Bits of random facts

Tu_triky wrote:

i saw that ish too...isn't it at the smithsonian?

Sure is! And beautiful....

Sailorprinzess wrote:
Random Fact so it's not off topic: The fastest served ball in tennis was clocked at 154 miles an hour in 1963.

According to the Guiness book of records:

"The fastest service ever measured was one of 163.6 mph by William Tatem Tilden (1893-1953) (US) in 1931.

BT can slow down your internet browsing :shakehead: .

Saito_Hajime wrote:BT can slow down your internet browsing :shakehead: .

happens to me all the time, infact, right now, my internet is barely moving and i have one torrent d/l'ing....i think i try to limit them, or else my internet would be stuck. :beaten:

qilver wrote:

happens to me all the time, infact, right now, my internet is barely moving and i have one torrent d/l'ing....i think i try to limit them, or else my internet would be stuck. :beaten:

Good thing that you know how to limit your download in your torrent. As for me, I can't limit my download rate (or maybe I just haven't figure out how to limit it :bonk: ) in my bt client. I'm using BitTornado and I can just limit the upload rate, which I don't do because I want to seed too :mrgreen: .

When BT slows your internet speed, it's almost always because you have an asymmetric connection (cable, DSL) and the upload speed has been maxed out. If you cap your upload speed to about 80% of your total upload bandwidth, your download speed should not be noticably affected.

Sailorprinzess wrote:The oldest known animal was a tortoise, which lived to be 152 years old.

The oldest tortoise was Tui Malila, 188 or 192 years old, according to Wikipedia.

loris wrote:

The oldest tortoise was Tui Malila, 188 or 192 years old, according to Wikipedia.

The oldest still living tortoise is in Australia and is a mere 175 years old. Her name is Harriet. :D

That's old. :wow:

I'll be lucky if I lived half her age. I wonder if she play bingo all the time and complain about the 100+ year old kids. :hehe:

tabana wrote: I wonder if she play bingo all the time and complain about the 100+ year old kids. :hehe:

Of course. Everyone complains about their kids. Though Harriet doesnt have any. Apparently they called her Harry for the first 100 years.

The worlds fisherys are being cleaned out. Recent studies on prices of popular seafood shows that as species become more and more rare, the prices go up and are replaced by similar species. By studying menus ranging from the 1880's to present day, adjusting for inflation, researchers have shown as prices increase the wild population decrease.

For example, as abalone become popular in the 1920's, an abalone steak cost $7, today a similar steak costs over $70.
In the 1880's, 300lb Halibut were common in commercial fisheries. Now, commerical fisherman have begun to fish for juvenile halibut rarely breaking the 100lb barrier.

Basically, we are fishing through the entire food chain.

Why does fatty food taste better, and non-fat food taste so bland?

because researchers have discovered that rat tongues have taste buds dedicated soley for fat (rat tongues are very similar to humans). If this is true in humans as well, then "fat" would added to the current list of tastes (salty, sweet, savory, etc)

krim wrote:Why does fatty food taste better, and non-fat food taste so bland?

because researchers have discovered that rat tongues have taste buds dedicated soley for fat (rat tongues are very similar to humans). If this is true in humans as well, then "fat" would added to the current list of tastes (salty, sweet, savory, etc)

i saw a news piece that claimed that very thing in humans....according to some researcher.

You can't keep turkeys outside in the rain because tukeys will stand stilland gawk at the sky with their beaks open, trying to find out where the rain is coming from and will eventually drown themselves if left like that.

KeepMeCaffein8td wrote:You can't keep turkeys outside in the rain because tukeys will stand stilland gawk at the sky with their beaks open, trying to find out where the rain is coming from and will eventually drown themselves if left like that.

That is weird.
Turkeys are dumb.

Do Turkeys really drown in the rain?
And: Snopes
Summary: No.

12 years ago today, January 17, 1994 the Northridge earthquake struck, 11 years ago today, January 17, 1995 the Osaka earthquake struck. One year apart to the day! :shocked:

wow, that brings back memories... i fell off the bed. :hehe:

The heat generated by a bolt of lightning is hotter than the surface of the sun.

A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.