Did you Know.......

I'm sure everyone has seen all the "Did You Know" lists of interesting tid bits of information. Let's try posting some of our fav's one at a time....

I'll get the ball rolling

* There is only four animals that can identify themselves in a mirror:

Humans, Dolphins, Chimps, and Orangutans.


Disclaimer: The info contained herein is not guaranteed to be accurate.

Did you know that C# is the enharmonic equivalent of D flat?

So, from now on, I'll consider all C# developers as D-Flat-ed

A cockroach can live 9 days without it's head, he will die by starvation.

Ricardo, the NZ cockroaches do much longer than that! We found the only way to truly get rid of them is to flush them down the loo!

Did you know? A mouse caught in a "cockroach hotel" (a cardboard box glue trap, about 1cm high and 10x7 cm floor space) can survive for three days, stuck to the glue, rattling the box constantly. Urghh.

People with Synesthesia can see sounds and taste words. The first person I ever knew about that suffered from this was Rollo from Faithless but I never knew what it was called until I saw a program about it on the tv last night.

Dom

Did you know:

There are 3 golf balls on the moon.

You cannot sneeze with your eyes open.

Nothing says "I love you" like a $20 bill. (multiple applications here)

The difference around the equator vs. the poles is 25 miles

I think the difference in circumference is closer to 42 statute miles. See, for example, http://www.koordinaten.de/english/in...ns/earth.shtml

New Zealand is home to 4 million people and 50 million sheep - can you confirm teylyn?

How many sheepish people?

How many peopleish sheep?

Do we need a Venn diagram?

Common misconception proven false:

Posited: Two rights can't make a wrong.

Refuted: Say this sarcastically: "Yeah, right."

Summary: Sarcasm overcomes all obstacles.

Originally Posted by shg

Do we need a Venn diagram?

No just a big sheep pen!

Originally Posted by oldchippy

No just a big sheep pen!

Wouldn't that be a "Bic" Sheep Pen?

(no pun too small)

OK, venn diagram for shg.

Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters. The proper term for upper case letters is "majuscule" and for lower case it's "minuscule".

Margarine is but one molecule from being PLASTIC

Plastic Floating rubbish dump in Pacific Ocean twice the size of the USA

@D_Rennie: I took an evening class about whole food and healthy eating about 15 years ago. Margarine never made it past my threshold since!

now if you want obscure
Cardiff central,Stockport and Edinburgh haymarket are the only UK railway stations to have a platform 0 (zero) (from the independent on Saturday magazine quiz 27/02/10)

Did you know...NBVC and Andy Pope .. have also retired as mods and are now forum gurus

ah but did you know that pike is an anagram of kipe

Commonly referred to as the best and undefeated level 39 twink character in the popular MMO game, "World of Warcraft"
Made famous by his videos, depicting him as a level 39 hunter showing off his kiting skills against opponents many levels above him, and beating them with ease.

well whatever that means

Did you know martindwilson is an anagram for "A Windstorm Nil"

JBeaucaire = "A Bear Juice"

bear juice what part of the bear does it come from LOL

or jerry Beaucaire is annogram for Array Beer Juice

Ok, then maybe:

Jerry Beaucaire = "A Rare Juicy Beer"

...or the TVMA version: = "Rare Juice? Ye Bra."

LOL yep thats better

"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

Originally Posted by ratcat

"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

I just typed it with my right hand, is that a record?

Dom

ratcat, you clearly don't know German!

Wettbewerbsstress

12345Stewardesses

EagleEye, did you know:

we're not doing nursery rhymes!!

Remember? Real programmers don't eat quiche!!

Originally Posted by teylyn

EagleEye, did you know:

we're not doing nursery rhymes!!

Remember? Real programmers don't eat quiche!!

That's why I eat quiche

Originally Posted by Domski

I just typed it with my right hand, is that a record?

Dom

Lets get the Officials in from the Guinness Book of Records in and find out.

Originally Posted by teylyn

ratcat, you clearly don't know German!

Wettbewerbsstress

German lol I struggle with my own language Australia let alone with worrying about someone else

And btw you two, there is a disclaimer at the opening thread

Did you know
If all of China's population will jump at the same time, the Earth will descend from its axis

Did you know ....Peel a banana from the *bottom and you won't have to
pick *the little 'stringy things' off of it. That's *how the primates do it.

what do you mean by the botom is that the stalk end or the other?

martin you're in trouble if you dont know where the bottom end of the stalk is

hmm !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Take *your bananas apart when you get home from the *store.
If *you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen *faster.

During the California Gold Rush of 1849 miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the high costs in California during these years it was deemed more feasible to send the shirts to Hawaii for servicing.

Dark matter supposedly accounts for ~75% of all matter in the universe and we're still not sure what it is exactly.

I thought it was more like ~95%....that could be something to do with the currys I had over the weekend though.

Dom

Faster than light achieved: a group of researchers at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, US, observed the peak of a laser pulse leave a small cell filled with caesium gas before it had even entered the cell (L J Wang, A Kuzmich and A Dogariu 2000 Nature 406 277).
or (more recently)
ScienceDaily (Jan. 27, 2010) — Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland at College Park, can speed up photons (particles of light) to seemingly faster-than-light speeds through a stack of materials by adding a single, strategically placed layer.

Keeping with the OP, this is supposed to be a thread of really interesting facts... let's try to restrain our penchant for puns...which is REALLY hard for me, too. So, only jokes/humor that also state an actual trivia fact...

Like maybe: Did you know... "Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do."

(Still trying to figure out if Zbor's is a joke or not... hehe)

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Contribution

Did you know:

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.)

well i didn't know that. i don't even understand it. so put me in the box marked [doh!]

Originally Posted by ConneXionLost

POLYAMORY IS WRONG!

It is either Multiamory or Polyphilia, but mixing Greek and Latin roots? Wrong!

Originally Posted by martindwilson

well i didn't know that. i don't even understand it. so put me in the box marked [doh!]

Is it a joke about filling the cracks that I just don't get?

Dom

did you know
we're all invited round to Zbor's for the world cup , get the beers in mate!