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

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    #32
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    anti chris-t wrote: »
    i once read somewhere that glass is a liquid... figure that out

    Have you ever seen it being made?


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    #33
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    anti chris-t wrote: »
    i once read somewhere that glass is a liquid... figure that out
    A7X wrote: »
    Tis a very viscous slow moving liquid. Go to old churches that hae the original glass still intact. The bottom of the pane of glass will be thicker than the top.

    Nope. How could it be a liquid if it's solid?


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    #34
    sunnyjim
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,302 ✭✭✭sunnyjim


    It's a super cooled liquid, is it not?


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    #35
    Captain Darling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,542 ✭✭✭Captain Darling


    Schism wrote: »
    Shenanigans! Surely you must have caught the hare already to salt his tail.
    No shenanigans, if you're close enough to put salt on its tail, you're close enough to catch it.

    Five gold stars for you!


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    #36
    Johnnio13
    Registered Users Posts: 796 ✭✭✭Johnnio13


    A pelican can hold more in its beak than its belly can!

    Apparently a rolling stone gathers no moss


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    #37
    anti chris-t
    Closed Accounts Posts: 107 ✭✭anti chris-t


    I have heard about glass being thicker at the bottom than top before after a while alright its crazy when you think about it.

    also still on the glass theme when glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second


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    #38
    A7X
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭A7X


    Hayes Wet Bunny wrote: »
    Nope. How could it be a liquid if it's solid?

    It's a liquid. But not the type of liquid you drink so to speak. Look it up.


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    #39
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,568 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts!

    40% of all indigestion remedies sold in the world are bought by Americans!


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    #40
    Goduznt Xzst
    Registered Users Posts: 1,353 ✭✭✭Goduznt Xzst


    11 is the largest known multiplicative persistence.

    Also, the panels behind the contestants, in seasons 1 and 2, and then inside their desks on QI are fibonacci spirals


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    #41
    Caoimhín
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭Caoimhín


    anti chris-t wrote: »
    i once read somewhere that glass is a liquid... figure that out

    It is indeed a liquid, although more modern glass is stronger, if you look at glass in an old building like a church, you may notice the glass at bottom is a little thicker due to the gravitational pull of the earth's mass. It never truly settles into a solid.


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    #42
    Terry
    Registered Users Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    meditraitor wrote: »
    111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

    The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

    If it's uncopyrightable, then why don't you post it.
    You can't be sued.


    Ohh.


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    #43
    kf1920
    Closed Accounts Posts: 121 ✭✭kf1920


    meditraitor wrote: »
    The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

    dermatoglyphics

    QI to the rescue! :p


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    #44
    ART6
    Registered Users Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭ART6


    Giraffes are the only animals that can't swim.

    *Possibly with necks that long they don't generally need to*


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    #45
    wudangclan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,883 ✭✭✭wudangclan


    Goduznt Xzst wrote: »
    11 is the largest known multiplicative persistence.

    what?


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    #46
    javaboy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    Goduznt Xzst wrote: »
    11 is the largest known multiplicative persistence.

    Don't think that's been proven true for all N.


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    #47
    wudangclan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,883 ✭✭✭wudangclan


    javaboy wrote: »
    Don't think that's been proven true for all N.

    It is conjectured that the maximum number lacking the digit 1 with persistence 11 is NumberedEquation1.gif


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    #48
    wudangclan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,883 ✭✭✭wudangclan


    wudangclan wrote: »
    It is conjectured that the maximum number lacking the digit 1 with persistence 11 is NumberedEquation1.gif


    what?


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    #49
    DanR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 66 ✭✭DanR


    ART6 wrote: »
    Giraffes are the only animals that can't swim.

    *Possibly with necks that long they don't generally need to*

    I thought that was pigs...? :confused:


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    #50
    Turd Ferguson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    DanR wrote: »
    I thought that was pigs...? :confused:

    Well of course they cant swin...they're all in bed with the flu


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    #51
    Birdie086
    Registered Users Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭Birdie086


    the european country that exports the most bananas is ireland


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    #52
    sub-x
    Closed Accounts Posts: 199 ✭✭sub-x


    Dogs can't look up.


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    #53
    Horsefumbler
    Registered Users Posts: 1,823 ✭✭✭Horsefumbler


    Loopy wrote: »
    Lets all laugh at Frada and feel better
    online cliques are destroying the ah boards!


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    #54
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,787 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    A shark will only attack if you are wet.

    The old Arab cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.


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    #55
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,091 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    The claims about glass are wrong.

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


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    #56
    liah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭liah


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


    I never understood how anyone actually bought that one. It makes no sense, of course they can look up, and yet I've spoken to people who actually believe they can't. :confused:


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    #57
    wudangclan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,883 ✭✭✭wudangclan


    Spear wrote: »
    The claims about glass are wrong.

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


    myth-busted!


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    #58
    sub-x
    Closed Accounts Posts: 199 ✭✭sub-x


    liah wrote: »
    I never understood how anyone actually bought that one. It makes no sense, of course they can look up, and yet I've spoken to people who actually believe they can't. :confused:



    Sure,next you will be telling me there is no such thing as God :rolleyes:


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    #59
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,091 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    wudangclan wrote: »
    myth-busted!

    Here's a better one though, warm water freezes faster than cold water.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect


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    #60
    wudangclan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,883 ✭✭✭wudangclan


    sub-x wrote: »
    Sure,next you will be telling me there is no such thing as God :rolleyes:

    careful there, dermot ahern could getcha


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    #61
    jester77
    Registered Users Posts: 11,262 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    women blink twice as many times as men do... must be why they keep missing things!!


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