Conquer Club

Shamelessly stolen from another website (therefore, abdicating all responsibility for lack of factuality):

1. The blue whale is so frickin big that its tongue can weigh as much as an elephant. And a person could swim through their largest veins and arteries.

2. John Tyler, 10th president of the U.S., born 1790, has 2 currently living grandsons.

3. There's enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America with one foot of water.

4. Aldous Huxley was George Orwell's high school French teacher.

5. There are solids that are lighter than air.

6. The number of possible ways to arrange a 52 card deck is about the number of atoms in the galaxy. A good shuffle can EASILY result in a deck configuration that has never ever existed before.

7. Charlie Chaplin himself participated in a Charlie Chaplin look-a-like contest...and lost.

8. Bananas are classed as berries and are radioactive.

9. The Hubble Ultra-Deep Field image shows galaxies that are 13 billion light years away. This means that in the USS Enterprise traveling at maximum warp, it would take 13 million years to reach them.

Some I've heard before (like the Chaplin one), some seem like they could be true and some seem false.

All pretty cool though.

Woodruff wrote:Shamelessly stolen from another website (therefore, abdicating all responsibility for lack of factuality):

1. The blue whale is so frickin big that its tongue can weigh as much as an elephant. And a person could swim through their largest veins and arteries.

2. John Tyler, 10th president of the U.S., born 1790, has 2 currently living grandsons.

according to this site, a living granddaughter also.
http://www.sherwoodforest.org/Genealogy.html

3. There's enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America with one foot of water.

This website agrees:
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/f ... facts.html

Most of the others I have heard of before, but pretty fun facts.

the most surprising to me were 1, 2, and 4.

the others were either not surprising, or i already knew them.

i am pretty hard to surprise, though, for what it's worth.

Woodruff wrote:2. John Tyler, 10th president of the U.S., born 1790, has 2 currently living grandsons.

Unrelated to this but still interesting is that the last known surviving Civil War Widow died in 2008.

KingOfGods wrote:

Woodruff wrote:2. John Tyler, 10th president of the U.S., born 1790, has 2 currently living grandsons.

Unrelated to this but still interesting is that the last known surviving Civil War Widow died in 2008.

That's pretty amazing- he was 87 when they married, and she was 19. Seems like she did it to cash in on his pension. Freeloading off a traitor, truly the American dream.

Symmetry wrote:

KingOfGods wrote:

Woodruff wrote:2. John Tyler, 10th president of the U.S., born 1790, has 2 currently living grandsons.

Unrelated to this but still interesting is that the last known surviving Civil War Widow died in 2008.

That's pretty amazing- he was 87 when they married, and she was 19. Seems like she did it to cash in on his pension. Freeloading off a traitor, truly the American dream.

Shut up, Brit!

Army of GOD wrote:

Symmetry wrote:

KingOfGods wrote:

Woodruff wrote:2. John Tyler, 10th president of the U.S., born 1790, has 2 currently living grandsons.

Unrelated to this but still interesting is that the last known surviving Civil War Widow died in 2008.

That's pretty amazing- he was 87 when they married, and she was 19. Seems like she did it to cash in on his pension. Freeloading off a traitor, truly the American dream.

Shut up, Brit!

My name's not Brit.

Woodruff wrote:Shamelessly stolen from another website (therefore, abdicating all responsibility for lack of factuality):

1. The blue whale is so frickin big that its tongue can weigh as much as an elephant. And a person could swim through their largest veins and arteries.

2. John Tyler, 10th president of the U.S., born 1790, has 2 currently living grandsons.

3. There's enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America with one foot of water.

4. Aldous Huxley was George Orwell's high school French teacher.

5. There are solids that are lighter than air.

6. The number of possible ways to arrange a 52 card deck is about the number of atoms in the galaxy. A good shuffle can EASILY result in a deck configuration that has never ever existed before.

7. Charlie Chaplin himself participated in a Charlie Chaplin look-a-like contest...and lost.

8. Bananas are classed as berries and are radioactive.

9. The Hubble Ultra-Deep Field image shows galaxies that are 13 billion light years away. This means that in the USS Enterprise traveling at maximum warp, it would take 13 million years to reach them.

#5 is definitely not true. The "solids" that are lighter than air are not really solids...they are quasi solids they are more like a balloon filled with helium.

demonfork wrote:

Woodruff wrote:Shamelessly stolen from another website (therefore, abdicating all responsibility for lack of factuality):

1. The blue whale is so frickin big that its tongue can weigh as much as an elephant. And a person could swim through their largest veins and arteries.

2. John Tyler, 10th president of the U.S., born 1790, has 2 currently living grandsons.

3. There's enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America with one foot of water.

4. Aldous Huxley was George Orwell's high school French teacher.

5. There are solids that are lighter than air.

6. The number of possible ways to arrange a 52 card deck is about the number of atoms in the galaxy. A good shuffle can EASILY result in a deck configuration that has never ever existed before.

7. Charlie Chaplin himself participated in a Charlie Chaplin look-a-like contest...and lost.

8. Bananas are classed as berries and are radioactive.

9. The Hubble Ultra-Deep Field image shows galaxies that are 13 billion light years away. This means that in the USS Enterprise traveling at maximum warp, it would take 13 million years to reach them.

#5 is definitely not true. The "solids" that are lighter than air are not really solids...they are quasi solids they are more like a balloon filled with helium.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index ... 033AAZ7xf2

tis true.

Woodruff wrote:
6. The number of possible ways to arrange a 52 card deck is about the number of atoms in the galaxy. A good shuffle can EASILY result in a deck configuration that has never ever existed before.

That's ridiculous. One really fat guy would have about 52! atoms, if not him then his whole fat family.

Dibbun wrote:

Woodruff wrote:
6. The number of possible ways to arrange a 52 card deck is about the number of atoms in the galaxy. A good shuffle can EASILY result in a deck configuration that has never ever existed before.

That's ridiculous. One really fat guy would have about 52! atoms, if not him then his whole fat family.

Shut up, the limit of the closeness OP's estimation is approaching infinity relative to yours

Dibbun wrote:

Woodruff wrote:
6. The number of possible ways to arrange a 52 card deck is about the number of atoms in the galaxy. A good shuffle can EASILY result in a deck configuration that has never ever existed before.

That's ridiculous. One really fat guy would have about 52! atoms, if not him then his whole fat family.

It's not how many cards are in the deck, it is all the different possibilities for arranging them.

patrickaa317 wrote:

Dibbun wrote:

Woodruff wrote:
6. The number of possible ways to arrange a 52 card deck is about the number of atoms in the galaxy. A good shuffle can EASILY result in a deck configuration that has never ever existed before.

That's ridiculous. One really fat guy would have about 52! atoms, if not him then his whole fat family.

It's not how many cards are in the deck, it is all the different possibilities for arranging them.

No, he's right about the amount of arrangements. The "!" is factorial. 52! is about 10^67.

Army of GOD wrote:

patrickaa317 wrote:

Dibbun wrote:

Woodruff wrote:
6. The number of possible ways to arrange a 52 card deck is about the number of atoms in the galaxy. A good shuffle can EASILY result in a deck configuration that has never ever existed before.

That's ridiculous. One really fat guy would have about 52! atoms, if not him then his whole fat family.

It's not how many cards are in the deck, it is all the different possibilities for arranging them.

No, he's right about the amount of arrangements. The "!" is factorial. 52! is about 10^67.

Ah yes. Been out of school WAY too long. I'll just put my foot in my mouth.

john9blue wrote:the most surprising to me were 1, 2, and 4.

the others were either not surprising, or i already knew them.

i am pretty hard to surprise, though, for what it's worth.

How surprised were you when you made first contact with My Little Pony?

let me go find the posts... (from another forum)

06:05 PM
"This thread confuses and frightens me."

*watches episode 3*

06:49 PM
what the **** how does this show rape so hard
fluttershy is the best pony, imo