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Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
 
I like learning random things. Please leave me some. My fun fact for you is: The Capital of Burkina Faso (a country in northern Africa) is Ouagadougou.
 
Posted by Richard Berg (Member # 133) on :
 
Guinness has less alcohol, calories, and carbohydrates than Budweiser.
 
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
 
Ten percent of the weight of a two year old pillow can be composed of dead mites and their droppings.

Sleep well!

[Evil]
 
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
 
Um, what if your pillow is 30 years old?
 
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
 
87% of these "fun facts" and similar things are made up on the spot.
 
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
 
I'd say that in the case of a 30-year-old pillow, maybe 10 percent of its weight consists of pillow.

Honestly, though, I don't know.

It's a mitestery.

[Smile]

Edit to add: MEC, this fact wasn't made up. (the first one, anyway.) Check around - it can be verified.

How old is YOUR pillow?

[ May 14, 2004, 05:58 PM: Message edited by: sndrake ]
 
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
 
[Angst]
 
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
 
Hmmm... thinking maybe pillows could be good wedding gifts. [Smile]

You'll be amazed at how light a new one is.
 
Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
 
I bought a 'chillow' recently because i find it annonying at night when the pillow gets hot, then one must flip it over and rotate it out with other pillows. the chillow stays cool the whole night!
 
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
 
No! My grandma made me this feather pillow when I was two years old. I can't sleep without it. And it weighs a ton. Who wants a light pillow, anyway?
 
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
 
Heavy feather pillows are great for pillow fights.
 
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
*cough*
 
Posted by Polio (Member # 6479) on :
 
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. [Wall Bash]
[Party] New diet!
 
Posted by Jacob Porter (Member # 31) on :
 
People spend around 30% of their time in the weekends.
 
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
 
The vast majority of English words that were integrated into the Japanese language around the turn of the century cannot be understood by native or foreign Japanese speakers. Yet the native speakers continue to use the ones they know in an effort to give the foreign speakers an easier time. This is very confusing for both parties.
 
Posted by Polio (Member # 6479) on :
 
Question?
quote:
People spend around 30% of their time in the weekends.
En englais, s'il vous plait? [Confused]
 
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
 
What? That's true.
 
Posted by Polio (Member # 6479) on :
 
Do you mean that 30% of a person's life is comprised of weekends? (It seems a bit off to me...) Do you mean that a person's productivity is down to 30% on the weekend? (That seems more likely... [Sleep] )
 
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
 
Today, it is PSI Teleport who has made me happy. Thank you, PSI.

--Pop
 
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
 
Ummmm...no problem?
 
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
40% of all sick days for regular-shift workers are are taken on Monday or Friday.

Who do they think they're kidding?

Dagonee
 
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
 
The weekend is two days long. Two out of seven is .2857, which is roughly 30 percent. Come on, it's not rocket surgery.
 
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
 
rivka,

OSU still has the information up on its website. I wouldn't spread vile information like that without a credible source!

Maybe Cecil Adams is a front man for the great Dust Mite Conspiracy. [Angst]

To dkw - the question is how much of your pillow is actually the pillow your grandma made and how much is "stuff" kind of holding it all together.

Probably has a nice squishy feel to it, though.

[Smile]
 
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
 
What's a chillow?
 
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Chillows
 
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
 
Ordered two! [Smile]
 
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
I want a commission! [Wink]
 
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
 
Only if you log onto AIM.
 
Posted by Wussy Actor (Member # 5937) on :
 
If you took all the lawyers in the world and laid them end to end around the equator it would be a good thing.
 
Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
 
quote:
Ordered two!
Really?> YOU ordered 2? they're awesome! though many people have ridiculed me for buying a a cold pillow o.O
 
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
 
Just give 'em the cold shoulder.
 
Posted by The Wiggin (Member # 5020) on :
 
The longest word in the English Language is 1,909 letters long.

Methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleucylphen-
ylalanylalanylglutaminylleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylgluta-
mylglysylalanylphenylalanylvalylprolylphenylalanylyalylthre-
onylleucylglcycylaspartylprolylglicylisoleucyglutamylgluta-
minlserylleucyllysylisoleucylaspartylthreonylleucylisoleu-
cylglutamylalanylglyclyalanylaspartylalanylleucyglutamylle-
ucylgluycylisoleucylproluylphenylalanyserylaspartyprolylleu-
celalanylaspartylglycylprolylthreonylisolleucyglutaminylaspa-
raginylalanythreonylleucylarginylalanylphenylalanylalanylal-
anylglycylvalylthreonylprolylalanylglutaminylcysteinylphen-
ylalanylglglutamylmethionylleucyalanylleucylisoleucylarginyl-
glutaminyllysylhistidylprolyuthreonylisoleucylprolylisoleuc-
ylglycylleucylleucylmethionyltyrosylalanylasbaraginylleucyl-
valylphenylalanylsparaginyyllysylglycylisoleucylaspartylglut-
amylphenylalanylyltyrosylalanylglutaminylcysteinylglutamyll-
ysylvalylglycylvalylspartylserylvalylleucylvallalanylaspart-
ylvalylprolylvalvlglutaminylglutamylserylalanylprolylpheny-
lalalrginylglutaminylalanylalanylleucylarginylhistidylasp-
araginylvalylalalprolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleucylcystei-
nylprolyprolylaspartylalanylaspartylaspartyspartyleucylle-
ucylarginylglutaminylisoleucylalanylseryltyroslglycylargin-
ylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrosylleucylleucylserylarginlalanyl-
glycylvalylthreonylglycylalanylglutamylasparaginylarginyla-
nylalanylleucylprolylleucylaspaaginylhistidylleucylvalylalan-
yllysylleucyllysylglutamyltyrosylasparagimylalanylalanypro-
lylprolylleucylglutaminylglycylphenlalanylglycylisoleyucyls-
erylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminylvalyllysylalanylalanylisol-
eucylalspartylalanylglycylalanylalanylglycylalanylasoleucylse-
rylglycylserylalanylisoleucylbalyllysylisoleucylisoleucylgluta-
mylglutaminylhistidylasparaginylisoleucylglutamylpronylglu-0
tamyllysylmethionylluecylalanylalanyoeucyllysylvalylpheny-
lalanylvalylglutamilylprolylmethionyllysylalanylalanylthreo-
nylarginylserine.

This word is a Tryptophan synthetase A protein, an enzyme that has 267 amino acids. It is the term for the formula C1289H2051N343O375S8.

I'd like to see some one pronounce it.

[ May 14, 2004, 11:35 PM: Message edited by: The Wiggin ]
 
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
 
Actually, that's not true. The longest word is 1,911 letters, and it's:

Methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleucylphen-
ylalanylalanylglutaminylleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylgluta-
mylglysylalanylphenylalanylvalylprolylphenylalanylyalylthre-
onylleucylglcycylaspartylprolylglicylisoleucyglutamylgluta-
minlserylleucyllysylisoleucylaspartylthreonylleucylisoleu-
cylglutamylalanylglyclyalanylaspartylalanylleucyglutamylle-
ucylgluycylisoleucylproluylphenylalanyserylaspartyprolylleu-
celalanylaspartylglycylprolylthreonylisolleucyglutaminylaspa-
raginylalanythreonylleucylarginylalanylphenylalanylalanylal-
anylglycylvalylthreonylprolylalanylglutaminylcysteinylphen-
ylalanylglglutamylmethionylleucyalanylleucylisoleucylarginyl-
glutaminyllysylhistidylprolyuthreonylisoleucylprolylisoleuc-
ylglycylleucylleucylmethionyltyrosylalanylasbaraginylleucyl-
valylphenylalanylsparaginyyllysylglycylisoleucylaspartylglut-
amylphenylalanylyltyrosylalanylglutaminylcysteinylglutamyll-
ysylvalylglycylvalylspartylserylvalylleucylvallalanylaspart-
ylvalylprolylvalvlglutaminylglutamylserylalanylprolylpheny-
lalalrginylglutaminylalanylalanylleucylarginylhistidylasp-
araginylvalylalalprolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleucylcystei-
nylprolyprolylaspartylalanylaspartylaspartyspartyleucylle-
ucylarginylglutaminylisoleucylalanylseryltyroslglycylargin-
ylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrosylleucylleucylserylarginlalanyl-
glycylvalylthreonylglycylalanylglutamylasparaginylarginyla-
nylalanylleucylprolylleucylaspaaginylhistidylleucylvalylalan-
yllysylleucyllysylglutamyltyrosylasparagimylalanylalanypro-
lylprolylleucylglutaminylglycylphenlalanylglycylisoleyucyls-
erylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminylvalyllysylalanylalanylisol-
eucylalspartylalanylglycylalanylalanylglycylalanylasoleucylse-
rylglycylserylalanylisoleucylbalyllysylisoleucylisoleucylgluta-
mylglutaminylhistidylasparaginylisoleucylglutamylpronylglu-0
tamyllysylmethionylluecylalanylalanyoeucyllysylvalylpheny-
lalanylvalylglutamilylprolylmethionyllysylalanylalanylthreo-
nylarginylserinish.

It means "resembling or similar to a Tryptophan synthetase A protein, an enzyme that has approximately 267 amino acids or so." Its chemical formula varies, but has around 1300 carbon atoms, over 2000 hydrogen atoms, some 340 nitrogen atoms, a bit shy of 400 oxygen atoms, and somewhere from 6 to 9 more atoms of something.

--Pop
 
Posted by UTAH (Member # 5032) on :
 
Wiggin, you actually took the time to write that!
An amazing fact in itself!
 
Posted by The Wiggin (Member # 5020) on :
 
ahh I was off so sue me.

and no way did i type it which is probly why my info was a little off. I found a page with that and used the nifty copy and paste feature of a computer.

[ May 15, 2004, 12:00 AM: Message edited by: The Wiggin ]
 
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
 
pop: [ROFL]

And that word is pronounceable, but would take awhile.
 
Posted by The Wiggin (Member # 5020) on :
 
Fresh Twinkies are non-flammable.(haven't tryed/heard of someone trying old ones)

[ May 15, 2004, 12:27 AM: Message edited by: The Wiggin ]
 
Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
 
Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.
 
Posted by The Wiggin (Member # 5020) on :
 
The Hatrack forum is more addictive the Crack and has worse withdral symptoms.(It could and seems to be true since no mater ho long i'm away I MUST return. [Dont Know] )
 
Posted by Suneun (Member # 3247) on :
 
re: mites in pillows

Maybe we should start beating mattresses, blankets, and pillows again (imagines air filled with dead mites and feces)...
 
Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
 
are people from burkina faso called burkina fascits
 
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
 
Here is some useless trivia I drummed up on a google search:

* The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was Perriwinkle Blue

* A quarter has 119 grooves around the edges

* Cranberry is the only flavour of Jello that is made from real fruit, not artificial flavoring

* Artificial Christmas trees have outsold real ones every year since 1991

* Coca Cola contains neither Coca nor Cola

* A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened

* A housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F

* The average human body contains enough Iron to make a three inch nail

* The architech that designed the Glen Abbey, one of Canada's most famous golf courses, was Jack Nicklaus

* The number of Twinkies that Twinkie inventor Jimmy Dewie ate in his lifetime was 40,177

* Before rice, the largest export of South Carolina, U.S., during the 18th century was deer skins

*Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Slaghoople and Betty Rubble's was McBicker

*59 tons of the berlin wall have been shiped to the U.S. since November 1989 by a company from St. Louis

*No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple

*A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours

*A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds

*Women's hearts generally beat faster than mens

*The average man sweats 2 1/2 quarts every day

*Somewhere near 33 new consumer products are introduced every day. 13 of them are toys

*The only fifteen letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter would be uncopyrightable

*Tequila is made from the root of the blue agave cactus

*Only one person in two million will live to be 116 or older

*A duck's quack does not echo

*A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 miles per hour

*A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months

*A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip

*A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day

*According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week

*After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear to be pink in color

*An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime

*By age 60, most people have lost half of their taste buds

*Fingernails grow faster than toenails

*The human body transmits nerve impulses at about 90 meters a second

*In the English hospitals of the seventeenth century, childern were entitled to two gallons of beer as part of their weekly diet

*An eighteenth century woman used only lard to "wash" her face and hands and lived to the age of 116

*If 80% of the human liver was removed, it could still function and would eventually restore itself to its original size

*Nearly a quarter of all human bones are found in the feet

*Human adults breathe about 23000 times a day

*The hydrochloric acid in the human stomach is strong enough to disolve a nail

*The amount of carbon in the human body is enough to fill about 9000 lead pencils

*The oldest dog that has been reliably documented was an Australian cattle dog named Bluey. He was put to sleep at the age of 29 years and 5 months!

*The smallest dog in history was a tiny Yorkie from Blackburn, England. At two years of age and fully grown this little dude was an incredible 2.5 inches tall by 3.75 inches long! He weighed only 4 ounches!He was approximately the size of a matchbox

*There are 14 phalanges (finger bones) in the human hand

*The largest muscle in the human body is the buttock muscle

*The tallest dog on record was named Shamgret Danzas. He was 42 inches tall (at the shoulder!) and weighed 238 pounds

*The oldest cow ever recorded was a Dremon named "Big Bertha" that died 3 months shy of her 49th birthday on New Years Eve, 1993. (She died of natural causes that had nothing to do with partying on New Years if that is what your thinking!)

*A perfect game in baseball is one in which the same player pitches the entire game without allowing any player of the opposite team to reach first base by any means

*By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two and a half billion times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute)
*The tallest as well as the heaviest horse ever recorded was a Shire gelding named "Sampson." He measured 21.2 and one half hands (7 feet 2.5 inches) and weighed 3,360 pounds!

*The average human body contains enough: iron to make a three inch nail, sulfur to kill all fleas on an average dog, carbon to make 900 pencils, potassium to fire a toy cannon, fat to make 7 bars of soap, phosphorous to make 8 match heads, and water to fill a ten gallon tank
 
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
 
One in two million people will attempt washing their face and hands in nothing but lard.
 
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
 
Pop,

That was classic. Thank You.

70% of motorists believe themselves to be above average drivers.
 
Posted by SoberTillNoon (Member # 6170) on :
 
The only way to be above average is to obey every traffic law to the letter. No one is an above average driver.

[ May 15, 2004, 01:19 PM: Message edited by: SoberTillNoon ]
 
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
 
Hence the irony of that fact. Strangely, you and I are probably thinking that we are more skilled than other motorists and are IN FACT above average drivers, though.

*37 Helen's agree that you cannot spend too much money on a good pair of shoes. Geez, I miss Kids In The Hall
 
Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :
 
My mom has taken feather pillows to dry cleaners to be cleaned and get new ticking (covering).

Polar bears are left-handed ...
 
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
 
Sears Tower Trivia

1,454 Feet Tall

The Sears Tower is 1,454 feet high (that's about a quarter of a mile), and you can add another 253 feet for the twin antenna towers.

1,600 feet per minute
Sears Tower elevators operate as fast as 1,600 feet per minute.

106 Cabs
Two domed entrances, one with skylights, were added to the Sears Tower in 1984 and 1985. A 106-cab elevator system (including 16 double decker elevators) divides the Tower into three separate zones, with skylobbies in between.

114 Piles
The Sear Tower's heavy weight - more than 440 million pounds - is also supported by 114 piles sunk deep into the earth so that they stand firmly on hard, solid bedrock.

2 City Blocks
The Sears Tower covers two city blocks and has 101 acres of office and commerical space.

222,500 Tons
The combined weight of the building is 222,500 tons.

25,000 Entries
More than 25,000 people enter the Sears Tower every day.

Architects
The Sears Tower was designed by the architects "Skidmore, Owings & Merrill," the same firm that designed the John Hancock Center.

Exercise?
There are 2,232 steps from ground level to the roof. Unfortunately for those interested in a little legwork, people aren't normally allowed to use the stairwells.

Floor Space
4.5 million gross square feet of floor space.

HOW much?!?
The cost of building Sears Tower was in excess of $150 million.

Its Own City
The Sears Tower is a city unto itself, containing 43,000 miles of telephone cable, 2,000 miles of electrical wire, 25,000 miles of plumbing, and enough concrete to build an eight-lane highway five miles long. It even has its own zip code.

Lots of Windows
The Tower's framework consists of 76,000 tons of steel, has more than 16,000 bronze-tinted windows, and has 28 acres of black duranodic aluminum skin.

Nice View
On clear day, visibility from the Skydeck is more than 50 miles and four states: Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan.

Phone Wire
The Sears Tower contains enough phone wire to wrap around the earth 1.75 times, and enough electrical wiring to run a power line from Chicago to Los Angeles.

Sears Tower Skydeck
More than 1.5 million tourists visit the Sears Tower Skydeck each year.

Tallest in the World?
The Sears Tower ranked as the world's tallest building from its completion in 1973 until 1997, when twin towers in Malaysia beat it out by a few feet, WITH THE INCORPORATION OF SPIRES. The Sears Tower still boasts the highest top floor of any building in the world.

The Lobby and Calder
The famous sculpture Alexander Calder has several pieces of art in the lobby of the Sears Tower. He is well-known for his extremely large mobiles and red iron statues, one of the latter of which adorns the Federal Building Plaza.

The Tower is Tubes!
The Sears Tower is an example of the revolutionary bundled-tube structural design. Tube buildings gain most of their structural support from a rigid network of beams and columns in their outer walls. The rigid outer walls act like the walls of a hollow tube. The Sears Tower is actually a bundle of nine tubes, and is considered one of the most efficient structures designed to withstand wind. This is a great design for a skyscraper in Chicago, the "Windy City," where the average wind speed is 16 miles per hour. As the building climbs upward, the tubes begin to drop off, reducing the wind forces on the building.
 
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
quote:
The only way to be above average is to obey every traffic law to the letter. No one is an above average driver.
This would only be true if a) following every traffic law to the letter made one a better driver and b) the average driver followed every traffic law to the letter in every situation except one. Otherwise someone could be above-average by following all the traffic laws to the letter in every situation except one.

Of course, I dispute a) as well.

Dagonee
 
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
 
Most importantly, being above average is just that, above the mathematical average. To obey all traffic laws and be an excellent driver in a manner of skill would make a driver near perfect. In terms of a bell curve model, I believe the humor of the above factoid makes much more sense.

Ergo: You do not need to be a perfect driver to be "above average", you just need to be better than 50% of the drivers out there.

Vis-a-vis: Since 70% of drivers believe themselves to be "above average", this becomes mathematically impossible since we might arbitrarily establish that the top 25% or 30% of drivers on a bell curve to be considered above average.
 
Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
 
quote:
*A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds
*A duck's quack does not echo

Both of these were on the show Mythbusters and shown to be false. Goldfish were trained to go through a maze. And the sound waves in a duck's quack were shown to resemble the echo a lot, but the echo was definitely there.
 
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
 
Mythbusters also disproved that Hotel Keyguards are corrupted by magnets adn credit cards. I personally have proven this to BE true. therefore, mythbusters sucks.
 
Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
 
When something's strange in the neighborhood, who are you going to call?
 
Posted by SoberTillNoon (Member # 6170) on :
 
Mythbusters?
 
Posted by StigLarson (Member # 5579) on :
 
82% of all statistics are made up by people encountering "Post fun facts here" threads.
 
Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
 
Hmm.. I dont think that last one is valid.
 
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
 
Does anyone have one of the Bathroom Readers books? Fun facts galore!

Liz

PS I SO want a chillow.

Edit to say that I actually could use a whole chilloutfit. Can anyone both sew and figure out the chillow technology?

[ May 16, 2004, 06:53 PM: Message edited by: Elizabeth ]
 
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
 
quote:
Most importantly, being above average is just that, above the mathematical average. To obey all traffic laws and be an excellent driver in a manner of skill would make a driver near perfect. In terms of a bell curve model, I believe the humor of the above factoid makes much more sense.

Ergo: You do not need to be a perfect driver to be "above average", you just need to be better than 50% of the drivers out there.

Vis-a-vis: Since 70% of drivers believe themselves to be "above average", this becomes mathematically impossible since we might arbitrarily establish that the top 25% or 30% of drivers on a bell curve to be considered above average.

70% of drivers can be above average, let me show you how:

you don't need to be better than 50% to be above average, that would be above the median. You would just have to be above the average skill amount. For example lets say there are only 4 people, and their driving skills are rated on a 1 to 10 scale. Their skill levels are: 1, 8, 9, and 10. Makeing an average of 7, which 75% of the people are above. and keeping into account the people under the age of legel driving, and over the age of experianced driving, and people who do not know how to drive(including people from other countries), making it highly possible that the people who consider themselves above average drivers really are above average.
 
Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
 
does it really matter?
 
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
 
Average can mean any of: mean, median, mode.
 
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
Quick refresher for those who have forgotten their statistics, please: What is the mode?

I know mean is the sum of the values divided by the number of value (used for GPAs, it's what most people think of as the average).

Median is simply the value for which there are an equal number of higher and lower values in a set of values (or the average of the two middle values when needed). I'm not sure of all the details for special situations, such as when what would be the median value is present multiple times but not evenly spread about the middle.

I have no idea what mode is, however. I used to know, but apparantly I've never had to make use of it before in a non-academic setting.

On a side note, the idea of an average driver may be impossible on it's face, since there are so many factors contrubiting to what makes someone a good driver. Any attempt to reduce it to a single value is doomed to failure.

Dagonee
 
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
 
Here's a fun fact that I learned the other day.

You know how there are some American Beer companies that have been around for over 100 years? I always wondered how they survived the prohibition. But now I know!

Coors, for example, survived by selling malted milk to Mars candy. Malted milk is pretty much just malt (pre-fermented beer) mixed with cream. Mars' first candy bar was the Milky Way, named for the Coors malted milk.

So it seems that the prohibition is responsible for a lot of the malted milk products that we eat now. When you eat Whoppers, you are eating creamy pre-beer.
 
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
I've heard that Coors didn't fire a single employee during prohibition - that's amazing.

Dagonee
 
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
The mode is the value that occurs the most times. There was no mode in the data set example that MEC provided above, but if we expand his set to 1,2,2,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 there is one -- and still 70% of the sample is above it.
 
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
 
I know. Today, the first thing the corporate suits would do would be to lay off half of their employees, and *then* try to figure out how to stay in buisness.
 
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
Thanks, dahling!
 
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
O_o

Um, you're welcome, sweetie.
 
Posted by Altįriėl of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
 
Did you know?

-The strongest muscle in your body is your toungue.
Bill Nye told me that one.
 
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
 
Really? How much can you lift with your tongue?
 
Posted by Altįriėl of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
 
Hey man I don't know, but the toungue works by itself, where as other muscles depend on one another, and your bones in order to work at all. Besides, isn't the toungue your most exersized muscle? You use it every day to eat, talk, kiss, etc.

[ May 17, 2004, 10:39 AM: Message edited by: Altįriėl of Dorthonion ]
 
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Sorry, but it just isn't so. Straight Dope

Anyway, the tongue is not one muscle -- it's three.
 
Posted by Altįriėl of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
 
Oh well, whatever.
I also found this though:

Your brain weighs about three pounds, but over two pounds of that is water
 
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
 
Frogs don't drink.

According to my infallible Snapple cap.
 
Posted by Altįriėl of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
 
I do believe that to be true.
Snapple is never wrong.
 
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
 
drink alcohol...or liquids?

[ May 17, 2004, 03:08 PM: Message edited by: MEC ]
 
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
 
Didn't specify.
 
Posted by Polio (Member # 6479) on :
 
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

- You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

- Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

- The flea can jump 350 times its body length. That is like a human jumping the length of a football field.

- A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

- Every time you lick a stamp you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

- You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

- Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

- In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

- The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

- The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days.

- On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

- Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

- On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

- If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

- If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
 
Posted by Altįriėl of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
 
You got those from the same site I got my "brain" fact, now didn't you?
[Wink]
 
Posted by Polio (Member # 6479) on :
 
No! I'll give you my website if you give me yours...
 
Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
 
You guys should share [Cool]
 
Posted by Polio (Member # 6479) on :
 
OK... her first.
 
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
 
Considering how many of those facts are total crap, you really shouldn't.
 
Posted by cochick (Member # 6167) on :
 
I love strange laws

Like the fact that its still legal to shoot someone with a bow and arrow if caught climbing over Chester (England) city walls between midnight and six in the morning.
 
Posted by cochick (Member # 6167) on :
 
Alaska law says that you can't look at a moose from an airplane

In Miami, it is forbidden to imitate an animal

In Illinois, the law is that a car must be driven with the steering wheel

In Memphis, Tennessee, a woman is not to drive a car unless a man warns approaching motorists or pedestrians by walking in front of the car that is being driven

In Tennessee, it is against the law to drive a car while sleeping

In Utah, birds have the right of way on any public highway.

In Virginia, the Code of 1930 has a statute which prohibits corrupt practices or bribery by any person other than political candidates

In Washington State, you can't carry a concealed weapon that is over 6 feet in length.

The law states that more than 3000 sheep cannot be herded down Hollywood Blvd. at any one time.
 
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
 
Dagonee,
The mode is the most frequently used number, basically. Sometimes, there is no mode.
 
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
quote:
The law states that more than 3000 sheep cannot be herded down Hollywood Blvd. at any one time.
Rats!
 
Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :
 
quote:
- Every time you lick a stamp you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

That's why I buy self-adhesive stamps - I have to save my calorie intake for M&Ms. [Wink]
 
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
 
No, rivka, sheep. As far as I know, there are no rules currently governing the movement of rats.

*slaps knee*
 
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
 
quote:
- Every time you lick a stamp you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

A calorie or a Calorie(also known as kilocalorie)?
 
Posted by Polio (Member # 6479) on :
 
A calorie.
 
Posted by Fyfe (Member # 937) on :
 
My favorite fact in the world--has anyone said this yet?

Myoclonic twitch = when you're sort of half asleep and dreaming, and in the dream you step down or move your hand, and you try to do it in real life too, and it jerks you back all the way awake

Oh, how I love knowing that.

*happy dance*

Jen
 
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
 
I do that all the time while sleeping... Now I feel better.
 
Posted by Altįriėl of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
 
I learned the other day, that if you're forced, somehow, to sneeze with your eyes ope, your eyes pop out of their sockets. My chemistry teacher said that it was true.
 
Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
 
Its not possible to sneeze with your eyes open! I've tried many times.
 


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