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32 Bits of Math Trivia to Make Your Pre-Calc Teacher Beam

Finally! Something you and the ol’ math prof can agree on

32 Bits of Math Trivia to Make Your Pre-Calc Teacher Beam

September 29, 2024

We don’t know if you’re a people-pleaser or not, but this list is sure to get you a few pats on the head from your old math teachers.

Come to think of it, this list is also pretty useful if you were more of the rebellious type in math class. It’s your chance to show those know-it-alls that they don’t know everything in the math game!

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Tom Mansfield took 200 cups of coffee's worth of caffeine powder and died.

CRACKED A guy died after consuming the equivalent of 200 cups of coffee. Father-of-two Tom Mansfield died after consuming a mixture of caffeine powder and water on 5 January 2021. The 29-year old from Colwyn Bay, UK miscalculated the amount of powder he was meant to use, accidentally taking the equivalent of 200 cups of coffee. — BBC

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Scientists funded by the Italian Space Agency calculated whether humans can run on water if the water is on the moon. The result: Only if they weigh 7

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CRACKED.COM SCIENTISTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER HAVE CALCULATED THAT THE DEATH STAR WOULD REQUIRE AT LEAST 2.25 x 1032 JOULES OF POWER TO DESTROY A PLANET THE SIZE AND MASS OF EARTH. THAT'S ABOUT A WEEK'S WORTH OF OUR SUN'S ENERGY OUTPUT CONCENTRATED IN A SINGLE BEAM OF IMPERIAL TYRANNY. OF COURSE, THAT'S INSIGNIFICANT NEXT TO THE POWER OF THE FORCE. — Source: 15 In-Universe Facts About 'Star Wars'

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CRACKED.COM It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world. — Source

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You're eating way more plastic than you think. Plastic doesn't degrade - every piece of plastic ever made still exists, ground down to smaller and smaller parts. These microplastic particles make their way into waterways and soil - and eventually, into our food. It's been calculated that we eat a credit card's worth of plastic every week. CRACKED.COM — Source

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FATAL x ERROR 150 WRONG MEDICAL TEST RESULTS In 2001, because of a Y2K bug that miscalculated their ages, 150 pregnant women at a British hospital got incorrect results from a Down's Syndrome test. This led to two women deciding to end their pregnancies. CRACKED — Source

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Meteorites

ONE MAN HAD A COSMIC TARGET ON HIS HOUSE. CRACKED.COM Bosnian man Radivoke Lajic had his house pelted with meteorites. The odds of one strike is 1 out of 20 trillion. Lajic's home was hit 6 times. We are not smart enough to calculate the odds of 6 meteorite strikes, but suffice it to say, it's unusual. — More: 20 Completely Impossible Coincidences (That Really Happened)

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The more Brad Pitt eats on screen, the better the movie does. Mark Hofmeyer, notorious movie math guy on the internet, has calculated that movies where Pitt eats more than 200 calories have a better box office and a higher Rotten Tomatoes score. Has Hofmeyer cracked the code to Pitt success? Further nourishing research is needed. CRACKED.COM — Source

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30 Rock has 7.44 jokes per minute on average Talib Visram calculated that the show had the most jokes per minute compared to other popular sitcoms. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ancient Flat Earth Beliefs CRACKED.COM We like to think that people have only known the earth was round since Columbus didn't fall off. But the Greeks not only knew it, they even calculated its circumference. Which means flat-earthers could travel to 500 BC and still be considered dumb. — Reader's Digest

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A misplaced decimal point made spinach a superfood. In 1870, a German chemist calculated the 8 9 amount of iron found 4 5 in spinach and other 6 vegetables. When he you EXI yon BY LY YONA Exp 2 3 recorded his findings, د he misplaced the YOU XOW XOn decimal point. The amount of iron in spinach is 3.5 mg per 100g, but he wrote down 35 mg. Despite repeated efforts by the scientific community to set the record straight, the myth that spinach is ridiculously high in iron persists to this day. http://it toolbox .om/blogs/infosphere/spinach-how-a-data- CRACKED.COM quality-mistake-created-a-myth-and-a-cartoon-character-10166 — Source

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Luke and Leia may be twins But they are not the same age! And it's all thanks to space travel. An example of this would be the travel made by both to Cloud City, while Luke makes the journey from Dagobah in his X-wing, Leia instead travels from the Anoat system - 25 times closer - in the Millennium Falcon. Students Duleep Vasudevan, Tom Griffiths, Mark Phillips and Katie Herlingshaw from the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the university of Leicester have calculated that the time dilation experienced by Leia on her trip was 62.6 days, but for Luke it is 700.8 days — Source: 15 In-Universe Facts About 'Star Wars'

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Ada Lovelace: Programming Pioneer Extraordinaire!

Hobbies older than we knew Hobby programming ETT 6309 6530 68 12 7079 1842 Ada Lovelace wrote the first computer program in her notes on an essay in 1842. She laid out a step-by-step process to use Babbage's Analytical Engine to calculate a series of Bernoulli numbers. GRACKED — Libor Píška/Shutterstock,
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The popularity of Beanie Babies was initiated solely due to calculated supply and demand tactics of their creator. STRIPES (Thee Dok TIea) Birthdays I

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32 Bits of Math Trivia to Make Your Pre-Calc Teacher Beam — Sources: Phys.org, National Geographic

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From Calculating Comets to Calculating NASA Flight Paths.

Jobs that no longer exist Human computers In the early 18th century, Edmond Halley's prediction of the return of Halley's comet led to the rise of human computers (mostly women) who were hired to process complex calculations. By the mid-20th century, women were employed by NASA to calculate trajectories and verify flight paths, and were respected for their mathematical abilities. CRACKED — NASA
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Water you drink may be older than the Sun According to astrophysicists, half of all water on Earth may be millions of years older than the solar system. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THe STEREOTYPE... RUSSIANS ARE THE WORLD'S DRINKERS. СЛАВЯНСКАЯ - УКААССИЧЕСКАЯ и Русский ПУТИНИ НАСТО СТАНДАРТ - INS КЕДРОВАЯ Boyka IT THE FREE self BE PUTINK - VIDRA BAAA ВОДКА WITH MAR UNA ОСОБАН mame BUT in REALITY... THEY DRINK THE SAME AS AMERICANS. The average Russian drinks 2.77 gallons a year, not much more than the average American's 2.42. In fact, it puts Russia at number 23 on the list of countries ranked by alcohol consumption. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The tallest and shortest US presidents had an entire foot between them. CRACKED.COM Abraham Lincoln takes the top spot at 6'4, while James Madison lands at the bottom at 5'4. The most recent presidents have been above average height, as humans have on average become taller over time. — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A guy in Indiana got strange powers thanks to a horrible, freakish incident. X-X I Y-Y x2 2-X After a head injury from a violent attack, he became kind of a math genius - and even found a home thanks to his gift. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Nearly every fifth U.S. president has died in office. 18.6% of all U.S. presidents before Donald Trump have died on the job. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Norway, 99% of electricity production is from hydroelectric plants. CRACKED COM They plan to increase an- nual production by 15 ter- awatt-hours (12%) by 2020 and could double installed capacity if they build new cross-border links to ship the surplus electricity abroad. — Source

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London has paid rent to the Monarchy every year since 1211. CRACKED COM The symbolic ceremony consists of officials hand- ing over a knife, an ах, six oversized horseshoes, and 61 nails to the Crown's Re- membrancer, the oldest ju- dicial position in England. — Source

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44% of deaths among Russian soldiers are due to suicide after being a victim of a systematic abuse. Called Dedovshchina, this is a practice of hazing and abuse of junior con- scripts, which consists of brutalization by more se- nior conscripts, NCOs, and officers. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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37 percent of all registered Steam games have never been played. This equates to 288 million of the 781 million games registered on the platform (as of 2014). Meanwhile, Dota 2 players have accu- mulated 3,828,000,000 hours, which equals 456,000 years. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Beethoven used exactly 60 beans in his cup of coffee. This was so important to him, he would often count every bean when he made coffee. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Thanks to a missing comma, 120 Maine dairy drivers got $5 million. DAIRY The natural goodnes 202 FLBO Oakhurst The absence of a comma in a state law made it pretty unclear if the drivers can get overtime pay, and the judge presiding in their case said the ambiguity must be construed liberally, and sided with them. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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85% of male insects have accidental gay sex. It's accidental because they don't bother trying to find out their partner's gender -- basically, they just get it on. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bats

Bats eat enough insects to save the US over $1 Billion a year in crop damage and pesticide. CRACKED.COM While many bats eat in- sects, others feed on nectar and provide criti- cal pollination for a vari- ety of plants like peach- es, cloves, bananas and agaves. — Source

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Sergei Krikalev has spent more time in space than any other human in history. GRACKED.COM The Russian cosmonaut has been away from Earth for 803 days, 9 hours and 39 minutes. That is approximately 2.2 years, over the span of six spaceflights. — Source

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There are 96 bags of human waste on the moon. They were left behind by the six Apollo Missions. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tesla dropping BTC as a payment method wiped out about $365 billion. The total value of all cryptos, including Bitcoin, dropped by roughly that much after Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla would no longer accept car purchases in Bitcoin. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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