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Fun fact of the day
Topic Started: Aug 14 2014, 06:17 AM (394 Views)
towr
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"more people are bitten by other people in New York City than by sharks worldwide" (source)

(NB I haven't checked the factuality)
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towr
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"statistically speaking, it would likely take 750,000 years for a child left alone in a public space to be snatched by a stranger" (source)

(NB I estimate that's about 66 children per year in the US, if you want an order-of-magnitude plausibility check.

NB2 after waiting 20 of those 750,000 years to be picked up by a stranger, you definitely qualify as a homeless person rather than a child.)
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Elystriana
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....Interesting. o.0 (Though it leads to the question of what the statistical probability is that a child left alone would stay in a public space for 20 years).
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Snofox Kari
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and also how old the child would normally be when left alone in a public space...most people are no longer considered children well before reaching 20 years :P lol
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I would not be surprised if that bit about bites is true. Heard surprisingly often about cases ranging from crazy homeless people to domestic disputes to... well everything in between and a few outliers, while I lived in the City.
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So I have to ask if any of you have encountered What If?
It's a blog where he goes through the real science of answering ridiculous questions.
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Yup, been following it for a while.
He has a book out as well. And he's been on the Colbert Report to promote it. (And probably dozens of other shows.)
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yeah, it's pretty cool that he takes some pretty absurd questions and can answer them so down to earth :lol:
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Fun fact of the day: today is world toilet day

Yes, they will give anything its own day. But sanitation is kind of important.
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I dunno if I can' call that fact 'fun' towr. And I've seen some people's toilets... Sanitation is not the toilet focus that it perhaps should be.
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I suppose it is "fun" in the sense that someone slipping on a banana is "funny"; isolated from the consequences it's funny, but that doesn't mean anyone's laughing about ending up in the hospital.
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I dunno. The mythbusters episode where they dealt with the whole 'banana peel slip' concept was pretty dang hilarous to watch, and I didn't feel guilty (granted, they were doing things like taking safety precautions...)
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But yeah - sorta like reading the Darwin Awards. You might laugh, but you feel a little bad inside for it.
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There's blue strawberries
(and black, and green, and yellow, and purple)

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And apparently you can buy seeds for them on ebay

It's a shame ebay only gives you 60 days to give feedback on an item.

[edit]Actually, might be too good to be true.[/edit]
Edited by towr, Jan 10 2015, 09:07 AM.
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