• NaevaTheRat [she/her]
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    Also interesting: If you were to take your nerves out and lay them end on end you would die.

    Actually interesting fact

    Your height is closer in scale to a light second than the size of an atom. And yet atoms seem more approachable than light seconds. Fascinating stuff!

    • @[email protected]
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      94 months ago

      That’s actually just the first part of the phrase. The whole thing is “je ne suis pas français, chappeau”

      • Victor
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        74 months ago

        just the first part of the phrase

        Seems to me like it was the last part of the phrase.

      • @[email protected]
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        64 months ago

        je ne suis pas français, chappeau

        I tried googling this to see if I was missing some reference or something and it led to strange google behavior I’ve never seen before… When I search “je ne suis pas français, chappeau” without the quotation marks, Google automatically changes the French to English in the search bar when I hit the search button.

        Anyone else experienced this? For what possible fucking purpose would that exist?

        • @[email protected]
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          24 months ago

          I didn’t get that behavior, but no significant result to explain the expression either.

          But on the topic of weird behaviors, try to get copilot or meta AI to make a sign or an image for you with a phrase in a different language than your own.

          They always translate it, I can’t get them to keep the exact text at all.

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        Huh, this is an interesting intercultural communiaction trap.

        In my area, this is just used as a shorthand/slang/idiom for “nice, i respect that” or in place of a nod or “thank you”

        Edit: i should add, that as far as i know, a chappeau is a type of cap or hat? Right? have to google that.

        edit2: yes, a hat. The origin of the use I know for it is probably a salute where you touch your finger or hand to the hat, or lifting the hat.
        Here saying “hat” seems to be enough :D

  • MagnyusG
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    224 months ago

    Most people have more balls than there are stars in our solar system.

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        The average human has somewhere between 1.1 and 1.4 testicles.

        Late edit: I was not sober when I wrote this and I definitely did the math wrong.

        • @[email protected]
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          34 months ago

          Good friend of mine has 3. One is apparently tiny, but it’s there. That man would fuck a snake if you hold it’s head. Horniest man I ever met.

        • @[email protected]
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          74 months ago

          Considering 50% of the population doesn’t have testicles, the average being over 1 indicates that there are a few million people with 3 testicles.

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            But there are also many men with one or zero probably more than people with three so it should probably net to less then 1 average. Unless you count prosthetic testis in the total.

        • @[email protected]
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          54 months ago

          Is this because of intersex conditions or something? Or just a number you pulled out of your ass balls?

    • @[email protected]
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      14 months ago

      I have a dog, so I’m bringing up the average. We’ve got (dog-sare) tennis balls galore!

  • @[email protected]
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    Reminds me of the time someone on Xitter said that there are more trees on Earth than there are stars in our Galaxy. They got ratio’d pretty damn hard for it. -_-

    • @[email protected]
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      84 months ago

      Going by the top Duck duck go results for “how many stars in our galaxy” and “how many trees in the world”:
      “According to Jos de Bruijne, a scientist at the European Space Agency (ESA), the current estimate is between 100 to 400 billion stars.”
      and
      “There are an estimated 3.04 trillion trees in the world.”

      • Pandantic [they/them]
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        24 months ago

        Yeah, if you think of it, stars are relatively rare in a galaxy when compared to living beings which are born to procreate. But once you go out to universe, it becomes true.

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        That’s why it’s so crazy that that person was shat on so hard.

        Not finding the actual Tweet yet (hard to navigate without an account), but here’s a video covering it:

        https://youtu.be/Vael2yGvG_k

        Also sorry for the billion edits. My brain is giving up on me tonight.

  • IninewCrow
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    334 months ago

    There are more memes estimating the size of the universe than there are stars in the galaxy.

  • JackbyDev
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    114 months ago

    My autopilot brain kept skipping over molecule and missing the joke lol.

  • Subverb
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    134 months ago

    There actually are more molocules of H2O in 10 drops of water than there are stars in the observable universe.

    • @[email protected]
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      54 months ago

      Optimists: the glass is half full

      Pessimists: this half empty glass of water has more molecules than there are stars in the observable universe; life is meaningless

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        “Observable universe” isn’t how much we can see, rather how much it is theoretically possible to observe by any physical means.

        I also don’t think that water drop fact is correct. The estimated number of stars in the observable universe is 10^24, which is about an order of magnitude more than 1 mol, and 1 mol of water is about 18g, which is quite a bit more than 10 drops.

  • don
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    124 months ago

    There are fewer hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are fingers on my hand.

    Check and mate.

  • @[email protected]
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    224 months ago

    I skipped reading the word stars, and I thought it was deliberately wrong to rile people up.

  • NutWrench
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    244 months ago
    • Number of hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water (H2O): 2
    • Number of stars in our (ENTIRE) solar system: 1

    That’s the joke.

    • @[email protected]
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      104 months ago

      Thanks, I never would have been able to understand 2>1 if you hadn’t written up that amazing power point slide.