ATAR Notes: Forum

General Discussion => General Discussion Boards => Other General Discussion => Topic started by: samuch on November 07, 2009, 05:36:04 pm

Title: fun facts
Post by: samuch on November 07, 2009, 05:36:04 pm
just thought id start a thread about this cos im bored
so heres mine to start it
the number four is the only number where the meaning is the same as the number of letters it has in its word XD
(gotta love libra odd spots)
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: xXNovaxX on November 07, 2009, 06:57:13 pm
You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.

It is physically impossible for a pig to look up to the sky.

Duck's quacks don't echo
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: Over9000 on November 08, 2009, 12:53:51 am
A soft heart bleeds to the sound of one drum
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: dejan91 on November 08, 2009, 01:04:08 am
Duck's quacks don't echo

Liesssss!

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2004/05/06/1102602.htm
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: xXNovaxX on November 08, 2009, 01:12:41 am
^^oh nice, I only wrote it after hearing it somewhere few years ago..

Interesting. thx for that
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: hard on November 08, 2009, 02:04:12 am
a danish butterfly can actually talk
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: xXNovaxX on November 08, 2009, 02:12:48 am
No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.   <<< Someone please wreck that claim
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: ninwa on November 08, 2009, 02:28:13 am
The legal age for straight sex is 16, unless the person is in the care/custody of the older person, in which case it is 18.

It's illegal to eat cats and dogs in Victoria.

Pope Pius II, before he became Pope, wrote an erotic book.

Technically, the Korean War never ended.

Winston Churchill believed in a worldwide Jewish conspiracy. (see Illustrated Sunday Herald, London, Feb 8 1920, article entitled "Zionism versus Bolshevism")

Hitler's descendants are living in America.
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: hard on November 08, 2009, 02:45:54 am

Hitler's descendants are living in America.
omg no wayyy
who are they
damnn they must be fugly
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: humph on November 08, 2009, 03:28:04 am
No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.   <<< Someone please wreck that claim

False: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_of_paper_folding
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: Over9000 on November 08, 2009, 04:11:25 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britney_Gallivan

Lol, its funny how she has a page with a math theorem for folding paper, the 'Paper folding theorem'. Lol
Compared to the usual mathematicians like euler who have a whole page of funny symbols, its refreshing to see such an almost pointless formula.
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: /0 on November 08, 2009, 05:07:26 am
Wanna see an almost pointless formula?
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Catch_rate
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: Over9000 on November 08, 2009, 05:10:47 am
Wanna see an almost pointless formula?
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Catch_rate

Thats not pointless, I use it all the time to determine if I can catch a pokemon. What I did was let Hp current = x, I then differentiated the equation to find the value of x in which the gradient was 0 to find the max value of a. But im wondering now, if I integrate the equation, does that give me the area size of the pokeball used? Coz I needa know if it will fit in my pocket.

Whats the formula for master ball catch rate?

P(catch successful) =
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: /0 on November 08, 2009, 05:28:13 am
Alright then, I guess it is quite important after all :)
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: Over9000 on November 08, 2009, 05:41:23 am
Alright then, I guess it is quite important after all :)
After searching up the catch rates for some pokemon, I have become quite depressed.....3?? For legendary pokemon z.z.z.z.z.
Ill stick with mew (45).
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: samuch on November 08, 2009, 11:21:56 am
Alright then, I guess it is quite important after all :)
After searching up the catch rates for some pokemon, I have become quite depressed.....3?? For legendary pokemon z.z.z.z.z.
Ill stick with mew (45).

hahaha i used to watch pokemon.... 8)

a danish butterfly can actually talk
oh wow never knew that LOL mmm wonder wat they would talk about ?
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: samuch on November 08, 2009, 11:57:08 am
oh heres another
the word bed actually looks like a bed >< (ily MLIA)
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: linny on November 08, 2009, 12:12:22 pm
ROFL at above

nothing rhymes with silver or purple =]
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: kendraaaaa on November 08, 2009, 12:13:32 pm
Not sure if serious but

"Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined."
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: samuch on November 08, 2009, 12:22:58 pm
ROFL at above

nothing rhymes with silver or purple =]
and orange :) i think....

Not sure if serious but

"Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined."
lol if thats true
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: kendraaaaa on November 08, 2009, 12:27:18 pm
Quote
Embassy of Israel
Washington, D.C.

November 17, 1952

Dear Professor Einstein:

The bearer of this letter is Mr. David Goitein of Jerusalem who is now serving as Minister at our Embassy in Washington. He is bringing you the question which Prime Minister Ben Gurion asked me to convey to you, namely, whether you would accept the Presidency of Israel if it were offered you by a vote of the Knesset. Acceptance would entail moving to Israel and taking its citizenship. The Prime Minister assures me that in such circumstances complete facility and freedom to pursue your great scientific work would be afforded by a government and people who are fully conscious of the supreme significance of your labors.

Mr. Goitein will be able to give you any information that you may desire on the implications of the Prime Minister's question.

Whatever your inclination or decision may be, I should be deeply grateful for an opportunity to speak with you again within the next day or two at any place convenient for you. I understand the anxieties and doubts which you expressed to me this evening. On the other hand, whatever your answer, I am anxious for you to feel that the Prime Minister's question embodies the deepest respect which the Jewish people can repose in any of its sons. To this element of personal regard, we add the sentiment that Israel is a small State in its physical dimensions, but can rise to the level of greatness in the measure that it exemplifies the most elevated spiritual and intellectual traditions which the Jewish people has established through its best minds and hearts both in antiquity and in modern times. Our first President, as you know, taught us to see our destiny in these great perspectives, as you yourself have often exhorted us to do.

Therefore, whatever your response to this question, I hope that you will think generously of those who have asked it, and will commend the high purposes and motives which prompted them to think of you at this solemn hour in our people's history.

With cordial wishes,

Abba Eban

Professor Albert Einstein
Princeton, N.J.

HAHAAHAHAHAHHAHA
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: linny on November 08, 2009, 12:28:32 pm
yeah i had orange at the back of my mind.. but im not sure of it LOL
cos in my head i was like "binge and orange"
it kinda works ...................  ::)
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: samuch on November 08, 2009, 12:32:14 pm
omg it is true!!! @kendraaa haha

yeah i had orange at the back of my mind.. but im not sure of it LOL
cos in my head i was like "binge and orange"
it kinda works ...................  ::)
it so doesnt hahaha :)
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: xXNovaxX on November 08, 2009, 12:40:07 pm
ROFL at above

nothing rhymes with silver or purple =]
purple rhymes with turtle....kinda??? yeah? no?
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: samuch on November 08, 2009, 12:42:36 pm
oh yeah ^ kinda
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: humph on November 08, 2009, 01:04:39 pm
Hurple and Kurple are English words, according to QI.
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: samuch on November 08, 2009, 01:26:42 pm
^ i never knew that lol
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: QuantumJG on November 08, 2009, 01:28:12 pm
No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.   <<< Someone please wreck that claim


I only got up to 6 times and then failed!!!

How the heck did that guy fold the paper 12 times (This function was given by Britney Gallivan in 2001 (then only a high school student) who managed to fold a sheet of paper in half 12 times, contrary to the popular belief that paper of any size could be folded at most eight times)

Also this is the most useful formula ever:

I wish I knew this back when I played pokemon on my good old gameboy (from 2001 - 2004)! But then again my school marks dropped right down after I had my first try of pokemon Blue.
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: xXNovaxX on November 08, 2009, 01:38:45 pm
I found this out a  few years back, the continents
AsiA
AfricA
AustraliA
EuropE
(North) AmericA
(South) AmericA
AntarticA

They all end and start with the same letter, quiet fascinating.... lol.


People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights! <<<<is it just me or does that sound AVERAGE? Or too much?
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: QuantumJG on November 08, 2009, 01:42:12 pm
Also I heard that scientists believe that most advanced (e.g. tigers, humans, birds, etc) organisms had evolved from worms. The theory is quite plausible. The worm is technically a tube where it ingests food from its mouth and the contents are expelled through its anus, if you look at our digestive system it technically is a more advanced tubular system, but, if you look at the big picture both are essentially the same.  

With its regenerative abilities I read somewhere that researchers managed to turn 1 worm into 40 by just cutting it in half allowing it to grow and then repeating the process
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: QuantumJG on November 08, 2009, 01:43:42 pm
People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights! <<<<is it just me or does that sound AVERAGE? Or too much?

I thought it was longer
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: samuch on November 08, 2009, 01:48:59 pm
ew we evolved from worms? :S
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: samuch on November 08, 2009, 02:46:32 pm
^ LOL
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: hard on November 08, 2009, 03:37:57 pm
danish butterflies can play the flute
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: samuch on November 08, 2009, 03:40:23 pm
danish butterflies can play the flute
danish butterflies can do a lot of things cant they :P ?
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: hard on November 08, 2009, 03:45:44 pm
danish butterflies can play the flute
danish butterflies can do a lot of things cant they :P ?
apparently they are equivalent to humans, but have wings.
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: samuch on November 08, 2009, 03:49:43 pm
danish butterflies can play the flute
danish butterflies can do a lot of things cant they :P ?
apparently they are equivalent to humans, but have wings.
so are you a danish butterfly?

A German Hippo can read numbers.
really now? iv seen a dog do that but have never seen a hippo do anything
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: hard on November 08, 2009, 03:50:17 pm
nah cause but they are my ancestors
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: samuch on November 08, 2009, 03:50:51 pm
so you only have little wings?
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: samuch on November 08, 2009, 03:54:23 pm
how does it sound true!?
unless ur jking about that too haha
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: linny on November 08, 2009, 05:13:51 pm
even if hippos can read numbers... what good is it to them???!! xD
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: samuch on November 08, 2009, 07:58:11 pm
* the blue whale weighs 50 tonnes at birth and as much as 150 tonnes fully grown
* every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury
* men can read smaller print better than women and women can hear better
*The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were fred and Wilma Flinstone
*Graffiti is the italian word for 'scratched drawings'
*daily the human race grown by about 214 000
*a firefly is a type of beetle
*tequila is made from the juice of agave
*on average women say 7000 words per day and men only manage around 2000 <LOL
thankyou libra.
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: Over9000 on November 08, 2009, 08:04:26 pm
* the blue whale weighs 50 tonnes at birth and as much as 150 tonnes fully grown
* every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury
* men can read smaller print better than women and women can hear better
*The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were fred and Wilma Flinstone
*Graffiti is the italian word for 'scratched drawings'
*daily the human race grown by about 214 000
*a firefly is a type of beetle
*tequila is made from the juice of agave
*on average women say 7000 words per day and men only manage around 2000 <LOL
thankyou libra.
The last one is the best, but no shock obviously.
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: samuch on November 08, 2009, 08:05:56 pm
* the blue whale weighs 50 tonnes at birth and as much as 150 tonnes fully grown
* every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury
* men can read smaller print better than women and women can hear better
*The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were fred and Wilma Flinstone
*Graffiti is the italian word for 'scratched drawings'
*daily the human race grown by about 214 000
*a firefly is a type of beetle
*tequila is made from the juice of agave
*on average women say 7000 words per day and men only manage around 2000 <LOL
thankyou libra.
The last one is the best, but no shock obviously.

yah dont get why tho..
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: ninwa on November 08, 2009, 09:24:36 pm
* the blue whale weighs 50 tonnes at birth

that poor, poor mother whale.
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: samuch on November 08, 2009, 09:25:27 pm
^ HAHAHHAHA
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: Over9000 on November 08, 2009, 09:30:22 pm
* the blue whale weighs 50 tonnes at birth

that poor, poor mother whale.
They dont grow much, 3 times their initial weight. Humans are something like 4-5kg to 80 +
Which is weird considering how much they eat.....
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: QuantumJG on November 08, 2009, 09:42:35 pm
hair grows roughly 1nm per second. Learn't this when our engineering professor was talking about nanotechnology and trying to explain what a nanometer is.
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: ninwa on November 08, 2009, 09:44:22 pm
They dont grow much, 3 times their initial weight.

yes but imagine squeezing something that big out of your.... .... .yeah
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: kendraaaaa on November 08, 2009, 09:47:37 pm
They dont grow much, 3 times their initial weight.

yes but imagine squeezing something that big out of your.... .... .yeah

Vagina?

Elbow, actually.
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: ninwa on November 08, 2009, 09:49:45 pm
Vagina?

Is it called that on a whale too? OH HEY ANOTHER FUN FACT.
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: dejan91 on November 08, 2009, 09:51:16 pm
All babies are colour blind when they are born.

Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.

If you have five dollars and Chuck Norris has five dollars, Chuck Norris has more money than you.
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: samuch on November 08, 2009, 09:52:42 pm
If you have five dollars and Chuck Norris has five dollars, Chuck Norris has more money than you.
LOL
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: Over9000 on November 08, 2009, 10:11:40 pm
All babies are colour blind when they are born.

Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.

If you have five dollars and Chuck Norris has five dollars, Chuck Norris has more money than you.
Okay?
The only element in the periodic table that chuck norris knows is the element of surprise.
Chuck norris doens't have a ctrl button on his keyboard...HES ALWAYS IN CONTROL.
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: TrueTears on November 08, 2009, 10:16:01 pm
All babies are colour blind when they are born.

Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.

If you have five dollars and Chuck Norris has five dollars, Chuck Norris has more money than you.
Okay?
The only element in the periodic table that chuck norris knows is the element of surprise.
Chuck norris doens't have a ctrl button on his keyboard...HES ALWAYS IN CONTROL.
You mean "HES ALWAYS IN GOLDENEYE 007 HARDEST LEVEL" u-sub man.
Title: Re: fun facts
Post by: Over9000 on November 08, 2009, 10:22:05 pm
All babies are colour blind when they are born.

Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.

If you have five dollars and Chuck Norris has five dollars, Chuck Norris has more money than you.
Okay?
The only element in the periodic table that chuck norris knows is the element of surprise.
Chuck norris doens't have a ctrl button on his keyboard...HES ALWAYS IN CONTROL.
You mean "HES ALWAYS IN GOLDENEYE 007 HARDEST LEVEL" u-sub man.
You mean "HES ALWAYS IN GOLDENEYE 07 GHOST (AYUNAMI X FRAU) HARDEST LEVEL" u-sub man.