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32 Bits of Math and Science Trivia to Punch Into Your Graphing Calculator When the Teacher’s Not Looking

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32 Bits of Math and Science Trivia to Punch Into Your Graphing Calculator When the Teacher’s Not Looking

September 08, 2024

It’s been quite a long time since we’ve needed an actual calculator, so can you help us out here? How many digits can one of these new age calculators display anyway?

Ha! Look at us. We needed a calculator for answers, and now we need you for answers. As a thank you, we can provide a whole bunch of answers that you didn’t even ask for. Think of this as a little knowledge-share.

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Bees can learn about numbers and do simple math.

Honeybees join humans as the only known animals that can tell the difference between odd and even numbers. GRACKED.COM Studies have shown honey- bees can learn to order quantities, perform simple addition and subtraction, match symbols with quan- tities and relate size and number concepts. — Source

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Fish can do basic math

Fish can do simple calculations Researchers recently discovered that cichlids and stingrays can do addition and subtraction in range of 1 to 5. CRACKED — Source

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Prime numbers show up in the movement patterns of some cicada species. They leave their underground habitats every 7, 13, or 17 years - all three of those are prime numbers. Apparently, that's the best way they can avoid predators. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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How is this number so low?

3% of the general population has antisocial personality disorder. The mental health disorder is characterized by a disregard for other people and consistently showing no regard for right and wrong. CRACKED.COM — Source

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IN YOUR BODY, MICROORGANISMS OUTNUMBER HUMAN CELLS 10 TO 16 Are you human or are you microorganism? If it's any relief, their small size means they only about 1 to 3% of your body's mass. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Too many digits.

998 2 MB DI 5 6 JKL MNO 9 TUV WXYZ C WE COULD RUN OUT OF... Favor Phone numbers The U.S. has already used up over half of its assignable 10-digit phone numbers. Some CRACKED ideas have been put forward to add more numbers, but it would be a lot of work. — Source

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Not all infinities are the same size. Georg Cantor demonstrated that there are more real numbers than natural numbers, even though there's an infinite amount of each. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED ARABIC NUMBERS WERE ACTUALLY INVENTED IN INDIA. 1 VINUT + THE DD HORA 12530 They were called Hindu Numerals by Arabic people, but when western merchants learned about them through Arabs they referred to them as Arabic numbers. — Source

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The NBA installed I tons of tiny cameras. - - 8.10 MP P=S(1-n-d) Since 2013, SportVU cameras have tracked players' movements, which has led to an almost unrecognizable pace of acceleration and record numbers of 3-point attempts per game, thanks to the concept of 3 > 2 . CRACKED — Source

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ROLLING DICE Start with the numbers you want on top. This improves your chances because of the way dice roll. If the casino catches you, they can ask you to leave, but this technique counts as advantage play and is not against the law. — Source

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Foreshadowed in a cipher. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR of THE DE PINCY CODE DAN BROWN THE DA VINCI CODE A NOVEL DECEPTION POINT CRACKED.COM The last page of Dan Brown's Deception Point contains a coded message featuring a string of numbers and letters. Savvy readers replaced each number with the first letter of its corresponding chapter, and when you unscramble the message it reads: THE DA VINCI CODE WILL SURFACE. The Da Vinci Code was released two years later. — Source

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NUMBER FACTS CRACKED.COM™ ROMAN NUMERALS REPRESENT THE NUMBERS 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500 AND 1000. IVXLCD M 1 5 10 50 100 500 1000 ROMANS USED AN S TO SHOW ONE HALF, AND DOTS TO INDICATE TWELFTHS. MDCLXVIS. = 1666 AND 7/12 — Source

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Crikey, the Culmination of Science

The genus Crikey contains only one species, a snail named in honor of a late, dearly missed Australian conservationist: Crikey steveirwini. This is what science has been working toward all these years. CRACKED — Source

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Data manipulation: Brian Wansink resigns.

EAT FAKE FOOD SCIENCE Brian Wansink, the leader of a food lab at Cornell, had to quit after six of his studies were taken back because of data manipulation and other research misconduct. In four papers alone, 150 problems were found. CRACKED — Source

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The Catholic Church is actually pretty cool with evolution and the Big Bang. Bras OVIA DILIGO TE O PETRE DIXIST NC VNA FIDES MYNDO REFVIG It also says that Young Earth Creationism and Intelligent Design are essentially just pretending to be science, and it rejects them outright. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The first ichthyosaur fossil was discovered by a 12 year old. CRACKED.COM Mary Anning would go on to discover many more fossils and revolutionize the science of paleontolo- gy. However, due to being a woman in the early 1800s, she rarely received full credit for her discover- — Source

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13 Scintillating Now-You-Know Movie Facts and General Trivia - In September 2020, science discovered a new human organ. — Source

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Man allegedly posed as reflexologist, touched women's feet.

A man posed as a reflexologist to touch women's feet in British Columbia. CRACKED.COM Of course, 'reflexology' is not actual science or medi- cine, so who is to say any- one can even 'pose' as a practitioner? Probably the women whose feet were being touched. — Source

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BOOMERS ARE BIGGER SNOWFLAKES THAN MILLENNIALS OR ZOOMERS, ACCORDING TO SCIENCE. A study by the Michigan State University shows that, as a whole, gene — Source

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A Scottish doctor inspired the creation of Sherlock Holmes.

Arthur Conan Doyle loosely based Sherlock Holmes on Dr. Joseph Bell, a Scottish surgeon. Dr. Bell would often pick a stranger, and by ob- serving him, deduce his occupation and recent activities. Не was consid- ered a pioneer in forensic science. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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First Science-Fiction Convention

The first sci-fi convention happened in Victorian England. Edward Bulwer-Lytton's book Vril: The Power of The Coming Race garnered such a following that a five day long Vril-Ya Bazaar and Fête was held in London in 1891. This is considered the very first sci-fi convention, complete with merch booths and cosplayers. — Source

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Triple the fun.

CRACKED GORILLA GORILLA GORILLA Science's official term for the western lowland gorilla. Presumably the people who named it wanted to make extra sure you knew what it was. — Source

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Reading makes you better at... math? SOCM 1,3,5,7,9,11,13.15,17 + A 3 Aa 6 6+0=6 2 I В EST + 2- 7 a2+b2=C2 OH 15-2=13 RCM 10x3=30 Ff 09 LIM b 10+13=23 SCM A 12 cm O O &h on 7x2=14 OH 5x3=15 C ccoo ZI ov!! 32 CRACKED.COM 6cm _ALVBL 12 cm AC2 The part of your brain that is responsible for being able to read is also used during previously considered unrelated activities, like multiplication. — Source

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Brad Arnold from 3 Doors Down wrote Kryptonite when he was 15 during his math class. — Source

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CRACKED -n.d. Marriage mathematics. It takes five positive interactions to overcome one negative interaction in a marriage. Researchers Gottman and Levenson found this ratio may be key to happy, stable marriages. (2xFx0 EOQ — Source

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Pythagoras

Pythagoras is revered as a great mathematician and scientist. YOU'RE PROBABLY FAMILIAR WITH HIS THEOREM. THE CRAZY: He founded a religion that forbade people to eat beans. A FEW OF THE COMMANDMENTS OF PYTHAGOREANISM: Do not, under any Do not walk on highways. circumstances, eat beans. Do not leave the pot's impression Smooth out all bodily indents in the ashes after removing it on pillows and/or beds. from the fire. Do not step over a crossbar. Do not stir a fire without iron. Do not sit on a quart measure. Do not let swallows nest under the roof. CRACKED.COM MartintCoheh 2009 — Source

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Learning to play a piano makes you better at math. After 8 months of piano lessons, students went from scoring in the 30th to the 65th percentile on the Stanford 9 Math Test. CRACKED COM — Source

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Achievement despite adversity: Benjamin Banneker.

CRACKED BENJAMIN BANNEKER was a free African American who achieved great things in science and math at the turn of the 19th century, despite having only basic schooling. Не was even invited to join the survey team mapping out the new capital, Washington, D.C. — Source

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Safety glass was born from an accident. One day in 1903, French polymath Edouard Benedictus accidentally knocked over a glass flask in his lab - but the flask didn't break into pieces. Benedictus remembered that there was plastic cellulose nitrate earlier in the flask, which had created this bonding effect after drying. — Source

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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein's Failing Grades Einstein never failed math. Не did fail the Zurich Polytechnic entry exam but not the math section. And it might have been due to being rusty on French, the language the exam was in. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Trees that can withstand high winds follow a rule described by Leonardo Da Vinci. The rule is a mathematical relationship between the branches and the trunk, and a mathematician verified in 2011 that it helps make trees wind-resistant. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Math and Medicine

n 1 2 II V i= A p Math can improve skin graft procedures. Studies have found that, by using mathematical models, success rates for this extremely complicated reconstructive surgery could be boosted. CRACKED — Source

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