Home | Zones | Log in | Register

Fun Fact of the Day

wow

Nobody
Filtering | Stop Filtering
 ⬇︎ 
Page 1 of /1

Day 1

Take a deck of cards that is not in new deck order and then give then a generic/random shuffle. You just created a brand new combination of 52 cards that has literally never happened before in all of history since cards were invented. Go ahead and shuffle them again and as many times as you like. Every single time you will have created a unique set of cards that has NEVER existed before in history. No person has ever shuffled a deck of cards and created the same set of 52 cards in the order you just created.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-02 19:02:442023-10-02 19:02
The Boss

Day 2

When it is raining outside you will actually get LESS wet if you walk at a normal pace through the rain than if you run through the rain. You will spend overall more time in the rain by walking, however there will be measurably less water on you.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-09-25 21:04:572023-09-25 21:04
The Boss

Day 3

The placebo effect is the phenomenon of a person’s physical or mental health improving after taking a treatment with no pharmacological therapeutic benefit. For instance a sugar pill, or a syringe full of saline.

How our brains have such power over our physical health is still largely unknown. However placebos have been proven to help with gastic ulcers, hypertension, pain of any kind, cough (one study showed 85% of the effectiveness of cough medicene is placebo, and only 15% is from the medicene), depression, anxiety, erictile dysfunction, IBD, Parkinsons, and epilepsy.

Bonus Fact:
This also means there is real and scientific reasoning to why and how prayer can actually work and physically improve your life and well-being.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-02 16:17:252023-10-02 16:17
The Boss

Day 4

The placebo effect still works even if from the very beginning you tell the person they are getting a placebo and not a real drug.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-02 14:51:572023-10-02 14:51
The Boss

Day 5

There are more trees on earth than there are stars in the milkyway. NASA has estimated there are around 400 billion stars in the milkyway while the estimate for number of trees is around 3 trillion.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-02 14:52:202023-10-02 14:52
The Boss

Day 6

There are at least 17 distinctly different kinds of ice. You likely have only ever seen one type call Type I ice. The rest of the types of ice form under different pressures and temperatures. One of the types occurs when water freezes and it has absolutely no room to expand, which is EXTREMELY difficult to do, and not even Niel Degrassi Tyson knows this type of ice exists!

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-02 17:33:282023-10-02 17:33
The Boss

Day 7

Two factors go into water freezing. The first one is temperature that everyone knows about, but the second is pressure. Water only freezes at 32°F at sea level and under Earth’s atmospheric pressure. If you put water into a vacuum chamber it can actually simultaneously freeze and boil at the same time.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-02 14:54:222023-10-02 14:54
The Boss

Day 8

We have yet to actually discover why humans need sleep. We do know many benefits of sleep, but it is not known why it is 100% necessary to live. You will die if you manage to go too long without sleep. There is even a rare genetic disease called fatal familial insomnia (FFI) that has always ended in death.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-02 16:02:402023-10-02 16:02
The Boss

Day 9

Recently in history bad eye sight has increased far faster than genetics can account for. After looking into it, science has determined the best way to drastically increase the odds children do not need glasses is to ensure their eyes get exposed to a proper amount of sunlight. Children who get inadequate amounts of sunlight are much more likely to need glasses.

Bonus fact:
Sitting close to the tv does not hurt or help your eyesight, unless TV time is the reason you have less sunlight exposure.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-03 19:32:192023-10-03 19:32
The Boss

Day 10

Pure H²0 is actually bad for you and dangerous to drink. It will kill your cells that come into direct contact with it and after it can no longer kill your cells it will still drain out nutrients from your remaining cells and then you will pee those nutrients out. Osmosis can be a bitch.

Bonus fact:
You can die from drinking too much water. Unfortunately people unaware of this have had water drinking competitions and people have died from this.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-04 12:11:172023-10-04 12:11
The Boss

Day 11

Honey is the only food we currently know of that is capable of never spoiling. We have found 3,000+ year old honey in egyptian tombs that was still edible.

Bonus “fact”
Well that and old French fries that you droped in your car and fell under your seat. Those will be there forever, never grow mold, and never decompose. Why do we eat these things…?

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-05 13:30:282023-10-05 13:30
The Boss

Day 12

If there are two cars of mostly equal size/weight both going 60mph have a head on collison, the force and damage done to both cars is the exact same damage that would have been done if those cars instead hit a nonmoving brick wall.

The speeds do not get added together or anything of that sort. Hitting the other car going 60mph towards you is the same thing as hitting a stationary brick wall.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-07 01:38:502023-10-07 01:38
The Boss

Day 13

Antibacterial soap has never been shown to clean better in any significant way compared to regular soap. However antibacterial soap has been proven to accelerate the rate at which bacteria development resistance to antibiotics.

Please dont buy antibacterial soap.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-06 16:10:152023-10-06 16:10
The Boss

Day 14

Due to human poaching, male tuskless elephants are becoming more and more common. These elephants never grow tusks at any point in their life.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-02 15:18:012023-10-02 15:18
The Boss

Day 15

Even though there are 365+ days in a year it only takes 23 different people in a room for there to be a 5050 chance that two of these people share the same birthday.

With 40 people in a room there would be a 90% chance and with 70 people there would be a 99.9% chance.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-02 15:18:282023-10-02 15:18
The Boss

Day 16

Humans are capable of using echolocation, the same thing bats use to get around. It is rare but there are documented instances of people who are blind who have developed this amazing ability.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-02 15:19:092023-10-02 15:19
The Boss

Day 17

Napoleon Bonaparte, history’s most famous short dude, was actually above average height. He was not short at all. The enemies of Napoleon launched a propaganda campaign calling him a short man and it worked.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-02 15:19:272023-10-02 15:19
The Boss

Day 18

There is a species of moth that has a pattern on it’s wings that resemble flies eating bird poop. What are the chances this could possibly happen via random genetic mutation?


Screenshot_20200209-144317_YouTube.jpg
Screenshot_20200209-144323_YouTube.jpg

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-12 15:50:102023-10-12 15:50
The Boss

Day 19

The Double Slit experiment is something that legitimately changed my life.

It is, of course, far too complicated for me to do justice to the topic in this one post, but what the Double Slit experiment proves is that if you shoot a single photon of light through a double slit, the single photon actually simultaneously goes through both slits at the same time as if it were a wave. The photon then is still measured as a single photon shortly after it has passed through both slits.

That is however unless you attempt in anyway to observe which slit the photon goes through. If you measure through any means which slit the photon goes through, the photon will actually only go through one slit and not both.

The act of observing the photon changes the physical world. If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-14 16:00:522023-10-14 16:00
The Boss

Day 20

The Quantum Eraser………

Again I strongly encourage you to look into this further, but is possible to set up a contraption so that you can always know which slit the photon goes through in the Double Slit expirament, but give you the ability to erase that information so that aftwerwards you could have no idea which slit the photon went through even though you did measure it. When you do this, it is as if you never measured it in the first place, really solidifying the fact that observation and observation alone is what is changing the photon’s behavior.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-16 13:27:432023-10-16 13:27
The Boss

Day 21

Trophy hunting exotic or endangered animals actually is greater good more often than it is bad. People pay very large sums of money to be able to legally trophy hunt these animals and this money really is used to protect these animals as a whole and ensures that there will always be more of these animals. After all if the species would go extinct, then these places would lose all the large income generated from it.

Also if you are the people who have to live next to say lions, you don’t actually care very much how cute or cool that lions are. All you care about is feeding your family and not dying because of lions. Providing these people with an income makes the people who actually have to live with these animals want to keep them alive.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-02 15:25:002023-10-02 15:25
The Boss

Day 22

If you could fold a piece of paper 42 times, the thickness of the folded paper would stretch from earth to the moon.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-02 15:23:342023-10-02 15:23
The Boss

Day 23

Semi identical twins, also known as sesquizygotic twins, is a rare phenomenon that produces a male and female set of twins that share 50% of their DNA. This is thought to occur when two sperm manage to fertilize an egg.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-02 15:25:442023-10-02 15:25
The Boss

Day 24

Ball lighting is a mysterious and yet unexplained atmospheric phenomenon. The term describes luminescent, spherical objects that vary from pea size to several meters in diameter. This freak of nature is typically associated with thunderstorms but lasts considerably longer than thunder/lightning.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-02 15:26:412023-10-02 15:26
The Boss

Day 25

In order to make seedless watermelon you still need to make seeded watermelon. Not just to carry on the plant lineage but actually in order to make seedless watermelon at all. Seedless watermelon plants require the pollen of a seeded watermelon plants to produce it’s fruit, so farmers typically plant 50% seeded watermelon and 50% seedless in order to get as much seedless watermelon as possible

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-02 15:27:112023-10-02 15:27
The Boss

Day 26

It is actually impossible to draw an accurate map of the earth onto paper without some kind of distortion. It’s been proven mathematically that you cannot accurately represent the surface of a 3d ellipsis onto 2d paper.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-04 18:28:142023-10-04 18:28
The Boss

Day 27

Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt who died 30 years before Jesus was born, lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than to the time when the great pyramids were built.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-21 18:07:132023-10-21 18:07
The Boss

Day 28

Rainbows as you know them are not real.

Rainbows are only kind of real, as in there is something there, however what you see as a rainbow is only how your eye and your brain interpret what it thinks a rainbow should look like. Two humans can see rainbows differently. This is obvious when you consider color blind or color deficient people, but even “normal” people can see colors/rainbows differently. Other animals will see something entirely different than we do. How you see a rainbow is unique to you, and how we generally describe rainbows as a human is unique to humans.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-02 15:28:172023-10-02 15:28
The Boss

Day 29

Human sweat can convey the emotions you are feeling. If you are anxious, threatened, or happy these can all be found in your sweat. It has also been shown that dogs definitely are aware of your emotions via the smell of your sweat and will even mimic your emotions because of it.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-02 15:28:242023-10-02 15:28
The Boss

Day 30

Time traveling to the future is not only possible, but has already been done. Sergei Krikalev currently holds the Guinness record for most time traveled into the future.

Bonus Fact:
We do not yet know if it is actually possible to travel back in time yet.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-02 17:23:272023-10-02 17:23
The Boss

Day 31

There is scientific reasoning on what could have caused all 10 of the ancient biblical plagues of Egypt that Moses was said to bring upon them.

Plague #1 Blood water
The Nile turning red could have been due to “Red Tide” (a form of red algae) which can also suck all the oxygen out of the water and/or produce noxious toxins to kill all the fish.

Plague #2 Frogs
Swarms of frogs have been documented in history, and this especially makes sense if the frogs had to flee from the red tide in the river and other bodies of water.

Plague #3 Fleas/Lice
An outburst of fleas really is not all that unheard of, especially now with the large quantities of dead frogs from the previous plague.

Plague #4 ???
This one is tricky because we have no effing idea what the Hebrew word “arov” means which is the official name for the 4th plague. It has been interpreted as snakes, scorpions, bears, lions, wolves and generic “wild beasts.” However it is thought the most likely interpretation is a swarm of flies, catalyzed by all the dead frogs, such as the stable fly whose bite can definitely cause boils.

Plague #5 Diseased livestock
The description of this plague in the bible could describe a few known viruses such as rinderpest, African horse sickness, or Bluetongue.

Plague #6 Boils
This easily could have been a direct result of plague #3 or plague #4

Plague #7 Fiery hail
There is a nearby volcano on an island north of Crete in the Aegean Sea, which if erupted could explain this plague

Plague #8 Locusts
The ash fallout from Plague #7 could have caused weather anomalies, which translates into higher precipitations, higher humidity, and that’s exactly what fosters the presence of the locusts.

Plague #9 Darkness
We know there was a solar eclipse in the region on March 5, 1223 B.C. which might explain this, but from the description of the plague is highly unlikely. More likely is the ash from the volanco eruption from Plague #7 caused the darkness.

Plague #10 Death of the Firsborn
There are numerous activites that were commonly perform by the oldest child in Egypt, all of which may have caused this. One of them being they were the first to eat, and if there were large-scale contamination of their food, they would be the most affected.

Bonus Fact:
Fuck you, you just got 10 facts in one! NO BONUS FACT FOR YOU!

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-26 16:33:252023-10-26 16:33
The Boss

Day 32

There is a phenomenon known as “wind setdown.” Wind setdown is the drop in water level caused by wind stress acting on the surface of a body of water for an extended period of time. As the wind blows, water recedes from the upwind shore and exposes terrain that was formerly underwater.

In Exodus 14 it says the following:
“Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided”

Even though modern movies and stories suggest the parting of the red sea happened very magically and quickly, the actual words in the Bible say that the parting took all night and during strong wind.

It is entirely plausible this event actually could have happened as described in the bible and from real/natural causes.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-04 20:26:482023-10-04 20:26
The Boss

Day 33

Magenta, the color that is a mixture of red and purple, isnt real. There is no such thing as a magenta color, and it is simply your brain making the color up out of thin air. All colors in reality have a wavelength that directly corresponds to the color, and there is no such wavelength for magenta.

And if you look at a rainbow, which does contain all colors, there is no magenta. If magenta were to exist, it would be either before red or after violet and it simply is not there.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-16 13:36:162023-10-16 13:36
The Boss

Day 34

A majority of people have an above average number of toes. Who would have thought that is what the prevalence of shoes were hiding?

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-07 12:03:232023-10-07 12:03
The Boss

Day 35

Parthenogenesis is the ability to have a “virgin birth” where a female is still able to have offspring without sperm from a male. The resulting offspring are genetic clones of the mother.

Once thought impossible or improbable, we are finding more and more species that are capable of parthenogenesis. There have been documented cases of this in zoos from animals such as sharks, snakes, fish, and birds.

The Boss

Day 36

Ignac Semmelweis was the first person to discover how incredibly important it is for doctors to wash their hands before interacting with a patient. After telling other doctors how dirty their hands were, and how these doctors have been unknowingly directly responsible for a vast swathe of illness and death, those doctors didnt much like Ignac Semmelweis. They were offended that he would accuse such high status people as themselves of having dirty hands. Not only did doctors continue to not wash their hands after his discovery, they committed Ignac to an insane asylum where he was then severely beaten and died from a blood infection in 1865.

It then took 20 years after his death for the world to start to admit that Ignac was right.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-08 23:55:592023-10-08 23:55
The Boss

Day 37

The Monty Hall problem is a famous math scenario that fooled thousands of academics when it first came out. The scenario is the following:

You are a contestant on a game show and you are attempting to win the grand prize. There are three curtains, and the grand prize is behind one of them. We will call them curtain 1, 2, and 3. Lets say you pick curtain #2. The game show then will open a curtain, in this case we will say curtain #3 showing you that the grand prize is not behind curtain #3. They then ask you if you would like to switch to curtain #1 or keep curtain #2. What should you do?

The math says to ALWAYS switch your choice in this scenario. You will have a 23 chance of getting the grand prize if you switch, and only 13 chance of the grand prize if you keep your first choice.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-11 15:25:102023-10-11 15:25
The Boss

Day 38

Blindsight is a phenomenon where a person believes they are blind, or have significant blind areas in their vision, however their sight is still working and still sending signals to their brain. The person’s consciousness though cannot remember or perceive any of the vision in the blind region. When asked to “guess” what is in their blind region, they are able to guess correctly a significant amount of the time, despite being adamant they cannot see what it is they are guessing.

The Boss

Day 39

The largest known living organism is called Pando and is an entire aspen grove. Pando is a group of genetically identical quaking aspens in Utah with an interconnected root system. The plant is an estimated 80,000 years old and takes up more than 100 acres estimated to weigh over 6,000 tons.

The Boss

Day 40

Every color of Froot Loop ceral tastes exactly the same.

The Boss

Day 41

Humans are the only known animals capable of blushing due to embarrassment.

The Boss

Day 42

Ophiocordyceps unilateralis (aka cordyceps), commonly known as zombie-ant fungus is found predominantly in tropical forest ecosystems. In the final stages of infection, the fungus causes the ant to find either a twig or leaf that is EXACTLY 25 centimeters high from the ground and then from the underside to bite the twig or leaf with a death grip. The ants heart will stop beating shortly after, and then after a few days the fungus sprouts a long stalk from the base of it’s head to spread it’s spores to the floor below.

Bonus fact:
This fungus inspired The Last of US

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-18 15:35:502023-10-18 15:35
The Boss

Day 43

Polar bear liver is incredibly deadly for humans to consume, and a single polar bear liver could kill upwards of 52 people. Oddly the cause of death for everyone would be acute hypervitaminosis A, or an overdose of vitamin A.

Bonus fact:
The above seems to be an exaggeration/possibly entirely untrue, but it is EVERYWHERE on the internet. If you actually look for people who have survived eating polar bear liver, you will find most people survive. Even though you survive you are very likely to be somewhere between ill to severely ill, and some do die from it. There are also some pretty gruesome potential side effects such as your skin falling off. There have been rare cases where people have had no side effects from eating polar bear liver.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-20 15:04:372023-10-20 15:04
The Boss

Day 44

Hairworms are the only known organisms that can not grow thin silica structures. Even single celled organisms all either have these structures or could have them if they wanted to. Only the hairworm can not grow them.

Bonus Fact:
Thin silica structures are also known as hair.

The Boss

Day 45

When taking a long flight, the shortest distance to travel and fastest flight path is never a “straight” line as you would see on a map. Since the earth is in fact a globe, it is faster to travel in a geodesic (a circular-like curve) to take advantage of the fact that there is less circumference the higher up or lower down on the earth you go.

A great example of this is the flight path taken from New York City to Tokyo Japan. This flight path nearly goes above Alaksa entirely in it’s geodesic/shortest path!

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-22 17:54:102023-10-22 17:54
The Boss

Day 46

The US government discovered that there were some bad meat packing practices going on and in an effort to keep americans safe and to ensure our meat was good, starting in 1906 we implemented the poke n sniff method of meat approval. A licensed professional would take a long metal rod, insert it into the meat, pull it out, and sniff the rod. If it passed or failed the smell check, he would then go onto the next peice of meat and perform the quality assurance with the same metal rod. This practice lasted until 1996.

The Boss

Day 47

Whoopi Goldberg’s real name is Caryn Johnson. Whoopi Goldberg is her stage name. She said she chose the name Whoopi because early in her career she was often gaseous and her peers said she sounded like a whoopee cushion.

Her chosen last name, Goldberg, is a very common jewish last name, and she thought her career chances in Hollywood would be better with a jewish last name.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-11-15 19:44:492023-11-15 19:44
The Boss

Day 48

The Milgram Experiment

This experiment tasked a person with punishing a person with electrical shocks when, what they believed was another real person, would make a mistake. The person being shocked was actually an actor pretending to be shocked. What was found is that humans will mostly obey orders given by authority figures. Every single participant was willing to shock the other person up to 350 volts, and 65% of the participants continued the shocks to the full 450 volts and would, if real, have killed the other person. Some of the participants still continued to shock the actor even after the actor pretended to be unconscious.

Edited by vzJustice at 2023-10-27 20:20:352023-10-27 20:20
The Boss

Day #49

Electricity doesnt actually travel through wires. Most people believe that it is the electrons moving through the wire that is electricity, but this actually isn’t the case. While electrons do move through the wire, it is not this motion itself that isthe power of electricity. The true power of electricity travels outside of the wire in the electric and magnetic fields created by the motion of the elections.

Also there is no single continuous wire from power plants to your house. All electricity will go through a transformer at some point, and part of a teansformer breaks the continuous wire. Since the electricity doesnt travel through the wire itself, the electricity is able to bridge the gaps.

Sowing
Circles
Sidereal Time
100 prisioners problem
Falling ladder - V
Wind power - V
Banded Armadillo babies
Tallest mountains (center from earth)
Antarctic clear blood fish
The pyramids have 8 sides, not 4

Edited by vzJustice at 2024-03-25 20:34:31Mar 25 20:34
The Boss
Reply:
To reply to this thread, please join this community.
Pages: 1
1 person is reading this thread now.
Thread List | ↑ Top