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Amazing But True Facts (1 Viewer)

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  • Australia once lost a prime minister. As in straight up couldn't find him. They have yet to find him.
  • The Champawat Tiger was a female Bengal tiger responsible for an estimated 430 deaths in Nepal and India.
  • There was once a war between Honduras and El Salvador started by a soccer game.
  • It rains diamonds on Saturn, and Jupiter.
  • When I tell people that Bob Marley's father was white, oh the nonbelievers!
  • People completely shave orangutans and force them into prostitution.
  • The Mongolian Navy consists of a tugboat with a seven man crew. Only one of them can swim.
  • The Who's first drummer, Keith Moon, was the godfather of The Who's current drummer, Zak Starkey, who is also the son of Ringo Starr, The Beatles' drummer.
  • More people are killed each year by vending machines than by sharks.
  • Warner Bros was founded a few months before the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Even crazier is that Nintendo was founded 34 YEARS before it fell.
  • Humans share 50% of their DNA with... bananas.
  • France has more time zones than USA or Russia. (For those wondering, it's because France owns a lot of island nations on Earth.)
  • Maine is the closest US state to Africa.
  • The current United States flag was designed by then 17 years old Robert G. Heft, as part of a school project. He received a grade of B-
  • Fortune cookies were invented in America and are seen in China as an american symbol.
  • Gravity propagates at the speed of light. So if the sun were to suddenly disappear, we would continue orbiting for 8 minutes.
  • If there're 23 people in a room, there's a 50% chance two of them share a birthday. edit: google "birthday paradox" for more information.
  • Blue whales don't have enough blood in their body to get an erection, they would pass out from lack of blood in the brain. To compensate - female blue whale ######s are the size of an average living room. edit: I'm getting lots of questions about this one. I believe that they just ejaculate while semi-flaccid so it's not very accurate and that's why the large ######s are there. They cum over 5 gallons at a time though, now you know.
  • There are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards then there are atoms in our solar system.
  • Cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon landing than she did to the building of the Great Pyramids.
  • There are more public libraries than McDonald’s in the US.
  • 7 out of 8 battle deaths in WWII were between the Russians and the Germans - this includes the entire world at the time.
  • The grandsons of tenth US President John Tyler (born 1790) are still living.
  • A day on venus is longer than a year on venus.
  • Hippo milk is pink. That's right, pink.
  • Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.
  • Shaq only ever hit one 3 point shot.
  • Photographs taken of the Eiffel Tower at night are subject to copyright law.
  • Most toilets flush in E Flat.
  • Reno is west of L.A. Also, six US Capitals are west of L.A.
 
FreeBaGeL said:
ILUVBEER99 said:
chet said:
If there're 23 people in a room, there's a 50% chance two of them share a birthday. edit: google "birthday paradox" for more information
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Mind Blown
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More birthday paradox craziness.

While it takes 367 people to make the chances 100% that two people share a birthday, If there are 70 people in the room, the chances are 99.9%.
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i can't wrap my head around this. How is this statistically true?

 
ILUVBEER99 said:
FreeBaGeL said:
ILUVBEER99 said:
chet said:
If there're 23 people in a room, there's a 50% chance two of them share a birthday. edit: google "birthday paradox" for more information
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Mind Blown
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More birthday paradox craziness.

While it takes 367 people to make the chances 100% that two people share a birthday, If there are 70 people in the room, the chances are 99.9%.
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i can't wrap my head around this. How is this statistically true?
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One thing to keep in mind is that you're not comparing just one person to the field, you're comparing the field to the field. Each person individually has a chance to match up with a slew of others.

So even if you consider that you're picking one person specifically to see if anyone has the same birthday as them, the chances of that are 69/366 or almost 20%. Then you repeat that again with the next person, minus the person they've already been compared to so that's 68/366 which is still around 20%. You repeat that just a few times and you're probably going to find someone with a match pretty quickly, so the chances that you make it through all 70 people without hitting on one are pretty low.

 
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There are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards then there are atoms in our solar system.

That's an interesting one, but I would think you would say "arrange" instead of "shuffle". Seems like about 10^57 atoms in the solar system.

 
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gianmarco said:
bostonfred said:
chet said:
  • There are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards then there are atoms in our solar system.
  • The grandsons of tenth US President John Tyler (born 1790) are still living.
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I call bull#### on both of these.
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The second one is true. Agreed the first one doesn't sound right.
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I just looked the second one up. Tyler had a kid at 63. That kid had a kid at 75. 75 years old and he was having sex with a woman of child bearing age. Doesn't matter how old he was, that guy rocks. This isn't 75 today, either. It's 75 before advances in health care, and right at the sweet spot of the Great Depression.One of the grandsons was reportedly in poor health as of a couple months ago, so this one might no longer be true. But this one definitely counts as amazing but true.

 
bostonfred said:
chet said:
  • There are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards then there are atoms in our solar system.
  • The grandsons of tenth US President John Tyler (born 1790) are still living.
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I call bull#### on both of these.
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Dunno what to say, GB.

Apparently, Tyler had a kid when he was in his 60s and that person had a child when s/he was in their 70s.

52! = 8.06 * 10^67

 
bostonfred said:
gianmarco said:
bostonfred said:
chet said:
  • There are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards then there are atoms in our solar system.
  • The grandsons of tenth US President John Tyler (born 1790) are still living.
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I call bull#### on both of these.
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The second one is true. Agreed the first one doesn't sound right.
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I just looked the second one up. Tyler had a kid at 63. That kid had a kid at 75. 75 years old and he was having sex with a woman of child bearing age. Doesn't matter how old he was, that guy rocks. This isn't 75 today, either. It's 75 before advances in health care, and right at the sweet spot of the Great Depression.One of the grandsons was reportedly in poor health as of a couple months ago, so this one might no longer be true. But this one definitely counts as amazing but true.
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and i don't think viagra was around during that time, truly incredible

 
I'm so glad I didn't say something like "I'll drink a five gallon bucket of whale jizz if that dude's grandkids are still alive".

 
chet said:
52! = 8.06 * 10^67
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If you shuffled a deck of 52 cards once per second, starting at the time of the Big Bang 14 billion years ago, you'd have barely made a dent in the total number of combinations. The universe has only existed for about 10^18 seconds.

 
Mr. Retukes said:
chet said:
Australia once lost a prime minister. As in straight up couldn't find him. They have yet to find him. You can stop looking -- he drowned
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In theory

The mystery became the subject of numerous urban myths in Australia, including persistent claims that he was kidnapped (or rescued) by a Chinese submarine, or the far-fetched claim that he had been abducted by a UFO. In 1983, British journalist Anthony Grey published a controversial book in which he claimed that Holt had been an agent for the People's Republic of China and that he had been picked up by a Chinese submarine off Portsea and taken to China.[citation needed] Such conspiracy theories rely on the fact that his body was never found.

 
gianmarco said:
bostonfred said:
chet said:
  • There are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards then there are atoms in our solar system.
  • The grandsons of tenth US President John Tyler (born 1790) are still living.
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I call bull#### on both of these.
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The second one is true. Agreed the first one doesn't sound right.
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In 22.4 liters or 1 gram of Hydrogen (which we would agree is a very small amount when we are taking the universe) has 6.02 x10^23 atoms in it.

 
Sarnoff said:
chet said:
52! = 8.06 * 10^67
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If you shuffled a deck of 52 cards once per second, starting at the time of the Big Bang 14 billion years ago, you'd have barely made a dent in the total number of combinations. The universe has only existed for about 10^18 seconds.
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Every time you shuffle a deck of playing cards, it's likely that you have come up with an ordering of cards that is unique in human history
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http://www.matthewweathers.com/year2006/shuffling_cards.htm

 
This is the one that got me:

If every star in our galaxy had a trillion planets, each with a trillion people living on them, and each of these people has a trillion packs of cards and somehow they manage to make unique shuffles 1,000 times per second, and they'd been doing that since the Big Bang, they'd only just now be starting to repeat shuffles.

That was copied from this QI article.

The number of ways to shuffle a deck of cards is 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766, 975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000.
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bostonfred said:
chet said:
  • There are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards then there are atoms in our solar system.
  • The grandsons of tenth US President John Tyler (born 1790) are still living.
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I call bull#### on both of these.
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I agree with you on the first one. But what is more amazing, IMO, is the fact that so many people don't know the difference between the words then and than.

 
for anyone who cares, 52! =

  • eighty unvigintillion, six hundred fifty-eight vigintillion, one hundred seventy-five novemdecillion, one hundred seventy octodecillion, nine hundred forty-three septendecillion, eight hundred seventy-eight sexdecillion, five hundred seventy-one quindecillion, six hundred sixty quattuordecillion, six hundred thirty-six tredecillion, eight hundred fifty-six duodecillion, four hundred three undecillion, seven hundred sixty-six decillion, nine hundred seventy-five nonillion, two hundred eighty-nine octillion, five hundred five septillion, four hundred forty sextillion, eight hundred eighty-three quintillion, two hundred seventy-seven quadrillion, eight hundred twenty-four trillion.
 
jonboltz said:
Sarnoff said:
chet said:
52! = 8.06 * 10^67
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If you shuffled a deck of 52 cards once per second, starting at the time of the Big Bang 14 billion years ago, you'd have barely made a dent in the total number of combinations. The universe has only existed for about 10^18 seconds.
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Every time you shuffle a deck of playing cards, it's likely that you have come up with an ordering of cards that is unique in human history
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http://www.matthewweathers.com/year2006/shuffling_cards.htm
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I'd love to see Ricky Jay do a card trick routine based on these cool facts. He's just the man for the job.

 
chet said:
for anyone who cares, 52! =

  • eighty unvigintillion, six hundred fifty-eight vigintillion, one hundred seventy-five novemdecillion, one hundred seventy octodecillion, nine hundred forty-three septendecillion, eight hundred seventy-eight sexdecillion, five hundred seventy-one quindecillion, six hundred sixty quattuordecillion, six hundred thirty-six tredecillion, eight hundred fifty-six duodecillion, four hundred three undecillion, seven hundred sixty-six decillion, nine hundred seventy-five nonillion, two hundred eighty-nine octillion, five hundred five septillion, four hundred forty sextillion, eight hundred eighty-three quintillion, two hundred seventy-seven quadrillion, eight hundred twenty-four trillion.
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Really doesn't seem like much when you lay it out like that.

 
chet said:
This is the one that got me:

If every star in our galaxy had a trillion planets, each with a trillion people living on them, and each of these people has a trillion packs of cards and somehow they manage to make unique shuffles 1,000 times per second, and they'd been doing that since the Big Bang, they'd only just now be starting to repeat shuffles.

That was copied from this QI article.

The number of ways to shuffle a deck of cards is 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766, 975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000.
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I can't wrap my tiny brain around this, so I'm just going with bs and someone misplaced a decimal.

 
chet said:
  • Blue whales don't have enough blood in their body to get an erection, they would pass out from lack of blood in the brain. To compensate - female blue whale ######s are the size of an average living room. edit: I'm getting lots of questions about this one. I believe that they just ejaculate while semi-flaccid so it's not very accurate and that's why the large ######s are there. They cum over 5 gallons at a time though, now you know.
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Ah, San Diego.

 
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