# Did you know? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 12, 2013, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know/658117 "2013-05-12T01:25:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know/658117/21 "2013-05-13T19:43:40Z")
> [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](#): > > [ul]Dogs can’t look up. > [/ul] True, also, the rifle at the Winchester Pub is a real working gun and not a replica. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know/658117/22 "2013-05-13T19:44:44Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Well they do if you pronounce it right. Most English words that originated in Dog are mispronounced. Getting the tail wag right is very difficult. Why do you say these things when you know they will cause me to dispatch a Beyonce-model slapbot to spank you? ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know/658117/23 "2013-05-13T19:54:12Z")
Did you know… half the working population makes less than the median wage? _ **Half** _!! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know/658117/24 "2013-05-13T19:55:54Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > i^i is approximately equal 0.20787957635. > > [Cite.](http://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/ffiles/20013.3.shtml) Yeah, sorry, I didn’t notice the superscript i, just the main one. So, I thought the claim was that the square root of -1 was a real number. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know/658117/25 "2013-05-13T20:03:55Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > Yeah, sorry, I didn’t notice the superscript i, just the main one. So, I thought the claim was that the square root of -1 was a real number. Heh. No. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know/658117/26 "2013-05-13T20:13:33Z")
Did you know that 38% of the population uses statistics to back up a pointless statement? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know/658117/27 "2013-05-13T20:24:52Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > Did you know that 38% of the population uses statistics to back up a pointless statement? Did you know that 62% of those statistics were made up on the spot? ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know/658117/28 "2013-05-13T21:18:16Z")
_Were you aware_ that the phrase “_did you know_?” is copyrighted by a rival textbook publishing company? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know/658117/29 "2013-05-13T21:30:23Z")
“Super hero” is a trademarked term jointly owned by DC and Marvel. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know/658117/30 "2013-05-13T21:40:55Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > True, also, the rifle at the Winchester Pub is a real working gun and not a replica. I reckon that’s where we should go in case of a Zombie Apocalypse. ---
**Author:** ![\_3Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/b9e5f3/32.png) [@\_3Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_3Bill)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know/658117/31 "2013-05-13T23:45:25Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > Ducks don’t quack. There are 166 species of them, which make a bewildering variety of typical vocalizations, ranging from squeaks to whistles to honks to muttering sounds, and a few are mute. A small few of them make a characteristic sound that could, with imagination, be represented in human alphabet as quack. The extent to which they echo would be variable, depending on the pitch of the duck’s vocalization and the physical characteristics of the echoing surfaces. Do they also not waddle like ducks? Is a huge chunk of ignorance going down to defeat? “If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it isn’t a duck”? ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know/658117/32 "2013-05-14T00:10:48Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Why do you say these things when you know they will cause me to dispatch a Beyonce-model slapbot to spank you? I think the answer is included in the question. 😉 Did you know that saliva causes stomach cancer, but only when ingested in small amounts over a long period of time? ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know/658117/33 "2013-05-14T00:24:17Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > Did you know… half the working population makes less than the median wage? _ **Half** _!! :eek: I read on the weekend that in Australia around 75% of workers earn less than the average wage. The average is around $65K, whereas the median is around $45K. The ultra-high earners push the average way up. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know/658117/34 "2013-05-14T01:28:29Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > _i[sup]i[/sup]_, where _i_ is the imaginary square root of -1, is a real number. It’s not just some real number, it is the square root of e^{-pi}. Isn’t that amazing. Actually, complex exponentials are multi-valued, but that is one of the values. Someone mentioned ramps coming into season. Actually, two weeks ago I picked some from my herb bed in Montreal and had a ramps and mushroom omelet. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know/658117/35 "2013-05-14T12:39:07Z")
Speaking of ducks… Peking Duck is now considered a national dish of China. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know/658117/36 "2013-05-14T12:40:41Z")
Speaking of ducks… Daffy Duck first appeared on April 17, 1937. He’s older than WWII! ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know/658117/37 "2013-05-14T12:44:07Z")
Speaking of ducks… The first “duck tour” company was started in 1946 in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin and is still in operation there under the name Original Wisconsin Ducks. Duck tours are primarily offered as tourist attractions in harbor, river and lake cities, such as Austin, Baltimore, Belfast, Boston and Barnstable, Massachusetts, Branson, Chattanooga, Cincinnati-Newport, Dublin, Halifax, Hot Springs, Arkansas, Liverpool, London, Malacca, Malaysia, Miami, Osaka, Ottawa, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Portland, Maine, Qingdao, Rotorua, San Francisco, Seattle, Singapore, South Lake Tahoe, Toronto, Washington, DC, and Wisconsin Dells. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know/658117/38 "2013-05-14T12:45:48Z")
Speaking of ducks… The NHL’s Anaheim Ducks club was founded in 1993 by The Walt Disney Company as the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, a name based on the 1992 film The Mighty Ducks. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know/658117/39 "2013-05-14T12:46:51Z")
Okay, I’m all ducked out. For now. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know/658117/40 "2013-05-14T13:47:45Z")
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