Bizarre info thread

[RADIOACTIVE MAN]

nikes slogan was inspired by the serial killer Gary Gilmore,who's last words were "lets do this" while being executed

[check two]

Scientists believe that some species of bacteria that reside in clouds evolved the ability to induce rain showers to spread themselves over the earth.

[Mumm Ra]

Hip Hop has only 8 certified Diamond albums (10mil + sold)
-MC Hammer - Please Hammer, Don't Hurt em
-2Pac - Greatest Hits
-Eminem - The Eminem Show
-Notorious BIG - Life After Death
-Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
-2Pac - All Eyez On Me
-Outkast - Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below
-Beastie Boys - License To Illl was just announced Diamond yesterday, and is the only Diamond rap album from the 80s

also bizarre info....

Chingy's Jackpot album went triple platinum

[The Hound]

4 of those are double albums too, isn't that counted as 5 million each disc?

[Mumm Ra]

good point - yes they are

Multi-disc[edit]
Multi-disc albums are counted once for each disc within the album if it is over 100 minutes in length or is from the vinyl era. For example, each copy of The Smashing Pumpkins's Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (running time of 121:39), OutKast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (running time of 134:56), and Shania Twain's Up! (145:44), all double albums, were counted twice, meaning each album was certified diamond after 5 million copies were shipped. Pink Floyd's The Wall and The Beatles' White Album, both vinyl-era, are also counted double even though their running times are under the minimum requirement.

[RADIOACTIVE MAN]

there is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100 000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans

[Sky Blue Bally Kid]

Introverts produce more saliva than extroverts

Your brain makes decisions up to 10 seconds before you're even aware of it. Some scientists claim this is evidence that free will is just an illusion.

A study showed watching Spongebob for just 9 minutes had a immediate negative influence on kid's attention, memory and problem solving skills.

Memories can be so easily manipulated that a study took place in which researchers were able to convince 70% of participants in under 3 hours that they committed a crime that never happened. The participants not only confessed but gave accurate details of experiences that never happened.

Researchers estimate that if there was a zombie outbreak in New York, everyone would be zombies in 24 hours. People outside the cities would have a month to prepare. The northern rockies would be the safest place to be.

We are currently consuming more chocolate than we can produce. It is estimated that in 20 years chocolate will be as rare as something like caviare.

[RADIOACTIVE MAN]

Hitler will be the first human being aliens see

the first television signal with a high enough frequency to reach space was nazi germanys broadcast of the 1936 olympic opening ceremony,in total, the germany post office broadcast 72 hours of live television at 180 lines and 25 frames per second.

signals below 50 mhz are usually reflected by earths ionosphere,but some lowe frequencies like hitlers 40mhz broadcast can break through .

it is now about 78 lightyears away

[RADIOACTIVE MAN]

the cost of body parts in the black market
hand and fore arm=$385
pints of blood=$25 to $337
pair of eyeballs=$1525
coronery artery=$1525
small intestine=$2519
heart=$119,000
liver=$157,000
kidney=$262,000
skin=$10 per square inch
bone marrow=$23,000 per gram

[RADIOACTIVE MAN]

While he was a Colorado Springs police officer, Ron Stallworth successfully infiltrated the KKK, even though he was black.

he went undercover and infiltrated the Colorado Ku Klux Klan, becoming not only the leader of his local chapter, but even playing the organization’s Grand Wizard for a fool. He uncovered not only the Klan’s plans around the country, but also the involvement of a significant number of military personnel from nearby bases.

[The Hound]

In Alaska, wood frogs freeze for seven months, thaw and hop away

http://www.latimes.com/science/scien...723-story.html

While he was a Colorado Springs police officer, Ron Stallworth successfully infiltrated the KKK, even though he was black.

he went undercover and infiltrated the Colorado Ku Klux Klan, becoming not only the leader of his local chapter, but even playing the organization’s Grand Wizard for a fool. He uncovered not only the Klan’s plans around the country, but also the involvement of a significant number of military personnel from nearby bases.

Lol I saw that KKK video. Lol @ the KKK trying to take over the Dominican Republic

[RADIOACTIVE MAN]

a Nazi who escaped prosecution

aribert heim was a Nazi doctor who injected petrol into patients hearts and ripped out their organs without anastesia and used their skulls as paper weights. he was released in 1947 and continued to practice medicine but got indicted in 1962 and disappeared to Egypt where he lived a free life and converted to islam taking the name tarek huseim farid until he died in 1992 without spending a day in the justice penal system

[RADIOACTIVE MAN]

Churchill covered up ufo sightings in world war 2 to avert mass panic,raf pilots reported a triangle shaped craft hovering beside their planes near the Uk coast.

-in 1962, the pentagon hid the loss of an hydrogen bomb from an aircrash, declearing the clear up complete, they left 1 bomb buried beneath the ice in Greenland

-exposed in 1972, US studies hid syphilis diagnoses and denied treatment to 399 patients, 128 men died of the illess or related complications during the 40 year study

-the US government covered up the 1968 murders of 504 unarmed Vietnamese civilians, the only soldier arrested for the my lai massacre spent only 3 days in jail

[RADIOACTIVE MAN]

1 in 100 people have autism which causes social and language problems,it might be linked to abnormally fast brain growth in childhood and parts of the brain being easily over stimulated

-a woman is likely pregnant when she develops a heightened sense of smell

[RADIOACTIVE MAN]

The cartoon, the jetsons debuted in 1962 but was set in the year 2062, it accurately predicted future gadgets including flatscreen tvs, video conferencing,moving walkways and tanning beds

-in may 2015, a person of interest episode aired about a young male whistlerblower exposing the nsa agency and their surveillance tactics,a year later in june 2013, Edward snowden whistleblowed about NSA activities

-an episode of family guy depicts a failed suicide attempt by Robin Williams,a repeat episode was broadcast by bbc3 ,minutes before news broke out about his suicide

-in march 2001, the pilot episode of lone gunman depicts an hijacked plane being aimed towards the world trade center, the episode aired 6 months before 9/11 took place