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Did You Know? ....... Strange Facts

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    #122
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,838 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Humans were not the first to use nuclear power.


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    #123
    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    PFL wrote: »
    Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

    Tipping is not customary in Iceland as gratuity is factored into bills, but they will by no means be insulted if you tip them. Worst case scenario someone might be confused as to what you're doing.


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    #124
    keane2097
    Registered Users Posts: 17,770 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    ynotdu wrote: »
    ah go ask my nuts!(aka my bolix)I do declare!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    God you're being terribly hostile...


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    #125
    tech77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭tech77


    unreggd wrote: »
    There's no word for the back of your knee

    Popliteal fossa?
    Everyday word, you mean?


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    #126
    r14
    Closed Accounts Posts: 205 ✭✭r14


    Antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest word in the Englsih language other than technical words like the name of chemicals. It describes the political movement who oppose the separation of church and State.

    Also the word hat-trick comes from cricket. When a bowler knocks out(?) three bat guys in a row he used to get a hat so it was known as the hat-trick.

    *Is it obvious I know nothing about cricket? :D*


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    #127
    Schism
    Registered Users Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Schism


    Zillah wrote: »
    Tipping is not customary in Iceland as gratuity is factored into bills, but they will by no means be insulted if you tip them. Worst case scenario someone might be confused as to what you're doing.

    Apparently it's the same in Japan, a friend of mine was over there recently and, as you do, left a tip after dinner. They were subsequently chased down outside the restaurant because the waitress thought they had forgotten their money.


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    #128
    keane2097
    Registered Users Posts: 17,770 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    r14 wrote: »
    Antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest word in the Englsih language other than technical words like the name of chemicals. It describes the political movement who oppose the separation of church and State.

    Nope, you'll find it's Floccinaucinihilipilification...


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    #129
    r14
    Closed Accounts Posts: 205 ✭✭r14


    keane2097 wrote: »
    Nope, you'll find it's Floccinaucinihilipilification...

    Nope that one is coined - not a real word like antidisestab......

    I'm talking about the undisputed champion of the word


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    #130
    Hogzy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭Hogzy


    The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!


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    #131
    SoWatchaWant
    Registered Users Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭SoWatchaWant


    sub-x wrote: »
    Dogs can't look up.

    Not true.


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    #132
    keane2097
    Registered Users Posts: 17,770 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    r14 wrote: »
    Nope that one is coined - not a real word like antidisestab......

    I'm talking about the undisputed champion of the word

    Didn't you read the link?

    The longest non-coined word is Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism.

    The longest non-technical word is Floccinaucinihilipilification.


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    #133
    Hogzy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭Hogzy


    The oceans contain enough salt to cover all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet

    A man’s testicles manufacture 10 million new sperm cells each day - enough that he could repopulate the entire planet in only 6 months!

    Human bone is as strong as granite in supporting weight. A block of bone the size of a matchbox can support 9 tonnes - that is four times as much as concrete can support.

    A foreskin, the size of a postage stamp, from circumcised babies take only 21 days to grow skin that can cover three (3) basketball courts. Amazing isn’t it. Thanks to science. The laboratory-grown skin is used in treating burn patients.


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    #134
    keane2097
    Registered Users Posts: 17,770 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    Hogzy wrote: »
    A foreskin, the size of a postage stamp, from circumcised babies take only 21 days to grow skin that can cover three (3) basketball courts. Amazing isn’t it. Thanks to science. The laboratory-grown skin is used in treating burn patients.

    Where can we get this enormous baby foreskin?


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    #135
    *giggles*
    Closed Accounts Posts: 930 ✭✭✭*giggles*


    Snails can sleep for up to 3 years at a time. Now for ya. Mentioned that one day in biology, they'll never think of me the same again......:( Also, frogs have no ribs. Why is it that most of these here interesting facts relate to animals?:confused:


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    #136
    Hogzy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭Hogzy


    keane2097 wrote: »
    Where can we get this enormous baby foreskin?

    Im sure i can send you mine if your willing to pay postage, i was fairly big as a child.


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    #137
    keane2097
    Registered Users Posts: 17,770 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    Hogzy wrote: »
    Im sure i can send you mine if your willing to pay postage, i was fairly big as a child.

    If it's still attached to you it's no longer a child's foreskin though...

    And if you've just kept onto an old one no dice either - it has to be fresh...


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    #138
    Hogzy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭Hogzy


    keane2097 wrote: »
    If it's still attached to you it's no longer a child's foreskin though...
    :eek: im worried
    keane2097 wrote: »
    And if you've just kept onto an old one no dice either - it has to be fresh...
    :(

    its 22yrs old, vaccum packed and still pink:pac: Ill send it registered!!!!


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    #139
    keane2097
    Registered Users Posts: 17,770 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    Hogzy wrote: »
    its 22yrs old, vaccum packed and still pink:pac: Ill send it registered!!!!

    I'd prefer to collect it :pac:


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    #140
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,838 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Hogzy wrote: »
    A foreskin, the size of a postage stamp, from circumcised babies take only 21 days to grow skin that can cover three (3) basketball courts. Amazing isn’t it. Thanks to science. The laboratory-grown skin is used in treating burn patients.
    At the end of the tax year, the Tax Office sent an inspector to audit the books of a synagogue. While he was checking the books he turned to the Rabbi and said, "I notice you buy a lot of candles. What do you do with the candle drippings?"

    "Good question," noted the Rabbi. "We save them up and send them back to the candle makers, and every now and then they send us a free box of candles."

    "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual question had a practical answer.

    But on he went, in his obnoxious way. "What about all these biscuit purchases. What do you do with the crumbs?"

    "Ah, yes," replied the Rabbi, realizing that the inspector was trying to trap him with an unanswerable question. "We collect them and send them back to the manufacturers, and every now and then they send a free box of holy biscuits."

    "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster the know-it-all Rabbi.

    "Well, Rabbi," he went on, "what do you do with all the leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"

    "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the Rabbi. "What we do is save up all the foreskins and send them to the Tax Office, and about once a year they send us a complete dick."


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    #141
    RATM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭RATM


    BVB wrote: »
    The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side (i.e. the first 8 moves in total) in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000

    How did you arrive at that figure?


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    #142
    ynotdu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,817 ✭✭✭ynotdu


    keane2097 wrote: »
    God you're being terribly hostile...

    been taking lessons from Roy;)......


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    #143
    ynotdu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,817 ✭✭✭ynotdu


    dont surgeons save up foreskins&when they have enough have them turned into wallets?

    when travelling they rub the wallet until it becomes a suitcase:pac:


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    #144
    WIZE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,597 ✭✭✭WIZE


    The typical lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty five miles long


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    #145
    pebbles21
    Registered Users Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭pebbles21


    when a taxi stops in the middle of a busy road to pick up a fare ,the second it turns on its hazard lights it goes invisible


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    #146
    magenta73
    Closed Accounts Posts: 182 ✭✭magenta73


    you can't lick your elbow...............and yes, I have tryed:p


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    #147
    liah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭liah


    keane2097 wrote: »
    Didn't you read the link?

    The longest non-coined word is Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism.

    The longest non-technical word is Floccinaucinihilipilification.

    Thought it was Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

    Is it bad that I can spell that without reference?


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    #148
    keane2097
    Registered Users Posts: 17,770 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    liah wrote: »
    Thought it was Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

    Is it bad that I can spell that without reference?

    Wikipedia has Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis down as the "Longest word in a major dictionary" with the disputes to its claims to be the longest word in English centred around the fact that it is a technical word and that it was coined to be the longest word in the language...


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    #149
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,838 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Paul is the longest word , there is an AU between the first and last letters.


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    #150
    A7X
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭A7X


    O'Coonassa wrote: »
    BLUFF!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass#Glass_versus_a_supercooled_liquid

    That makes alot more sense. Looks like my Physics teacher was wrong then :rolleyes:

    Regardless it's still undetermined, but it is to be considered a solid within everyday life.
    There is no clear answer to the question "Is glass solid or liquid?". In terms of molecular dynamics and thermodynamics it is possible to justify various different views that it is a highly viscous liquid, an amorphous solid, or simply that glass is another state of matter that is neither liquid nor solid. The difference is semantic. In terms of its material properties we can do little better. There is no clear definition of the distinction between solids and highly viscous liquids. All such phases or states of matter are idealisations of real material properties. Nevertheless, from a more common sense point of view, glass should be considered a solid since it is rigid according to everyday experience. The use of the term "supercooled liquid" to describe glass still persists, but is considered by many to be an unfortunate misnomer that should be avoided. In any case, claims that glass panes in old windows have deformed due to glass flow have never been substantiated. Examples of Roman glassware and calculations based on measurements of glass visco-properties indicate that these claims cannot be true. The observed features are more easily explained as a result of the imperfect methods used to make glass window panes before the float glass process was invented.
    http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/Glass/glass.html


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    #151
    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    Ireland's most successful filmmaker was a guy called Rex Ingram.
    Totally forgotten now because no-one watches silent movies.


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