# Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 25, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785 "2024-07-25T15:06:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 43
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/841 "2024-11-08T20:34:54Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > > [@RealityChuck](#): > > > > The result it 50.5, the clear definition of a majority. > > So by your definition of majority, 50.1 is not a majority. This can easily come up with using weighted votes. Huh? I merely gave an example that reached 50.5% and said it was a majority. But in basic math, 50.1% is a majority. 50.00001% is a majority. Anything more than 50.000… % is a majority. > [@](#): > > > [@RealityChuck](#): > > > > Can you come up with an example where 50% of the votes plus 1 does not yield a majority? > > That’s not the question. The question is is 50%+1 the definition of a majority or is always equal to the minimal majority needed. > Here is my counter to your logic/question. I define a majority as 100% of the vote. Can you come up with an example where 100% is not a majority? Therefore my definition is the correct one. Quod erat demonstratum. And, Mr. Lincoln, if you count the tail as a leg, how many legs does a dog have? Your “definition” of majority of 100% is utter nonsense; no one defines it that way. You’re setting up a straw man. And you crudely ran away from my question. When is 50%+1 not a majority? ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/842 "2024-11-08T20:43:37Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > And you crudely ran away from my question. When is 50%+1 not a majority? I never said it wasn’t. I said that it is not the definition as you can have a majority with less than 50%+1 of the vote. Again: 99 votes. 50%+1 = 50.5. Explain to me how 50 votes which is less than 50.5 is not a majority of 99. Answer this question: when is 100% not a majority? So have you now proven that the definition of “majority” is 100% How is that any different than your “gotcha” question “proving” you are right? Again, explain how your definition includes 50 out of 99 as a majority. I’ll wait. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/843 "2024-11-08T22:02:44Z")
Not this again … ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/844 "2024-11-08T22:05:45Z")
I even made another thread to get it out of this one and I think that one was closed because it’s like two kids in the back seat on a loooooooong road trip. And like those trips with my sister, I’m right and she’s wrong. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/845 "2024-11-08T22:22:39Z")
Moderating: This thread is NOT an appropriate place to argue the definition of “majority”. Drop it or take it elsewhere. If anyone sees another post on the topic, please report them and I’ll issue warnings. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/846 "2024-11-09T01:03:52Z")
TIL (Today I learned) a new style of 1960’s architecture. Dingbats are apartments with parking underneath. They originally had bright colored stucco. I learned about it from a YouTube. They’re found in several states Link [Dingbat (building) - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingbat_(building)) > **[How the Iconic Dingbat Took Over Los Angeles](https://www.planetizen.com/news/2021/09/114793-how-iconic-dingbat-took-over-los-angeles)** > > The low-slung, car-oriented apartment buildings represent a mid-century solution to a housing shortage and offer valuable lessons for new development. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/847 "2024-11-09T02:34:08Z")
> [@zimaane](#): > > El Salvador, named after Jesus Also San Salvador. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/848 "2024-11-09T02:39:21Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > TIL (Today I learned) a new style of 1960’s architecture. > > Dingbats are apartments with parking underneath. They originally had bright colored stucco. > > I learned about it from a YouTube. They’re found in several states As a young boy I lived for a few years on Tybee Island off the coast from Savannah GA and the houses there were all built like that. Tybee is about three feet above the high tide line and storm surges would easily flood ground level. ETA: this gives you the idea: [![](https://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.-n06lG_0ayI0glbw-XWk_gHaFj&pid=15.1) ](https://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.-n06lG_0ayI0glbw-XWk_gHaFj&pid=15.1) ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/849 "2024-11-09T02:51:05Z")
More countries named for individuals: Georgia: St George Marshall Islands: John Marshall, Royal Navy officer, 1700s The Philippines: Philip II of Spain Kiribati: John Gilbert, Royal Navy officer, 1700s. (the name is the Gilbertese rendition of Gilbert) Solomon Islands: King Solomon ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/850 "2024-11-09T23:20:09Z")
Mairitius, named after Maurice, Prince of Orange, a Dutch nobleman. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/851 "2024-11-10T00:10:34Z")
All primates can taste sugar, with an exception of the loris Nycticebus coucang. For humans, protein called monellin (which is in the berry of the African shrub Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii) is 100,000 times sweeter than sucrose. This is true of the old world primates, but not the new world primates. (Per Hervé This, from _Molecular Gastronomy_ ) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/852 "2024-11-10T02:25:33Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > > [@RealityChuck](#): > > > > And you crudely ran away from my question. When is 50%+1 not a majority? > > I never said it wasn’t. I said that it is not the definition as you can have a majority with less than 50%+1 of the vote. Again: 99 votes. 50%+1 = 50.5. Explain to me how 50 votes which is less than 50.5 is not a majority of 99. > > Answer this question: when is 100% not a majority? > So have you now proven that the definition of “majority” is 100% > > How is that any different than your “gotcha” question “proving” you are right? Again, explain how your definition includes 50 out of 99 as a majority. I’ll wait. Yes, but any percent over 50% is a majority. 100% fits the definition. 50%+1 is the minimum. I already covered that. Half of 99 is 49.5. one more than that is over 50.5% and thus a majority. Or, more simply, 50 of 99 is 50.5%. Q.E.D. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/853 "2024-11-10T03:01:26Z")
> [@zimaane](#): > > Mairitius, named after Maurice, Prince of Orange, a Dutch nobleman Typo - Mauritius. I never realized it was named after a person. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/854 "2024-11-10T03:11:06Z")
Moderating: warning for @RealityChuck for ignoring moderator instructions: > [@RealityChuck](#): > > Yes, but any percent over 50% is a majority. 100% fits the definition. 50%+1 is the minimum. Just a couple posts back i said: > [@puzzlegal](#): > > Moderating: > This thread is NOT an appropriate place to argue the definition of “majority”. Drop it or take it elsewhere. > If anyone sees another post on the topic, please report them and I’ll issue warnings. ---
**Author:** ![Kzbre5m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kzbre5m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kzbre5m)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/855 "2024-11-10T13:11:24Z")
And in other news… A bald eagle in Missouri that was believed to be injured and couldn’t fly was rescued and brought in. X-rays showed it was okay, but had eaten a raccoon and was too heavy to fly. [Cite – Ripley’s Believe it or Not!](https://www.gocomics.com/ripleysbelieveitornot/2024/11/10). Other cites if you don’t believe Ripleys: [USA Today](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/08/27/bald-eagle-too-fat-missouri/74973329007/) and a [local news station](https://www.kktv.com/2024/08/28/bald-eagle-struggling-get-off-ground-not-injured-just-too-fat-fly/). ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/856 "2024-11-10T15:32:06Z")
> [@Kzbre5m](#): > > And in other news… > > A bald eagle in Missouri that was believed to be injured and couldn’t fly was rescued and brought in. X-rays showed it was okay, but had eaten a raccoon and was too heavy to fly. > > [Cite – Ripley’s Believe it or Not!](https://www.gocomics.com/ripleysbelieveitornot/2024/11/10). Other cites if you don’t believe Ripleys: [USA Today](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/08/27/bald-eagle-too-fat-missouri/74973329007/) and a [local news station](https://www.kktv.com/2024/08/28/bald-eagle-struggling-get-off-ground-not-injured-just-too-fat-fly/). We’ve all been there. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/857 "2024-11-10T15:51:53Z")
He started Thanksgiving early ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/858 "2024-11-10T19:31:38Z")
> [@Zyada](#): > > He started Thanksgiving early. Only it wasn’t the bird that got eaten. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/859 "2024-11-10T22:27:19Z")
And of course, Israel, named after a the Biblical patriarch Jacob. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/860 "2024-11-10T22:39:18Z")
That’s also a very common form of construction around here, especially in buildings from the 1960s and 1970s. Because building codes generally don’t allow street-level apartments, and not everything can be mixed-use, builders would usually just skip building a ground floor, and often use the space for parking: [![](https://storage.nadlancenter.co.il/articles/6467_tumb_750Xauto.jpg) ](https://storage.nadlancenter.co.il/articles/6467_tumb_750Xauto.jpg) I live in a building like that myself - nines stories, on columns, with parking beneath and around it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785.md?page=42) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785.md?page=44)