Strange but True. (Things that Conservatives just have to know...)

Strange Facts dot com ^ | FR Post 6-6-2 | Bram Hernick

[vannrox]

I just had to share this with others whom may appreciate it.

[Servant of the Nine]

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!

It's a start

So9

[lowbridge]

Clinophobia is the fear of beds!

I guess that's why he used the oval office instead.

[gratefulwharffratt]

"The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!"

Everything's always about you, isn't it??

Technically, you would be a green mammal!!!!!! The endless search is over.

[callisto]

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

Now this I'll have to give a try.

[fnord]

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny

heads up or heads down ?

[andysandmikesmom]

Being left handed myself, I have to wonder what kinds of products made for right handed people, killed the left handed people...I really cannot imagine this happening....sounds phoney to me...

[Rightly Biased]

In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!

Is figure this pre hildebeast or post hildebeast?

[boris]

"If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!"

Only if you are so slow that you add one count per second.

--Boris

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

I'm with you. I'm a lefty and have never come close to killing myself. :-) Wait a minute! Are steering wheels made for righties?

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

Well, I'm sure they've taken into account the amount of time it takes to say a number such as "four hundred sixty-three billion, five hundred seventy-nine million, three hundred ninety-five thousand four hundred sixty-two. There are more numbers like that than there are the ones that you can say in a fraction of a second, don't you think? Anyone care to do a more realistic calculation of the time it would take to count that high?

[Mark Turbo]

Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!

A good night's sleep is important!

[bluefish]

!!!!!!!!!!!

[boris]

You can count very fast in your head. Nowhere is it specified that you have to say the numbers.

I just counted to a million.

There! I did it again!

--Boris

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

I just counted to a million. There! I did it again!

Well, *I'm* certainly impressed! LOL

Have you heard of "one, two, skip a few, ninety-nine, one hundred"? It's probably been around forever, but I never heard it until one of my kids said it.

Candi

[boris]

"Have you heard of 'one, two, skip a few, ninety-nine, one hundred'? It's probably been around forever, but I never heard it until one of my kids said it."

A teacher once asked her class to sum the integers from one to 100. The young Karl Freiderich Gauss--one of mankind's truly great mathematicians--promptly strode to her desk and slapped his small chalkboard on the desk. "There it lies!" He exclaimed.

The correct answer was indeed there. 5,050.

How did he do it?

He realized that you can pair up numbers like so:

  0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9.......99 100

100 99 98 97 96 95 94 93 92 91.......01 0   

The total of all the numbers in the two rows is 10,100 (100 times 100 plus 50 plus 50). But the second half of the sums is redundant (those greater than 50), so the correct answer is one-half of 10,100 or 5,050.

--Boris

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

Yup! That's a cool *trick*! We learned that last year when my son started participating in math competitions. If you have any more cool things like that, please pass them along. We're all math freaks in my house, lol.

[boris]

Try this: Take the first 3 odd numbers: 1 3 5
Double them: 1 1 3 3 5 5
Draw a line: 1 1 3 | 3 5 5
Divide: 355/113...."almost" Pi!

It is the closest rational approximation to pi with both numerator and denominator less than 1,000. It is so accurate you could use it for "pi" for the rest of your life and never have an appreciable error. In fact, I sometimes put it in my computer programs--to perplex anyone examining the code in the future!

I got more.

--Boris

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

Divide: 355/113...."almost" Pi!

That's cool! I've always used 22/7, but knew it wasn't the best approximation to pi. You impressed my son! He made me do it on the calculator right away, lol. He's been learning to program in Java, so I bet he'll use that if the opportunity arises.

I got more.

We'd love more, but only if you have the time and don't mind. I hate to bother you.

Thanks so much!!

[Valin]

Ever fire an M-16? They eject to the right.