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Strange Facts that go against the grain completely

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    #182
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 13,425 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Batsy wrote: »

    3 Brits die each year testing if a 9v battery works on their tongue.

    Impossible. Volts don't kill, it's the amps that. Sure you'd need at least double that to even have a chance of passing through a layer of skin! Even if they were submerged in water, you would need at least 50-75 volts to cause damage (possible death)


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    #183
    Bipolar Joe
    Registered Users Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    Batsy wrote: »
    "riding" or "hostile incursion"

    There is definitely no difference between either of those things. Fact.


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    #184
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    Strange Facts that go against the grain completely

    Just watching Sky News, the Pakistani foreign minister is a ride. Fact.


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    #185
    Fizgig Bandicoot
    Registered Users Posts: 149 ✭✭Fizgig Bandicoot


    If you open your mouth, stick your tongue out and pretend to shake salt vigorously on it, you can taste salt. If you can't do it the first time, try it with your eyes closed.

    It's mad the way you can play tricks on your on own mind.


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    #186
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Tea_Bag wrote: »
    calculating the mass of the atmosphere above us is a fairly easy thing to do.
    especially if you've been feeling under pressure lately


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    #187
    Bipolar Joe
    Registered Users Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    If you touch your right elbow with your right hand and try to eat your left ear, you can't scream.


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    #188
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Sindri wrote: »
    A bee by all rights should not be able to fly.
    Only if you used an old theory of flight that didn't take into account vortex lift

    In science and engineering when the theory doesn't match the facts you have to change the theory.


    Gravity is just a theory,

    and so is Intelligent Falling :pac:


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    #189
    al28283
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭al28283


    Fizgig Bandicoot wrote: »
    If you open your mouth, stick your tongue out and pretend to shake salt vigorously on it, you can taste salt. If you can't do it the first time, try it with your eyes closed.

    It's mad the way you can play tricks on your on own mind.

    delicious!


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    #190
    Kidchameleon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Kidchameleon


    44leto wrote: »
    Strange Facts that go against the grain completely

    Just watching Sky News, the Pakistani foreign minister is a ride. Fact.

    Agreed. Id do her.


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    #191
    Capt'n Midnight
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    mikemac1 wrote: »
    The traffic on the quays in Dublin city used to be the other way around, North quays took you West and South quays took you East
    and before that they were two way on both sides as you can see in this film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Shore


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    #192
    Capt'n Midnight
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    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    It's a silly thing to say anyway. More people in the US are killed by vending machines every year than by sharks. Does that mean a vending machine is more dangerous than a shark?
    There was a factoid about vending machines killing US Marines than enemy action.

    The basis in truth is that you could shake free drinks out of the machine and at the time there weren't that many wars.
    http://articles.latimes.com/1989-06-18/local/me-3725_1_vending-machines-marine-corps-recruit-depot-fatal-accident

    Good thing BinLaden didn't think of that, instead of IED's you'd have vending machines all over Iraq


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    #193
    Capt'n Midnight
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    antodeco wrote: »
    Impossible. Volts don't kill, it's the amps that. Sure you'd need at least double that to even have a chance of passing through a layer of skin! Even if they were submerged in water, you would need at least 50-75 volts to cause damage (possible death)
    It's volts that jolts and mil's that kills ;)

    (miliamps that is)

    20V may give you a shock
    10V directly across your heart (not skin) could be fatal

    I have to call BS on the 9V battery unless someone comes up with a peer reviewed source
    Batsy wrote: »
    3 Brits die each year testing if a 9v battery works on their tongue.


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    #194
    Capt'n Midnight
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    The recently announced single atom transistor contains more than one atom.


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    #195
    Mr NoTV
    Registered Users Posts: 204 ✭✭Mr NoTV


    The chain on a chainsaw is pushed, not pulled round the bar.


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    #196
    Gbear
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    Stiffler2 wrote: »
    Hogwash

    The max difference between high and low on earth is about 17km
    According to wiki the average diameter is 13000km
    Deviation of 0.13%

    Golf ball difference is 0.254mm
    According to wiki the diameter is about 47mm
    Deviation of 0.54%

    Golf ball is way less smooth.


    Fizgig Bandicoot wrote: »
    If you open your mouth, stick your tongue out and pretend to shake salt vigorously on it, you can taste salt. If you can't do it the first time, try it with your eyes closed.

    It's mad the way you can play tricks on your on own mind.

    I'm very glad I did that in the privacy of my own home so that I didn't look like I decided to mime giving oral sex to a man while at college.
    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    It's volts that jolts and mil's that kills ;)

    (miliamps that is)

    20V may give you a shock
    10V directly across your heart (not skin) could be fatal

    I have to call BS on the 9V battery unless someone comes up with a peer reviewed source
    I read somewhere that it takes only 35mA across the heart to kill.

    If I remember my multimeter readings correctly the resistance of my skin was about 1400Ω.

    IR=V (Ohm's Law)
    I(1400)=9
    I=9/1400
    I=6.5 mA

    6.5 < 35
    QED:P


    Fact: I have far too much time on my hands.


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    #197
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    The heart isn't heart shaped.

    Stars aren't star shaped.

    Ginger isn't ginger coloured.


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    #198
    kincsem
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    This was on the telly last week.

    In the USA pizza is a vegetable. FFS.


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    #199
    KKkitty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    If you block your nose and bite into an apple, onion or potato you won't be able to tell which is which.


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    #200
    Jim_Kiy
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    It's volts that jolts and mil's that kills ;)

    (miliamps that is)

    20V may give you a shock
    10V directly across your heart (not skin) could be fatal

    I have to call BS on the 9V battery unless someone comes up with a peer reviewed source

    a few mV at a few uA can kill but it would need to be applied through broken skin..I would believe its possible but the fiqures quoted per unlikely if in fact it has ever happened.

    I decided to google a bit..

    Apparently there was a US sailor being trained as an electrician who killed himself by sticking the probes of an Ohmmeter through his skin to measure his internal resistance.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/28/the_odd_body_death_by_battery/


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    #201
    44leto
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    kincsem wrote: »
    This was on the telly last week.

    In the USA pizza is a vegetable. FFS.

    If that is the case, I claim beer is also a vegetable and therefore good for you.


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    #202
    al28283
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    kincsem wrote: »
    This was on the telly last week.

    In the USA pizza is a vegetable. FFS.

    No it's not. The tomato sauce on a pizza is counted as a portion of vegetable


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    #203
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Gbear wrote: »
    The max difference between high and low on earth is about 17km
    According to wiki the average diameter is 13000km
    Deviation of 0.13%
    The earth is not a sphere, it's more flattened at the poles.

    The north pole is 43Km closer to the centre of the earth than the equator is.

    A billiard ball is rounder than the earth.


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    #204
    44leto
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    The earth is not a sphere, it's more flattened at the poles.

    The north pole is 43Km closer to the centre of the earth than the equator is.

    A billiard ball is rounder than the earth.

    It's an oblate Spheroid according to Mr Fry and the QI team.


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    #205
    Jim_Kiy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 482 ✭✭Jim_Kiy


    Ordinary non-rechargeable batteries can be recharged if you know how..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brdmnUBAS00


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    #206
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,202 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    al28283 wrote: »
    No it's not. The tomato sauce on a pizza is counted as a portion of vegetable
    Tomato is a fruit :)

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    #207
    kylith
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    44leto wrote: »
    If that is the case, I claim beer is also a vegetable and therefore good for you.
    Nonsense. Of course beer isn't a vegetable. Containing wheat, yeast and water beer is obviously a type of bread.


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    #208
    RGDATA!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,324 ✭✭✭RGDATA!


    kincsem wrote: »
    This was on the telly last week.

    In the USA pizza is a vegetable. FFS.

    False, don't believe everything you see on tv.


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    #209
    kincsem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,013 ✭✭✭kincsem


    This "pizza is a vegetable" thing ... the programme said as there was tomato (sauce) on the pizza the pizza counted as a vegetable in school meals.

    http://www.thejournal.ie/us-congress-rules-that-pizza-is-a-vegetable-282033-Nov2011/


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    #210
    kincsem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,013 ✭✭✭kincsem


    RGDATA! wrote: »
    False, don't believe everything you see on tv.
    True, as long as it has two tablespoons of tomato sauce in it.


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    #211
    al28283
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭al28283


    kincsem wrote: »
    This "pizza is a vegetable" thing ... the programme said as there was tomato (sauce) on the pizza the pizza counted as a vegetable in school meals.

    http://www.thejournal.ie/us-congress-rules-that-pizza-is-a-vegetable-282033-Nov2011/


    It is not a vegetable in the US, It is counted as equal to a portion of vegetables. But that doesn't make an interesting article


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