Here they come
Floating on a tree
Get the funniest looks from
All the fish in the sea
Hey hey we’re the Monkees
And people say we monkey around
But we’re too busy swimming
To make anybody drown
We’re just floating to Brazil
Come and watch us build and play
We’re the next evolution
And we’ve got something to say
Ah, amazing!!!
I knew that. 
I think I remember this one with the answer being “eight hundred and twenty something trillion miles”; Is that remotely close to 10 billion LY?
Just asking, I’m sure your figures are correct.
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The actual numbers might be a little off, but it’s still reasonably close enough to show that it’s really big:
9.45T km in one LY
Paper with thickness of .2 mm
2^100 ≈ 1.27 *10^30 (number of folds)
0.2mm * 1.27 * 10^30 = 2.54 10^29 mm (thickness in mm)
2.54 * 10^29 mm = 2.54 10^23 km (thickness in km)
2.54 * 10^23 km / 9.45 trillion km = 27B LY (converted to LY)
Cats will not face the setting Sun.
Hens’ eggs that are laid in the dark have white yolks.
Ferris wheels were originally invented as elevators.
Angelica Huston was born in Orlando, FL, and Tony Orlando was born in Houston, TX.
And most regular A4 paper is 0.1 mm thick, so even taking that into account the final figure is ~13 billion light years.
I read that post when it first appeared and even had a discussion about it with my husband. I was pretty creeped out when the quake was reported. :eek:
I love that site, BTW.
I was using .003 inches as my figure, which if I recall correctly is about the thickness of the thin paper often used in bibles.
The point, of course, is that it’s really freakin’ thick.
This fact amazed me so much I posted it as my Facebook status. A FB friend (the husband of on of my wife’s high school friends) responded and said knows the son of one of the grandsons. Not quite enough to start me singing “It’s a Small World” but close.
Did any of them ever work with Kevin Bacon?
Perhaps not true. Due to a surveying error, Sumas, WA is slightly further north than 49 degrees N.
I’m pretty sure you’re wrong about farthest north in the lower 48 states. That would be Minnesota where the Northwest Angle juts up above the line forming the northern boundary of all the western states.
I don’t believe this one at all.
Yes, quite true.
Sumas, WA is "slightly’ north of 49 degrees. But the Northwest Angle of Minnesota is well over 49 degrees, almost halfway to 50 degrees.
Ok, someone explain how this is possible. I’m too lazy to Wiki or Google it, but I assume Tyler’s son or daughter had the kids late in life and that the surviving grandsons must be quite old by now.
John Tyler was born in 1790. He married Letitia Christian in 1813 (on his 23rd birthday) and they remained married until her death in 1842 and had eight children. Tyler met Julia Gardiner that same year and they were married in 1844. It was considered somewhat scandalous because Tyler was 54 and Gardiner was 24. But the marriage lasted until Tyler’s death in 1862 (at the age of 71) and produced seven children.
John’s thirteenth child was a son named Lyon and he was born in 1853 when John was 63 (and Julia was 33). Like his father, Lyon was married twice. He and his second wife, Sue Ruffin, were married in 1921 (when Lyon was 68) and had three children before Lyon’s death in 1935. Two of these children were Lyon Gardiner Tyler Junior (born in 1924) and Harrison Ruffin Tyler (born in 1928) and they are still alive.
Getting back to John Tyler’s children, his youngest daughter Pearl was born in 1860 when the former President was 69. She lived until 1947 - 106 years after her father became President.
This actually made me gasp. Thanks for posting this!
Shakespeare and Cervantes both died on April 23, 1616. But Shakespeare died on Tuesday and Cervantes died on Saturday. That’s because England was still using the Julian calendar and Spain had converted to the Gregorian, the latter having October 4 followed by October 15 in 1582.
This isn’t unbelievable, but according to FutilityCloset Sylvester Stallone is only 5’7.
Ulan Bator contains more than one-third of the total population of Mongolia; the city is less dense than the entire state of Connecticut.