Does anyone else find themselves recalling random facts for no apparent reason? Like,
Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest and lost
White green, green, white blue, orange, white orange, blue, white brown, brown.
Are you making a crossover cable or installing it for the government? Those are the only places that I know of that A is used regularly. Nearly everywhere else uses B in my experience.
Are you making the assumption I am from North America?
Every place I have worked in Australia and Europe uses green first.
California Cows Don’t Dance the Fandango
Steps for laser printing:
Cleaning, Charging, Drawing, Developing, Transferring, Fusing
I’ve known this for over 20 years and never used it. Thanks catchy mnemonics!
I managed to memorize it for a test in networking class. The teacher was surprised someone actually managed to get it right.
T568-A guy I see
I’m a B guy myself.
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
The little piece of plastic at the end of a shoe lace is called an aglet.
I learned that from Phineas and Ferb.
IT DOESN’T MATTER!!
In what way?
That was just a quote from that episode. Candace repeatedly yells that at the boys as they celebrate aglets.
Sorry that it came off like I was screaming at you. I should have put it in quotes.
I haven’t seen the episode in a decade, but reading it again in her voice made me laugh.
Their true purpose is sinister
I was gonna correct you and say aiglet, but turns out it’s both correct
A kangaroo’s testicles are ON TOP of its penis rather than below.
This is basically what I say whenever someone asks me for a fun fact too roflmao
Today I Learned!
And that’s now my fun fact too lol
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.
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.
The buttons on suit jackets are a holdover from a time that buttons were new, and therefore fashionable. Well to do sorts had buttons all over their suits, even in places that would be considered silly these days.
When buttons were new and therefore fashionable? I feel like buttons predate suits by a wide margin.
Tegucigalpa is the capital of Honduras. No idea where I learned that
Seth McFarlane slept in one morning and missed his plane home. Little did he know that this exact plane hit the World Trade Center.
There are approximately π x 10^7 seconds in a year. It differs by less than 0.4%).
Interestingly, if you use 22/7 instead of pi it’s even closer
2 facts about the CMOS battery on a motherboard: CMOS stands for “complimentary metal oxide semiconductor”. Its a 2032 watch battery.
Orcas are a natural predator of the moose
Orcas are a natural predator of everything that his the ocean. Fun fact, orcas have been known to toy with seals by catapulting them with their tails. I believe I remember seeing at least one baby seal got seventy feet in the air before returning to the sea (and its inevitable death).
Scots have 421 words for “snow”
Name three.
Snow
Shite snow
Fookin snow
Fookin
Nobody in Scotland has ever unironically said “fookin”.
Snow, sleet, slush. Those aren’t really Scots words though, I think they were mixing it up with the (also not really true) factoid that Inuits have hundreds of words for snow.
Platypuses hunt underwater using bioelectric sensors in their bills. Also, you cannot beat the final boss in X-Men for Sega Gamegear unless you are using Iceman.
Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth.
Aibohphobia is the (unofficial) fear of palindromes
That is just as cruel as forcing speech impaired people to pronounce the word speech-language pathologist.
