Your Random Fact Of The Day

[Miyavi]

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

[Solipsi Rai]

The chances of winning the California state lottery is 43 million to one, and it is nothing more than a voluntary state tax but only 20% of each buck ($1) goes to the state's financially devastated public education system (like the schools need it). If one wins the grand prize of let's say: $185 million: it is done in annual payments for 20 years afterward and about 60-75% of your earnings goes to taxes. Do the math: $185 million divided by 20 = 9.25 million x 0.65 = 3.8 million a year. These days, a million bucks won't buy you very much.

[J.B.]

Oh, but that three million a year could still cover your taxes for that year on a relatively nice, if a bit plain, home.

[maca02]

Sarcasm I considered the lowest form of wit

but the highest form of conversation

[Dag Green]

Racecar spelled backwards is Racecar.

[J.B.]

You can grow a potato by planting a piece of an already grown potato in the ground.

[Disembodied Voice]

In a wolf pack the alpha male and alpha female mate for life.

[Mistydawn]

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing their hands in jelly.

[ant0n]

-> "The absent are always in the wrong", especially at work...

['Walt' E. Kurtz]

Short wars the war between Great Britain and Zanzibar 1896  lasted 38 minutes

[zygote]

It was only 66 years between the Wright brothers first powered flight and man setting foot on the moon. 66 years.

[Habitat]

The number of molecules of air you can breathe in, in one breath,  is about the same of the number of such breaths that would comprise the Earth's total atmosphere.

[Habitat]

All the Platinum ever mined, would easily fit inside the average home. Just check the soundness of the foundations first.

[Habitat]

Nicotine is the only known substance that relieves anxiety, without affecting performance of tasks.

[Blue Star]

It takes 17.5 minutes to boil an ostrich egg.

[+Noteverythingisaconspiracy]

30,2 % of the Earths total mass is oxygen.

[Golden Duck]

The number of seconds in three fortnights is 10!.

[+Desertrat56]

On 8/5/2010 at 10:03 AM, Solipsi Rai said:

The chances of winning the California state lottery is 43 million to one, and it is nothing more than a voluntary state tax but only 20% of each buck ($1) goes to the state's financially devastated public education system (like the schools need it). If one wins the grand prize of let's say: $185 million: it is done in annual payments for 20 years afterward and about 60-75% of your earnings goes to taxes. Do the math: $185 million divided by 20 = 9.25 million x 0.65 = 3.8 million a year. These days, a million bucks won't buy you very much.

Where did you get 60-75% goes towards taxes?  IRS taxes 40%, are you saying California will tax 20-35%?

[Scholar4Truth]

A group of Deer is called Deer, not Deers. You word it the same in the plural as you would in the singular form. 

[zygote]

One teaspoon of soil contains more living organisms than there are human beings in the world. 

[zygote]

The Battle Of Stalingrad [23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943] is widely considered to be the turning point of World War Two. 

[Scholar4Truth]

Hitler was a Vegetarian and animal lover.

[+Noteverythingisaconspiracy]

Stalins daughter Svetlana died in Richland Center, Wisconsin, in 2011.

[zygote]

The tomato is a fruit. 

[Golden Duck]

22 minutes ago, zygote_myles said:

The tomato is a fruit. 

Not by law