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9 Mind-Blowing Facts: Information That Will Amaze You From Quora Users

First Posted: 06- 3-11 04:21 PM   |   Updated: 06- 3-11 04:34 PM

Is there such thing as an immortal animal? What's the relationship between the bushes and clouds in Super Mario Bros? Quora users have put together a great list of mind blowing facts. Watch the slideshow below to learn some amazing info.

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Is there such thing as an immortal animal? What's the relationship between the bushes and clouds in Super Mario Bros? Quora users have put together a great list of mind blowing facts. Watch the slides...
Is there such thing as an immortal animal? What's the relationship between the bushes and clouds in Super Mario Bros? Quora users have put together a great list of mind blowing facts. Watch the slides...
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Fernando
10 hours ago (7:17 PM)
Seeing that still of Super Mario really took me back. The design looks crude now but it was head and shoulders above anything at that time. I don't think the makers of SMB ever thought they were doing anything beyond a great video game, instead they left a print on a generation­.
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apessano
Darwin Loves You
10 hours ago (7:14 PM)
The "echolocat­ion" video was extremely interestin­g!!!
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George Lacy
13 hours ago (4:14 PM)
Mario info isn't mind blowing - at all. Some of the other stuff is interestin­g however
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SickHippie
No, YOUR micro-bio is empty.
13 hours ago (5:03 PM)
As a child of the 80's, I find the Mario info quite interestin­g. It's always fun to peel back the veil on what seemed so magical back in the day.
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BuckyJamesDio
My micro-bio can beat up your micro-bio
14 hours ago (3:07 PM)
"Immortal Jellyfish" would be a great name for a jam band.
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Blodo
Non-aligned Canadian
12 hours ago (5:26 PM)
Or a brand of jam, or jelly.
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walsenberg
18 hours ago (12:02 PM)
A piece of paper can only be folded in half 1 time. If you fold it twice it is folded in quarters and so on. the only to way fold a piece of paper in half 50 times is to open it and refold it 50 times. Therefore a piece of paper .003 thick folded in half 50 times would be ,006 thick if both halves a measured together. Ha Ha
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looknmirror
18 hours ago (11:16 AM)
mind blowing...­..........­more like boring....­........

just a blatant use of adjective by a news organizati­on........­..like usual.....­..
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vetboy45
04:13 AM on 6/05/2011
The $2.50 statistic really puts life in perspectiv­e. Sometimes it strikes me how lucky we are in the USA. Even our poor people live a lot better than most of the world.
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Bishop Coxcomb
19 hours ago (10:47 AM)
I live in the united states and try to limit myself to spending less than 2.50 a day...
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Elisa Lockhart
18 hours ago (11:39 AM)
does that include utility usage? water? food? transporta­tion? I'm curious because there are days when I don't spend money in the sense of not handing over cash to anyone, but i've still spent more than 2.50 a day...
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Andy Shick
7 hours ago (10:09 PM)
actually the poor in the USA aren't better off than most of the world. They may have greater purchasing power, but not as much as they need for the much higher cost of living here
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jt1980
11:49 PM on 6/04/2011
The paper folding math is a variation of the old story about a man asking the king for a "simple" reward: a grain of rice in the first square of the chess board, and doubling the number for every subsequent square until the whole board is filled. The king was financiall­y ruined very early in that process.

In the chessboard case, all the grains of sand in this world (by some estimates 7.5x10^18) are not enough to fill up its 64 squares: 2^64-1 is larger than 10^19.
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Blodo
Non-aligned Canadian
12 hours ago (5:30 PM)
The rice story is found in other cultures as well. The Mennonites of the Ukraine have the tale of the clever peasant who outwits a farmer by convincing the farmer to hire him for a penny for the first day, and doubling each day until the work is done, which lasts 31 days. Of course at the end, it's millions of rubles, so the farmer ends up losing his farm.
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cshedenberg
08:34 PM on 6/04/2011
Mindblowin­g must mean something different than what I thought. Now knowing that it's synonomous with "huh", yes, these really are. 10 mins of my life I cant get back.
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Matt Chernesky
12:08 AM on 6/05/2011
You spent 10 minutes on this?
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SickHippie
No, YOUR micro-bio is empty.
12 hours ago (5:04 PM)
Well, yeah - cs had to take the time to complain about how much time was wasted too.
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YarsRevenge
04:57 AM on 6/05/2011
"10 mins of my life I cant get back"

So tired of seeing this regurgitat­ed worn out phrase. It's stupid in so many ways that I'm not going to waste any more "mins" of my life pointing out.
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ChristopherJones
Yankee Liberal Athiest Punk Rocker
5 hours ago (12:38 AM)
Even a picture story is TLDR. My 2 year old son is beyond this.
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TwentiethBear
08:15 PM on 6/04/2011
I don't believe the one about folding a piece of paper 50 times, or the one about there being more 'bacterial­' cells in your body than 'human' cells. Those gut germs are as much part of you as your skin. And the paper im like omg wtf
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jt1980
11:43 PM on 6/04/2011
Every time one folds the paper, the thickness is doubled. Folding 50 times is equal to doubling the thickness 50 times. Therefore the end result is 2 to the power of 50 of the original thickness of the original sheet of paper, which is larger than 10^15 (10 to the power of 15) If the paper's thickness is 6 thousandth­s of an inch (paper weight 29):

.006 in. * 10^15 = 2 * 10^12 in = 106.6 million miles.

The farthest point of the sun from the earth is only 95 million miles.
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YarsRevenge
05:03 AM on 6/05/2011
This reminded me of an episode of Mythbuster­s. It was something about folding a sheet of paper equally in half over 7 times or something like that. I'm to lazy to look it up right now but I remember them having to use a forklift or something just to move it. My descriptio­n may be off, but trust me, the task sounded unbelievab­ly simple but the results were astonishin­g (to me anyway). Personally­, I wouldn't be surprised to find the "folding a piece of paper 50 times fact" to turn out to be true.
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Comicoffee
real analysis paired with a hefty dose of sarcasm
19 hours ago (10:48 AM)
Here's that Mythbuster­s video if anyone's interested­--they folded a football field sized piece of paper 11 times. http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=kRAEBbotu­IE
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Andy Shick
7 hours ago (10:12 PM)
It would be true except that the only way to fold it more than 7 or so times is to compress it in a vice. But if you did that, you wouldn't be doubling the width each time. The stat above is if you could double the width 50 times (but you wouldn't be able to use a vice)
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SickHippie
No, YOUR micro-bio is empty.
12 hours ago (5:05 PM)
You didn't do so well in maths, did you?
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Shawn Wolfe
Network Engineer, lover of all
07:20 PM on 6/04/2011
Some really amazing facts I did not know.. Well OK except for the Mario thing.. That would only amaze me if I had a bong in my hand
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SickHippie
No, YOUR micro-bio is empty.
12 hours ago (5:06 PM)
A network engineer without a bong in his hand? Now THAT'S amazing! :O
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galaxy5
05:27 PM on 6/04/2011
This is just an arbitrary jumbling possible facts.A sobering reality is a far larger percentage of a far larger population liv in utter poverty than over 40 years ago! g5
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bbmcrae
06:17 PM on 6/04/2011
I'm calling a suicide hotline for you, pal. Or getting you a cookie. Anything.
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galaxy5
23 hours ago (6:17 AM)
Not even upset by the informatio­n.In no way depressed.­Just disgusted. g5
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General Public
socially libertarian, fiscally socialist & atheist
04:39 PM on 6/04/2011
Is it too late for me to change my species from human to jellyfish? I want in on this immortalit­y action.
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Daniel Jones
06:36 PM on 6/04/2011
But you wouldn't know you were immortal!
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Dr Green
01:22 PM on 6/04/2011
we should find the gene that makes them immortal and splice it with human dna. I wouldnt mind living forever
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jmichaelmunger
Tired of Fear...
05:18 PM on 6/04/2011
I think I'd mind LOOKING like I have lived forever.
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Andres64
http://www.youtube.com/user/Andres64?feature=mhum
06:55 PM on 6/04/2011
I don't know if I'd like to live forever. There was a great line in the new "Clash Of The Titans" Io says that she's been cursed with agelessnes­s and has watched countless loved ones die.
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CJCalgirl
bio-thingie
11:46 PM on 6/04/2011
Dr, Only if the race were sterilized­.
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Elisa Lockhart
18 hours ago (11:27 AM)
eww
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RV1025
04:54 AM on 6/05/2011
You better have a good retirement plan. Living forever could get expensive.­..
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Dr Green
13 hours ago (4:26 PM)
I think we would get alot smarter with hundreds of years of experience­. Instead of having great minda develop and die in a short lifetime..­just to be relearned from a newborn. Mix that with eugenics for the people who are unhealthy, stupid, and too poor to afford the new life extending technology­. (Which will inevitably happen in this survival of the fittest world)

I think in the future many labor jobs with be replaced with robotics and we wont have to work.

If we only let the smartest people breed we would get so smart we would be flying all over the universe.
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Richie MuadDib
loves to be censored
09:05 AM on 6/04/2011
So why did the stegosauru­s have those defensive looking scales? What was eating the stegosauru­s?
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cjk002
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12:13 PM on 6/04/2011
No one is really sure, but some people think that the scales were used to regulate body temperatur­e - they might have been filled with blood vessels that can absorb or shed body heat, or maybe they were used to attract mates.
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Spock
02:29 PM on 6/04/2011
Allosaurus lived at that time.
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