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Has Anyone Ever Done It #3
Try to guess whether anyone in history has ever done these remarkable, or remarkably stupid, things!
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Last updated: June 23, 2021
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1.
Died on the moon?
Yes
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No
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Survived with essentially no food for more than one year?
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Angus Barbieri fasted for 382 days, losing 125kg (275 lbs) in the process
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Found Amelia Earhart's plane or body?
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No
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Shot the pope?
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Pope John Paul II was shot four times in 1981, but survived
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Been cured of Muscular Dystrophy?
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No
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Hit a golf ball on the moon?
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No
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Been eaten by a crocodile?
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No
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It is estimated that crocodiles kill about 1000 people annually
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Been more than 3 meters tall? (9 feet, 10 inches)
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No
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Robert Wadlow holds the record at 2.72 meters. (8 feet, 11 inches)
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Served more than 2 terms as U.S. President?
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Franklin D. Roosevelt served more than 3 whole terms. This would no longer be possible because of term limits.
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Set foot on the South Pole and the North Pole in the same day?
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No
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Sent a message back in time? As in, literally back into the past, not some trick with time zones.
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No
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12.
Been a native speaker of Esperanto?
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No
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There are about 1000 native speakers of Esperanto including, possibly, George Soros
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Deliberately crashed two trains into each other and sold tickets?
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The first to occur was in Texas in 1896. More than 40,000 people showed up to watch. Two died and many were injured by debris.
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Landed a helicopter on the summit of Mount Everest?
Yes
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No
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Survived not breathing for 30 minutes?
Yes
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No
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There are numerous stories of people being trapped underwater for more than 30 minutes and later being revived
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This time I told myself not to think about them too much and only got a couple of non-ridiculous ones wrong.
I guess time dilation technically could be viewed as going back in time as well and we've proved that's real. I wouldn't count that as time travel though since really what's happened is that you've aged slightly faster than everyone else, so when time returns to normal you've experienced a couple of seconds more than everyone else has.
Didn't think more than half a second about the question and just chose "yes" based on that connotation.
So my logic was if we shot light back to us from a satelight would it be considered going back through time?
I know it sounds stupid. But my reasoning was there
Also, I think Amelia Earheart's plane was found a few weeks ago, you could maybe update that
But are they more than just stories?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXNXSvnCtKA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Delsalle
"2010, a stripped-down AS350 B3 rescued three Spanish alpinists, one at a time, from the slopes of Annapurna I at 6,900 m (22,640 ft); this set a new record for the highest such rescue. The record was increased to 7,800 m (25,590 ft), during the rescue of Sudarshan Gautam between Camps III & IV in Everest's Yellow Band on the morning of 20 May 2013"
You're not going to get a nice helipad-sized area every time.
I thought it was more interesting seeing the approach to the Everest landing. I thought they had to use the updraft adjacent to the mountain to climb.
But apparently, the Sikorsky CH54 (the familiar "Skycrane"), has the record for highest level-flight at 36,120ft. https://winair.ca/blog/ultimate-guide-helicopter-world-records-infographic/
No but I have heard of an attempt with Klingon. I can't found the citation. http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/08/a-man-once-tried-to-raise-his-son-as-a-native-speaker-in-klingon/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_jYOubJmfM
It's not like babies come with a predetermined language setting a birth that just kicks in depending on longitude and latitude.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_of_Castelnau
I think it might be harder to find an accurate stat of who's been actually eaten instead of fatally injured, but it would make more sense imo.
If someone tells you they've eaten a cake, they should mean an entire cake, not just a single slice.
Same with a python in Indonesia, it ate an elderly lady. They killed the snake and found the woman inside.
I was wrong
But the distance from the North Pole to the South Pole is only half that, about 12450 miles. So it would entail an average speed of about 519 mph, which is doable. You'd probably need to refuel in the middle; but a Boeing 777 would only need 1 refueling which takes 1 hour, so you still have 23 hours and need to average 540 mph for the rest, which is doable.
In fact, someone has traveled from the North Pole to South Pole in less than 1 day, but they just didn't set foot. https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/speed-record-circumnavigate-intl-scli/index.html
So of course I changed all the Yesses to Noes thinking that this might be a trick quiz and.... I lost myself 4 correct answers yaaay
The guy lost an amount of weight commiserate with his time spent fasting. Surely the hoaxes you are referring to don't refer to a morbidly obese person losing hundreds of pounds.
And how many calories is required to lose a pound of weight. (And how much fat vs muscle he lost)
Seems like the math could be:
382days * 2100cal/day deficit = 802,200cal
or 382days * 2600cal/day deficit = 993,200cal
total weight actually lost = 285lb, or 285lb*3500cal/lb= 997,500cal actually lost
If I follow that right, it seems like the numbers only add up if he was truly fasting. Not sure I am though. (and I don't care to look up conflicting numbers)
It doesn't matter how heavy you are to start with. You will still die in about 3 weeks or so.