9 Mind-Blowing Facts: Information That Will Amaze You From Quora Users

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The time difference between when Tyrannosaurus and Stegosaurus lived is greater than the time difference between Tyrannosaurus and now.

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The time difference between when Tyrannosaurus and Stegosaurus lived is greater than the time difference between Tyrannosaurus and now.

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[Chicookie]

03:10 PM on 06/06/2011

I will never look at the Mario bush the same way ever again.........

[Fernando]

07:17 PM on 06/05/2011

Seeing that still of Super Mario really took me back. The design looks crude now but it was head and shoulders above anything at that time. I don't think the makers of SMB ever thought they were doing anything beyond a great video game, instead they left a print on a generation.

[apessano]

07:14 PM on 06/05/2011

The "echolocation" video was extremely interesting!!!

[George Lacy]

04:14 PM on 06/05/2011

Mario info isn't mind blowing - at all. Some of the other stuff is interesting however

[SickHippie]

05:03 PM on 06/05/2011

As a child of the 80's, I find the Mario info quite interesting. It's always fun to peel back the veil on what seemed so magical back in the day.

[BuckyJamesDio]

03:07 PM on 06/05/2011

"Immortal Jellyfish" would be a great name for a jam band.

[Blodo]

05:26 PM on 06/05/2011

Or a brand of jam, or jelly.

[walsenberg]

12:02 PM on 06/05/2011

A piece of paper can only be folded in half 1 time. If you fold it twice it is folded in quarters and so on. the only to way fold a piece of paper in half 50 times is to open it and refold it 50 times. Therefore a piece of paper .003 thick folded in half 50 times would be ,006 thick if both halves a measured together. Ha Ha

[looknmirror]

11:16 AM on 06/05/2011

mind blowing.............more like boring............

just a blatant use of adjective by a news organization..........like usual.......

[vetboy45]

04:13 AM on 06/05/2011

The $2.50 statistic really puts life in perspective. Sometimes it strikes me how lucky we are in the USA. Even our poor people live a lot better than most of the world.

[Bishop Coxcomb]

10:47 AM on 06/05/2011

I live in the united states and try to limit myself to spending less than 2.50 a day...

[Elisa Lockhart]

11:39 AM on 06/05/2011

does that include utility usage? water? food? transportation? I'm curious because there are days when I don't spend money in the sense of not handing over cash to anyone, but i've still spent more than 2.50 a day...

[Andy Shick]

10:09 PM on 06/05/2011

actually the poor in the USA aren't better off than most of the world. They may have greater purchasing power, but not as much as they need for the much higher cost of living here

[jt1980]

11:49 PM on 06/04/2011

The paper folding math is a variation of the old story about a man asking the king for a "simple" reward: a grain of rice in the first square of the chess board, and doubling the number for every subsequent square until the whole board is filled. The king was financially ruined very early in that process.

In the chessboard case, all the grains of sand in this world (by some estimates 7.5x10^18) are not enough to fill up its 64 squares: 2^64-1 is larger than 10^19.

[Blodo]

05:30 PM on 06/05/2011

The rice story is found in other cultures as well. The Mennonites of the Ukraine have the tale of the clever peasant who outwits a farmer by convincing the farmer to hire him for a penny for the first day, and doubling each day until the work is done, which lasts 31 days. Of course at the end, it's millions of rubles, so the farmer ends up losing his farm.

[cshedenberg]

08:34 PM on 06/04/2011

Mindblowing must mean something different than what I thought. Now knowing that it's synonomous with "huh", yes, these really are. 10 mins of my life I cant get back.

[Matt Chernesky]

12:08 AM on 06/05/2011

You spent 10 minutes on this?

[SickHippie]

05:04 PM on 06/05/2011

Well, yeah - cs had to take the time to complain about how much time was wasted too.

[YarsRevenge]

04:57 AM on 06/05/2011

"10 mins of my life I cant get back"

So tired of seeing this regurgitated worn out phrase. It's stupid in so many ways that I'm not going to waste any more "mins" of my life pointing out.

[TwentiethBear]

08:15 PM on 06/04/2011

I don't believe the one about folding a piece of paper 50 times, or the one about there being more 'bacterial' cells in your body than 'human' cells. Those gut germs are as much part of you as your skin. And the paper im like omg wtf

[jt1980]

11:43 PM on 06/04/2011

Every time one folds the paper, the thickness is doubled. Folding 50 times is equal to doubling the thickness 50 times. Therefore the end result is 2 to the power of 50 of the original thickness of the original sheet of paper, which is larger than 10^15 (10 to the power of 15) If the paper's thickness is 6 thousandths of an inch (paper weight 29):

.006 in. * 10^15 = 2 * 10^12 in = 106.6 million miles.

The farthest point of the sun from the earth is only 95 million miles.

[YarsRevenge]

05:03 AM on 06/05/2011

This reminded me of an episode of Mythbusters. It was something about folding a sheet of paper equally in half over 7 times or something like that. I'm to lazy to look it up right now but I remember them having to use a forklift or something just to move it. My description may be off, but trust me, the task sounded unbelievably simple but the results were astonishing (to me anyway). Personally, I wouldn't be surprised to find the "folding a piece of paper 50 times fact" to turn out to be true.

[Comicoffee]

10:48 AM on 06/05/2011

Here's that Mythbusters video if anyone's interested--they folded a football field sized piece of paper 11 times. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRAEBbotuIE

[Andy Shick]

10:12 PM on 06/05/2011

It would be true except that the only way to fold it more than 7 or so times is to compress it in a vice. But if you did that, you wouldn't be doubling the width each time. The stat above is if you could double the width 50 times (but you wouldn't be able to use a vice)

[Shawn Wolfe]

07:20 PM on 06/04/2011

Some really amazing facts I did not know.. Well OK except for the Mario thing.. That would only amaze me if I had a bong in my hand

[SickHippie]

05:06 PM on 06/05/2011

A network engineer without a bong in his hand? Now THAT'S amazing! :O

[galaxy5]

05:27 PM on 06/04/2011

This is just an arbitrary jumbling possible facts.A sobering reality is a far larger percentage of a far larger population liv in utter poverty than over 40 years ago! g5

[bbmcrae]

06:17 PM on 06/04/2011

I'm calling a suicide hotline for you, pal. Or getting you a cookie. Anything.

[galaxy5]

06:17 AM on 06/05/2011

Not even upset by the information.In no way depressed.Just disgusted. g5

[General Public]

04:39 PM on 06/04/2011

Is it too late for me to change my species from human to jellyfish? I want in on this immortality action.

[Daniel Jones]

06:36 PM on 06/04/2011

But you wouldn't know you were immortal!

[Dr Green]

01:22 PM on 06/04/2011

we should find the gene that makes them immortal and splice it with human dna. I wouldnt mind living forever

[jmichaelmunger]

05:18 PM on 06/04/2011

I think I'd mind LOOKING like I have lived forever.

[Andres64]

06:55 PM on 06/04/2011

I don't know if I'd like to live forever. There was a great line in the new "Clash Of The Titans" Io says that she's been cursed with agelessness and has watched countless loved ones die.

[CJCalgirl]

11:46 PM on 06/04/2011

Dr, Only if the race were sterilized.

[Elisa Lockhart]

11:27 AM on 06/05/2011

eww