Knowledge=Reputation Thread
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If you laid everyone on earth in a line around the equator, most of them would drown.
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The data contained in the internet is roughly the weight of a strawberry
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Magnificent observation Sherlock.
If you would line up every single blood vessel in the human body end-to-end on the equator they would spin around the Earth. Twice.
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Some theories say that Alan Turing liked to act out the Disney film 'sleeping beauty', and added cyanide to an apple in the scene where the witch poisons the apple. He then ate the same apple before going to bed and died.
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Fact as of this moment: Im the only person to have contributed to this thread and not get a plus. And I created the thread.
/me cry
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NOT ANYMORE, MWAHAHAHHAHAHA.
...Romans used crushed mice's brains as toothpast and kept their teeth white using urine. The most disturbing thing about that is that it actually worked. -
if you lined up every blood vessel in your body end-to-end on the equator you would very quickly die of blood loss.
Also, in an attempt to disprove quantum theory, Einstein unintentionally helped to prove it.
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1/89 = 0.01+0.001+0.0002+0.00003, etc... which is the Fibonacci sequence!
The word hundred actually is supposed to mean 120
You can't write 0 in roman numerals
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In any completely random sequence of numbers, the first digit of any given number is 7 times more likely to be a 1 than a 9 - this is called Benford's Law, and it can be applied to any unbiased list of numbers.
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The combined space of all computer hard drives in the world was estimated at approximately 160 exabytes in 2006. As of 2009, the entire World Wide Web was estimated to contain close to 500 exabytes.
Mark Liberman calculated the storage requirements for all human speech ever spoken at 42 zettabytes if digitized as 16 kHz 16-bit audio.
Edited once by io. Last: 31st Mar 2015
