Interesting factoids...

[Pyrate Jim]

When the Edmund Fitzgerald sank, She was only 15 miles from port.

[acrewofone]

The instant you were born, for a short time, you were the youngest person on earth.

11/02/2000, is the date when the entire population of earth was not all on earth, as the first crew were on the International Space Station.

[JeepDVLZ45]

In an effort to find a better way to market the usefulness of “modern steam engines” James Watt is credited with determining the conversion for the value of watts to “horsepower”.

Watt studied horses for several months through a series of experiments and determined the average horse could perform roughly 497J of work, every second for a 10 hour day. (So 497 Watts) Defining that that 497W = 1 horse power

He received so much backlash from the general population because “my horses are better than the average horse”. In order to appease the public, he “made up” a new number (multiplied 497 by 1.5). giving us the now accepted relationship of: 1 Horse Power = 745.5 Watts

[flyweightnate]

"Nice" is derived from the Latin word nescius, meaning ignorant or unaware.

[JeeperCreeper]

Much better than what was on that Metallica album cover

[Swedgin!!]

If you were born before September 4, 1998 you are older than Google.

[k_obeastly]

One decibel is ten bells

[MarkT]

5 out of 4 people can't do basic math.

4 out of 5 people make up 80% of the population.

Violins never solve anything.

[Grendel]

In particular, it was a form of punishment in the Roman Legions where one in 10 legionnaires was executed by his fellow soldiers. In some accounts, this was done by beating them to death with metal rods.

[DocsMachine]

"Decimated" means the same thing- reduced by one-tenth.

If the attacking army was "decimated", it wasn't "wiped out", as is the common use of the term today, it means it was merely reduced by one-tenth.

Doc.

[scottieb]

The word dime stems from disme (French) meaning tenth part, which stems from decimus (Latin) meaning one tenth.

[DocsMachine]

Speaking of blood, the rock band KISS, back in 1977, had some of their blood mixed in with the red ink, in order for Marvel to print a special edition comic, showing them (the band) as superheroes.

Doc.

[MarkT]

If you take all the blood vessels out of a mans body and lay them end to end the man will probably die.

[Pyrate Jim]

It's no wonder they call television a medium. It's seldom rare or well done.

Mighty Mouse from the new adventures of Mighty Mouse - 1987

[Heavy_D]

MILF for the WIN!