Little known facts

[belamyi]

This last winter has been the first time in 100 years in which there has not been any snowfall on the Teide.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

This last winter has been the first time in 100 years in which there has not been any snowfall on the Teide.

The Teide is high, but I'm holding on...

 

[pornoboy]

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[belamyi]

Why Costco’s hot dog is still $1.50 when everything has gotten so expensive​

Basically because utter shit is priceless.


Oh, and the “Buffett Indicator” is flashing red.

 

[belamyi]

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I thought there was a town there at least.

There was a town there, back when the region was all called "Palestine", to erase the memory of the rebellious Jewish kingdom, almost two thousand years ago.

 

[gsdx]

The 'epicentre' of an earthquake is the location on the surface of the earth above which the earthquake occurred. That location beneath the surface where the actual earthquake occurred is called the 'hypocentre'.

 

[belamyi]

 

[Kulindahr]

Robin Williams had a requirement that for every single event or film he did, the company hiring him also had to hire a certain number of homeless people and put them to work.

 

[belamyi]

Robin Williams had a requirement that for every single event or film he did, the company hiring him also had to hire a certain number of homeless people and put them to work.

For the time he was hired for that event or film?

 

[Kulindahr]

Libya has no natural rivers.

 

[gsdx]

There are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.

Estimated stars in the Milky Way - 300 billion
Estimated trees on Earth - 3 trillion

 

[Alistair]

There are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.

Estimated stars in the Milky Way - 300 billion
Estimated trees on Earth - 3 trillion

It’s estimated that there’s 3 times the number of stars in the universe than grains of sand on earth, and that’s just the visible universe!

 

[Alistair]

It’s estimated that there’s 3 times the number of stars in the universe than grains of sand on earth, and that’s just the visible universe!

one grain of sand has more atoms than the number of stars in the visible universe.

 

[Araucaria]

^Hmm, does someone want to come up with an estimate of the number of atoms in the known universe?

 

[gsdx]

^ Well, according to theoretical physicist John Wheeler, there's only one. It just moves around a lot.

 

[pigface]

^Hmm, does someone want to come up with an estimate of the number of atoms in the known universe?

The figure of 10⁸⁰ comes to mind. I think Carl Sagan mentioned that value.

 

[pigface]

It’s estimated that there’s 3 times the number of stars in the universe than grains of sand on earth, and that’s just the visible universe!

I think the usual estimate is about 3000 times bigger than that. But cosmologists may bicker over it.

 

[Alistair]

An average human's body weighing 154 pounds (70 kilograms) is comprised of 7 billion billion billion atoms. To be clear, that's a 7 followed by 27 zeros!

 

[pigface]

An average human's body weighing 154 pounds (70 kilograms) is comprised of 7 billion billion billion atoms. To be clear, that's a 7 followed by 27 zeros!

"is comprised of" should be simply "comprises". E.g., A human body comprises seven gazillion atoms.

 

[pornoboy]

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