Fun facts

Did you know that Kelowna B.C. has more canaries per capita than anywhere else in North America.
There is a guy with hundreds
 
Did you know that....

The Seattle Mariners are owned by Nintendo of America?

Well, now you know!

(PS: Someone please please please get the reference)
 
The roar you hear when you put a seashell next to your ear isn't the ocean. It's really the sound of blood surging through veins in your ear.
 
Fawfulfury65 said:
The roar you hear when you put a seashell next to your ear isn't the ocean. It's really the sound of blood surging through veins in your ear.
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Well no duh :P

Fun Fact) Besides containing car fuel or something meant for cars and rat poison (arsenic), cigarettes also contain radioactive material, plutonium 210.
 
Fun fact:

Pure water does not conduct electricity.
 
It's been snowing pretty hard and some knucklehead was speeding down the road and slid right off into our front yard, taking out our mailbox and a few bushes. He's stuck there.


And yes that is a fun fact.
 
President Iwata said:
Fun fact:

Pure water does not conduct electricity.
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Water was never conductive

Fun Fact) Formula 409 is called like that because it took 408 tries before getting the perfect ingredient.
 
Fun Fact: the African Gray Parrot has the mental capacity comparable to a chimpanzee.
 
Fun Fact: The average fast food milkshake contains more calories and fat than a burger. Oh, and did you know it takes a degree in chemistry to engineer them too?
 
Milly Ashford said:
President Iwata said:
Fun fact:

Pure water does not conduct electricity.
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Water was never conductive
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Typically, water found in taps, pools, or any other source are not distilled and include particles within them that make electricity travel through the water.

That's why they make you get out of the pool during a thunderstorm. >_>
 
I think it's the minerals in the water doing that.
 
President Iwata said:
Milly Ashford said:
President Iwata said:
Fun fact: Pure water does not conduct electricity.
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Water was never conductive
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Typically, water found in taps, pools, or any other source are not distilled and include particles within them that make electricity travel through the water.

That's why they make you get out of the pool during a thunderstorm. >_>
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Even if there's no chemicals or minerals in the pool the ground is conductive and the electricity will jump into you because of the concetrated salt in you.

Fun Fact) if they made formula 409 stronger, using the same chemical properties, formula 410 will be explosive and toxic to smell and touch
 
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when lightning strikes the ground, it is normalizing the difference in electrical charge between the earth and the clouds. it will not "jump into" anybody who is insulated from the ground, because they cannot provide a route for the electricity to move. salt in your body has absolutely nothing to do with it.

whether a pool of distilled water is actually sufficiently insulating to protect you from lightning is another story, though. i havent got any idea about that.
 
Milly Ashford said:
President Iwata said:
Milly Ashford said:
President Iwata said:
Fun fact: Pure water does not conduct electricity.
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Water was never conductive
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Typically, water found in taps, pools, or any other source are not distilled and include particles within them that make electricity travel through the water.

That's why they make you get out of the pool during a thunderstorm. >_>
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Even if there's no chemicals or minerals in the pool the ground is conductive and the electricity will jump into you because of the concetrated salt in you.
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Chemistry lesson time! Water is only conductive when it has an ionic compound dissolved in it. Pure, distilled water is not conductive. However, tap water contains (among other particles) fluoride, ocean water obviously contains salt (sodium chloride), and pool water contains chlorine or bromine solution (not to be confused with the actual elements chlorine and bromine, which are poisonous halogen gases). Therefore, tap water, pool water, and ocean water are conductive. The conductivity does vary between them. Tap water is probably the least conductive since the fluoride makes up less than one percent of it.

There are several fun facts in the above paragraph. Feel free to pick any you like.
 
So salt is conductive.

EDIT: Thanks for clearing that up schmutz. Electricity CAN "jump into" somewhere else, it just depend on how powerful the charge is.
 
Mason said:
Rivalz Cardemonde said:
So salt is conductive.
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You never had your toaster blow up after putting a salt shaker next to it?
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Nor have you had your idiot friend stuck a fork in it, resulting in $450 of damages?
 
Fun Fact) Walt Disney was fired from a cartoon company he used to work with because they say that he wasn't creative enough. Afterwards, Walt Disney bought a run-down small, dirty, cramped, cubicle office in the worst part of town, which also had a mice problem. How do you think Walt Disney made Mickey after Oswald was bought ;)
 
Salt is only conductive in water.

Fun fact: After being asked to only pretend to sing and play "Uprising" on an Italian TV show while the CD version was played, the members of Muse decided to switch places. Matt (lead singer/guitarist/keyboardist/pianist/keytarist/awesome hair) "played" drums, Dom (drummer) "played" bass and "sang," and Chris (bassist) "played" guitar and keyboard.

Also, the 11-inch Macbook Air only weighs 2.3 pounds. On Earth, that is.
 
The buccin is an archaic cousin of the trombone that looks too bad ass to be true.


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