Teach me something new today, or random trivia......

[TwoJ's]

This isn't really a quick fact, but check out the double slit experiment. I learned about it in a high level physics class, and then was reminded of it recently when I saw it on Through The Wormhole.

The most interesting part of it is the fact that when they shoot a single photon, it behaves as it if it is going through two slits at once (which would mean that it is at two places at the same time), but when they use a detector to "watch" and see if it goes through both slits, then it behaves differently. So the photon knows when it is being watched and behaves differently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment

[TurboJake]

The photon doesn't "Know" it's being watched.
The very fact that it's being recorded or viewed alters the universe, and the photon's outcome. It changes it from being a wave and a particle at the same time and in many places, back to a particle in a single plane of the universal existence..

Very, very interesting stuff. I usually go to bed watching stuff like that. The very fact that it's being viewed changes it's properties.
Put's a WHOLE new meaning to "If a tree falls in the woods"..

[george graves]

It has something to do with keeping the most used letters in the same area to make it easier to type. QWERTY just happened to end up that way, and since it makes a pronounceable "word" that's what it's called, the QWERTY keyboard.

Blame the typewriter. The first machines in the 19th century did go from A to Z. But this stymied good typists because the most frequently used keys were contiguous. When typists struck, say, the "a" and "b" keys in rapid succession, the spokes carrying those letters often jammed. The solution: separate these and other often-used keys. It was meant to slow people down, but hey we got used to it

[DTM190]

Quoted from Wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers_Union_Iced_Coffee

"In 2003, Australians consumed in excess of 22,000,000 litres of Farmers Union Iced coffee, making it Australia's best selling flavoured milk drink/milk shake at that time.[1] The drink's popularity has more recently been reflected by some McDonald's, KFC and Hungry Jack's restaurants selling it as a part of their menus across the country. Farmers Union Iced Coffee outsells Coca-Cola in South Australia,[2] making it the only place in the world where a milk drink outsells a cola product,[citation needed] and one of the few places where Coca-Cola is not the most popular locally consumed bottled beverage, a success shared only by Inca Kola in Peru and Irn-Bru in Scotland."

It is more commonly refered to as an by the way FU.

you south aussies and your FU lol. Coopers sparkling > FU

[e30_325es]

The drug Heroin was actually created and sold in stores by Bayer and marketed as a cough suppressant.

[slammin.e28]

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I love you George Graves.

[Kershaw]

in response to the qwerty keyboard

http://www.theworldofstuff.com/dvorak/

[phreshkid]

When I was born, the doctor had to crack my baby skull open and releive pressure that was trapped in my brain cavity. I had a scar until I was about 10 years old. Don't know if it did any brain damage.


Also while my dad was young and lived in old school Romania, one of his cows had a 2 headed baby cow. It only lived for an hour. Two heads isn't always better than one.

[Dj Buttchug]

the real name for freeze plugs is actually core plugs

[e34john]

The combined weight of all the ants in the world weighs more than all the elephants in the world.

[Mike325]

The color that you see on an object is because that object is every color except the color that you see.

For example, if you see a red car, that car is red because that car is every color except red.

[devon.818]

The color that you see on an object is because that object is every color except the color that you see.

For example, if you see a red car, that car is red because that car is every color except red.

its red because its not red.

[mrsleeve]

The color that you see on an object is because that object is every color except the color that you see.

For example, if you see a red car, that car is red because that car is every color except red.

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Live Lobsters are maroon to red in day light, because red wave lengths penetrate water the deepest as the light passes though it. So their shells are that color to absorb the red wave lengths thus appear to be black on on the bottom of the ocean and reflect little to NO light, making it harder for predators to see them.

[blackhawkimpact]

The hippopotamus’s skin is protected by its own pink oily secretion known as ‘Pink sweat’.

[Mike325]

its red because its not red.

Right, thats what I said.