Freaky Math: HHH vs HHT in a thousand random flips.

Oddly enough if you flip a coin a thousand times, you'll encounter the string HHT more often than HHH.Don't believe me? Oh well. Doesn't change the correct answer.

Fun things you might not know: Gollum's Acceptance Speech.

Gollum's acceptance speech for the 2003 MTV Best Animated Character Award won the 2004 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.

Ashes to Ashes, Air to Air

Most of the matter in our bodies comes directly and indirectly from plants and those organisms lower on the food chain. Most of the actually molecules from those plants come from the atmosphere rather than the ground. If this weren't the case, trees would grow themselves into giant holes in the ground and we'd have to truck new dirt constantly to the heartland to fill in the holes produced by cornfields. Most of your molecules weren't dirt, they were air.

Ashes to Ashes, Air to Air.

Cantor sets, normal numbers, and memorizing pi.

I have decided to memorize the digits of pi. But rather than do that whole memorize the digits in a very direct and straight forward way I have decided to memorize just the zeros. It took me a while, but I'm done now. I have memorized all the zeros in pi. Interestingly enough, that means by Cantor's proof and the normalcy of pi: I have managed to memorize as many digits of pi as there are digits of pi.

Cantor proved that infinite numbers are of equal size if you put them in countable sets. So the first 0 in pi counts as Z(1) whereas the first digit of pi is D(1). From D1 to D(infinity) there is a corresponding Z value. As both of the sets are of equal size the fact that I memorized all the zeros suffices to say that I have memorized as many digits of pi as there are digits of pi.

Now, there is some speculation that pi is a normal number. Meaning that there are as many occurances of each digit as any other. It suffices for my purpose to assume that because Pi is an irrational number there should be at least Aleph-null zeros within it. Thus rendering my statement true.

I have memorized as many digits of pi as there are digits of pi!

As for the straight-forward way:

3.
14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
58209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679
82148086513282306647...

Fun Fact of the Day: Boxing Gloves.

You wanna know one thing you can do much more easily with boxing gloves than without them?

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Punch a person to death.

It turns out there are only a few cases of deaths with bareknuckle boxing, because you couldn't really punch people in the head without breaking your hand. They had to punch for body shots.

(stolen from QI)

Quirky Fact of the Day

The top five presidential candidates as ordered by popular vote:

2004, George Bush 62,040,610
2004, John Kerry 59,028,444
1984, Ronald Reagan 54,455,472
2000, Al Gore 50,999,897
2000, George Bush 50,456,002

Where does the Library of Congress store the Bible?

In the BS section of course!