Does anyone else find themselves recalling random facts for no apparent reason? Like,
Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest and lost
White green, green, white blue, orange, white orange, blue, white brown, brown.
Are you making a crossover cable or installing it for the government? Those are the only places that I know of that A is used regularly. Nearly everywhere else uses B in my experience.
Are you making the assumption I am from North America?
Every place I have worked in Australia and Europe uses green first.
California Cows Don’t Dance the Fandango
Steps for laser printing:
Cleaning, Charging, Drawing, Developing, Transferring, Fusing
I’ve known this for over 20 years and never used it. Thanks catchy mnemonics!
T568-A guy I see
I’m a B guy myself.
I managed to memorize it for a test in networking class. The teacher was surprised someone actually managed to get it right.
Laser is an acronym and doesn’t have a god damned Z in it.
Laser is no longer an acronym. It’s now an anacronym, which means it’s its own word (despite originally being an acronym)
Source: Wikipedia
TIL - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
That reminds me, so is SCUBA, RADAR and MODEM…I miss the old History Channel shows, especially Modern Marvels
SCUBA: Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (Blew my mind for some reason when I learned that)
RADAR: Radio Detection and Ranging (I’ve watched alot of WWII documentaries)
MODEM: Modulation Demodulation (I’ve worked in tech)So is Tuba: Terrible Underwater Breathing Apparatus
Also, Lithuania is really good at making the fancy ones, like ones for research, variable frequency ones, femtosecond ones, etc.
I had to look it up, but we’re #13 by global export value (not counting laser diodes)
The little piece of plastic at the end of a shoe lace is called an aglet.
I learned that from Phineas and Ferb.
Thank you Terraria for this useless piece of info
Pretty sure it was the movie Repossessed with Leslie Nielsen that taught me this one.
Their true purpose is sinister
A kangaroo’s testicles are ON TOP of its penis rather than below.
This is basically what I say whenever someone asks me for a fun fact too roflmao
Today I Learned!
And that’s now my fun fact too lol
Ohio is the only state that doesn’t share any letters with mackerel
obvious proof for ohio not being real
-All of the planets in the solar system can fit between the earth and the moon -Stoplights detect your presence with an electromagnetic field using wires and not pressure -There is a receiver above stoplights that EMS vehicles can trigger to change the light red for everyone -We left astronaut poop on the moon -The numbers on a toaster are not always in minutes -Most common mold is not dangerous when ingested or inhaled unless you are allergic -Celeste Tea was founded and made by a cult, maybe still is -Christian Science had laws passed in the majority of states in the 80s that prevented prosecution of child abuse due to religious practices -The statistical value of a human life in the US is 10 million at dollars -Jellyfish reproduce and are birthed as polyps on the ocean floor -The chiral version of the sugar molecule would taste identical to sugar but is indigestible, we have no practical ways to produce it though afaik -Only one president has failed to release his tax documents -There are multiple US presidents who were likely gay
I’ll stop there, and yes these facts do rotate through my head for no real reason, they’re just fun!
Sharks have existed on earth longer than trees have.
Male bedbugs have a knife-like penis. To have sex, they stab the females in the thorax with it because the females don’t have genitalia. The semen is then injected directly into the female’s main body cavity for insemination
I don’t like you
Okay?
2 facts about the CMOS battery on a motherboard: CMOS stands for “complimentary metal oxide semiconductor”. Its a 2032 watch battery.
How to get all kremkoins in Donkey Kong Country 2, through a cheat:
- Enter the cabin with the map and the life balloon. Leave without touching anything.
- Collect the banana bunch over the pirate crocodile. Go back to the cabin, now pick the life.
- Repeat the above. You’ll see a kremkoin over the map. Pick it and you got 75 kremkoins.
In no moment you can touch the two lone bananas close to the entrance of the cabin.
…it has been decades since I played this game, and I almost never used the cheat above (it’s less fun than finding all bonus stages). Why do I still remember this?
I still remember the cheat for the first game. Down Y Down Down Y when cranky appears in the title to play bonus stages.
Karl Marx got drunk one night and, after being kicked out of a bar in London where he got drunk, went around London and almost got arrested sabotaging the lamp posts with rocks with his colleagues who were also drunk.
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Throwing rocks at the glass part that emits light, taking out the bulb.
There are approximately π x 10^7 seconds in a year. It differs by less than 0.4%).
The buttons on suit jackets are a holdover from a time that buttons were new, and therefore fashionable. Well to do sorts had buttons all over their suits, even in places that would be considered silly these days.
Similar fact - ties, as in neck or bow, are the only common men’s clothing item that serve no practical purpose.
The Moon is moving away from the Earth by approximately one inch per year. Which also means that millions of years ago it was much bigger in our sky.
I believe it’s closer to 1,5cm per year.
And if you reverse extrapolate that some 65 million years, you’ll see that the real reason why the dinosaurs ied out was because they all got hit in the head with moon!
If this is true, then 97.5 million cm = ~600 miles. Or, 0.25% of the distance to the moon…a small difference.
It’s not funny anymore if you prove me wrong by math :-)
To add to this, the sun will expand into a red giant in approximately 5 billion years, which is likely to consume both Earth and the Moon. This will happen before the Moon is able to leave Earth’s orbit, so it’ll shrink in the sky but odds are it won’t leave the Earth’s orbit before both are destroyed by the expanding sun in the future.
On top of that, the sun is slowly getting hotter as it gets older, so in approximately 1 billion years, the sun will have gotten hot enough to render most, if not all of the Earth uninhabitable for life as we know it.
Space is fascinating.
aha, I knew it! climate change is a hoax! the sun is just getting hotter, it’s all natural! /s
So, possibly stupid question:
Will the sun’s gravity change as it expands, pulling things out of current orbits, or will it just change in size & not in mass?
Great question!
No, the Sun’s diameter will expand greatly but it’s mass will remain mostly the same, if anything it’ll be ejecting significant amounts of stellar matter when it turns into a red giant and will be losing mass.
Mass is what dictates the gravity of a given object. If you replaced the sun with a black hole of the exact same mass, everything in the solar system would retain its exact same orbit outside of those few unfortunate objects that were very close to the sun (much closer than Mercury) when it got swapped out for a black hole of the same mass.
So even though the Sun will eventually swell up into a red giant and eat most, if not all of the inner planets, it’s gravity will remain the same despite its massively increased diameter, and its gravity will get weaker as the red giant ejects stellar matter over its relatively quick life. Eventually it’ll eject its outer layers, creating a new nebula thanks to the star ejecting all of its outer layers and leaving behind the dead core of a star called a white dwarf. These dead stars are often similar in size to the Earth but typically have a mass close to that of our sun.
Bananas are 4011 when buying them.
What
4011 is the PLU code for bananas. This is the number the cashier types in to weigh and sell them to you. Bananas are usually one of the cheapest items per pound in a grocery store, so I’ve “heard rumors” from a “friend” that if you type this number into a self checkout machine, whatever you weigh is charged as bananas instead of saffron or black truffles or whatever.
most grocery stores have a number system so that a cashier can punch in a number to ring up a certain product. this is especially useful for fruit and vegetables, as often times it doesn’t have packaging and doesn’t have a barcode. the vast majority of groceries use 4011 as the number for bananas.
I’d imagine it’s because the number 4011 is already used in production and logistics of bananas, so the grocery stores just stick to the barcode/number that bananas already have on their box when they get delivered. that’s just a guess though.
Like this, except it’s operated by the cashier?
kinda. the device in your image only does the job of weighing product, and applying a price per weight to the measurement and printing a barcode label based on that. the 4011 will probably only be used by cashiers, who usually have a number pad to enter those numbers into the point of sale system, instead of a button for each possible number. the device in your image is probably designed like that because it’s for customers and easier to operate. there is probably a chart somewhere out of frame that translates those numbers into products.
Pretry much. Not on a chart, but on the price label of the product you’d be buying. I don’t think any store here does weighing at the cashier.
I see, interesting. thanks for that insight.
