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Forest_Temple posted...

Whoever named those places should get punched in the face

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of long words. This 35-letter, 15-syllable word contains the root sesquipedalian, which means "long word." Therefore, it is sometimes called sesquipedalophobia.

Whoever decided on that word must have been in hysterics at the thought of some poor soul trying to tell people what their greatest fears were in years to come.

indica posted...

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of long words. This 35-letter, 15-syllable word contains the root sesquipedalian, which means "long word." Therefore, it is sometimes called sesquipedalophobia.

Whoever decided on that word must have been in hysterics at the thought of some poor soul trying to tell people what their greatest fears were in years to come.

Already mentioned that one:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80152501/968889074

It might be an idea to go through posts to see what has already been mentioned.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/2/2/AAZgIXAAD-pO.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/2/3/AAZgIXAAD-pP.jpg

How he and the Colonel made it happen.

I'm not sure that ridding piggyback on the elderly is a very good idea.

Questionmarktarius posted...

I'm not sure that ridding piggyback on the elderly is a very good idea.

Captain Kernel ain't no ordinary old man

He certainly likes popcorn.

This belongs here and in the meme topic :3

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/0/2/AAPV5JAAD-6G.jpg

The first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant was in Salt Lake City, Utah

Melting glaciers make fizzy noises.
This is also known as bergy seltzer because of how similar it sounds to fizzing soda. The sound is mainly due to the melting waters that free tiny bubbles trapped in ice.

Imit8m3 posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/2/2/AAZgIXAAD-pO.jpg

Most of the rest of the world counts on their fingers with their thumb first.

Iirc Only China and the US start with the index finger.

Most people don't recycle.

itachi15243 posted...

Most of the rest of the world counts on their fingers with their thumb first.

Iirc Only China and the US start with the index finger.

This reminded me of my favorite scene in Inglorious Bastards

itachi15243 posted...

Most of the rest of the world counts on their fingers with their thumb first.

Iirc Only China and the US start with the index finger.

Well most of the world does it wrong

Flipping a shark will render it temporarily immobile.
Certain types of sharks enter a state of tonic immobility due to the shock when flipped over. Some killer whales have been recorded to exploit this weakness and purposely flip them over.

(From memory, no time right now, correct me if I am wrong)

The Phoenix Cartel was a group whose purpose of all things, was to sell more....lightbulbs.

They would use planned obsolescence to make the life of lightbulbs last a certain amount of time to ensure repeat sales, and used the 1000 hour life as a standard.

The worlds longest working lightbulb is over a century old.

MI4_REAL posted...

The worlds longest working lightbulb is over a century old.

I want to remember that it was in a fire station.

MI4_REAL posted...

(From memory, no time right now, correct me if I am wrong)

Foppe posted...

I want to remember that it was in a fire station.

Not judging, but you're both holding the entire internet in your hands and deciding to go from memory...lol, I like it though

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Light

indica posted...

Not judging, but you're both holding the entire internet in your hands and deciding to go from memory...lol, I like it though

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Light

Not all of us care to research every little thing. Plus everything on the internet isn't true so it's not like just go with the first Google result and that's good enough. Some of us like discussion. And for the most part we aren't going to do much past what we actively enjoy doing with our free time.

Sufferedphoneix posted...

Not all of us care to research every little thing. Plus everything on the internet isn't true so it's not like just go with the first Google result and that's good enough. Some of us like discussion. And for the most part we aren't going to do much past what we actively enjoy doing with our free time.

I wasn't arguing though ( -_-) I can't find things funny?

indica posted...

Flipping a shark will render it temporarily immobile.
Certain types of sharks enter a state of tonic immobility due to the shock when flipped over. Some killer whales have been recorded to exploit this weakness and purposely flip them over.

Reminds me of a similar exploit in cats:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9TmmF79Rw0

You can pinch the back of their neck like a mama cat would and they will go limp, allowing for easy transport.

Blue_Thunder posted...

Reminds me of a similar exploit in cats:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9TmmF79Rw0

You can pinch the back of their neck like a mama cat would and they will go limp, allowing for easy transport.

That looks like that would hurt lol

EyeWontBeFooled posted...

That looks like that would hurt lol

All you're doing is pinching a nerve so it's more like a temporary paralysis. It doesn't hurt them as far as I'm aware.

The oldest person to have ever lived was a Chinese man called Li Ching Yuen. It is claimed that he was born in 1677 and died in 1933.

His longevity claims are highly disputed though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ching-Yuen

CassandraCroft posted...

The oldest person to have ever lived was a Chinese man called Li Ching Yuen. It is claimed that he was born in 1677 and died in 1933.

His longevity claims are highly disputed though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ching-Yuen

Well that's certainly an odd article with an interesting talk page and sources.

The largest living organism is an aspen grove.
This grove is referred to as Pando and can be found in the state of Utah. The grove is made up of 47,000 identical quaking aspen trees that cover over 106 acres.

Ants can make bridges out of themselves to cross a gap.

Kummerspeck is German for the weight gained during emotional eating.
This vaguely translates to grief bacon. In some languages, this German term is said to add insult to injury.

The Guidance stones were destroyed earlier this year.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/1/1/AAZgIXAAEAcr.jpg
Theres two interesting things here.
1) Iguanas fall like snow when it's cold in Florida.
2) there's an actual tv station in Florida who's station designation is WINK.

Imit8m3 posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/1/1/AAZgIXAAEAcr.jpg
Theres two interesting things here.
1) Iguanas fall like snow when it's cold in Florida.
2) there's an actual tv station in Florida who's station designation is WINK.

That's my preferred local news station, funnily enough. They're invaluable during hurricane season, to the point where I prefer them over the NHC or Weather Channel (something I appreciated all the more when WINK's local doppler radar got knocked out midway through Hurricane Ian, and I had to rely on the less accurate radars of the latter two for up-to-date info).

In 2009 a pigeon named Winston raced Telkom Sout Africa's largest ISP, to see who could deliver 4GB of data to a location 60 miles away the fastest. By the time Winston had arrived with the 4GB flash drive, Telcom had transmitted only 4% of the data.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8248056.stm

Haha^

The US is tone of only 4 countries on the planet to still use the Fahrenheit temperature scale.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/9/7/AAfUmvAAEAyV.jpg
Even the US Weather Bureau use Celsius.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/4/1/AAZgIXAAEAI1.jpg

Imit8m3 posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/4/1/AAZgIXAAEAI1.jpg

And the agency that put a man on the moon uses metric.

CassandraCroft posted...

The US is tone of only 4 countries on the planet to still use the Fahrenheit temperature scale.

US, Belize, Jamaica, and ???

Is Puerto Rico on C for some reason?

Questionmarktarius posted...

US, Belize, Jamaica, and ???

Is Puerto Rico on C for some reason?

Liberia a country in Africa.

Late to the party, but...

CassandraCroft posted...

The top 3 longest place names in the world are:

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".

I remembered seeing this video years ago, lol. Weatherman apparently nails the pronunciation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHxO0UdpoxM

CassandraCroft posted...

Liberia a country in Africa.

Oh, it's not marked orange on the map.

Looks like there are 10 other Caribbean/Pacific island nations that use fahrenheit as well:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-that-use-fahrenheit

Mizznox posted...

Late to the party, but...

I remembered seeing this video years ago, lol. Weatherman apparently nails the pronunciation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHxO0UdpoxM

You can see the joy on his face after he says it lol

Also, poop bus

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/6/6/AAPV5JAAEA7O.jpg

The word 'fart' is surprisingly controversial when it comes to broadcast television. While it wasn't originally part of George Carlin's '7 Words You Can Never Say on Television,' he later noted that it ought to be added. This stigma was still running strong even up through the late 90's. The changing of the times is best embodied by the original Lion King, in which Pumbaa is comedically stopped short of actually saying the word 'fart' during 'Hakuna Matata,' and the 2019 remake, in which Pumbaa proudly declares the word in the same context.

One of the more well-known 'fart' controversies of the time was the 2000 Oscars, in which the South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut song 'Blame Canada' was nominated for Best Original Song, and the Academy requested that they censor the line 'they won't obey their parents, they just want to fart and curse' from the live performance. Trey Parker and Matt Stone obviously refused, and ultimately the line was allowed to be sung unedited (by Robin Williams, no less):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip5OWcoE6GE

Despite the age difference of their Community characters Britta Perry (late 20's) and Annie Edison (18), Gillian Jacobs is only two months older than Alison Brie in real life.

(Alison Brie is one of the few genuine celebrity crushes I've had over my lifetime, and it was a nice surprise to find out that she was the same age as me irl)

RH-null blood is the rarest blood type in the world. Only about 40 people are known to have it.

We don't actually swallow any spiders in our sleep, ever, that "interesting fact" originated from some article someone wrote trying to prove something about how bad information spreads. It's complete bullshit.

180mTa is the only nuclear isomer that has never decayed.
Tantalum-180 has a half-life of eight hours and fifteen minutes. Tantalum-180m1 has a half-life of "lol i dunno"
https://sturgeonshouse.ipbhost.com/topic/1109-too-fast-to-die-tantalum-180m/

There was a guy who had the Xbox gamertag Ligma Rensin for over 12 years. When the meme came out, complaints caused his name to be forcibly changed to AngryKitten1025. Even his wife, MrsLigma was changed.

However, since then, Ligma has gotten the situation cleared up and has his old name back lol

Meme cancel culture?

Here is one for everyone.

Lots of people would love to time travel but did you know that time travelling would kill your ass faster.

Reason being there is a thing every living organism has called the circadian rhythm AKA your internal 24 hour body clock.

This internal clock is what regulates your sleep - awake cycle. It tells you when to sleep, when to get up and when you get hungry etc etc etc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm

Now it is also responsible for aging you every second of every day and there is not a force in The Universe that can change that.

Meaning that if you took a trip for instance into the future and you spent a couple of years there and then came back to the present you would still have aged those two years.

So for instance I am 48 years old and if I kept time travelling I could very easily end up being a 48 year old man with a body of a 70 year old man say depending on how much travelling I have done.