>>2618264
That's pretty fucked up.

>>2618289
It's only fucked up that it made the translation to computers.

Does it really slow down your typing if it's so ingrained in your consciousness by now that any other system would throw you off?

>>2618264

PROTIP:

Use a DVORAK like me

>>2618289
Damn right its fucked up. wake up, brosef!

The international bankers invented this system to reduce productivity and to crimp the flow of free thought and free speech.

Its all part of a system to keep you enslaved, man.

The qwerty layout was designed so that typewriter salesmen could type the word typewriter all on the top row to impress people with how quickly they could type the word and make sales.

I can type at around 100 WPM, I think I'm fine with the system the way it is.

Gorillas do not snore.

it was never designed to slow down your typing, stop perpetuating that shit.

they placed common letters farther apart so you could press more of them in quick succession without jamming.

if you truly give a shit about optimal typing speed, you use a stenotype or a chorded keyboard, anyway.

The movie Jaws is based on a summer of real events that occurred on the Jersey Shore in 1916. The last three victims were killed in a creek more than 10 miles inland. A crowd of witnesses saw the dorsel fin.

>>2618399
I thought he was being facetious and the this thread was *supposed* to be about false trivia.

Let's see hear...
How about some Megaman Tidbits?

Since the first two Megaman games take place in 200X and Megaman 3 takes place in 20XX, it is to be assumed that the first Megaman game takes place sometime in the year 2008, with 2 happening sometime in the summer/fall of 2009.

All robots (Repliods) post-Classic Megaman are all structurally descended from Megaman X, whose designs are their primary blue-print (with the noted exception of Zero, who was created by Dr. Wily at the time of X's construction)

There are two distinct Megaman time lines:

The Classic Time Line: Classic, X, Zero, ZX, Legends
The Battle Network Time Line: Battle Network, Starforce, the new series.

The Battle Network series is a more culturally believible version of the Classic storyline, as neither robotics nor AI has advanced enough for the creation of Megaman-like robots within the span of the next 10 years. The theme of robotics is replaced with an emphasis on the internet and simplistic AI. The Net Navi's of Battle Network are not advanced enough to be considered unattainable.

Oddly enough, in the story of the Battle Network games, it is revealed that Dr. Wily wanted the world to be more like the world seen in the original games: one of advanced robotic workers. However, Dr. Light's Net Society was favored instead.

The Legend's series happens after the ZX series, as Reploids and Humans have basically become the same being. During the time between Zero and ZX, Reploids agreed to be given "lifespans" while Humans became incredibly cyberized. It would appear in some situations in ZX that Humans and Repliods are capable of reproduction, as a Human/Reploid couple wed during the game and discuss having a child.

In Hong Kong, if a wife finds her husband cheating on her, she can legally kill him. The catch: SHE CAN ONLY USE HER BARE HANDS.

>>2618264

The QWERTY layout was originally designed by my great grandfather, Christopher Sholes.

Those who get caught masturbating in Indonesia are faced with the penalty of decapitation.

>>2618264
OP IS WRONG.

THE QWERTY KEYBOARD WAS DESIGNED TO ALTERNATE SIDES/HANDS WHILE TYPING TO AVOID JAMMING. KTHXBAI.

A dolphin has a prehensile penis.

You can't lick your own elbo.

>>2618451
I know someone who can. It's scary, actually.

>>2618444
Also, they are one of the few animals that partakes in sexual intercourse just for pleasure. The other two are humans and bonobos.

The banana slug has a penis that is six inches long. For comparison, the banana slug's body is six inches long.

>>2618370
On! You can put the keys anyfucking werevansd i can still typew shit.
Motherfuckersaginst kweyoboarob coreectability!

>>2618471

And dolphins

>penis

I see what you did there.....


Linkin Park were originally called hybrid theory, they named their first album released as Linkin Park hybrid theory in recognition of this.

The invention of the microwave came about when an operator at a lab that used radio equipment noticed that the chocolate bar in his breast pocket had melted after being around the radio arrays for a few hours.

Waterbears are immortal mite-like thingies that can surivive in the vaccum of space, live inside solid rock and they only need to eat once a fucking decade or some insane shit.

They are also one of the cutest looking immortal insects i've ever seen.

>>2618534
Related: when they were testing prototype magnetrons for early microwave ovens, the test they used was boiling an egg in a pot of water. Apparently the first time the engineers showed their prototype to the higher-ups, the eggs blew up in their faces.

Hmm it seems I've been misinformed on the subject of keyboards.

Anyways, more useless information!

Original microwave were military grade and could roast a full turkey in 20 minutes.

>>2618543
Awwwwwwwwwww <3 waterbears

an ant can breathe through every pore of its 'skin'
thats why they have to be completely underwater to drown

>>2618580
They're also still as dangerous as they were back when they were first sold as consumer goods. You're not suppose to stand within 10-20 feet of them.

>>2618596
Apes don't have penis bones either.

However, humans have the biggest cocks out of all the apes.

>>2618608
The fuckers also don't like to be saved from drowning either. They go completely on the offensive once they are in mid-peril.

/v/irgin here

- Dr. Robotnik is based on US president Theodore Roosevelt.

- Sega's mascot prior to Sonic was a Mario-like character named "Alex Kidd" Before Sonic was created, a Bulldog, Ristar, and Mighty the Armadillo were considered to replace him.

- Mega Man was originally going to be an Astro Boy videogame, but they could not receive licensing before the game's release.

- Mario was originally Popeye, which goes to reason that Donkey Kong was originally Bluto, with Paulina being Olive Oil.

>>2618613
The metallic grating on the door of a microwave is designed such that the holes are large enough to allow you to see inside of the microwave, but are too small to allow radiation through. The wavelength is larger than the hole, you see. Or is the correct word amplitude? I can't remember.

Charlie Chaplin once came in 3rd place in a Charlie Chaplin look-a-like contest!

QWERTY actually was designed for maximum efficiency, however at a later date- in the 60s- a more efficient layout was discovered.
It wasn't implemented because QWERTY was already so widely used.

>>2618684

A young Adolf Hitler placed First in the very same contest.

- Candidatus Desulforudis audaxviator is a species of Archaea that forms it's own ecosystem based on radioactive decay. It is only found deep underground in pools of water.

David Bowie played Tesla in "The Prestige"

my cock can swallow three billiard balls a minute.

>>2618596

Regarding penises, female hyenas have clitorises that grow large enough to dwarf their male counterparts.

When giving birth, the babies come out of those same clitorises

>>2618621
There's no such thing as a penis bone. There's a pelvis, and part of the pelvis makes the pubic area kinda firm. Some people call it the pubic bone, but men and women both have it.

Also, humans can grow long hair and beards, but an ape's scalp and beard hair is just as short as the hair on the rest of their body. I always thought that was kinda weird.

If anyone here cares about Bright Eyes..
The songs Neely O'Hara and Take It Easy (love nothing) were written about his band mate in Park Ave... I forget her name but it uses Neely somehow so uh..you figure it out

>>2618761
I'm pretty sure anyone who's seen that movie already knows that.

Blade Runner was based on a book written by Philip K. Dick, called Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
the book led to the creation of the pokemon mareep, flaffy and ampharos.
The book is way better than the movie. anyone who has read it would agree.

>>2618848
Some breeds of dogs have a bone in their penis.
Just letting ya know you fucking imbecile. In a nice way, of course.
Remember kids, 4chan education might be fun, but it's probably not true.

>>2618378
Maggie? Is that you?

durchfall durchfall arschverkehr mewtwoblox

When packing tape is unrolled inside a vacuum it produces x-rays.

Ants do not like bay leafs.

>>2618848
Then what are... THESE?
I knew I took this picture for a reason.

>>2619712
>>2618922
I was talking about HUMANS you fuckers! You'll notice I was responding to a guy talking about how in the story of Adam and Eve, they might've been talking about a penis bone. Maybe they were, but that would still be stupid of those ancient hebrews to believe humans have cock-bones.

>>2619730
yeah man they knew all about anatomy back then

>>2619755
All you have to do to learn about anatomy is cut open a dead body. that's caveman shit. anyone with a basic written language should know enough about anatomy to know that there's no human cock bone. i highly doubt leonardo davinci was the first person curious enough to cut up some dead bodies and draw what he saw.

Wait...you guys don't have cock bones? No wonder you are all still virgins.

>>2619768
do you really think everyone during the time of the old testament went around cutting up bodies just to see how they worked?

>>2619794
no, but SOMEONE must have. i would be curious enough to pay some dude a few shekels to do it for me. i mean, why would a big tribe of people not be interested in how the human body works? come on, you gotta admit, those people would have to be pretty dumb not to be curious enough to slice up some enemy soldier's corpse. i bet they did do it, and the mistranslation thing is just wrong.

>>2619818
Tribes? Biblical periods are later than that.

>>2618684
Are you getting all of these off Pad adhesive wrappers? The kind of un trivia you see once a month?

>>2619837
tribes came out in like 1997. No idea what you're talking about.

The toaster is actually a kind of fish

A napalm-like effect can be attained by burning a mixture of petrol, sugar and ground human nail cuttings.

Nobody died in the year 2008. Whilst very strange, scientists have concluded that we have arrived at a point where nobody will ever die again.

>>2619915
I'll remember that.

Also, A Cat's piss glows under a black light.

Balloons kill more people every year than dinosaurs.

If you put a slice of ham in a DVD player, it will play a short documentary about pigs.

You have a better chance of dying from a vending machine than you do from a shark attack.

>>2619895
>>2619919
>>2619930
>>2619933

dey see me trolllin

dey haaatiin

>>2619933
Tested and true.

>>2619937

So you think dinosaurs kill more people every year than balloons?

>>2619933
What about these said pigs.

Penguins can only ejaculate once a year.

Most humans have exactly as many toes as they have fingers.

2% of humans are allergic to purple

>>2619955
I read that it was more like 4.5% actually.

Africa isn't a real continent. They just had nothing else to do with the entire clusterfuck of an area so they gave it a name

80% of all males will not once have sex in 2009

Male homo sapiens-sapiens are the smartest and most successful known animal to have ever lived

In Argentina, it is illegal to walk backwards

Around 100% of humans are allergic to nuclear missile attacks

Cotton is made of fibers from a plant. A cotton plant can only blossom with white fibers three times, after that it changes to a murky brown. This is why cotton farmers re-seed their fields every three years.

Water, whilst thought to be 'clear' or 'colourless' is in fact blue.

Ingesting a pregnant womans urine can be lethal (because of certain hormones produced during pregnancy). Otherwise drinking urine is harmless and by some even believed to be healthy.

There are more atoms in a spec of dust than humans on the planet

there are more bacterial cells in our bodies, than they are human cells.

Herpes is not a disease but rather a collection of small fungal like organisms feeding on skin cells and producing a gelatinous substance that can be used for scenting dog collars.

Crows are actually sequential hermaphrodites, being able to change sex depending on the male to female ratio of the local population.

>>2620103
Humans do this too. In populations consisting primarily of males - such as prisons - some will automatically become "bitches" to uphold the natural balance of males and females.

>>2620103

This is not true. Sure crows look similar, and excluding reproductive organs, they are. But DNA and careful observation during courtship can determine whether or not a crow is male or female.

>>2620149
THE CROW MASTER STRIKES AGAIN

NONE CAN CONQUER HIS KNOWLEDGE OF THE CROW'S MATING RITUALS

FALL TO YOUR KNEES

>>2620191
if you were truly reverential of her knowledge you would have bowed in silence a little longer before shouting

A dork is a whale's penis.

swedish fish are made in canada.

consider your mind blown.

the highlander was a documentary and the events were filmed in real time.

Ship crews in the 18th (i think) century used to use the foreskin from a whale's penis to make aprons

>>2620268

That's pretty damn manly, wearing a beasts foreskin around your waist.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were originally meant to be armadillos, but these proved too complicated to draw.

Prepare to have your brain shut down. ArticUNO. ZapDOS. MolTRES.

>>2620374
Double shut down: ALL THE 1ST GEN POKEMON TOWNS AND LOCATIONS ARE NAMED AFTER THEIR COLOUR

>>2620374

holy
fucking
shit.

fuck.

>>2620383
All the places in G/S/C are named after plants

there is an arrow in the fedex logo

>>2620248
fucking pissed myself

Banna slugs are all hermaphrodites. During sex they often both impregnate each other by extending 4 inch penises out of the side of their head. Due to sexual competition, each slug wants to have ALL of its eggs fertilized; and 1 slugs sperm only fertilizes about 3/4; so both slugs want another mate; but neither want the other to mate again because they want their sperm to impregnate all of their partners eggs. So, the slug sperm contains blotters to prevent it.

Also, the slugs often chew the penises off of their mates if they finish first; and then eat them.

>>2619933
A slice of cheese will play a short film about cows.

>>2618264
the plastic thing on the ends of shoelaces are called aglets

Florence Nightingale invented the pie chart.

Richard Dawkins has never publicly said he is an atheist

John Frusiciante (horrible spelling there, sorry RHCPfags) played guitar on most of The Bedlam in Goliath by the Mars Volta.

>>2620877

Toying around with this whole concept, I just inserted a piece of wood into my DVD player; It played a grainy black and white recording of a girl being flayed by two elderly women. WTF?

>>2621000
ummm....yes he has

>>2619972

Bullshit. Indiana Jones survived.

bump for amazing awesome mootblocking justice.

>>2620450
also, there's a spoon in there.

>>2621247
>flayed

What is this "flaying"?

>>2624803

http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=flaying

>>2621247
to have the skin removed by tearing -often by whips as punishment - there are flaying knives for those who wish to do a good job.
Flayed Bulls show up in both Norse and Celtic Myth.
- if you see one run like fuck.

i just installed a dvorak keyboard and can't type shit. where can i learn?

>>2624920
HURR DURR GOOGLE.

The earth isn't actually spherical, it's more of a cube.

If you vote for Ralph Nader you'll shit your pants the same week.

Last thread of this type I paid attention too started with this "fact".
While it was created to prevent typewriters from jamming, this was not done by slowing the typist down. It sped up typing as you were not as likely to need to stop typing to fix the problem. It prevented jams by spacing commonly used letters apart, which makes more sense than having a clump of letters situated in one general area, does it not?

Ducks are never male. The males of the species are called drakes.

>>2624953
the term you are looking for is geoid

The average amount of cash any American will have in their pocket while walking about is $34.35.

DlD YOU KNOW?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpEnFwiqdx8

This is the most recent version, the one with the faggy techno music

>>2625161
Dear anon,

Take this video with a large bag of salt. It says, towards the end, that by some year, computers will out pace the computational abilities of the human mind.

Excuse me, but how does this video author define "computational abilities"? Is that how fast you can do arithmetic or solve logic problems? Haven't computers always been faster then us in doing that? IS THAT EVEN A QUALITY THAT'S RELEVANT WHEN YOU COMPARE THE HUMAN MIND TO A COMPUTER?

Raged,
Anonymous.

French Fries were invented in Belgium

>>2625254
HURR DURR CALCULATORS OUTSMART ME

How our mind operates can (theoretically) be resumed by a series of complex algorithms that could also be programed into a computer with enough computational capacity. This capacity level is still unattainable to a single piece of hardware. Computers haven't outsmart us, yet, for a practical example see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_versus_Garry_Kasparov

>>2625436
What do you think 'to resume' means?

>>2625436
Basically a emulation of the human mind.

Which will never be on par with the mind.

>>2625480
And by, "never on par", I mean, it will always do more work to emulate the mind then the mind needs to do what it does naturally.

>>2620450
unable to rid of image from my head

>>2625469
idk you tell me

>>2625489
>>2625480
>a emulation
>then the mind

I think this somehow illustrates your point, a computer will never commit spelling and/or grammar mistakes, but it's incapable of creating an original piece of writing, that's because it lacks not the senses but sensitivity itself, therefore it's capacity to emulate us (an elaborate on that emulation) is limited.

Anyway, the video is not specific about that matters, what did you expected? go bitch to it's maker

>>2625589
Inb4 first computer written book, at, say 2063.

>>2618471
Not quite. Humans, bonobos, and dolphins are the only animals that have sex solely for the pleasure, knowing that sex leads to childbirth.
All other animals have sex for the pleasure, having no clue what it does.

>>2620374
Snake Ekans. Kobra Arbok

>>2625663
Muk = Kum

Did you know that EARTH HAS 4 CORNER
SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY TIME CUBE
IN ONLY 24 HOUR ROTATION.
4 Corner TIME, CUBES EARTH.
We (Mom, Dad & Me), Gene Ray
Possess Harmonic Cubic Wisdom
that transcends and contradicts the
Bibical 1st Day - Genesis 1.5 - when
the greatest math & scientific scam
of all human existence was deified?

>>2625087
Incorrect, anon.
Species as a whole are DUCKS
Females are DUCKS
Males are DRAKES
All DUCKS and DRAKES are in fact DUCKS

Did you know that the koala bear is not a bear? It's actually a small Australian bear that exclusively eats eucalyptus leaves.

"Glove" is not a real word. The singular of gloves is actually: glof.

Did you know that the gold for the gold medals of the 1975 Munich Olympics originated from the melted-down filings of Jewish Holocaust victims?

>>2625734
pwndizzled yo!

>>2618378

waste of time. The speed improvement is trivial, even in contests with dvorak experts they get like 2% improvement. Plus, you can't use a standard keyboard, wtf.

Did you know that a duck's quack doesn't echo if it's shoved headfirst up your ass?

>>2625734
that's only if you refer to the species as a whole and not a specific individual or group of them, i was referring to the common misconception of ''ducks'' as the male members of the anatidae family of birds

>>2625768
nah dude

>>2620897

the perforated edges of tractor-fed printer paper was called perfery.

the tiny discs of paper punched out of (telecomm. medium) paper tape was called chad. there were 'chadless punches' that left little toilet seats instead.

>>2625793
Another Dvorak user here:

Aside from the speed benefit, it's a lot more comfortable for my hands, thus delaying my inevitable carpal tunnel.

Also, it's very amusing when people try to type on my keyboard.

>>2625748
>glof

oh shit. mind = fucked!

>>2618264
Wrong, faggot.

While it does slow down your typing, it wasn't the speed that was the issue - it was because two adjacent letters would be hit in quick succession and jam. If they are not adjacent, it doesn't matter how quickly you type them.

The original price for a Zippo lighter was $1.95.

If you kick your couch every friday afternoon at approximately 5:55PM, nothing will happen.

>>2625714
Timecube is so old.
Makes me wonder how long I've been browsing the internet for...

>>2625853
>hurdur i reworded the OP's post and i think i said something different

>>2625853
You're either a troll, or a very fucking shitty reader.

>>2625879
i said IF THEY ARE NOT ADJACENT IT DOESNT MATTER HOW QUICKLY YOU TYPE THEM

thus, if QWERTY speed was exactly the same, they still would have changed it. Thus, speed wasn't th issue. Learn to fucking read.

>>2625906
>HURDUR IF I TYPE IN CAPS PEOPLE WILL LISTEN TO ME

>>2626003
>HURDUR I MISS THE MAIN POINT OF A POST IF IT'S NOT IN CAPS

>>2626027
>HURDUR I DON'T UNDERSTAND INFERENCE. THE OP'S MENTION OF THE LETTERS BEING PLACED FAR APART OBVIOUSLY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE KEYBOARD NOT JAMMING.

>>2625906
Have you ever typed on a typewriter before?
You can't type fast for shit, the things get jammed so fucking easily. (and this was a fairly newish one at the time, if i were to believe my Admin. teacher)

They WERE designed to slow down typing, even if it wasn't the main reason.
Typing on a keyboard and going back to typewriters really fucks with your head because you tend to jam it often.

/ typewriter pro.