DJDarren,

Gary Numan is two weeks older than Gary Oldman.

megsmagik,

550/2 is not 225 and 77+33 is not 100

JakeHimself,

That first one is pretty good. If you had asked me what 550/2 is, I’d have said 275. But since you showed me 225 before I thought about it, it confused me.

BalpeenHammer,

Moose kill more people than bears every year.

Also Donald Trump was the president of the United States.

RinseDrizzle,

That second one still fucks me up…

Clav64,

An elephant is the only mammal with 4 forward facing knees.

Hexadecimalkink,

The USA is not a true democracy in the academic sense of the word.

Weirdbeardgame,
@Weirdbeardgame@lemmy.ml avatar

A democratic republic more specifically

HamsterRage,

That’s virtually meaningless. A “republic” is virtually any country that doesn’t have a monarchy or dictator.

So drawing a distinction between a “democracy” and a “democratic republic” in this manner is a waste of time. There plenty of democratic monarchies, which are equally democracies, too.

mycelium_underground,
@mycelium_underground@lemmy.ml avatar

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.

xthexder,
@xthexder@l.sw0.com avatar

Not only that, but every single one of those configurations is solvable in 20 moves or less! www.cube20.org

SpooneyOdin,

Cleopatra was born closer to the invention of cellphones than the building of the pyramids

calhoon2005,
@calhoon2005@aussie.zone avatar

I’ve always thought this was amazing

banana_tree,
@banana_tree@lemmy.ml avatar

I’ve noticed Americans tend to be surprised that Europe is bigger than the US

spechter,

As an European I’m also surprised that the US’ vertical Expansion is only around twice that of France.

cyberic,
@cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

What do you mean by vertical expansion?

Aiyub,

Not the one who said it, but it would imply distance north to south

cyberic,
@cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Thanks, I was trying to figure out if it was elevation or structure height

rikudou,
@rikudou@lemmings.world avatar
  • Wombat feces are cube shaped.
  • Bananas are berries and strawberries are not.
  • Oxford university is older than the Aztec empire.
  • Humans share 50% of our DNA with bananas.
Psychobiologist,

Until recently the word “factoid” didn’t mean a small bit of trivia. It meant something that sounded true or was accepted as a fact even though it was incorrect.

catshit_dogfart,

We might actually not know why magnets work.

The formula used to prove the functionality of magnets can also be used to prove the existence of a theoretical state called a monopolar magnet - positive or negative on both sides. So either monopolar magnets can exist, even if in some esoteric circumstance, or we don’t know why magnets work.

rikudou,
@rikudou@lemmings.world avatar

@ChatGPT Is the below text true?

We might actually not know why magnets work.

The formula used to prove the functionality of magnets can also be used to prove the existence of a theoretical state called a monopolar magnet - positive or negative on both sides. So either monopolar magnets can exist, even if in some esoteric circumstance, or we don’t know why magnets work.

williams_482,
@williams_482@startrek.website avatar

You realize that ChatGPT has no concept of “true”, right? It produces output which looks coherent and reasonable and tends to stumble into truthful statements on accident, by virtue of drawing from a dataset of people saying mostly true things. Of course, the bot is equally capable of spouting off outright lies in an equally convincing manner.

This is a very unreliable way to verify a surprising fact. I strongly recommend against it.

darcy,
@darcy@sh.itjust.works avatar

you are loved and deserve happiness

MyNameIsIgglePiggle,

Fuck Lemmy is unexpectedly wholesome

Dubious_Fart,

Bullshit and lies.

No one loves me, and i deserve nothing, for I am trash.

supersane,

Air is a fluid.

Kodemystic,
@Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev avatar

Russia is actually pretty small and it almost fits inside Africa. Try it out: www.thetruesize.com

EDIT: Ok I expressed myself in the wrong way. What I meant was, Russia is not as big as I thought it was. Of course, it’s still really huge.

andyMFK,

“pretty small”, it’s like 2 Canada’s.

datendefekt,
@datendefekt@lemmy.ml avatar

I think that says more about how unbelievably massive Africa is.

lagomorphlecture,

Africa is, like, huge. So saying Russia is small because it fits within Africa doesn’t make it sound small to me.

Kodemystic,
@Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev avatar

Ok I expressed myself in the wrong way. What I meant was, Russia is not as big as I thought it was. Of course, it’s still really huge.

iamhazel,
@iamhazel@beehaw.org avatar

Wait so it’s purely projection distortion that makes Russia seem half the size of the old world?? This blew my mind.

Also fun fact Google seems to have stopped outlining Russia (not other countries) when you click them in Google Maps.

Velonie,

You got me clicking countries on the map now. I really can’t find a consistent reason why sometimes it shows the outline and sometimes it doesn’t…

  • Canada: yes
  • Russia: no
  • South Korea: no
  • China: no
  • Spain: no
  • France: yes
  • Iraq: yes
  • Kyrgyzstan: no
  • Mongolia: yes
  • Japan: no
  • USA: yes
  • Malaysia: yes

What pattern is there here???

iamhazel,
@iamhazel@beehaw.org avatar

Maybe if there are territorial disputes / conflicts (Ukraine also no) they do this instead of picking a side? No idea

Flannels9658,

All the planets in the solar system can fit in the space between the Earth and the Moon

darcy,
@darcy@sh.itjust.works avatar

this is actually a misconception! the gravity of the planets combined would cause them all to crash into each other!

intensely_human,

Or would they just stack up?

rmuk,

I just did a simulation with representative bodies that included spheroid objects of varying densities to approximate the makeup of the major solar bodies and all the fruit bounced everywhere and the lady behind the counter is really upset now.

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