What is the weirdest fact that you know?

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Just got to this thread and saw this....

1111111111 = 41 times 271 times 11 times 9091

BTW, my favorite number fact has to do with the last two digits of my birthyear, 1948...

Take any prime number that is bigger than 3, like 5,7, 11, 13 etc.

If you take that number to the fourth power and divide by 48,

The remainder is ALWAYS one.

Jerry Newport

I am the weirdest fact that I know.

Lola Montez wanted to overthrow the government in California and rename it Lolaland.

It may not be the weirdest fact--but it's my favorite.

Good one Sophist!

Hey! a weird fact that I know is that there is this one woman named Vesna Vulovic who fell from an exploded DC-9 jetliner at 33,000 ft. (10,000km)........and lived! I think it's more of a miracle than a weird fact. I got this fact from the 'Rippley's Believe It Or Not!' book.

Buckminster Fuller and his wife died within 36 hours of each other.

Chicago has 'bendy busses', too

Now, if more USA metros besides Boston (Cambridge), Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco and Dayton, OH would have those kewl 'trackless' electric trolley busses, our other cities would smell so much better, too.

Mike

I know that the more recent movie Titanic has a glaring historical inaccuracy in it. One of the charicters (and I apologze for not knowing which one) was pining about 'Lake Wissota' in Wisconsin. He could not have, as the dam that created Lake Wissota was not completed until 1917, 5 years after the disaster.

Mike

It must have been 10,000 meters, not kilometers I think she landed on snow or something soft.

Jerry Newport

Ooh, hey! Has anyone done the story of Chang and Eng?? (If someone already has, don't tell me but let me live a little longer in my dillusional world until I take time to read ALL the posts).

Chang and Eng were Siamese twins who were the basis for the term "Siamese Twins' since they were conjoined and were from Siam.

Well, anyways. One night as they lay in bed, in the latter of their years, Eng (I think... or was it Chang?) passed away because of a cerrebral hemorage or something of the like. However, Chang (or was it Eng?) lay there still alive, soon realizing his brother, and thusly part of his body, was now dead. He knew that it was inevitable that he would soon die as well. In the morning, they were both found, dead. Not surprisingly, it was found that Eng died of natural causes; and Chang had died of fright.

The Playland amusement park in Rye, New York is the only amusement park owned by the US government.

Only one symptom of illness, called Kaiser-Fleisher rings (copper around the retina); makes a complete diagnosis in and of itself. To my knowledge it is the only symptom that has no differential diagnosis.

ie., Wilson's disease.

On a computer, using passages of text that require the fingers to travel 12 miles while using a Qwerty keyboard, will only require your fingers to travel approx 1 mile using a Dvorak keyboard for the same amount of text.

If Algeria introduced a resolution to the UN stating that the World was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass with 164 to 13 and 26 abstentions.


hehehe that is funny. Who in Algeria wants to put pressure on their government to test that

Georgie Bushy's evil sister!

Lefty's can type faster than right handed people because manual typewriters would get the keys stuck for right handed people, so lefties have a built in advantage, for once!! !

Lets see a lefty beat me