Useless Facts

The documentary agreed exactly, but claimed the level of activity was too high for just tidal forces. As I understand it, science only recently identified this phenom.

 

Cool! Always love new astronomy/planetology stuff.

 

White scrubs glow under a black-light.

 

Of course you would know that...

 

Why yes I would.

 

On July 9th, 1993, Toronto lawyer Garry Hoy attempted to prove that the windows of the 24th floor of the building in which he worked were proof against a person throwing himself against them.

They weren't, and he fell to his death.

 

He was kinda stupid.

 

In higher structures, the jumper may experience updrafts that lift them back toward where they jumped, or currents that carry them a ways. How disappointing it would be to change your mind, bot not quite reach that rail, or love the feel of flying, but not the ungraceful landing.

 

I've got my lawyers on this. No one uses the word Moon™ without my permission! Not even a damn planet. Even NASA knows to say "Moon™" when talking about the Moon™ !

I think I heard about that one from the tv show "One thousand ways to die" which aired on Spike TV awhile back. Funny show.

Useless fact: There are more than one thousand ways to die. Yet, the TV show with said name only had 74 episodes and showed 479 ways to die as opposed to an actual 1000.

 

May I suggest "Glow Worm" playing softly in the background?

 

OMG @Cave Troll I am laughing so hard...It had been a long time since I'd heard it, and I'd never heard the last verse before. Thank you for finding that. That was even more hilarious than I thought!

 

You can make an effective live mouse trap out of a shallow cooking bowl filled with a bit of peanut oil.

 

or Gorilla Tape!

 

this is post 2543 of this thread and currently there’s is exactly 53850 members of which 23 are currently active and 185 active in the last 24 hours. Which means there is a 0.343% members active and with 1.5 million posts means that each member, on average has 27.9 posts each

 

Allow the alien in my brane to process this empirica.

 

I also want to say there is a spider staring at me from across the room..... *creepy*

 

We only use 10% of our brain. Not because of what mainstream media has made popular, i.e we humans aren't using all our brain power, but rather its due to the fact that all one hundred billion Neurons in our head take up 10% of the brain. That's a large percentage. In fact, there are as many Neurons in our heads as there are stars in the Milky Way. Pretty cool, eh?

Cats have less Neurons in their brains than Dogs do. Cats have roughly 800 million whereas Dogs have 1.2 billion. Elephants have the most Neurons with over 200 billion (I don't remember the exact number). Honey bees have one million Neurons in their brains, which is quite something when you consider their size!

Here's another useless fact: I'm great a parties for not talking about this stuff.

 

Is this where the 1000 ways to die episode came from, where a high rise lawyer spooks new interns by jumping at the window, but then it does and he falls to his death.

I could be wrong, but I believe this has been debunked, we do actually use 100% of our brain, just that it's a matter of automatic and Manual (Forgive my not scientific terms) control, plus a lot of other things that go on behind the scenes. sensory for the body, memory, temperature control, auditory and vocals, etc. What we manually use maybe a small part of that, (again forgive me lack of technical terms)

imagine if you could access every single memory, Dream, etc. from the moment of birth till now, wouldn't that be awesome. . Imagine the stories our brains could tell.

 

We use different lobes of our brains for different actions, so not all 100% all the time. Imagine using your "Gross" motor functions (Movement of the arms, legs, walking for example) while you were sleeping. That'd be sleep walking! Makes me wonder if sleep writing is a thing... Which would be cool, but I digress. Parts of our Neurons (Brain cells, the "talented tenth" of our brains we use), turn themselves on or off for different tasks to be completed. Like light switches, only with positive and negative charges from within an around the SOMA (cellar body). Neurons only take up 10% of our brains, thus we only "use" 10% of said brain. Glue or "Glial" take up nearly 90% of the brain.

Here's another useless fact: Without our Hippocampus, it's impossible to form new memories. We'd remember everything up until the day we had our Hippocampus removed, which is pretty cool, though I imagine it becoming frustrating.

 

First off, if a person can sleep walk, sleep eat, sleep drive, or even have full conversatinos, then yes, sleep writing can be a thing.

Now, the second part, I'm not smart enough to explain so I will just leave some articles on the 10% myth.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-we-really-use-only-10/

https://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/tenper.html

We use 100% of our brain, it's a matter of Manual and Automatic controls. Each part of the brain serves a function.

 

You're talking about usage of brain, right? Neurons are what we use, Glial are not. Those Neurons make up 10% of the brain while the other 90 percent are Glial. Without Glial, the brain could not hold itself together, Neurons, (the talented tenth) could not get oxygen, would not be insulated from one another and the Neurons that die would remain in their positions, which is devastating to any mental cognitive function.

So yes, removing the glue that holds the brain together would be bad, but that doesn't mean we use Glial cells as we do Neurons. And Neurons only take up 10% of our brain, thus we only use 10%. The other 90 is supportive.

 

...sleep sex is also a thing apparently.

 

Sexomnia. That's dangerous for the single ladies.