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Drinking Water has a 100% fatality rate. Everyone who drinks it eventually dies.
(also a good example of why correlation =/= causation)
Drinking Water has a 100% fatality rate.
93%, actually.
https://www.good.is/infographics/the-population-of-the-dead-how-many-people-have-ever-lived
Air is a fluid.
if you scramble a rubiks cube up there is a good chance that it is the first cube to be in that state. there are 43,252,003,247,489,856,000 possible states that a cube(3x3) can be scrambled up in to.
The world’s two largest cities by area are both on Greenland.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/world-city-rankings/largest-city-in-the-world-by-area
That would be a diameter of about 800 km. Don’t they have multiple centers that could be called towns? With churches, administration and schools? They just can’t be bothered to split it up.
The towns in this municipality on Greenland used to be split up. The main capital is among them, so it made sense to grasp the 800 km circumference even if it’s just a few people. Anyway it’s according to the topic, so as stupid as it might be, it is factually the largest cities by area, and goes to show that the question of which is the largest city is ambiguous.
Tokyo is usually considered the largest city, due to the largest population overall, but it doesn’t have the largest area (Greenland) nor the largest population of a single municipal (Chongqing, China) nor the largest density (Macau, China) nor the largest area of skyscrapers (Hong Kong), so it’s a thing depending on definitions.
It doesn’t really matter much. If you’re in the middle it, it’s all just city until the horizon. Well, except for Greenland. You can probably throw a stone across all the houses in the largest city by area.
Hard sell to consider towns of 20k and 10k people are cities. I grew up in rural Midwest with higher population densities than that.
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Would be great to have sources for the less obvious answers.
Maine is the closest US state to Africa.
Is that really true haha
They are the most West, so yea
weast
Potayto, tomahto
Actually, here’s my fun fact: Alaska is the farthest North, East, and West state in the U.S.
You are technically correct the best kind of correct
According to my sloppy google maps guesstimate, this appears to be true. Florida-West Africa seems slightly further than Maine-Northwest Africa
Florida is crazy far west, compared to where I expect. It’s due south of Ohio.
I feel like this probably explains some things…
I once read a blog from a sailing group that pointed out that there is possible sea route where you could sail from Halifax, Nova Scotia in a straight line and end up in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Lettuces in landfills take up to 25 years to decompose.
Oxford University is older than the Aztec empire.
Oxford University founded in 1326, Aztec empire ~1428-1521
And some of the colleges of Oxford University are older than the university. Merton College was founded in 1264.
Cleopatra lived closer in time to us than the construction on the great pyramids.
Wait, you’re saying that the Aztec empire was just 64 years old when Columbus discovered America and ships with conquistadors followed to butcher and enslave everyone?
Yeah, I’ve heard similar things in the past and I’m always confused by it.
There were people there prior to the Aztec empire conquering them. The Aztec empire is just a specific government that ruled the area at that specific time.
The Napoleonic empire, for comparison, only lasted 1804-1815 (with a hole in the middle).
The 1st donut empire
Don’t mean to pick, but Oxford was founded in 1096 and Cambridge in 1209.
I worked for cambridge in 2009 and got a nice little 800 year badge
Thats 900 years dumbass
Edit: you got epic trolled by summzashi!!!
unfunny sthu
I got it man. Some people just don’t get how the making of a super obvious mistake is a satire of the kind of confidence you’re putting forward.
It’s weird because it’s like they can’t recognize when an error is so egregious it couldn’t be a genuine error.
Dude, delete it and try to forget, nobody is buying your excuse. You called someone dumb for making a mistake, despite it being you who made the error while OP was bang right.
It’s very embarrassing mate, you can try to style it out all you want and a couple 10 yr olds might buy it but not much more than that.
Personally I think you’d do best deleting the comment and trying to forget that you were just that stupid once upon a time :) x
You got epic trolled my dude!
You’re really embodying the saying “Never play chess with a pigeon.”
Much delirium, such humourz.
I’m guessing that about fits with your level :) x
u mad?
Apoplectic mate.
That, or just amused at your steadfast position that you actually intended the primary school level mistake :) x
delete it and try to forget
Doesn’t that strike you as a sort of self-gaslighting?
You really need to be nicer to people here or you will probably get banned by someone sooner or later. People are trying to get away from the reddit atmosphere here. Don’t act all superior because you spotted a mistake. That’s really childish.
Fucking idiot. Can’t do math but quick to jump on the chance to try to correct someone.
Who’s dumbass now?
That edit is the saddest part about this
I felt like I was transported back to mid-2000s internet when I read that. Le epic troll.
2009-1209=800 Big oof there
Why are you so rude?
My local pub is older than the USA.
As an American who lived in England for a couple years, that always just fascinated me. Some places just legit felt like I’ve stepped back in time.
The northern most part of Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the southern most part of Brazil.
Texas is smaller than the state of Western Australia, while the USA is only slightly bigger than Australia.
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.
If you start to think about how these lengths of time are defined it becomes clearer.
1 day = time to rotate on it’s axis once 1 year = time to complete a full rotation around the sun
For Earth, it takes us ~24hrs to rotate on our axis and 365.25 days to orbit the sun.
However, because Venus’ axial rotation is so slow (and another interesting fact, it rotates in the opposite direction to other planets) it actually completes a full orbit of the sun before 1 axial rotation.
Hence, a year is shorter than a day
For those interested:
1 Venus day = 243 earth days 1 Venus year = 225 earth days
A broken clock is right twice a day, but a clock running backwards is right four times a day.
A clock running backwards turns left and is therefor never right.
It’s right the 4 times the hands overlap at 12 and 6.
A broken clock is right twice a day, but a running clock is probably never right.
My grandfather clock is correct* about once a week when I wind and correct it
*It must be correct as it’s very slightly fast (less so than can be fixed with a quarter turn off the pendulum screw) and I set it slightly in the past
At this point you get into a philosophical discussion about what “right” really means
I’m really picky when it comes to clocks. They need to be ±1 minute. If they aren’t it really starts to bother me.
Two wrong don’t make a right, but three left turns do.
Or if the “present” actually exists
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Man, that song hits me right in the feels. Every time.
time dilation ftw!
If you’re lucky, a clock that’s slightly too fast or too slow will be right once
A broken clock may occasionally be right but it’s regularly useless
This only works with 1-dimensional time though.
As opposed to what?
2 dimensional time?
I really wanna know how that clock works
Luckily we don’t build clocks for n-dimensional time
Depends how fast is going backwards
Also depends how the other clock is broken, if we’re this picky about it.
Yeah a broken LED clock isn’t often right!
That’s why the correct term is ‘a stopped clock’ not a broken one.
An elephant is the only mammal with 4 forward facing knees.
The first fax machine was invented over 30 years before the first telephone.
There was an approximately 20 year period where a samurai could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln
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