Other One fact a day makes for interesting ideas.

[The Dreamer of the Lore]

So, as the title says, we are a bunch of people on this site, I believe everyone has an interesting piece of knowledge to share, or maybe their job has taught them a skill that is interesting in explaining. So I thought, why not have a post to share those ideas, who knows, maybe we can help someone writing a story or an RP by giving them random pieces of knowledge. So allow me to share one with you. Chance on card games.

Now, I often play games of luck all the time. A standard deck has 52 cards. Follow me here.
Each set has 13 cards:

Spades: A 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 J Q K
Clubs: A 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 J Q K
Hearts: A 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 J Q K
Diamonds: A 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 J Q K

So. In a game of poker, you can actually make your guesses closer to reality by simply keeping count of them. Sure, this sounds hard.
But is actually not as hard as others would make you believe. You do harder stuff all the time, but you do it automatically. Jesus man, our body is already doing so much automatically, if it worked on manual, can you imagine how hard it would be?

So!

In the table with the cards like this:

Center: J Q Q K A

Player 1: Q 2
Player 2: J 4
Player 3: K 3
Player 4: K 5

On that poker set, player 1 has a Queen card and a two. Let's say player 3 has been keeping count of the cards. By making the memory of previous hands and using your knowledge to know the previously played cards, player 3 knows there have not been any other Queens played before. At this point in the game, having a King means he has two pairs. Kings and the free pair on the table. But! Three of a kind always beat two pairs in the game. So, player 1 has won this round already. So, what is the wisest choice here if you were player 3?

To not play this hand. Is a high-risk scenario with a little win. When counting cards, the whole point is to try to make the game the closest to a safe game as possible. Chances are there are 3 queens in the game at this moment where the deck has been running without queens. Many things can affect the count of the cards, but here is where imagination comes to you. High cards tend to be extremely noticeable in the game, and if they didn't show their cards, chances are they were bad.

Counting is not insanely high science. Is memory, is understanding the game to the core.

Why is Black Jack so preferred by people who play games of chance? Because you are not playing other players who affect the count. You are essentially only against the dealer. Chances are you will win the majority of the time. Remember! On Blackjack, the player plays first! The dealer plays second unless the casino states otherwise. So while the casino will always start second, thus having advantages, you can always ask if the table has a minimum game. What does this mean? That the Dealer is always forced to try to reach a number!

Let's say this scenario happens

The table has a set of 18
Player: 10 + 8=18, 3 below 21, safe game if kept, dangerous to try to aim for 21.
Dealer: 10+6 = 16. The dealer is not allowed to keep his 16! He must draw a third card even if it means losing the game!

A few scenarios can happen:

A) Dealer : 10+6+6= 22! Is a bust! As the dealer has gone over 21 he must pay everyone else their bet.
B) Dealer: 10+6+5= 21 he has won
C) Dealer: 10+6+2= 18 This is a tie! No one loses money, bets are returned.

On games like Poker, you play against people and their skill to keep their number hidden. On Blackjack, you compete against the dealer. Chances are you will win more times at Blackjack than at poker if you play the same amount of games just by the nature of the games.


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[Can Helsing]

I dunno how much of a help this is, but here goes:

First Aid can be a messy thing and it can happen anywhere.

Antiseptics:
As we all know, alcohol is a great option for antiseptic, but here are the fine details:
-Antiseptics are a minimum of 35% ABV.
-Fermented alcohols (Wines, beers, etc) are not good for cleaning wounds, even if the ABV meets requirements.
-That being said, Distilled alcohols (Whiskey, Rum, etc.) CAN be used.
-Pure Vanilla Extract (NOT Imitation) is not fermented and has a minimum of 35% ABV. Meaning it CAN BE USED AS ANTISEPTIC!
-Be wary if someone has an allergy to oak. Many Spirits are made in oak barrels.
-Basic mild soap and water is a valid way to clean most wounds.

Stitching:
-Deep wounds require stitches under the skin, or else the wound will fail to heal. If you do not have dissolvable stitches available, you need to use superglue after heavily cleaning the wound with antiseptics. Gluing will take time, but will eventually work.
-Silk and nylon thread is usable for stitching. Other types can cause infections.
-Continuous Stitches (Stitches made by single thread) are more durable. They can even the burden of movement or stretching easier. Best option for high movement areas.
-Simple Interrupted Stitching (stitches that are separate from one another thread wise) is the most secure type of stitching, but can easily rip or tear if overburdened.

Burns:
-Large and severe burns SHOULD NEVER be submerged in cool water - This can cause Hypothermia.
-Wrap wound in clean cloth or bandages wet with cool water.
-Aloe, even directly from the plant itself, is a great source to relieve the pain of a cooled burn.
-Do not pop burn blisters. If one opens, be sure to clean frequently with soap and water to prevent infection. Burn blisters are notorious for causing infections.

Please note:
I am not trained in the medical field. The facts I give may be incorrect or incomplete. These are just information that I have picked up randomly through life (after suffering from such injuries, usually).

 

[The Dreamer of the Lore]

Interesting fact

How do multiple option tests work? Chances are you have gone through this kind of tests before

1.- A train goes from point A to B in 30 minutes. If it repeats this journey three times it will have pass:

A) 60 minutes.
B) 90 minutes.
C) 50 minutes.
D) 45 minutes.

Now, the answer here is as simple as 30(The time) x 3(the number of journeys) But, let's say I ask you something entirely different:

2.- What is the tax ratio of Added tax value in Mexico?

A) 10%
B) 9%
C) 16%
D) 11%

If you didn't study for the exam, how are you going to answer this? Remembering how multiple exam tests are made:

A) 12% Two similar answers that are wrong.
B) 9% One absolutely wrong answer.
C) 16% One right answer.
D) 11% Two similar answers that are wrong.

No multiple-choice exam is exempt from this rule.

9 is absolutely different from the other three answers 12 and 11 are similar, so much that both are wrong by default. The only answer left to choose is 16. When nervous on an exam chances are you forget a lot of what you studied if you are bad at managing your nerves, were tired, or your emotional state was shaken before the exam. So much can happen, but the brain is an impressive piece of machinery, and it finds patterns everywhere. So even though you may not remember the full answer, all you need is a little hand. Multiple-choice tests are extremely easy to decipher through practice.

While I would never suggest not studying, remember that you can always find a way to solve the question without previous knowledge. This is a reason why some professors avoid multiple-choice, because more than a test of knowledge, is a test to your capacity of discarding information. This is the same logic of how you can know which door holds a prize in games, or how to win at trivia without knowing anything about the subject. Due to this, it is extremely feasible to win at any game which has multiple choices just by your capacity to discard stuff. Of course, there are exemptions to this.

You Don't Know Jack loves using this. Sometimes, the most outlandish answer is the truth. Remember, logic is an awesome tool. Just remember in the words of good old pokemon games.

There's a time and place for everything, but not now
Good old Professor Oak.

 

[Zelena]

Certain Cephlapods can see color/light through their skin.

 

[The Dreamer of the Lore]

Shuffling, the answer to a lot of card tricks.

Ever had a game where you are told to cut the deck in half? Well, chances are you did just that and started the game. But, cutting the deck in the way you are told isn't always the right thing to do. You see, sometimes we use our sense of touch a bit too much. So chances are you cut the deck from the card you felt was in an odd place and took it without thinking to cut the deck. Now, someone just won the first hand of your poker night and I assure you it wasn't you.

A casual trick on playing cards is to make one stand oddly, not too much, not too little, but enough for your finger to feel it and cut the deck there. This is to allow the other player to give you the illusion of fairness in the game when they have a clear advantage in knowing what card is on the top. The most simple answer to this scenario is to cut the deck, then shuffle it. The shuffling adds randomness to the game again, now you and your playmate are back to square cero of the game. None of you has the advantage, the game has returned to its starting point and the game is fair.

Is not odd to play in a game of cards against strangers who know how to cut the deck the way they want. And the easiest answer is not playing against them xD

 

[salem.]

Uhm-
Komodo Dragons brush their teeth with plants
thats cool

 

[Cross]

How do komodo dragons do that? I hope the internet has this on video

 

[Macintot]

In the event of a car wreck, your airbag will deploy at a speed of 209 mph (336 kph). On a related note, please do not decorate you steering wheel with healing crystals.

The chainsaw was originally developed as a surgical instrument to help with childbirth. Basically, as an alternative to C-section, they'd remove the mother's pelvis. I'm not sure whether they put it back.

 

[The Dreamer of the Lore]

A fight of two vs one is actually like dancing.

You have seen those mats which have the steps of how to dance? When three people are in a fight this is actually really similar. There is only a set amount of steps possible in the dance that will not end in catastrophic results. The trick when being on the side of two is to always keep in the note where your ally is positioned. When you are the lonely one without a dance partner, it all comes down to make sure the other two are never apart. What does this mean?

Position when you are alone:
X you
Y them

X.----Y-----Y2

Always making sure the other doesn't have a clear line of sight, by using the other as your shield. When people don't have a proper line of sight, is easier to make them clash on them.

Fighting is like dancing a lot of times. Everyone ends up clashing or stepping on each other's toes.

 

[Friendly_Dragon]

The coffee filter was created by a housewife who decided to filter the coffee with his son's blotting paper

 

[The Dreamer of the Lore]

The easiest way to defend of an attack is to not be in front of it, but also not backing away. The trick is moving in diagonal movement using one feet as your point of ref to move away in angles of 45 degrees instead of going fully backward in the direction of a 90 angle. This opens more paths to defense and avoid hitting a wall.

 

[Macintot]

Your nerve, brain, heart, and muscle cells never regenerate. You die with the same ones you were born with.

 

[The Dreamer of the Lore]

Most people who punch use only two fingers on it. Index and Middle. Because of this, a lot of people suffer injuries when throwing a punch in the usual motion, as if it fails, their Ring and Pinky finger are the ones who take on all the impact and break.

 

[Adriantook]

Something I found interesting is that while people say Latin is a dead language that is not correct. A language is not a living thing and thus it can not die. This is a quote from my Latin teacher, who to this day teaches Latin and she and all her students speak it on a daily basis. I don't speak it fluently anymore as I haven't used it regularly but, I work in the medical profession and boy oh boy does it help with medical terms. So there's this supposedly dead language that is still being taught and is used in the medical field to this day so perhaps my teacher was correct a language can't truly die.

 

[Emeraude]

Mitochondria, known as the "powerhouses of the cell", are thought to have once been their own bacteria. Scientists think that a different bacteria ingested these mitochondria and instead of being digested, the mitochondria survived and began to live inside the organism that ate them. This is supported by the fact that mitochondria, even in our own cells, have their own DNA that is different from yours. Mitochondrial inheritance is via your mother's side.

In certain animals, being infected with a virus before a certain age results in the immune system of that animal thinking that the virus is a normal part of the body. Thus, the immune system will never attack the virus and the animal will remain infected for life.

Heavily white-coated animals can have several congenital issues, as the precursor for many types of other cells also give rise to melanocytes (the cells that deposit pigment). Examples of conditions that can happen when you select for white coats include Waardenburg syndrome and lethal white syndrome. White coats are heavily associated with deafness or poorer hearing.

The spot on Jupiter is due to a storm. This storm has lasted a minimum of 340 years.

Plants create both oxygen and carbon dioxide. Photosynthesis creates oxygen as a byproduct, and glucose as its main product. Glucose is then fed into cellular respiration, which burns glucose into a form of usable energy for cells (ATP). Carbon dioxide is a byproduct of cellular respiration. Plants typically perform more cellular respiration at night, when the sun is down.

 

[The Dreamer of the Lore]

Bergmann´s rule is an ecogeographical rule that states that species become larger on colder climates. This is a pattern that has been proved on birds and humans too.

 

[The Dreamer of the Lore]

Microfractures are tiny fractures caused on the bone due to strenous activities that generate force exceeding the strenght of the bone. If you dont let them heal, plenty of microfractures can at a point bring a bigger fracture by all of the microfractures deciding to snap. This can be seen as how someone breaks their leg by slipping in the last step of a set of stairs. It wasnt the slip that broke it, such a slip would never be enough, but with so many microfractures on place, it can happen. Judo practitioners often have this problem when they dont take time to heal.

 

[Emeraude]

Your gastrointestinal tract has its own lymphoid tissue, and it's the most extensive singular site of immune cell activity in the body. It is called GALT. Immune cells are constantly sampling the bits of food you eat and presenting it to lymphocytes, who determine if this is a safe food or something to freak out about. Dysfunction in this can lead to food allergies and certain conditions, like Crohn's disease and Celiac disease. This is why we treat these conditions sometimes with immunosuppressive drugs.

 

[Jannah]

I'm kind of a nuclear physics geek so I come with this:

Ramsar, Iran has among the highest naturally occurring background radiation levels in the world at about 260 mSv per year(the recommended annual limit for radiation workers is only a fraction of that). This is due primarily to the release of Radium from the natural hot springs in the area and the presence of large quantities of Thorium within the local bedrock. Residents living in the area do not have increased likeliness of genetic defects or cancers, suggesting some ability of the body to adapt to chronic radiation exposure.

 

[Rusty of Shackleford]

Oooo, lemme gush about history!

According to historians, only four total splinters of the True Cross have been confirmed, each located in major churches around the world. This was difficult to prove, as merchants in the Middle Ages often peddled regular splinters as part of the Cross to gullible peasants. About 98% of the entire Cross has yet to be identified.

 

[Rusty of Shackleford]

WAIT I FORGOT A GOOD ONE

Uranium contains 18 million calories per gram. So if the average person needs about 2,500 calories per day to survive, one gram of uranium would allow them to survive for 7,200 days, or about 19 full years.

That's if your body could survive the intense radiation, and the insane amount of energy your body would be storing.

A similar thing is true with potassium. Potassium, in high enough amounts, is highly radioactive. If you are 40,000 bananas in 15 minutes, there would be enough radiation in your system to kill you.

 

[Jannah]

WAIT I FORGOT A GOOD ONE

Uranium contains 18 million calories per gram. So if the average person needs about 2,500 calories per day to survive, one gram of uranium would allow them to survive for 7,200 days, or about 19 full years.

That's if your body could survive the intense radiation, and the insane amount of energy your body would be storing.

A similar thing is true with potassium. Potassium, in high enough amounts, is highly radioactive. If you are 40,000 bananas in 15 minutes, there would be enough radiation in your system to kill you.

Yep, and it's nuclear power plants people are afraid of rather than bananas...

 

[Rusty of Shackleford]

Yep, and it's nuclear power plants people are afraid of rather than bananas...

Screw uranium. The true steps to infinite power are BANANAS

 

[Pumpkin Spice Cyanide]

Particle-Wave duality and quantum superposition coupled with the fact your brain predicts decisions before they are consciously made implies reality takes shape as you observe it but the decision to observe it was already made for you so what is "freewill" and what makes the universe take shape and not be an endless soup of possible outcomes?

 

[The Dreamer of the Lore]

Particle-Wave duality and quantum superposition coupled with the fact your brain predicts decisions before they are consciously made implies reality takes shape as you observe it but the decision to observe it was already made for you so what is "freewill" and what makes the universe take shape and not be an endless soup of possible outcomes?

A the quantum races, you affect the winner by seeing the result xD