Page 1 of Mind-blowing Facts!

• The time difference between when Tyrannosaurus and Stegosaurus lived is greater than the time difference between Tyrannosaurus and now.
• If you properly shuffle a deck of cards, in all likelihood, the resulting deck has never been seen before in the history of the world.
• The bushes in Super Mario Bros. were just recolored clouds.
• There is a blind guy who can ride his bike in traffic.
• There is a species of jellyfish that is immortal.
• A small enough animal can fall at terminal velocity without suffering any injury upon impact. An ant (or even a smallish spider) dropped from a tall building will be just fine.
• If you could fold a piece of paper in half 50 times, its thickness will be 3/4 the distance from the Earth to the Sun (71 million miles).
• Over 3 billion people live on less than $2.50 a day (in USD using purchasing parity power), roughly half of the world`s population.
• There are more cells of bacteria in your body than there are human cells. (Indeed, there are more cells of E. coli alone than of human cells.)
• Computer hardware has fulfilled Moore`s Law for 40 years and may continue to do so.
• The guidance computer from the Apollo 11 mission ran at 1.024 MHz, about 1/6th of the processing power of a TI-83 calculator, and it took human beings to the moon.

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Gareth Williams says...
The paper one hurts my head.Well, it`s physically impossible to successfully fold paper in half more than 7 times, so 50 is a massive amount. you`re basically doubling each time, which is the binary counting system.

1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 (that`s the limit, regardless of the thickness of paper)

You just keep going for a few more - the number by the time you get to 50 must be astronomical!

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smurfette says...
Well, it`s physically impossible to successfully fold paper in half more than 7 timesNo it`s not.  Stephen Fry told me.
I think Mythbusters did it more too.

Ste

I was waiting for some smartarse to say that! lol

Yeah, under the right circumstances, it can be done, but it`s very extreme. try it!

Thats only because you haven`t been taught how to do it

May be they could add this to the school curriculum

Dogs can`t look up.

Doc.


"Compassion is another word for gay." Psycho Paul, 2010.

with their eyes

Obviously.

Doc.


"Compassion is another word for gay." Psycho Paul, 2010.

That thing about `it`s impossible to lick your own elbow`. Apparently some people can.

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That thing about `it`s impossible to lick your own elbow`. Apparently some people can

Yeah, people with prosthetic arms...

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