Fun Facts 2

Iceland is the youngest geological country.

Geese cannot differentiate their own eggs and any other object of the same colour, if a volleyball were painted light blue with grey flecks, a goose would attempt to hatch the ball over their own eggs.

In most job interviews the decision has been made in the first 12 seconds

To be incompetent is to not know what the competent thing is to do.

The hands on a clock overlap only 22 times every day.

“Floppy” earlobes are more common than “attached” earlobes on humans.

Robert Newton coined the stereotypical pirate accent in one of the first renditions of the film Treasure Island.

While the progeny of a male donkey and a female horse is a mule, the offspring of a female donkey and a male horse is called a hinny.

The number of Satan is 616 rather than 666.

Fun facts

Music
These songs share the same rhythm or bassline:
"Remakes"                "Originals"
Angel (Shaggy) - Joker (Steve Miller)
Can't Touch This (MC Hammer) - Superfreak (Rick James)
Say Goodbye To Hollywood (Billy Joel) - Be My Baby (The Ronettes)
Ice Ice Baby (Vanilla Ice) - Under Pressure (Queen)

Animals
Koalas and chimpanzees are the only animals that have fingerprints indistinguishable from human's

Ostriches do not put their heads under the ground when frightened, this is a ridiculous myth

Snakes do have a tail, no it is not their entire body, it begins after their anus


Random
Most oranges that are grown in very hot climates are, in fact, green when ripe and are gassed to get their orange colour

Tea has more caffeine than coffee per pound (or any given measurement of weight) BUT coffee has more caffeine than tea per cup.  So in the case of each cup of coffee or tea, you will be getting more caffeine from coffee.

Pencils do not contain lead even though it is called lead, it is graphite.

The word "fish" has no biological meaning, in the same way that "bugs" has no biological meaning, they are both common terms that don't actually mean anything

I before E except after C is not a useful rule as there are more words that are exceptions to the rule than words that follow the rule. There are 21 times as many words break that the rule.

"Muggle" was used as a word for marijuana and the people who smoked it.

Dumbledore is another word for bumblebee.

Christmas crackers have intentionally bad jokes in order to allow the partygoers to bond over the joke being bad.  If only certain people were to understand the joke then those who didn't understand the joke would be divided.

Interesting Concepts and Thought Provoking Questions

For the most part this is just an opinion-based thread, I'm just looking for interesting, vague, thought-provoking, and abstract questions.  I find it rather therapeutic to just ponder complicated questions and I have a couple of my own if anyone would like to give them some thought.  If you have any thoughts you'd like to share please post back and let me know.

First off lets get the big existance and reality thoughts out of the way because I'm sure we've all heard them a million times before:
-Are we truly a reality or do we each perceive our own universe?

-Is time linear and if so, what do you think about people who experience deja vu or seem to have premonitions?

-Religion (controversial I know, lets keep it civil) if only one religion is 'right' then which is it, and are all of the rest of the population of the world living under false beliefs?


Then some more fun and whimsical questions:
-Do we have untapped powers? e.g some people seem to have psychic capabilities, others have 'unnatural' strength or intelligence etc.

-What if the afterlife is only reserved for atheists, that would be rather ironic wouldn't it? Those that don't believe in an afterlife are doomed to be wrong, and those who do believe have no afterlife waiting for them.

-If reality is what you make of it, and you believe something with every fibre of your being, is it reality even if you are the ONLY person to believe?

-Does our species have unlimited potential or have we nearly reached our peak?

-What happens after death?  A religious afterlife?  An endless sleep?  Ghosts?  Reincarnation?  What is consciousness really?

Hopefully I have given you something interesting to think about, let me know your thoughts if you'd like and a good day to you all!