Useless facts thread (5 Viewers)
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there are 4149 posts in the B or A thread, out of which 234 are mine. Now considering i have in the first 20 pages there are 15 out of 27 posts are off topic, one can conclude that roughly 55% of my post in that thread are indeed off topic, which is 130 posts, now at 2 points per off topic post that would lead to 260 infraction points
according to jack i need 1'000'000 infraction points to get banned, which means that tahir needs to find another 999740 points or 499870 off topic posts in order for me to get banned. At a 55% off topic posts ratio that means i have to write a total of 908855 posts or as of this post, 883703. At the current rate of posting of 16.61 posts per day i need 53203 days and 1 hour and 40 mins or 146 years (assuming no leap years).
according to jack i need 1'000'000 infraction points to get banned, which means that tahir needs to find another 999740 points or 499870 off topic posts in order for me to get banned. At a 55% off topic posts ratio that means i have to write a total of 908855 posts or as of this post, 883703. At the current rate of posting of 16.61 posts per day i need 53203 days and 1 hour and 40 mins or 146 years (assuming no leap years).
here r some useless facts i came across. hope they were'nt posted before:
-It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
-TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
-A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can
-Blue whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as 3 Greyhound buses.
-Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile; so if you ever find yourself chased by one, run in a zigzag line. You'll lose him or her every time
-Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries
-The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
-Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode
-Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning
-When we visit toilets, bathrooms, hotel rooms, changing rooms, etc., how many of you know for sure that the seemingly ordinary mirror hanging on the wall is a real mirror, or actually a two-way mirror?? Just conduct this simple test: Place the tip of your fingernail against the reflective surface and if there is a GAP between your fingernail and the image of the nail, then it is a GENUINE mirror. However, if your fingernail DIRECTLY TOUCHES the image of your nail, then BEWARE, for it is a two-way mirror
-In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language
-Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
-The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night
-It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
-TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
-A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can
-Blue whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as 3 Greyhound buses.
-Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile; so if you ever find yourself chased by one, run in a zigzag line. You'll lose him or her every time
-Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries
-The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
-Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode
-Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning
-When we visit toilets, bathrooms, hotel rooms, changing rooms, etc., how many of you know for sure that the seemingly ordinary mirror hanging on the wall is a real mirror, or actually a two-way mirror?? Just conduct this simple test: Place the tip of your fingernail against the reflective surface and if there is a GAP between your fingernail and the image of the nail, then it is a GENUINE mirror. However, if your fingernail DIRECTLY TOUCHES the image of your nail, then BEWARE, for it is a two-way mirror
-In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language
-Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
-The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night
Not sure of the one about golf there. From Wikipedia:
The word golf was first mentioned in writing in 1457 on a Scottish statute on forbidden games as gouf, possibly derived from the Scots word goulf meaning "to strike or cuff". This word may, in turn, be derived from the Dutch word kolf, meaning "bat," or "club," and the Dutch sport of the same name. It is often claimed that the word originated as an acronym for "gentlemen only, ladies forbidden", but this is an urban legend
The bold one is what I believe to be the case.
The word golf was first mentioned in writing in 1457 on a Scottish statute on forbidden games as gouf, possibly derived from the Scots word goulf meaning "to strike or cuff". This word may, in turn, be derived from the Dutch word kolf, meaning "bat," or "club," and the Dutch sport of the same name. It is often claimed that the word originated as an acronym for "gentlemen only, ladies forbidden", but this is an urban legend
The bold one is what I believe to be the case.
