The random interesting fact thread

MeatMan wrote:

For every M&M you eat, you have to run the length of a football field to burn it off.

I was just about to go grab a handful from the M&M jar at work. Now I'm just gonna be hungry... Hopefully I'll forget in 15minutes.

Oh c'mon. That handful will only be a mile or so.

LouZiffer wrote:

Oh c'mon. That handful will only be a mile or so.

But I don't go running, so that's a mile more than I was going to do regardless. And my handfuls are typically oversized.

Bonus_Eruptus wrote:
Higgledy wrote:

I'll start us off with a fact that is a bit of a non fact (and an item of trivia about a TV star.)

Alan Turing, who helped shorten the war by breaking the German's Enigma code, was prosecuted for being gay (it was still illegal in the UK at the time) and was chemically castrated as an alternative to going to prison. He committed suicide some time later by eating an apple laced with cyanide. It had been suggested that the apple logo was a tribute to Turing but Steve Jobs, when asked about it by Stephen Fry some time ago, said that it wasn't true but that they wished to high heaven that it was.

Also, Anna Paquin, the woman who plays Sookie Stackhouse in True Blood, was the young girl with the geese in Fly away home.

He's on my list of historical figures I'd like to have dinner with, all of whom have last names starting with 'T':

Twain
Tesla
Turing
Tyson (Neil deGrasse)

Is ND Tyson historical yet?

EverythingsTentative wrote:
Bonus_Eruptus wrote:
Higgledy wrote:

I'll start us off with a fact that is a bit of a non fact (and an item of trivia about a TV star.)

Alan Turing, who helped shorten the war by breaking the German's Enigma code, was prosecuted for being gay (it was still illegal in the UK at the time) and was chemically castrated as an alternative to going to prison. He committed suicide some time later by eating an apple laced with cyanide. It had been suggested that the apple logo was a tribute to Turing but Steve Jobs, when asked about it by Stephen Fry some time ago, said that it wasn't true but that they wished to high heaven that it was.

Also, Anna Paquin, the woman who plays Sookie Stackhouse in True Blood, was the young girl with the geese in Fly away home.

He's on my list of historical figures I'd like to have dinner with, all of whom have last names starting with 'T':

Twain
Tesla
Turing
Tyson (Neil deGrasse)

Is ND Tyson historical yet?

Everything that has happened before this instant is now history.

There is not enough internet for everyone to have as much of it as they want. This is why most cell phone carriers have caps on internet usage now.

Bonus_Eruptus wrote:
EverythingsTentative wrote:
Bonus_Eruptus wrote:
Higgledy wrote:

I'll start us off with a fact that is a bit of a non fact (and an item of trivia about a TV star.)

Alan Turing, who helped shorten the war by breaking the German's Enigma code, was prosecuted for being gay (it was still illegal in the UK at the time) and was chemically castrated as an alternative to going to prison. He committed suicide some time later by eating an apple laced with cyanide. It had been suggested that the apple logo was a tribute to Turing but Steve Jobs, when asked about it by Stephen Fry some time ago, said that it wasn't true but that they wished to high heaven that it was.

Also, Anna Paquin, the woman who plays Sookie Stackhouse in True Blood, was the young girl with the geese in Fly away home.

He's on my list of historical figures I'd like to have dinner with, all of whom have last names starting with 'T':

Twain
Tesla
Turing
Tyson (Neil deGrasse)

Is ND Tyson historical yet?

Everything that has happened before this instant is now history.

That's logic that is indisputable, but somehow unsatisfying.

ND Tyson is more than a historical figure. He's a mythic figure.

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After his death Charlie Chaplin's body was stolen and held to ransom.

To grow a pineapple you first have to start with a pineapple, rip the stem off the top, plant the base of the stem and wait 18-24 months for one pineapple to grow.

EverythingsTentative wrote:

To grow a pineapple you first have to start with a pineapple, rip the stem off the top, plant the base of the stem and wait 18-24 months for one pineapple to grow.

0.o

So... the number of pineapples is finite?

oilypenguin wrote:
EverythingsTentative wrote:

To grow a pineapple you first have to start with a pineapple, rip the stem off the top, plant the base of the stem and wait 18-24 months for one pineapple to grow.

0.o

So... the number of pineapples is finite?

I think the number of times a pineapple plant fruits is 2-4 times. So one becomes 4, becomes 16, etc..

EverythingsTentative wrote:

To grow a pineapple you first have to start with a pineapple, rip the stem off the top, plant the base of the stem and wait 18-24 months for one pineapple to grow.

Which reminds me of an old ridde: which came first, the pineapple or the pineapple?

Jonman wrote:
EverythingsTentative wrote:

To grow a pineapple you first have to start with a pineapple, rip the stem off the top, plant the base of the stem and wait 18-24 months for one pineapple to grow.

Which reminds me of an old ridde: which came first, the pineapple or the pineapple?

It all started with a pine tree and an apple tree. At the time, different species reproduction was taboo, but they were in love and didn't care what other trees thought.

EverythingsTentative wrote:

To grow a pineapple you first have to start with a pineapple, rip the stem off the top, plant the base of the stem and wait 18-24 months for one pineapple to grow.

You wouldn't happen to be a 'Good Job, Brain!' listener would you?

kazar wrote:
Jonman wrote:
EverythingsTentative wrote:

To grow a pineapple you first have to start with a pineapple, rip the stem off the top, plant the base of the stem and wait 18-24 months for one pineapple to grow.

Which reminds me of an old ridde: which came first, the pineapple or the pineapple?

It all started with a pine tree and an apple tree. At the time, different species reproduction was taboo, but they were in love and didn't care what other trees thought.

And the crabapple?

It was a forbidden romance.

Redwing wrote:
EverythingsTentative wrote:

To grow a pineapple you first have to start with a pineapple, rip the stem off the top, plant the base of the stem and wait 18-24 months for one pineapple to grow.

You wouldn't happen to be a 'Good Job, Brain!' listener would you?

Yes, yes I am.

Jonman wrote:
EverythingsTentative wrote:

To grow a pineapple you first have to start with a pineapple, rip the stem off the top, plant the base of the stem and wait 18-24 months for one pineapple to grow.

Which reminds me of an old ridde: which came first, the pineapple or the pineapple?

0.o

kazar wrote:
oilypenguin wrote:
EverythingsTentative wrote:

To grow a pineapple you first have to start with a pineapple, rip the stem off the top, plant the base of the stem and wait 18-24 months for one pineapple to grow.

0.o

So... the number of pineapples is finite?

I think the number of times a pineapple plant fruits is 2-4 times. So one becomes 4, becomes 16, etc..

What I heard was that you really only get 1 good pineapple. You can get more but they are typically smaller.

Mayans used chocolate in baptisms and in marriage ceremonies. It was also sometimes used in the place of blood during ceremonies. Mayan emperors were often buried with jars of chocolate by their side.

EverythingsTentative wrote:

What I heard was that you really only get 1 good pineapple. You can get more but they are typically smaller.

Then you can eat the first one, and plant the next 2-3. Otherwise, we would eat pineapples until they are extinct.

Richard the Lionheart, the great English king, was French, spoke hardly a word of English and spent less than six months in England during his reign.