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Random fact of the Day! A thread about beards, and... testicles?

#21 Fist Gamet

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Posted 15 August 2009 - 11:52 PM

alt146, on Aug 15 2009, 06:17 AM, said:

Sortof the way if you're stung by bees too many times you can develop an allergy. Can anyone confirm/deny this?

Indeed, you can develop allergies to just about anything from repeated exposure to them.

A red blood cell lives for about 120 days...

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#22 stone monkey

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Posted 16 August 2009 - 12:12 AM

It would take the energy equivalent of just over 8 1/2 days of the sun's output to totally destroy the Earth...

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#23 Fist Gamet

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Posted 16 August 2009 - 12:16 AM

Dude, I don't think I even truly understand that. Is this one of those abstract theoretical thingies that only men with beards, glasses and wearing tanktops in labs can appreciate?

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Posted 16 August 2009 - 12:40 AM

Over the span of about 7 years, every single cell in a human body is replaced by a new one. So you're a completely different person to the person you were 7 years ago :thumbsup:

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Posted 16 August 2009 - 01:04 AM

caladanbrood, on Aug 15 2009, 08:40 PM, said:

Over the span of about 7 years, every single cell in a human body is replaced by a new one. So you're a completely different person to the person you were 7 years ago :thumbsup:

Except of course for your solid mineral components (teeth, bones) and certain neurons.

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#26 MTS

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Posted 16 August 2009 - 02:48 AM

Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.

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#27 Aptorian

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Posted 16 August 2009 - 06:24 AM

Mappo's Travelling Sack, on Aug 16 2009, 04:48 AM, said:

Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.

You know it always saddens me when I remember that.

I always think to myself if Einstein had ruled a country he could have built a nation of super jews, with jewish super science and crazy zionist death machines.

It would have been awesome.

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Posted 16 August 2009 - 12:19 PM

Aptorian, on Aug 16 2009, 02:24 AM, said:

Mappo's Travelling Sack, on Aug 16 2009, 04:48 AM, said:

Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.

That makes me think of "Jews in Space"....History of the World part one.

#29 stone monkey

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Posted 17 August 2009 - 07:38 PM

Fist Gamet, on Aug 16 2009, 01:16 AM, said:

Dude, I don't think I even truly understand that. Is this one of those abstract theoretical thingies that only men with beards, glasses and wearing tanktops in labs can appreciate?

Oh well, I thought it was pretty straightforward...

Okay, the sun emits the energy equivalent to approx 8 zettatons of exploding TNT per day (That's 8E21 tons or 8 thousand billion billion tons, for those of you not up on the more extreme SI unit prefixes) and the energy that would be needed to convert the mass of the Earth to gravel flying at escape velocity has been worked out as approx 69 zettatons (6.9E22 tons or 69 thousand billion billion tons...) For the record, I didn't do it, but I do know how it was done... Hence 8 1/2 days or thereabouts. And the sun, as I'm sure we all know, is a rather small and boring star...

There are reasons for me knowing stuff like this but I can't, for the life of me, work out what they are... Whilst I do wear glasses, occasionally wear some rather stylish tanktops and have been known to sport a quite dashing beard from time to time; I don't spend any time in labs nowadays (and rarely did, even many years ago, when I really should have been doing so...)

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Posted 17 August 2009 - 07:51 PM

The sun's energy would take 8.5 days to destroy the Earth. The sun's light takes 8.5 minutes to reach Earth. Coincidence? Dun dun duuuunnn!

"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
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#31 Aptorian

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Posted 17 August 2009 - 08:00 PM

And my penis is 8.5 inches long!

It all makes sense now!

EDIT: or was that meters?

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#32 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 17 August 2009 - 08:07 PM

Ah, but how long does it take to reach and/or destroy the Earth?

#33 Hinter

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Posted 17 August 2009 - 08:09 PM

Unless he has very short legs, it'll never reach the earth...

#34 Aptorian

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Posted 17 August 2009 - 08:11 PM

My penis is a force of goodness.

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#35 Hinter

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Posted 17 August 2009 - 09:22 PM

That solves an ancient mystery - the ancient Brittons were thinking of you're crime fighting reputtion when they carved this:

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Posted 17 August 2009 - 10:10 PM

I have just been reliably informed by the missus after she heard Stephen Fry talking about it on QI, that Kelloggs Cornflakes were invented by Dr Kellogg as an anti-masturbation device.....

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#37 stone monkey

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Posted 17 August 2009 - 11:31 PM

I sort of knew that. There's a film, whose name currently escapes me, with Anthony Hopkins playing the incredibly loony Dr Kellogg iirc that goes into that particular subject and so much more.