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You can’t sneeze and keep your eyes open

I have tried that before just for the sake of saying "yeah you can."
I highly advise NOT doing it.


Trying to remember one along those lines, is it sneezes or jizz that comes out at over 200mph?

Both if done simultaneously. Haven't tried it though, probably wont. The sneeze with the eyes open thing hurt bad enough.


Someone is trying to hard.

Nah, trying too hard would be if I were to publish my findings on a new workplace metric - "SPEPD," which is "****s per employee per day." You see, I found that there was a staggering amount of time wasted by employees in the bathroom. After about a week of collecting data and interpolating those results on a time/frequency graph, we concluded that the SPEPD was 1.7 with an error factor of 25%. Anything over 1.0 is alarming, since it means that either people were spending a LONG time in there, or people were running in there multiple times per day. So using simple math, we determined that if every employee were to spend 1 minute less in the bathroom per day, the business would save $40k annually. Interesting note: The highest frequency times were 10 minutes after clock-in time and immediately after lunch. As a test, I put up "out of order" signs in two stalls and there was seriously a line in the bathroom.

I put the whole study together in an Excel spreadsheet with graphs and such and left it anonymously in the continuous improvement folder on the company network.
 
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Trying to remember if I’ve ever sneezed and jizzed at the same time

Scientific fact that everybody will do both simultaneously at some point.

Not only do you have to blink but you temporarily lose conciousness. That explains why you can't remember. So don't beat yourself up. You're not losing your memory or going senile.

All the best.
 

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Scientific fact that everybody will do both simultaneously at some point.

Not only do you have to blink but you temporarily lose conciousness. That explains why you can't remember. So don't beat yourself up. You're not losing your memory or going senile.

All the best.

No pun intended ?


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Hell there's only 80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000 (8.0658e67) ways you can shuffle a deck of cards.
One of the coolest explinations I have heard on how big the number actually is for the number of the possibilites in the order of a deck of cards, 8.0658e67

Start a timer that will count down from 8.0658e67 seconds.

Start by picking your favorite spot on the equator. You're going to walk around the world along the equator, but take a very leisurely pace of one step every billion years. The equatorial circumference of the Earth is 40,075,017 meters. Make sure to pack a deck of playing cards, so you can get in a few trillion hands of solitaire between steps. After you complete your round the world trip, remove one drop of water from the Pacific Ocean. Now do the same thing again: walk around the world at one billion years per step, removing one drop of water from the Pacific Ocean each time you circle the globe. The Pacific Ocean contains 707.6 million cubic kilometers of water. Continue until the ocean is empty. When it is, take one sheet of paper and place it flat on the ground. Now, fill the ocean back up and start the entire process all over again, adding a sheet of paper to the stack each time you’ve emptied the ocean.

Do this until the stack of paper reaches from the Earth to the Sun. Take a glance at the timer, you will see that the three left-most digits haven’t even changed. You still have 8.063e67 more seconds to go. 1 Astronomical Unit, the distance from the Earth to the Sun, is defined as 149,597,870.691 kilometers. So, take the stack of papers down and do it all over again. One thousand times more. Unfortunately, that still won’t do it. There are still more than 5.385e67 seconds remaining. You’re just about a third of the way done.

To pass the remaining time, start shuffling your deck of cards. Every billion years deal yourself a 5-card poker hand. Each time you get a royal flush, buy yourself a lottery ticket. A royal flush occurs in one out of every 649,740 hands. If that ticket wins the jackpot, throw a grain of sand into the Grand Canyon. Keep going and when you’ve filled up the canyon with sand, remove one ounce of rock from Mt. Everest. Now empty the canyon and start all over again. When you’ve leveled Mt. Everest, look at the timer, you still have 5.364e67 seconds remaining. Mt. Everest weighs about 357 trillion pounds. You barely made a dent. If you were to repeat this 255 times, you would still be looking at 3.024e64 seconds. The timer would finally reach zero sometime during your 256th attempt. Exercise for the reader: at what point exactly would the timer reach zero?


Its an insanely huge number!
 

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One of the coolest explinations I have heard on how big the number actually is for the number of the possibilites in the order of a deck of cards, 8.0658e67

Start a timer that will count down from 8.0658e67 seconds.

Start by picking your favorite spot on the equator. You're going to walk around the world along the equator, but take a very leisurely pace of one step every billion years. The equatorial circumference of the Earth is 40,075,017 meters. Make sure to pack a deck of playing cards, so you can get in a few trillion hands of solitaire between steps. After you complete your round the world trip, remove one drop of water from the Pacific Ocean. Now do the same thing again: walk around the world at one billion years per step, removing one drop of water from the Pacific Ocean each time you circle the globe. The Pacific Ocean contains 707.6 million cubic kilometers of water. Continue until the ocean is empty. When it is, take one sheet of paper and place it flat on the ground. Now, fill the ocean back up and start the entire process all over again, adding a sheet of paper to the stack each time you’ve emptied the ocean.

Do this until the stack of paper reaches from the Earth to the Sun. Take a glance at the timer, you will see that the three left-most digits haven’t even changed. You still have 8.063e67 more seconds to go. 1 Astronomical Unit, the distance from the Earth to the Sun, is defined as 149,597,870.691 kilometers. So, take the stack of papers down and do it all over again. One thousand times more. Unfortunately, that still won’t do it. There are still more than 5.385e67 seconds remaining. You’re just about a third of the way done.

To pass the remaining time, start shuffling your deck of cards. Every billion years deal yourself a 5-card poker hand. Each time you get a royal flush, buy yourself a lottery ticket. A royal flush occurs in one out of every 649,740 hands. If that ticket wins the jackpot, throw a grain of sand into the Grand Canyon. Keep going and when you’ve filled up the canyon with sand, remove one ounce of rock from Mt. Everest. Now empty the canyon and start all over again. When you’ve leveled Mt. Everest, look at the timer, you still have 5.364e67 seconds remaining. Mt. Everest weighs about 357 trillion pounds. You barely made a dent. If you were to repeat this 255 times, you would still be looking at 3.024e64 seconds. The timer would finally reach zero sometime during your 256th attempt. Exercise for the reader: at what point exactly would the timer reach zero?


Its an insanely huge number!
I ain't readin' all that shit. But I'm sure it's random and useless.
 

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