2010-12-19, 13:48 | Link #1 |
Chiyo IQ, Osaka Aptitude
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The "My word, that's an interesting fact!" thread
A fun-filled thread full of facts, no fiction ever thanks. (don't attempt that phrase fast or drunk )
Post all your interesting facts of the world, the universe, anything here and amaze your friends and enemies. I kick off the thread with this relevant little gem: - The largest city in the world by population is Tokyo, with 32,450,000 (approx.) living in an area the size of 8,014km2 (a density of 4,049 per square km)* *-Stolen from Wikipedia, but still awesome all the same.
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2010-12-19, 18:37 | Link #3 |
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Pointless but kinda fun thread.
The earth is wider at the equator, than it is from the north to the south tips. If you go around the equator twenty-six times, you would have gone around enough times to be have gone the equivalent distance from here to the moon.
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2010-12-19, 22:50 | Link #8 |
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Join Date: Nov 2010
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,"uses every letter in the alphabet.
also, If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
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2010-12-19, 23:12 | Link #11 |
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101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
(that's depressing...) 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. (scary scary)
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2010-12-20, 00:38 | Link #14 |
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That's not enough! You need to say more about it!
What's toxic to cats and dogs is a substance called theobromine. They're sensitive to it and it can seriously harm them. Cats are also very sensitive to tomatoes, or more specifically, the glycoalkaloid tomatine, which is toxic to humans in high concentrations. A single slice of tomato can kill a moderately-sized housecat. Tomatoes are a member of the nightshade family, after all.
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2010-12-20, 01:57 | Link #16 | |
Chiyo IQ, Osaka Aptitude
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The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
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2010-12-20, 03:16 | Link #18 |
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You mean the coca leaves. Then again, since the synthesis of cocaine from the L-glutamine from leaves is highly unlikely to be a 1:1 mole reaction, you'd need alot of leaves to have a proper high.
The synthesis of crack-cocaine, the version which it can be smoked, is a 1:1 reaction though on both sides of the equation. The hydrogen ion and the chlorine ion present during the production process are both in a 1:1:1 molar proportion in the crystallised ionic bond. Also, for your body to absorb the cocaine, an alkali has to be present most of the time since the common form is an acidic salt. Even if there are trace amount of cocaine within the cola itself, it is inactivated due to the solution it is in (carbonated water is slightly acidic), and the digestive fluids (acidic by nature).
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Komrades of Kitamura Kou
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The human being can function with almost all his mental capacities with only one cerebral hemisphere.
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No I'm not writing you one.
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2010-12-20, 03:26 | Link #20 |
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To be highly specific, it was originally made using the coca leaves, quite possibly inspired by a drink called coca wine (which is basically a combo of wine and cocaine). And since cocaine is naturally present in coca leaves...
actually, they still use coca leaves to make it today... just that the cocaine part of it has been extracted
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