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Interesting Facts - Page 8
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Viking warriors served as elite troops in the army of the Byzantine Empire.
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Sarah Palin never said that she could see Russia from her house. That quote came from Saturday Night Live star Tina Fey.
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The book Moby Dick starts with the famous opening line "Call me Ishmael".
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Moore's Law states that number of transistors on a microchip doubles every 12-24 months. This law generally held true for fifty years, from 1965-2015, but many people think the rate of doubling is now slower.
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In contrast to Moore's law, Eroom's law states that the cost of developing a new pharmaceutical drug doubles every 9 years.
48 Comments
PatoPotato
+14
Level 55
May 12, 2018
Interesting
HinesBrothers
+19
Level 78
Dec 29, 2019
Facts
morcaca
+14
Level 59
Oct 27, 2020
Page
q38
+13
Level 37
Dec 4, 2020
8
EytanMelech
+3
Level 66
Feb 4, 2021
Fact
turnbacktwo
+3
Level 46
Feb 17, 2021
36,
FaroPor
+3
Level 60
Mar 30, 2021
Byzantine
turnbacktwo
+3
Level 46
Apr 7, 2021
Empire
turnbacktwo
+3
Level 46
Apr 7, 2021
37
SirPhilippines
+3
Level 73
May 19, 2021
Tina
gewehr6628
+3
Level 47
May 20, 2021
Fey
turnbacktwo
+3
Level 46
May 24, 2021
Fact
bruhbruhbro
+3
Level 25
Jun 8, 2021
38
OnionBoy
+3
Level 87
Oct 8, 2021
Moby
HollowYT
+8
Level 51
Dec 3, 2021
Dick
thread
+3
Level 67
Dec 22, 2021
Fact
MG17
+3
Level 43
Feb 1, 2022
39
Jato
+3
Level 70
Feb 1, 2022
Moore’s
thread
+3
Level 67
Feb 2, 2022
Law
quizzer2
+3
Level 37
Feb 2, 2022
Fact
ElementalPixel
+3
Level 73
Feb 2, 2022
40
SirPhilippines
+3
Level 73
Feb 2, 2022
Eroom's
eppek
+3
Level 69
Jun 6, 2022
Law
unregistered
+3
Level 50
Jan 31, 2023
Fact
dkjfhksjfh
+3
Level 29
Feb 16, 2023
41
Kuba43ful
+2
Level 37
Apr 28, 2025
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MrFatFat
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Level 45
May 9, 2025
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Level 75
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stubart409
+4
Level 69
May 18, 2018
Moores Law is no longer true. But in the last 15 years there have been significant developments in faster memory and motherboards, so that computers are still increasing there computing power. Over the last few years we have also seen the introduction of Solid State Drives. All of these developments have removed serious bottle necks in computers. What was the point of overclocking your Pentium to run at 4GHz if your the main PCI Bus on your motherboard was still only running at 66mhz or your main memory only running at 200MHz?
ruudsje
+5
Level 68
Oct 14, 2018
the novel 'moby dick' starts with the famous line, the book doesn't though. it starts with 2 chapters called 'etymology' and 'extracts'. pls award 'nitpicker-of-the-day' trophy.
tschutzer
+43
Level 93
Jan 11, 2019
Actually, the book starts with the words "Moby Dick" on the cover. I'll take that trophy, tyvm.
AntiMatter8192
+9
Level 78
May 21, 2020
Some versions can have the author's, or even the publisher's name before the title.
Malbaby
+4
Level 70
Aug 31, 2020
'tschutzer' wins the Golden Nitpick Award for January 2019...... Congratulations:
stylus
+1
Level 79
Nov 6, 2018
#38 - try my quiz on First Lines Of Texts at https://www.jetpunk.com/user-preview/90110/1088946
johnnyph12
+3
Level 31
Aug 1, 2019
Palin said, "you can see Russia from Alaska." which is still the same level of stupid, so, there's that.
Quizmaster
+29
Level ∞
Aug 1, 2019
But you can see Russia from Alaska. Not that this qualified her in any way for the job, but it happens to be true.
bkemp2001
+3
Level 60
Dec 16, 2019
It's not that she said that, but what she meant by it. I can see Canada from my work. I have about as much foreign policy experience as Palin did when she said it.
YellowJacket
+1
Level 80
May 11, 2020
In fairness to Palin, if she said she could see Canada from her work, that may be true since Juneau is on the Canadian boarder (I'm not sure how close the Alaska State House is to the Juneau-Canada boarder).
kalbahamut
+6
Level 79
Sep 28, 2020
What made it stupid was that she was using this factoid as evidence that she had foreign policy experience. Tina just made it funnier.
leefee08
+3
Level 19
Sep 2, 2022
*sad diomede islands noises*
eppek
+5
Level 69
Sep 21, 2022
What does that sound like?
Scott15
+2
Level 65
Jan 14, 2021
I dont miss Palin at all but I do miss Tina Fey doing her Sarah character, she was incredible at it.
sumguy
+5
Level 87
Feb 20, 2022
If "Call me Ishmael" is a famous opening line, then why does it qualify as an interesting fact?
Malbaby
+2
Level 70
Mar 30, 2022
That's an interesting question 'sumguy'.
25lpconrod
+4
Level 37
Mar 31, 2025
It's so that tschutzer could get the nitpicker-of-the-day trophy
goodquizzes
+2
Level 18
May 30, 2023
I was wondering about the Moby Dick fact too. It's a fact, but like the fact states, it's well known and not that interesting. It's something you would expect, unlike the other facts. It had no interest value.
partdavid
+2
Level 74
Mar 5, 2024
"Interesting" is subjective, but I don't think there's any definition of "Interesting fact" that requires a fact to be obscure. One reason a fact could be interesting is that it's unexpected, but it's not the only reason.
Thrye333
+1
Level 53
Aug 5, 2025
But consider this: would an uninteresting fact have so many people talking about it in the comments? An otherwise uninteresting fact labeled as an interesting fact becomes an interesting fact so long as it is perceived as uninteresting and incorrectly placed, even if it is interesting by virtue of this perception. Thinking it is uninteresting is actually what makes it interesting. And, going off the number of comments about it, this fact seems to be the most interesting fact on the page. Which is in itself an interesting property to have.
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