RiderFan Posted May 25, 2013 Share Posted May 25, 2013 (edited) A single human sperm contains 37.5MB of DNA data, which means a single ejaculation contains over 500GB of DNA data. Vince I'm sure there's a adult website joke in there someplace but I'm a bit afraid to go looking for it. Edited May 25, 2013 by RiderFan Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FM-Whip Posted May 25, 2013 Share Posted May 25, 2013 the killer whale...is not a whale. its a dolphin Sean Orcinus orca is in the cetacean family Delphinidae, in the suborder Odontoceti, the toothed whales. All cetaceans are whales, i.e. the marine mammals that are known to the general public as "whales", "dolphins", and "porpoises" are all related. So Orcinus orca is in the dolphin family, and is simultaneously a whale, since dolphins are by definition a type of whale. Taxonomically Orcinus orca is actually somewhat confused - there are several sub-species awaiting a DNA checkout. John Hairell (tpn18@yahoo.com) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wolfgun33 Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 The average person expels flatulence 14 times each day. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
toadwbg Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 The average person expels flatulence 14 times each day. Let's be clear: That's an AVERAGE Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Winnie Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 The idle release on the Bell 212 holds the plunger open for 5 seconds. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lockheed2004 Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 The sloth only journeys out of the tree and down to the ground to poop, which happens about once a week. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lucien Harpress Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 The term "mind your P's and Q's comes from the bartender in British pubs yelling at unruly patrons to "mind their pints and quarts". I always thought it had to do with typesetting a printing press, back when every letter (and space) was an engraved block. The "mind your p's and q's" bit came from the fact that every letter was engraved backwards (so the printed letter was reversed upon printing, so it was front-wards again), and that when setting the type for a page, a "p" looked like a "q", and visa-versa. New one- Italian glassblowers, way back when, had a term for any particular piece that they messed up on, and was unusable. They kept these flawed pieces as examples, of what not to do in the future. We still use the name for them (without any changes from its original Italian) to describe things gone horribly wrong. Namely, a "fiasco". (Okay, so I got that last one from "Car Talk" on NPR, so take it with a grain of salt.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crazy Snap Captain Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 Leafcutter ants can lift and carry in their jaws something 50 times their own body weight (about 500mg). That’s the same as a human lifting a truck with their teeth. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GEH737 Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 The A-10 Warthog has an overspeed warning horn... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
vvac201 Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 The A-10 Warthog has an overspeed warning horn... Must be annoying while trying to taxi! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chuck540z3 Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 Almost 1,200 Curtiss Helldivers were made in CANADA during WW-II. Fairchild Aircraft Ltd. (Canada) produced a total of 300 (under the designations XSBF-l, SBF-l, SBF-3 and SBF-4E) and Canadian Car and Foundry built 894 (designated SBW-l, SBW-3, SBW-4, SBW-4E and SBW-5), these models being respectively equivalent to their Curtiss-built counterparts. A total of 7,140 SB2Cs were produced in World War II. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Flyingfortress Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 A woman may not always be right, but she's NEVER wrong! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Slartibartfast Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 one cylinder of the eight cylinders of a Top Fuel dragster or a Funny Car produces 750 horsepower, equaling the entire horsepower output of a NASCAR engine And accelerates strongly enough to cause air/fuel mixture to concentrate in the rearward part of the cylinder. Part of the reason Top Fuel engines use three spark plugs per cylinder. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
otis252 Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 From the first post on this thread. There was another USMC pilot to get a kill as a USAF exchange pilot. Capt. Chuck McGill got one in Desert Storm flying a F-15C on exchange duty. Chuck Quote Link to post Share on other sites
skidbuggy Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 The Airbus A320 was originally designed without throttles in the cockpit given the functions of the autothrust system. The French DGAC in a rare moment of sense spoke up and said no way to that idea. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greenghost Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 A woman may not always be right, but she's NEVER wrong! Not sure if this a little known fact, at least all married man know and some single already know and the ones to be married think is just an urban legend. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HOLMES Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 IRON MAN. Was created as a Dare during the COLD WAR. Of 1963. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
f14tomcat Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 An un-neutered male and an un-spayed female cat(and their decendents) will produce 420,000 offspring in their lifetime. And yes, all 5 of mine are 'fixed'. BW Didn't know they were broken! Wayne ;-) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
habu2 Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 The telephone area code for Cape Canaveral is: 3...2...1... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Flankerman Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 The French have no word for baguette - and the Italians have no word for grafiti Ken Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Antonov Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 The French have no word for baguette - and the Italians have no word for grafiti :whistle:/> Ken You can't get English Muffins in England. Englishmen don't even know what the hell they are. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Antonov Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 (edited) A single human sperm contains 37.5MB of DNA data, which means a single ejaculation contains over 500GB of DNA data. Vince Is that a 3 Terabyte drive in your pants, or are you just happy to see me? Edited May 27, 2013 by Antonov Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Litvyak Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 You can't get English Muffins in England. Englishmen don't even know what the hell they are. In Hungarian, a pipe wrench is a "French key", in French, it's an "English key"... and in Danish a Danish is a Viennese... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
vince14 Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 More Planck fun; There are more units of Planck Time in one second than there have been seconds since the Big Bang, which was almost 14 Billion years ago. Vince Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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