Random facts - Because they are awesome

[Akonyl]

This fact is from a game so I am not 100% about it:

About 10% of the worlds salaries are paid to women.

I wouldn't doubt it, but it depends on what population they're looking at too, if they're including jobless people in the study, it'd skew it further downwards due to many countries having less working women than men.

[mangaluva]

Referring to "soccer" is possibly the only thing that will inspire greater rage in a Scot than referring to them as "English". Not that you should do either.

[Paix672]

Left handed people live slightly shorter lives than right handed people.

I know, right? D:

[Conia]

Left handed people live slightly shorter lives than right handed people.

I know, right? D:

We're hunted down by righties D:

[Jd-]

Left handed people live slightly shorter lives than right handed people.

I know, right? D:

We're hunted down by righties D:

I blame the construction of many school desks from the days of youth. They've done lefties no favors.

[Detective Tommy]

That's awesome cause I'm a right-y Oh... that sucks D:

[Commi-Ninja]

*is fairly ambidextrous*

Guess I'm safe either way.

Seriously, though, just about everything is constructed for right-handed people, so that's part of it, I'm sure.  Obviously it would have to be long-term effects of things like that (Jd-'s desks, for example), as opposed to the immediate, but still.

[kyuuketsuki]

Did you know that the whole "we use only 10% of our brain" thing is a myth? Apparently we use —you guessed it— all of it (100%).

Did you know that the whole "drink 8 glasses of water a day" thing is a myth? Most experts agree that you should drink something when you are —get this— thirsty.

The myth is that we can only actively use 10% of our brains. No one doubts that we use all 100% of it for one reason or another... I believe the Mythbusters proved that wrong anyway, but it seemed correct for a while.

Fact: I can't think of any cool or interesting facts... other than...

Playing video games has been shown to actually improve hand-eye coordination and reaction time.

Also the cake is a lie.

[bluekaitou1412]

*is fairly ambidextrous*

\o/

[mangaluva]

Also the cake is a lie.

Fact: that meme did not originate in Portal. Gamers have known that the cake is a lie ever since we went to Princess Peach's castle for cake in 1996 and ended up having to crawl around inside paintings instead.

[Dus]

That cake was no lie, there was cake at the end and everyone who played through it should know that.

[CME]

putting 0xFF in the pci config space at f4 on a 945gm display controller sets the brightness to the max (quite useful on older eeepcs)

[nomemory]

One signal that is controlling train traffic in Sweden is the "huvudljussignal" literal translation being "mainlightsignal" (maybe ). It has two to five lightopenings, three green, one red and one white. Order of the lights are, up to down, green, red, green, white and green and that's always the order, no matter how many lightopenings it has it will always start with green, red and so on.

Signal meanings
Red - Stop
1 green - Drive 80 (or higher if ATC or ERTMS allows it)
2 green - Drive 40, caution (or higher if ATC or ERTMS allows it) Next signal will probably be signalling stop.
3 green - Drive 40, short way. There'll probably be a stop after a short distance, <450 metres.

And now you all wonder about the white light, don't you? :V Well, that'll be in next lesson, have fun 'til them newbs!

[Commi-Ninja]

In Texas, there is a law that your car must have windshield wipers.  A windshield, however, is not necessary.  You just have to have the wipers.

[Callid]

¬(A∨B)≡(¬A)∧(¬B)
¬(A∧B)≡(¬A)∨(¬B)

Or, without using mathematical symbols:
(NOT (A OR B)) IS EQUIVALENT TO ((NOT A) AND (NOT B))
(NOT (A AND B)) IS EQUIVALENT TO ((NOT A) OR (NOT B))

And in normal language:
(neither A nor B) is equivalent to (A is not true and B is not true)
(not both A and B) is equivalent to (A is not true and/or B is not true)

These are called "De Morgan's Laws", by the way.

@ Purists:
Yes, "and/or". "Or" in normal language is not OR, but XOR, so I have to use either "and/or" or the rather lengthy "at least one of".