Are you serious? That's immense, what what bacteria is it?

I don't remember, I read that a long time ago.

Epulopiscium fishelsoni, which reaches length of 0.7 mm.

That's actually much bigger than a common period.

Speaking of bacteria, http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Geobacter_metallireducens is anaerobic (requires no oxygen) and eats various metals, including iron, manganese and uranium. More like Chuckbacter norrisoreducens.

I've done it. Several times. The trick is to sneeze is a certain way

Oh by the way, the largest currently known bacterium is actually http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiomargarita_namibiensis.

In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes.

Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.

The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye.

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.

Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada.

Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing. - Don't believe me, try it -

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.

Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.


Thats going to be one obscure poem your writing...

I think thats Thursday, every other day is debate day.

Minstrels in the Middle Ages used to carry around toads because their pee would prevent their hands from sweating while they played their instruments.

A wombat is capable of knocking over a grown man if they get enough speed. They are also the world's largest burrowing animal.

Rattlesnakes can kill a person right after they come out of their mother. (Rattlesnakes bear live young.)

The king cobra is the world's longest venomous snake, with some specimens being as long as 14 feet.

Rattlesnake rattles cannot rattle if wet.

New World Porcupines prefer conifer forests.

The Gaboon Viper has the longest fangs of any venomous snake.

Hippotami used to range all the way up to Europe during the Pleistocene, and are most closely related to cetaceans.

Cetatceans do not sleep like humans, since their breathing is a conscious action. Instead they shut off half of their brain at a time.

Ah-hah! Thank you I'm learning a crap load from this thread, and not just from the so-called Useless facts. Best of all, I haven't felt stupid yet by peoples explanations. Huzzah I say, Huzzah!

So we're not so different after all.

They didn't have chalk back then, eh?

I'm currently sat on the throne.

And Epic Fail has returned from his trip to the moon. The trip was an epic failure.

Fun Fact: Veeno's avatar is kind of hypnotic.

...indeed... :drool:

The reticulated python is the worlds largest snake, period. The average length of an advlt is 10-20 ft, but some have been known to reach a length of 34 ft. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqg3Pg2M9WU


My fangs are longer. Don't mess with them either.


I know people who live with half their rain shut down. I mess with them regularly.

they don't move that fast though..


I chipped a tooth, mine a pointier. Really..... not kidding here. Gota see the dentist Friday


Yeah, we're having a drought too. More dusty than messy though..

Its actually both, as it also tells you how long it would take light to travel between various parts of the universe.

Blasphemy, a single unit to indicate both time and distance. You, sir, go to far.

Blasphemy, a single unit to indicate both time and distance. You, sir, go to far.

[edit] Apparently way to far. Double.

:jammasterjay: Not if Jam Master Jay has anything to say about it.

If a pin were heated to the same temperature as the center of the Sun, its fierce heat would set everything within 60 miles ablaze. Hmm...how hot can I make a pin, I wonder?

Coprastasophobia: Fear of constipation. I don't have this.

A device invented as a primitive steam engine by the Greek engineer Hero more than 2,000 years ago is used today as a rotating lawn sprinkler.

During the Middle Ages, murdering a traveling musician was not considered a serious crime. I guess they weren't music lovers.

When medieval clans wanted to downsize and dispose of unwanted folks without murdering them, they just burned their houses to the ground as a small hint. I suppose you could say they were "fired".

Rattlesnakes gather in groups to sleep through the winter. Sometimes up to 1,000 of them will coil up together to keep warm. And I though three was a crowd.

Back in the 1600s, thermometers were filled with brandy instead of mercury. I want my temperature taken with a 400 year old thermometer!

Among the first Americans to join the Royal Air Force and help in the Battle of Britain was "Shorty" Keough. At 4' 10" tall, he was the shortest pilot in the RAF, requiring several cushions to see out of his cockpit. Oh sure. "Short" People can be fighter pilots, but I can't because I'm too tall (according to the USAF). :meh:

Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader was a Royal Air Force fighter ace during the Second World War, credited with shooting down 22 German aircraft despite being a double amputee. That's right: 22 German pilots lost to a guy with no legs. Hmm..maybe I could be a fighter pilot after all.

In hockey, a butterfly is a goaltending style in which the goalie keeps his knees together and his feet slightly apart. Anywhere else, that's called "I gotta go pee!"

Then kilometer is also unit of time. After all, it tells you how long it takes for an object to travel between various parts of the universe. The difference is that in this case you need an extra parameter (the speed of the object), while the speed of light is a constant.

No, it is just a unit of distance.

Not really since engins can variate on the KPH while light speed, for the most part, is a constant.

That's beyond the issue here. It doesn't matter that engines can variate their velocity, the speed of 1 km/h is nevertheless just as constant as is the speed of light. Thus by the same logic kilometres tell you how much time something travelling at the speed of (e.g.) 1 km/h needs to get from one place to another so they are also units of time.

But of course, neither light-years nor kilometres per hour are units of time. In order to obtain time from both light-years and kilometres per hour, you need to divide the number of light-years or kilometres per hour by a certain speed (velocity), be it the speed of light or something else. If you have to divide a unit A by a unit of velocity B in order to obtain time, unit A is a measure of distance, not time.