The 'I didnt know that' Thread

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I'm surprised no tornadoes or waterspouts occur as a result or do they?
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I'm not sure, but here's a shot of the lake.

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I read somewhere on the internet that you can interrupt your sneeze by saying "pineapple" before you about to sneeze. Works for me. Maybe just psychological though.
 
There is a total of 52! possible combinations of order in a standard deck of 52 playing cards. This is like doing 1x2x3x4x5... all the way to x52 and equates to roughly 8x10^67, or 8 with 67 zero's on the end. To put this in other terms if everybody in the world was to arrange packs of cards at the rate of one per second, it would take 600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years to get all the possible combinations, meaning every time you shuffle a deck of cards its almost certain that the combination you get is the first time that combination has ever been made. Kinda scary when you think about it.
 
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The TV series Deadwood was supposed to have a half fourth season, but didn't happen. So, it ended on a cliffhanger that never went anywhere. I thought it was just cancelled after the third season, but there was a fourth in the works. The show's creator killed it because it wasn't a full season.
 
Pornhub reported a significant drop in visitors the day Fallout 4 was released.

The Worlds shortest horror story is only two sentences long. "The last men on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door."
 
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The Worlds shortest horror story is only two sentences long. "The last men on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door."
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This calls in to question what is a horror story, really. Yeah, it's a creepy thought, that happening to you, but you could easily just say
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It was the women.
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And be done with it.

Marks for effort by the... author (I guess), though.
 
I didn't know there is a double of Miranda Lawson in real life, but there is one actually.
Still young though, she looks like a Miranda teenager.
Saw yesterday in Venice.

A little clone, didn't have the chance to photo her, but damn same face unbelievable.

I finished Mass Effect 3 a couple of weeks ago so I guess Cerberus is still up and running.
 
I didn't know that showering everyday can actually be bad for you.

I didn't know that originally the "Vince McMahon is dead" WWE storyline was going to push Mr. Kennedy as a top heel until plans were scrapped because of Chris Benoit Double Suicide Controversy.

I didn't know that Sonic Boom was originally 2 projects that were forced to merge by Sega. With the other project being Sonic Synergy.
 
Rabbits eat their own poo, and are supposed to do this all the time to stay healthy.

Neil Armstrong had to fill an immigration form while coming back to earth from the moon.

A man from Pennsylvania was accidently credited $92 quadrillion by PayPal and was the richest man in the world for 2 minutes.
 
Newborn babies choose to look at attractive faces over plain ones - suggesting that recognising appealing faces is hardwired from birth.

Sweden recycles so well that it has run out of garbage and now has must import garbage from Norway to fuel its energy problems.

Netflix is watched more than any cable network in the U.S.

2,000 pounds of space dust and other debris fall on the earth every day.

Prescription drugs kill more people every year than heroin and cocaine combined.
 
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Prescription drugs kill more people every year than heroin and cocaine combined.
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I'd like to know more about this one. Does it take into account that more people have access to prescription drugs than heroin and coke?
 
Guess not many people know we have uncovered an 'ape' that 'respects' its dead.
Quotes around the particular words because the concepts may be debatable.

The find? Homo naledi located 30 miles northwest of Johannesburg. Its place in the chain? Placed somewhere after Homo erectus for the moment. Dating still taking place.

Source: October 2015 issue of National Geographic would be a good place to start. :)
 
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I'd like to know more about this one. Does it take into account that more people have access to prescription drugs than heroin and coke?
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I think part of the problem is that people know that cocaine and heroin are destructive drugs but so many don't realise that prescription drugs can also be. Often doctors are prescribing without giving clear warnings of how addictive these drugs are and because they're from a doctor many people assume they're safe.
 
Can't remember when I last took a prescription drug. Somewhere in the last half of the last century.
Don't kill me Big Pharma. Just doing my thing!

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Thing not many would know:
In 2014, Maryam Mirzakhani, at 37, was the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal - considered by many to be the highest award in mathematics.
 
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Pornhub reported a significant drop in visitors the day Fallout 4 was released.

The Worlds shortest horror story is only two sentences long. "The last men on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door."
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Actually i think it's considered a science fiction story.
 
In England and Britain up until the 1761 general election, the party of the ruling government could use taxpayers' money to finance its own party campaigns and candidates.
 

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