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[KageyK]

Random facts

They are truth based and random. There are usually no circumstances that you should ever need to know these facts,but they are fun.

Fun fact. :seahorses are the only species in the world where men give birth.

 

[GnomeChimpsky]

• Napoleon was slightly above average in height.
• The Apollo 11 astronauts didn't get a ticker-tape parade as soon as they got home. Instead they had to spend three weeks in this thing: https://airandspace.si.edu/sites/default/files/images/image-albums/5251h.jpg Scientists were afraid of space germs.

 

[Cunth]

The sun is bigger than the moon but further away

 

[choco-fish]

White chocolate doesn’t contain any chocolate.

 

[MrTickles]

I'm here to spoil the party by correcting misconceptions.

^ White chocolate is chocolate. Chocolate doesn't need to contain Cocoa.

 

[Nymphae]

Thaw and unthaw mean the same thing.

 

[brap]

Traps aren't gay

 

[Winter John]

Putting sugar on a wound will reduce pain and shorten the healing process.

 

[matt404au]

El brapo strikes again

 

[slugbahr]

Thaw and unthaw mean the same thing.

Flammable and inflammable are also the same.

 

[Pagusas]

Flammable and inflammable are also the same.

So what’s the word for not flammable then?

 

[greyshark]

Flammable and inflammable are also the same.

What a language!

 

[slugbahr]

So what’s the word for not flammable then?

I dunno.

Maybe 'Nazi'??

 

[trikster40]

From a physics perspective, decelerate and accelerate are the same thing.

Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity of an object with respect to time. That includes positive and negative velocity.

 

[llien]

Tomatoes and cucumbers are not vegetables.

 

[Powellerthegreat]

I can go from in a relationship to its complicated by using only my mouth

 

[LegendOfKage]

Flammable and inflammable are also the same.

So what’s the word for not flammable then?

Ininflammable.

 

[bigedole]

From a physics perspective, decelerate and accelerate are the same thing.

Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity of an object with respect to time. That includes positive and negative velocity.

Wrong, you can't have a negative velocity. Velocity is a vector. Acceleration is the rate of change, and that rate can be positive or negative. Velocity itself can only have a magnitude.

 

[LegendOfKage]

The Sanskrit word for "War" literally translates to "the desire for more cows."

 

[trikster40]

Wrong, you can't have a negative velocity. Velocity is a vector. Acceleration is the rate of change, and that rate can be positive or negative. Velocity itself can only have a magnitude.

Actually, objects can have negative velocity. Any object which moves in a negative direction has negative velocity.

https://www.physicsclassroom.com/mmedia/kinema/nvna.cfm

 

[Rentahamster]

Wrong, you can't have a negative velocity. Velocity is a vector. Acceleration is the rate of change, and that rate can be positive or negative. Velocity itself can only have a magnitude.

Vectors can be negative too.

edit: Unless your point is that reference points and coordinates are all arbitrary anyway?

 

[Rentahamster]

whoopsies (dbl post)

 

[bigedole]

People may choose to call it negative or positive based on direction, but in all of the many years of physics I took, we never once called a velocity negative. You can have negative direction, but velocity is the magnitude of the vector and it doesn't make sense to change its sign based on direction. Someone driving from Houston to Dallas doesn't say I drove 60 MPH there and -60 MPH back. It would be nonsense.

 

[matt404au]

People may choose to call it negative or positive based on direction, but in all of the many years of physics I took, we never once called a velocity negative. You can have negative direction, but velocity is the magnitude of the vector and it doesn't make sense to change its sign based on direction. Someone driving from Houston to Dallas doesn't say I drove 60 MPH there and -60 MPH back. It would be nonsense.

Speed is the magnitude of the vector. Velocity is the vector itself.

 

[hariseldon]

I can go from in a relationship to its complicated by using only my mouth

Personally I'd recommend blaming the dementors...

 

[Husky]

Warwick Davis plays Professor Filius Flitwick in the Harry Potter film series, as well as the goblin Griphook in The Deathly Hallows, but in The Sorcerosipher's Stone he only voices the goblin. Verne Troyer played Griphook's body. I don't know why.
Warwick Davis has portrayed nine Star Wars characters, eight of those live-action. He's one of a few actors that are given a cameo in just about every Star Wars movie, sometimes more than once in a film. Sam Witwer's another, after getting his start in the franchise by starring in The Force Unleashed (and Galen Marek/Starkiller was even modeled after him). Since then, he's also voiced every major appearance of Darth Maul and Emperor Palpatine.

Colin Creevey only appeared in one Harry Potter movie, Chamber of Secrets, and his younger brother Dennis appeared in none. Instead, they were made into a compound character in The Goblet of Fire with Nigel Wolpert, who continued to appear in every subsequent film. He's also the youngest wizard to have fought in the battle of Hogwarts, being fourteen at the time, though in the books the youngest were Colin and Ginny (both sixteen). He actually died in the Deathly Hallows Part II's script, being carried into the Great Hall in the same fashion as Colin was, but he'd grown too much for it to look all that great, so it was never shot. Whether or not he died in the final film is unconfirmed.

Roddy McDowall played Cornelius, Caesar, and Galen in the original screen adaptations of Planet of the Apes. Except in Beneath the Planet of the Apes--he was busy directing another film, so David Watson took the role of Cornelius.

The Double (2011) and Enemy (2011) were released a day apart from each other at TIFF. They both share the similar premise of a man meeting his exact doppelganger, and are adapted from separate novel(la)s titled The Double.

Stephen dubbed the genre of his new EP as "future nature."

Men having an attraction to traps is gay. But that's okay. Maybe we should just be comfortable with love being love and lust being lust, and not worry about the terms applied. I won't judge so long as you aren't causing harm to anyone else.

 

[bitbydeath]

I’m sure a lot of people know this but it gets me every time. The button on an iPhone makes a clicking noise that tricks your brain into thinking the button presses in but it is just a sound effect. If you turn your phone off and press the button it won’t play the sound effect and you will notice it is absolutely solid.

 

[hariseldon]

I’m sure a lot of people know this but it gets me every time. The button on an iPhone makes a clicking noise that tricks your brain into thinking the button presses in but it is just a sound effect. If you turn your phone off and press the button it won’t play the sound effect and you will notice it is absolutely solid.

Funny thing - I feel the button (actually it's also a vibration) but my wife doesn't.

 

[bitbydeath]

Funny thing - I feel the button (actually it's also a vibration) but my wife doesn't.

Yeah, had to lookup the name. Haptic feedback. While it’s not exclusive to Apple they did make their own version of it and it feels exactly like pushing a button. The vibration is very subtle.

 

[betrayal]

Gender is not binary.

 

[Bwesh]

Beer saved the world

 

[Ellis]

If bees were to go extinct, so would humans.

Or at the very least, we would be incredibly fucked but maybe just scrap through.

 

[CurryPanda]

If you pay dinner for a feminist, she will get triggered.

 

[hariseldon]

Turning off GAF notifications is incredibly liberating.

 

[Ellis]

Turning off GAF notifications is incredibly liberating.

They don't even work on mobile.

Well, not for me they don't.

 

[JareBear]

Turning off GAF notifications is incredibly liberating.

I might have to try this. Getting depressing how many people either have me on ignore or have Like Boycotted me at this point. Maybe "out of sight, out of mind" would help

 

[CDiggity]

It is impossible to hum while holding your nose.

 

[llien]

The Sanskrit word for "War" literally translates to "the desire for more cows."

"Getting something" in German could be said as "krieg-en", while "Krieg" actually means "war".

 

[hariseldon]

They don't even work on mobile.

Well, not for me they don't.

They work fine for me. JareBear - not sure like-boycotting is a thing. I can't speak for others but I'll even like a NI post if it's good.

 

[nikolino840]

Ancient greeks not know the blue color

 

[LMJ]

Cleopatra is believed to have potentially had the world's first vibrator when historians found a hollowed out "phallic" gourd that was filled with the corpses of dead bees...

Buzz buzz

 

[Dark Star]

Warwick Davis plays Professor Filius Flitwick in the Harry Potter film series, as well as the goblin Griphook in The Deathly Hallows, but in The Sorcerosipher's Stone he only voices the goblin. Verne Troyer played Griphook's body. I don't know why.
Warwick Davis has portrayed nine Star Wars characters, eight of those live-action. He's one of a few actors that are given a cameo in just about every Star Wars movie, sometimes more than once in a film. Sam Witwer's another, after getting his start in the franchise by starring in The Force Unleashed (and Galen Marek/Starkiller was even modeled after him). Since then, he's also voiced every major appearance of Darth Maul and Emperor Palpatine.

Colin Creevey only appeared in one Harry Potter movie, Chamber of Secrets, and his younger brother Dennis appeared in none. Instead, they were made into a compound character in The Goblet of Fire with Nigel Wolpert, who continued to appear in every subsequent film. He's also the youngest wizard to have fought in the battle of Hogwarts, being fourteen at the time, though in the books the youngest were Colin and Ginny (both sixteen). He actually died in the Deathly Hallows Part II's script, being carried into the Great Hall in the same fashion as Colin was, but he'd grown too much for it to look all that great, so it was never shot. Whether or not he died in the final film is unconfirmed.

Roddy McDowall played Cornelius, Caesar, and Galen in the original screen adaptations of Planet of the Apes. Except in Beneath the Planet of the Apes--he was busy directing another film, so David Watson took the role of Cornelius.

The Double (2011) and Enemy (2011) were released a day apart from each other at TIFF. They both share the similar premise of a man meeting his exact doppelganger, and are adapted from separate novel(la)s titled The Double.

Stephen dubbed the genre of his new EP as "future nature."

Men having an attraction to traps is gay. But that's okay. Maybe we should just be comfortable with love being love and lust being lust, and not worry about the terms applied. I won't judge so long as you aren't causing harm to anyone else.

I love Harry Potter

thank you

 

[edomedo]

Avocados, Olives, Eggplants, and Peppers are fruits.

 

[KageyK]

Cleopatra is believed to have potentially had the world's first vibrator when historians found a hollowed out "phallic" gourd that was filled with the corpses of dead bees...

Buzz buzz

That’s dirty and now I’m going to spend half a day reading if it’s true or not. (hopefully with videos)

 

[niveaformen]

one of history's greatest minds, Isaac Newton, stuck a needle between his eye and eye socket, pushing it as far as it could go to see what would happen (nothing too drastic).

 

[LegendOfKage]

Cleopatra is believed to have potentially had the world's first vibrator when historians found a hollowed out "phallic" gourd that was filled with the corpses of dead bees...

Buzz buzz

This is a pretty interesting rabbit hole to fall into, and it goes deeper than you'd expect:

 

[AV]

Unless anyone knows otherwise, the word you can use the most in a row (even with periods) is "had". 11 times to be exact. Imagine a scenario where two boys are writing an essay and are unsure on whether you should use "had" or "had had" in a sentence.

John, where Jack had had "had", had had "had had". "had had" had had the teacher's permission.

 

[AV]

spoil the party by correcting misconceptions.

This is always fun. The great wall of China cannot be seen from space. Red doesn't make bulls angry, bats aren't blind and lemmings don't commit mass suicide. Twinkies don't stay fresh for years and fortune cookies were invented by the Japanese. Vikings didn't have horns on their helmets and no-one in Salem was burnt at the stake.

There's so many of these but those are the ones I can remember off the top of my head.

 

[mcjmetroid]

Meryl Streep did the voice of Jessica Lovejoy from the Simpsons.

 

[JimmyJones]

Gender is not binary.

OP asked for facts not fiction.