Fact O' The Day

[Lady4Fiddy]

'In the U.S., two-thirds of second marriages and three-quarters of third ones end in divorce.'


These dismal statistics about second and third marriages in the United States are far less commonly published than those regarding first marriages (i.e., that half of them end in divorce). Regardless, they suggest that people who marry frequently tend not to learn from the mistakes made in prior relationships, instead bringing bad relationship habits with them from marriage to marriage.

Oh thanks for posting that... now I will never get married again.     

[Krandall]

cripes.



gtfo.

[Lady4Fiddy]

Fine I will get out, but I am heading to your place to carve a swastika on your forehead. 

[Krandall]

cool!

sounds like someone just saw Englorious Basterds

[Lady4Fiddy]

Yeah a while ago. And you mean Inglourious Basterds.   

[Krandall]

'Women living in stressful times give birth to more girls than boys. '


When times are tough -- during drought or famine, for instance, or even during a more modern-style calamity such as massive layoffs from a large company -- stress hormones in a woman's body have an influence on the sex of her child or children, should she have them at this time: Thanks to evolution, there's a slightly higher chance she'll have a girl, since daughters stand a better chance to reproduce during hard times than men do. Recently, UC Berkeley researchers discovered that stress hormones make the uterus slightly more hostile to a male fetus during tough times, and further, that the body will spontaneously abort more boys than girls.

[Hefe]

so... is your wife stressed?

[Lady4Fiddy]

'Women living in stressful times give birth to more girls than boys. '


When times are tough -- during drought or famine, for instance, or even during a more modern-style calamity such as massive layoffs from a large company -- stress hormones in a woman's body have an influence on the sex of her child or children, should she have them at this time: Thanks to evolution, there's a slightly higher chance she'll have a girl, since daughters stand a better chance to reproduce during hard times than men do. Recently, UC Berkeley researchers discovered that stress hormones make the uterus slightly more hostile to a male fetus during tough times, and further, that the body will spontaneously abort more boys than girls.

This is probably why I had 2 girls and one boy... I was stressed!

[Krandall]

'The record for the longest banzai skydive is 50 seconds.'


The rules for banzai skydiving are fairly simple: you have to jump from a height of at least 3,000 meters, and when you jump, you must do so without a parachute, since the key to banzai skydiving is seeing how long you can wait after having thrown your parachute out of the airplane before you jump out after it. In 2000, Yasuhiro Kubo claimed the record after waiting 50 seconds before jumping out and chasing down his gear.



holy hell

[Gunz]

I would have landed with wind blown shit all over me.

[funyun]

If you waited like 5 minutes then jumped after it and ended up dying do you still get the record?

[Peelz]

Holy $hit

when can we do this?  Lol

[Krandall]

'A statistically significant sports playoff series would have to be a "best of" at least 23 games.'


Pro hockey, baseball and basketball all use the best-of-5 or best-of-7 series formats in their playoffs. But according to Leonard Mlodinow in The Drunkard's Walk, even between teams that aren't very evenly matched, these series are too brief to truly determine which is the better team. In order to reach statistical significance (meaning the weaker team would be expected to win less than 5% of the time) between poorly matched teams, a series would require 23 games. Between evenly matched teams, a series would require as many as 269 games.

[dragonz]

'A statistically significant sports playoff series would have to be a "best of" at least 23 games.'


Pro hockey, baseball and basketball all use the best-of-5 or best-of-7 series formats in their playoffs. But according to Leonard Mlodinow in The Drunkard's Walk, even between teams that aren't very evenly matched, these series are too brief to truly determine which is the better team. In order to reach statistical significance (meaning the weaker team would be expected to win less than 5% of the time) between poorly matched teams, a series would require 23 games. Between evenly matched teams, a series would require as many as 269 games.

F**k that, we'd be totally over it by then! :'(
You lose, f**k off, no second chances!

[Krandall]

' In the U.S., doctors perform an estimated 2.4 million unnecessary surgeries every year.'


The conclusion of a Congressional subcommittee (and referenced in Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises), these procedures annually cost as much as $3.9 billion, and they result in the unnecessary deaths of an estimated 11,900 people.