Does anyone else find themselves recalling random facts for no apparent reason? Like,
Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest and lost
The Roman names for the three fates are Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos.
Actually, I suppose there is a reason I remember this, it’s because of Golden Sun.
If you try to use the god mode code from Doom in Heretic, it kills you and tells you not to cheat.
The little piece of plastic at the end of a shoe lace is called an aglet.
I learned that from Phineas and Ferb.
I was gonna correct you and say aiglet, but turns out it’s both correct
Their true purpose is sinister
Thank you Terraria for this useless piece of info
Pretty sure it was the movie Repossessed with Leslie Nielsen that taught me this one.
2 facts about the CMOS battery on a motherboard: CMOS stands for “complimentary metal oxide semiconductor”. Its a 2032 watch battery.
2.2lbs to a KG
Should probably make an effort to know so many as a Canadian but only know the one conversion
5cm to 2 inches. It’s slightly off but good to a 30cm = one foot.
Useful when converting penis measurements.
Octopi have three hearts
Hyponatraemia occurs when sodium levels in the blood stream drop below 135 mmols/L.
I work in IT and this in no way applies to any aspect of my life (so far)
Male bedbugs have a knife-like penis. To have sex, they stab the females in the thorax with it because the females don’t have genitalia. The semen is then injected directly into the female’s main body cavity for insemination
XcQ, link stays blue
The USS Texas in WW2 partially sunk itself (flooded watertight compartments, if I remember correctly) to gain a higher elevation to shoot fortified bunkers farther inland than it could reach otherwise. I learned this on Reddit and never forgot it, oddly enough.
The solar system is 99.98% sun. The rest is comparable to a blood draw from a human.
The earth is a blood smear on a slide.
Karl Marx got drunk one night and, after being kicked out of a bar in London where he got drunk, went around London and almost got arrested sabotaging the lamp posts with rocks with his colleagues who were also drunk.
How do you sabotage a lamp post with rocks?
Throwing rocks at the glass part that emits light, taking out the bulb.
Laser is an acronym and doesn’t have a god damned Z in it.
Laser is no longer an acronym. It’s now an anacronym, which means it’s its own word (despite originally being an acronym)
Source: Wikipedia
TIL - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
That reminds me, so is SCUBA, RADAR and MODEM…I miss the old History Channel shows, especially Modern Marvels
SCUBA: Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (Blew my mind for some reason when I learned that)
RADAR: Radio Detection and Ranging (I’ve watched alot of WWII documentaries)
MODEM: Modulation Demodulation (I’ve worked in tech)So is Tuba: Terrible Underwater Breathing Apparatus
How to get all kremkoins in Donkey Kong Country 2, through a cheat:
- Enter the cabin with the map and the life balloon. Leave without touching anything.
- Collect the banana bunch over the pirate crocodile. Go back to the cabin, now pick the life.
- Repeat the above. You’ll see a kremkoin over the map. Pick it and you got 75 kremkoins.
In no moment you can touch the two lone bananas close to the entrance of the cabin.
…it has been decades since I played this game, and I almost never used the cheat above (it’s less fun than finding all bonus stages). Why do I still remember this?
I still remember the cheat for the first game. Down Y Down Down Y when cranky appears in the title to play bonus stages.
I remember this one too! There was also B A↓B↑↓↓Y (bad buddy) to switch when you wanted in 2P, instead of waiting until the arsehole playing with you to switch it.
Plus LRR LRR LR LR for DKC3. Then you’d insert a cheat and… I don’t remember them. Damn.
Bicycle wheels with quick release axles have 9.525mm diameter, rounded up to 10mm. This is because the sizing is not actually metric, but 3/8 inch so imperial.
This is why it’s most commonly called 9mm qr (quick release) /facepalm
To be fair, 0.5mm is a good clearance foe that application
