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re: Interesting facts for people who like interesting facts.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 10:54 am to memphis tiger
Posted on 11/10/17 at 10:54 am to memphis tiger
quote:every town has something they call a library often multiple ( schools/churches)
There are more public libraries in America than MacDonalds
I find this almost impossible to believe.
most towns don't have even one McDonalds
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Posted on 11/10/17 at 10:58 am to chinhoyang
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Many people didn't know that the Brewer's emblem was a ball and glove AND an M and a B.
I'm a Cubs fan, but that's the GOAT MLB logo.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:17 am to LSURussian
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Savannah, Georgia, which is an Atlantic Ocean port city, is further west than Youngstown, Ohio.
Green Bay, Wisconsin is north of Toronto, Canada.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:22 am to SuperM1ke
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MYTHS
red-headed people turned into vampires after they died.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:43 am to ThatMakesSense
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the British government is still paying interest on loans from the Rothschild's dating back to the Napoleonic War.
They were paid off in 2014. The reason they were outstanding for so long is that the interest rate was ridiculously low.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:50 am to MountainTiger
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So, as counterintuitive as it may sound, -1/12th is an actual answer (though not necessarily the answer).
I never said it wasn't an answer. I just said it was wrong, which it is.
Nope, it is in fact minus 1/12. As he said, the proof crucially depends on the series being infinite. If you ever "stop" then the sum is of course a really big positive number.
There are several Youtube videos showing why. This one is probably easiest to understand but they cut some corners to make it easy. The math does hold up though, a more rigorous treatment is here.
Also, 1 cubed + 2 cubed + 3 cubed etc. = 1/120
1 squared + 2 squared + 3 squared etc. = 0
Here is another one.
This post was edited on 11/10/17 at 12:05 pm
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:59 am to Displaced
100/81 = 1.23456790 repeating
Posted on 11/10/17 at 2:19 pm to Displaced
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There are 71 streets in Atlanta with Peachtree in the name.
I would have thought there were more.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 2:30 pm to georgia
Related, I guess, Nigerian goats have great milk but can be a pain. Sort of like Donkeys--which will attack something if it looks weird or threatening to them.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 2:59 pm to foshizzle
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Also, 1 cubed + 2 cubed + 3 cubed etc. = 1/120
1 squared + 2 squared + 3 squared etc. = 0
Judging by the up/down votes, infinite series aren’t a strong suit of the people in this thread.
1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 + 1/9 ... = pi/4
A series of rational numbers summed up to an irrational number.
1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 ... = 1/2
1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 ... = -1
1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 ... = 1
This post was edited on 11/10/17 at 3:43 pm
Posted on 11/10/17 at 7:14 pm to SlapahoeTribe
An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one orders a beer. The second one orders half a beer. The third one orders a fourth of a beer. The bartender stops them, pours two beers and says, "You should know your limits."
Posted on 11/10/17 at 7:18 pm to Chucktown_Badger
To get from Detroit, Michigan to Windsor, Canada you go south.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 8:39 pm to gjackx
I would have thought there were 71 streets in Atlanta not named peachtree
Posted on 11/10/17 at 8:50 pm to gthog61
Reno, NV is further west than Los Angeles.
El Paso is closer to San Diego than it is to Houston.
El Paso is closer to San Diego than it is to Houston.
This post was edited on 11/10/17 at 8:52 pm
Posted on 11/10/17 at 9:12 pm to TigersFan64
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Mao Tse-Tung suffered periods of severe constipation during his lifetime, and used to sit in fields where crops were fertilized with human dung because he thought the smell tended to loosen his bowels.
Which led him to change his name to Must See-Dung
Posted on 11/10/17 at 10:28 pm to Displaced
when traveling from the Pacific to the Atlantic through the Panama Canal, a ship will primarily be pointed North Northwest
Posted on 11/10/17 at 10:43 pm to chinhoyang
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Roger Ebert and Oprah Winfrey went on a couple dates in the mid-1980s. It was Roger who convinced her to syndicate her talk show.
He also eventually married a black woman.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:00 pm to TigersFan64
quote:Britain still has bonds outstanding from the Napoleonic wars. They are perpetual, and never mature.
That is indeed amazing that Britain is still paying interest on loans that old.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:24 pm to Displaced
If you took all of the concrete used to construct the Hoover Dam and stacked it vertically, you could halt the flow of the Colorado River.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:30 pm to JPinLondon
Wait, what?
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