Did you know? (Post your strange facts, statistics etc, here)

[snotknocker]

If you look at your reflection on the back of a metal spoon it's normal. If you look at your reflection on the front of a metal spoon it's upside down. I recently discovered this by accident and was a little freaked that I never knew this. I told my 12 yr old son and he said he knew that happened since he was like 5. Just wondering if anybody else did not know about this.

Edit: It seems a lot of people do not know a lot of things. I thought it would be cool to edit this thread so you guys could post your strange facts, statistics or whatever else you would want other CAG to know

[XboxMaster]

No, I didn't know that. Now my life is changed forever. Thank you.

[Tromack]

Yeah, It has to do with the physics of the focal length of concave and convex mirrors, if I remember my highschool physics properly.

[Ericnmel99]

Thats amaizing. I know how to make your fingers look like its a dude scratching his but on the back of a spoon.

[snotknocker]

I know I'll never look at my spoons the same way again

[jmcc]

Aren't little surprises and discoveries in life awesome? Me, I'm currently being mindblown by the discovery that wet charcoal will self-ignite.

[Cornfedwb]

Yeah, It has to do with the physics of the focal length of concave and convex mirrors, if I remember my highschool physics properly.

Yes you do remeber correctly.

[XboxMaster]

Aren't little surprises and discoveries in life awesome? Me, I'm currently being mindblown by the discovery that wet charcoal will self-ignite.


:shock:

[guessed]

There is no spoon.

(somebody had to say it)

[snotknocker]

Yeah, It has to do with the physics of the focal length of concave and convex mirrors, if I remember my highschool physics properly.

I know the physics of it but I still never thought to look in a spoon as an example of it. My mind gets blown away by little shit like this that I never knew before but think that I should have

[Grave_Addiction]

Aren't little surprises and discoveries in life awesome? Me, I'm currently being mindblown by the discovery that wet charcoal will self-ignite.


:shock:

I will also give that one a :shock:

[bignick]

Thats so weird. Its like when I think of space, and whats out there, whats next, my mind shuts off, its like it over loaded or something.

[Grave_Addiction]

Thats so weird. Its like when I think of space, and whats out there, whats next, my mind shuts off, its like it over loaded or something.

I think that's because in life, we've always been taught that pretty much everything has a beginning and end. So it's too hard for us to imagine infinity and to comprehend it.

I know I have a hard time coming to grips with the possibility that space continues forever. I dunno, I just feel like it has to end somewhere, but then I ask myself, if space does, in fact, end somewhere, what is beyond that.

I just can't comprehend that space continues forever. Time for some Motrin!

[jmcc]

Aren't little surprises and discoveries in life awesome? Me, I'm currently being mindblown by the discovery that wet charcoal will self-ignite.


:shock:

I will also give that one a :shock:

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mwetcharcoal.html

[Fatesealer]

I just can't comprehend that space continues forever. Time for some Motrin!

I'm on the floor dying laughing right now, with teary eyes... [-o<

[snotknocker]

I think I'm stuck in a space and time continueum. I just can't seem to stop playing my NES

[1SwtDeception]

Aren't little surprises and discoveries in life awesome? Me, I'm currently being mindblown by the discovery that wet charcoal will self-ignite.

gotta try that.. :twisted:

[captainfrizo]

I didn't know about the spoon thing and just tried it. Pretty cool stuff.

[LV-426RS]

I looked at my spoon handle pointing down and sure enough I was upside down. Then I did a little scientific research and put it handle pointing up.... can you guess the results? I was the right side up!!!!

[Fatesealer]

I think I'm stuck in a space and time continueum. I just can't seem to stop playing my NES

...someone tell me why I spent most of the better half of this late morning playing Activision Anthology when I CLEARLY have games that are newer and better than this?

[Machine]

Is that why the Tick always yells "Spoon"?

[snotknocker]

I looked at my spoon handle pointing down and sure enough I was upside down. Then I did a little scientific research and put it handle pointing up.... can you guess the results? I was the right side up!!!!

Please ship me your spoon COD. I've looked at all my spoons and am upside down regardless of which way the handle is pointing.

<Goes to dig out mom's old silverware from the attic>

[snotknocker]

I think I'm stuck in a space and time continueum. I just can't seem to stop playing my NES

...someone tell me why I spent most of the better half of this late morning playing Activision Anthology when I CLEARLY have games that are newer and better than this?

old ways are like a ball and chain

[yeahokthenfu]

Never actually thought of this before but, I think of done it before this is a pretty cool thing, gonna check it out when I get off of work

[Derwood43]

I'm a little surprised that there has only been one Matrix comment. I'm more surprised by that than the fact that my reflection is upside down.

Wait...

What if we are all upside down and the spoon is right-side up? That means that everything we know is wrong. I'm going to need some time to deal with this startling revelation...

[Zenithian Legend]

No, I didn't know that. Now my life is changed forever. Thank you.

Me too :notworth:

[snotknocker]

No, I didn't know that. Now my life is changed forever. Thank you.

Me too :notworth:

I'm just so happy that I can touch you guys this way with my freakish little discoveries

[Zenithian Legend]

No, I didn't know that. Now my life is changed forever. Thank you.

Me too :notworth:

I'm just so happy that I can touch you guys this way with my freakish little discoveries

Well it's better than another bird getting you, speaking of which did you ever take revenge upon anything with feathers?

[Tromack]

No, I didn't know that. Now my life is changed forever. Thank you.

Me too :notworth:

I'm just so happy that I can touch you guys this way with my freakish little discoveries

Saying that in my head just sound so wrong and creepy.

[snotknocker]

No, I didn't know that. Now my life is changed forever. Thank you.

Me too :notworth:

I'm just so happy that I can touch you guys this way with my freakish little discoveries

Well it's better than another bird getting you, speaking of which did you ever take revenge upon anything with feathers?

Please ZL don't touch my sore spot

[snotknocker]

No, I didn't know that. Now my life is changed forever. Thank you.

Me too :notworth:

I'm just so happy that I can touch you guys this way with my freakish little discoveries

Saying that in my head just sound so wrong and creepy.

Say this in your head a couple of times. "Snotknocker is a heterosexual....Snotknocker is a heterosexual"
that will make it better

[GuilewasNK]

G.I.Joe Duke says....

http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/Death-Overdue/duke7.jpghttp://www.quicksilverweb.net/list2/2dwayne.jpg

Knowing is half the battle!! (And The Rock stole the People's eyebrow from me!!)

[snotknocker]

ok .... fess up. Who's been looking at their spoons the last couple of days?

[Graystone]

So does this work as well with the plastic ones, they are shiny enough to see a reflection sort of.

[snotknocker]

So does this work as well with the plastic ones, they are shiny enough to see a reflection sort of.

I would think so. Try it and let us know. I have no plastic cutlery

[LV-426RS]

So does this work as well with the plastic ones, they are shiny enough to see a reflection sort of.

I would think so. Try it and let us know. I have no plastic cutlery

cutlery? Almost as good as people calling plastic eating utinsels silverware.

*EDIT* silly me... Upon a little research I found that cutlery does include forks and spoons. And all this time I thought it was just knives. Pardon my ignorance.

[snotknocker]

So does this work as well with the plastic ones, they are shiny enough to see a reflection sort of.

I would think so. Try it and let us know. I have no plastic cutlery

cutlery? Almost as good as people calling plastic eating utinsels silverware.

*EDIT* silly me... Upon a little research I found that cutlery does include forks and spoons. And all this time I thought it was just knives. Pardon my ignorance.

It seems quite appropriate that you found this out through a thread titled Did you know? Did any of you other CAG not know that cutlery does include forks and spoons? hmmm?

[legion_stxds]

Here's your sign.

[LV-426RS]

Here's your sign.

New jokes that way --->

[snotknocker]

Here's your sign.

Huh?

[LV-426RS]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002N85/103-1300464-9786268?v=glance

from 1996. A redneck comedian thought of something and then everyone started saying it.

[legion_stxds]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002N85/103-1300464-9786268?v=glance

from 1996. A redneck comedian thought of something and then everyone started saying it.

Thet are frickin hillarious! :lol:

[Darke Katt]

Since I'm a big Discovery Channel/Animal Planet nut, how about the fact that the Duck-billed Platypus is actually one of the top-ranking most poisonous creatures? It has barbs on the inside of its back legs that can pack a serious wallop.

[snotknocker]

Did you know sixteen people in the United States die each day waiting for a life-saving organ transplant ? With so many other people dying each day I don't think people waiting for transplants should be dying. I need to do something about this.

[snotknocker]

Since I'm a big Discovery Channel/Animal Planet nut, how about the fact that the Duck-billed Platypus is actually one of the top-ranking most poisonous creatures? It has barbs on the inside of its back legs that can pack a serious wallop.

I did not know that DK....thanks, very interesting. I think this thread could turn into a plithering of knowledge for me

[Darke Katt]

Since I'm a big Discovery Channel/Animal Planet nut, how about the fact that the Duck-billed Platypus is actually one of the top-ranking most poisonous creatures? It has barbs on the inside of its back legs that can pack a serious wallop.

I did not know that DK....thanks, very interesting. I think this thread could turn into a plithering of knowledge for me

Indeed. I shall give all (or most, anyway) of the animal facts, maybe a few normal things here and there. :3

[Ikohn4ever]

Did you know that there 7 people in the US that are legally allowed to smoke pot, and they are given their supply by the US government itself.

[snotknocker]

Did you know that there 7 people in the US that are legally allowed to smoke pot, and they are given their supply by the US government itself.

Where did you get this strange fact?

[Ikohn4ever]

it was on a penn and teller show, they had a guy smokin a joint infront of the capital or something. They showed his big coffee tin full of government joints

[Graystone]

the most popular fruits in the US
1. apple
2. orange
3. banana

[Graystone]

The tallest tree on the planet, a giant redwood that soars 370 feet into the California sky, is still growing.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

When possums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

okay I will leave you alone now.

[epobirs]

Did you know that the state of science education in the US is apparently gone to hell in a handbasket?

[snotknocker]

Did you know that I'm donating all my organs when I die? and that I got very little sleep last night because I scored I-Ninja for P2 and XII ( assault rifles w/grenade launchers are cool) for Xbox from EB esterday. The offer is good in store. $19.06 for both. Woo- hoo, la la la la la