This thread is for facts and statistics that make you go “Wow! That's Interesting!”

Scuba is an acronym
Self
Contained
Underwater
Breathing
Apparatus

The La Brea Tar Pits is a tautology; the name literally translates to The The Tar Tar Pits

More tautological place names

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Snails can sleep up to 3 years.
Pigs can't turn their heads to the sky.
An average human could fit (or swim) inside the veins of an adult blue whale.

foundyoufaker wrote:

Snails can sleep up to 3 years.
Pigs can't turn their heads to the sky.
An average human could fit (or swim) inside the veins of an adult blue whale.

How was that last fact discovered?

fun fact: only 60 living people on the entire planet have been identified to possess the rather interesting ability to remember every single memory they've ever made. for example, assuming they were alive on or before june 17th, 2013, at 2:19 pm central time, you can ask one of these people what happened on june 17th, 2013, at 2:19 pm central time, and they'll be able to tell you what happened. it's amazing.

great big story made a really cool video about it that you can check out here.

Kiwi

TheSafetyMiner wrote:

foundyoufaker wrote:

Snails can sleep up to 3 years.
Pigs can't turn their heads to the sky.
An average human could fit (or swim) inside the veins of an adult blue whale.

How was that last fact discovered?

Y'know, I'm not very sure. Science stuff I guess.

Blue is the most common color of m&m, followed by orange.
But if you buy a bag of m&Ms, the statistics may be very different.
This is because the percentages are based on the production, but not the distribution. They make a certain percentage of colors and then randomly place them in the bags. However it possible to get close to the data if you measure a ton of bags.

the fda has given companies permission to deliberately exclude certain items from their ingredients list to prevent people from copying the formula.

for example, if you look at a can of coca-cola, you'll just see high fructose corn syrup, carbonated water, and brown food coloring. but there's a lot more ingredients than just that in a can of coca-cola. coca-cola is allowed to not mention these secret ingredients on their ingredients list so that no one can try and copy their recipe.

bonus fact!
also, coca-cola claims to have the written formula for coca-cola in a vault in their museum in atlanta. we don't know whether that's true or just a pr stunt.

Kiwi

Did you know that there are sixty thousand miles of blood vessels in the human body? For comparison, the Earth around the equator is almost twenty-five thousand miles!

the first comment ever posted on youtube was, rather unsurprisingly, “LOL!!!!!!!”

Kiwi

Looking at Flight Rising, there is an item known as the Rusted Treasure Chest. Given the idea of the chest guaranteed to be containing anywhere from 500-2000 Treasure (the non-premium currency), you have an average of 1250 treasure. Using the statistics of this to buy a Light Sprite (The game’s most expensive familiar that isn’t one of the kickstarter exclusives), which is valued at 160,000 gems, you would be able to get one with 128000 Rusted Treasure Chests provided you converted at a 1 to 1250 conversion rate. Given this, it would take 105 users with every familiar ever released (including the boolean, which has 20 active in game) bonded at level 2 to crowdfund the amount of treasure needed to get a Light Sprite. That’s one big venture.

here are the number of super bowl wins by country:

united states: 58

afghanistan, albania, algeria, andorra, angola, antigua & barbuda, argentina, armenia, australia, austria, azerbaijan, bahamas, bahrain, bangladesh, barbados, belarus, belgium, belize, benin, bhutan, bolivia, bosnia herzegovina, botswana, brazil, brunei, bulgaria, burkina, burundi, cambodia, cameroon, canada, cape verde, central african rep, chad, chile, china, colombia, comoros, congo, congo {democratic rep}, costa rica, croatia, cuba, cyprus, czech republic, denmark, djibouti, dominica, dominican republic, east timor, ecuador, egypt, el salvador, equatorial guinea, eritrea, estonia, ethiopia, fiji, finland, france, gabon, gambia, georgia, germany, ghana, greece, grenada, guatemala, guinea, guinea-bissau, guyana, haiti, honduras, hungary, iceland, india, indonesia, iran, iraq, ireland {republic}, israel, italy, ivory coast, jamaica, japan, jordan, kazakhstan, kenya, kiribati,north korea, south korea,, kosovo, kuwait, kyrgyzstan, laos, latvia, lebanon, lesotho, liberia, libya, liechtenstein, lithuania, luxembourg, macedonia, madagascar, malawi, malaysia, maldives, mali, malta, marshall islands, mauritania, mauritius, mexico, micronesia, moldova, monaco, mongolia, montenegro, morocco, mozambique, myanmar, {burma}, namibia, nauru, nepal, netherlands, new zealand, nicaragua, niger, nigeria, norway, oman, pakistan, palau, panama, papua new guinea, paraguay, peru, philippines, poland, portugal, qatar, romania, russian federation, rwanda, st kitts & nevis, st lucia, saint vincent & the grenadines, samoa, san marino, sao tome & principe, saudi arabia, senegal, serbia, seychelles, sierra leone, singapore, slovakia, slovenia, solomon islands, somalia, south africa, south sudan, spain, sri lanka, sudan, suriname, swaziland, sweden, switzerland, syria, taiwan, tajikistan, tanzania, thailand, togo, tonga, trinidad & tobago, tunisia, turkey, turkmenistan, tuvalu, uganda, ukraine, united arab emirates, united kingdom, uruguay, uzbekistan, vanuatu, vatican city, venezuela, vietnam, yemen, zambia, zimbabwe: 0

Kiwi

These Moves Are Fire

TheSafetyMiner wrote:

-snip- (for some reason scratch wouldn't let me quote)

and that's a fact.

Kiwi

“If you ask Rick Astley for a DVD of the movie Up, he won’t give it to you because he’s never gonna give you Up. However, by not giving you Up like you asked for it, he’s letting you down. This is known as the Astley paradox.”
(yes i pulled this from unnoticed scratchers studio)

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minikiwigeek2 wrote:

fun fact: only 60 living people on the entire planet have been identified to possess the rather interesting ability to remember every single memory they've ever made. for example, assuming they were alive on or before june 17th, 2013, at 2:19 pm central time, you can ask one of these people what happened on june 17th, 2013, at 2:19 pm central time, and they'll be able to tell you what happened. it's amazing.

great big story made a really cool video about it that you can check out here.

Kiwi

The Character In Your Signature Is Now The Mascot Of This Thread

coconuts and insurance plans have at least one thing in common, being that they do not fall under the breads and cereals group.

Kiwi