Did you know that sometime ago, the U.S. officially released photos of the dark side of the moon which were identified to be altered? This caused some people to freak out and think of many things on why they had to do so.
Did you know that mangos contain the same sap on their outer skin that is on the poison ivy leaf? When we lived in Hawaii, I broke out in a rash, went to Navy medical. Turns out I handled some mangos and it was a horrible rash and there is NO poison ivy on the island.
A standard 3x3x3 Rubik's cube has 43 trillion possible scrambles! To put that in perspective, if a sheet of paper represented a scrambled Rubik's cube, you would need 743 stacks of paper from the Earth to Pluto to represent all 43 trillion possible scrambles.
10% of people wash their hands after using the toilet.
Someone sold his LIFE on eBay for 300,000 dollars!
Paladipus's are poisonous!
You're more likely to die by a cow, lightning, and getting hit on the head by a coconut than a shark.
2,500 left handed people get killed each year by using RIGHT HANDED products!
you would need 10 raised to the 80th power UNIVERSES full of atoms to represent all 19.5 quinquagintillion possible scrambles a 7x7x7 cube has!
100 years ago, 20% of people still thought that the sun revolved around the Earth...
I didn't know the size of the universe had ben determined.
More deaths occur annually as a result of drunk walking than drunk driving.
If you had to play out all possible 10 note chords on the piano, you would have to play 4,513,667,846,000,000,000,000 different combinations! And if you played a chord a second, that would take you 143,127.4685 years!
You know how people are like, 'Oh yeah, humans are soo special, life on Earth is soo rare, and we're soo cool'?Well, the four most abundant elements in the universe are Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Nitrogen. And guess what we're made of? The same thing! Since that's true, then the universe must be teeming with life!Isn't that awesome!
Did you know that at the age of ten, Camille Saint-Saens could play all 32 of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas by memory?
He was also an expert on butterflies, as well as a pretty solid mathematician. He still ended up as a less than major composer (or mathematician, or lepidopterist).
He seems relatively well recognized compared to most classical composers.
Oh yeah? Well, how many people can pronounce his name, without being "racked with pains?"
A standard 3x3x3 Rubik's cube has 43 trillion possible scrambles!
Possibly well-known on this board, but Franz Liszt was Richard Wagner's stepfather.