Weird facts

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Snotty
Your forearm is as long as your foot.

Doesn't seen to have any biological basis.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Snotty
You cant fold a peice of paper in half more than 8 times.

You can, if you do the fanfold thing.

[st_swithin]

Originally posted by Snotty
No? ok then, MY forearm is as long as my foot. Are you sure you dont just have freakishly small/large feet Donegeal?

I must have either freakishly small forearms or too-large feet, because each of my feet is as long as its respective forearm.

I don't think I ever noticed that before. And when I first read the post, I was thinking "BS."

[Snotty]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


You can, if you do the fanfold thing.

Please elaborate. The idea was it has to be folded in half each time.

[Ben Kenobi]

The average star is much smaller, older and dimmer than the sun.

1 teaspoon of neutron star matter outweighs a train.

No White dwarf can have a mass greater than 1.44 solar masses.

[Richard Bruns]

More Wierd Facts

Most of these are from the New Scientist magazine. I remember reading them in the print edition, but I can't seem to find them in their online archives:

The placebo effect has been observed and documented in laboratory rats. Really. Lab rats given placebo treatments get better faster then a control group.

Placebos disguised as name-brand aspirins are more effective than placebos labeled as generic aspirin. Think about that one for a while.

Seismographs can detect all kinds of things, not just earthquakes. Some stations in Great Britian detected the crash of an F-16 jet during training. These seismic records have been used in forensic investigations.

Most psychologists and cognitive scientists now believe that conscious thought is just an illusion. Rather than deciding what to do, consciousness only justifies actions after they happen. Higher brain functions always activate after signals get sent to muscles.

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by st_swithin
There has never been an episode of "I Love Lucy" which opens with Ricky saying "Hi honey, I'm home!!"

No but some years ago a british tv network proposed a sitcom about Adolph Hitler and Eva Bruan to be titled "Heil Honey, I'm, Home!"
Edit lloked it up: They actually made 8 episodes and showed one.

[Sarxis]

Weird Factoid #1:

Ketchup can also be spelled Catsup.

[muxec]

13% of condoms are being used twice.

[MrFun]

Condoms are ONLY 99% effective.

[Japher]

That's why I use a zip-lock and twist tie

A giraffe has just as many vertebrae (backbones) as a human does.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
You can, if you do the fanfold thing.

Originally posted by Snotty
You cant fold a peice of paper in half more than 8 times.

[ajbera]

Re: More Wierd Facts

Originally posted by Richard Bruns
Most psychologists and cognitive scientists now believe that conscious thought is just an illusion. Rather than deciding what to do, consciousness only justifies actions after they happen. Higher brain functions always activate after signals get sent to muscles.

Source, please? This is fascinating, if true.

[st_swithin]

Look!! He's trying to think!!!!

[Dinner]

Originally posted by obiwan18
The average star is much smaller, older and dimmer than the sun.

1 teaspoon of neutron star matter outweighs a train.

No White dwarf can have a mass greater than 1.44 solar masses.

I recall my Astronomy prof. saying a tea spoon of neutron star would way more then all the people in the world because it was so dense. A neutron star is after all a star which almost became a black hole but instead just partially clapsed in on itself.