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Jimbuna · 01-30-21, 12:58 PM

The largest bill to go into circulation in the U.S. was a $10,000 note.

Aktungbby · 01-30-21, 01:20 PM

There is literally one for auction in today's WSJ in RS RAU auction ad!

These were discontinued and destroyed and are exceptionally rare. My wife seriously forbids me to bid on it but i wiil be pleased to act as your agent if yours will

...BOTTOM LINE: if it's on the block, it's not a useless fact! I might actually defy my better half and bid $10,001

Quote:

...the $10,000 is the highest paper money which can be used by people. There are less than 350 $10,000 dollar bills out there, which makes them very rare! They were printed in late 1920s and early 1930s. The collector value is 3x the amount printed on ten thousand dollar bill.

Platapus · 01-30-21, 04:20 PM

The original premise of the TV show Hogan's Heroes, was to take place in a US prison and was supposed to be called Hogan's Hoard.

The producers did not think that portraying prisoners in a protagonist role outwitting the guards would be proper so they looked for a better situation. Where could US citizens be prisoners and still be the good guys?

Hence Hogan's Heroes.

Jimbuna · 01-31-21, 08:03 AM

Messages from your brain travel along your nerves at up to 200 miles per hour.

Texas Red · 01-31-21, 11:20 AM

Thomas Edison, who invented the lightbulb, was afraid of the dark.

Jimbuna · 01-31-21, 12:05 PM

Marie Curie's 100-year-old belongings are still radioactive.

Platapus · 01-31-21, 12:28 PM

The original premise of the Mary Tyler Moore Show was that she was a newly divorced woman starting over.

Knowing this makes the lyrics of the song make sense

However, the producers were afraid that the viewers would carry over her previous role in the Dick Van Dyke show and would think that she divorced Rob Petrie.

So they changed her character to a single woman.

Jeff-Groves · 01-31-21, 02:37 PM

Man can create Gold.
Why is this a useless fact?
The cost to produce Man Made Gold is so high that one would spend billions
and not make a buck!

Jimbuna · 01-31-21, 02:42 PM

Most pandas in the world are on loan from China.

Aktungbby · 01-31-21, 03:02 PM

mos' everythin' in the world is on loan from China these days...incl. Whirled Peas

Platapus · 01-31-21, 06:02 PM

Santa's eight reindeer were all female

Aktungbby · 01-31-21, 07:30 PM

That's 'cause the 'boy's were in a rut and couldn't ''pull their weight'!

Platapus · 01-31-21, 07:42 PM

Brenda Lee was only 13 when she recorded "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree."

Von Due · 02-01-21, 01:19 AM

(Stolen from An Engineer's Concept of Santa Clause)

There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the
world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu,
Jewish or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan) religions, this reduces the
workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million
(according to the population reference bureau). At an average (census)
rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes,
presuming there is at least one good child in each. Santa has about 31
hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones
and the rotation of the earth, assuming east to west (which seems
logical). This works out to 967.7 visits per second. This is to say
that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around
1/1000 th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the
chimney, fill the stocking, distribute the remaining presents under
the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the
chimney, jump into the ! ! sleigh and get onto the next house.

Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed
around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will
accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about
0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not
counting bathroom stops or breaks. This means Santa's sleigh is moving
at 650 miles per second--3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes
of comparison, the fastest man made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe,
moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can
run (at best) 15 miles per hour.

The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming
that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized LEGO set (two
pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousands tons, not counting
Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than
300 pounds. Even granting that the "flying" reindeer can pull 10 times
the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or even nine of
them---Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload,
not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly
seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the
monarch).

600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air
resistance - this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a
spacecraft reentering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of
reindeer would adsorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second
each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously,
exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms
in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within
4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached
the fifth house on his trip. Not that it matters, however, since
Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in
.001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,000
g's. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned
to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly
crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of
pink goo.

Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now.

vienna · 02-01-21, 03:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Von Due

....

Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now.

...Von Due...

...the Nietzsche of Xmas...

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01-30-21, 12:58 PM	#286
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,344 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	The largest bill to go into circulation in the U.S. was a $10,000 note. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

01-30-21, 04:20 PM	#288
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 18,983 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	The original premise of the TV show Hogan's Heroes, was to take place in a US prison and was supposed to be called Hogan's Hoard. The producers did not think that portraying prisoners in a protagonist role outwitting the guards would be proper so they looked for a better situation. Where could US citizens be prisoners and still be the good guys? Hence Hogan's Heroes. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

01-31-21, 08:03 AM	#289
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,344 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Messages from your brain travel along your nerves at up to 200 miles per hour. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

01-31-21, 11:20 AM	#290
Texas Red Fastest Gun Around Join Date: Aug 2019 Location: Agua Fira, New Mexico Posts: 2,376 Downloads: 527 Uploads: 5	Thomas Edison, who invented the lightbulb, was afraid of the dark. __________________ There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. — Colin Powell I'm not very active on the forums anymore. If you have a question, please DM me and I'll respond ASAP!

01-31-21, 12:05 PM	#291
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,344 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Marie Curie's 100-year-old belongings are still radioactive. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

01-31-21, 12:28 PM	#292
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 18,983 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	The original premise of the Mary Tyler Moore Show was that she was a newly divorced woman starting over. Knowing this makes the lyrics of the song make sense However, the producers were afraid that the viewers would carry over her previous role in the Dick Van Dyke show and would think that she divorced Rob Petrie. So they changed her character to a single woman. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

01-31-21, 02:37 PM	#293
Jeff-Groves Village Idiot Join Date: Sep 2014 Posts: 5,364 Downloads: 131 Uploads: 0	Man can create Gold. Why is this a useless fact? The cost to produce Man Made Gold is so high that one would spend billions and not make a buck!

01-31-21, 02:42 PM	#294
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,344 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Most pandas in the world are on loan from China. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

01-31-21, 03:02 PM	#295
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,961 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	mos' everythin' in the world is on loan from China these days...incl. Whirled Peas __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"

01-31-21, 06:02 PM	#296
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 18,983 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Santa's eight reindeer were all female __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

01-31-21, 07:30 PM	#297
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,961 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	That's 'cause the 'boy's were in a rut and couldn't ''pull their weight'! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe" Last edited by Aktungbby; 01-31-21 at 07:59 PM.

01-31-21, 07:42 PM	#298
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 18,983 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Brenda Lee was only 13 when she recorded "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree." __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

02-01-21, 01:19 AM	#299
Von Due Sea Lord Join Date: Jul 2012 Posts: 1,665 Downloads: 30 Uploads: 0	(Stolen from An Engineer's Concept of Santa Clause) There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan) religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the population reference bureau). At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming there is at least one good child in each. Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000 th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stocking, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the ! ! sleigh and get onto the next house. Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks. This means Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second--3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour. The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized LEGO set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousands tons, not counting Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the "flying" reindeer can pull 10 times the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or even nine of them---Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch). 600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft reentering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would adsorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip. Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in .001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,000 g's. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo. Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now.