User:AstroHurricane001/Sandbox/Trivia

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Here is a list of random trivia. Feel free to add more to the list.

  • Polar bear fur is not really white. It looks white because light is reflected off transclucent hairs.
  • One of the only few words in English containing uu is vaccuum.
  • Your hair is stronger than aluminum.
  • The dinosaur diplodocus could whip its tail faster than the speed of sound.
  • The most common isotope of Uranium has a half life of 4.5 billion (4 500 000 000) years. This is as long as the Earth's age so far.
  • The coldest places see the least rain and snow. Parts of Antarctica near the south pole are drier than the Sahara Desert.
  • One time when a proton collided with Earth, it released about 51 joules of energy.
  • When one particle of matter collide with one particle of antimatter, energy is released from two gamma rays going in opposite directions.
  • Supernovae are actually quite common. A large percentage of the stars brightly visible from Earth will explode as a supernova.
  • Global warming is also occuring on other planets, but only about 10% of that on Earth is from the same source that the other planets are experiencing, magnetic fluctuations in the sun.
  • Most comets are actually quite dry. There has been little evidence of large quanities of water.
  • The largest animal ever to exist on Earth, likely a dinosaur, weighed over 200 tons.
  • Most of the world measures in metric. Only a few countries, the most populated one being the USA, have not adopted it.
  • According to current plans and trends, Wikipedia is on its way to possibly becoming the most populated website.
  • The biggest threat to Wikipedia is not vandals, but global warming, which Wiki helps increase, mostly due to electricity consumption.
  • About 0.1% of humans are Wikipedian. About the same number plays runescape.
  • The main reason to why google is so popular is because of its features, and its search engine function, which directs mostly to other areas of the web.
  • The novel Gadsby has over 50,000 words, none containing the letter 'e', except in the author's name.
  • The most uncommon name in the USA is Zzyzzx, one first name for this last name is Hero.
  • Supposedly, the ancient sumerians have names for all the planets, even Pluto.
  • Asteroids larger than ~3km in diameter may break the Earth's crust if it lands in the ocean.