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- billbugger, on 08/04/2008, -17/+73"The African Baobab tree’s circumference can reach 180 feet. That means that if the trunk was hollow, 20 people would be able to fit in it!"
Or about 5 U.S. citizens. - inactive, on 08/05/2008, -1/+2811) Mew can learn every move in the game
12) Squirtle evolves into Wartortle. - junkstuff1, on 08/04/2008, -1/+26I would hope a lot more people could fit on the inside of that Baobab tree.
180 feet circumference ~ 60 feet diameter = 30 foot radius. 30 squared times pi is almost 3000 square feet. That can hold a lot more than 20 people. - dvsbastard, on 08/05/2008, -0/+21You could fit a lot more if you used a blender...
- Shiftgood, on 08/05/2008, -0/+2012) Squirrels have a low terminal velocity which means they can survive falls from over 600 ft.
- Chiisai, on 08/05/2008, -2/+20"I was browsing the internet when I happened upon a website full of random and interesting facts."
Too bad he didn't share it with us. - twrife, on 08/05/2008, -2/+20This is the second obscure, crappy list that has made it to the front page from this site.
Please make it the last. - Vikaas, on 08/05/2008, -1/+1813) Your mom goes to college.
- fezzasus, on 08/05/2008, -0/+1710 vague facts.
1. Atoms don't 'Beat', the frequency given corresponds to electrons dropping between energy levels.
4. covered
5. I assume he means the shuttle generates 4.5 million pounds of thrust, not weight, which is generally a measurement of force generated by (and in the direction of) gravitational pull. If this were the case the shuttle would never take off.
8. What is a standard hard disk and when was this standard established? - Spandia, on 08/05/2008, -0/+1511) The internet is a series of tubes.
- imgm, on 08/05/2008, -0/+14@junkstuff1 - indeed! i used a little calculator and a 180ft. circumference would correspond to a circular area of just under 2,579 sq. ft. that's a nice house.... or even better, a bar:
http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/the-baobab-bar-t ... - Keloran, on 08/05/2008, -0/+121012 ??
dont you mean 1024 ?? - BobSlefty, on 08/05/2008, -0/+12here's another interesting fact that you appear unaware of :
your = possessive pronoun / you're = contraction of 'you are'
if this ever comes up on Jeopardy, now you'll know... - MxM111, on 08/05/2008, -1/+8So, it is not terminal after all.
- kim^lwx, on 08/05/2008, -2/+9"A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level"
Come on, adapt the freaking metric system! We're in 2008 and you still use weird age-old scales for everything. Think about it; changing from lbs to Kg would also make all your fat people seem a lot lighter (on paper, though). - fezzasus, on 08/05/2008, -0/+7So he actually means standard compact disc, not computer disc?
- Stormwern, on 08/05/2008, -0/+6"Every 25 miles, a car produces 1 pound of pollution."
"A car"?? So a hummer, a prius and an electric car all produce the same amount of pollution.. - fas2, on 08/05/2008, -0/+6So where's the reference to the site he happened upon?
Btw, ***** and inaccurate list anyway. - alwilson, on 08/05/2008, -3/+9Or about 40 Darfur citizens.
- ayeroxor, on 08/05/2008, -0/+6Just in case your ever on Jeopardy, you might want to know that in second grade, they teach you the difference between you're and your.
- idc5, on 08/05/2008, -1/+6Computer disk = floppy?
even 10,000 of those that isn't much information - norle, on 08/05/2008, -0/+51 (cubic foot) = 0.118738404 hogshead
- zeitgueist, on 08/05/2008, -0/+5FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW:
- protogenxl, on 08/05/2008, -0/+5Cats can't taste sugar.
- inactive, on 08/05/2008, -0/+5Average car, probably.
- groo68, on 08/05/2008, -0/+4Yes, also for number 5 he means the space shuttle weighs 4.5 million pounds, as in if you put it on a really big scale, the scale would break.
http://www.spaceshuttlediscovery.com/Space-Shuttle
-look under size > mass > 2,029,203 kg (4,474,574 lb) - plr4ever, on 08/05/2008, -3/+7120 GB, 250 GB, 500 GB, 750 GB, 1TB
Which is standard? go on, pick on. - MeatPlow, on 08/05/2008, -0/+4Yes, but do they blend?
- inactive, on 08/05/2008, -1/+5fat people cant stand on paper. they would rip right through.
- MxM111, on 08/05/2008, -0/+3They actually can, it just does not taste sweet for them.
- je12u, on 08/05/2008, -0/+3hehe...it's funny cause we're all fat.
- Kingal, on 08/05/2008, -0/+3"A galactic year is 250 million earth years (the time it takes us to travel around the Milky Way)". The time it takes us at what speed? I had no idea in what context this meant. After some research (wikipedia) I found it is the duration of time required for the solar system to orbit once around the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
Worst 10 interesting facts ever. - peterfnet, on 08/05/2008, -0/+3Do we all have a problem with the reply button?
- M724, on 08/05/2008, -0/+3The bamboo thing really amazes me.
- norle, on 08/05/2008, -0/+3I was told there would be no math...
- robomoo, on 08/05/2008, -0/+3Actually the second is defined as "the duration of 9192631770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom."
And so the caesium atom in the atomic clock does not either beat, nor do it 9000000000 times per second. - InYourWorld, on 08/05/2008, -0/+3"here's an interesting fact that half of Digg appear unaware of :"
Fixed. - inactive, on 08/05/2008, -0/+3Why is this Dugg up? I know the standards on Digg aren't that high but common people.
- groo68, on 08/05/2008, -0/+2It's not true anyway. The following site cites it as transmitting only 3-4 gigabytes a day. Which also might not be true, this is the internet. http://www.lifeinthefastlane.ca/very-best-of-the-h ...
- apjoseph, on 08/05/2008, -0/+2Or a floppy disk
- waluum, on 08/05/2008, -0/+2http://www.championtrees.org/champions/baobab.htm
...you can fit way more than 20 people into that thing. - Stormwern, on 08/05/2008, -0/+2If you title something as facts, you should try not to mess up the terminology. Since CO2 is considered a pollutant, it's also inaccurate, atleast 10 pounds in that distance.
- Jektal, on 08/05/2008, -0/+23.5" floppy = 1.44MB x 10,000 = 14,400MB = 14.4GB
5.25" floppy = 0.720MB x 10,000 = 7,200MB = 7.2GB
It's not a ton of data, but it's still quite a lot to be coming from space daily. - SpeedStix, on 08/06/2008, -0/+2http://www.amusingfacts.com/facts/Science_and_Tech ...
- inactive, on 08/05/2008, -3/+5Or 4 of us Australians lol
- Jektal, on 08/05/2008, -0/+2a standard Compact Disc is 700MB (700*1024*8 bits)
a standard Computer Disk circa Hubble-is-in-the-news is either a HDD of varying sizes (but probably less than 8GB (8*1000*1024*8 bits)) or, more likely, a 3.5" floppy with 1.44MB of storage space (1.44*1024*8 bits)
Disc != Disk - Jektal, on 08/05/2008, -0/+1CDs are "discs", HDD and floppy drives use "disks", and given the age of the Hubble, I'd wager they meant 3.5" floppy disks. So 10,000 disks ~ 14.4GB
- jrh_3, on 08/06/2008, -0/+1pi * (((180 / pi) / 2)^2) ~= 2578 sqft
http://www.google.com/search?q=pi+*+((180%2Fpi)%2F ...
Google calculator rules! - sysop073, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1Reply button, *****, do you use it?!
- Hiki, on 08/05/2008, -0/+1That's a hell of a lot of floppies
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