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General Forum - Mind-blowing Facts! - Page 1
Elite
- The time difference between when Tyrannosaurus and Stegosaurus lived is greater than the time difference between Tyrannosaurus and now.
- If you properly shuffle a deck of cards, in all likelihood, the resulting deck has never been seen before in the history of the world.
- The bushes in Super Mario Bros. were just recolored clouds.
- There is a blind guy who can ride his bike in traffic.
- There is a species of jellyfish that is immortal.
- A small enough animal can fall at terminal velocity without suffering any injury upon impact. An ant (or even a smallish spider) dropped from a tall building will be just fine.
- If you could fold a piece of paper in half 50 times, its thickness will be 3/4 the distance from the Earth to the Sun (71 million miles).
- Over 3 billion people live on less than $2.50 a day (in USD using purchasing parity power), roughly half of the world's population.
- There are more cells of bacteria in your body than there are human cells. (Indeed, there are more cells of E. coli alone than of human cells.)
- Computer hardware has fulfilled Moore's Law for 40 years and may continue to do so.
- The guidance computer from the Apollo 11 mission ran at 1.024 MHz, about 1/6th of the processing power of a TI-83 calculator, and it took human beings to the moon.
Some more amazing than others. The paper one hurts my head.
Taken from http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-of-the-most-mind-blowing-facts
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Elite Donator
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Gareth Williams says...
The paper one hurts my head.Well, it's physically impossible to successfully fold paper in half more than 7 times, so 50 is a massive amount. you're basically doubling each time, which is the binary counting system.
1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 (that's the limit, regardless of the thickness of paper)
You just keep going for a few more - the number by the time you get to 50 must be astronomical!
Elite
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smurfette says...
Well, it's physically impossible to successfully fold paper in half more than 7 times
No it's not. Stephen Fry told me.
I think Mythbusters did it more too.
Ste
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Elite Donator
I was waiting for some smartarse to say that! lol
Yeah, under the right circumstances, it can be done, but it's very extreme. try it! 
Elite
Thats only because you haven't been taught how to do it
May be they could add this to the school curriculum
Elite
Dogs can't look up.
Doc.
"Compassion is another word for gay." Psycho Paul, 2010.
Elite
with their eyes
Elite
Obviously.
Doc.
"Compassion is another word for gay." Psycho Paul, 2010.
Elite
That thing about 'it's impossible to lick your own elbow'. Apparently some people can.
Reviewer
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That thing about 'it's impossible to lick your own elbow'. Apparently some people can
Yeah, people with prosthetic arms...
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