If presented with an old 1970-2000 era landline phone, I can call someone by rapidly hanging up in the pattern of their phone number.
Used to do this in payphones as a kid. The numpads were disabled when no coins were inserted, effectively disabling tone dialing. But pulse dialing still worked.
I am pretty sure I could do it sans phone and only the handle, by rapidly pulling the plug out of the socket and putting it back in.
Never thought to try it when I had the chance.
Often the rj-12 handset cabling would not plug directly into the rj-11 jacks. If they did, I’d be surprised to learn they’d work on the wire as-is.
Yeah, you’d have to change the plug.
The English horn is neither English nor a horn.
An electric eel is not an eel.
A mountain goat is not a goat.
A maned wolf is not a wolf.
A mountain chicken is not a chicken.Also, there is an animal called the Headless Chicken Fish.
Rocky Mountain oysters are not oysters
Also, there is an animal called the Headless Chicken Fish.
Let me guess; it’s a species of antelope.
A koala is not a bear.
It is a marsupial which is a different branch of the mammal tree.Toilet duck is not a duck
Spanish fly is not a fly
Spruce goose is not a goose
Capitalist pig is not a pig
rats can’t vomit
flamingos are pink due to diet. otherwise they’d be grey
If they didn’t diet they’d be fat and fall over
None, because knowledge and the search for it is an end unto itself, so all facts are useful to learn and know.
The dog that played specks girlfriend in Pee Wees big adventure is also the same dog that played precious in silence of the lambs.
This feels like one of those fun facts that theatres would have on screen with cheesy background music if you showed up to a movie too early
The guy who played Cowboy Curtis on PeeWees playhouse also played Morpheus in the Matrix.
One of the people that worked in Turkish translation of the “alice in wonderland” for Zambak magazine has the cool birthday “January 1st, 1969.”
Damn that’s useless! Also, nice!
Television is one of the few words combined by one greek part and one latin part.
The synths that were used in the first doom reboot’s music were made from samples of an actual chainsaw running.
Fun fact 1: Polish people are honoraribly black after they fought alongside the Haitians against the French (they switched sides as the only reason they were there was because France sent them there)
Fun fact 2: Alaska was almost purchased by Lichtenstein
Fun fact 3: Singapore was given independence against their own wishes
Fun fact 4: Abraham Lincoln read some of the works of Karl Marx as he wrote for his favorite newspaper
when the great pyramids were being built, there were still mammoths and sabertooth tigers walking the earth.
I knew about the relict popularion of mammoths that was still around. Wasn’t aware of the tigers. Can you please tell me more?
I can’t 100% give you facts. I just go off of the rough estimate of fossil records for both mammoth and sabertooth tigers roughly and this is just a random thing I like to tell people when I was younger to kind of blow their mind.
It’s f’in neato. I’ll be looking into it.
Another really good random “did you know” When the battle of Little Bighorn, a.k.a. custard‘s last stand happened the Brooklyn Bridge was just being completed in New York, and there were Native Americans who fought in the battle who were still alive to see Neil Armstrong step on the Moon so in the span of one lifetime we went from custard‘s last stand to one giant leap for all mankind.
and Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landings than to the building of the pyramids
The most efficient base is the number e
On diesel? With its time management? Efficient how!?
With decimal you have 10 digits 0-9 and each digit place represents a 10^n*digit, binary is 0-1 digits with each digits place represents 2^n*digit. Binary requires fewer digits to memorize than decimal, but more places to represent the same value compared to decimal. If you are trying to find the most efficient base for balancing the number of digits to memorize vs the number of places a value requires to represent you get a graph like this showing the minimum approaching e (~2.718):
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=beta%2Flog(beta)+from+1.5+to+5
And the derivative approaching e:
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=derivative+beta%2Flog(beta)
That comes into play when you’re doing something like picking a base for computer architecture. Almost all computers theses days are binary, but some were base 3 trinary for a bit. But you don’t need to pick an integer value and can pick pi or e as a base too. Here’s a better write up with an explanation of radix and bases:
Wombats shit is cubic.
I am currently naked.
Nipples can’t operate heavy machinery.
Not with that attitude
