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Fun Fact Friday - Best Fun Fact Gets 10,000 Sats

2744 sats \ 61 comments \ @sn 16 Feb meta

Let's hear all your best fun facts, any topic counts!

The best comment as voted by the "top" filter at 9am CT tomorrow gets 10,000 sats.

Bonus sats for including a source link to your fun fact!

If you missed our last edition, here are lots of fun facts stackers shared.

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10.6k sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 16 Feb

During World War II, the allies had a plan to build an aircraft carrier made of ice.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Habakukk_aircraft_02.jpg/480px-Habakukk_aircraft_02.jpg

Project Habakkuk or Habbakuk (spelling varies) was a plan by the British during the Second World War to construct an aircraft carrier out of pykrete, a mixture of wood pulp and ice, for use against German U-boats in the mid-Atlantic, which were beyond the flight range of land-based planes at that time. The plan was to create what would have been the largest ship ever at 600 metres (1,969 ft) long, which would have been much bigger than even USS Enterprise, the largest naval vessel ever, at 342 metres (1,122 ft) long. The idea came from Geoffrey Pyke, who worked for Combined Operations Headquarters. After promising scale tests and the creation of a prototype on Patricia Lake, Jasper National Park, in Alberta, Canada, the project was shelved due to rising costs, added requirements, and the availability of longer-range aircraft and escort carriers which closed the Mid-Atlantic gap that the project was intended to address.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk

722 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitsats 16 Feb

A shrimp's heart is in its head.

402 sats \ 3 replies \ @0b1CoinObi 16 Feb

12 Black Dots - How many dots can you see at once?

There are 12 black dots at the intersections in this image.

Your brain won’t let you see them all at once. This occurs because the eye’s stimulated light receptors can sometimes influence the ones next to them, creating illusions.

The brain can see some black dots but guesses when it fills in the peripheral vision. Because mostly grey lines appear in the periphery, the black dots don’t appear.

https://m.stacker.news/16350

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @oliverweiss 16 Feb

I can see two at most.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @justanumber 16 Feb

Me too, sometimes I think I can see 3 at once but it doesn't seem possible to keep sight of more than 2 at one time

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @justanumber 16 Feb freebie

Staring at that is totally mesmerizing

213 sats \ 3 replies \ @Cowboy 16 Feb

Fun Fact : Hal Finney is SATOSHI NAKAMOTO (Craig wright is not)

https://m.stacker.news/16349

51 sats \ 0 replies \ @0b1CoinObi 16 Feb freebie

It's neither of them and here's why.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @CheezeGrater 16 Feb

That is kinda uncanney

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @joda 16 Feb

Yeah but still somewhat canny

42 sats \ 2 replies \ @Roll 16 Feb

Bitcoin private keys are integers between 1 and 1077 If you were able to make a trillion guesses per second, you’d have to guess for about 3.3 decillion (1033) years to find the private key to a particular Bitcoin address. Of course it’s always possible that scientific advances, such as quantum computing, could make it feasible to crack a Bitcoin address. In this case, Bitcoin would have to hard fork to quantum-resistant cryptography. The following infographic helps to give an idea of the difficulty of brute-forcing a Bitcoin private key:

https://m.stacker.news/16363

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @0357218382 16 Feb

hmm... are you sure there's only 1077 private keys? According to this site there are 0xFFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFE BAAE DCE6 AF48 A03B BFD2 5E8C D036 4141 or around 1.1579208924×10^77

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Roll 16 Feb

it s 10 exponantial 77 and not 1077...

Wrong infomration from this web page : https://www.coinmama.com/blog/40-surprising-facts-about-bitcoin/

This webpage provides the right information https://bitzuma.com/posts/six-things-bitcoin-users-should-know-about-private-keys/

Thanks againn to correct it and Mea Culpa

36 sats \ 2 replies \ @oraltosun 16 Feb

There is a city called BATMAN in Turkey.

https://m.stacker.news/16357 https://m.stacker.news/16358

31 sats \ 1 reply \ @brandonsbytes 16 Feb

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @oraltosun 16 Feb

😉😂 👏

34 sats \ 3 replies \ @ablunderfilledlife 16 Feb

In the 19th century, there was a peculiar trend known as "Tulip Mania" that swept through the Netherlands. It was one of the earliest recorded speculative bubbles in history.

During Tulip Mania, which peaked in the early 1630s, the price of tulip bulbs skyrocketed to extraordinary levels, with some bulbs selling for more than ten times the annual income of a skilled craftsman. People from all walks of life, including wealthy merchants and ordinary citizens, became caught up in the frenzy, buying and selling tulip bulbs in the hopes of turning a quick profit.

However, the bubble eventually burst in 1637, leading to a dramatic collapse in tulip prices. Many investors suffered significant financial losses, and the Dutch economy was adversely affected for years to come.

https://m.stacker.news/16389

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 17 Feb freebie

Another fun fact, do you know that Tulips are native to Central Asia and they were brought to Anatolia by the Turks, then brought to Europe during the Ottoman time:)

Tulips are so deeply integrated in Turkish life, and you can see it everywhere, from art to crafts.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @brandonsbytes 16 Feb

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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @ablunderfilledlife 16 Feb

Are the Dutch careful with money? I don't know too many stereotypes about the Dutch. I just know Michael Caine is not a fan.

13 sats \ 1 reply \ @Malachi17 16 Feb

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @joda 16 Feb

Also "think"

33 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bass 16 Feb

Your tongue knows exactly how everything you look at will feel if licked.

110 sats \ 0 replies \ @justanumber 16 Feb

makes me think of how babies put everything in their mouths to see how it feels

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @brandonsbytes 16 Feb

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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @Tef 16 Feb

Did you know that "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand? 😁😁

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @brandonsbytes 16 Feb

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121 sats \ 5 replies \ @justanumber 16 Feb freebie

Canadian couple live ‘off-grid’ in self-sustaining floating home

Catherine King and Wayne Adams have spent more than 20 years living ‘off-the-grid’ in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The couple, who built their island self-sustaining home back in 1991, have been growing food, collecting drinking water and generating electricity ever since.

The floating island home, which they’ve named “Freedom Cove,” consists of 12 lake floats that include a dance floor, an art gallery, a guest lighthouse, a studio for Catherine King and Wayne Adams, and five greenhouses. The self-sustaining settlement has half an acre of land for growing edible crops. The couple gets water from a nearby waterfall during the summer and from rainwater during the winter. An array of 14 solar panels had powered the settlement but recently switched to a generator after these broke down.

https://www.boredpanda.com/sustainable-home-off-the-grid-freedom-cove-wayne-adams-catherine-king/

https://m.stacker.news/16356

10 sats \ 4 replies \ @brandonsbytes 16 Feb

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32 sats \ 1 reply \ @td 16 Feb

Bloody cold in the winter and bloody hot in the summer I bet

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @justanumber 16 Feb

hehe yes I'll bet. For that reason I'm out. I have to be warm!

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @justanumber 16 Feb

Haha well lots of people live on boats and others live on wharves so I don't see it as particularly odd. It doesn't say specifically why they chose to do this. I will see if I can find any further articles to find out if there was a driving factor or reason(s) why.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @justanumber 16 Feb

So Wayne grew up in Australia:

"Describing how he became interested in handiwork, Wayne said: "I did my boyhood in Australia. I had early training. At grade three I started working at sheet metal work. So making things and building things has always been part of my life."

The pair began building the home, on which they are largely self-sufficient, so as to be closer to nature.

He added: "The idea that the two of us wanted to be somewhere out in the wilderness, and do our art, and be immersed in nature, because that’s where we get inspired.

"Freedom Cove gives us all the protection we need.

"We have the colours magenta and green throughout the whole place because they represent to us rebirth.

Among the recycled materials that make up the island are recycled fish farms for decking and a pair of whale ribs to form an archway."

https://www.the-sun.com/lifestyle/travel-old/185559/couple-spend-27-years-building-off-grid-1-million-island-house-with-a-dance-studio-candle-factory-and-lighthouse/

And here is a YT video about them. I think it's all rather interesting and cool.

41 sats \ 1 reply \ @Proofofwork 16 Feb

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @brandonsbytes 16 Feb

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31 sats \ 1 reply \ @UCantDoThatDotRugged 16 Feb

January 3rd, 2009, bitcoin came alive after Satoshi Nakamoto mined the genesis block. Embedded in the block was a message that is a shortening of a newspaper headline of the day: "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks". The full headline: "Chancellor Alistair Darling on brink of second bailout for banks." One day before Nakamoto registered Bitcoin.org, somebody registered Netcoin.org on the anonymous domain registrar AnonymousSpeech.

17 sats \ 0 replies \ @brandonsbytes 16 Feb

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31 sats \ 4 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 16 Feb

Will history repeat or rhyme?

https://m.stacker.news/16351

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Cowboy 16 Feb

What ever, but Bitcoin going to flip NVIDIA Soon (CLOSE)

https://m.stacker.news/16355

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Darth 16 Feb

#1 INCOMING...SOONER or LATER, It's gonna happen one day.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @brandonsbytes 16 Feb

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Darth 16 Feb

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21 sats \ 3 replies \ @td 16 Feb

Chronological Snobbery

A term first coined by C. S. Lewis, whereby one generation believes that they are better than the previous one, or any prior generation, simply due to the passage of time.

126 sats \ 2 replies \ @brandonsbytes 16 Feb

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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @td 16 Feb

What I marvel at is that at some point in history, however many years ago (100,000?), suddenly there existed somebody, one person, who was as self-aware and intelligent as you or I today. What a moment.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @td 16 Feb

And what a snob to think that people before that moment were less 😆

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Satoshis 16 Feb

Cat urine glows under a black-light.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @brandonsbytes 16 Feb

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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @co574 16 Feb

Cleopatra lived closer in time to today than she did to the construction of the Pyramids of Giza.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @ablunderfilledlife 16 Feb

https://m.stacker.news/16390

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 17 Feb

There are 293 ways to make change for a dirty fiat dollar.

https://m.stacker.news/16422

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave 17 Feb

Fact: There are no objective "facts". There is always a margin of error. There are always outliers. What we believe is what we see. Fact is a word we made up.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @OriginalSize 16 Feb

In Austin Powers (1997), the surname of character Frau Farbissina derives from the Yiddish word פאַרביסן farbissen (verbissen in German), meaning "embittered".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frau_Farbissina

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Darth 16 Feb

Some lipsticks contain fish scales.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @2023 16 Feb

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SATurDay 16 Feb

Wearing headphones for just an hour could increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @mSats 16 Feb

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @StudyBITCOIN 16 Feb

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Wearesatoshin 16 Feb

It is impossible for most people to lick their own elbow. (try it!)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @teodor 16 Feb freebie

You, probably, know that there is a Fun token. But how fun this can be...? 🙈 The source is here: https://funtoken.io

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jbschirtzinger 16 Feb

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