Strange But True #17

More facts to boggle the mind. Hope you enjoy!

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1. The TI-83 calculator has about six times as much processing power as the computers that landed the Apollo 11 on the moon.

2. If "The Simpsons" had aged realistically, Bart would now be as old as Marge in the first season.

3. If the human brain were a computer, it could perform 38 thousand-trillion operations per second. The world’s most powerful supercomputer, BlueGene, can manage only .002% of that.

4. There is a garbage swirl in the Pacific Ocean the size of Texas.

5. You have a 1 in 200 chance of being related to Genghis Khan.

6. It takes a photon around 200,000 years to travel from the center of the sun to the surface. It takes only 8 minutes to travel from the surface to your eyes.

7. Of all the people in history that have reached 65+ in age, half are currently alive.

8. More people in the world currently suffer from obesity than hunger.

9. Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.

10. Airplane food doesn't tase very good because our sense of taste and smell decreases by 20-50% during flights.

Comments

[Mystical Rainboom]

I actually remember hearing that last one XD

[BradyBunch]

You have no idea how much I love these posts. This is great!

[LightOfTriumph]

1. So my Switch can go warp speed of it wasn't playing FF9.

2. No comment here. Neat to know.

3. Hence why the Cybermen remain a thing.

4. Knew that one, honestly not worried.

5. Damn .... Dude got around.

6. Beauracracy, I tells ya.

7. GO MOM!!!

8. My brother would like to inform you that at 5'8" and around 260 pounds that he isn't suffering Jack shit.

9. Was going to say "citation needed" but then aforementioned brother showed me documentation. And my mother with a potassium deficiency. Go figure.

10. God it must suck to be a Airplane chef.

[totallynotabrony]

Related to point 1, I recently learned that Apollo 10, that orbited the moon, was almost fully outfitted like the missions that would later land. However, the lander had been intentionally under-fueled to ensure that it would only be a dress rehearsal and cowboy pilots would not try to rewrite history.

Craig Nelson wrote in his book Rocket Men that NASA took special precaution to ensure Stafford and Cernan would not attempt to make the first landing. Nelson quoted Cernan as saying "A lot of people thought about the kind of people we were: 'Don't give those guys an opportunity to land, 'cause they might!' So the ascent module, the part we lifted off the lunar surface with, was short-fueled. The fuel tanks weren't full. So had we literally tried to land on the Moon, we couldn't have gotten off."

[Final fantasy forever]

So nice to get back to these. I love these facts