Did you know?

[Marygrace]

I guess this is kind of game, not really though. Here you post interesting facts that start off with did you know?

Did you know that on average right handed people live nine years longer than left handed people?

[MissInformation]

Did you know that May 16-26 is International Pickle Week? (to big to fit into a normal 7 day week!)

Pickles!!!
It's just so wrong!


MissInformation

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While in Europe, don't assume a pickle is a pickle as you know it...

[Matt Attallah]

Did you know, on april 29, it's Matt Attallah's birthday?!

Did you know if the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

There, 2 at ya!

[Jon K.]

Originally posted by Matt Attallah
Did you know, on april 29, it's Matt Attallah's birthday?!

Did you know if the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

There, 2 at ya!

A happy B-day
B: that is no longer true. China has a law stating that only one child may be born per couple. So eventually if the law were to stay in effect forever the population would be lowered to two people than one then extinction.

[Kiwi_queen]

did you know that there is actually a type of deer so small it can fit in the palm of your hand...when it reaches it's adult size...

[Joe Matt]

There has been more information published in the past 30 years than in the previous 5000.

[srawls]

Here's one I thought was common knowledge (amongst FIRSTers, that is), until several people stared at me blankly, and one wouldn't even believe me.

Did you know that Dean Kamen owns his own Island, and has seceded from the Union? (Island name is North Dumpling I think, or thereabouts. He even issued currency with the exchange rate of pi! At least he's got a sense of humour )

Stephen

[EDIT]

When Kamen wanted to erect a wind turbine on North Dumpling and the state of New York objected, he seceded from the US. Though the secession has never been officially recognized, he signed a nonaggression pact with his friend, then-President George Bush, and enlisted Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry's as "joint chiefs of ice cream." North Dumpling has its own flag, its own anthem, a one-ship navy, and its own currency. One bill, which Kamen carries in his wallet, is the value of pi. "You can't make change for it," he says with a grin. "It's a transcendental function."

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.09/kamen_pr.html

After checking a few sources, nobody agrees on all the facts, but everybody includes most of the details (sligthly different from version to version).
[/EDIT]

[Jnadke]

Originally posted by srawls
Here's one I thought was common knowledge (amongst FIRSTers, that is), until several people stared at me blankly, and one wouldn't even believe me.

Did you know that Dean Kamen owns his own Island, and has seceded from the Union? (Island name is North Dumpling I think, or thereabouts. He even issued currency with the exchange rate of pi! At least he's got a sense of humour )

Stephen

In the mid-1980s, Kamen bought North Dumpling Island — three acres off Connecticut, uninhabited aside from Kamen himself.

He declared the island's independence (the declaration has no force of law), developed his own currency (the Dumpling) and signed a nonaggression pact with New Hampshire. He restored an old amphibious ship to serve the imaginary North Dumpling navy.

But when he proposed to build a windmill to generate electricity, officials on the mainland balked. The law requires a permit, they said.

When Kamen pointed out that the law also required that the state provide school bus service and trash collection for the island, authorities backed off.

"If you had your own island and you're 38 miles away from town, the idea that you would have to ask somebody permission to build a windmill is ridiculous," said Kamen.

http://www.daily-camera.com/business/a294909a.html

Yes, and 1 Dollar = Pi Dumplings

[Thos]

Did you know that air craft carriers have their own ZIP codes?


Heh, imagine trying the look on some poor clerks face when you demand 2.14159256.... dollars back!

[Redhead Jokes]

Did you know...
Ketchup is believed to be a descendant of a Chinese brine sauce called 'Ketsiap' which was the result of making either pickled poultry or pickled fish. Ketsiap has been known in China since around 1690 and the name is most commonly applied to a type of fish sauce. The Chinese word 'Ketsiap' simply means 'sauce.' There is also a Malay version of this fish sauce by the name of 'kechap' and this Malaysian word means 'taste.'

Sometime in the 17th century, British sailors were out sailing around for a breath of fresh air and adventure, not to mention plunder, when they discovered this fish sauce in China and carried a mess of it back home. There, probably in an effort to make it taste like anything but pickled fish, cooks mutated and reformulated this concoction until, somewhere along the way, someone invented tomatoes and history was made. Tomato Ketchup was born.

[118 Tech]

Suprisingly many people do not know this rule.

from The Glosiversity

With runners on first and second base, or the bases loaded and zero or one out, a ball hit in the air that does not go past the infield (or fifteen feet into the outfield). The batter is automatically declared out, thus preventing the fielders from purposely dropping the fly ball in an attempt to force out runners.

[Jeff Waegelin]

Originally posted by 118 Tech
Suprisingly many people do not know this rule.

from The Glosiversity

With runners on first and second base, or the bases loaded and zero or one out, a ball hit in the air that does not go past the infield (or fifteen feet into the outfield). The batter is automatically declared out, thus preventing the fielders from purposely dropping the fly ball in an attempt to force out runners.

Wow... someone who actually knows and can explain the Infield Fly Rule... I'm impressed.

[kristen]

Originally posted by srawls
Here's one I thought was common knowledge (amongst FIRSTers, that is), until several people stared at me blankly, and one wouldn't even believe me.

Did you know that Dean Kamen owns his own Island, and has seceded from the Union? (Island name is North Dumpling I think, or thereabouts. He even issued currency with the exchange rate of pi! At least he's got a sense of humour )

Stephen

[/EDIT]

I seriously thought that you were kidding about that one... I believe stuff that's not true, but then when I try to be all smart and not gullible, what I don't believe ends up being true.

But it's kind of strange it isn't more well known that Dean has his own island... you'd think that it would be. (especially amung FIRSTER-ers)

[Kiwi_queen]

It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis.

also..the human swallows an average of 3 spiders per year in their sleep.

[Redhead Jokes]

Did you know that snails can sleep for up to three years?