Saturday, February 28, 2009

Factual Intelligence II

π seconds = 1 nanocentury

The Glass Bead Game was thought of before the world wide web, it's basically an exact description, but game form.


Due to the precession of Earth's axis, the stars have moved by 24 degrees during the last 2,000 years. (therefore horescopes are wrong)


There are 1057 atoms in the sun, and 1066 atoms in our galaxy

Tim Benton took a walk along a mile of shoreline on Ducie Island, a speck of land 4,970 miles east of Australia. he found  953 items of debris altogether, on an island of 2.5 square miles, in the least populous country in the world.


A Buddhist walks up to a hot dog vendor and says, "Make me one with everything."

Artist Kamiel Proost makes miniature paintings on dollar bills.

a plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible." — W.H. Auden

Your mother is so stupid, she tried to use substitution to find the definite integral of f(x)=x2 over the interval 0.

SPACESHIP (first print use: 1894)

The word ghoti can be pronounced "fish":

gh as in laugh
o as in women
ti as in nation

Genioglossus is the muscle connecting your tounge//lower jaw


National Spelling Bee winning words:

1995: xanthosis
1996: vivisepulture
1997: euonym
1998: chiaroscurist
1999: logorrhea
2000: demarche
2001: succedaneum
2002: prospicience
2003: pococurante
2004: autochthonous

Famous left-handed people:
Alexander the Great
Napoleon Bonaparte
Julius Caesar
Charlemagne
Benjamin Franklin
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
Mark Twain
Beethoven
Mozart
Charlie Chaplin
Cary Grant
Henry Ford
Helen Keller
Albert Einstein

symbolics.com (registered 3/15/85) number one oldest registered dot com website 


Proof that one dollar equals one cent:

$1 = 100¢

= (10¢)2

= ($0.10)2

= $0.01

= 1¢

canada has an average of 26 vaca days per year

OGC

edundant acronym = ATM machine (automatic teller machine machine)

 the 6 billionth baby was born at 12:02 a.m. on Oct. 12, 1999, to Fatima Nevic and her husband, Jasminko, in Sarajevo, Bosnia.

2050: 9.1 billion = predicted population of world

JOKE: Cartoon Law Of Physics One : Any body  in mid-air will continue to stay in mid-air until the realization that it is in fact in mid-air. 

During the ancient roman empire in britian, was the beginnings of hopscotch, and kids made smaller forms of their training fields and added a scoring system, the game lived on.

epalpebrate
adj. lacking eyebrows

a = b

a2 = ab

a2 - b2 = ab - b2

(a - b)(a + b) = b(a - b)

a + b = b

b + b = b

2b = b

2 = 1


your mother's so fat her belt size is equator.


Jimi Hendrix, Sept. 18, 1970 (27) death by chocking

A falling person reaches a top speed of around 120 mph

A classification of demons, from occultist Francis Barrett's 1801 book The Magus:
Satan: prince of witches and warlocks
Pithius: prince of liars and liar spirits


Unless it's a leapyear
January begins on the same day of the week as October.
February begins on the same day of the week as March and November.
April begins on the same day of the week as July.
December begins with the same day of the week as September.
No other month begins on the same day of the week as May or June.



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