Interesting facts that sound like utter bollocks

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by Corazon de Leon » Fri May 21, 2021 1:07 pm

Tineash wrote:We named a road after him, which frankly is pretty insensitive imo


I've got a great example of insensitive memorials. There's a swimming pool in Melbourne named after the only Australian Prime Minister to have been lost at sea and presumed drowned - The Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre.

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by That » Fri May 21, 2021 1:17 pm

Corazon de Leon wrote:There's a swimming pool in Melbourne named after the only Australian Prime Minister to have been lost at sea and presumed drowned - The Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre.

:lol: Amazing!

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by Drumstick » Fri May 21, 2021 1:33 pm

Corazon de Leon wrote:
Tineash wrote:We named a road after him, which frankly is pretty insensitive imo


I've got a great example of insensitive memorials. There's a swimming pool in Melbourne named after the only Australian Prime Minister to have been lost at sea and presumed drowned - The Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre.

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by Victor Mildew » Fri May 21, 2021 1:34 pm

Are you sure that wasn't Harold Bishop getting washed away?

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by Jenuall » Fri May 21, 2021 1:45 pm

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by Moggy » Fri May 21, 2021 1:46 pm

Victor Mildew wrote:Are you sure that wasn't Harold Bishop getting washed away?


He was Foreign Secretary not Prime Minister.

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by Zilnad » Fri May 21, 2021 1:55 pm

Zerudaaaaa! wrote:Mildly interesting: You are comprised more of bacteria than you are of your body's own cells (in terms of quantity).

That's what I learned, anyway.


Where did you hear that? Resident Evil?

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by Victor Mildew » Fri May 21, 2021 1:58 pm

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by Zerudaaaaa! » Fri May 21, 2021 2:36 pm

Zilnad wrote:
Zerudaaaaa! wrote:Mildly interesting: You are comprised more of bacteria than you are of your body's own cells (in terms of quantity).

That's what I learned, anyway.


Where did you hear that? Resident Evil?


No, then it would be about viruses ;)

Although actually, it can apply to viruses as well. According to wiki:

"A more recent estimate is a ratio of 1.3 bacterial cells for every one human cell whereas the number of phages and viruses out number bacterial cells by at least an order of magnitude more."

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by Ironhide » Fri May 21, 2021 4:23 pm

A flamingo cannot eat unless its head is upside down.

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Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day.

A tree planted in honour of George Harrison was killed by an infestation of beetles.

The 1980 winter olympic village is now used as a prison.
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by Photek » Fri May 21, 2021 4:48 pm

I interviewed Roald Dahl for RTE radio when I was 11.

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by Corazon de Leon » Fri May 21, 2021 4:50 pm

This is easily disputable because his age changes throughout the first few seasons of the show but Homer Simpson is generally recognised to be about 38 years old. If he’d been that age from the beginning of the show in 1989 and aged normally, he’d turn 70 this year. :lol:

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by BonalityMatrix » Fri May 21, 2021 4:55 pm

Victor Mildew wrote:Are you sure that wasn't Harold Bishop getting washed away?


Or the Bishop from that Frasier episode.

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by Tomous » Fri May 21, 2021 5:14 pm

Every time you shuffle a deck of cards, the resulting order has likely never been seen before in history.

There are 806,581,751,709,438,785,716,606,368,564,037,669,752,895,054,408,832,778,240,000,000,000 possible variations.

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by OrangeRKN » Fri May 21, 2021 5:25 pm

Tomous wrote:Every time you shuffle a deck of cards, the resulting order has likely never been seen before in history


While theoretically true assuming a true random shuffle, I've wondered before what the odds are given real-world shuffling is often much worse than truly random. The starting point is frequently a highly ordered state (the deck in order following completing a game of solitaire for example, or just a new pack of cards) and many people will go through a limited number of sub-optimal steps when shuffling. Interleaving the deck for example looks impressive but is highly predictable, while my shuffling "technique" pretty much boils down to splitting the deck about 20 times. I imagine it might actually be quite likely given a sorted deck that I would shuffle it to a state someone else has also shuffled to before.

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by Squinty » Fri May 21, 2021 5:30 pm

Photek wrote:I interviewed Roald Dahl for RTE radio when I was 11.


Fantastic Mr Phox

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by Dowbocop » Fri May 21, 2021 5:32 pm

Corazon de Leon wrote:
Tineash wrote:We named a road after him, which frankly is pretty insensitive imo


I've got a great example of insensitive memorials. There's a swimming pool in Melbourne named after the only Australian Prime Minister to have been lost at sea and presumed drowned - The Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre.

Many moons ago I took part in a charity MMA night. The cause being supported? A fund for a local lad who'd been beaten to death...

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by JCDenton » Fri May 21, 2021 5:40 pm

OrangeRKN wrote:
Tomous wrote:Every time you shuffle a deck of cards, the resulting order has likely never been seen before in history

I imagine it might actually be quite likely given a sorted deck that I would shuffle it to a state someone else has also shuffled to before.

Seems that other people aren't so lucky.

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by Dowbocop » Fri May 21, 2021 5:45 pm

Tomous wrote:Every time you shuffle a deck of cards, the resulting order has likely never been seen before in history.

There are 806,581,751,709,438,785,716,606,368,564,037,669,752,895,054,408,832,778,240,000,000,000 possible variations.

I make that as 8.06x10^65 (correct me if I'm wrong). I'd like to see an estimate of how many times a deck of cards is shuffled in a typical day in a Vegas casino. I imagine if you multiplied that by all the decks of cards in the casino, then multiplied that by all the days the casino had been open, then did the same for all the other casinos in Vegas you'd get a pretty impressive sum as well. Then do the same for every big casino city and add them all together. That would give an idea of the true scale of the number we're talking about.

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by Pancake » Fri May 21, 2021 5:59 pm

Did you know that the whale is not really a fish, it's an insect?


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