A world of meaningless facts

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What bacteria causes stomach ulcers?

Helicobacter pylori is the bacterium that causes about 90% of stomach ulcers that occur in the duodenum and about 80% of all ulcers that occur in the stomach.

Convergent evolution of the car speed curve

If the curve for the development of cars’ top speed had converged with the curve for the number of calculations per second in a PC processor over the last 25 years, we would today have cars that could drive approximately 45,000,000,000,000 km/h. That’s the equivalent of driving a trip to the sun in about 15 minutes.