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[Great Order]

You filled with random facts?
You want to scream them into the void?

Well you can't, but you can type them into the forum instead. Feel free to talk about pretty much anything you know about but generally can't insert into a conversation despite a desperate desire to.

[King Zultan]

I have a random fact!


Hitting a landmine with a hammer is a bad idea, as that causes it to explode and kill the person hitting it!

[MrRoboto75]

Echidnas have four-headed penises

[Bumber]

Cats abhor vacuums.

[Magmacube_tr]

Random fun fact!

I am 100 meters away from your location, and rapidly approaching.

[Great Order]

Random fun fact!

I am 100 meters away from your location, and rapidly approaching.

Oh goody, you can join the others in the basement.

Cats abhor vacuums.

Been a long time since I laughed at one of those.

[MrRoboto75]

Magmacube is 50 meters away from your location, and rapidly approaching.

[Egan_BW]

There were 12,413 seconds in between your posts, in which magma had moved 50 meters. Therefore magma is moving around 0.004 Meters Per Second.

[King Zultan]

He must be moving much slower than that as he still isn't here, what's he going to do when he gets here anyway?

[Eric Blank]

Echidnas have four-headed penises

Echidnas are monotremes, having a cloaca. They are the only extant monotremes besides platypi. Echidnas don't have nipples, but milk patches, and carry their eggs around in a "pouch" on their abdomen, but not like a marsupial pouch, more like the "primordial pouch" of cats. It's like squeezed between two rows of abdominal muscles. They eat bugs.

They're pretty cool.

I like to think DF's kobolds are a relative of echidnas and platypi. Have hair, ears, undescended males, lay eggs.

[Loud Whispers]

The Maritime Republic of Genoa invented denim jeans 500 years ago
The Aztec Empire was founded 400 years after Oxford University
Occasionally you stumble on written accounts of people in the past talking about things in their distant past. E.g. the oldest song in human record still extant begins with "in those ancient times...", in the English civil war a bunch of soldiers dug a trench and uncovered a cache of Roman coins, Germanic invader/settlers built their homes in the ruins of Roman structures with Roman mosaics on the floor (leading to interesting poems and epics suggesting some germanics believed they lived after the end of the world). 1300 year old Chinese ceramics with arabic or persian motifs/script found in shipwrecks in the Malayan sea suggest that there were multilingual literate workers in the ceramic factories, whose job it was to predict what kind of future market demands they could expect in foreign markets overseas. In one of these shipwrecks was a 2000 year old Han dynasty mirror, amongst other mirrors of varying age, suggesting that there was a market for antiques back then

[Ziusudra]

Average human body temp has decreased to 36.5±1°C (97.7±1.8°F): Decreasing human body temperature in the United States since the Industrial Revolution

[dragdeler]

In king of the hill they use the same audiosample on a pig than they use in gothic for minecrawlers.

[McTraveller]

Numbers are written least significant digit on the right because they are Arabic. In Arabic, they read the least significant digit first.

(I wish we reversed it in left-to-right languages so least significant was first... would make certain things more intuitive.)

[martinuzz]

Arabs added nothing to the world's numerical system

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before someone thinks that's racist, no it's a math joke.
Arabs added the number zero to the numerical system, a numerical representation of the concept of nothing. So they literally added nothing to the numerical system