Useless Trivial facts

KiwiGreg said:
There are no words in English to rhyme with "silver"
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In a land with rivers like silver.
The rogue fled from me like quicksilver.

Edit: Shakespeare reference btw.
 
Maybe not completely useless, but Death metal music attracts sharks.

A documentary film crew hit upon a novel technique to attract great white sharks - blasting death metal through an underwater speaker.

The Discovery Channel crew, filming for the Shark Week show Bride of Jaws, were on the hunt for a large great white, wonderfully nicknamed 'Joan of Shark'.

Desperate to feature the 16-foot, 1.6 tonne shark in their documentary, they submerged a speaker to see if the shark would react. Unfortunately they didn't manage to attract Joan, but did catch the attention of two others, one of which was 12 feet long.

Sharks 'hear' by picking up vibrations from receptors on their bodies, meaning they can be attracted to the low-frequency vibrations of heavy music, which apparently sounds like struggling fish.

It's an odd tactic, but one that's apparently well-known by shark hunters. Matt Walller, a shark tour operator in Australia, found out that AC/DC records caused sharks to change their behaviour.

When he played the tunes from underwater speakers, the sharks swam straight up to his boat, brushing their heads against the submerged diving cage.

Other than being a boon for metal fans on shark tours, using music, instead of bait, could be more environmentally friendly.
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Guns killed 301,797 people in the US between 2005 and 2015 and terrorist attacks killed 94 of which approximately 30 were caused by Islamic terrorist actions.


The Chapman University Survey of American Fears Wave 3 (2016) indicated that 41% of Americans surveyed feared a terrorist attack on America, and 38.5% feared Government restrictions on firearms and ammunition, the same percentage that feared being a victim of a terrorist attack.
 
"He has predicted three of the last two crashes."

- anon blogger on ZH about Marc Faber
 
Tonights MKR is won by the young girls taking on the fighting/bitching cousins who serve raw lamb.
Yahoo news accidentally published the story (which has since been removed).
Love a good spoiler especially with a crap show like that!
 
JulieW said:
Guns killed 301,797 people in the US between 2005 and 2015 and terrorist attacks killed 94 of which approximately 30 were caused by Islamic terrorist actions.


The Chapman University Survey of American Fears Wave 3 (2016) indicated that 41% of Americans surveyed feared a terrorist attack on America, and 38.5% feared Government restrictions on firearms and ammunition, the same percentage that feared being a victim of a terrorist attack.
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Guns don't kill people.

People kill people ....
 
JulieW said:
Guns killed 301,797 people in the US between 2005 and 2015 and terrorist attacks killed 94 of which approximately 30 were caused by Islamic terrorist actions.


The Chapman University Survey of American Fears Wave 3 (2016) indicated that 41% of Americans surveyed feared a terrorist attack on America, and 38.5% feared Government restrictions on firearms and ammunition, the same percentage that feared being a victim of a terrorist attack.
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You'd think they would have all got over 9/11/2001 by now.
Approx 3000 killed, not sure if any caused by guns. (sarcasm smiley)
 
Slightly trivial and maybe not fact outside certain circles.

"Guns don't kill people, people kill people" is not an argument. It's a slogan, a motto, whose intended meaning goes beyond its literal interpretation.

This line of argument is basically a strawman fallacy, which is when you construct a weaker version of your opponent's argument in order to then disprove it. In this case the weaker argument is that "guns kill people" all by themselves. No one actually believes that or argues that. Even the most committed gun control advocate acknowledges that firing a gun takes human intervention. The stronger argument being concealed by the strawman is "people with guns kill more people than do people without guns."

It's also a black or white fallacy in that it is an attempt to frame the debate as two mutually exclusive choices, when other options may exist. You'll often find these two fallacies together, where the debater creates an artificially weak version of your position, and then tries to frame it as the only alternative to his or her position.

IMPORTANT: The fact that this particular argument is fallacious does not mean we can therefore be justified in rejecting the conclusion the argument is intended to support (that in itself would be an argument from fallacy error), it just means we cannot take the argument as providing any actual support for the conclusion.
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http://philosophy.stackexchange.com...ill-people-people-kill-people-a-good-argument
 
^ same as "Speed Kills" is a slogan...it isn't speed that kills...its the abrupt stop that generally does the trick
 
U.S.A. states pay roughly $50 billion a year for prisons and roughly $75 billion annually to support higher education.
 
Over 1 in 10 Aussies take action on climate change, their health and animal rights.

Only a vegan will tell you about veganism. Just like a Holden owner will bang on about holdens.

I'm vegan.
 
PrettyPrettyShinyShiny said:
Over 1 in 10 Aussies take action on climate change, their health and animal rights.

Only a vegan will tell you about veganism. Just like a Holden owner will bang on about holdens.

I'm vegan.
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When two vegans have an argument, is it still called a beef?
 
How many vegans just it take to change a light globe?

Two.

One to change the lightglobe and one to tell you they're both vegans.
 
JulieW said:
Slightly trivial and maybe not fact outside certain circles.

"Guns don't kill people, people kill people" is not an argument. It's a slogan, a motto, whose intended meaning goes beyond its literal interpretation.

This line of argument is basically a strawman fallacy, which is when you construct a weaker version of your opponent's argument in order to then disprove it. In this case the weaker argument is that "guns kill people" all by themselves. No one actually believes that or argues that. Even the most committed gun control advocate acknowledges that firing a gun takes human intervention. The stronger argument being concealed by the strawman is "people with guns kill more people than do people without guns."

It's also a black or white fallacy in that it is an attempt to frame the debate as two mutually exclusive choices, when other options may exist. You'll often find these two fallacies together, where the debater creates an artificially weak version of your position, and then tries to frame it as the only alternative to his or her position.

IMPORTANT: The fact that this particular argument is fallacious does not mean we can therefore be justified in rejecting the conclusion the argument is intended to support (that in itself would be an argument from fallacy error), it just means we cannot take the argument as providing any actual support for the conclusion.
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http://philosophy.stackexchange.com...ill-people-people-kill-people-a-good-argument
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But the inherent flaw in this argument is that it is several paragraphs long and contains several four- and five-syllable words.

Damn elitists!
 
Metal is like an apple. Everything is good except for the core.


:/ hmmm maybe not trivial
 
Holdfast said:
You won't find an angel that is black!
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In what context?
Erwin Olaf has a known print called black angel depicting a black angel doing weights
Archangel Uriel is played by Robert Wisdom in Supernatural
^ 2 other trivial facts right there.

That all said I don't think anyone can provide evidence to have found an angel of any colour period.
 
I don't get this. Is it grams or a percentage of something? Genuinely curious

Holdfast said:
Nutrition of Parsley - Amount Per 100 grams for Vitamin A and C

Vitamin A - 168%
Vitamin C - 221%

Comparison

Nutrition of an Orange

Vitamin A - 4%
Vitamin C - 88%

Nutrition of an Apple

Vitamin A - 1%
Vitamin C - 7%

Nutrition of a Banana

Vitamin A - 1%
Vitamin C - 14%
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