You: I am the king of facts. May I bestow some knowledge unto you?
Stranger: why not?
You: First ill tell you a bit about hawaii
You: then ill let you pick something
Stranger: what about hawaii?
You: Hawaii produces 75% of the world's pineapples. 95% of which are canned.
Stranger: i live in hawaii
Stranger: i live on the island of maui
You: this is because most of the pineapples would spoil before they reached asia or the US due to the fact tht there was no refrigeration
You: Dole foods owns the island of Lanai, and they purcahased it in 1922 for 1.1 million dollars
You: approximately 11 million dollars of today's money
Stranger: my friend owns the dole company
You: ok
You: hawaiians eat the msot spam of any other state
Stranger: ok
Stranger: im hawaiian
You: with 4.7million cans sold yearly
You: thats awesome
Stranger: but i dont eat spam
You: Now, pick someone, ill tell you a little bit about it
Stranger: anything
You: you tell me
You: A king must be tested
You: obviously only things that facts are known about
You: no personal questions
Stranger: okay tell me about thailand
You: no paradoxes or trick questions
You: thailand!
Stranger: yes
You: thailand is a country in south-east asia
You: famous for their rice crop
Stranger: cool
You: capital is bangkok
You: theres a city named phucket
Stranger: ok
You: pronounced fook-it
You: thailand has a large problem with child prostitution
You: and sex slavery
You: and human trafficking
Stranger: what about the philippines?
You: the phillipines
You: is a set of island
You: a commonwealth of the united states
You: also in southeast asia
Stranger: are filipinos counted as asian?
You: yes
Stranger: okay um, tell me about russia
You: ferdinand magellan died in the phillipines form scurvy (a lack of vitamin C) while trying to circumnavigate, or sail around the earth.
You: His crew returned without him.
You: Russia is in Europe
You: but also borders much of asia
Stranger: i thought it was part of northern asia
You: The cold war lasted 1945-1992 between the united states and the soviet union
You: which broke up
You: into lots of slavic countries
You: such as lithuania
You: estonia
You: and also many of the "stan" countries
You: like khazekstan
You: turkmenistan
Stranger: you must know everything
You: uzbekistan
You: azerbaijan
You: Gerogia (country, not the state)\
You: I know alot
You: I'm the king of facts
Stranger: asl?
You: 15/m/florida
Stranger: hey im 15 too
You: awesome
Stranger: yup
You: Pick something else
Stranger: i was in florida about a few months ago
You: I can tell you a little bit about most things
You: I've never been to hawaii
Stranger: ohh
Stranger: i live on the second biggest island of hawaii
You: maui?
Stranger: yes
You: hawaii is the largest island
You:
Stranger: yes
You: Hawaii formed from a hot spot on the earth
You: the magma in the mantle melted through a thin spot on the crust
You: which is why hawaii has so many volcanoes
You: such as kileau
Stranger: okay um tell me about japan
You: which has beeen erupting constantly since 1983
You: japan is an island off the coast of china
You: they kept their very hidden for most of history
You: culture hidden
You: scuse me
You: they actually defeated russia in the russo-japanease war
Stranger: okay tell me about china
You: they were thinken of as inferiors because they were so small
You: but they kept such secrecy that russia couldn't predict its power
You: China!
You: is a communist nation
You: Richard nixon was the first person to visit china
You: and president hoover spoke chinese with his wife to avoid having his conversations eavesdroped
You: in the 9th century the chinese had to dismantle their navy due to a mini ice age
You: the mini ice age lasted from about the 14th century (1300s) to 1816 with the eruption of the tambora volcano
You: which caused the year with no summer
You: which had influences on poets such as Emily ****inson
You: anything else?
You: or is your brain on overload?
Stranger: no
You: good
You: wanna keep goin?
Stranger: sure
You: until u get bored
Stranger: tell me about papua new guinea
You: mmm
You: most of papua new guinea is protected rainforest
You: or alot of it
You: rainforest is being depleted at a rate of 1% per year
You: the jungle has many diverse types of bird and plant life
You: new guinea is also one of the most culturally indigenous places on earth
You: with over 850 native langues spoken
You: amongst various trives
You: tribers*
You: tribes*
You: scuse me
Stranger: tell me about laos
You: laos is in southeast asia
You: picking tough countries eh.
You: no worries
You:
You: are you looking at a list of countries
You: and picking ones u aint heard of?
Stranger: nope
Stranger: i know these countries
You: haha ok
You: well
You: laos borders thailand
You: cambodia
You: and all those other countries in that south asia peninsula
You: Laos had a civil war i know
You: and was also french occupied for a while
You: their agriculture is primarily rice
Stranger: are you looking at wikipedia?
You: thats all i can really tell u
You: no im not
You: wikipedia is user editted
You: im looking at my brain
You: you're looking at a future jeopardy contestant buddy
Stranger: okay tell me about vietnam
You: vietnam!
You: also south east asia
You: united states intervened in a war
You: between what was then north and south vietnam
You: with its main military operation in saigon
You: the french were originally in vietnam
You: and when the americans got there
You: the french said "adios le americans"
You: haha
You: and they left us to fight a war we shouldnt have intervened in
Stranger: where did te vietnamese come from?
You: their mothers like everyone else
Stranger: what ancestral country
You: hmmm
You: ****
You: im going to guess
You: either
You: indonesia
You: or china
You: or prehaps thailand
Stranger: what about the filipinos
You: im not sure
You: actually
You: one of the main hubs
You: of human life
You: and domesticated agriculture
You: is southern asia
You: plant domestication started in southeastern asia
You: so most of the life in the area is from southeastern asia
Stranger: so that means that they probally came from china
You: no
You: Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia,
You: that area
Stranger: malaysia
You: Myanmar
You: or burma, as its also called
Stranger: okay um tell me about bali
You: Bali is an indonesian island i believe
You: most of the indonesian muslims live on bali
You: even though most of the country is hindu
You: about 90% of muslims in indonesia are a balanese
You: the tiger that was native to the area, the balinese tiger, was killed off in the 1940s by hunters
You: it was the smallest tiger species in the world
Stranger: tell me about the shaolin temple
You: i did a project on it
You: xaolin temple, first of all
You: its in china.
You: its a famous monestary
You: famous for its xaolin warriors
You: who are also monks
You: who balance their fighting with the harmony of chi
You: their goal is to attain complete focus and balance
You: chi is harnessed by alot of martial artists as a way to almost negate pain
You: almost like adrenaline
Stranger: okay tell me about the wudang mountains
You: wundang...
You: ****
You: i know this
You: all i know
You: is that it's somewhere in north china
You: sorry
You: wait
You: no
You: thats right
Stranger: okay tell me about the yellow skinned chinese
You: a tad racist?
Stranger: no its a tribe
You: no it isnt
You: there are 4 "colors" people have
You: caucasians are white
You: Africans are black
You: American Natives and indigenous populations are red
You: and asians are yellow
Stranger: what about latino
You: "red" and "yellow" are considered politically incorretc
You: latino is an ethnicity
You: counts as caucasian
Stranger: okay um tell me about tibet
You: south western china is tibet
You: lots of plateaus
You: just north of the himalayas
You: uhhh
You: ****
You: giving me harder crap now
Stranger: okay i have a brain overload
You:
You: okay
You: well
You: i hope you enjoyed
Stranger: ur freakin knowledgeable
You: 1 more thing about tibet
You: Mount Everest (the world's highest, not tallest, mountain) is on the tibetian plateau
You: the reason it's the highest and not the tallest is because it is already evelvated by the pltaeau
You: so its a mountain on top of a plateau
Stranger: i heard mauna kea is taller
You: yea in hawaii
You: it sticks out 13000 feet above the ocean
You: but lets not forget the pacific ocean is about 20,000 feet deep
You: at that spot
You: so
You: muana kea in hawaii is actually taller than mount everest
Stranger: yup
You: even though everest is higher above sea level
Stranger: how tall is everest
You: 29000 feet above sea level and shrinking
You: by about 2 inches yearly
Stranger: why
You: plate tectonics
You: and erosion
Stranger: okay i wuz nice learning
Stranger: sorry it
