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[TWILIGHT-OP]

I am bored so creating this thread, just in case I get some new facts

*Here's mine
The Great Pyramid of Giza encodes the speed of light to seven decimal places.
The speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s, and the coordinates of the Great Pyramid of Giza are 29.9792458°N

 

[Mahek_The_Assassin_Silent_Killer]

Wikipedia is really useful for facts in general (even scary stuff though welp)

Case in point:
Botulinum is the most lethal toxin (only behind radiation and radioactive substances, particularly Mendelevium)
Prions are the deadliest diseases (100% fatal with no cure or treatment)
Bubonic plague has killed the most people out of any natural disaster in general (COVID is #5 on deadliest pandemics)
There's also a list of deadliest wars, regimes, etc which have contributed to death tolls via man-made/anthropogenic (at times overlapping with natural through famines, floods, diseases, etc) disasters

Median lethal dose - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

List of human disease case fatality rates - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

List of natural disasters by death toll - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Draft:List of anthropogenic disasters by death toll - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I also have this to say:

List of ongoing armed conflicts - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I tried to calculate the total death toll for every conflict listed in the above article by adding the cumulative fatalities for each conflict over the span of each conflict's duration (using the lower and higher estimates respectively for those with a range of fatality estimates)... and this is the result.

8,517,509 - 16,199,753.

Between 8 million and 16 million lives.

To put this into perspective, these conflicts, which are STILL ONGOING TODAY, have caused 13.234% - 25.170%, or in other words, 1/7.556 - 1/3.973 (rounding off to 3 decimal places) the geometric mean number of fatalities during WW2.

I apologise in advance for everyone who sees this, but let me repeat this for emphasis, with simpler figures (cutting down on decimals and rounding up denominators for fractions):

These conflicts, STILL ONGOING AS WE SPEAK, have caused between 1/8 and 1/4 the number of fatalities during WW2.

 

[Arceus0x]

Fun fact, I am rapidly approaching your location right now. Start running.

 

[Theglassman12]

Fun fact, the Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

 

[Ar1216789]

Fun Fact: I love horror movies - currently watching this masterpiece. I finished the first and second movie in a day.

yes fun fact is about me

 

[Wankbreaker]

Fun fact: Goku is real and beats fiction and real life

 

[Ar1216789]

Fun fact: Goku is real and beats fiction and real life

 

[GarrixianXD]

The Chinese Civil War never officially ended; China (PRC) and Taiwan (ROC) are politically analogous to that of North and South Korea, in terms of sovereignty. Except there is one difference, that there can only be one Chinese state recognised by the UN and that is the PRC, which was the entire impetus for why Taiwanese separatism even sparked in the first place.

 

[Mahek_The_Assassin_Silent_Killer]

The Chinese Civil War never officially ended; China (PRC) and Taiwan (ROC) are politically analogous to that of North and South Korea, in terms of sovereignty. Except there is one difference, that there can only be one Chinese state recognised by the UN and that is the PRC, which was the entire impetus for why Taiwanese separatism even sparked in the first place.

Oh yeah the one-country vs two-country debate

 

[Mahek_The_Assassin_Silent_Killer]

Fun fact, I am rapidly approaching your location right now. Start running.

Better yet, take the ThrustSSC.

 

[Mahek_The_Assassin_Silent_Killer]

Better yet, take the ThrustSSC.

ThrustSSC - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Car with jet engines, broke the sound barrier on land.

Fun fact, I am rapidly approaching your location right now. Start running.

Or you can start diving from space and break the sound barrier with your own body like Felix Baumgartner.

Felix Baumgartner - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Mahek_The_Assassin_Silent_Killer]

^I edited the message please refresh the page

 

[Homie890]

Fun fact: Sharks are cute!

 

[Woomica]

Garrixian peder

 

[Mahek_The_Assassin_Silent_Killer]

Garrixian peder

Hi

Fun fact: Sharks are cute!

I guess this would be sorta subjective (and depends on types of sharks)
Younger and smaller sharks would be cuter, adult and bigger sharks would be scarier (especially sand tiger sharks personally)
Only exceptions I can think of for big sharks being scary are the cute filter-feeding sharks (especially the whale shark)

 

[Arceus0x]

Fun fact: Sharks are cute!

Not really a fact, thinking that an animal is cute is subjective, meaning thet it isn't a fact. A fact would be that the white shark has a fin

 

[Epiccheev]

I wanna pet a capybara so bad. They are way too cute

 

[Arceus0x]

I wanna pet a capybara so bad. They are way too cute

they also poop a ton and mostly in water so unless you have a cleanable pond and money to buy lots of hay as well as a partner (capys like being in pairs at the very least) don't do it.

 

[Epiccheev]

Owning them is also illegal in my country, so yeah, i just wanna pet one to know how it feels like and leave.

 

[RandomGuy2345]

The ear has over 100 different pressure points, and each pressure point is linked to a different part of your body

 

[Epiccheev]

Botulinum Toxin is currently the most toxic substance known to man, as even a small dose of 1 nanogram per kilogram can kill a human. Even an intravenous dose of just 10-7g should be enough to kill a 70kg person.

 

[Homie890]

they also poop a ton and mostly in water so unless you have a cleanable pond and money to buy lots of hay as well as a partner (capys like being in pairs at the very least) don't do it.

and don't forget they have an mite that carries lethal diseases(Or smthng like that)

 

[Mahek_The_Assassin_Silent_Killer]

Botulinum Toxin is currently the most toxic substance known to man, as even a small dose of 1 nanogram per kilogram can kill a human. Even an intravenous dose of just 10-7g should be enough to kill a 70kg person.

I actually mentioned this already

Wikipedia is really useful for facts in general (even scary stuff though welp)

Case in point:
Botulinum is the most lethal toxin (only behind radiation and radioactive substances, particularly Mendelevium)
Prions are the deadliest diseases (100% fatal with no cure or treatment)
Bubonic plague has killed the most people out of any natural disaster in general (COVID is #5 on deadliest pandemics)
There's also a list of deadliest wars, regimes, etc which have contributed to death tolls via man-made/anthropogenic (at times overlapping with natural through famines, floods, diseases, etc) disasters

Median lethal dose - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

List of human disease case fatality rates - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

List of natural disasters by death toll - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Draft:List of anthropogenic disasters by death toll - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I also have this to say:

List of ongoing armed conflicts - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I tried to calculate the total death toll for every conflict listed in the above article by adding the cumulative fatalities for each conflict over the span of each conflict's duration (using the lower and higher estimates respectively for those with a range of fatality estimates)... and this is the result.

8,517,509 - 16,199,753.

Between 8 million and 16 million lives.

To put this into perspective, these conflicts, which are STILL ONGOING TODAY, have caused 13.234% - 25.170%, or in other words, 1/7.556 - 1/3.973 (rounding off to 3 decimal places) the geometric mean number of fatalities during WW2.

I apologise in advance for everyone who sees this, but let me repeat this for emphasis, with simpler figures (cutting down on decimals and rounding up denominators for fractions):

These conflicts, STILL ONGOING AS WE SPEAK, have caused between 1/8 and 1/4 the number of fatalities during WW2.

Botulinum Toxin is currently the most toxic substance known to man, as even a small dose of 1 nanogram per kilogram can kill a human. Even an intravenous dose of just 10-7g should be enough to kill a 70kg person.

I'll help you with a more morbid fact:
Assuming everyone in the world weighed 100 kg, it'd still only take 0.8 kg (800 grams, less than a 1 litre carton of water or milk) of botulinum type A to kill 8 billion people on Earth.

References for Common Feats

Throughout fiction and real life, there have been numerous feats demonstrating a certain character's or object's destructive power. This page's purpose is to consolidate calculations for those feats for better convenience in determining an object's or character's Attack Potency or Durability...

vsbattles.fandom.com

^and since this says the average human weight is 62kg, going again by the assumption that everyone weighs 62kg, it'd take 0.496kg (496 grams, or less than 0.5 kg) of botulinum type A to kill 8 billion people.

Jon Brower Minnoch - Wikipedia

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The heaviest person on Earth ^ weighed 635 kg.
Now, again (though this might be absurd) let's imagine that everyone weighed 635kg.
It'd still only take 5.08 kg of botulinum type A to kill 8 billion people.

Also, if you multiply those weights of botulinum by 2 for each scenario, that's how much tetanospasmin (the toxin that causes tetanus, since that's 2 ng/kg for LD50) is needed to kill 8 billion people.

Also, I mentioned that radioactive substances are still more toxic.

Mendelevium - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

While the ingestion limit for mendelevium is 2.48 nanograms, the inhalation limit for mendelevium is equivalent to 16.5 picograms.

So relatively, assuming the same scenarios of everyone weighing the same weight again, here's how much we need to kill 8 billion people via inhalation of mendelevium:

Everyone weighing 100kg = about 0.01248 kg, aka about 12.48 grams, of mendelevium.

Everyone weighing 62kg = about 0.0077376 kg, aka about 7.7376 grams, of mendelevium.

Everyone weighing 635kg = about 0.079248 kg, aka about 79.248 grams, of mendelevium.

 

[TartaChocholate]

Fun fact, the Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

Fun fact: That fun fact was the main plot of Parasite Eve.

 

[DaReaperMan]

McDonald's has a secret menu item called the "McGangBang", a burger that is a McChicken inside a McDouble, buns and all!

 

[Vzearr]

McDonald's has a secret menu item called the "McGangBang", a burger that is a McChicken inside a McDouble, buns and all!

Freaky ah name.

 

[ShockingPsychic]

Peeping Tom (1960) is considered the first horror film to put the viewer into the killer's POV

 

[Arceus0x]

Peeping Tom (1960) is considered the first horror film to put the viewer into the killer's POV

You'd relate I assume