You can find the Triforce in the Legend of Zelda:Ocarina of Time!
• The longest street in the US is Frontage Road. It runs through every state (look around, you can’t miss it). It even stops in California and re-starts in Hawaii.
• If you put marijuana seeds on the stove in a pan with a little oil, they’ll POP! like popcorn, producing tiny, greenish puffs that not only are tasty, but will get you high.
Both of these informational nuggets were items that a boy Jett and, years later a teenaged Jettboy, was told and was stupid enough to believe. Experimenting with the latter one caused a nasty kitchen fire.
The term cul-de-sac refers to a part of a woman’s anatomy between her rectum and uterus.
Casinos don’t have clocks.
I’d almost believe that. I know of one that didn’t. But then, there wasn’t a single clock anywhere on the cruise ship. I had to buy a watch at a wildly inflated “duty free” price.
I’ve heard the same said about milk.
Wiki says Spielberg created the character as a homage to characters from 1930s film serials.
It is not uncommon for spiders to go into the mouth of a sleeping person. At any given moment, the average sleeping person will have between 7-16 spiders in their mouth, with another 12-23 en route there. When a sleeping person’s mouth reaches the point of saturation of spiders, subsequent incoming spiders force the accumulated spider mass into the esophagus, a phenomenon that causes a condition known as Spiders Nocturnally Originating Resonating Esophagus, or snoring.
The most common name in Russia is Ivan, followed by The Terrible.
When Thomas Jefferson dined alone in the White House, the staff would spike his soup with rum and send him to bed early.
“Silent Cal” Coolidge had signed with Edison Pictures to make cowboy movies after he left office, but backed out when they switched to talkies.
The back of one copy of the Declaration of Independence was accidentally “signed backward” by John Hancock when he mistook it for blotting paper.
“Survival of the Fittest” was not coined by Charles Darwin. He got it from a sign at Bentley’s Fisticuffs Training Gymnasium
If a man talks to himself in the forest with no wife to hear him, he is still wrong.
The puzzle game Lemmings was the first game to use more than two different frames to depict the walking motion of a single character.
King Midas’s touch actually turned things into iron pyrite.
Uncle Sam does in fact want you, but not for the reasons you think.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is neither democratic, a republic, or the Congo.
Senseless inexplicable deaths across the country are caused because Fredrick Smithfield in Peoria, Il dreams them at night. Fredick is not singular: there’s a man named Olaf Røsbjørgen in Norway whose dreams cause people of wildly mismatched levels of attractiveness to get together.
Speaking of, the Nutrition Facts on bottled water list all zeros, thereby, water is of no nutritional value. Drink pop or beer.
Bats lay eggs. The momma bat has to lay that egg, and catch it with one foot while using the other foot to hang from the cave ceiling. She then has to hold that egg with one foot or the other until the egg hatches. The male bat is nearly as talented. He can also hang with one foot while opening a beer or controling the remote with the other.
Everyone knows that clouds are water vapor floating high in the atmosphere. In higher altitudes it’s very cold. Lakes are formed when it gets too cold, too quickly. At that point the whole cloud “freezes up”, then drops from the sky creating a crater in the earth. When the clouds melts, the resulting liquid, now in non-vapor form, fills the crater. This phenomena is more common in the colder, northern climates, which is why there are so many lakes in places like Minnesota and Canada. Fortunately it’s not a common occurence; lakes have been formed this way over a long geographical period of time. It’s very rare that someone is killed by a falling cloud or “lakeseed”.
In Germany, the most common street name is “Einbahnstrasse”. The most common town name is “Ausfahrt”.
There is a pot of gold available for anyone who can claim it in the middle of the town square of each and every Ausfahrt. If someone claims it, another one immediately replaces it. But you’re only allowed one.
The Civil War wasnt about slavery or states rights or whatever…
It was all about snow. Remember all those old pictures you see of fields of cotton being grown way down in Dixie ? It wasn’t cotton, it was snow. Southerners were growing snow. At first they were just growing just a little bit on the side to put in their Mint Julips on a hot summer day. A few potted plants here or there were more than enough for their needs.
But then, one farmer made a good chunk of change one year growing nothing but snow full time. Next thing you know everybody is growing snow trying to cash in. Farmers even started contracting out work to visiting workers from Africa, because if anybody knows about growing snow in the heat, its Africans.
In no time at all, this damn snow is growing everywhere (it spreads like kudzu). The native southerners don’t want it. The African workers surely didnt like wadding through fields of the stuff. So, they start shipping all this cold fluffy white stuff north, figuring Northerners would know what to do with it all. Some snake oil salesman from Ohio convinces the northerners that they can buy the stuff cheap, store it over the winter, and sell it for a handsome profit the next summer. In a flash, everybody in the country is either buy, selling, storing, transporting, growing, or somehow involved in this snow business and they are all sure they will get rich doing it.
When the snow bubble (they called such markets globes back then btw) finally starts to collapse, wide spread violence breaks out. Given that the northerners were made way more cranky than usual storing all that extra cold stuff, the warm blooded southerners made way more cranky than usual because they werent used to being around the cold stuff, and the African workers made more cranky than usual having to process such large amounts of the stuff, its no wonder that violence eventually resulted.
When all the fighting was done, the dust had settled, and most of the snow melted, everybody involved was horribly embarassed at the sheer magnitude of their stupidity. So, they all got together and made up this story about slavery and states rights and blah blah blah…figuring it was much less embarrassing than what had really happened.
In a modern electronic computer, zeroes represent false, or negative, values, while ones represent true, or positive, values. However, the number of ones and zeroes is not uniform. Ones occur more frequently than zeroes.
To illustrate, consider a simple three-bit architecture, capable of representing the eight numbers 0-7. 0=0, 1=1, 2=10, 3=11, 4=100, 5=101, 6=110, 7=111. Overall, 6 zeroes are needed to represent these numbers, while 12 ones are needed.
Because of this imbalance, electrons are more frequently used to represent positive values than negative ones. Overall, electrons are becoming conditioned to be more positive.
As the number of computers in use worlwide continues to grow, this effect is beginning to have measurable consequences:
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[li]Lightning strikes are increasing in frequency and power as the more positively charged earth more strongly attracts negatively charged lightning.[/li][li]Incandescent bulbs are becoming less efficient and failing more frequently since the increasingly uneven charge of the electrons passing through the narrow filament causes more friction, and even leads to blockages which cause the filament to burst. This is one of the motivations for the development of compact fluorescent bulbs, which do not use filaments.[/li][/ul]
It is far from certain what the long-term effect of this phenomenon will be if left unchecked. Rather than wait and find out, computer engineers are working to address the problem. Over the years, they have developed computer architectures using more bits, which decreases the imbalance of ones and zeroes. Today, 64-bit architectures are becoming more and more common. Additionally, there is a tremendous amount of research in quantum computing, which represents all computational states simultaneously, and thus eliminates the imbalance. Optical computing, which uses light instead of electrons, is also a promising area of research.
Did you ever wonder how water comes out of your faucet? Most people think pressure comes from water stored in water towers, but that is wrong.
Water towers are actually huge incubators used to produce the bacteria that occupy your water pipes. When you turn on your faucet, a food source for the bacteria is provided down the line and all the bacteria swim towards it. Of course by conservation of momentum, when all the bacteria swim one way, the water is propelled the other way and thus water comes out of your faucet.
Also, Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK.
The richest man in the world is a woman.
No stone is left unturned.
An ant that is separated from its hill becomes a wasp.
John F. Kennedy was never actually elected president. Lee Harvey Oswald was campaigning under an assumed name. The real Kennedy shot Oswald, prompting the government to make up the story about Oswald shooting Kennedy.
Aww. I wish that were true. It’s kind of cute. Even if bats do skeeve me. And even if 97% of bats do carry rabies.