5 minutes of waking up from a dream, an average person will usually forget half of their dreams. Within 10 minutes, an average person will usually forget their whole dream.

@hopeless: I'm not sure, but I do think that the pressure on the surface of the rocky core is still quite high. Saturn's density is still higher than air on Earth, and there are many many kilometres of it from the edge of the planet until its core, so I still reckon you'd get crushed by atmospheric pressure when you get all the way down there :P That's just a theory though, but I'm sure if they could land a probe on Saturn, they'd have done it already.

edit: Some random video game knowledge:

Most monsters in the first Doom game were drawn by hand. Some of the monsters however were actually made by creating digital images of scale models made by Adrian Carmack and Gregor Punchatz. They were made from clay (Cyberdemon and Baron of Hell) or latex and metal (Spiderdemon). Pictures were then taken from up to eight angles to create the sprites that are used in the game.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/aboot/spiderdemon_model.jpg

Social Security numbers are not a random string of numbers. They're actually a serial number that is derived from where you were born, what hospital, and a unique pin.

When you are in marching band and the show starts for competition, if one judge or so stands in your way and they don't move out, even though you asked them politely as you are marching, permission granted to run them over. >:3

in Kansas, if 2 trains are approaching each other at a crossing, both must come to a full stop and neither can move again until the other has gone

NASA space-shuttle mission, STS-96, carried a copy of Starcraft, a computer game, to space. This copy currently resides in Blizzard offices.

Source (http://www.diablo3.nl/starcraft/sis/)

The fastest speed achieved by any human vehicle is Mach 30 (30 times the speed of sound), by the Apollo Command Module spacecraft.

As much as I love the facts of space, I'll leave that to Neko; so I'll just do some very odd ones. :)

Did you know there are approximately 53 Lego bricks manufactured for each person in the world at this moment?

Did you know a sea otter would give up its offspring for some clams in a zoo?

Did you know that the Sea Algae produces about 70% of the oxygen needed to sustain life, which is often used as the counterargument to saving the rain forests.

Social Security numbers are not a random string of numbers. They're actually a serial number that is derived from where you were born, what hospital, and a unique pin.

With such things please do state what country it applies to, because it doesn't apply to mine :P

Space time!

Venus is often called Earth's sister planet. Venus is about as large as the earth (95% of Earth's mass) and has a similar chemical composition. For a long time, scientists believed that because of this, Venus could support life. In more recent years however, it was discovered that because Venus is closer to the sun, the planet developed in a completely different way than Earth, despite the similarities between the two. Venus has a thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide with sulfuric acid clouds and the atmospheric pressure at its surface is about 90 times as high as the atmospheric pressure on Earth's surface, making life impossible.

With such things please do state what country it applies to, because it doesn't apply to mine :P

SSNs only exist in the USA; unless your nation observes 42 U.S.C. (ss)405(c)(2) (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/405.html#c_2). Foreign Nationals outside the US use some other form of a personal identification Number (PIN) which serves a similar purpose (such as Australia's TFN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_File_Number) and UK's NIN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Insurance_number#National_Insurance_numbe r)).

The United States is the only nation that associates their resident's personal identification number to a government bank.

Social Security numbers are not a random string of numbers. They're actually a serial number that is derived from where you were born, what hospital, and a unique pin.

What if you weren't born here? :P

In an effort to defeat satellite signal pirates, DirecTV devised an update that was split into several innocuous-seeming pieces of self-modifying code distributed as minor updates over several months. The final update activated the code to finally boot the signal pirates. The first 8 bytes were GAMEOVER

SSNs only exist in the USA; unless your nation observes 42 U.S.C. (ss)405(c)(2) (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/405.html#c_2). Foreign Nationals outside the US use some other form of a personal identification Number (PIN) which serves a similar purpose (such as Australia's TFN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_File_Number) and UK's NIN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Insurance_number#National_Insurance_numbe r)).

The United States is the only nation that associates their resident's personal identification number to a government bank.

Maybe, but in other countries you have similar things (which you yourself point out) and when I'm talking to an American, I'd use the term Social Security Number to refer to the similar thing we have over here :P I don't think an American would understand "Burger Service Nummer" or "SOFI Nummer", but if I just call it Social Security Number they get a better idea of what I'm talking about.

It's like the annual checkup on cars, the British call it MOT, the Dutch call it APK. They're both the same thing. You get my point? Besides, you shouldn't just assume everyone lives in the USA and therefore knows what a SSN is :P

Maybe, but in other countries you have similar things (which you yourself point out) and when I'm talking to an American, I'd use the term Social Security Number to refer to the similar thing we have over here :P I don't think an American would understand "Burger Service Nummer" or "SOFI Nummer", but if I just call it Social Security Number they get a better idea of what I'm talking about.

It's like the annual checkup on cars, the British call it MOT, the Dutch call it APK. They're both the same thing. You get my point? Besides, you shouldn't just assume everyone lives in the USA and therefore knows what a SSN is :P

I'm still not following your logic.

You're telling me to address an American-only term as American because other nations have a similar, but differently named, number that they call the same thing informally. That's pro'lly one of the most hilarious things I've ever read regarding foreign nationals. Next thing you know you're going to tell me that I have to specify what nation when referring to the CIA because England has MI-6 (or do they like to be called SIS now) and that because they perform similar duties that they should be identified.

And for the last argument, if you google social security, I doubt that there'll be ANYTHING regarding a nation outside the US.


I guess I'll start wording things like I do when I write a contract now...

In the United States of America, British Colonies region, New England States Delaware-Maryland-Virginia (Henceforth referred to as Party of the First Part), the United States of America's State Congressman Official Magistrate of the Commonwealth of Virginia (Henceforth referred to as Parity of the Second Part) signed an order in which required all patrons of the United States of America and Foreign Nationals (Henceforth referred to as Party of the Third Part) to not smile on Virginian Drivers Licenses; photo ID cards which identify a particular person's ability to be able to legally drive in the Party of the First Part, Virginia region used by the officials — police, state and regional (Henceforth referred to as Party of the Fourth Part) — in identification of Party of the Third Part's legal housing in the Party of the First Part granted by the legal authority presiding in the Party of the Fourth Part over the Party of the Second Part vested by the President of the United States of America (Executive Director).

What's with all this conflict over Social Security numbers? :( Anyway, back on topic...

If you could drive your car vertically up, it would take you around an hour to reach space.

(Got that from some android app or something...)

Yes, when you two are quite done with your bitch fits.

Slugs have four noses 8D

*sniff sniff sniff sniff*

M, point taken :P

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Did you know that Nausicaa had been voted best female character in the Anime Grand Prix every year since 1984, the year the film was released, until Rei Ayanami from Evangelion came along?

Rei still places high on those sorts of polls...

did you know type II diabete was renamed from adult onset diabete because it was always known to the doctors that the only the adults get it, but now little children are getting it, too

did you know type II diabete was renamed from adult onset diabete because it was always known to the doctors that the only the adults get it, but now little children are getting it, too

Yes! And I hate the fat flops that named it that. I, as a type one, now often get branded/accused of that fat common version of you unhealthy useless soda cans.

There's a small amount of poison on the peel of a banana?

Yeah, I'd be insulted too if other people confused my birth defect with one that's acquired at a later age :/

Botox (Botulinum toxin) is the most poisonous substance in the world. In theory, one teaspoon of that substance alone could kill about 200 million people!! :o


(Source from Wikipedia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulinum_toxin))
"It is the most acutely toxic substance known, with a median lethal dose of about 1 ng/kg when introduced intravenously and 3 ng/kg when inhaled. This means that, depending on the method of introduction into the body, a mere 90–270 nanograms of botulinum toxin could be enough to kill an average 90 kg (200 lb) person"

In Australia, to try and get more females interested in Physics; all school and university exam papers replaced most examples involving a male proposing something for a question with a female. Also when a question like this "Cindy states that velocity is related to Lift, while Fred states it isn't. Prove who is right", is given, the female is always right.

(I know, basic example but I'm tired. Also if you're ever doing an exam in Australia and have a multiple choice question like this, choose the females answer. :))

Space time!

It is commonly believed that the Moon orbits around the Earth. While this is true, the moon does not actually orbit around the centre of the Earth, but around the common centre of mass which is actually 4700 KM from the Earth's centre.

Did you konw as lnog as the frsit and lsat ltteres of the wrdos are cecorrt, ploepe sluohd hvae no pbloerm ridenag it?

Utb sa oosn sa uyo ttars inmgix hoste pu as lwle ti cemebso a tlo rrdhea?

Utb sa oosn sa uyo ttars inmgix hoste pu as lwle ti cemebso a tlo rrdhea?
Still easy, though. Human brains are pretty awesome.

Utb sa oosn sa uyo ttars inmgix hoste pu as lwle ti cemebso a tlo rrdhea?

yeah... but without having to have read mine first... yours would be just a bunch of jumbled up words... or a different language.

That's what I mean. Did you know...

That all matter in the universe originated from a supernova? The atoms in our bodies and everything around us all have their origin in a dying star. We are all made from stardust.

I disagree, but we won't go there.

What's there to agree on? :eyebrow:

If all matter was created from a supernova then who was star?!
Is where you wanted us to go, right? :spray:

To light up, fireflies use Luciferin, which when combined with oxygen enables them to produce light. The process is called bioluminescence. They light up to attract a mate.

To light up, fireflies use Luciferin, which when combined with oxygen enables them to produce light. The process is called bioluminescence. They light up to attract a mate.

is that why i get bright red when i get drunk? lol to attract mate that is...

I've actually read a few articles lately saying the big bang happened a bit differently than most people think...I forget what the hell they said, though. Oo
There weren't any huge differences anyway, but they were semi-interesting. XD

If all matter was created from a supernova then who was star?!
Is where you wanted us to go, right?
That's a valid question though, right? The sad thing is, most people who ask that question already have an even more ridiculous answer in mind.

I always wonder when people say there has to be a God because the universe couldn't just come into existence out of nothing, then where did this God come from? :P

Anyway, let's not go into religion too much people, let's stick with the funny/random/interesting trivia :)

Did you know a crow can count up to 3?

Did you know that certain kinds of crows are capable of making tools?

The germs present in feces can pass through 10 layers of toilet paper.

There are at least (most likely many, many more) 30 different phases of matter, and at least five different states.

In California, the average hourly wage for Garbage Collector is $16.04

My hometown was declared the fattest in all of Europe.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (this doesnt seem to take into account at what pitch or how loud you are screaming, but is more a rough average, i believe)

this doesnt seem worth it just for coffee though

In Alaska, It's illegal to whisper in someone's ear when their moose hunting?

Did you know Chuck Norris went to school in my town, Torrance?

http://vimeo.com/17083789

http://vimeo.com/17083789

^ That's really cool, and I love the presentation style!

I always thought it's because of fear of the unknown (and having no reference points). If you've ever tried it you know that if you walk with your eyes closed, after around 10 steps an indescribable fear starts running through your body despite mentally knowing what's ahead of you, say, an open field with absolutely on obstacles whatsoever.

So I used this as a way to fight against the physical fear of the unknown. Try it, take a friend to an open field and take turns walking and running with your eyes closed. It's magic!

lo,l I thought that was pretty cool, too. I don't think it's anything like the fear of the unknown that causes it, though. My guess would go into the "simple asymmetry/dominant body side" camp.
And I'm not afraid of walking with my eyes closed! I wanna find an open field and see when I end up, now. XD

Smokers don't get as much 'good' sleep as non-smokers. After x amount of hours (depending on your body and level of addiction) nicotine deprival begins to make you restless until you wake up.

It's actually illegal to grab a CD you bought, and make it into an mp3 for your ipod. (UK)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripping


In the United Kingdom, making a private copy of copyrighted media without the copyright owner's consent is illegal: this includes ripping music from a CD to a computer or digital music player. The UK government has made proposals to allow people to make copies of music for personal use. According to one survey, 55% of British consumers believed ripping a CD to be legal, and 59% admitted to doing it.

In the Netherlands however, it's legal to create a copy for "personal use". Since this law was written before the internet existed, and used to refer to making copies of stuff like cassettes, it now makes downloading movies and music in the Netherlands legal, since you're just making a copy (for personal use of course) from the internet.

Uploading is still illegal though, since then you'd be facilitating copyright infringement.

The USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned naval ship still in service in the US Navy today. It was christened in 1797.

The last picture of John Lennon alive was taken with his killer Mark Chapman.
http://i54.tinypic.com/9lk2ly.jpg
Can somebody say creepy?

I'm sure he shot him right after taking that picture so that he could sell the picture as "the last picture taking of John Lennon alive" for lots of money :P

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the
mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
(No wonder why mosquitos and bugs that bite me still keeps on biting me during marching season. :()

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away
from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood
plasma.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
(...)

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or
older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache .

A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first
flight.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each
salad served in first-class.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
(Huh... I should do that when I'm going to school.)

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung
cancer.

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike
factory workers in Malaysia combined.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen
wearing them in public.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
(*Cough Cough* What?!)

Pearls melt in vinegar.
(I should try that someday...)

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are
already married.

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and
Budweiser, in that order.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the
engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor
and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all
the letters from the word "criminal." The second? William Jefferson
Clinton.

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
(So basically, we're only using our red blood cells once and murder them? That's really cruel for our body to do that...)

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!

It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!

A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!

Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!

Most lipstick contains fish scales!

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
(Disgusting.)

Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
(So... Can we still break them though?)

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!

Slugs have 4 noses!
(What the heck?)

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
(Huh... Never knew that.)

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!

The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!

*From another forum and all of the finding credit goes to the person who found these interesting facts. :)*

Hmm, about the duck's quack not having an echo. It does, it's just that the echo gets "absorbed" in the original quack. Myth busters tested this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(2003_season)#Does_a_Duck.27s_Quack_Ec ho.3F).

Also, about pearls dissolving in vinegar, they do that in all acids. Apparently Cleopatra drank wine that had pearls dissolved in it.

Whoa... Drinking wine that has pearl in them?... That's very interesting.

Never knew that apples work better than coffee. Interesting....

Eating apples or strawberries before exercising helps you burn off more calories than you would normally.

There is a patch of garbage twice the size of Texas floating in the pacific ocean known as the great pacific garbage patch.

I believe there are two of them, one in the east and one in the west.

^ That one, I believe, is located in the North Pacific Gyre. Main reason why it's located there.

Okay... put your finger on the red dot on the screen... 'cause it'll crack you up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDlaJlb1ezg

Wrong thread? :eyebrow:

oh....

Woodpeckers listen with their tongues

(Okay, so actually, they stick their tongues inside trees to hear what's in the tree- they feel the vibrations through their tongues).

Woodpeckers listen with their tongues

(Okay, so actually, they stick their tongues inside trees to hear what's in the tree- they feel the vibrations through their tongues).

Giggety

Okay, did you know...
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing

Did you know...

That I'm so fucking tired of the royal wedding being on the news. Why does anybody give half a fucking shit? 280 people dead due to a tornado in Alabama, and this (http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Princess+Beatrice+Royal+Wedding+Arrivals+X2F7QNp43 gvl.jpg) is front page news?

Fuck that....
http://www.aolcdn.com/photogalleryassets/asylumuk/971666/what-economic-crisis-wedding.jpg

Did you know...

That I'm so fucking tired of the royal wedding being on the news. Why does anybody give half a fucking shit? 280 people dead due to a tornado in Alabama, and this (http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Princess+Beatrice+Royal+Wedding+Arrivals+X2F7QNp43 gvl.jpg) is front page news?

Fuck that....
http://www.aolcdn.com/photogalleryassets/asylumuk/971666/what-economic-crisis-wedding.jpg

Congratulations, now you know how the rest of the world feels when America's having elections.

Prince Willam flew a CH-47 Chinook and landed it in the field next to the Middleton's residence to visit Kate while they were dating. I don't know about you, but that's bad-ass.

Woah, I read America's having an erection? I need to read slower...

Congratulations, now you know how the rest of the world feels when America's having elections.
Yes, I agree with you, and on behalf of my fellow Americans, I apologize for our mainstream media. It's a joke even to many of us.

I'm tired of America being so prominent. It makes us too much of a target. I hope we shut down 90% of our overseas bases and become a bit more isolationist and non-interventionist. I look forward to when China is the world superpower in 30 or so years, and their media is the most powerful and most broadcast worldwide. Then maybe they can be the object of world scorn for a change. -___-



Anyway, in an attempt to get the thread back on topic:

Did you know... noise-induced hearing loss damage generally begins at 4000 Hz (http://www.aafp.org/afp/20000501/2749.html) and then proceeds from there, upwards and downwards simultaneously, as it progresses?

^ Too add on the sounds. When you're hearing that ringing sound in your ears, that frequency in your hearing will be lost forever.

lol @ comparing a national election to a wedding.

random, but I read somewhere that honey, is the only food that doesn't spoil. Honey in the tombs of the Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible

^ Well, it is technically bee's vomit.

Did you know...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ47eGSilPc

^ LOL that was quick!

They finally found Waldo

Did you know that whenever there's a good song Glee comes around, rapes it repeatedly and leaves it bleeding in the gutter?

God, how much I hate Glee and everyone who's involved in making it.

Did you know that whenever people do stupid things, you can just ignore instead of letting them mindrape you?

God, how much I hate when people care about stupid things and everyone who's involved.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/ZeroIchigo/emot-unsmith.gif

Thanks Zero.

You know, you used to be a cool guy. Nowadays you're just a douchebag. Why's that?

I just realised you're Spiky 2.0 x_x

Nah, you're just fun to mess with. Known you for a long fucking time, you're like an open book to me ♥

Did you know that everyone's an open book to Zero, but Zero is a bible in which no one can read?

Did you know, that to know somebody like an open book just goes to show how much effort you've put in trying to understand them?

If I didn't care for them, I wouldn't even bother trying to understand somebody.

It is well known that any exercise that makes your heart beat faster, like running or playing basketball, is great for your body and can even help improve your mood. But scientists have recently learned that for a period of time after you've exercised, your body produces a chemical that makes your brain more receptive to learning. So if you're stuck on a homework problem, go out and play a game of soccer, then try the problem again. You just might discover that you're able to solve it.

From Your Amazing Brain - National Geographic, kids section.

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/stories/spacescience/brain/


I would say: exercise, shower, eat, relax and try to solve the problem.

^lol. That seems like a really good idea to do. Never knew that. XD So when I'm stuck on my math problem, I should just go out biking for a couple of minutes around my neighborhood and come back.

I would take a shower after exercise, because I definitively can't think if I am feeling heat and dirty, shower is a must after exercise to me, lol.

Did you know the Photoshop CS5 credits list out all the babies born to the team during the product development process? (They just posted that in their Facebook).

Did you know...

That bisexuality was practically the norm in ancient Rome and Greece?

@Nyu-- I've done that kind of stuff when it comes to the piano. Sometimes when I just CAN'T play a passage, instead of sitting down (which is what I usually do... *sigh*) I'll end up walking around for a while, maybe a short job, then when I come back to it, I'm more fired up and focused somehow.

I don't know how that works, but I love it. xD

A cricket's ears are just below the "knees" of its front legs.

That everyone older than 18 has survived two rapture predictions.

That everyone older than 18 has survived two rapture predictions.

Cool. ^_^ So when was the first rapture prediction? 1993?

Cool. ^_^ So when was the first rapture prediction? 1993?

In the year of 1994, if you ignore the Three Secrets of Fátima, in 1917; which was attributed to Pope John Paul II dying in 1981, instead of Armageddon.

Cat people turn into cats when they see a cat.

The Moon is moving away from the Earth. (source) (http://www.oddee.com/item_63950.aspx)

World English Dictionary
404 (ˌfɔːəʊˈfɔː)

— n
slang a stupid or ineffectual person

[C21: from the World Wide Web error message `404 Not Found']

TT;

On average, a person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

Some people go to a party (does not matter how many) and they are all waring hats, if all the people after the party randomly pick up a hat the probability of no one getting the hat they came with is 36.7879% ((1/e)*100%)

Some people go to a party (does not matter how many) and they are all waring hats, if all the people after the party randomly pick up a hat the probability of no one getting the hat they came with is 36.7879% ((1/e)*100%)

How does that work?

Let's take 3 people (1,2,3) and 3 hats (A,B,C).

There are several combinations for this to end:

1A, 2B, 3C
1A, 2C, 3B
1B, 2A, 3C
1B, 2C, 2A
1C, 2A, 3B
1C, 2B, 3A

Let's say that they came in wearing 1A, 2B and 3C. So let's cross out those options from the end results:

1A, 2B, 3C
1A, 2C, 3B
1B, 2A, 3C
1B, 2C, 3A
1C, 2A, 3B
1C, 2B, 3A

Leaves us with only 2 out of the original 6, which is 1/3rd which is roughly 33%

Enlighten me on how your theory works:4eyes:

I'm a bit curious too, as I don't quite understand what the natural number has to do with this problem (unless you're trying to do Gaussian Distribution on this, which doesn't seem to make much sense without a sample). In fact, by the nature of this having a non-determanistic person size, it's closer to say that the probability of you getting the same hat is (x!)^(-1), which has no solution in regular calculus. There is a solution using lambda calculus, but it's non-deterministic and requires a gamma expansion to perform (which is elegant, but also an ugly solution).

Something like this:

λ(x!) = \int_0^x{λ(x-1)}
= λ(x)|]{0,x}

And there's also the reflection of this (-x axis), but that's thrown out as it would involve imaginary figures.

it was first put forward in the 18th century by Pierre Montmort. It has everything to do with the natural number when you realize that taking the 'norm' to be every body leaving with there own hats then the maximum deviation from that 'norm' is for no body to have the hat they came with, when such deviations occur e raises its head as a limiting factor.

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Happy Birthday baby! :D

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When I first saw that sentence, I thought so too. But apparently it doesn't use 'v'. :(

Edit: Oh wait, yes it does! Silly silly.

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