Share Your Interesting But Not Very Useful Facts

[oceanview]

Did you realise, that in only 2 days time, tomorrow will be yesterday?

[gmasterfunk]

50% of people are more stupid than the average person.

[davhill]

47.35% of statistics are made up.

[Pothole]

skinny said:

There are around 10 lightening strikes on the earth every second

It'll weigh nothing at all soon!

[Pooh]

The Tay has the highest mean flow of any river in the UK, using 2008 figures, it flowed 208.5 CuM/Sec, in comparison the Trent flowed 98 CuM/Sec, the Severn 69 CuM/Sec and the Thames 83 CuM/Sec.

[Hugo a Gogo]

gmasterfunk said:

50% of people are more stupid than the average person.

that's just mean

[gmasterfunk]

Hugo a Gogo said:

gmasterfunk said:

50% of people are more stupid than the average person.

that's just mean

But the best kind of correct. Technically correct.

(C) Hermes Conrad

[glenrobbo]

Did you know that nearly 85% of people are caused by accidents?

Supposedly.

[glenrobbo]

Pothole said:

skinny said:

There are around 10 lightening strikes on the earth every second

It'll weigh nothing at all soon!

Exactly what I was thinking.

[Nimby]

Pothole said:

There is only one football league team in England and Scotland's top 4 divisions with a J in its name

From last week's Only Connect: there's only one team that can be made with letters without a loop.
Hull City

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Noosha Fox, who had a '70's hit with "S-S-S-Single Bed", is the mother of science writer Ben Goldacre ("Bad Science", "Big Pharma").

[j44esd]

The world's largest tyre manufacturer, by volume, is Lego.

[Fort Jefferson]

vaud said:

Mainland France's longest border is with Spain, at 408 miles, but French Guiana, a French overseas territory, has a border with Brazil measuring 450 miles.

So it should have been "The French's" longest land border is with Brazil.

[DickyC]

Fort Jefferson said:

So it should have been "The French's" longest land border is with Brazil.

I think QuartzDad's post is correct. The longest land border belonging to France would be, "France's longest land border," regardless of its location.

QuartzDad said:

France's longest land border is with Brazil.

[DoubleD]

Big-Bo-Beep said:

The male gypsy moth can smell a female gypsy moth two miles away.

This fact is also still true if you remove the word moth.

[ copyright J. Carr 2009 ]

Ha ha love it

[Anthony Micallef]

Oliver Hardy never said “That’s another fine mess you’ve got me in to”

[Pinkie15]

Teddy Sheringham scored the first live televised English football league goal

He also scored the first live televised English Premier league goal

[Fun Bus]

Pinkie15 said:

Teddy Sheringham scored the first live televised English football league goal

Did he?

[Dibble]

New York City is further south than Rome.
Edinburgh is further west than Bristol.

[DickyC]

The first English town due south of Glasgow is Ilfracombe.

[Garibaldi_red]

This is an excellent thread!