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Space is expanding faster than light

__starsnostars posted...

The universe is expanding and galaxies are moving farther and farther apart. In the far distant future some alien species will look up at a night sky that would be practically starless.

Wouldn't they still have a lot of stars within their galaxy, though?

I imagine most of the stars we observe are within the Milky Way, although I'm not positive on that.

McDonalds once had bubblegum flavored broccoli.
This was done as an attempt to make kids enjoy eating vegetables. However, this strange method failed for obvious reasons.

-40 is where Celsius and Fahrenheit are the same

Beer is the 3rd most popular beverage in the world, behind tea and water.

Also, I like beer.

Beer usually has very low sugar, as any sugar it has in it during the brewing process is also turned into alcohol.

MI4_REAL posted...

Beer usually has very low sugar, as any sugar it has in it during the brewing process is also turned into alcohol.

I had a very hard time convincing people whiskey has no sugar in it. I mean I get don't believe everything you see on the internet but I went to like 3 different websites dedicated to listing nutritional facts about various products and all said the same.

I actually think it's BS alcohol is somehow exempt from having the information on the packaging like other drinks

Steve Jobs the creator of Apple suffered from extreme Koumpounophobia which is the fear of buttons.

This is the reasons why he always appeared in a black jumper and jeans and that the iPad and iPhone are touchscreen.

Sufferedphoneix posted...

I had a very hard time convincing people whiskey has no sugar in it. I mean I get don't believe everything you see on the internet but I went to like 3 different websites dedicated to listing nutritional facts about various products and all said the same.

I actually think it's BS alcohol is somehow exempt from having the information on the packaging like other drinks

I noticed that.

YugiNoob posted...

These Cyclone arcade games are literal scams. In the owner's manual, it says that you can set how often you want it to pay out :<

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/5/9/AAPV5JAADsj_.jpg

Almost all these redemption type games that are seemingly based on skill have a difficulty setting, or a win rate setting.

Especially claw machines. Theres a setting they all have that determines the odds that it will actually close and grab the prize.

I must say though, those Cyclone machines are bullshit. No matter how many times Id get it right on the mark it would move it over and say I didnt get it.

OMG was first used in a letter to Winston Churchill in 1917.
A retired British admiral of the Royal Navy one day became excited due to headlines regarding the mobilizing forces of Britain. Excited to share this news with a college, the admiral quickly wrote a small acronym for Oh My God! in his letter. Little did he know that he had just invented one of the most popular acronyms of todays society.

An electron was not actually observed until 2008
https://phys.org/news/2008-02-electron.html

A man in Alabama was arrested for (among other things) having a squirrel named Deeznutz that he allegedly fed meth and trained to be aggressive. The man denied giving meth to the squirrel. If he was telling the truth? We'll never know...because as USA Today so elegantly put it:

"As for Deeznutz, authorities say he couldn't be tested for meth and has been released."

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/4/5/AAPV5JAAD8Ip.jpg

A couple in New Zealand gave their baby daughter the name Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii. The girl hid her real name from everyone and told everyone to call her K.

Other names banned in New Zealand are Yeah Detroit, Keenan Got Lucky and Sex Fruit whilst Number 16 Bus Shelter and Violence were allowed.

One Swedish couple called their child Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 (pronounced albin).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y-YnWxj5Ss

CassandraCroft posted...

One Swedish couple called their child Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 (pronounced albin).

The court refused to approve of the name.

Foppe posted...

The court refused to approve of the name.

Good.

North Korean teachers were required to play the accordion.
This musical instrument is also known as the peoples instrument due to its convenient size suitable for taking to marches. Students from all schools in the country are required to learn them. This explains why teachers need to pass an accordion exam before they get their teaching licenses during the 1990s.

The half-life of uranium is 4.5 billion years.

Male students attending Brigham Young University cannot grow beards.
This Mormon flagship university has several strict guidelines that include banning premarital sex, alcohol, and tattoos. Unless you have a medical condition or a specific religion, men from this university are not allowed to grow a beard.

Its in our DNA to drink beer:

Matthew Carrigan and Steven Benner, biologists at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in Gainesville, Florida, did a comparative analysis of the primate gene alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH4), which converts ethanol into fuel for our bodies. They found that our hominid ancestors evolved a digestive enzyme for alcohol, ADH4. This enzyme that metabolizes ethanol appeared around the time our primate ancestors transitioned from living in trees to inhabiting the forest floor, about 10 million years ago.In these more distant ancestors the enzyme didnt efficiently metabolize ethanol. Our more productive version today most likely became efficient due to our increased exposure to alcohol from our diet. Our early ancestors would have collected fruit from the forest floor. That easily accessible fruit could have been squished or the skin could have been broken, exposing its sugars to yeast and allowing for fermentation. Although the naturally occurring alcohol content would have been low, eating enough of the fruit would have had mind-altering effects on the consumer.

Beer was highly valued and thought to be a gift from the gods. Around 1800 BCE ancient Sumerians wrote the first ever brewing recipe in the form of a hymn to the goddess Ninkasi. Beer is also mentioned in the oldest written story, the Epic of Gilgamesh. The Egyptians recognized their goddess of beer, Tenenit, throughout their mythology. In the 3rd century BCE, Egyptian workers were paid in a low alcohol-content beer to build ancient pyramids and temples.

Let me tell you about Julmust.
You know how Coca Cola pretty much owns Christmas and how everybody drinks Coca Cola then?
Thats not how it works in Sweden...
To really understand, we have to go back in time, long before 1900...
Swedes back then were mostly alcoholics. They worked hard and just got enough food to not starve to death. To prevent riots, a part of the salary was paid as alcohol, which the workers drank to forget their hard life. Around Christmas, they got some more, and better food, as a bonus. But the most important thing was the Christmas Beer. It was a dark porter that tasted so much better than the cheap alcohol they were used to, and they looked forward to it the whole year. And if you served them something of lower quality... well, you had to be lucky to get away alive.
Forward in time to the 1920s. People got better paid, they were not paid in alcohol, but instead they bought their own alcohol. And dark Christmas Beer was something you just had to have.
At this time, a Swede named Harry Roberts owned a brewery, and the Christmas Beer was the best selling product. He had heard of a alcoholfree beer called Must in Germany and decided to investigate it. He liked it and bought it, started to produce it. It didnt sell that well.
Then suddenly the Swedish Government had a big vote about prohibition. It was pretty close, but in the end the No-side barely won. It did however result in stricter alcohol laws, like forbidden high alcoholic beer. The sales of Must raised, and it was advertised as an alcoholfree alternative. It started to replace Christmas Beer and got called JulMust (Christmas Must).
Roberts couldnt handle the demand, so he started to produce a concentrate that he sold to other companies, so they could sell their own Julmust.
Forward in time. Pripps was a major brewery at the time and they got the license to produce and sell Coca Cola in Sweden. Just like Roberts, Coca Cola sells the license to produce Coca Cola and the secret concentrate to local breweries, because it is costly to build new ones in different countries.
In the 90s, they started to look at the sales figures and saw a strange pattern. Sales in December always dropped 50% or more, when it was supposed to raise.
So they contacted Pripps and asked what the heck was going on.
People are drinking Julmust in December, all other soda sales are dropped 50% or more.
This made Coca Cola really worried, and they started to demand Pripps to start big advertisement campaigns.
Are you drunk? We earn more on Julmust sales in December than what we do on Coca Cola sales the whole year, there is no way in hell that we are giving up on that!
So Coca Cola decided to cancel the contract they had with Pripps and built their own factories in Sweden, and started massive advertisement campaigns to make Swedes drink more Coca Cola in December.
They failed.
They even tried to launch their own Julmust, but that failed as well.

It's important to note that beer had more value than water through much of human history due to its ability to sterilize. It had a much lower alcohol content than today, I doubt it was used to get drunk much.

The Goldeneye 64 Multiplayer almost never happened. A developer added it to the game behind the back of management.

It was discovered, but the deadline was approaching, and they had no time to remove it from the finished product.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/9/3/AAZgIXAAD9AF.jpg

^lmfao

YugiNoob posted...

^lmfao

Lots of emotions there.

*sees bomb, flee for your life*

No earth shattering kaboom.

*looks at wooden bomb*

The bastards KNEW

Imit8m3 posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/9/3/AAZgIXAAD9AF.jpg

The Germans

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/1/3/AAU8VHAAD9LV.jpg

How you spell "new"

N-E-W

Now how do you spell "canoe"

K-N-E-W

specialkid8 posted...

The Germans

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/1/3/AAU8VHAAD9LV.jpg

He ain't German

"Lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas" is a real military term in Finland.
It means Aeroplane jet turbine motor assistant mechanic, non-commissioned officer, in training.

"valaheiarvegavinnuverkfrageymsluskratidyralyklakippuhringur" is an Icelandic word that means "a keyring on a keychain that has the key to the door of a toolshed used by the roadwork in Valaheii".

The longest word in English has 189,819 letters and takes 3 hours to pronounce. This is a technical term for the chemical composition of titin. Titin is the largest known protein responsible for maintaining the passive elasticity of the muscles.
The reason why this word is so long is that titin is formed by 244 individual protein domains, which are connected into one sequence. Now, imagine 244 names of chemical compounds squashed together into one word.
Well show you a glimpse:
Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl...isoleucine.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/2/8/AAcI8BAAD9xE.jpg

That one is an oldie but a goodie.

The top 3 longest place names in the world are:

Taumatawhakatangi hangakoauauotamatea turipukakapikimaunga horonukupokaiwhen uakitanatahu (85 letters) it is the name of a hill in New Zealand. In Maori it means "The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one".

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (58 letters) it is the name of a village in Anglesey Wales. In Welsh it means "The Llan of Saint Mary in a hollow of white hazel near the rapid whirlpool of the church of Saint Tysilio with a red cave".

Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg (45 letters) it is the name of a lake in Webster Massachusetts. In Nipmuc it means "Fishing Place at the Boundaries Neutral Meeting Grounds".

CassandraCroft posted...

The top 3 longest place names in the world are:

Taumatawhakatangi hangakoauauotamatea turipukakapikimaunga horonukupokaiwhen uakitanatahu (85 letters) it is the name of a hill in New Zealand. In Maori it means "The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one".

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (58 letters) it is the name of a village in Anglesey Wales. In Welsh it means "The Llan of Saint Mary in a hollow of white hazel near the rapid whirlpool of the church of Saint Tysilio with a red cave".

Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg (45 letters) it is the name of a lake in Webster Massachusetts. In Nipmuc it means "Fishing Place at the Boundaries Neutral Meeting Grounds".

Whoever named those places should get punched in the face

The spider that bit Peter Parker and Cindy Moon and gave them their spider abilities in turn received human abilities from them, such as, and I quote, The ability to speak, comprehend, feel joy and regret, but most of all, the ability to be more than I am.

Also that spider wanders New York killing bad guys lol.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/7/0/AAPV5JAAD98q.jpg

YugiNoob posted...

The spider that bit Peter Parker and Cindy Moon and gave them their spider abilities in turn received human abilities from them, such as, and I quote, The ability to speak, comprehend, feel joy and regret, but most of all, the ability to be more than I am.

Also that spider wanders New York killing bad guys lol.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/7/0/AAPV5JAAD98q.jpg

That is stupid even by comic book standards, yet I love it, lol.

Maybe they like this meme lol

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/7/4/AAPV5JAAD98u.jpg

YugiNoob posted...

Maybe they like this meme lol

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/7/4/AAPV5JAAD98u.jpg

That's a theory...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/5/2/AAZgIXAAD998.jpg
Now THAT'S a fact!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/5/2/AAcI8BAAD-MA.jpg

The police car on "Car 54, Where Are You?" was painted red. The show was filmed on location in the Bronx. With the prop cars zooming around the NYC streets, the red color clearly set them apart from real police vehicles. There would be no confusing these guys for real cops.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/7/2/AAA_aCAAD-MU.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/7/3/AAA_aCAAD-MV.jpg

Heartomaton posted...

You needed lots of various shades on a B&W show, or everything would just moosh together from narrow contrast..

One of my cats ate crickets.

In Sweden, days are named after the Norse Gods, the moon and taking a bath.

Monday is named after Moon.
Tuesday is named after Tyr.
Wednesday is named after Odin.
Thursday is named after Thor.
Friday is named after Freyja.
Saturdag is named after taking a bath.
Sunday is named after Sunne.

Bismuth has a half-life of 2.0110^19 years, or about a billion times the age of the universe.
A life-size statue of you, made entirely of bismuth, would be vastly less radioactive than you are.

Pink Bismuth is used in Pepto Bismol and similar products.