The Gang of Five
Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => The Party Room => Topic started by: Mumbling on August 16, 2009, 09:05:37 AM
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Okay this game should be pretty simple. Just create a sentence with 'did you know' in it and add any random fact of life you want to share :D It can be about anything... War, history, maths, your life, some country, animals... Anything you think is interesting to share :p
Not sure if this has been done before or whether it maybe should be moved to the no post-count section. I'll let the others decide on that. So I'll give it a start.
Did you know... I've got over a 140 lion king items(that is excluding the doubles)? :yes
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Did you know...
Our LBT RPG's programming code is 11065 lines long? That's 264 pages if pasted into a Word document.
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Did you know... It's raining in Holland for 2/3rd of the time? :D (at least from what I've heard :p )
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Did you know that Chuck Norris invented black and the color spectrum, and Tom Cruise invented pink? :blink: :lol
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Did you know that I have a screenplay from Return of the Jedi? It's real, I assure you.
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Did you know the maximum size for Red Drum is 27" (NC).
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Did you know that an octopus has three hearts?
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Did you know that Data Snatchers hide on the sites, waiting to steal your card details, and only LinkScanner spots the Data Snatchers before you visit a web page?
Stay one step ahead of the Data Snatchers with AVG LinkScanner!
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Did you know...
The echolocation of the bulldog bat (Noctilio leporinus) can detect an object the diameter of a human hair protruding one millimeter above the surface of a pool of water. (That's how it finds the fish it eats; it "watches" for their fins poking out of the water.)
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Did you know I didn't know any of these tidbits? :p
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Did you know that it's been over 30 degrees C here today the whole day and they expect thunderstorms for the night? It's gonna be awesome :D
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Did you know that Washington D.C. was once captured and burned by the British?
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Did you know... that the british actually stole our fleet once (I'm never gonna forgive that <_< )
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Did you know...
The tuatara (a lizard-like reptile from New Zealand) possesses an organ called a parietal eye on the top of its head, with a degenerate lens, cornea and retina. Though incapable of forming an image, but it can apparently detect light and dark (in young tuatara, anyway; it becomes covered over with skin and bone in the adults), and may have even functioned as a normal eye at some point in the tuatara's evolutionary history.
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did you know I still haven't seen the new Harry Potter.. o.o
NOTE: later that day..
did you know that i got to see the movie with Iris and another friend, unexpectedly, 5 hours after my previous comment?
how hilarious is that xD
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Did you know that Rochus Misch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochus_Misch) is the only surviving person who was present in the underground bunker where Hitler killed himself?
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That Denmark had once conquered England? Or at least, part of it... that his how we have some Nordic words in English... like "dream", "anger" or "sky."
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In England, it's illegal to die in Parliament? (I heard on a radio show. What would they do, arrest your corpse? :lol )
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In England, it's illegal to die in Parliament? (I heard on a radio show. What would they do, arrest your corpse? :lol )
lol that's funny :p
I find some of the things I read here very interesting :)
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one of the Deaths in the upcoming Final Destination 4 (or, more accurately, "The Final Destination") is identical to a death from the original?
Ex: In the original FD, the character Terry gets hit by a bus that comes right the heck out of nowhere.
Now, as we can see in the ads for the upcoming FD4, the character of George gets hit by an ambulance that comes right the heck out of nowhere (And right before this, he mentions "Deja Vu :lol )
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In England, it's illegal to die in Parliament? (I heard on a radio show. What would they do, arrest your corpse? :lol )
Also makes me wonder if they'll issue a citation and, more interesting, what form of payment they'll accept :p.
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A Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus) can sell for the equivalent over $100,000 in Japan.
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Boeing's new Dreamliner Jet, the 787, is two years behind schedule.
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Did you know, that anyone with an MSN account can use Windows SkyDrive to have 25 GB of free file storage?
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That otters hold hands to prevent each other from drifting away in the water while they are asleep.
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Here's another sea otter fact: did you know that they have the densest fur of any animal? (Over a million hairs per square inch.)
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Light filaments from a light bulb will work if they are put into liquid nitrogen and lit. But not in open air very well nor for very long.
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The highest amount of money ever won on the show Cash Cab is over 3,000 dollars.
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That a peanut is neither a pea nor a nut... it is a legume, which makes it more like a bean.
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The mask Michael Myers wears in the original Halloween is supposed to be a mask of William Shatner?
(OOC: My 7,00o post! :) )
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That Steve Downs (Voice of Master Chief) and Jen Taylor (voice of Cortana) have never met, despite the closeness of their two characters from Halo.
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There is a pachycephalosaur (A.K.A. domehead, or bone-headed dinosaur) called Colepiocephale, whose name literally translates to “knuckle head”. :lol Supposedly it was called this because of the vaguely triangular shape of its skull (resembling a knuckle joint), but I still can’t help but wonder if the person who named it was a fan of the Three Stooges. :lol :lol
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That "Sephiroth" is named after the tree of life in Kabbalah Judaism.
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Did you know that "Bora" (pronounced BOH-RAH) is "excellent" in Swahili yet it's "snow" in Albanian, and "brave" in sanskrit. :D
http://babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com/m...ng_of_Bora.html (http://babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com/meaning_of_Bora.html)
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Did you know that the largest single piece of software I've ever heard of is 564GB? It's an audio application/plugin that is sold on a hard drive, rather than on discs. :p
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That London and Paris were both Roman Cities at one point? Same thing with dozens of other major cities...
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Did you know that baby powder is flammable?
Yep, I've tested it with a bowl of flaming alcohol and some 17 year old baby powder out on a stone driveway.
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Speaking of which, did you know that oxygen is highly flammable, and that water vapor is a greenhouse gas?
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Oxygen is not flammable. It is an oxidizer.
Chlorine Trifluoride is one of the strongest oxidizers known. Ever see concrete burn? ClF3 can make it happen.
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Technically, oxygen cannot burn by itself, BUT fire requires oxygen to burn... so... it is flammable in that sense.
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(I just learned this one while watching David Attenborough’s documentary series "The Life of Birds".)
The crested bellbird (Oreoica gutturalis) protects its eggs by lining its nest with hairy caterpillars, whose venomous spines sting any mammal that tries to poke its nose in.
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That Dungeons and Dragons had just THREE classes? Fighting-man, magic-user, and cleric.
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Did you know that the Wilkes Land crater (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkes_Land_crater) in Antarctica is the largest impact crater on Earth known to exist . It is 300 miles in diameter, which covers an area larger than the state of Ohio. That means the impactor must have been about four or five times bigger in diameter than the one that created the Chicxulub Crater, which killed the dinosaurs. It is dated to be about 250 million years old, making it a possible cause for the Permian-Triassic extinction event. It is also believed that the impact may have triggered the break-up of the supercontinent of Gondwana. (Obviously, this crater wasn't discovered until recently due to all the ice that covers it.)
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so the astriod that struck must have been 30-36 miles in diameter
Did you know, the United States covers 3, 794, 085 sq. miles?
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Did you know that, at the peak of their development in the early 2000s, Formula One engines were capable of revving to 20,000 RPM and higher? :blink:
...They sounded beautiful. :angel
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Did you know that halloween was actually a Pagan or Cleltic holiday?
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did you know that the worst baseball team ever only won 20 games all year?
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That some mammals lay eggs?
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the muffin man?
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Did you know that in Eureka California, you can't sleep on a road? :rolleyes :lol
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Did y'all know that in Germany, flipping someone the bird is considered a criminal offense :blink:?
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Did you know that in some countries, giving a thumbs up is equivalent to flipping the bird?
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Did you know that in Britain, the V-sign can be seen as flipping the bird?
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That the USA has a huge amount of oil shale but doesn't use it?
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My dog's name is:
Joyeux(french for joyful) Sacha From the Golden Heaven
I love her name :D
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did you know there was a family guy episode where the profit mohammed would have been a character? (if i heard it right)
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Did you know Dinosaurs aren't extinct?
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That the USA has a huge amount of oil shale but doesn't use it?
I really don't find that hard to believe...:lol :rolleyes:
Did you know that people have been arguing about whether or not crosses should be taken off of public places?
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Did you know Dinosaurs aren't extinct?
Yup. In fact, at last count, there were over 10,000 living species of beaked, feathered, toothless, winged dinosaurs, all descended from sharpteeth. We call them "birds". :p
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Did you know that it actually SNOWED in Texas on Wednesday morning? It was supposed to snow today, but...well, not a cloud in the sky.
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Holocaust denial is not only tasteless and rude in Germany it is also ILLEGAL.
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That the Roman Empire legally fell in 1453 AD, NOT 476 AD... and that Italy was under the rule of the Empire again in part or in whole from the 500's till after the 1000's... although it was mostly only rule over a few parts... but Rome itself was part of the Empire again from 537 to 752 AD.
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That designers from the former Northrop Corporation (now called Northrop Grumman) visited the Horten Ho-229 in the smithsonian and built the B-2 using the Ho-229 design which was built as a fighter by Remiar and Walter Horten during WWII which when a picture of the B-2 is put next to a picture of the Ho-229 it is eeriely simular.
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I first made Ptyra in first or second grade. And she was such a Mary-Sue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sue) it was awful DX ! And then she was less of one in fourth grade, and now I think she's only got a little sliver of Sue that I need to find a way to erase.
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And now kids, it's time for:
JitteryDragon's fun sound facts and things! Yay!
- The stereo illusion. The illusion is a great demonstration of how the human ears truly work, not only for hearing, but also for their other important use... locating objects in three dimensional space.
Put on some headphones and listen to this: http://extra.listverse.com/amazon/audioill...tualhaircut.mp3 (http://extra.listverse.com/amazon/audioillusions/virtualhaircut.mp3)
The effect above is a result of the Cetera Algorithm, commonly used in hearing aids.
- The first human recording was in 1860, on a machine called a phonoautograph. It was created by Frenchman …douard-LÈon Scott de Martinville, and he is also responsible for the first recordings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Au_Clair...Lune_(1860).ogg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Au_Clair_de_la_Lune_(1860).ogg)
- Number stations are mysterious shortwave radio transmissions that still occur to this day. First reported during World War 1, they are believed to be coded transmissions, and some have been traced to military origin. However, there has of course been no comment on this.
http://extra.listverse.com/amazon/music/number.mp3 (http://extra.listverse.com/amazon/music/number.mp3)
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That it is impossible for anything to reach absolute zero temperature?
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Did you know that not all eldar are females
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Did you know that snake venom is pretty much modified saliva? That would be spit.
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^ Did you know that the member snake veemon is my friend in real life? :lol:
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^ Wasn't his birthday yesterday?
Did you know that the doctor who tried to save JFK died yesterday :( ? And coincidentally, he also treated JFK's assassin o.o .
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That all Dromaeosaurs ("raptors") are now believed to have had feathers?
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Did you know that the netherland Antilles is dissolving next year? while the island won't become independent, they'll have more autonomy.
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That the sun is only about medium-sized for a star. The largest stars are thousands of times as large.
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That the sun is only about medium-sized for a star. The largest stars are thousands of times as large.
The largest know star is VY Canis Majoris, a red hypergiant star in the constellation Canis Major, located about 5,000 light-years from Earth. It's approximately 2,100 times larger than our sun... but it's still being debated by astronomers over the actual size.
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That dogs aren’t colorblind? Not completely, anyway. They’re dichromats (pronounced with a long ëa’), with two types of cone cells in their eyes, able to see two color wavelengths. Most mammals have this kind of vision. Humans, on the other hand, are trichromats, with three types of cone cells, enabling us to see the red, green, and blue wavelengths.
Conversely, many insects, arachnids, and non-mammalian vertebrates are tetrachromats, able to see ultraviolet light. Some birds and insects are even pentachromats, able to see five different color spectra. And the mantis shrimpóconsidered to possess the most complex visual system of allócan perceive over a dozen, including infrared, as well as polarized light.
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That the Romanians, in their own language, are still called the "Romans" (Romani), as they were descendants of the Roman colonizers and native people who once lived in the ancient land of Dacia, in Eastern Europe.
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The great evening bat, Ia io, has not only the shortest scientific name of any animal, but also the only one that is entirely composed of vowels.
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the worst record for any nba team is 9-73? the Philadelphia 76ers of 1972-3 had 3 losing streaks of 13 or more: they lost their first 15, then lost 21 straight during the middle of the season, then lost their last 13.
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Here's something I learned in Vertebrate Biology that I thought was interesting:
A fish taken out of water doesn't die because its gills don't work in air, but because the gills cannot function once they are dried out. Air contains more oxygen than water, and as long as a fish's gills are kept moist, it can breathe and survive out of water for quite some time.
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Did you know that when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, Herculanium had less damage than Pompeii because it was farther away (and on the other side). Still, it did get buried and lost to the ages.
And speaking of Pompeii, did you know that in the Dr. Who episode "The Fires of Pompeii", Caecilius and his wife Metella were indeed real people? They didn't have a son, but he was in my Cambrige Latin book. And by *profanities* they didn't have a daughter. I hated her :anger . Caecilius was also really a banker, not a marble maker...thing. I don't remember what his name was in Dr. Who, but his real name was Lucius Caecilius Iucundus.
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The Congo African Grey parrot (my Howard is one of these :)) can learn and remember over 900 words, phrases, and sounds, making them the smartest parrots around :blink:. Also, the sounds of manmade goods such as cell phones, alarm clocks, squeaky doors, etc. remind them of sounds found in the wild, and this is why they emulate these sounds :o.
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That Constantine the Great, the first Christian Roman Emperor, was also the last Roman Emperor to be deified. It was ironic that the man who made Christianity legal and spread it more than almost anyone else was considered to be a God by the state. He didn't spend much time as a deity, though, as before long, almost everyone in the Empire was some sort of Christian.