SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACTS!

[stable jetty]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT
It is a bad idea to fight a water buffalo with a drumstick.

[serene gorge]

Maybe for you, skill issue

For a 44 ton semi truck, that's 5.5*10^19 Joules

Or 13.2 gigatons of tnt.

Assuming you only use up the kinetic energy and don't unlock nuclear fusion for the atoms in the air.

Relevant

[past roost]

How many gigafarts per terashit do i need to produce to keep yall on topic

[serene gorge]

Here, ignore all radiation effects, this is for a 300 kilogram object at that speed, because it maxes the tool out if it's heavier

[harsh imp]

The whole point of this place is that the topic constantly changes

[past roost]

The suggestion channel.

[maiden wing]

SPOINTANEOUS USELESS FACT #79
you either instantly realized that i misspelled spontaneous, or it took you until you read this to notice.

[ruby acorn]

I instantly laughed at the spointaneous useless fact tbh

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #80
every single person in the world can read 1 person's mind
||their own||

[harsh imp]

2nd

[harsh imp]

🤯

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #81
there are approximately 1125 grams of protein on a 6 month old child

[harsh imp]

🍽️

[charred spoke]

Oh...

[late sail]

Spontaneous Useless Fact (is it spontaneous if it's based off of the previous fact?): the average human has about 60,000 kcal in their thigh. However, don't expect to be able to process more than a few thousand in your stomach.

[charred spoke]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #82.5
That's the same amount of energy that would be released by burning 139 lb of thermite

[harsh imp]

can i use someone's thighs as a replacement to thermite?

[charred spoke]

Too wet

[harsh imp]

dried thighs

[charred spoke]

So probably not

Uhhh

Maybe??

[harsh imp]

:D

[charred spoke]

It definitely wouldn't burn as violently tho

More like a wood log than thermite

[harsh imp]

good enough

thighfire

[charred spoke]

Thermite is cool because it burns so quickly and so hot

[harsh imp]

well then it sure isn't cool

eh?

[charred spoke]

A thigh fire would burn at a fraction of the temperature for far longer

[charred spoke]

😐

[harsh imp]

:<

[stable jetty]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT
A joke becomes a dad joke when it becomes apparent.

[past roost]

Nuh uha

[charred spoke]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #84
It's theorized that protons could spontaneously decay with a half life greater than the age of the universe, but nobody has observed this decay to date. If that's true, then technically every single atom in the universe is radioactive.

[harsh imp]

Oh i've heard of that

Isn't that the thing that's supposed to destroy the universe?

Like

All the remaining matter?

[charred spoke]

No

[harsh imp]

Oh

[molten phoenix]

GG @harsh imp, you just advanced to level 32!

[charred spoke]

Well, sort of. This would be like "if you wait a few trillion years or more some atoms will spontaneously decay into smaller atoms, and after quadrillions of years (or many more) there won't be any more atoms."

But at that point black holes will have taken over and the heat death of the universe will be imminent anyway

There are a few hypothetical things that could end all meaning to the universe as we know it assuming it survives the black hole takeover and heat death - proton decay, vacuum decay, and runaway expansion of spacetime, to name the ones I can think of

Vacuum decay was covered by kurzgesagt, where quantum tunneling leads to a chain reaction that changes the laws of physics as we know them

Runaway expansion of spacetime is where the cosmological constant wins over against gravity, and spacetime expands faster and faster until the redshift makes all interactions with other matter impossible, the entire observable universe shrinks indefinitely, and the universe is reduced to a bunch of elementary particles that have no hope of ever interacting with another

By comparison, proton decay is really tame

[harsh imp]

Eh, it's boring then

I like vacuum decay the most

It's fun

[charred spoke]

Also the most unpredictable

[harsh imp]

Only adds to the fuun

[charred spoke]

It could literally kill us all at any moment and we would have no warning

The other two are problems for humanity a billion generations from now

[harsh imp]

Adds a thrill of mystery

[charred spoke]

Exactly

[harsh imp]

"Eh, i'll do it tommorow"

Booring i wanna see... well not see the universe be destroyed

[charred spoke]

Honestly though... my theory is that the heat death won't actually happen, at least not in the way we think

[harsh imp]

👀

[charred spoke]

I have two theories as to how:

1. the second law of thermodynamics isn't fully true - there's a way to decrease the entropy of an isolated system and therefore continuously battle the steady increase in entropy characterizing the heat death. That's because the second law is purely empirical in nature and doesn't really derive out of any underlying mathematics of physics or thermodynamics. We just haven't yet found a way to decrease entropy like that.
2. vacuum decay is how the universe progresses to the next "stage" of its existence - in that case the big bang was an instance of vacuum decay, and essentially the universe is just slowly rolling down an eternal hill of decreasing ground state energy. When vacuum decay occurs, the universe is prepared for the next stage of its existence, with new laws and matter and maybe new life. And that continuously happens for all of eternity. We just happen to be caught at one point.

As for why I think that way... well, science isn't really good at whys. To me, it just doesn't make sense to me that the universe is finite in time. For nothing to exist and then something to just... appear? And then eventually everything disappears again? It doesn't sit right with me. But that's getting into questions of religion and philosophy. The real answer is that none of these theories have been proven, and likely none are even provable.

[harsh imp]

Damn

You should like study physics or something

[charred spoke]

Maybe. I think I'll have enough physics knowledge with my current study course tho tbh

[charred spoke]

To further explain why I don't "agree" with end-of-the-universe theories - science deals very strictly with what we can see and observe. Predictions about the eventual fate of the universe are quite extreme extrapolations of current observations, and they assume that we know all there is to know about how the universe works, which simply isn't true. It's analogous to saying life on other planets would all follow the exact same patterns in biology that we see on earth: double helix DNA, phospholipid cell membranes, mitochondria, carbohydrates being used for the cytoskeleton + intercellular structure, ATP used for cell functions, citric acid cycle for aerobic carbohydrate metabolism, etc. It's a good baseline expectation since we have nothing else to look to, but in reality is likely incredibly far from the truth.

[serene gorge]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!

If humans could metabolise gasoline, one liter would sustain you for, on average, about three days, thirteen hours and a half.

[serene gorge]

Bouncing off the first one... it's actually a statistical guarantee that eventually entropy will decrease (assuming all laws of physics remain constant), it will just take a reaaaaaaally long time. Like, if you think one heat death's worth of time is long, you haven't seen the first of it. Similarly, your consciousness could be a Boltzmann brain right now, being generated out of thin air by random particles coming together in just the correct fashion :)

[harsh imp]

This is gonna be a debate, innit?

[serene gorge]

One liter of Pu-238, by contrast, could sustain you for 12370 YEARS

Pretty good.

Oh! That's nothing.

Apparently, uranium would last...

438093 years.

[sacred field]

I now want to be able to metabolise uranium

[serene gorge]

Do you really want to live half a million years, though?

Assuming the radiation doesn't kill you first, that is

[sacred field]

Maybe

[sacred field]

I would have assumed that immunity would come with the ability to metabolise anything seriously radioactive

[serene gorge]

Right

Converting all the mass contained in one liter of material from a neutron star with E = mc^2, the limit is, drumroll

15.34

Zettayears.

[maiden wing]

Holy wall of nerd

[serene gorge]

One zetta of something is a one with twenty one zeros after

[serene gorge]

Right back at you

You're in a discord for a planetary exploration hexagonal voxel game

What did you expect 😂

[maiden wing]

I’m in a cult
The planetary exploration hexagonal voxel game is just a bonus

[serene gorge]

Pfft 😤

is displeased by your dismissive attitude; loves all, nerds and jocks, non-nerds and non-jocks, non-nerds and jocks, as well as nerds and non-jocks.

[past roost]

Mrwo

[stable jetty]

In regards to your first statement, for my understanding: Entropy is a decrease in order right? Wouldn't a decrease in entropy be an increase in order?

[tired helm]

Entropy is just the tendency for energy to spread out and become unusable

[stable jetty]

How do you determine usability?

[tired helm]

Well you can imagine a steam engine that burns coal to create steam pressure to move a piston

In a perfect world 100% of the energy from the coal would move the piston

But heat gets transferred into the engine, the water becomes closer to the temperature of the engine itself, and a lot of energy is just wasted

It is still there, just now unusable

How we describe it now is stuff like heat death

[stable jetty]

So, the usability of energy is determined by what we use it for?

[tired helm]

Where the universe will have its energy so dispersed that nothing will be able to happen

[tired helm]

No that was just it's original definition

[charred spoke]

Entropy is related to order but they're not exactly the same. But functionally, saying that the universe's entropy decreases means an increase in order.

[stable jetty]

What do you mean?

What was the original definition, and how exactly does jt relate to my guess?

[tired helm]

I am really bad at explaining

You should watch the veritasium video about it

I tried to send link but Hal hates me

[charred spoke]

There are two definitions: the statistical mechanical one, which is exact, and the thermodynamic one, which is an extension of the statistical mechanical one to macroscopic systems. Here's the stat mech one:

S is entropy
k_B is Boltzmann's constant
W is the statistical weight
N is the number of particles (often molecules)
n_i is the number of molecules in energy state i

If you see how S changes in a simple simulation, you can see it's really a measure of how "spread out" the molecules are among energy states.

Say you were modeling a gas with hard spheres and elastic collisions. You start off with every sphere having 1 unit of kinetic energy, W would be 1, so the entropy would be 0. Then two spheres interact and one steals a bit of energy. Suddenly entropy increases, because you have two molecules that have a different energy state.

Eventually the gas reaches a sort of equilibrium, where the distribution of kinetic energies doesn't change much with time. Entropy is at its maximum for that system.

Technically there is no real force that made the molecules behave that way. It's just random collisions that transfer energy, and that's usually how random collisions act - they tend to increase entropy. But for convention we can say that entropy is the "driving force" that made the molecules' energy states change.

When you're dealing with tens of molecules, it's possible that at some point they will all have the same kinetic energy again. But the likelihood decreases exponentially as you add more and more molecules into the system. For anything as big as you can see, entropy won't spontaneously decrease over the course of your lifetime. For anything as big as you or the earth or bigger, it won't spontaneously decrease over the age of the universe or more.

There are things we can do to decrease the entropy of a system, but it costs a greater increase in entropy of another system. Or at least, that's all we've been able to do so far.

But theoretically, if an observer could lower a system's entropy more than they generate elsewhere, the universe's entropy would go down. See Maxwell's Demon.

Here's the thermodynamic definition if you're interested:

T is temperature
del q rev is a reversible, differential heat flow

Although the formal definition of thermodynamic temperature is dependent on entropy, so it's somewhat of a cyclical definition. But we generally use the empirical definition of temperature that's possible to measure.

[charred spoke]

If you want an example of how entropy and order aren't exactly correlated, see Action Lab's video "How Entropy Creates Order"

[charred spoke]

Regarding usability (sorry I know this is already a massive wall of text)
There are two quantities defined to explain whether a process will happen or not, called the Helmholtz and Gibbs energies. They both include an energy term minus TS.

[tired helm]

Why are you giving an entire applied physics lecture?

[charred spoke]

In order for a process to occur, the change in the free energy term relevant to the system must go down (or remain equal, but those usually aren't very useful). That means the internal energy or enthalpy must decrease, or the entropy must increase. So really, for any process we care about, the entropy must increase to get something out of it.

[charred spoke]

for funsies

[tired helm]

Fair enough

We all love to rant

[charred spoke]

indeed

lesson learned? never ask an academic about their field, unless you're prepared for a 50-minute lecture, complete with slides, citations, and homework

[tired helm]

I'm guessing that's how you learned so much

[charred spoke]

exactly :P

[tired helm]

HELP WHY WONT THIS DAMN TEXT BOX DISAPEAR

I HOVER OVER IT

I CLICK IT

I CLICK OUT OF DISCORD

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

I'm restarting brb

[charred spoke]

uhhh
turn it off and back on again

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #82
the most common form of currency on earth is money.

[harsh imp]

:O

Dusk you need to cut this, these are supposed to be useless facts

[maiden wing]

So what you’re saying
Is you’re going to use this information more than twice within your life

[serene gorge]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!

Money can be exchanged for goods and services

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #83
if you eat 13 pounds of pure sodium metal, you will most likely die within the next 1000 years.

[harsh imp]

:O

damnit, Dusk all the stuff you send here is crazy smart

how do you even figure this stuff out?

[zenith void]

usless LIE!

[serene gorge]

Duh, they said they were making it up

[charred spoke]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #84
Snow is made of ice, unless it isn't.

[serene gorge]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!

Ice is made of snow, unless it isn't.

What kind of snow isn't ice, though?

[maiden wing]

This is not actually true
You have not done 84 spontaneous useless facts

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #84
jan kaje has only done 16 spontaneous useless facts.

[harsh imp]

:O

LIAR

:O

[stable jetty]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT

Spontaneous useless facts are sometimes not entirely spontaneous, nor useless.

[solar python]

Oh no

[charred spoke]

Bro I thought it was communal

Like the 84th total in the channel

[maiden wing]

Nah
I’ll find out total

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #85
this is the 187th spontaneous useless fact this server has received.

[charred spoke]

Cool, now I can say SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #188

[harsh imp]

how do you even know that 👀

[charred spoke]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #188
I have decided to use the total number of spontaneous useless facts instead of the number of my own that I have sent

And none of you can stop me

[tired helm]

Why are you guys numbering them?

[maiden wing]

See that big old “search”

[maiden wing]

I’m numbering my own because I can

[tired helm]

fair enough

[harsh imp]

nope

i am blind

[maiden wing]

Ur not on mobile

On computer just ctrl+f

[harsh imp]

is here

[maiden wing]

Ya know
I completely forgot that English was your second language

[harsh imp]

lmao

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #86
if you have dirty windows, you can take a banana peel, rub it on your windows, and then your windows will be dirtier than they started out

[past roost]

These arent even facts anymore

[harsh imp]

have you tried rubbing banana peels on your windows?

[charred spoke]

I love the progression of this channel - we started with cool trivia, faded into more and more obscure science factoids and calculations, and after a few arguments switched abruptly to obvious ostrich content

[charred spoke]

Like these spontaneous useless facts would fit perfectly into 2017 Instagram humor

It's ok @maiden wing I know you were like a toddler then

You can still enjoy things from a different generation :)

[harsh imp]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT:

rain contains water

[charred spoke]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #191

Your mom contains water

[harsh imp]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT

if you throw a person into the sun, they'll get dried out quite quickly

[maiden wing]

What you mean toddler
I was 9

[past roost]

They will burn before drying out more like spontaneous useless fictioms

Spontaneous useless myths

Do i need to get the spontaneous useless mythbusters

[stable jetty]

Technically burning up is the same thing as drying really quickly.

[past roost]

Naur

[harsh imp]

nooooo, there will be a split second of dryness before they turn into plasma

[past roost]

Naur

[serene gorge]

"You are reading" is crazy good

[terse marsh]

Spontaneous Useless Fact
The ancient Egyptians believed that if you submerged an infant in the rivers of the Nile for 10 minutes, it would drown and die. As a result, this practice was usually frowned upon in Egyptian society.

[harsh imp]

damn

[serene gorge]

usually

[harsh imp]

:o

:O

[zenith void]

no sais "useless fact : 1 in every 5 ppl make up 20% of the population of the world" sais usless but it sais its a fact

[sacred field]

Spontaneous useless fact!
I would type out the formula for the minimum number of edges for a fully volumetric shape based on the number of axies in the plane it would appear in, but my keyboard doesn't have the sigma character :(

[zenith void]

google the characters

[sacred field]

Also I'm not sure how to format it

X
Σ n
1
Where x is equal to number of axies in a plane

[sacred field]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!!
NZ saw an almost 2500% increase in homicides between 2018 and 2019

[harsh imp]

Oh damn

Why?

[sacred field]

There was some racist dude from Australia who shot a bunch of Muslim people

According to Google 51 people died

[harsh imp]

Holy ####

Just

Holy ####

[past roost]

Oh nien, horizontal rotiender fische

[charred spoke]

That's just plain sad 😭

Let me find a more lighthearted one to change the mood

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #196
The village of Piplantri in India has a tradition of planting 111 trees to celebrate each time a baby girl is born. Each girl also gets a small trust fund gathered by the village and their parents sign an affidavit that she won't marry until she's at least 18 and has received a full education.

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #87
if you trapped 100 monkeys and 100 typewriters in a room forever, the monkeys will most likely die in 2-4 weeks from starvation and will never get close to writing any of Shakespeare’s work.

[past roost]

Did you know? Does he know, ? When will he know?

[charred spoke]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #198
Only about 1% of the mass of a proton comes from the the three quarks that characterize it. About 8% comes from a sea of virtual strange quarks inside the proton, 32% comes from the kinetic energy of the top + down quarks, 37% comes from the strong nuclear force's field energy, and the remaining 23% comes from what's called the "anomalous gluonic contribution," which is essentially energy that's trapped in the QCD field.

This means that over 90% of the mass in the universe comes from the energy in quark interactions.

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #88
the recipe for coca cola doesnt have a patent, but instead is just a VERY secretive recipe
only a few people in the world even know what the recipe is
the reason they dont have a patent is that the patent would eventually expire. if they just never let anyone know the recipe, then they can continue to make the product indefinitely.
so, if you find out what the recipe is, you can theoretically patent it and put one of the largest companies in the world out of business.

[harsh imp]

:O

[molten phoenix]

GG @harsh imp, you just advanced to level 33!

[harsh imp]

:o

:O

:

eeeh

uuuh

so like

i can just

oh damn

[terse marsh]

These useless facts should be shorter. Nobody will read two large paragraphs in the short amount of time it’ll be posted in a loading screen. Haha

[charred spoke]

bet

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #89

THIS IS 18+

||. 19 .||

[harsh imp]

This is one of these moments, when i'm torn, if spreading negativity on the internet is really never good

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #90
The longest word in the English dictionary, (excluding scientific names of proteins) is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which is 40 letters shorter than the longest place name in the world, ­taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu

[late sail]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #91
There is no such thing as a useless fact, only a fact that you haven't used.
.
.

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #92
The longest word (that I could find, and excluding proteins) is a fictional greek food from a ~300 B.C. play.

Λοπδοτεμαχοσελαχογαλεοκρανιολείψανοδρίμυπoτρίμματοσυλφιππαρόμυλητοκατεχυνόμενoκιχλεπικόσσηφοφαττοπεριστεράλεκτρυόνονπτεφαλλιοκιγκλοπλεϊλόλαγοςειραίοβαφητράγανονπτέρυγος

(Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon)

[harsh imp]

:o

[sacred field]

Is that longest place name from NZ?

[maiden wing]

You haven’t done 90 useless facts before this
Why are you at 92

That’s mine
Keep track of your own count
Or Jan kajes

[sacred field]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!!
the pan flag contains all of the primary printing colours except black

[late sail]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #94
I have not done 90 useless facts in this channel
Credit to @maiden wing for figuring that out 🐈

[zenith void]

😭

[zenith void]

cool :3

[zenith void]

that would be mean also it tastes good so even if some1 had the recepie they wouldent do it right? Yumy > money

[zenith void]

im reading them in 10-15 sec

[zenith void]

also my pc will make it 30+seconds

[zenith void]

dna isent a proteine sooooo >:)

[maiden wing]

Deoxyribonucleic acid is 2 words, and still not longer

[zenith void]

huh id expect it to be something like quintoadeninusguanucytothiamine.. with more abreviations or so to speek in fron of each compound ish

nvm

CarboHydroOxyNitroPhosphorus

-->

di carbo tri oxy quinto nitro non phosphorus but with the short version/prefixes of muh larger numbers varying with each dna

[zenith void]

^^

[charred spoke]

What if its name was literally just your genetic code

AAGTCGATCGATTTACGGAGCAACGTAGTGTTTTGCACACGTACGAGATGACCGGGGCAAGATCACGTGCAGATAC

Times a billion

[zenith void]

yea but normaly names for compunds are wired versions of the elements taped together but it could be with the full(ish) name of A T G and C

[past roost]

Hak tug

H

[serene gorge]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!

Coca-cola removed wine from their recipe before they removed cocaine

Because of prohibition

In fact, that's where the name comes from! They replaced the wine with cola juice

(ok, coca leaves are "only" a precursor of cocaine, but whatever)

This means that modern coke simply doesn't contain any of its (main) original ingredients, not that we would know about any minor ones, well, except maybe water

and possibly sugar, as well (or some kind of glucose or fructose syrup)

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #91
If it’s 8:59 and you need to be at a place at 9, you have a whole 40 minutes before 8:99 and you’re actually late

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #92
ya know that one spot on your elbow that makes your whole arm feel like tv static?
You have that on your knee too
Much harder to hit though, and works best with constant pressure

[maiden wing]

You have done 6 in this channel
That is all you’ve done
You have not done 94 spontaneous useless facts

[harsh imp]

Lies and nothing but lies

[maiden wing]

Not lies

[harsh imp]

He is speaking lies

Lies lies lies

[fierce fern]

"avoid bullets - they are hurt"

[serene gorge]

https://tenor.com/view/fire-writing-gif-24533171

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #93
When your fingers get wrinkly after being in the water for a long time, its actually your body trying to get better grip underwater

[serene gorge]

This is also an uncontrollable involuntary reflex, and is the only instance in your body of a humidity sensor triggering any sort of response.

[harsh imp]

useless feature, we need to get the devs to remove it

[maiden wing]

agreed. it in fact does not increase grip very much

[harsh imp]

my personal hypothesis is that this is supposed to improve grip on wet tree bark, but i have no actual way to support that :P

[serene gorge]

I mean it's probably meant to be used on rough-surface rocks, so

[harsh imp]

close enough

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #94
the world record for minesweeper expert mode is 26 seconds

[sacred field]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!!
Tool use in otters is instinctive, not learned, as even orphaned pups raised in captivity have demonstrated hitting crustacean-shaped things with rocks to try and break them.

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #95
the world size for the oldest anarchy server in minecraft (2b2t)is 58.2 terabytes

[harsh imp]

damn

[serene gorge]

Maybe they should be called 58t2b then

[zenith void]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT :
In the last ~12 years over 20% of the population has been rick roled! (The song has been out for 48 years)

[zenith void]

Dayum
SPONTANEOUS USE LESS FACT : there are pictures of such high quality they are terabytes in size

[serene gorge]

Well, no. On average, a random individual has been rickrolled 0.2 times over the last 12 years. That's different.

[zenith void]

Nope +1.6 billion ppl have been rickroled

[serene gorge]

I can't tell if you're being serious but this is obviously not true. Most people who have been rickrolled have been rickrolled numerous times

[zenith void]

O:

Ok so 1b ppl

[serene gorge]

There's actually probably no way to tell

It's less than 1.6 billion

That's pretty much it

[zenith void]

Theres an easy way to tell

GuEsInG

everything is a figment of your imagination thus is you think its 10000 its 10000 if you think its 1000000 then it is 1000000

[serene gorge]

Well, considering the median rickroll number is probably in the dozens, plus people who listen to the song because it's good, it's definitely not over one billion, imo.

[serene gorge]

I see

Source: it came to me in a dream

xD

[zenith void]

Trusted by billions

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #96
“forgive me father, for I have sinned” does not mean the same thing as “I’m sorry daddy, I’ve been naughty “

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #97
according to 2014 dnd 5e rules (I haven’t checked 2024 yet) the spell hold person does not require concentration

[sacred field]

it does require concentration in the 2024 rules :(

[maiden wing]

:agonybarrel:

So no hold dude in place and spell ham on it

[sacred field]

you can still cast other non-concentration spell

like ice knife or smth

[maiden wing]

Ice knife is like a c or b their spell
Not even the best one you can get
It has average of 12 dmg
There are much better options for lvl 1 spells
Like chaos bolt or orb
Unless you specifically need cold damage, which you usually don’t if you only have lvl 1 or 2 spells

[sacred field]

it is for druids tho

druids kinda suck for damage

[maiden wing]

That’s a fair point
Druids are pretty useless

[sacred field]

especially in the 2024 rules without any expansions yet

[sacred field]

their wild shape can be useful and they are healers

otherwise i agree

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #98
you don’t actually know when you were born. You’re merely taking everyone else’s word for it.

[harsh imp]

👀

[sacred field]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!!!
It is now possible to parry with a sword again in minecraft. This is because mojang has added even more data driven options for items in java (still not recipe output though D: ), and one of these options affects whether you can pary with an item.
There are also other options, like the delay before the parrying starts, how much damage the item takes from parrying, and the max amount of damage the item can parry (in one blow)

there are also a couple cool changes for resource packs

[harsh imp]

Whooa

[serene gorge]

Welcome back 1.8 pvp

[molten phoenix]

GG @serene gorge, you just advanced to level 22!

[harsh imp]

Cool

[sacred field]

yes, if people want that they can have it with the latest snapshot

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #99
the human species cannot go extinct in your lifetime.

Got a big fact drop here

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #100
“there is no word in the English language that” starts and ends with T

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #101
you could live the entire rest of your life underwater.

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #102
there were woolly mammoths alive at the same time as the pyramids were being built

[sacred field]

peak humour

[terse marsh]

I’ve seen this one before but I’m not sure if it’s a joke or not.

Oh I missed the quotes. Haha

[past roost]

I thought they were talking about the word "that" starts and ends with t and i thought well thats a wack joke but now i realize the entire sentence starts and ends with t

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #103
The 5 best mental disorders to have are:
alzheimers
dislexia
adhd
alzheimers
ptsd
alzheimers

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #104
the United Kingdom (britland) is responsible for the majority of independence days across the world.

[harsh imp]

Cwazy

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #105
if your teacher tries to punish the whole class, take them to court. Collective punishment is a war crime, and violates the 4th Geneva Convention.

[harsh imp]

👀

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #106
🦪 is a default emoji.

[sacred field]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!!
I have accidentally spread missinformation in this channel

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!!
You can, in fact, include nbt data in datapack custom crafting recipes now

not sure when it was added but i have learned

which means it is time for my swords data pack

[serene gorge]

As input, output, or both? Really cool nonetheless

[sacred field]

output

not sure about input though

[serene gorge]

Aww

Well I guess you can still make "new items" using this then?

[sacred field]

i just know because phoenix sc recently demostrated it with the new parrying stuff

[sacred field]

yes

if you can do it for inputs, that opens up so many more doors though

alloying

more weapons

more tools

so much more stuff that is purely nbt driven

[serene gorge]

Wait so potentially, you can get exotic enchants with special crafting recipes and stuff

[sacred field]

yes

[serene gorge]

There are a lot of ideas you could use this for I feel like

[sacred field]

also resource packs comboed with the nbt output means that you could give the new items custom looks

[serene gorge]

I know there were tricks to change the display model as well, using damage values back in the day, but I don't know how that would translate in a modern context

Cause you can use anything as a custom nbt, correct?

[sacred field]

yes

anything can be a weapon/tool now

and anything can be a food

[serene gorge]

So there are virtually no limits on how many variations you can get

[sacred field]

yes

[serene gorge]

This is cool

[sacred field]

also the nbt stuff can differentiate enchants

[serene gorge]

They really cooked with this

[sacred field]

so you can have different textures depending on what enchants you have

[serene gorge]

Ooooh

I didn't even think about that

[sacred field]

so you could have a datapack which adds tons of new weapons and tools, and then also gives them sick textures with each enchant

not sure if they can be animated without optifine yet though

[serene gorge]

And also Kha'ârzum, Sword of the Thousand Banished Weeping Souls can have an e🇧 ic 200 pixel long animated model now?

[sacred field]

maybe?

not 100% on that

[serene gorge]

Animation or not, good enough imo

[sacred field]

yeah

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #107
if you attempt mordschlag with a lightsaber, you’ll probably end up burning your fingers off.

[ruby acorn]

Accidental ? 🤔

[sacred field]

Well, I thought that you still couldnt have nbt data in Minecraft recipe outputs, but I was recently proven wrong by a phoenix sc vid

[harsh imp]

Hehe

Acidentally?

Not on my level yet i see /j

Oh i can't wait to see what ends up here on april fools

[ruby acorn]

That sentence is making my head hurt, but I will say that I understand it 👌

[ruby acorn]

Hoho this will be fuuun

[harsh imp]

I need to come up with something that sounds true

[sacred field]

It's like you would never know that English is my native language

[ruby acorn]

😂

😭 I am tired as well sooooo might be that too

[charred spoke]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #229
The US government will only recommend reducing radon levels in your house if they're above 4 pCi/l, which by itself gives the same risk of lung cancer as smoking 8 cigarettes a day.

[harsh imp]

uuh

that's

tha-

uuuh

that's a pretty useful fact

[charred spoke]

Hmm I guess so

What are you gonna do about it though?

In all seriousness though I would highly recommend that everyone who has a house, especially if it has a basement (or if you live on the ground floor of an apartment building), get one of those charcoal tests and make sure you aren't getting radon poisoning

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #230
Radon is the leading cause of lung cancer for non-smokers worldwide

[harsh imp]

yaaaay :D

so fun

[sacred field]

Is this specifically people in the us or everyone?

And also what if my entire basement floor and the ground below it is solid and not very yum clay

[charred spoke]

I know it's true for the US and I'm pretty sure it's true worldwide, although it was hard to find real statistics

[charred spoke]

I would still do some research and probably get a test

[sacred field]

Also do you know why radon exists under houses

[maiden wing]

Cuz the us govenment is stupid and incompetent
And they put houses over radioactive waste

[charred spoke]

It's formed by radioactive decay of naturally-occuring uranium and thorium

It has nothing to do with radioactive waste

[sacred field]

So if I had that there maybe trace amounts of uranium in my soil too?

[charred spoke]

It's a dense noble gas, so is released from the ground and stays mostly at ground level

[sacred field]

No particular reason

[charred spoke]

Yep, and that's perfectly normal

[sacred field]

Oh cool

[charred spoke]

Just something to be aware of

Radon is an alpha emitter, which means that unless it gets in your lungs, is perfectly harmless. But once it does get in your lungs the alpha radiation can do serious damage

Most radon mitigation techniques involve a small suction fan that just slowly pulls the bottom layer of air in your house outside, and that's enough to get almost all of the radon

[harsh imp]

so

am i more likely to get lung cancer if i sleep on the floor?

[charred spoke]

Yeah, statistically speaking

[harsh imp]

damn

imma sleep on the ceiling

[charred spoke]

But it's really only important if you're sleeping on the ground floor or basement floor

[serene gorge]

Especially if you live in a mountainous area with a lot of granite or something, it's from decay of the radioactive isotopes in the rock

It accumulates in low, badly ventilated spaces

[serene gorge]

Everywhere is potentially affected, but it is (kind of) regional. You should always check your basement. With like, a detector.

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #108
I most likely have spatial synesthesia

or another kind

It’s

…

I can rember stuff almost perfectly without having to memorize it whatsoever, but usually something has to ring a bell

[sacred field]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!!
Grenades are affected by black holes!

wait wrong server

this makes no sense without context

i mean it's not wrong

[maiden wing]

Technically true facts are the best facts

[maiden wing]

Alright
This is gonna start out wrong
But stick with me

[ruby acorn]

what if I slip ?

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #109
there are only 2 genders, and I have proof
There are girls, and there are not girls
I can talk to not girls face to face, but girls make me have a stroke

[harsh imp]

uh

[tired helm]

Wait so if I inject you with 40 ml of adrenaline and 20 ml of formaldehyde I will become woman?

[ruby acorn]

I'll put it in another way :
there are girls : you can't live and talk to them at the same time
And then there are !girls which causes you no problems

[ruby acorn]

Wut

[tired helm]

It was a hypothetical!

I would never actually do that

To Dusk

In the near future

[ruby acorn]

Uhuh

What about extended future

[tired helm]

Well I don't like making commitments

So we will just have to see

[ruby acorn]

You don't commit ?

Dang your GitHub must be empty

[tired helm]

It really is

I haven't worked on the toast engine in months

[ruby acorn]

🫡

[harsh imp]

does it burn toasts as fuel?

[tired helm]

That would be a combustion engine

[harsh imp]

aaaand a toast engine

[maiden wing]

all im picturing is an ai generated bread with wheels

or a thomas the bread engine

[tired helm]

It is game engine

Well

Wip

[maiden wing]

or that one flip on a magic the noah where one of the contestants did improv of a car salesman selling a car but its just bread

[harsh imp]

a game about an engine burning bread?

[tired helm]

You know what

Sure

[harsh imp]

:D

yay

[harsh imp]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!

It is not impossible, that the Moon could've hosted a thick atmosphere and liquid water on it's surface shortly after it's formation

The atmosphere would've been replenished by volcanic activity, stopping it from being stripped away by solar radiation.

As the moon cooled, this theoretical atmosphere would've been destroyed, as the volcanic activity declined.

The water would've been blasted into space, with the only remaining deposits being ice in shadowed polar craters.

As of my knowlege there is no evidence of such an atmosphere ever existing.

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #110
According to statistics, you most likely believe in the moon

[harsh imp]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!

yeah it's just there pretty had not to believe

[serene gorge]

I think I'm having an aneurysm

[harsh imp]

fun

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #111
if you step on a persons foot, they open their mouth like a trash can.
This is where you dispose of any trash that you have either in your hands or pockets.

[sacred field]

also a great place to hide radioactive depleted fuel rods

[maiden wing]

Also true

[sacred field]

not that i would have any experience doing that though

[maiden wing]

I have no such weaknesses

[sacred field]

for legal reasons

i cannot agree

[maiden wing]

https://tenor.com/view/watercoasting-gif-9834191338382762098

[sacred field]

NOOOOOOO

don't eat it yourself

that stuff is toxic

[maiden wing]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1310793136389226577.gif?size=512&animated=true&name=barrelspin

[zenith void]

i thot it was lettuce

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #112
the moon landing was actually staged. This is because they planned to land on the moon, and it was in fact not an accident.

[charred spoke]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #239
Sometimes, when scientists need the best radiation shielding possible, they use lead that was refined in Roman times or earlier.

This is because natural lead has traces of radioactive lead isotopes. We can't refine it out, but waiting a few millennia is enough time to let the radioactivity dissipate. However, roman-era lead is more rare than they would like, and they usually have to pay hefty prices to archaeologists to melt it down and use it. The archaeologists usually get pretty upset about the whole thing, which is understandable - no matter how many roman ingots of lead you have, they're still irreplaceable artifacts

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #240
I saw a few cosmic rays today. They showed up as little spikes on a Raman spectrometer I was using.

Just a few lone gamma photons from who knows where that traveled billions and billions of miles just to mess up my readings a bit.

[ruby acorn]

cool :p

[harsh imp]

That's actually crazy

[harsh imp]

||Spectrometer?||

[ruby acorn]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT#241

1. this is my 4th useless fact
2. I am going to sleep
   Don't tell me this is useful, I'll start to shake violently and produce consistent daily news.

[ruby acorn]

the real question, is where do you get the screenshots from ?
Because i seriously doubt you launch the game each time you want to reference something, and I also find it quite unlikely that you know each name for everything so you can find it easily online

[harsh imp]

Well

Everyone knows the Anti-mass spectrometer 🤷

[harsh imp]

I do not launch the game, it takes a bit too long

[sacred field]

perhaps they came from the same star that bricked my phone

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #113
In 2005, a group of monkeys were given some silver coins. After a few months of teaching them that the coins were worth something, they introduced jello cups and grapes, costing different prices. Next they changed the prices a bit, and the monkeys took the cheaper option if they were low on money. Next, gambling was introduced. Then they discovered theft.
But then
The male monkeys started paying the female monkeys to do the ||happy snuggles||
And then they had to stop the experiment

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #114
ken has only said “” 7 times in this server.

[harsh imp]

:o

[charred spoke]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #244
Most ceiling fans produce between 0.5 and 1 pound of thrust

[harsh imp]

Oh my

I have an idea

[harsh imp]

bad piggies theme starts playing

[past roost]

Fact:

[ruby acorn]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #mod-001 :

something was added somewhere

#1220735161486934096 message

[maiden wing]

That happened yesterday

[ruby acorn]

yup

[charred spoke]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #246
Ice is actually the most slippery a few degrees below its freezing point. This is because, unlike popular theories, ice's slipperiness isn't really caused by a thin layer of liquid water.

Instead, it's actually due to the fact that imperfections in the crystal lattice structure and grain boundaries allow some water molecules on the upper surface a lot of mobility. They're loosely bound and can be displaced and move around without much hassle. At temperatures close to freezing (and this is my theory / understanding of it) the mobile layer becomes thick enough to introduce viscous effects and the slipperiness decreases. At temperatures far below freezing, those boundaries and imperfections freeze and there are fewer and fewer mobile water molecules.

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #115
frozen water is less conductive than not frozen water

[terse marsh]

I think I’d recommend all these facts be shortened to 1-2 sentences at most…
As interesting as some of these are to me in particular, I’m not sure if every player will be willing to read a paragraph in a loading screen.

[charred spoke]

Don't worry lol we know - it's just fun to yap sometimes. If Ken actually wants to put them in he'll edit them anyway

[zenith void]

i would 💀

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT # 116
Lego people live in houses made from their own flesh

[sacred field]

this is wrong

it is made from the same material as their flesh

it is not lego person flesh

[maiden wing]

How do you know
What if I build the house out of identical Lego dudes

[sacred field]

then yes, but that would be an abnormal house

[charred spoke]

It's pretty analogous to mammoth bone houses actually - Lego houses don't have the same piece shapes as minifigs, but they often share a lot with larger builds

So just like we have bones and skin and hair, mammoth bone dwellings were made of bones and skin and hair, but of a different variety so it isn't weird

[charred spoke]

Unless you somehow built a house out of minifig parts - that would lowkey be impressive

[serene gorge]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!

Otters are pretty cute.

[zenith void]

No its like saying magneesium rods are made of humans

[charred spoke]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #250
#1236086841711656970 has more spams than all but 19% of the discord servers I'm a part of have members

(it's currently at 14472 and 4/21 of my servers have more than 14472 members)

[harsh imp]

That is cwazy

We be spammin' a lot

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #117
The barrel spam channel will never reach the universe’s integer limit

[harsh imp]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!

The barrel spam channel

[serene gorge]

Is that a challenge?

[sacred field]

D:

[maiden wing]

👀

[harsh imp]

ikr

cwazy

[charred spoke]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #253
If every single fundamental particle acted as a bit and could switch states as fast as the planck time, and the universe's integer limit was the maximum data those bits could store over the current age of the universe, the integer limit would be about 2^(10^157)

[serene gorge]

Now do the same but every planck volume within the observable universe is a bit

[sacred field]

or the entire universe, even

yes ik we can't measure it's dimensions btw

[charred spoke]

Yeah but then I'd have to account for the universe's changing size

[serene gorge]

Just compute the integral from the big bang onwards. Easy

[charred spoke]

Yeah but do you have an integrable function that describes the size of the universe as a function of time

[serene gorge]

What, you don't have access to a systematic way to characterize the evolution of the hubble constant? How do you expect to win a nobel price with that attitude?

[charred spoke]

I wish dude

I'm an engineer, not an astrophysicist lol

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #118
2 pounds of sugar is enough to completely ruin 1 ton of concrete, making it impossible to set
So if you don’t want something to be built just put sugar

[harsh imp]

Ferb, i know what we'll be doing today

[charred spoke]

Sugar is surprisingly good at messing up a lot of mechanical and industrial things

Car engines, concrete...

[zenith void]

Teeth

Its an industrial food mashing thing trust

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #119
t the earth is more likely to be t-Rex shaped than it is to be flat. This is because I can prove that the earth is not flat.

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #120
you are reading after i posted it.

[serene gorge]

You can't prove that

[maiden wing]

Probably could

[serene gorge]

Nuh uh

[maiden wing]

One sec

[serene gorge]

It's been more than one sec

[maiden wing]

I said a sec
Not a second
Sec is an unmeasurable amount of time

[harsh imp]

it's been more than either

[maiden wing]

proof

[harsh imp]

fake

[serene gorge]

So? That's no proof

[maiden wing]

google is always right

[harsh imp]

i have a time machine in my basement, this is government propaganda

[serene gorge]

I didn't claim I did do it, but if I did you would have no idea and no way to find out

[maiden wing]

also doesnt count because its not a person

[serene gorge]

Again, you cannot prove it didn't happen

[charred spoke]

I'm actually made of tachyons, so take that

Don't ask me what having imaginary mass is like - trust me, you don't want to know

[sacred field]

how are you responding to this in the future of it then?

[charred spoke]

...

Magic?

Actually no - my mass is defined by a complex exponential, so I cycle between imaginary and real mass and going forward and backward through time

[sacred field]

sounds fun

[charred spoke]

Very :)

The worst is when I switch to imaginary mass during a TV show. Makes it impossible to watch really.

[sacred field]

yeah, sounds inconvenient

[charred spoke]

In the good ol days I could just hit rewind on the DVD

[sacred field]

also are you stuck at one section of time repeatedly or do you loop

[charred spoke]

Reverse x reverse = forward

If I move around, special relativity makes me travel through time faster. So when I'm going in reverse I go as slow as possible so I can inch forward through real time

Gives me a few milliseconds I can go into the future

[charred spoke]

This would actually be a really interesting story prompt. What would you do if after every hour, your time switched and went in reverse for, say, 59 minutes?

You would live your life literally one minute at a time. You'd have the opportunity to fix so many mistakes. But at the same time, days would feel like entire months

[sacred field]

SPOTANEOUS USELESS FACT!!
According to wikipedia, SR-71 blackbirds leaked fuel while on the ground, as their fuselage panels would expand so much during flight and they had no fuel sealing material which could be entirely leak free during the vast heat cycles of their flights that they couldn't completely seal the fuel tanks

[past roost]

I dont think like 99% of these are actually serious suggestions

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #121
98407692 is at least 12.

[charred spoke]

Can verify

[sacred field]

provide proof

sounds implausible enough i would only trust it with a mathematical proof

[charred spoke]

98407692 - 12 = 98407680
98407680 is a positive number therefore 98407692 > 12

[sacred field]

thanks :D

[tired helm]

That is a pretty solid proof there

[sacred field]

i understand now

[charred spoke]

im glad :)

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #122
daily otter is catching up
Now I’m only one ahead

[sacred field]

i'm already ahead of bnn

just a few days and otter will be the most regularly counted for the longest time

[maiden wing]

Nah
Cuz facts aren’t regular, they’re spontaneous
And BNN has been consistent for all but like 3 days in November

You took a week and a half off for Christmas

[sacred field]

exactly

(the first bit)

also like bb has been carrying hard recently

[maiden wing]

I mean
That is kinda his job
He does BNN when we doesn’t BNN

[terse marsh]

Spontaneous Useless Fact
The largest moose ever recorded was killed in Alaska, US, in September of 1897. It stood 2.33 meters (7.6 feet) tall at the shoulder and weighed over 815 kg (1,800 lbs.)

[harsh imp]

oh

that is one big moose

[serene gorge]

That is, in fact, a big moose.

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!

There were still live mammoths on earth when the pyramids were being built. They lived on an isolated island off the coast of siberia and had no human contact for a very long time, nor did we know they were there or that they went extinct at one point. We found the remains after the fact and dating indicated they were present much more recently than previously thought possible.

[deep ridge]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!
Octahedra are three-dimensionanl shapes

[harsh imp]

Spontaneous useless fact!

The honey bee is an invasive species in most parts of the world, outcompeting native polinators.

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #123
the past 3 facts (including this one) have each been formatted differently. This is known as “inconsistency”

[sacred field]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!!!!!!!!!!!
the past 4 messages in this channel were all spontaneous useless facts. This is known as "consistency"

[serene gorge]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!

A monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors

[terse marsh]

Spontaneous Useless Fact
Olympus Mons, the solar system's largest mountain, is so large that if you were standing at the base, the summit would be beyond the horizon.

[harsh imp]

Spontaneous useless fact

Jupiter has thin, dusty rings invisible with a naked eye

[serene gorge]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!

Jupiter's rings are also invisible to the clothed eye

[harsh imp]

Spontaneous Useless Fact!

Jupiter's moon Ganymede could have a subglacial ocean aswell as Europa

Or so i've heard

Take it with a Ganymede-sized grain of salt

Or ice

Your choice

[serene gorge]

Also potentially several layers of exotic forms of ice interspersed with liquid layers as the temperature and pressure gradients go back and forth on the boundary of the phase diagram, iirc

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #124
the FDA had to change the definition of “cheese” once because american cheese was technically a plastic, and not a cheese.

[terse marsh]

Spontaneous Useless Fact
The word “literally” was used so often in slang to mean “metaphorically” that it’s now listed as an additional dictionary definition.

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #125
linkus7 relies on the word actually like actually so much
Like actually so much
He can’t actually function without saying actually

[sacred field]

lol

not suprised though

[charred spoke]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #274

The term "big bang" was coined by Fred Hoyle while criticizing the theory on a BBC Radio broadcast in 1949.

[serene gorge]

Kraft singles contain water and an additive, but no plastic.

[zenith void]

Yupq

Its just cheese and water

The chemicals are only to help the cheese absorb water

[terse marsh]

https://tenor.com/view/microplastics-me-eating-microplastics-me-eating-cat-cats-gif-1850316069691321432

Spontaneous Useless Fact
France was still executing people with the guillotine when the first Star Wars movie was released. "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope" was released on May 25th, 1977, and the last guillotine execution in France wouldn't take place until September 10th that same year.

[maiden wing]

It’s not that it contains, it’s more that it has the physical properties of plastic

[serene gorge]

Yes, "plastic" in this context means "can undergo deformation"

[charred spoke]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #276
In kay(f)bop(t), a language created as a joke by Daniel Swanson, there is a translation of the Babel story in the Bible that, because of multiple root meanings, can be interpreted equally as validly as a translation of Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up. It also takes about 40 minutes to say and requires you to rapidly switch between wearing four different hats.

[maiden wing]

can we get an example of this
like a video
i need to watch a video explaining this

[charred spoke]

@maiden wing

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #126
on mobile, you can now click someone’s name and it will put “@[NAME]” into the text box for you

[sacred field]

that's been a feature for ages

[maiden wing]

I haven’t noticed it for ages though

[harsh imp]

Lol

[crisp folio]

@maiden wing did not realise that

Very useful

[ruby acorn]

@crisp folio i know, even though it is a quite old feature

[sacred field]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!!!
according to Wikipedia, North Korean citizens who can use the internet use an operating system derived from Linux

[ruby acorn]

Well most of nk citizen with internet access are state hackers soooooo

[harsh imp]

Even NK citizens say

||#### Windows||

[sacred field]

aparently some researchers get internet access, for access to western studies probably

[charred spoke]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #279
Arguing online through text is a form of turn-based combat

[harsh imp]

lol

[serene gorge]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!

I use strawman

It's not very effective...

[charred spoke]

I use ad hominem! The opponent is now enraged! The opponent's accuracy fell!

[ruby acorn]

Same goes on with emails

[terse marsh]

Spontaneous Non-Useless Fact
Whoever is the first person to spot someone who went overboard at sea should never take their eyes off of them. Losing sight for one moment can be enough to lose them again.

[tired helm]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!
Random mutations in animals may not be as random as you think. Animals like sharks which have kept the same body plan for hundreds of millions of years actually have lower mutation rate than other animals such as humans. (Since mutating at a faster rate lowers the shark's fitness)
A neat side-effect of this is sharks are way less likely than us to get cancer. Good job, sharkies :3

Also some regions of a genome that are not essential for a cell's or creature's functioning can mutate faster than parts of a genome that are essential

It's all really fascinating and a lot is still unknown to this day

[terse marsh]

Is that why some cancers in humans are more common than others?

[charred spoke]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #282
If you're given three radioactive things that emit alpha, beta, and gamma radiation, respectively, and you're forced to choose one to eat, one to hold in your hand, and one to put in your pocket:

Put the alpha emitter in your hand - your outer skin can block that easily

Put the beta emitter in your pocket - your clothing and skin should protect you from most of it

Eat the gamma emitter - it'll do the same amount of damage either way

[serene gorge]

You can’t stop me from eating the alpha emitter

[charred spoke]

Bet

I mean, unless you WANT cancer in every area of your digestive tract

[terse marsh]

Spontaneous Useless Fact
There are only 5,472,730,538 unique Sudoku puzzles!

[charred spoke]

Das a lot

Wait that means there are more people on earth than sudoku puzzles

If we gave everybody one, we could solve all possible sudoku puzzles simultaneously

[terse marsh]

Some people won't get their own Sudoku puzzle and have to share, then

[charred spoke]

That's ok, I'm sure there are plenty of people who would be willing to share

[terse marsh]

I don't doubt there would be some people who want more than one, though

[charred spoke]

Hmmm

They'll have to do more than one later, then

We're aiming for simultaneous here

[charred spoke]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #284
Cane toads are excellent navigators. They have magnetoreception, similar to many birds, as well as a good sense of smell.

One study found that they could make their way home even after taking a long and winding route up to a kilometer away AND after having either their sense of smell or magnetoreception blocked.

In fact, their ability to navigate home seemed to be completely unaffected by distance or sense blocking, at least within the sample

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #127
there was a possum that lived at my house, and my mom hated him
So she made me put him into a pet carrier and take him away
I drove him to a park 4 miles away
And he made his way back
He was named smith
||Also a coyote got him
His fur is still in front of his tree||

[harsh imp]

SMITH NOOO😭

He was so great 😭 😭 😭

He was the bestest goodest possum

[zenith void]

And that happens to be arguing online through text :/

[zenith void]

😭

[ruby acorn]

Indeed lol

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #128
splinter free toilet paper was invented in 1935
Toilet paper gave you splinters in 1934
Let that sink in

[harsh imp]

I am not letting that sink in

Not in a damn million years

No

I do not accept the existence of splinter paper

[ruby acorn]

😂

[charred spoke]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #287
In (American) nuclear engineering, one of the key parameters of nuclear reactors is called worth, and despite having absolutely nothing to do with money, it's measured in dollars ($). In reality, it's tied to reactivity and the neutron life cycle.

For example, when talking about changing the reactor conditions, you can say things like "if we add 30 cents' worth of reactivity" or "when we take away three dollars of reactivity"

[serene gorge]

Muricans really will use ANYTHING except logical units uh

[terse marsh]

There's very few things logical in the United States that's exclusive to the United States

[tacit valley]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #idk
100,000,001 is divisible by 17

[maiden wing]

Freedom units are logical

[serene gorge]

Maybe if you have burger patty for brains

[maiden wing]

Nah
Ur giving me too much credit

[charred spoke]

One of my homework questions is "What is the asymptotic period resulting from a reactivity insertion of (a) 0.08$ and (b) -0.08$ ?"

[wet wedge]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT! Licking doorknobs is illegal on other planets!

[charred spoke]

🤨 gonna need you to cite your sources on that one

[maiden wing]

You have no proof

[zenith void]

https://tenor.com/view/mr-bean-mrbean-bean-mr-bean-holiday-mr-bean-holiday-movie-gif-3228235746377647455

Source?

[harsh imp]

Lol

[terse marsh]

Spontaneous Useless Fact
You are now breathing manually.

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #129
you just lost the game

[tired helm]

I'll replace your skin with cesium

[sacred field]

wrong

i am not breathing

[tacit valley]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!
Roughly 0.00000010962% of consious organisms have the Super Chatter role in the PlanetSmith Discord server!

Can i send 2 useless facts in a row?

Is it like the barrel spam channel or no

[sacred field]

you can

[tacit valley]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!
There are about 24.62M gen betas alive as of rn

[charred spoke]

Cringe

Imagine being gen beta

[tacit valley]

What would be after gen omega

[sacred field]

wdym gen omega

the next gen after them is gen charlie

then delta

then echo

[tacit valley]

The generations are named by the greek alphabet

[sacred field]

then foxtrot

[sacred field]

damn it should be the phonetic

[tacit valley]

Alpha
Beta
Gamma
Delta
Epsilon
Zeta
Eta
Iota
...
Omega

[sacred field]

it loops (maybe?)

[molten phoenix]

GG @sacred field, you just advanced to level 27!

[sacred field]

ooo

awesome

[charred spoke]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #294
A chemical jokingly known as azidoazide azide has a reputation for being incredibly unstable and explosive. It's been known to explode spontaneously with no known stimulus.

Plus, just look at how goofy its structure looks

[sacred field]

plenty of nitrogen

wait isn't nitrogen like a noble gas

why is it explosive

[charred spoke]

Nitrogen WANTS to be a gas. It's very happy being N2 with its incredibly stable triple bond, floating around in the air.

That's why it considers this molecule an abomination of nature.

[sacred field]

ah

[charred spoke]

Chemists practically tortured this nitrogen to get it to exist in this form, and it's poised and ready to take its revenge and gain its freedom at a moment's notice

[harsh imp]

Gen Alpha2

[harsh imp]

Call it sillium

It's so silly

[terse marsh]

It’s black text on a transparent background so with the super-dark mode on discord I can’t see it 😭

[terse marsh]

Thank you! That is a funky molecule

[charred spoke]

Yes it is lol

[harsh imp]

Lol, yes

[tacit valley]

C2N14

[harsh imp]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!

It is very likely, that Mars's mantle is heated by the decay of radioactive elements

The inside of Mars is radioactive magma.

-# i don't have a source to go with that, but i'm fairly certain it's true

Also

Recently, very large underground deposits of water were found in the crust of Mars.

The crust of Mars is wet sand.

-# i do have a source to go with that, gimme a sec

Mars is still a horrible place to colonize, absolutely don't get me wrong

[terse marsh]

Only 10-20 kilometers…
I guess it’s not too deep that we couldn’t maybe drill into it but that would require a minimum of 10 kilometers of drill pipe length alone.

[harsh imp]

It absolutely is too deep

And impractical

There are water deposits on the surface

[tacit valley]

Ill ask mars about this later

[terse marsh]

Let us know what they say

Why did I get a notification saying EverybodyAnts reacted with on my message…

[tacit valley]

Probably a misclick then a correction to

[terse marsh]

Hmm…

[harsh imp]

No

I never reacted that

I just reacted by clicking Europa's reaction

[terse marsh]

Okay maybe I misread the notification then

My bad!

[serene gorge]

The deepest we have ever dug is the Kola superdeep borehole sg3, in russia, near the top of norway. It was completed in 1989, reaching 12 kilometers and 262 meters. It has a diameter of 23 centimeters and is the third of five holes from a central shaft. Actually, china may beat the record soon in xinjiang. Drilling at these depths is limited by the high temperatures of several hundred degrees, where tools become weaker. Mind you, this is incredibly impressive, and indicative we might just technically do something like this if we had a very extensive presence on mars (and also knowing the rock may be cooler), but realistically, this will probably never happen. Sorry.

The well is now shut and the building abandoned, in case you were curious.

[terse marsh]

But… diggy diggy hole?

[serene gorge]

Well, the good news is that there is still plenty of money to be made by looking for fossil fuels, so there's a good chance we will keep pushing deeper.

The bad news is, there is still plenty of money to be made by looking for fossil fuels.

[terse marsh]

That’s an excellent way to put that. I don’t imagine there’s a whole lot of fossil fuels on Mars, though.

[serene gorge]

No, but you need a lot of water to synthesize methane through the sabatier process, which has use as rocket fuel and propellant.

So, in a way, there is a lot of fossil fuels buried on mars.

If you squint.

And also allegedly we need the stuff to stay alive, but that doesn't stop people on the iss from recycling the vast majority of their water

[terse marsh]

Allegedly

[terse marsh]

Sounds like rocket science…

Do we know what the first manned missions to Mars will be like? What their goals are, I mean.

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #130
this is my lizard
His name is Blackbeard

[tired helm]

:D

Good dragon

[terse marsh]

Not a useless fact. This is vital information.

[maiden wing]

Do you want to see more of him

[terse marsh]

I would love to!

[maiden wing]

Aight
@tired helm you come too

TO THE VC

[terse marsh]

He looks so confused! I love him

Awwwhhh

👍

There’s a single-digit number of braincells behind those adorable eyes

[tacit valley]

0

[terse marsh]

Anywhere from 0-9, yeah

@maiden wing do you ever take him out and let him roam around the house?

[maiden wing]

dog is eepy rn si i guess i can

[terse marsh]

Free him!

I guess I sort of expected more. I forgot lizards in general aren’t the most active creatures

I wonder what they think about being picked up and dropped off somewhere completely different

How can a creature look so bothered and unbothered at the same time?

[maiden wing]

also its colf on the floor, so i had to put the pillow down

[terse marsh]

Ah I didn’t think of that

I’m hopping off of the call. Thank you for streaming! I love the lizard friend ❤️

[harsh imp]

Omagawds

He's adorable

Make him a cute little lizard enclosure with all the lizard things like... lizard... encloure... things

[maiden wing]

He’s got a fake plant
And a slate slab for sitting on to be warm
And a log that he likes to climb
And an ice cream tub cave
And an antler
He’s probably got enough in there, and any more will get a little too cluttered
This summer I might redo his enclosure to look more natural

[harsh imp]

Nice

I bet he'd like some sand

Or a rocky cave to store all his dwarven gold

[terse marsh]

Sand is nice for some texture, right? As well as something they can move around easily, not like the antler

[harsh imp]

Like his dwarven gold

[sacred field]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!!
SCP-140 and SCP-141 are both anomalous books capable of retroactively modifying the past

[maiden wing]

Book of retcons

[clear ibex]

every time i look in suggestions ideas i find another post with thousands of comments wtf

[ruby acorn]

yeah me too

lol

[tacit valley]

Suggestion Threads with Atleast 1k Messages:
🥇 - #1236086841711656970 (25,044)
🥈 - #1305025982058467400 (1,851)
🥉 - #1289072759842017441 (1,231)

[terse marsh]

It’s not even close haha

[tacit valley]

23,193 away

[maiden wing]

25k yaaaaaay

[zenith void]

No💀 ☠️

[harsh imp]

Nope

[terse marsh]

You're a little late to answer that question haha

[harsh imp]

XD

Ye

Rn leaving a bunch of servers, that i don't use

[terse marsh]

How many are you in?

[harsh imp]

Idk

Like 20ish

Too many

My autism unhappy

[terse marsh]

Oh that's not that bad

[tacit valley]

Im only in 11

[terse marsh]

I have a friend who's at the maximum and everytime he wants to join a new one he has to leave one first

[harsh imp]

Yk that little dot that appears next to a server when there are unread messages?

All of them have these now, i can't keep up

They're so annoying, idek why

Not pings tho, for some reason

[terse marsh]

I'm in 18 servers

[harsh imp]

How many can you be in?

[tacit valley]

5 of my 11 i never check

[terse marsh]

I think it's 99 or 100. I forget

[harsh imp]

Damn

[terse marsh]

Spontaneous Useless Fact
My cat is meowing at me to be fed but I fed him an hour ago.

[harsh imp]

Greedy car

[terse marsh]

He's on a diet haha

[harsh imp]

:p

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #131
everyone knows about sporks
This is a spnife

[terse marsh]

Also known as a “knoon”

[tacit valley]

Because knife is pronounced "nife" would knoon be pronounced "noon"

[terse marsh]

Yep!

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #132
||I never consented to you clicking this||

[tacit valley]

I can read ur mind

[deep ridge]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #132.5
This is not an official Spontaneous Useless Fact, as evidenced by the number being 132.5

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #133
I think I finally found out what’s wrong with me
It’s a combination of adhd, nearly perfect photographic memory, aphantasia, and social anxiety

[maiden wing]

Also that is my personal count, ask Jan kaje about the collective count

[sacred field]

not sure how that is bad

at least the second and last bit

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #134
It has been 9 days since the last spontaneous useless fact.

[sacred field]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT
it has been less than 9 days since the last spontaneous useless fact

[maiden wing]

Technically true

[tacit valley]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT
I got a vc with 10 people in it

[maiden wing]

Say hi to Glock for me

[harsh imp]

Of course Glock is unmuted

I like how he joins, he takes the role of a sports commentator

It's funny

[sacred field]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!!!!
The studio which developed Satisfactory is the same as the studio which developed DRG

[terse marsh]

What's DRG?

[ruby acorn]

ROCKS AND STONE ?

NO WAY

[sacred field]

Deep Rock Galactic

cool game i should play someday soon

[terse marsh]

Ah, right. Yeah I just didn't recognize the shorthand

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #135
the studio which developed hollow knight is ||probably|| developing hollow knight silksong

-# Please I must ingest the pure copium

[sacred field]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!!!
Sigma grindset is now a Minecraft achievement
no i am not kidding
this is not april fools
what has this game come to

[zenith void]

it hhas to be april fools r r r right??

[sacred field]

it is in the april fools update

but i am not making an april fools joke

play it yourself

[zenith void]

check status

[sacred field]

then don't ig

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #136
I did not do an April fools spontaneous useless fact.

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #137

SILKSONG IS REAL

ITS CONFIRMED REAL

[ruby acorn]

Real real or real we don't know when ?

[terse marsh]

I still don’t know what “Silksong” is

[ruby acorn]

Hollow knight 2.0 if I'm not wrong

[terse marsh]

Thanks!

[sacred field]

We got skong news in the direct

[maiden wing]

Silksong reference?

[harsh imp]

Wa

[sacred field]

in fact it is

[harsh imp]

Lol

[sacred field]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!!!
BTD6 now has an achievement called Josh's Constant, which is a reference to the ever-powerful Permaspike tower and how they have tried many times to nerf it (unsuccessfully)

[harsh imp]

What's BTD6?

[tacit valley]

Bloons tower defense 6

[harsh imp]

That is incredibly specific

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #137
did you know when you drive car, car drive go fast?
When fast go car, vroom and go fast car go.

[tacit valley]

Cargo?

[harsh imp]

Insanity

[tacit valley]

Unsanity

[zenith void]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS(ish) FACT If you're driving(50km/h cuz most roads are that) and do something like checking your phone for 15s you will have passed 80m blind

[harsh imp]

So if i time the text and landmine just right...

[serene gorge]

😂

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #138
chocolate is the most effective medium for a murder weapon.
All you have to do is make a chocolate knife, stab somebody, and then eat the evidence

[harsh imp]

"I had no idea violence could taste so good"

-# Nigel and Marmalade my beloved

[tired helm]

Hehe

I love that show

[serene gorge]

wasn’t there an agatha christie « perfect crime » done with an icicle?

[harsh imp]

Icicles aren't as tasty tho

[terse marsh]

Spontaneous Useless Fact
The original patent for the fire hydrant was destroyed in a fire.

[harsh imp]

Spontaneous Useless Fact
The original fire hydrant must've ####ing sucked

[zenith void]

https://tenor.com/view/me-atrapaste-es-cine-its-cinema-cinema-esto-es-cine-gif-17729711691959966457

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #140
so we all know that a human infant has 14.5k calories
Which means that you need to consume 137931 babies to get the same amount of calories as 1 gram of uranium 235

[harsh imp]

https://tenor.com/view/gakkou-gurashi-eat-yuki-takeya-gif-6114545807965950106

[maiden wing]

https://tenor.com/view/watercoasting-gif-9834191338382762098

[serene gorge]

please do not the uranium

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT!

If you try to sleep on the elephant’s foot for the night, you will sleep a very long time.

[terse marsh]

Sleepy

[serene gorge]

you may also get flashes in your eyeballs, from high energy particles exceeding the local speed of light in the vitreous humor. this happens semi regularly to astronauts, but in this configuration it may be more like low-level static than a few random isolated pings

[crisp folio]

I’m aktually it’s only published by coffee stain, not developed 🤓

[tacit valley]

Erm*

[maiden wing]

SPONTANEOUS USELESS FACT #141 (Pali✨)
When you sit on a toilet in a city, you are connecting your butthole to a citywide network of other buttholes

[harsh imp]

No

Get out

Nononono

I do not accept this

[outer kernel]

The sky isn’t always blue

[zenith void]

NO! NO! NO!

[tacit valley]

Ban this guy

[ruby acorn]

Same goes on at your house

[charred spoke]

And if you poop hard enough, you can send a message to some of those other buttholes through the butthole network

[terse marsh]

What

[charred spoke]

Y'know, butthole communication

[harsh imp]

I did not need to see this

https://tenor.com/view/akira-leave-me-alone-leave-me-alone-meme-gif-6420351794930725971

[maiden wing]

Morse code through nuclear diarrhea
It’s like explosive diarrhea, but more explosive

[charred spoke]

That's what I'm talking about

[harsh imp]

You ppl are insane

[terse marsh]

I think we should quarantine Dusk and jan Kaje

Only let them talk in a channel that nobody else can view

[harsh imp]

Talk?
They don't need to talk
Just give them both a toilet

[tacit valley]

Make sure those toilets are connected to each other and ONLY each other

[charred spoke]

@maiden wing u and me?

[sacred field]

You guys are toilets now??
Unlucky

[tacit valley]

Someone commited a felony

[maiden wing]

Bruh

[terse marsh]

Someone post an actual fact. I need something to scroll away this abomination above

[tired helm]

If you chew your own ear off it means you have incredible flexibility

Or you are a goblin shark

But they don't have ears

[terse marsh]

That’s not much better, but it’s better. Thank you

[tired helm]

So probably the first one

No problem man

turns into mist

Oh wait

No

Here's actual fact

The CIA puts out fake recipes for bombs on the internet

Kinda as a way to let criminals do the government's job for them

[harsh imp]

Interesting

[deep ridge]

8 is not a prime number