I am a nerd too! It is great to find people who are nerdy as well. Here are some quick little random useless facts I know:
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
There are 293 ways to make a change for a dollar.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, silver or purple.
Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters mt.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 note.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
An ostrichs eye is bigger than its brain.
I also have memorized 31 digits of Pi: 3.141592653589793238462643383279 . . . . . . . (I am working on getting to 40 :D)
I can also pronounce and spell the longest word any of the MAJOR English dictionaries: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
The longest word in the English LANGUAGE has 189,819 letters and would take you three and a half hours to pronounce. It is the chemical name of Titin (or connectin). You would have to say Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious over 5000 times to come close to the letter count.
I do also know heaps more useless facts but this is all I have time for at the moment. I am also a huge Harry Potter, Hunger Games and Divergent fan.
Until next time.
Nerd Out XD
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Here is some of the Greek Anthem: (Don't worry, not all 158 verses. Only as much as I remember :) Greek and English)
GREEK:
Edit: I actually can't put the Greek. When you post it it only puts the punctuation :(
ENGLISH:
I know you of old
Oh divinely restored,
By the light of your eyes
And the edge of your sword.
From the graves of our people
Shall your spirit prevail
As we greet you again-
Hail, Liberty, Hail!
Long did you dwell
Amid the peoples that mourn
Awaiting some voice
That should tell you to return
Ah, slow broke that day
and no man dared call,
For the shadow of tyranny
Lay over all.
Oh, unfortunate one!
The only consolation you had
were the past glories,
and remembering them you cried.
Long you have awaited
for a freedom-loving call
and in despair one hand
hits the other one.
And you cried:
ah! When do I raise my head
in this desolate land?
and the answer was chains, cries so sad.
Then you shifted your gaze
tearfully, clouded in haze
and on your garment dripped blood
from your children's tortured hearts.
With blood-stained clothes
I know for a fact
that you secretly sought help
in stronger hands of foreign lands.
On your journey you started alone
and alone you came back
doors do not easily open
when you need them so bad.
Someone cried on your breast,
but no response at its best;
another promised you help,
but he tricked you no less.
Some, allas! in your misfortune rejoice
and with such a cold poise
"go find your children" said they
as doors were shut in your face.
The foot slips and slides
and in such a haste it steps
on stone, or grass
reminders of a glorious past.
The miserable head shamefully leans
and the image it brings
is of a poor beggar, going door to door
with no interest in life any more.
Yet, behold now the sons
with impetuous breath
Go forth to the fight
seeking freedom or death.
From the graves of our people
shall the spirit prevail
as we greet you again-
Hail, Liberty, Hail!
Edited By Dragonaffection on 11/9/2019 at 12:11 AM.
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Posted: 11/10/2019 at 2:46 PM
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Hehe, I'll be sure to ask if I need anything >wo
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@o@ That's really awesome \(@w@\)
I'm assuming you know... of the one hundred digits of Pi song? ',:) My friend and I have this huge contest in calculus, over who's the 'alpha nerd'... so one day, after we'd finished a test, I drew the periodic table and he wrote the first one hundred digits of pi... an open ballot to the class confirmed him the alpha nerd *cough*
I've always been... a die-hard Nintendo gamer >n< so not the most respected, but you know, it's a thing... anyway...
I'm a Hufflepuff, cherry wand with phoenix feather, haven't determined a patronus yet -w-
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Posted: 11/11/2019 at 12:34 AM
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Yeah I do know it. I can write out the periodic table too! :) It is great to meet people that are like me.
Harry Potter:
House: Ravenclaw
Wand: Larch wood with a unicorn hair core, 13 " and unyielding flexibility
Patronus: Mastiff
Divergent:
Faction: I am Divergent - 66% Dauntless, 54% Erudite, 44% Abnegation, 10% Candor, 4% Amity
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Posted: 11/11/2019 at 12:45 AM
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Hmmm I have a friend who, on Pi Day, takes out a huge roll of paper and wriites out 1000+ digits of pi. Also, he's a mental calculator or something.
I like Dysprosium, for some reason. Or Lanthanum.
I'm a Hatstall between Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw, I took the Pottermore test six times and half of the time it gave me Hufflepuff, the other half it gave me Ravenclaw...
I have a 12 1/2 (I think, not certain but there was a 1/2 there) hazel wand with unyielding flexibility and unicorn hair, I believe.
My first Patronus was an osprey. Every animal quiz, it's always a bird xD
Quiz me on birds!
I'm a math person, I was doing Algebra 2 in middle school and had to go to high school in the mornings for math, I'm decent at chem and physics. Don't even ask about history, though lol
Random facts enjoy sticking in my head.
Edited By Canawlia on 11/11/2019 at 1:03 AM.
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Up.
TheWildOne
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Cool! In grade 5 my teacher gave me year 9 math. I love all subjects at school. :)
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Posted: 11/11/2019 at 12:51 AM
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Also, programming, at different points in time I had learned Java, Python, Ruby, and a little bit of C++, as well as some HTML, but as of right now I only remember Java and Python, shame shame xD
For my STEM fair project, I wrote a machine learning program that could recognize letters written in English.
Edited By Canawlia on 11/11/2019 at 12:52 AM.
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Hmm, does lucid dreaming count as nerdiness?
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