Tell me an interesting fact...?

Answer 1

It's impossible to lick your own elbow!

Answer 2

Deal or No Deal
On the TV show "Deal or No Deal", a contestant is faced with a number of briefcases (26 in the US version) in which various amounts of money have been placed. The contestant is asked to select one to keep, unopened. Then the player plays a number of rounds.

In each round, the contestant is asked to select some of the other briefcases to open (usually several in the early rounds, decreasing in number to the later rounds). After seeing what is in the open briefcases, the contestant has a better idea what possible amounts of money could be in his briefcase.

A banker, who has also seen what has been opened, then offers the contestant a sum of money--- usually this offer is smaller than the average of the remaining prizes (significantly so at first, but closer to the average in later rounds). The contestant can either take it, or reject the offer and continue to play another round. The excitement of the game centers around the decision that the contestant faces: "Deal or No Deal?"

What should the contestant do?

The Math Behind the Fact:
The answer depends on what the contestant's view of risk is. In the language of game theory, whether the contestant accepts depends on how risk-averse the contestant is.

We can understand this concept mathematically in the following way: if I gave you the choice between a sure $50 or a 50-50 chance of getting $100 or nothing, which would you take? You are risk-neutral if you are indifferent between the options, because they have the same expected value. You are risk-averse if you would take the sure $50, and risk-loving if you prefer to take the gamble. Thus, on "Deal or No Deal", the banker usually assumes that players are risk-averse, so he lowers the offer so that players will be more likely to take the gamble and continue to play.

Modern utility theory, developed by Von-Neumann and Morganstern, sheds more light on what risk-aversion is. We could ask a different question: given an amount $x, at what probability level p would you be indifferent between a sure $x or a lottery in which you had probability p of getting $100 and probability (1-p) of getting nothing?

Your Von-Neumann Morganstern utility for $x is based on the answer to this question. If $x=$0, then certainly your choice for p will be 0. If $x=$100, then your choice for p will be 1. If you are risk-neutral and $x=$50, then your choice for p will be .5 but if you are risk-averse, then you will probably want p to be higher than .5 before the lottery becomes just as desirable as the sure $50. So then, if you are risk-averse, the graph of p(x) versus x will be concave down. (Similarly, if you are risk-neutral this graph will be linear, and if you are risk-loving, then p(x) will be concave up.)

Answer 3

. An ostriches eye is bigger than it's brain.

. All the people in the world could crowd into the state of Connecticut

. The novel Gadsby contains over 50,000 words, none with the letter "e".

. After the first "Popeye" comic came out in 1931, spinach consumption rate in America went UP by 33%.

. Tohru Iwatani, the inventor of the video game Pac-Man, got the idea when he saw a pizza with a missing slice.

. Approximately 55 % of all movies released are rated R.

. The kick of an adult giraffe is so powerful, it can decapitate a lion.

. Some species of dolphins sleep with one eye open.

. A giraffe can go longer without water than a camel

. Eels can swim backwards

. The Giant Diving Beetle injects a liquid into their prey which causes the prey's insides to turn into liquid.

. Blondes have more hair than brunettes

. King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie.

. Bill Gate's house was partially designed using a Macintosh computer.

Answer 4

A farmer cut off the head of a chicken and it ran out the outhouse where he slaughters the birds. This does occasionally happen. However, the interesting fact about this one is that it kept on running, albeit in circles. A few hours later, it was still on the move, so he thought what would happen if he popped a corn kernel down the now gaping throat. It died 18 days later.

Answer 5

Did you know that all spiders are poisonous! Even daddy long legs/Crane flies. The only reason we don't worry is that their fangs are too small to so they can't inject the poison so they can't harm us!

Also,

Of the total amount of people EVER to be alive on earth, 10% are alive today!

Also,

Carrots DO NOT improve your eyesight, This was a piece of Allied diversion tactics to hide the fact that the reason why allied forces were good at night combat (particularly plane dogfights) was because they had invented RADAR

Also,

If you eat lots of carrots you will turn orange!

Also,

You can't sit on a chair with your right leg out rotating clockwise then using your right arm draw an imaginary figure six in the air

Answer 6

Bogs preserve things because no oxygen can penetrate the bog. I saw many artifacts. Bodies, jewelry, tools, musical instruments etc. Many of these items including the bodies were over 3,000 years old. My sister has a history degree & wanted to go see this exhibit at the Natural History Museum in L.A. I thought it might be gross, but it was very interesting. I think the exhibit is traveling to different museums around the country if you're interested. The first link is the museum I saw it at.

Answer 7

Here's a bunch -

*The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.

*There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.

*Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.

*Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.

*In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of toast.

*In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.

*An average person laughs about 15 times a day.

*The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.

*The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500s.

*The first-known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

*America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.

*A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.

*The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.

*The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.

*Every person has a unique tongue print.

*Women's hearts beat faster than men's.

*Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.

*Most American car horns honk in the key of F.

*About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money. [The rest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.]

*Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.

*Most lipstick contains fish scales.

*Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.

*The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.

*27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."

*Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

*"Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.

There ya go, have a great day!!

Answer 8

Fact: None of the 'facts' on here so far are very interesting (apart from the 1st one!)

Answer 9

Celery is a negative food, it actually takes more calories to eat and digest stick of celery than there is in it in the first place. I guess this means that if i keep eating it for the next 5 years i might get thin.

Answer 10

When you do anything in life, 60% of the time it works every time.




Jesus was the first zombie. He died on a cross and then suddenly 'resurrected'. Mathematical equation follows;

(J+D)+R=Mrfd=Z

(Jesus+Death)+Resurrection=Man Raising from death=ZOMBIE



If you stand 10 feet from a mirror and look at your reflection, you are actually seeing yourself 10 milliseconds in the past. Seeing the past is real.

Answer 11

The dead outnumber the living by 32 to 1.