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The Fact of the Day Thread!! Post a fact that you find useful here :)

flate line my brother...nice to see your smile'n face again. :)

During the summer months, bumble bees hover at the top of the nest and vibrate their wings (much like a ceiling fan) to circulate the air and keep the nest nice and cool
 
The moon is at an average distance of 238855 miles ( 384400 kilometers) away from Earth!


Q:How many balls of string would it take to reach the moon???

A: one if its long enough
 
Two more interesting facts:

The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
 
^ And it looks trippy, especially on weed.
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Here is a fun fact:

The Atari Landfill

The early 1980s were a dark time in video game history. The market had been flooded with so many crappy games that it suffered a near-fatal crash. The final nail in the coffin appeared to be ET: The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600, universally agreed upon as the worst video game of all time. They literally couldn’t give the game away, resorting to distributing the game as the free prize in breakfast cereal.

At the end of it all, Atari ordered all remaining copies of ET, as well as many other titles they were unable to sell to be driven out into the desert by the truckload, and buried in a landfill. Somewhere in New Mexico now rests an Atari graveyard, filled with thousands of unsold cartridges. Don’t think about seeking relics of gaming’s past, since Atari chose that particular landfill due to its no-scavenging policies and every cartridge was thoroughly crushed to bits before being buried.
 
/\ i wonder if its the same place they dumped amstrad raidios and sinclair C5's.

My fact for today:

The SATURN 5 a liquid fulled rocket built by the Americans, actually shrank under its own weight by 16'' when fillled with fuel, it was the first to orbit the moon!
 
theotherside26 said:
Here is a fun fact:

The Atari Landfill
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I'm sure I saw a CSI episode somewhere along the lines of this, interesting fact bro :)


There are five distinct species of Rhinoceros... three in Africa and the Javan and Sumatran Rhino which were once widespread through SE Asia but now critically endangered...
 
Have you seen a Rhino close up Klue? They are sooo freakin crazy looking to me...pre historic dino type of look. I looked at one at our zoo for over 20 minutes...people were asking me "what is he doing, what are you looking at"...I'm like I'm at the zoo...helllloooooo!! :)
 
I've been to a zoo yeah, but the Rhino's weren't very close. But definitely I was in ore of them, so massive! You know where Sumatra and Java are in Indonesia? I didn't know until recently that there were Rhino (but they are super endangered and rare) in Indonesia :)
 
A little history lesson for today :)
NSFW:
Archimedes endured a tragic fate at the hands of drunken Roman soldiers. After forcing him to cut off and eat his own nose, they boiled him in oil.
 
What about Achilles? Did that happen in the same battle? (Okay, I've seen Troy but that's about it :D)

NB; The Achilles wikipedia page is seriously NSFW.
 
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