What’s one fact that blows your mind?

[Fäthër Cörpsë]

I like this paradox: A gamesman shows you three covered boxes. Two are empty and one contains a million dollars. You can keep the contents of the box you pick. You make your pick. Now you know that at least one of the other boxes is empty. The gamesman shows you an empty box. Now you are left with an empty box and one with a million dollars. The gamesman now asks you if you would like to switch boxes. Here most people would say that it makes no difference if the player switches boxes because the odds are even. However you would be wrong. It would be better to switch boxes since that would improve your odds. Try to figure it out.

I know this one! It’s conditional probability. You have 33.33% of selecting right the first pick. When you are shown an empty box of one of the ones you didn’t pick, you add the value of that box to your next pick, for 66.67% chance the second box will have the money. Your first choice retains the 33.33% the entire time. So you favorably increase your odds to switch boxes.

 

[Mikeman]

I was the winner

Share the most weird, strange, interesting, disturbing and mind-blowing facts.

I was the sole winner out of a billion sperm cells within my daddy's ball sack.

 

[Soul Shiver]

That Tamerlane/Timur launched an invasion of Iraq and beheaded 90,000 Muslim scholars, effectively being the reason for Islam being primitive and kinda tardy

 

[lechmich]

That Medieval was banned after a hundred odd posts

 

[Vallrain]

TLDR, 10000 years ago a 2 million year ice age ended.

That 10,000 years ago an ice age was broken that lasted millions of years 2ish million, the ice age that allowed humans to migrate across the continent because humans are only 300,000 years old whereas most continents drifted apart drifted over 50 million years ago that was ten fucking thousand years ago, the Ice Age literally just ended.

The same Ice Age that was the cause for humanities complacency the reason we couldn't advance technology the frozen roads of ice ironically allowed humans to scatter to all corners of the globe including Australia that could have been abbo free if only wolves migrated too lol, when this ice melted it locked cultures away from each other for thousands of years fucking insane.

 

[1Stinkbean]

I finally learned how blind people know when they’re done wiping their asses. Now I don’t have to walk around with my eyes open because I've seen it all.

 

[Entiedavittu]

Share the most weird, strange, interesting, disturbing and mind-blowing facts.

The stupidity of people. Including myself also. 🥱

 

[Lovinight]

Oil is not fossil fuel, it is renewable, the earth creates it, it would be seeping up all over if we weren't pimping it out of the ground.

There is as much fresh water under our feet as saltwater in all our oceans.

There is a group of scumbags who call themselves elite (they are the richest welfare recipients ever) who control the world and want us all dead!

 

[mrln]

its impossible to hum,while holding your nose.
you tried it.

the eiffel tower grows taller in the summer.
because of heat.

"snaple facts" arent really true.

adult cats only meow to humans. not other cats.

lego mini-figures have the largest population on earth.​

a glass ball can bounce higher than a rubber ball.

 

[j.f.🔎]

I'm amazed there is adults that decide to live their lives according to really old books and are afraid of what some mythical cloud person might think.

 

[I.P. Freely]

There have been at least 8 total life extinctions on this planet. Those have been proven. Imagine how many haven't been discovered and recorded yet.

 

[chewbok]

jet fuel cant melt steel beams

Nope but it can heat it enough to bend…

 

[Interregnum]

Nope but it can heat it enough to bend…

and how do you explain sun landing in the 60s?

 

[savgbeast]

John Tyler, the 10th U.S. president, was born in 1790. He was in office 1841 - 1845.

He still has one living grandchild: Harrison Ruffin Tyler.

 

[Amalgamation]

... that people don't read threads before posting

 

[D.O.A.]

I finally learned how blind people know when they’re done wiping their asses. Now I don’t have to walk around with my eyes open because I've seen it all.

 

[Dwyer]

Sometimes, I think about the fact that psychology is essentially the brain seeking to understand how other brains function... much like a neurosurgeon operating on someone else’s brain.

That neurosurgeon is just a brain that happens to know how to fix other brains. So in psychology, it’s one brain studying another, analysing thoughts, emotions, and behaviour.

By thinking about this, my brain is actually studying other brains that study brains.

And now, by reading this, your brain is thinking about my brain studying other brains that study other brains.

 

[Imi]

How about three.
1. Mayflower passenger John Howland fell overboard during a storm but was able to grab a line and was saved. He has over a million descendants including presidents, actors, poets, writers and professional athletes.

2. Abraham Lincoln’s son Robert Todd was saved from death by John Wilkes Booth’s brother Edwin Booth after Todd slipped on a train platform into the path of a moving train.

3. Henry Tandey had Hitler in his gun sights during WW1 but didn’t kill him because Adolph was injured and the battle was over.

3. Adolf Hitler was very lucky not only in World War I but also after it
There were several assassination attempts planned against him but in Munich either Hitler left earlier than expected suddenly against his will and the bomb exploded killing innocent people in the beer hall, or it exploded one and a half meters from his feet in the July 20 assassination but the map table was too thick and protected his life and the bomb did not explode completely but the destruction was still huge
The first assassin was put in a concentration camp by Hitler and he died there of illness perhaps in 1944, but because of the July 20 assassination the Gestapo ordered a huge investigation during which about 5000 German people were taken into custody including high ranking generals (for example Erwin Rommel) and about 4500 of them were executed

My list
1. The fall of the Third Reich and the suicide of Adolf Hitler (I haven't heard such excellent speeches lately.)
2. The murder of Stalin and the fall of the Soviet Union
3. Any kind of organized criminal activity
4. I hate Gipsyes and Jews,Italians.American Italians. Raff criminals and international terrorists
5. I hate the capitalist system so much, too cruel to socialism and oppressive, doesn't care about people, even lets them die
Not to mention that those who don't work they live perfectly because they cheat the system which also gives them the opportunity to do so, and those who do work live on slavery minimum wage
6. Male - Female prostitution.I'm not talking about the porn industry here, but about prostitution that affects the civilian population, which will have unforeseeable consequences.
7. Homosexuals.In general, it is a very problematic society, especially with male homosexuals, there are a lot of problems towards heterosexuals.
8. Drug and steroid dealers.
You can avoid psychiatry for life from drugs and taking medication for drug-induced diseases
Steroids will definitely cause early cancer
The minimum sentence would be 15 years in prison or hard labor, which is what I would give in both cases

 

[Imi]

Oh yes, I forgot:
And I don't like those sneaky Americans who are no different than the Jews, the same capitalist and terrorist gang, only not racially anti-Semitic but white, who murder or made slave their own European ancestors because they think they are superior, and everyone knows that the USA is a second Israel in many ways, not just in terms of population
Neither the American nor the Jew has any right to interfere in the private affairs of other countries because it is not happening on their land, but despite this, the inhabitants of both countries are very much world imperialists

 

[mrln]

the fact that my dream i had lastnite will never come true.
i lived near car dealerships. they dealt with selling chevelles,camaros and trans ams. 70's versions.