the fact that it is useless

Whats a calque

That's not useless! I'm totally using this to impress someone, someday.

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when the great pyramids were being built, there were still mammoths and sabertooth tigers walking the earth.

This is true.

Nipples can't operate heavy machinery.

This statement is false.

It also makes several values in EEG charts go up

Oh thats interesting, i wonder what causes it, the thinking of doing it or actually doing it

Snakes have two penises.
Or at least pythons do.

On diesel? With its time management? Efficient how!?

It's a loanword from the French "calque"

If they didn't diet they'd be fat and fall over

Toilet duck is not a duck

Spanish fly is not a fly

Spruce goose is not a goose

Capitalist pig is not a pig

Working only from memory here: Maine is the US state with the least intense sunshine, as measured in W/m². And it is STILL above the European country with the most intense sunshine, Spain.

The PC I had as a teenager had teal trim.

Fun fact 1: Polish people are honoraribly black after they fought alongside the Haitians against the French (they switched sides as the only reason they were there was because France sent them there)

Fun fact 2: Alaska was almost purchased by Lichtenstein

Fun fact 3: Singapore was given independence against their own wishes

Fun fact 4: Abraham Lincoln read some of the works of Karl Marx as he wrote for his favorite newspaper

That REAL Pi actually ends at 7 digits. Discovered by a greengrocer named Dennis.

There's been an easy say to calculate it since 1800s using an abacus.

Edit: thought the /s was implied with, you know, "Dennis."
I knew I should have gone with "Humperdink."

That's odd, I can do either of those things independently. Maybe it's just wired that way for some people?

A compound word that enters another language via direct translation of its parts.
As an example, "loanword" comes from German "Lehnwort", with Lehn = loan and Wort = word.

You're welcome to dial into my Modem on which Doom is listening for a connection at 40c3 :3

You are telling me Wurstsalat Crew did lie to me?

Damn that's useless! Also, nice!

The definition of a second is the time it takes for a caesium-133 atom to fluctuate between its two hyperfine ground state 9,192,631,770 times (I did not look the number up).

With decimal you have 10 digits 0-9 and each digit place represents a 10^n*digit, binary is 0-1 digits with each digits place represents 2^n*digit. Binary requires fewer digits to memorize than decimal, but more places to represent the same value compared to decimal. If you are trying to find the most efficient base for balancing the number of digits to memorize vs the number of places a value requires to represent you get a graph like this showing the minimum approaching e (~2.718):

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=beta%2Flog(beta)+from+1.5+to+5

And the derivative approaching e:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=derivative+beta%2Flog(beta)

That comes into play when you're doing something like picking a base for computer architecture. Almost all computers theses days are binary, but some were base 3 trinary for a bit. But you don't need to pick an integer value and can pick pi or e as a base too. Here's a better write up with an explanation of radix and bases:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160324100419/http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2001/11/third-base/2

I knew about the relict popularion of mammoths that was still around. Wasn't aware of the tigers. Can you please tell me more?

I can’t 100% give you facts. I just go off of the rough estimate of fossil records for both mammoth and sabertooth tigers roughly and this is just a random thing I like to tell people when I was younger to kind of blow their mind.

It's f'in neato. I'll be looking into it.

For all our differences we still have so much in common.

This is also the reason they sleep with one leg up. If they raised both, they'd fall.

Canada is simultaneously to the north, south, east and west of the US.

In case anyone is wondering, this is how old phones with rotary dials worked: you wound the dial to the digit you needed and the built-in mechanism would automatically wind it back; as it did it would momentarily disconnect the line as it passed each digit generating pulses that the exchange would count. If you still live somewhere where landline phones exist odds are this still works because the exchange maintains backwards compatibility with pulse dialling.

Up until about twenty years ago virtually every supermarket had a phone by the checkouts with a single pre-programmed button for a local taxi company; we used this trick all the time to call home, our mates, etc.

Forza Horizon 4 has an awesome open map based on several disparate areas of England and Scotland pushed together. It includes the Derwent Reservoir and damn, which drains into one of the Rivers Derwent, which leads to Derwent Water - none of which are actually connected in real life. I thought that was a neat Easter Egg.

Another really good random “did you know” When the battle of Little Bighorn, a.k.a. custard‘s last stand happened the Brooklyn Bridge was just being completed in New York, and there were Native Americans who fought in the battle who were still alive to see Neil Armstrong step on the Moon so in the span of one lifetime we went from custard‘s last stand to one giant leap for all mankind.

Ok, I'll bite. What's the quick summary of your idea?

Of course I'm skeptical, I think there must be at least one major issue keeping it from having happened already, but also curious.

The dog that played specks girlfriend in Pee Wees big adventure is also the same dog that played precious in silence of the lambs.

I would like to learn more about this. Wiki says:

In the 5th century AD, Chinese mathematicians approximated π to seven digits, while Indian mathematicians made a five-digit approximation, both using techniques.

So it looks like they were all approximations, but it actually is much longer like I was always taught.

That is awesome!

Television is one of the few words combined by one greek part and one latin part.

Pretty sure it's "a finer location".

This feels like one of those fun facts that theatres would have on screen with cheesy background music if you showed up to a movie too early

Physiologically, rats can't vomit. (Not to brag or anything, but I also know somebody who claims they saw it happen once)

Probably.

I hate how unreliable lyrics website have become.

Used to be some random human bothered copying it from the CD insert, now it's automated closed captioning half the time.

This is the most interesting new fact I've learned today.

Not with that attitude

Wombats shit is cubic.

Congrats 😃👍 btw in that time light in vacuum will travel 299,792,458 metres (didn’t look that up either)

and Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landings than to the building of the pyramids

The guy who played Cowboy Curtis on PeeWees playhouse also played Morpheus in the Matrix.