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Oct 24, 2016 SR_7136_HELLCAT link
Because we need something different then dramabfor once.
/me starts
Oct 24, 2016 SR_7136_HELLCAT link
If you fill a match box with gold,it can be flattened to the size of a tennis court.
Oct 24, 2016 Whistler link
A single ounce of gold (about 28 grams) can be stretched into a gold thread 5 miles (8 kilometers) long.
Oct 24, 2016 scared star link
if it takes 6 men to dig 6 hole in 6 days, how long does it take for one man to dig a half hole. (stolen from durge)
Oct 25, 2016 tarenty link
A numerical system with a negative radix (base -2) was used in an early Polish computer (1950s).
Oct 26, 2016 xperia link
The fastest ship in VO is beaten in speed by most jet powered aircraft
Oct 26, 2016 SR_7136_HELLCAT link
@scared star: that isn't a fact,it's a question :)
Oct 26, 2016 Inevitable link
Here are a couple fun facts from my home state:

In Gainesville, Georgia (The Chicken Capitol of the World) it is illegal to eat chicken with a fork.

The Pirate "Blackbeard" Teach made his home on Blackbeard Island (An island on the Georgia Coast.) It is now a nature reserve Yarr!

Georgia is home to the sweetest onion in the world, the Vidailia onion, which can only be grown in fields around Vidailia and Glennville, Georgia.

Chickamuga National Park is the site of the bloodiest battle in American history.

The figures of Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis, and Robert E. Lee make up the world's largest sculpture. It is located on the face of Stone Mountain. Additionally Robert E. Lee's horse, Traveler, is also carved at the same place.

Stone Mountain is one of the largest single masses of exposed granite in the world.

Wesleyan College in Macon,GA was the first college in the world chartered to grant degrees to women. Who says the south isn't progressive? hah
Oct 26, 2016 DeathSpores link
If you give Boda a shovel your dead buried mom could get pleasured again.
Oct 27, 2016 Inevitable link
Oct 27, 2016 idd link
Chickamuga National Park is the site of the bloodiest battle in American history.


Uhhh, no?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_lethal_American_battles
It wasn't even the bloodiest battle in the Civil War
Oct 27, 2016 Whistler link
Rats can't vomit. Rats have a powerful barrier between the stomach and the esophagus. They don't have the esophageal muscle strength to overcome and open this barrier by force, which is necessary for vomiting. Vomiting requires that the two muscles of the diaphragm contract independently, but rats give no evidence of being able to dissociate the activity of these two muscles. Rats don't have the complex neural connections within the brain stem and between brain stem and viscera that coordinate the many muscles involved in vomiting.

'Rats, on the other hand, vomit frequently.
Oct 27, 2016 genka link
Electrons have no size
Oct 27, 2016 Inevitable link
I mean to say "One of the". The losses were only 2nd to Gettysburg in the Civil war. The stat counts losses as dead,wounded, and missing which totaled around 34,000 Americans.
Oct 31, 2016 SR_7136_HELLCAT link
There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water then there are teaspoons of water in the atlantic ocean.
Oct 31, 2016 Pizzasgood link
"The figures of Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis, and Robert E. Lee make up the world's largest sculpture."

Actually, it's only the largest bas-relief sculpture, not the largest sculpture in general.
Nov 10, 2016 scared star link
ok idk if this is a fact i went to japan once but they have eel flavor ice creams, it was awesome! plus i don't see other country (or at least known) that has that.

PS sorry about earlier comment i thought it was like a random question not a fact thing, miss understood:P
Nov 12, 2016 Phaserlight link
In John Conway's cellular automata The Game of Life all five-celled polyominos stabilize in at most ten generations except for the R pentomino which lives for over one thousand generations.
Dec 03, 2016 Stylezmaster link
Who loves floppy disks? I know I do.

For the game of Destiny, it would take about 41,666 floppy disks to hold the required storage it needs.

:D
Dec 04, 2016 Luxen link
The vendetta online setup file is 384,325,552 bytes (according to my PC); assuming you had access to ALL the flash memory in a standard TI-84+ CE and could access it like a flash drive, it would take 91 calculators to store the installation program (an 84CE has exactly 4194304 bytes).