Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share?

scrodumb@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• mrmacduggan@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you took a horse’s large intestine and stretched it out end-to-end, the horse would not survive.

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  • CelloMike@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you laid every road on earth end-to-end a lot of people would be annoyed with you

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• Z745812939054@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  jokes aside, the vastness of space is incomprehensible www.joshworth.com/…/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

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  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I love this demo.

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  • thomasloven@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hey, is that fairy cake?

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  • W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Space,” it says, “is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space. Listen…” and so on.

    To be fair though, when confronted by the sheer enormity of the distances between the stars, better minds than the one responsible for the Guide’s introduction have faltered. Some invite you to consider for a moment a peanut in Reading and a small walnut in Johannesburg, and other such dizzying concepts.

    esl-bits.eu/…/text.html

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• zout@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have one related, the diameter of the moon is smaller than Australia.

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• Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If every human held hand in a straight line around the earth a lot of them would drown

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  • kossa@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The last people on land just have to be a wee bit stronger to keep the tension, then it works out fine.

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m going to go out on a limb and say all of them would die for one reason or another.

  Also, my first experience with the internet back in 1994 was a page of elephant jokes, I feel I’ve come full circle now.

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  • kossa@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why full circle, though. Is this your last experience with the internet? RIP aeronmelon’s internet experience, 1994-2026

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    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Let’s be honest, it was downhill since the Elephant Jokes website.

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• MIDItheKID@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Did you know that if you took a blue whale, the largest mammal on earth, and laid it end to end, tail to mouth, on a basketball court, the game would be cancelled?

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  • NotAnOtter@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The moon causes tides, but mooning does not involve tiddies

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• LostCarcosan@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There are more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the entire solar system

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  • mika_mika@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You would guess this is useless info, but I can use this fun fact to remember how many suns the earth has also.

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  • Glifted@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    🤦‍♂️

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• jambudz@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Every sixty seconds in Africa, a minute passes

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• NotAnOtter@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s hard to imagine any of them would live. I guess one near the top might survive by using the flood of elephant pieces to slow their fall. But an elephant can’t survive a ~10 foot fall. That’s about 2 elephants tall, and the bottom two or the ones I am most confident are dying in this.

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• tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Aould you say that all of them will? Some from lack of air and some from the weight of a gazillion other elephants on top of them

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