Fascinating and useful fact thread

[TimberWolf]

Post here your fascinating facts.

Fact 1

Due to gravitational effects, your weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead. So plan your trips to Weight Watchers accordingly.

To nit-pick, the official definition of weights and measures as used in commerce defines weight to be that of a measurement of mass rather than a force (unlike most physics interpretations), so you always weigh the same, on the moon as well as under it.

[GillsMan]

If you fold a bit of paper a mere 100 times, it would be 12 billion light years in length. Which is about the radius of the known universe. Has anyone told NASA?

[Mich the Tester]

If you fold a bit of paper a mere 100 times, it would be 12 billion light years in length. Which is about the radius of the known universe. Has anyone told NASA?

Yes;

[TimberWolf]

If you fold a bit of paper a mere 100 times, it would be 12 billion light years in length. Which is about the radius of the known universe. Has anyone told NASA?

I make it a million million light years.

[Ignis Fatuus]

Sorry but names of phobias, and collective nouns, are not interesting to adults.

There should be a name for that fact.

[Mich the Tester]

Scientists have determined that of all known facts, 87.37% are not actually true.

[MrRobin]

To nit-pick, the official definition of weights and measures as used in commerce defines weight to be that of a measurement of mass rather than a force (unlike most physics interpretations), so you always weigh the same, on the moon as well as under it.

Think you're mixed up here. Mass is always the same, weight is the measurement of the force acting on a mass, therefore it will be different depending where you are (Earth / Moon etc). Weight is also a vector.

[TimberWolf]

4 out of 3 people don't understand fractions.

[TimberWolf]

Think you're mixed up here. Mass is always the same, weight is the measurement of the force acting on a mass, therefore it will be different depending where you are (Earth / Moon etc). Weight is also a vector.

Did you even read what I wrote?

[Mich the Tester]

4 out of 3 people don't understand fractions.

...and the remaining 125% don't understand percentages.