Random facts thread

[Brazz 412]

The event horizon of the black hole at the centre of the coma cluster has a diameter the same size as the orbit of pluto 

 

sorry i like space stuff

[Killaz 60]

on the real tho, contrary to the movie 300, sikh warriors made whats called the greatest last stand in history at the "battle of saragarhi" it was 21 v 24,000, the sikh men killed 1400+ in their final stand, they were considered british subjects during this time so it was a last stand to protect the british post 

 

the next day the british were able to bring reinforcements like the end of the movie 300 and win the battle 

Edited March 19, 2021 by Killaz

[≈david 805]

you know sand is called sand because its inbetween the sea and land

[Krystal 420]

Although rare, it's possible to be XX and be phenotypically male. Likewise, it's possible to be XY and be phenotypically female. This is because it's not the Y chromosome itself that makes someone male; it's the SRY gene on the Y chromosome. Mutations or translocations of the gene during meiosis can screw around with the expected phenotypes. 

[Wise Counsel 86]

The USA buys more oil from Canada than any other country.

[B4uz 176]

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

[B4uz 176]

The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that just one gram of it is enough to kill a person 150 times over.

[B4uz 176]

On Good Friday in 1930, the BBC reported, “There is no news.” Instead, they played piano music.

[B4uz 176]

Alice in Wonderland was once banned in parts of China. “Bears, lions, and other beasts cannot use human language,” said the Governor of the Hunan Province in 1931. “To attribute to them such a power is an insult to the human race.”

[B4uz 176]

At the Wife Carrying World Championships in Finland, first prize is the wife's weight in beer.

[Victoria 667]

10 hours ago, Mk 17 said:

Did you know the inventor of the electric guitar was deaf? 

This isn’t correct, mostly because there wasn’t any clear inventor of the Electric Guitar. George Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacker essentially invented electromagnetic pickups which would be used on their A-22 Solid Body Electric Guitar prototype in 1931.

 

That aside, there are a number of people who contributed to designs of new types of electric guitars that would eventually define the instrument as its own, including people like Les Paul who was an early pioneer of developing some of the most incredibly functional solid body electric guitars that served as the inspiration for Gibson’s guitar that was named after him (using one of his own designs).

 

The person you’re probably thinking of is Leo Fender, who founded Fender Guitars and invented his own line of Solid Body Electric guitars. He absolutely was deaf, but their first marketable guitar wasn’t produced until 1946, a full 15 years after the Rickenbacker corporation designed their original prototype.

 

 

[inf` 132]

1 hour ago, Victoria said:

This isn’t correct, mostly because there wasn’t any clear inventor of the Electric Guitar. George Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacker essentially invented electromagnetic pickups which would be used on their A-22 Solid Body Electric Guitar prototype in 1931.

 

That aside, there are a number of people who contributed to designs of new types of electric guitars that would eventually define the instrument as its own, including people like Les Paul who was an early pioneer of developing some of the most incredibly functional solid body electric guitars that served as the inspiration for Gibson’s guitar that was named after him (using one of his own designs).

 

The person you’re probably thinking of is Leo Fender, who founded Fender Guitars and invented his own line of Solid Body Electric guitars. He absolutely was deaf, but their first marketable guitar wasn’t produced until 1946, a full 15 years after the Rickenbacker corporation designed their original prototype.

 

 

Yer, the dude also had a homosexual alter ego called Leo Bender

[Mitch 1,116]

Wilma Flintstone’s maiden name is Slaghoople

[Jules 14]

The lifeboat drill was cancelled the morning of the Titanic tragedy - According to passenger Arthur Godfrey Peuchen a routine lifeboat drill was supposed to take place the morning of the disaster, but the crew never assembled and the drill was cancelled.

 

 

[Mitch 1,116]

The original name for the search engine Google was Backrub. It was renamed Google after the googol, which is the number one followed by 100 zeros