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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Post Your Favorite (or Request) > PYF Fact That Makes Your Brain Explode!
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FUCK COREY PERRY
Apr 19, 2008

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cheapshots: NOT EN c'mon ref that was like a totes legit accident he hit his face off my elbow excuse me while I score four goals

 A dude in ancient Rome invented a basic steam engine, but it was largely ignored as anything more than a novelty.

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FUCK COREY PERRY
Apr 19, 2008

Corey Perry Asshole Chart
G: ran
D: sacktapped
F: stomped on
face: punchable
cheapshots: NOT EN c'mon ref that was like a totes legit accident he hit his face off my elbow excuse me while I score four goals

Tewbrainer posted:

What we have is what we get. There will never have substantially more resources on Earth than there is now. We will eventually run out of new raw minerals.

...on Earth. However, just conventionality floating around us is basically every mineral we need, sitting waiting to be exploited by mining companies. Even water can be found. At 1997 prices, just one small asteroid would yield about $20 trillion USD worth of materials.

Hooray for asteroids!

# ¿ Oct 13, 2010 20:34
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FUCK COREY PERRY
Apr 19, 2008

Corey Perry Asshole Chart
G: ran
D: sacktapped
F: stomped on
face: punchable
cheapshots: NOT EN c'mon ref that was like a totes legit accident he hit his face off my elbow excuse me while I score four goals

Edminster posted:

Related fact that trips me up every now and again: fifty years ago was not the 1950s

fuuuuuuuck


every goddamn time

# ¿ Oct 13, 2010 20:43
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FUCK COREY PERRY
Apr 19, 2008

Corey Perry Asshole Chart
G: ran
D: sacktapped
F: stomped on
face: punchable
cheapshots: NOT EN c'mon ref that was like a totes legit accident he hit his face off my elbow excuse me while I score four goals

particle409 posted:

Let's talk YouTube a minute.

http://www.viralblog.com/research/youtube-statistics/

1. Exceeds 2 billion views a day, nearly double all 3 prime-time major networks combined.

2. 24 hours of video uploaded per minute.

3. More video is uploaded to YouTube in 60 days than all 3 major US networks created in the last 60 years.

4. 70% of Youtube's traffic comes from outside the US.

And youtube was created only in 2005.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2010 22:27
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FUCK COREY PERRY
Apr 19, 2008

Corey Perry Asshole Chart
G: ran
D: sacktapped
F: stomped on
face: punchable
cheapshots: NOT EN c'mon ref that was like a totes legit accident he hit his face off my elbow excuse me while I score four goals

Reset_Smith posted:

The combined weight of all the ants in the world is greater than the combined weight of all humans.

Not if we have anything to say about it

# ¿ Oct 14, 2010 07:11
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FUCK COREY PERRY
Apr 19, 2008

Corey Perry Asshole Chart
G: ran
D: sacktapped
F: stomped on
face: punchable
cheapshots: NOT EN c'mon ref that was like a totes legit accident he hit his face off my elbow excuse me while I score four goals

clarabelle posted:

Velociraptors had feathers

FEATHERS
http://www.sciencedaily.com/release...70920145402.htm
I'm not sure if that makes them more or less scary when they're chasing you down. I've had dreams of being attacked by a giant chicken and it was loving terrifying

More personal fact next. I'm 25 and my grandfather was born in the 1880's (he spends most of his time being dead these days). It feels like there should be a few more generations in there somewhere

Birds can look pretty scary. Add some tiny arms and replace beak with teeth and bam dinosaur.
# ¿ Oct 14, 2010 18:21
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FUCK COREY PERRY
Apr 19, 2008

Corey Perry Asshole Chart
G: ran
D: sacktapped
F: stomped on
face: punchable
cheapshots: NOT EN c'mon ref that was like a totes legit accident he hit his face off my elbow excuse me while I score four goals

clarabelle posted:

Don't know the exact origins of the name, but I did see a video where they did a ratio between the world's approximate population and the measurements of the Isle of Man, then scaled it down and tried to fit around 100 people into the proportional space. It was a really tight squeeze and everyone had to put their hands up to make more space, but they did it

However, this was with people within the normal weight range. In reality, the hambeasts of the world would take up the space of several people, so it probably wouldn't work

Yeah, but then you can account for the Ethiopians as well and it all balances out.

# ¿ Oct 19, 2010 03:46
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FUCK COREY PERRY
Apr 19, 2008

Corey Perry Asshole Chart
G: ran
D: sacktapped
F: stomped on
face: punchable
cheapshots: NOT EN c'mon ref that was like a totes legit accident he hit his face off my elbow excuse me while I score four goals

Penguissimo posted:

This is considerably more asinine than the astrophysics and probability facts, but it still gave me a big moment today when I realised it. Probably everyone else has known this for years:

The Milky Way candy bar (in the US) is exactly the same as a Three Musketeers bar, only with caramel added.

I just learned Americans call Mars bars Milky Way. The gently caress?

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FUCK COREY PERRY
Apr 19, 2008

Corey Perry Asshole Chart
G: ran
D: sacktapped
F: stomped on
face: punchable
cheapshots: NOT EN c'mon ref that was like a totes legit accident he hit his face off my elbow excuse me while I score four goals

Luckluster posted:

Listen to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b0KQ6_Oek8
Bob Dylan recorded this in 1961, when he was 20 years old. At the time of the recording he was younger than two of the Jonas brothers are now. Imagining that sound coming from a twenty-year-old makes me

Ice Cube was only 18 when Straight Outta Compton was released. If that isn't mindblowing, the same rapper who wrote songs about killing police now stars in kids movies.

FUCK COREY PERRY fucked around with this message at Nov 9, 2010 around 03:56

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