Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across (Part 1)

There were several spin offs of this famous drawing. I remember the one for California.

You’re too late, I explained this to everyone three days ago:

Joe Biden was born at roughly the halfway point between his Presidency and Lincoln’s Presidency.

The bird with 4 sexes (effectively)

https://www.nature.com/articles/539482a

This is so cool. Thanks.

The Chicago Cubs haven’t won a World Series in seven years. This is the second longest drought in team history.

Okay, I really didn’t need to know that one. :face_vomiting:

Thanks for that! What a voice.

Check out his cartoons in general. I love the art, but the humor is great too.

Love stuff like this, thanks!

Does any particular number strike you as a possible estimate for their return? :slightly_smiling_face:

“…only a mere 150 of the 1,300 Charles Addams cartoons feature the Addams Family.” According to this.

It mentions some that were unpublished until a book released in 2010. So I likely haven’t seen every one in reprints.

I don’t know if this is too long to be a fact, but it’s too good not to share.

Karl Pearson formalized the p value in statistics, giving a mathematical test to tell if results are biased. He needed a source of thousands of random numbers. Back in the 19th century the Monte Carlo newspaper printed the previous day’s roulette wheel results so he compiled them to run his tests on.

Red and black came up equally. But runs of redness and blackness didn’t correspond to his numbers; they were wildly off. Pearson made a fuss and called for the casinos to be shut down.

The wheels were fine. Turned out that the reporters who provided the numbers were too lazy to sit through all those spins. They made the results up. They knew enough to even out red and black but not to smooth out RRRBRRRBBBBBRBRBRBRB and such like.

Pearson found a different source.

Today I learned that (sadly) Greenland has a high suicide rate.

IIRC Iceland, Norway, and Sweden are quite high as well. Wonder if those countries have anything in common aside from blond hair.

Probably the lack of sunlight in winter. There are no large populations at an extreme southerly latitude to compare suicide rates there in summer.

In the Southern Hemisphere, it’s called Winter in July and August. Now that the nit has been picked, I agree with the suspicion that the root cause is long Winter nights. Do most of the suicides correspond to that time?

The extended period of darkness might worsen other tendencies toward depression so that the suicides don’t necessarily align with long night. I would expect something interesting to be revealed in the dates of suicides though. It might be worse in the springtime as the rest of the population resumes a more active life and those depressed begin to despair as they don’t improve under the conditions.

Greenland is almost 90% Inuit.

Ok, good, now we’ve eliminated blond hair as the cause.

That makes me wonder if the Inuit had a high suicide rate in antiquity.

North American indigenes in general have high suicide rates.

And higher in the extreme north.