This is a totally disrespectfu DYK

That’s right : the aiming part is attributed to Churchill (and the origins of the expression dates back to late 19th century, according to your source).

Hmmm. Thought it (the basic, unadulterated quote) was based on marketing during Prohibition?
“Over the years apples were developed more for their sweetness and for eating out of hand rather than for cider. This was partly in response to early prohibition efforts. The old saying, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away” was part of a late nineteenth century marketing ploy to keep the apple in favor with the public as a healthy food versus its use as an alcoholic beverage.”
http://harrison.ext.wvu.edu/r/download/50127

sorry_everyone._this_crappy_app_does_not_accept_spaces!

what???? stupid app

the keys are also arranged so that salesmen could easily type the word “TYPEWRITER” – all it’s letters are on the top row.

whoa ! that’s ill

Nope, Coca-Cola syrup used to consist of extracts from the Coca-plant snd the Cola-plant.
That’s the reason why the drink is named Coca-Cola.
Cocaine comes from the cocaine-plant, also called the coca-plant, while the cola-plant is a type of bush/tree with many nuts.
In other words, I think that Coca-Cola does not come from an opium-plant.

cool

kiliing the earth is bad lol

Yes. Which is why shes the only girl.

I must have a Phd…..

I don’t think so ^^

does that include the parrot drone?

So what? Who the devil would want to do this in any case?

This DYK refers to the (quite) famous fake-fun-fact “it is impossible to lick your elbow”, since some people always tell “well, I know someone who can”.

This version is “I know someone”-free.

this proof given isn’t very good

Indeed : the point was to have something “easy to read”. A nicer proof would be “if the two numbers weren’t the same number, there should exist one given number separating them”.

Or this “trivial when you have learnt limits” :

0. 99999999… = Lim (x—>+oo) 1 – 1/(10^x) = 1

(and your maths teacher would have beaten you up when you have written Lim (whatever) ~ = (something) : Limit equals )

this proof given isn’t very good, as all would need argued is 1/3 simply cant be truly expressed in decimal form and 0.3333~ is just the closest interpretation… the proof i tend to use is:
.999999~ * 10=9.999999~
9.9999~ – .9999999~ = 9 (truncating the decimals off)
however none of these proofs are truly proof, cause one could argue that 9.9999999~ represents 9.999~ – 0.00000~9(IE 1 decimal place shy of infinity)

however it should just be accepted as true, because there are no ‘ways’ to get .3333333~(aside from assuming 1/3 actually does equal it, or starting with it, or another repeating decimal)... there is no harm in using it, but to some (including computers), it makes things easier…

I’ve ran through at-least 20 different ‘proofs’, seeing the logic behind them none actually convincing me anything beyond accept it because it doesn’t ‘break’ Our math..

for more : http://fr.spontex.org/le_saviez_vous/598/

people fly…, albiet through our minds..

InsaniD, I suggest a second reading of the DYK, the last sentence said:

So yes, it’s possible, but not with a normal sheet of paper.

Several attempts broke this record of 7 times but not in the same condition (thinner paper, bigger paper and so on).

firstly who would want to?, secondly it fails to mention whose fingers, and if they are still attached to their hands…. although the ‘put in simultaneously’ part does present some difficulty depending on how you define it… (within 10 seconds?, .0000000001 seconds?, etc, although you could still )

but if it just means having a finger in each of the aforementioned holes at the same time, it is indeed possible

On April 3rd, teacher James Tanton from the St Marks boarding school near MIT and his students broke this “record”. Using 13,000 feet of toilet paper and the Infinite Hall at MIT, the students were able to fold the paper 13 times.
http://www.necn.com/04/07/11/Students-claim-world-record-folding-toil/landing_scitech.html?blockID=499544&feedID=4213

So what? Who the devil would want to do this in any case?

If only we did that in America, the roads would be rid of horrible drivers.. One can only dream.. And hope.

Coca-Cola still uses ingredients from the plant of which cocaine is made (can’t remember the name lol, is it the opium plant?)

Ick. Scientific study? Resembles special interest-sponsored research.

I knew that since I was 13

myth busted : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D5fJYHbK7k

In order to preserve the team’s health, we advise you to take a look on the french version of this DYK and its (numerous) comments.

This is not true…think about it. If there is an infinite number of 9s, that means that the string of 9s goes on forever – and though we can round it up for theoretical purposes it is not a literally equality.

tokogod: Yes it is, you just read an old-school DYK, the moderation team did not have the same goals and same ideas for the validation.
Would not be validated again today I presume, but we decided to keep them anyway.

I thought it was a pretty well known fact

I swear I didn’t try

C’est dingue ça! Je me suis toujours demandé pourquoi on avait pas la même heure que les anglais, tout s’explique! Thanks!

Inversely, Shel Silverstein wrote for Playboy before publishing his children’s books.

well, that’s a long line

The great apes, and the primates in general are very similar to humans, biologically (genetically) as well in their way of life.
Their social organization and emotional behavior, the fact that they possess self-consciousness and understand the notion of time (past, present ans future), exactly as we do, and far from what dogs do, made scientists think that they deserved rights equal to men.

It took him some balls ti do that.

Nothing really… :-D

@Yeggis :
This DYK does not seem to have gone “out again” today : the iGoogle widget gets random DYKs every day…

To get the fresh ones, click Get back to DYK‘s list.

And above all, Sarkozy never said this sentence.
It was from Raffarin, during the referendum about Yes/No to the European Constitution.

(new here… but why this DYK goes out again after 6 months ?)

Same thing for trees, vegetables and humanity…

This other (in french) DYK explains why we did not consider Adélie Land

Sources?

The signal CQ (pronounced seek you in english) comes in fact from the french word sécurité whose first two syllables sound like the letters CQ (french pronunciation) and was used to call attention.

Only a few sources on Wikipedia really reveal this (german, italian, polish, russian…).

Wiki – Panzer DE

UK, Spanish and French versions (amongst others) don’t show the peace logo as Panzer Division Insignia. Did they forget or won’t they shock public opinion ?

In english, toe and fingers have almost the same names…

TOES
Hallux (big toe)
Index toe
Middle toe
Fourth toe
Little toe (Colloquially known as the pinky toe or the baby toe in the United States)

FINGERS
Thumb
Index finger
Middle finger
Ring finger
Little finger

The UK Wikipedia says DEA Degree in Business Law, but the french version of Wikipedia and Le Nouvel Observateur both say DEA Degree in political science.

On erowid, you’ll read “presumably for its fiber”.

Like “well, I grow these, but it’s just that I like the color of it” :-)