Interesting Facts - Page 11

Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon" was one of the top 200 best-selling albums in the United States for 741 straight weeks, over 14 years.

According to some people, Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon" was written as an alternate soundtrack to the movie "The Wizard of Oz". The band denies it.

The year 1900 was not a leap year. Years divisible by 100 are not leap years unless they are also divisible by 400.

Velociraptors had feathers.

There are exactly zero documented cases of a child being poisoned by Halloween candy from trick-or-treating.

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Level 66

Apr 26, 2018

So the 100 but not 400 years don't follow the normal rule of every 4 years?

Level 46

May 3, 2018

Every four years is a leap year except on years divisible by 100 but not by 400. This is due to the fact that one rotation of the Earth around the Sun takes 365.24 days. If, instead, it took 365.25 days, then we would have a leap year every four years regardless. This method balances the calendar so that we don't add the extra day too many times.

Level 55

May 26, 2018

Not quite true. If the rotation was 365.24 days, that's exactly 365 and a quarter, less 1 one hundredth (1/100). Therefore, if the orbit of the Earth was 365.24 days, every century year would be non-leap. In fact the orbit is 365.2422 days. The Gregorian calendar we use works out as 365.2425. (365 and a quarter, less 1/100, plus 1/400.) This calendar will be wrong by 3 days in 10,000 years.

Level 54

May 18, 2023

The current algorithm is fine then, for the next few weeks, anyway. Lets be sure we leave some hieroglyphics for the cavemen still hanging around by 10000 yeas from now so that they can correct their sundials. :D

Level 50

Jul 23, 2022

Completely did not understand the words they said

Level 28

Apr 29, 2018

Zero documented cases, but there is still a possibility...

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Level 67

Jul 9, 2018

Could have not been documented. Probably has happened before.

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Level 66

Sep 26, 2018

I have long believed that finding the poison/razor blades in the halloween goodies was made up by the candy companies to convince people to only use store bought candy and not make their own stuff.

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Level 82

Nov 2, 2020

I bet many of them were poisoned with type 2 diabetes.

Level 45

Apr 28, 2021

Hunh, didn’t know that.

Level 26

Jul 11, 2018

According to local Police, following the death of my 6 yr old brother in a suburb of Buffalo, NY 10/1963 there have been numerous cases of children poisoned by Halloween candy. Political pressure on the local coroner caused them to "adjust" the "manner of death" to accidental septicemia in the blood. (yet there was no injury present)

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Level ∞

Sep 7, 2018

You're going to need to post some proof if you want people to believe that.

Level 59

Dec 26, 2020

There was someone who was put on death row putting cyanide in pixie sticks, which lead to the death of one child. He was charged for it, so I think that is some proof. I think it was in the 70's or 80's.

Level ∞

Dec 26, 2020

Still not seeing any evidence.

Level 59

Dec 26, 2020

what do you mean your not seeing any evidence???? he was charged with the crime.

Level 59

Dec 26, 2020

though the person who died was his kid, and he wasn't poisoning some random kid, he still gave the poisoned candy to four other kids to hide his tracks, luckily, the pixie sticks were confiscated before they ate them. though they weren't officially poisoned there were poisoned candy handed out to people, three of them the person knew, and the other one was some random kid.

Level ∞

Dec 26, 2020

The evidence would be in the form of a news article, court records, or something written down at the time, not just one's own personal recollection.

Level 59

Dec 26, 2020

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/12914/brief-history-sick-people-tampering-halloween-candy

Level ∞

Dec 27, 2020

That article confirms the fact that no one has been poisoned from trick or treating. The child was poisoned by their father, and as you mentioned no other children were poisoned.

Level 45

Apr 28, 2021

It happened, it was whomever did it’s son, and it was in 1974

Level 20

May 19, 2020

yeah quizmaster

Level 76

Jul 23, 2019

I read the Pink Floyd comment and then realized I am wearing my Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon" t-shirt. That was kinda creepy.

Level 51

Sep 12, 2019

All four of my grandparents were alive in 1900. That makes me old by proxy.

Level 49

Jun 6, 2020

So this Halloween fact is not really correct.

There was the case Timothy O'Brian, who was poisoned by his dad. The father did this, because he wanted the life insurace of his son.

A link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Clark_O%27Bryan

Level 82

Nov 2, 2020

I think the urban legend is about people handing out poisoned or booby-trapped candy to neighborhood children coming to their house to trick-or-treat, not poisoning their own children. So, maybe the statistic does not count cases of domestic poisoning or fraud. The dad may have tried to make it look like his child had been poisoned by a stranger.

Level ∞

Dec 26, 2020

Yes, as stated in the fact, there are exactly zero documented cases of a child being poisoned by Halloween candy from trick-or-treating. This remains correct.

Level 60

Jul 12, 2020

Are people taught years divided by 100 are leap years?

Because we are taught that years divided by 20 are leap years

Level 82

Nov 2, 2020

If a number is divisible by 100 it would also, necessarily, be divisible by 20. The above fact is pointing out an exception to the rule.

Level 54

May 18, 2023

Let me slip in here, 2.5 years later, and tell you "no". People are not taught that. They are taught that years divisible evenly by 4 are designated as leap years. If folks want to probe a little further, they'll find out the currently-accepted algorithm for leap years also includes these two caveats: (1) If you can divide the year evenly by 100, then ooops! It's not a leap year, after all. But wait, there's more. (2) If you can divide the year evenly by 400, then, hold on Jack, YES IT IS. We saw one of those in 2000, when we said, "Yes it is, no it isn't, yes it is". Someone pointed out in this thread that we'll see another problem in about 10,000 years. Let's be sure we warn our GGGGGGGG+ grandchildren they'll need to be fixin' that ****.

Level 46

Aug 12, 2020

How can the Pink Floyd "fact" be called a fact when it's not true according to the band.

Level 82

Nov 2, 2020

The fact is that some people say this. Not that what they say is verified by the band.

Level 71

Mar 31, 2022

Which means that every lie is a fact.

Level 59

May 17, 2023

No, it means that every factual account of a lie or a belief is a fact.