Who Knew? Some Fun Facts

Dustbunny said:
For when you get really bored.....

Get a calculator

Enter your age

Multiply it by 259

Multiply that by 39

Equals is interesting
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This is another fun one. Take any 3-digit number. Reverse the digits to get a new number. Subtract the smaller number from the larger number. Reverse the digits of the result. Add the two numbers together.

No matter what 3-digit number you start with, the result will always be 1458!
 

  1. If the Earth doubled in size, trees would immediately fall over. This is because surface gravity would be doubled. It would also mean dog-size and larger animals would not be able to run without breaking a leg.
 

African tsetse flies mate only once in their lives, but they do not lay eggs. They give birth to one enormous larva, which immediately digs itself into the ground until it reaches adulthood.

From that one mate, the female tsetse fly will give birth to as many as 10 huge larva during her lifetime.

The larva gets milk from the mother tsetse fly while it grows inside her. 😲

Here's a tsetse fly giving birth:

 
Murrmurr said:
African tsetse flies mate only once in their lives, but they do not lay eggs. They give birth to one enormous larva, which immediately digs itself into the ground until it reaches adulthood.

From that one mate, the female tsetse fly will give birth to as many as 10 huge larva during her lifetime.

The larva gets milk from the mother tsetse fly while it grows inside her. 😲

Here's a tsetse fly giving birth:

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Lovely picture 🙄
 
Deaf people are known to use sign language in their sleep. A case study of a 71-year-old man with rapid eye movement disorder and a severe hearing impairment showed him using fluent sing language in his sleep, with researchers able to get an idea of what he was dreaming about because of the signs he was using.
 
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In the 1960s, Washington D.C.'s poor areas were plagued by severe rat problems until Julius Hobson began catching them by trapping enormous rats, and attaching the cage to his car’s roof and drove to affluent districts where he warned of setting the rodents free, spurring rat control measures.
 
RadishRose said:
This is amazing.
Another thought; she said China has a great diabetes problem. Yet, they're not typically overweight... would it be all the carbohydrates from white rice, I wonder.
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I worked with a Korean guy who said his father had diabetes and had to cut rice out of his diet.
I just figured that since China has the largest population in the world, their statistics go up accordingly.
 
RadishRose said:
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In the 1960s, Washington D.C.'s poor areas were plagued by severe rat problems until Julius Hobson began catching them by trapping enormous rats, and attaching the cage to his car’s roof and drove to affluent districts where he warned of setting the rodents free, spurring rat control measures.
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Well done, Mr. Hobson!
 
Read a interesting study lately...So, the myth about the full moon. That animals and even people can act weird when the moon is full. Well, the moon is always full. Its always the same distance from earth, always the same shape, regardless of the phase. Just more light on the moon at different times of the month. That's all. No such thing as a full moon that does anything at all. Just more beautiful at certain times of the month!
 
RadishRose said:
This is amazing.
Another thought; she said China has a great diabetes problem. Yet, they're not typically overweight... would it be all the carbohydrates from white rice, I wonder.
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This used to be true of Chinese people, but since they have adopted more of a western diet, their diabetes and obesity problems have come to mirror that of the western world.

In 2000 there were some 22 million diabetics in China out of a total adult population of 850 million, or 2.5% of adults. Now there are over 140 million Chinese diabetics against an adult population of 1.08 billion, or 13%. Diabetes cases have risen in lock-step with their rise in obesity and adoption of a more western diet.
China diabetes report 2000 — 2045
The unparalleled rise of obesity in China: a call to action - International Journal of Obesity

OldFeller said:
I worked with a Korean guy who said his father had diabetes and had to cut rice out of his diet.
I just figured that since China has the largest population in the world, their statistics go up accordingly.
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My DIL's father, also Korean (who's lived in the US for at least 35 years), and also diabetic, does eat Korean food, but also plenty of meat, fried foods and cheeseburgers. He's certainly overweight, though perhaps not obese.
 
StarSong said:
This used to be true of Chinese people, but since they have adopted more of a western diet, their diabetes and obesity problems have come to mirror that of the western world.

In 2000 there were some 22 million diabetics in China out of a total adult population of 850 million, or 2.5% of adults. Now there are over 140 million Chinese diabetics against an adult population of 1.08 billion, or 13%. Diabetes cases have risen in lock-step with their rise in obesity and adoption of a more western diet.
China diabetes report 2000 — 2045
The unparalleled rise of obesity in China: a call to action - International Journal of Obesity


My DIL's father, also Korean (who's lived in the US for at least 35 years), and also diabetic, does eat Korean food, but also plenty of meat, fried foods and cheeseburgers. He's certainly overweight, though perhaps not obese.
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Thanks for the info, SS. I'm behind the times.
 
Tazx said:
Read a interesting study lately...So, the myth about the full moon. That animals and even people can act weird when the moon is full. Well, the moon is always full. Its always the same distance from earth, always the same shape, regardless of the phase. Just more light on the moon at different times of the month. That's all. No such thing as a full moon that does anything at all. Just more beautiful at certain times of the month!
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On the contrary:
" ... the moon follows an elliptical path around the Earth, the distance between them varies by about 31,000 miles over the course of a month." --NOAA
This explains the tides and all the loonies.
 
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