The "My word, that's an interesting fact!" thread

The MNZ · Post by **The MNZ** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 10:42 pm

And that the Szculkyie name is the easier to spell backwards on this forum?

Doorslammer · Post by **Doorslammer** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 2:16 pm

Some slot car motor ratings on a 16 volt track. Anyone fancy taming the Group 7's 190,000rpm and 250A? It's an expensive way to race... http://www.slotdragster.com/slot_motor.html

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 10:01 am

I finally found out that "egamad" reversed is "damage." It's taken me all this time to figure that out.

Doorslammer · Post by **Doorslammer** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 10:52 am

Alex wrote:I finally found out that "egamad" reversed is "damage." It's taken me all this time to figure that out.

And you're complaining? You found out before I did...

egamad · Post by **egamad** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 10:57 am

I took this nickname as a joke actually, because as you've figured out, it's damage reversed, but read as e-gamad can also mean something like internet vermin.

Other than that, I've been also called egg mad at RSC and even had a mad egg as avatar for a while.

Thunderstrucker · Post by **Thunderstrucker** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 12:26 am

Doorslammer wrote:
Alex wrote:I finally found out that "egamad" reversed is "damage." It's taken me all this time to figure that out.
And you're complaining? You found out before I did...

You both did before me.

The MNZ · Post by **The MNZ** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 1:31 am

I've never thinked about meaning of damage egamad's nick. I thinked that should be first two letters of his names.

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Mon May 02, 2011 6:05 pm

Also, did you know that the Sega Saturn is the only popular console that was made by more than one company? There was the Sega Saturn, Hitachi HiSaturn and the JVC V-Saturn. But they were all the same apart from the company. They all played the same games.

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 5:24 pm

Am i the only one submitting facts here?

Did you know that Mercedes-Benz were using no paint BEFORE the silver-arrows era? It is not well known and as far as i can see no-one had anything against it but they didn't say anything about including no paint until they entered the W154.

The MNZ · Post by **The MNZ** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 5:30 pm

Fact: Alex is the member with more submitted facts.

Satisfied?

Post by **XYY** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 7:43 pm

@Alex: I knew that

The Noose · Post by **The Noose** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 8:14 pm

If I remember correctly "Silver arrows" were originally white but the cars were too heavy so they shaved off the white paint. I'm now completely sure about this!

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 9:54 pm

Did you know today is my personal best for posting on GRIF? Today i have done 16 posts during today, which is 4 days worth of my current target, which is 4 posts per day.

The MNZ · Post by **The MNZ** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 10:00 pm

Do you knew that on last Brazilian Championship Round, 7 players partied(from verb celebrate) a goal with the "João Sorrisão" trick?

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 7:56 pm

Did you know that old games for systems such as the NES and ZX Spectrum had to fit onto a cartridge worth less than 1MB? Yeah that's right, 1 MEGABYTE!!!!

Post by **XYY** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 8:13 pm

Really?

Of course, I knew this too.

A Pacman version I got from my cousin has the filesize of AMAZING 36,5 KB

Bouncebackability · Post by **Bouncebackability** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 8:28 pm

never actually read this thread before, but my friends always say im full of useless facts...

Did you know that Dove who campaign for 'real beauty', and Lynx (also known as Axe) who advertise with sexier women, are actually owned by the same company

1nsane · Post by **1nsane** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 8:37 pm

You want to know something more interesting? That 1MB cartridge is huge amount of space. Everything you seen in the film is actually made with a program that is under 4096 bytes.

The Noose · Post by **The Noose** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 9:01 pm

My dad had a computer what had amazing 32kb of memory.

And that was a LOT back then.

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 8:07 pm

Another few facts regarding video games:

The first known and patented video game was the cathode ray tube amusement device made in 1947. It was a missile simulator.
The first 3D game was 3D Monster Maze made in 1981.
The first home console was the Magnavox Odyssey made in 1972.
Microsoft Windows was not originally intended as a gaming computer, it wasn't until around the era of DOOM95 when it became clear that Windows could play modern games at a good frame rate.
The Playstation 2 was, and still is the no.1 best selling home console of all time.
The worst selling home console of all time is the Gizmodo.
Tetris saved the Game Boy from losing to the Sega Game Gear and Atari Lynx.

Thunderstrucker · Post by **Thunderstrucker** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 3:03 am

Alex wrote: Tetris saved the Game Boy from losing to the Sega Game Gear and Atari Lynx.

I saw a documentary about Tetris. Until that, I didn't knew Tetris was a russian game, which creator worked for Microsoft until 2005. His name is Alexey Pajitnov, he created the MSN game Hexic aswell. Tetris was already being made for Atari home consoles when Mirrorsoft, the enterprise that developed the game, changed from Atari to Nintendo. If Atari had made copies of this game and had put it for sale, They'd still have home consoles in nowadays.

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 2:59 pm

Did you know that in Formula One 2002 for PS2 (the Psygnosis game, not the EA game) automatically focusses on Michael Schumacher after a replay regardless if he is leading or not. However, if Schumi crashes, the camera moves to Olivier Panis by default for some reason.

The MNZ · Post by **The MNZ** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 6:21 pm

Did you know that, on Yu-gi-oh TCG, Cyber-Stein was banned because it give to the player lots of OTK possibilities, but cards like Cyber End Dragon, Cyber Twin Dragon, Cyber Blader and Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, with the same possibilities wasn't? And that Pot of Greed is a very contradictous card: it was banned but all anime characters have it?

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 6:50 pm

Another fact from Yu-gi-oh:
We all know Yu-Gi-Oh as having powerful mythical creatures and natural disasters like tornadoes but did you know one of the cards is called "Hungry Burger?" Yeah that's right, one of the cards is just an animate piece of food with teeth.
In Soviet Russia, Food eats you!

The MNZ · Post by **The MNZ** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 9:09 pm

Yes, i knew this card. But the worst card name is "Anteatereatingant", aka here "Ante-digimon"(i hate Digimon, before anyone say it).
Some more:
*"Dark Sage" invocation cost is a Dark Magican + a Time Wizard what have sucessfully activated the coin toss effect.
*"Convulsion of Nature" let you play with upside-down deck.
*"Yu-Jo Friendship" request a handshake. And it could be forced.
*"Self-Mummification" destroy your own monster. Without any good thing. Use it on your own Exodia.

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