Nothing insane, but the Red Hot Chili Peppers as a band are older than Guns 'N' Roses.
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A few of my favorite fun facts are geography related.
The pacific side of the Panama canal is further east than the Atlantic side.
If you head south from Detroit the first foreign country you'll hit is Canada.
Lake Tahoe is further west than Los Angeles
omg la is east of reno what is happening rn
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The bluestones in Stonehenge come from West Wales. Instead of quarrying stone from near the monument, they dragged these huge blocks from ~278km away. Likewise, the altar stone comes from ~700km away in North-East Scotland. It must've been very important for the ancient Britons to've used these specific rocks for some reason, but their religious practices were conveyed via a now extinct oral tradition so no-one knows exactly why they did it.
Bees kill invaders in their nest by climbing all over them and shaking their bodies.
The Allies avoided bombing specific factories in Nazi Germany in which US oligarchs owned equity.
This is an eminently believable fact.
yes, but those same oligarchs were the one's funding the entire war effort at the time time, and - ohwaitnvm...
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If two moving balls hit each other and bounce apart, itβs the exact same thing as if you held the frame steady on one ball and viewed the other ball as moving faster. Just seems like it gets heavierβ¦
Perspective is everything.
This link is about the moon but it starts by covering how to view space and orbital objects including simulators which allow one to do what you describe, as well as the ability to move the camera from on ball to the other and many other interesting simulations. https://ciechanow.ski/moon/
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Glenn Close was in Hook
Samuel L Jackson was in Grease. The movie.
A somewhat political fact, but one that made some of my friends dumbfounded:
When a bank issues a loan, it generates that money literally out of thin air and credits that money to the loan account rather than using deposits they already had. For example, if you want to borrow $100,000, the banker approves the loan and doesn't hand over cash or move existing money around - instead, they just go on their system and credit your account with the sum, that's it.
While I think your point is true that its much more abstract than people realize. When I worked at a bank and we disbursed loans and credited/debited fees it was from "GLs" (General Ledger?) which were basically just separate accounts to help keep track. Like we had a "member service" one which was for basically anything with good reason. One time someone did a very large amount but he just basically got told to do it a different way.
Its all just in a computer. I could've accidentally credited someone a million dollars but it would've been realized when I tried to close my drawer and balance everything out. And the branch would have to be balanced at the end of the day so I assume the bank did as well.
On a related note banks take out loans from other banks. I think a lot of people don't realize that banks have savings accounts so they have money to lend.
There was this racehorse named Pot-8-Os who won over 25 races and went on to sire a horse empire of winners. His father was a legend himself named "Eclipse"
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Consistency of an axiomatic system that contains arithmetic can be proven in this system if and only if it is inconsistent.