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Ask HN: In one sentence, tell me a random useless fact.
- jamesbritt 13y agoBennett Park, in the Washington Heights neighborhood in north Manhattan, occupies the highest point of land in Manhattan, 265.05 feet above sea level. Fun fact: I used to play there as a kid.
- msvan 13y agoApproximately 36 million people starved to death in China in 1958-61, during peacetime and normal weather conditions. And yet it's not in Chinese history books.
- pfortuny 13y agoThere is a way to partition a sphere into six subsets such that, using only isometries, you can build two spheres, identical to the first one, with those six subsets.
- holyjaw 13y agoI thought this was interesting so I googled it. "Oh, that's cool", I thought, "I don't understand anything in the titles of the first 10 results." https://www.google.com/search?q=sphere+subset+isometric https://www.google.com/search?q=sphere+subset+isometric
- lukio 13y agoThe U.S. Postal Service has lost more than 5 billion dollars over the past year.
- ZeroGravitas 13y agoMonkeys open bananas from the end opposite the stem.
- andrewhillman 13y agoThis one made me laugh. Not that I eat a lot of bananas, but I realize this years ago when dipping in fondue. This way the stalk acts as a holder and it doesn't bruise the banana when peeling. I guess monkeys know best.
- dingaling 13y agoMagpies are self-aware and in tests have used mirrors to assist in removing stickers placed on their plumage. They are also the only species of bird resident in every EU country.
- andrelaszlo 13y agohttp://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/08/top-60-quick-facts-of-the-summer/?utm_source=knowd.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=60-insane-facts-from-the-summer http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/08/top-60-quick...
- BigTuna 13y agoWhen water converts to steam at 100 degrees Celsius it also expands in volume by 1700%.