Fun facts

[BokaBB]

A small base for fun facts about anything. You can add here anything that is interesting and lesser known.
Please let this grow fast and make this a small encyclopedia.
Have a good day!

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[Moosey]

Fun fact: Neon is the most electronegative element if you count noble gasses

[BokaBB]

Fun fact:I sometimes think in English despite the fact that my native language is Serbian.
Another fun fact: despite the previous fun fact,I don't know even now when exactly I should use articles (the and a/an). I know approximately when and when not, though.
Have a good day!

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[Schiaparelliorbust]

Fun fact: There is a species of beetle, regimbartia attenuata, that can survive digestion inside frogs:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wFONnzehz4

[BokaBB]

Fun fact:cats actually don't like you and just imitate that.
They also can infect you with a parasite that can control the mind, Toxoplasma gondii. 30-50% people have it,to make things even weirder.
Another fun fact:I cannot stop loving them even if I know the above fun fact.
Have a good day!

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[Trump {Bot}]

Did you know that Wikipedia has an article about Wikipedia?

[BokaBB]

Did you know that Wikipedia has an article about Wikipedia?

Yes.
Fun fact:the King of Diamonds (card) has a beehive on it.
Have a good day!

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[fluffykitty]

Fun fact: "possum" is a word in Latin meaning "I can".

[MathAndCode]

Fun fact: Neon is the most electronegative element if you count noble gasses

That reminds me of another chemistry-related fun fact: Chlorine has a higher electron affinity than fluorine.

[Schiaparelliorbust]

Fun fact: Saturn has a hexagon shaped storm at its north pole. We aren't entirely sure how or why it has that shape and is not circular. There are a few hypotheses.
Hexagons are the bestagons.

[wwei23]

Fun fact: S4a isn't really good for Life-type rules, but it has its own context which it works really well. I'm thinking about the clumpy type of chaos that doesn't turn into one huge blob. Texture descriptions of chaos was never easy. This might explain it better:

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x = 58, y = 164, rule = B3-cekq4twyz5-aknq6ci78/S2-ck3eknr4-jnt5-aiky6-ik
2bo$2b4o$ob3o18$bo$5o$5o$3b2o$3b3o$3b2o15$3o$b2o$2bo18$b2obo$bob2o$bob
2o$obobo17$3bo$4o$4o$3bo17$2bo$3o$2bo18$18b2o$17bobo$17b2o$11b3o$4bo5b
2ob2o$3b2o5b2ob2o$11b3o$b2o$obo$2o11$b4o48b4o$2o2b2o29b3o14b2o2b2o$o4b
o28b2ob2o13bo4bo$o4bo28b2ob2o13bo4bo$2o2b2o29b3o14b2o2b2o$b4o48b4o15$b
3o$2ob2o$2ob2o$b3o!

[Moosey]

Fun fact: S4a isn't really good

[SquishyBoi]

- the medical term for brain freeze is "sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia"
- "the lord of rings: the two towers" holds the current record for most wigs ever created for a single movie
- the largest corn maze ever made spanned 60 acres
- there are an estimated 3,000 castles in scotland
- there are four basic hand strokes when playing the bongo drums
- powerpoint was originally called "presenter", in 1987
- there are 6 sub-species of wild turkey
- only 5% of the world's population has ever been on a plane
- cap'n crunch's full name is "horatio magellan crunch"
- the maximum possible score in pac-man is 3,333,360
- the lumberjack is the most dangerous profession, 136 fatalities per 100,000 workers
- the average ear of corn has 800 kernels in 16 rows
- most people will spend one third of their life asleep
- the concept of a vending machine was invented in ancient egypt in 215 BC. it was for holy water or something
- the skipping rope record is 151,409 skips
- according to the company "crayola", the least favourite and least used colour crayon is white
- a group of owls is called a parliament
- the first item ever listed on ebay was a broken laser pointer
- the average human body has enough carbon to create 900 pencils
- in the state of indiana, it is illegal to ride a horse faster than 16 kph, or 10 mph
- modern olympic gold medals are actually made of silver and copper
- the clavicle (or collarbone) is the most common type of bone break
- due to the possibility of spontaneous combustion, the moisture content of hay bales should not exceed 22%
- the recommended shelf life of sparklers in 5-7 years
- the third word in the third chapter of the third harry potter book is "several"
- consumption of a single banana will make a person absorb 0.1 microsieverts of radiation
- the study of weather and atmospheres on planets other than earth is called "exo-meteorology"
- pennsylvania was the first american state to legalize witchcraft

[Schiaparelliorbust]

- the lumberjack is the most dangerous profession, 136 fatalities per 100,000 workers

Wrong. It's the president.
https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/w ... ery%20five.
More fun facts: Language Edition!
The word night sounds basically the same in almost every Indo-European language, even in ones like Greek and Sanskrit.
The word toxic comes from the Greek word for bow, because arrows were often poisoned.
The word hazard comes from a gambling game with the same name, which in turn probably comes from Arabic az-zahr(chance, luck), which yet again comes from Turkish/Persian zar(dice). "Hasard" in French still means randomness.
The Turkish word damacana(water cooler) comes from Italian damigiana which means "woman(wife) of Giana" because the man who invented the water cooler's friends said his invention looked like his wife.
The word assassin comes from hashish(hemp) because assassins would allegedly intoxicate themselves before killing someone, though there is no evidence for this.
There are a few languages in the world that are spoken entirely through whistles. They do this because they live in hard-to-navigate areas and need to communicate easily. It's interesting how the brain processes it, it uses both hemispheres about equally, different form how most language processing is normally done in the left one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gvfDB5_cz4

[PC101]

"Titin /ˈtaɪtɪn/, also known as connectin, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TTN gene. Titin is a giant protein, greater than 1 µm in length, that functions as a molecular spring which is responsible for the passive elasticity of muscle ."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titin

[toroidalet]

The word "password" comes from the English words "pass", meaning "pass", and "word", meaning "word". Originally it was used by exclusive clubs and secret societies as a word you would have to say at the entrance in order to pass. Isn't that interesting?

[Donald K Trump]

Did you know that there is a Chinese website that is jokingly known to be named after the glider in Life?
It's here

[fluffykitty]

Fun fact:

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You probably knew that already though.

[the lifestroyer]

Fun Facts
The Lint That is at the bottom of the pocket is called a gnurr
If you plug your nose, you can't tell the difference between an apple, a potato, and an onion.
English was a system that not only didn't use Punctuation, but also didn't bother to use capital letters or include spaces between words.
The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.
Riding roller coasters can help you pass kidney stones(specifically,Walt Disney World's Big Thunder Mountain Railroad ride)
You are 13.8 percent more likely to die on your birthday.
"Spoonfeed" is the longest English word with its letters in reverse alphabetical order
there's a Rome on every continent except Antarctica, according to National Geographic.
The first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson to himself in 1971.
It's possible to turn peanut butter into diamonds
If you open your eyes in a pitch-black room, the color you'll see is called "eigengrau."
The King of Hearts is the only king in a deck of cards without a mustache(also called the suicide king)
Dragonflies have six legs but can't walk
Mulan has the highest kill-count of any Disney character(2000)
A cubic inch of human bone can bear the weight of five standard pickup trucks
An Average adult's body contains about 100,000 miles of blood vessels.
That small mark you make over a lowercase "i" and a lowercase "j" is called a "tittle."
The chicken and the ostrich are the closest living relatives of the Tyrannosaurus rex.
People used to answer the phone by saying "ahoy" instead of "hello."
Pound cake originally included a pound of all of its ingredients.
You would likely "mutate" in space without a spacesuit.
The tool used to measure your feet at the shoe store is called a "Brannock Device."
There's a lake At the bottom of the sea(confusing Right?)
Dolphins give each other names.
And sloths can hold their breath for longer than dolphins
You produce about six pounds of feaces per week
Around 16 million people alive today are direct descendants of Genghis Khan.
The cheesiest pizza ever was topped with 154 varieties of cheese.
Basenji dogs are the only breed that doesn't bark.
Messages from your brain travel along your nerves at up to 200 miles per hour.
Sweat doesn't smell bad.
More than two-thirds of millennials sleep nude.
The average person has four to six dreams a night.
A Harry Potter book filled with typos sold for $90,000.
A British teen changed his name to "Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined."
The Bubonic plague encouraged Shakespeare to write poetry.
Antarctica is the largest unclaimed territory on Earth.
Thats alot!!

[MathAndCode]

In ConwayLife, information transmission at c is not possible inside vacuums, so a more accurate name for c in ConwayLife would be the speed of sound.

[SquishyBoi]

fun fact: i recently ate an egg salad sandwich
(coated in sesame oil)

[ColorfulGalaxy]

Did you know...

• ... that XKCD has a page related to Wikipedia?
• ... that there has something called "Grammar Pedantry Syndrome"?
• ... that the pentadecathlon has an average population of 314/15?
• ... that the number of distinct 4-bit, 5-bit, 6-bit and 7-bit strict still lives in HighLife are 2, 1, 4, 4 respectively, which refers to a famous website?
• ... that there is a gun in Life made up of four identical parts, none of which are guns?
• ... that XKCD has a page that features a pure glider generator in Life?
• that there didnt use to be punctuation in English
• ... that there is a programming language named "Whitespace"?
• ... that if you type "Acer" into Google translate to translate it into Chinese, then only one of the letters will be translated? The other letters will remain English.
• ... that there is thum-sing called "Spoonerism"?

[Donald K Trump]

Did you know...

• ... that XKCD has a page related to Wikipedia?
• ... that there has something called "Grammar Pedantry Syndrome"?
• ... that the pentadecathlon has an average population of 314/15?
• ... that the number of distinct 4-bit, 5-bit, 6-bit and 7-bit strict still lives in HighLife are 2, 1, 4, 4 respectively, which refers to a famous website?
• ... that there is a gun in Life made up of four identical parts, none of which are guns?
• ... that XKCD has a page that features a pure glider generator in Life?
• that there didnt use to be punctuation in English
• ... that there is a programming language named "Whitespace"?
• ... that if you type "Acer" into Google translate to translate it into Chinese, then only one of the letters will be translated? The other letters will remain English.
• ... that there is thum-sing called "Spoonerism"?

Actually, there are at least two pages about Wikipedia.
This one and that one.

[Schiaparelliorbust]

Quoting from the "Let's make a good language!" thread:

Off topic: The Turkish present continuous suffix -yor comes from <yürümek> <to walk>! The video showed it in its archaic form <yorır>. Now I'm going to look up if <current> has anything to do with <courir> <to run> in French.
Edit: Yes it does! Translinguistic etymological similarities are the best. <muscle> comes from <mouse>, Arabic < ˁaḍala عضلة> <muscle> comes from <ˁaḍal عضل > <field mouse>, and Old Turkish <sıçganak> comes from <sıçgan> <mouse> (sıçan now means rat) all because the lump in your arm when you flex it looks like a mouse. I personally don't see it. Also French <souris d'agneau> (<souris> is mouse) means lamb shank.

[MathAndCode]

When leap days were first introduced in the Egyptian calendar, the Egyptian priests used them overenthusiastically (every three years instead of every four years), so they had to stop having leap years for a while.