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What's the most mind-blowing fact you heard/read in your life?
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#2A word of caution - many of the items in the reddit story come without sources and there will certainly be a number of factually incorrect comments.
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#3http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY really demonstrates the elegance of bolo ties.
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#4besides "you and everyone you know are going to die" at age 3, or "there is no santa claus" which logically led to "God is an imaginary friend for grown ups" at age 10.
The fact that we're all akin to lumbering flesh robots designed to help our genetic material persist. That was kind of humbling.
http://www.amazon.com/Selfish-Gene-Anniversary----Introducti...
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#5The most mind-blowing things in my life have mostly not been facts.
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#6My favorite isn't there.
Back in the 1920s Hubble did photographic surveys of the sky with long exposures. Here is what he found. Pick a random spot in the sky. Take a long exposure. Count the stars you can see. Take a magnifying glass. Count the galaxies you can find. With a few obvious exceptions, there will be more galaxies than stars. A lot more. (Obvious exceptions would include things like nebulae that you can't see through to see galaxies behind them.)
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#7I was brought up thinking that everyone flosses their teeth, until only recently when I asked my peers, finding out that it isn't the case.
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#8besides "you and everyone you know are going to die" at age 3, or "there is no santa claus" which logically led to "God is an imaginary friend for grown ups" at age 10. The fact that we're all akin to lumbering flesh robots designed to help our genetic material persist. That was kind of humbling. http://www.amazon.com/Selfish-Gene-Anniversary----Introducti...
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#9The one that I just read ten minutes ago, that my childhood hero Wade Boggs once drank 64 Miller Lites on a cross-country flight (without dying) has to be up there.
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#10My favorite isn't there. Back in the 1920s Hubble did photographic surveys of the sky with long exposures. Here is what he found. Pick a random spot in the sky. Take a long exposure. Count the stars you can see. Take a magnifying glass. Count the galaxies you can find. With a few obvious exceptions, there will be more galaxies than stars. A lot more. (Obvious exceptions would include things like nebulae that you can'…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hubble_ultra_deep_field_hi...
Every light there is a galaxy (okay Like and 7 stars).
I remember seeing that photo when it came out and sort of brushing it off because it wasn't some sweeping nebula. Four years of an astrophysics degree later it nearly brought me to tears just thinking about looking at 10000 galaxies and the full weight of that sight. It's one of those things thats more powerful the more you understand it.
Yeah... it kind of blows my mind.