Useless Facts (depending on your point-of-view)
 

The estimated diameter of the observable universe is 93 billion light-years.

Useless to me. Maybe not to an astrophysicist. Interesting though.

Wouldn't want to walk it. /surveyor

A lightyear is about 5.88 trillion miles.

All ya gotta do is multiply 5.88 trillion times 93 billion.

Let's see now...

5,880,000,000,000 x 93,000,000,000 = 5,468,400,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles

Did I do that right? I think I got lost in all those zeroes.

Close enough.

I think I ended up with an extra zero.

A ping pong ball should weigh 2.7 grams.

Horseshoes and hand grenades...

According to Wolfram Alpha, 1 light-year = 5.879 trillion miles, so yeah,,, close enuf. 5.879 trillion times 93 billion actually = 546 sextillion miles, which is still an approximation.

When I was growing up we were taught the long scale billion definition (a million million), though it had already become standard to use the short scale in official figures.




ETA: according to Wiki the short scale was officially adopted by the UK government in '74, when I was 2, so it must have coexisted for a few years after that

Millions of rickrolls have earned Rick Ashley just $12 .

...the lesson of which is, as usual, don't sell the rights to your recorded material and don't make a shitty record deal so you can have a hit single

Useless to you, but not useless to me:

The average person files a car insurance claim every 17.9 years.

I'm a shitty driver.

Oh. So, yer really an Asian? :D

Exxum Ohio is 12 miles SSE of Cleveland.

tarheel