Fun Facts

Oh crap! I think I walked in it.

No shit.

LOL!

You sound like a quitter.

You're better off knowing that explosive, gluten free diarrhea wasn't part of the trifecta.

Thought these facts were supposed to be "fun"? lol

"And we're all much better off knowing that."

I disagree.

"Sneezing, coughing and passing gas all at the same time is possible, as I had done that only once many, many years ago. It was very painful."

And we're all much better off knowing that.

Thanks for sharing.

Fun fact:

The human body has cells that die every second. So, every second of everyday, everyone is dying.

Fun fact 2:

Sneezing, coughing and passing gas all at the same time is possible, as I had done that only once many, many years ago. It was very painful.

:-|

That makes me wonder... if you should sneeze while holding your nose while simultaneously havi g a hiccup attack would you implode or cause your head to explode?

Facts? Well, did you know if you took all of your blood vessels, laid them out in a single line, you'd die?

What squirts when you poke em... Sea Amemone. As kids we'd poke em with our fingers and toes.

Fun Fact:

Much like the famous incident where someone had the half-baked idea to let the internet vote on naming some research vessel and wound up with "Boaty McBoatface" as the winner, in 2006 the Hungarian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Transport opened a naming poll for a planned bridge.

Within a week the top candidate was the Chuck Norris híd ("Bridge" from now on). Stephen Colbert heard about this and urged people to nominate him. It worked. Soon the top 5 included other contenders like Jon Stewart and Eric Cartman, but Colbert won.

On September 14, 2006, András Simonyi—the ambassador of Hungary to the United States—announced on The Colbert Report that Stephen Colbert had won the vote. He regretted to inform him that he is ineligible as a namesake, but offered him a 10,000 forint bill (worth about $50 US).

Colbert immediately offered it back to him as a bribe to please name the bridge after him.

For the same reason Colorado Springs decommissioned their wireless street lights after a short experimental phase. The amount of power needed to transmit over distances is so tremendous it is practically never reasonable to do so. The power output was so high that horses got shocked if their shoes contacted anything made out of metal, pedestrians were being shocked by things like bushes and mailboxes, and insects had visible halos around them.

Tesla had a lot of big dreams and was a brilliant engineer and inventor, but suffered from a fatal flaw where he believed that he could overcome any theoretical limitation with clever designs and brute force. He invented a lot of incredible things, but also had a number of crap ideas that were never going to work. Such was the nature of the age of invention.

Never said Tesla deliberately shook a building. He was Just was praticing theory. Any way it's not about comparing stories, as I just stating that Tesla's theories on harmonics give light on the subject of your story. Learning should be a fun experience, as to understanding more than just a story its self.

Since we are on Tesla... Elon's Tesla car is a paradox. It'needs a battety that is more like a Westinghouse concept not of Tesla. I wonder when Elon will ever make his cars run from wirelessly from power stations, as Tesla envisioned?

That story about Tesla is probably not true, or is at least wildly exaggerated. The only source of the story is Tesla himself 40 years after the alleged incident and each time he told it the details were different.

But in any case - deliberately shaking a building isn't nearly as interesting to me as doing so with a tae bo class by accident.

Tesla made a low frequency resonance machine and almost shook a building apart.

Fun Fact: I knew the story, but it's less work to copy-paste someone else's re-telling. So this version is from a MentalFloss article.

In case it isn't clear, the shaking was the result of people jumping in unison, not the music itself.

On July 5, 2011, the 39-story "Techno-Mart" mall in Seoul, South Korea shook for ten minutes, causing a two-day evacuation and an investigation. The cause of the tremors? Seismic experts concluded that "The Power," a dance hit by the band Snap!, simply rocked too hard.

When the shaking occurred, it was felt only in the upper floors of the Techno-Mart. An investigation revealed that several dozen people had been doing an intense Tae Bo workout on the 12th floor. On that day, the Tae Bo instructor put on "The Power" and urged the class to do their workout "twice as hard." All that rhythmic stomping set up mechanical resonance within the building, causing it to vibrate. The Techno-Mart happened to have a resonance frequency matching that of "The Power's" kickin' beat. Here's a bit more explanation by professor Chung Lan of Dankook University:

“It just happens to be that the vibration set up by the “taebo” [sic] exercises coincided with the resonance frequency unique to the building,” the professor said. When an external vibration hits the resonance frequency of a certain object, the vibration is amplified and causes excess shaking even from slight movement.

Something I learned today... For years since childhood, I thought my eye color was green. I'm red/ green colorblind. So to me I rarely take notice of eye color , as what I see will be wrong 50% of the time.

Well i was messing around with my color identicatiin app and caught a sample image of my eyes. Low and behold I was 50% correct about my eye color. They are (Russet / Grey-Green) Hazel. Sunlight they are 50% Grey-Green and random light Russet mixed in. In indoor lighting they are medium Russet with random darker and lighter brown tones. From my understanding its a rare trait. Though my ancestry is predominantly European mixes.

Another oddity, that I have similar traits, is Alexandrite. It too changes color depending on light conditions. Blue Green to Redish Violet in sunlight. Though I do cost much less. Ha!

Fun Fact:

On March 18, the US government registered the domains:

alien.gov

aliens.gov

As of this moment, neither address is actually up and running in any way.

But... what?

Cue the "aliens" history channel meme guy with the stupid hair.

Lol!

FF1: Steak and BJ Day is the same day as Pi Day.

I've often JW'd if that's because Pi and BJs are both constants.

FF2: There was a bit of confusion at the bakery one year when Mrs. G told me she wanted a cream pie for Pie Day. I think the old lady in line behind me about died of a heart attack when the lady at the counter explained it was "Pi Day" and why Mrs. G didn't specify what kind of cream pie was customary on "Pie Day".

It’s easier to just skip it. I highly doubt there will be a detailed explanation of when wheat was harvested under the ingredients list.

Besides my specialist has a head so big abd full of gray matter he resembles a human lollipop. He said no gluten. It sounds rather imperious coming from a German.

I’fe also seen him power walking in Birkenstocks and a windbreaker that clisely resembles a Members Only jacket on his lunch break.

It’s pretty awesome.

@sorillo

My ex-wife went to school with a woman named Darby Crotchtangle.

That has been a known thing for numerous years, I wish I could remember where I first read it. And with big factory farms, they actually rely more on the chemical to dessicate the wheat certain times a year more than others, so people that actually are reacting to the chemical and not so much the wheat itself have their reaction inconsistently (it actually comes down to when and where the wheat was harvested)