Michaelangelica Posted January 3, 2007 Report Posted January 3, 2007 This may/should be used as a hypography moto? "Whats a simple test of sanity?According to some psychiatrists, its as simple as this:you're sane if you are able to take another person's point of view" /forums/images/smilies/banana_sign.gif page 209,The Odd Body 2 S Juan Quote
Michaelangelica Posted January 13, 2007 Report Posted January 13, 2007 The Odd Body 2 by S Juan is full of such facinating trivia.For example body size.US surveys show that men who are 173 centimetres tall, consider themselves short.In fact, they are exactly average. Human beings on average are probably taller today than ever before in history (better nutrition & disease prevention etc.,). But Cro-Magnon human was taller than today's average human. Cro-Magnon also had a larger brain mass. Quote
Boerseun Posted January 13, 2007 Author Report Posted January 13, 2007 No Old World monkey can swing by its tail! Tail-swinging is an exclusive New World invention! Another quirky monkey fact is that New World and Old World monkeys can be distinguished by their nostrils - American monkeys' nostrils point sideways, whereas European, African and Asian monkeys' nostrils point downwards. Betcha didn't know that! Well, now you do! Quote
Michaelangelica Posted January 13, 2007 Report Posted January 13, 2007 Betcha didn't know that! Well, now you do!(Not allowed to give you reputation for that- mean computer programme). You betcha right.Now how come, I either:-1. never get asked this in trivia contests2. never remember anyway?:) Quote
Racoon Posted January 31, 2007 Report Posted January 31, 2007 * The hyoid bone, in your throat, is the only bone in the body not attached to another bone. * During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times. * One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water! Chacmool 1 Quote
Michaelangelica Posted February 2, 2007 Report Posted February 2, 2007 * The hyoid bone, in your throat, is the only bone in the body not attached to another bone.What about the patella?Kneecap? How the patella is connected to the femurThe whole patella is attached to those tendons and is not connected to femur or tibia by any means other than the tendons.The patella claims for itself alone that it is not attached to another bone by ligaments but is connected by the tendons which bypass the knee joint and is very powerfully bound to the femur. Chapter 32 On the Patella*************It is possible for one woman and one man to produce 64 billion decendants without any genetic duplicates.***Everyone on earth is at least a 50th cousin to everyone else on earth****************10% of all pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion************************SOURCE:The Odd Body 2, S Juan Quote
Michaelangelica Posted March 12, 2007 Report Posted March 12, 2007 More living eubacteria inhabit the human mouth than the total number of mammals on earthSource:-'The Handy Biology Answer Book', Bobick et al I am going to bed and cleaning my teeth! Quote
Boerseun Posted March 12, 2007 Author Report Posted March 12, 2007 I am going to bed and cleaning my teeth!Don't do it! It'll be a holocaust! Quirky Fact #12334:Mammalian blood can hold more than 30 times the amount of oxygen in suspension than the same volume of water, thanks to heamoglobin! The purple blood of molluscs and bivalves can only hold about 8 times as much. Quote
Michaelangelica Posted March 21, 2007 Report Posted March 21, 2007 My teeth are going all furryWhat's the difference between a million, a billion, a trillion? A million seconds is 13 days.A billion seconds is 31 years.A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.How Much is a Million? Billion? Quote
eric l Posted March 21, 2007 Report Posted March 21, 2007 My teeth are going all furry How Much is a Million? Billion? The last line in the post (a trillion seconds is 31,688 years) is even more remarkable because :1 year = 31,557,600 seconds No wonder that some people think they recognize the number PI is such numbers ! And still with that number PI : a tidal cycle takes approximately 4 PI hours ! Quote
Michaelangelica Posted April 4, 2007 Report Posted April 4, 2007 An amazing list of facts about cats:-Cat Facts I have had cats all my life but there were lots I did not know. The fact about them predicting Earthquakes I know from personal experience is true.My cat was howling one night and woke me, I went to find her she was in the bath. Very strange, she hated the bathroom and never made a sound at night.Then everything started to sway and she slid around the bath howling as the earthquake hit. She knew the earthquake was coming long before anyone and obviously, and probably correctly, thought the bathroom to be the safest place. Quote
Guest chendoh Posted April 4, 2007 Report Posted April 4, 2007 Our cat 'Candy" can predict; up to ten hours, in advance, when a storm will hit. Quote
Guest chendoh Posted April 4, 2007 Report Posted April 4, 2007 During a well balanced meal:One in three bites, will be food that has been touched by a Bee. Quote
Monomer Posted April 5, 2007 Report Posted April 5, 2007 The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year. Quote
Fatstep Posted April 6, 2007 Report Posted April 6, 2007 Lets see if I can use simple logic to see if this is right. If width of paper = x 1 fold gets two papers in a stack. 2 gets 4 3 gets 8 4 gets 2^4 ... 50 gets 2^50 so, 2^50 x Page width = total width of fold stack. now 2^50 is around 1.1 x 10^15 u. Now, distance between earth and sun is.. um... 1.49 x 10^11 meters. So width of single page (according to that claim) = (1.49 x 10^11/1.1 x 10^15) ~ 1.3 x 10^-4 m which is about 0.01 millimeters... :) the width of normal papers! Wow! He was right! Paper folding competition, anyone? Can someone find the chemical formula for a piece of papaer(any kind) I tried and cant find any I think I can prove that *fact* wrong with that formula :lol: thanks Quote
Michaelangelica Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 It used to be the accepted wisdom that you cannot fold paper more than 8-10times. But a young, Californian maths student has just managed 12 foldsFolding Paper in Half Twelve Timesor better explainedFolding Paper - Great Moments in Science - The LabIn fact, if you had a sheet of paper, and folded it in half 50 times, how thick would it be?The answer is about 100 million kilometres, which is about two thirds of the distance between the Sun and the Earth. Quote
eric l Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 Actually, you give the reason why a paper can not be folded more than (about) 10 times : paper has a thickness.This makes that when folding the outer side of the fold will be longer than the inside. So either you have top stretch the outer side, or to shrink the ineerside, or find a way to do both at the same time.Folding a paper double twelve times will require an extra thin and very elastic paper. Quote
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