Random Facts

[~KAGE-008]

The objective of this thread is to post random facts about something.

STO: I saw on a magazine back in 2006 that a simple toothpaste can be used to treat hematoma marks.

 

[Dee]

Baking soda works great for getting rid of smells and keeping things fresh!

 

[~KAGE-008]

For some reason, an iDevice from 2011 CAN run some memory-demanding games. I know this since I'm an iPad 2 user. But not planning on upgrading it.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.

 

[~KAGE-008]

Android 4.0+ not only needed an OpenGL ES 2.0-compatible GPU, but required an ARMv7 processor despite it not being mentioned in the requirements (it was included for 4.4 KitKat). One of the main reasons why Chrome can't be installed on 2.3 and lower (this includes CM-based 4.0+ ROM's ported for ARMv6 though!).

 

[Enter Username Here]

A ladies lips color matches the same pigment as her nipples and vagina area.(Not trying to be perverted or inappropriate!) Just a neat fact I found out!

 

[Jazzy]

Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes.

An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.

In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

When George Lucas was mixing the American Graffiti soundtrack, he numbered the reels of film starting with an R and numbered the dialog starting with a D. Sound designer Walter Murch asked George for Reel 2, Dialog 2 by saying "R2D2". George liked the way that sounded so much he integrated that into another project he was working on.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.

Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.

Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.

They have square watermelons in Japan - they stack better.

 

[~KAGE-008]

Both the original iPhone and the iPhone 3G had the same processor speed (412 Mhz ARM11-compatible CPU), but due to the former being an old device at the time of iOS 4's release, only the 3G version got it. But due to the lower processor speed, it wasn't 100% stable when it came to interface performance, affecting games too.

 

[+paradox]

pizza is good...

 

[iMisterH]

'Typewriter' is the only word that you can type using only the top row of letters on the keyboard.

 

[+paradox]

'Typewriter' is the only word that you can type using only the top row of letters on the keyboard.

what about 'type' and 'writer'?

or 'write', 'you' and 'top'?

or 'to' and 'too'...

or 'we' and 'were'...

or 'pope' and 'putt'?

and of course, 'poop'...

sorry...

 

[~KAGE-008]

OpenGL ES 2.0 GPU's did make their place in ARMv6-compatible devices, but only a few of them run on those. It was first implemented on the iPhone 3GS which isn't ARMv6. Adreno 200 and VideoCore IV were the only ones to appear on older Android devices.

 

[Jazzy]

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

 

[~KAGE-008]

The Exynos 5433 chipset in the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 doesn't run in AArch64 mode, despite having four A57 and four A53 cores (both based on the ARMv8 architecture). Samsung is working on a better version of the SoC which will run in AArch64 mode fully, for the upcoming Galaxy S6.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Here's some:

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The "NOW" music albums started way back in 1983 on Vinyl and Cassette.
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Kate Winslet, who played Rose in Titanic, hates the song "My Heart Will Go On," and said it makes her feel "like throwing up."
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1 million earths could fit into the sun.
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The longest "left handed" words on a keyboard are "aftercataracts" and "tesseradecades."
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Robin Williams' ashes were scattered over San Francisco Bay.
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The "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy" episode of Spongebob aired 15 years ago.
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75% of cars that Rolls Royce has ever produced are still on the road today.
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A Pizzadog is a Pizza with sliced hot dogs as primary topping.
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Security researcher Charlie Miller used a flaw in Safari to break into a MacBook in under 10 seconds.
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LSD was legal in California until 1966.

 

[Jazzy]

Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

 

[~KAGE-008]

The upcoming Snapdragon 820 from Qualcomm will feature an octa-core ARMv8-based custom architecture (codenamed 'Kryo') rather than the big.LITTLE setup in Snapdragon 810. Also it'll feature a FinFET process, reducing the heat while improving performance over the SD810 and its ARMv7-A counterparts (801 and 805).

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

 

[~KAGE-008]

Reicast is the only '6th generation gaming' emulator that only needs a 1GHz dual-core ARMv7 processor to run on Android. This isn't the case with Dolphin though, it needs OpenGL ES 3.0+, 2GB of RAM and preferably a 64-bit ARMv8 processor to run games at a decent speed.