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donate some random facts: fighting the offseason.

2 days to training camp.....

The most common 2 man combination on the Jazz last season was Hayward and Favors. In over 1800 minutes together they were a net +2 in rebounds and +2 in points per 100 possessions. The two highest positive point differentials for two man combinations were Exum/Hayward (+6.4) and Exum/Favors (+5.8).

Poor Enes had a negative point differential of -7.3 with Trey, -3.4 with Hayward, and -2.5 with Favors. Enes did have the highest offensive rating of any Jazz player last season (107.8), but when he was on the floor the Jazz opponents had an offensive rating of 111.4, which was bad, but not the worst on the team..... Alec Burks helped the opponents get an offensive rating of 114. I wonder how much of that was because Alec didn't play late in the season when the team finally gelled on defense. Alec played 510 of his 899 minutes with Trey and Enes. Rudy Gobert had a team best, holding opponents to an offensive rating of 101.9....

The Jazz made atleast 2 3-pointers in every game last season, in the second game of last season the Jazz made 14 3-pointers. They lost to Dallas by 18. Alec Burks started as 2 gaurd in that game, he had 2 steals, 2 assists, made 2 of 2 fts and only missed 2 of his 5 3-pt attempts. Rudy Gobert did not block a shot in the game, in fact he did not block a shot in either of his first 2 games.

Rudy had 24 double doubles last season, Derrick Favors had 23. favors had 2 games with five assists. The Aussies, Dante and Joe Ingles averaged 2 assists per game.

Speaking of Australia, There are two species of crocodiles in Australia. The smaller, Freshwater Crocodile, also called Johnstone’s Crocodile (Crocodylus johnstoni) is 2-3 metres long, and it can be distinguished from the larger salt water crocodile by its slender snout. Freshwater crocodiles eat fish, crustaceans, insects, smaller reptiles, amphibians, rats, bats and birds. They are found in northern Australia between Cape York Peninsula in the east and Broome in the west, and as opposed to the saltwater crocodiles, they can be found way into the inland: they live in freshwater rivers and lakes in the whole Kimberley region in Western Australia, the Top End of Northern Territory, and in the inland of northern Queensland. The good news is that freshwater crocodiles are not dangerous to humans, although it is not recommended to go swimming with them. Swimmers have been injured, but humans are too large to be their prey and fresh water crocodiles would not attempt to kill us for food.
 
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the stat I am looking forward to seeing is trey Burke losing his starting job to a rookie second season in a row.
 
a ducks quack doesn't echo

American are responsible for 1/5 of the world garbage annually

in Utah it is illegal to swear infront of a dead person

what is known as a "French kiss" in English is known as an "English kiss" in France

it is estimated at any one time 0.7% of the world is drunk

like finger prints everyone's tongue print is different

intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair

every year 11,000 American injure themselves trying out bizarre sexual positions

on the average American eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

the Romans use to make toothpaste from urine

a cockroach will live nine days with out its head before it starves to death.

a species of earth worm in Australia can grow to 10 feet in length.

non dairy creamer is flammable.

golf course cover 4% of America

the average person will accidentally eat under a pound of insects a year.

a dragon fly has a life span of 24 hours.

banging you head against the wall will burn 150 calories an hour
 
Average golf course is 120 to 170 acres.

There are a total of 18,514 golf courses in America.

The land area of the lower 48 states is approximately 1.9 billion acres.

160x18,514/1,900,000,000 = 0.0015. Not even close to 4%.
 
Average golf course is 120 to 170 acres.

There are a total of 18,514 golf courses in America.

The land area of the lower 48 states is approximately 1.9 billion acres.

160x18,514/1,900,000,000 = 0.0015. Not even close to 4%.

Well, since a couple of courses have holes that are near the Pacific Ocean, maybe we need to include some nautical miles into the calculations.
 
a ducks quack doesn't echo

No. Ducks quacks aren't made of magic.

https://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.asp


in Utah it is illegal to swear infront of a dead person

I cannot find a legal source that states that. It is just a "fact" that is repeated ad verbatim on Buzzfeed-like websites. Sometimes it is states other than Utah. Like Georgia.


intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair

Of course not. Zinc and copper are related to hair pigmentation, and their concentration will depend on the hair color.

https://jn.nutrition.org/content/113/11/2375.full.pdf


golf course cover 4% of America

According to GCSAA, golf courses cover 3507 square miles in the US. That's just under 0.001 of the U.S. total surface area.


a dragon fly has a life span of 24 hours.

lol. Just do a Wikipedia check or something before you decide to believe something so implausible. Having checked myself, the larval stage lasts for a couple of years, while the adult stage is a few months long.

I didn't check most of the others, and I do know a few to be true (Americans production of garbage for example). But many of these are not so much facts as they are ******** people repeat without bothering to think or check. It does remind me of another popular type of mass-delusion...
 
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In Michigan, all Cougars are tame. They just roll over and play dead when challenged.
This one is actually true. They ran a big experiment on it today. I didn't see the original footage but fortunately for anyone with a keen interest in cougars they are replaying the highlights on nearly every channel over and over and over and over and over and over and ...
 
No. Ducks quacks aren't made of magic.

https://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.asp




I cannot find a legal source that states that. It is just a "fact" that is repeated ad verbatim on Buzzfeed-like websites. Sometimes it is states other than Utah. Like Georgia.




Of course not. Zinc and copper are related to hair pigmentation, and their concentration will depend on the hair color.

https://jn.nutrition.org/content/113/11/2375.full.pdf




According to GCSAA, golf courses cover 3507 square miles in the US. That's just under 0.001 of the U.S. total surface area.




lol. Just do a Wikipedia check or something before you decide to believe something so implausible. Having checked myself, the larval stage lasts for a couple of years, while the adult stage is a few months long.

I didn't check most of the others, and I do know a few to be true (Americans production of garbage for example). But many of these are not so much facts as they are ******** people repeat without bothering to think or check. It does remind me of another popular type of mass-delusion...

I just copy and pasted crap from the interweb. I wasn't being serious jeez
 
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