Fact O' The Day

[Krandall]

'The same man who invented the lie detector also invented a famous comic book heroine. '

In 1915, William Marston, a Harvard grad student, invented a machine that measured one's blood pressure along a graph that corresponded to the person being asked certain questions. Thus, Marston became known as the father of the polygraph. However, according to History Channel Magazine, Marston also believed men were destined to destroy civilization and that women needed to assume power. To support this idea, in 1941 his other invention debuted in D.C. Comics: Wonder Woman.

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'The odds of seeing a perfect baseball game are lower than the odds you'll meet a man named Mary. '

Though on Sunday Dallas Braden became the 19th man in baseball history to pitch a perfect game, the odds of seeing another one are so low (1 in 11,500) that you really are more likely to bump into a man named "Mary." (1 in 11,100).

This fact comes to you courtesy of Book Of Odds -- a compendium of strange and funny daily probabilities.

[Krandall]

'The longest Game 7 in NHL history lasted halfway into the fourth overtime. '

The NHL's longest-ever series-clinching Game 7 occurred in 1987, in a quarterfinal showdown between the Washington Capitals and New York Islanders. The score sat tied at 2-2 until the 8:47 mark of the fourth overtime period, when Islanders star Pat Lafontaine scored to put an end to the game. Islanders goalie Kelly Hrudey finished the marathon game with an astonishing 73 saves.

[Krandall]

'The fastest hat trick in NHL playoff history required just 3 minutes and 24 seconds.'
Longtime Philadelphia Flyers forward Tim Kerr holds the NHL playoff record for the fastest three goals scored in a single game, scoring a hat trick in just 3:24 during the 1985 playoffs.

Astonishingly, the record for the fastest three goals in a regular season game belongs to Chicago Blackhawks forward Bill Mosienko, who in 1952 scored a hat trick in a simply incredible 21 seconds against the New York Rangers.

[Krandall]

'The Seven Deadly Sins began as the Eight Evil Thoughts. '

Contrary to popular assumption, the "Seven Deadly Sins" did not originate in the Christian Bible; they don't even appear in the Bible. Rather, they were hatched by a 4th century Greek monk and initially they were eight and included vainglory, sadness and fornication. Over the next several centuries, both popes and poets reshaped the sins that are said to earn the sinner eternal damnation into wrath, greed, lust, envy, sloth, gluttony, and pride.

[dragonz]

I gottsa gets me sum of thet fornication stuff

[Hefe]

<--- this guy likes tha fornication with tha ladiez

[Peelz]

I gottsa gets me sum of thet fornication stuff

where do you buy that at?

[Krandall]

'About 1 in every 100,000 U.S. men will develop penile cancer. '


At significantly higher risk are uncircumcised men, although science can't say why. In the early stages, penile cancer can be treated and even cured with surgery and/or chemotherapy, but partial amputation becomes a viable solution in the upper stages. Stage IV penile cancer is considered terminal.

[Hefe]

any penile cancer is terminal!

[Krandall]

'Over 40% of unplanned pregnancies in the U.S. result from incorrect use of contraception. '


Every year in the United States there are an estimated 6.1 million pregnancies, with roughly half that number being unplanned. As a consequence, 1.3 million end as abortions and another 800,000 end as miscarriages, leaving about a million unplanned and unintended births each year. A mere 5% of these unplanned pregnancies occurred even when the couple used contraception properly and it failed. Among unplanned pregnancies, 43% didn't use contraception correctly and the rest, 52%, didn't use any. In other words, 95% of unplanned pregnancies are preventable.


See aaron for example...

No Aaron, That's not for balloon animals. 

[Colorado700R]

Lydia like's how my giraffe tickles

[Peelz]

so what you are saying...is potentially 95% of us are mistakes?    

[Colorado700R]

so what you are saying...is potentially 95% of us are mistakes?    

Not only that, your the poster child for "Never shake a baby"

[Krandall]

'The first movie theater in America opened its doors in 1902.'

Tally's Electric Theater is widely considered to be the first "dedicated movie house" ever built, and it went up in 1902 in -- where else -- Los Angeles. It consisted of a sheet hanging down in front of several rows of benches. The opulent theaters of the 1920s and 1930s didn't really come along until Harlem's Regent Theater opened in 1913.

[Krandall]

'We don't "see stars" after a hit to the head - we see neurons firing spontaneously.'

When we "see stars" after getting hit in the head or even after standing up too quickly, what we're actually seeing are neurons in the brain's visual cortex that have undergone a drastic change in their levels of oxygen. The head's movement forces blood in and out of tiny capillaries, and the neurons closest to those blood vessels will fire off before other neurons. Our brain's visual cortex can't make much sense of these independent and isolated signals except to interpret them as forms of light.