random facts

[SpectorBass308]

somebody post some random facts. did you know babys are born without knee caps? tell you friends.

 

[Tony G]

Mr. T and Superman once fought each other on a bet. The loser had to start wearing his underwear on the outside of his pants.

 

[stedtale]

Nintendo was originally founded in 1889 as a maker of playing cards!

They made their first video game in 1975.

 

[stedtale]

The total amount of radiation energy from outside the solar collected by all the radio telescopes on Earth since collecting began (in 1951) is less than the energy of a single snowflake striking the ground.

 

[stedtale]

The QWERTY keyboard was designed to be as inefficient as possible because if people typed too fast the typewriter would become jammed. To alleviate jamming, manufacturers arranged the keys so that many words would be typed with only one hand, few words can be typed on the home row, and the left hand gets the majority of the work.

The DVORAK keyboard, using a different setup, improves efficiency by at least 70%. friends don't let friends type QWERTY.

 

[RWP]

There are 1 million ants for every person in the world.

 

[stedtale]

The first computer "bug" was a real bug.

In 1947, engineers found a moth in Panel F, Relay #70 of the Harvard Mark 1 system. The computer was running a test of its multiplier and adder when the engineers noticed something was wrong. The moth was trapped, removed and taped into the computer's logbook with the words: "first actual case of a bug being found."

 

[stedtale]

There are 1 million ants for every person in the world.

Bugs outnumber humans 200 million to one.

Insects make up more than half of all living things on Earth, comprising over one million species. For every human, there are 200 million insects. This figure does not include non-insect arthropods, such as spiders and scorpions.

 

[RWP]

The total amount of radiation energy from outside the solar collected by all the radio telescopes on Earth since collecting began (in 1951) is less than the energy of a single snowflake striking the ground.

And just think, they only spent several billion dollars collecting it!

 

[stedtale]

And just think, they only spent several billion dollars collecting it!

trillion, I'm sure.

 

[Otso]

Hot Asian chicks are really hot.

Louis Spohr was on of the first conductors to use a baton, he also invented the violin chinrest.

 

[Bryan316]

My current credit card billing cycle is $848.15 and I owe my life insurance $645.

I love paying bills.

The second sentence of this post is fiction.

 

[RWP]

In 2002, the National Research Council, a US Congressionally chartered group, said that there are about 400,000 online subscription sites with adult entertainment content worldwide, or about 1.5% of all Internet content. No telling what percentage it is now, half maybe?

 

[Mark Wilson]

Judge Judy gets paid over 1 million per year.
The head of the US Supreme Court gets paid about 130,000.

 

[Mark Wilson]

There are more votes for American Idol than there are for the Presidential elections.

 

[stedtale]

Banning is fun.

 

[Poop-Loops]

I have to take my brother to the dentist.

 

[RWP]

Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

 

[Baryonyx]

I'm going to buy Tenchu Z and Overlord for the 360 on Friday morning.

 

[Ryan L.]

I'm wearing black underwear.