crazy ass random facts thread

[BrynF_UK]

Dettol kills 99.9% of all germs and bacteria, even the MRSA bug.

Dettol protects....fact!

 

[davidboles]

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WOW Dettol why dont they use it in hospitals.

 

[BrynF_UK]

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it is, just they charge a lot more for it and certify it for medical purposes

 

[davidboles]

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emm.
Anyway back on topic
Another fact i know:
Strawberries have more vitamin c than oranges.

 

[BrynF_UK]

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fact: the world gullible isnt in the dictionary

 

[davidboles]

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Fact:
The United States has the highest minimum drinking age in the world.

 

[Atomic Rooster]

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fact: the world gullible isnt in the dictionary

Fact: If anyone believes that, they are just, well, you know.

 

[CompMan]

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Umm.

The average person eats 7 spiders in there sleep, during there lifetime.
Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.
The tip of a 1/3 inch long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph
A law in Fairbanks, Alaska, does not allow moose to have sex on city streets.

 

[CGfreak102]

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No matter its size or weight, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven times!

In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to Mobile Services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That's why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado

 

[FlightSimBoy]

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No matter its size or weight, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven times!

Not true, the MythBusters folded a sheet of paper something like 11 times. The sheet of paper was super thin and was about the size of a football field..

It was impossible to fold a piece of letter-sized (8.5" x 11", 216 mm × 279 mm) 20 lb (75 g/m²) copy paper with perpendicular folds more than seven times. The thickness of the paper exponentially grew with each successive fold, and after the seventh fold the paper was just too thick to fold without breaking. Grant showed if you fold the paper in the same direction 4 times than 4 times the other way, it is possible to fold the paper 8 times. The MythBusters then laid out a football field-sized sheet of interconnected paper (170 ft x 220 ft, 51.8 m x 67.1 m), and due to the reduction of its area-to-thickness ratio (and with help from a steam roller and a forklift), were able to perpendicularly fold the paper 11 times. Other methods of folding a piece of paper (such as with alternating folds) proved able to break the fold threshold of 7 for letter-sized paper, and perpendicular folds of more than 7 are theoretically possible with thinner paper.

It is impossible to fold a standard sheet of paper more than 7 times, though.