THE MOST MUNDANE THING YOU HAVE EVER READ BUT YOU LIKE IT ANYWAY BECAUSE IT’S FROM CLEANUP!
Post here scrap knowledge you have picked up that may not have any relation to anything serious in life, but you still find interesting. Here’s a few I have encountered:
The IRS employee tax manual has instructions on how to collect taxes after a nuclear war. Hopefully, the IRS will be gone by then.
Your blood travels over 12 000 miles per day. Take that, zoom-zoom kid.
If an octopus is hungry enough, it will eat its own arms.
The calories present in a bagel with cream cheese could power an electric toothbrush for 52 hours 20 minutes. Hey, diet, AND whiten your teeth.
The average shower uses 30 gallons of water.
Coca-Cola was originally green, due to the high concentration of cocaine in it, until the company was sued for mass production of a controlled substance. Caffeine to the rescue. By then the company had already made enough money to pay for the lawsuit, and probably enough money to hospitalize and rehabilitate all the people they destroyed.
The Alphabet song and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star follow the exact same tune.
Milk gives cats diarreha.
Some pilots in WWII were issued cans of asparagus. The reason was, that if they ever crash landed on an island or near a body of water they were supposed to eat the asparagus and pee in the water. Apparantly some chemical is created in the process and it turns your piss into fishbait.
“Your blood travels over 12 000 miles per day. Take that, zoom-zoom kid.”
Now if that was your blood as a whole then that = 500 miles per hour.
If it is your blood (in parts) then the snumber of red blood cells is 6000000 per microliter would make the value much higher. So how is this value of 12000 miles per day dirived?
I came this [sub]<makes tiny gap with finger and thumb>[/sub] close to posting the following into MPSIMS…
Title - Warning. (Warning - Warning)
Body - Warning.
Because technically it made sense (I have a thread called warning, in which there is a warning, and I warned people that there was a warning in the body.)
But I knew it would not go down well. I compromised and explained it here. Which is arguably more pointless.
I have a feeling that I will sink to record levels of mundanity tonight. dopers beware.
Now you want me to compose a post which manages to show how I did that??!:eek:
(picture a large mess of ']'s and '['s and 'b’s and a man with a strained expression… for several hours)
Do not tempt me! I am in danger of trying.
Cleanup you’ll probably wish you hadn’t asked but since there are 24 hours in a day then
12000 miles per day = 12000/24 miles per hour = 500 miles per hour
Ah newspapers not always too great on facts, though as they say over 12000 miles per day, and if you are counting the distance traveled by each red blood cell per day * the huge number of red blood cells the number would be much larger than 12000. So though not wrong this is a bit like saying the distance to the moon is greater then 2 miles, and if you do some research on this you might be able to change your sig to contain a much more impressive number you calculated yourself
Checking the web I find this page lists a blood speed of 36.6 m/s which on conversion gives a quite respectable 80.5 miles per hour.
