Post amazingly interesting yet little-known facts

[Ayahuasca]

I'll start with a couple:



1) If you drill a straight-line hole through the earth from any point to any other point it will take around 42 minutes for an object to fall though to the other side.




2) King Herod (evil arch enemy of Baby Jeebus) is buried in Lyon, France.

[BringbacktheP&P]

Ayahuasca said:

I'll start with a couple:



1) If you drill a straight-line hole through the earth from any point to any other point it will take around 42 minutes for an object to fall though to the other side.

Ok, stupidity-flame-suit on......would an object fall all the way through or would gravity have an impact once it passed the half way part?

[Blue Meanie]

Ayahuasca said:

I'll start with a couple:



1) If you drill a straight-line hole through the earth from any point to any other point it will take around 42 minutes for an object to fall though to the other side.

Would it fall through to the other side, though? Wouldn't friction mean it wouldn't go an equal distance the other side of the 'core'?

[Ayahuasca]

Ignoring friction and air resistance, obviously.

[Redmax]

Surely it would only fall to the centre rather than all the way through?

[mickk]

How big is the hole?

[Luke.]

Very

[whitevanman88]

Someone's been watching QI.

[Blue Meanie]

Ayahuasca said:

Ignoring friction and air resistance, obviously.

Oh well...

Anothger little known fact is that I can jump to the moon, (gravity, friction, and my ability to breathe in a vacuum all being ignored!)

[Engineer1]

Redmax said:

Surely it would only fall to the centre rather than all the way through?

No you in theory you would accelerate till the centre then decelerate to the surface meaning theoretically you step in and step out, having come to a stop at the surface.

[Blue Meanie]

Engineer1 said:

Redmax said:

Surely it would only fall to the centre rather than all the way through?

No you in theory you would accelerate till the centre then decelerate to the surface meaning theoretically you step in and step out, having come to a stop at the surface.

Not counting air resistance/friction, etc.

[skene]

If you buy a lottery ticket on a Monday for the Wednesday evening draw, you are 100 times more likely to die before its drawn than you are to win the jackpot.

Wait, I missed the interesting bit
I'll get my coat...

[slomax]

1)The sun bear is the smallest creature in the bear family.
koala bear=marsupial
red panda=relative of racoon


2) all four legged mamals have 2 knees and 2 elbows

[working class]

"Crabsticks" do not actually contain any crab and from 1993 manufacturers have been legally obliged to label them "Crab flavoured sticks".

[GTIR]

There are a number of things that don't like ash, two of which are;
Planes
Cheryl Cole

[mickk]

Any month that starts on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th in it.

[skene]

GTIR said:

There are a number of things that don't like ash, two of which are;
Planes
Cheryl Cole

Claimed as my own

[sebhaque]

There's two that spring straight to mind:

Your foot is roughly the same length as your forearm (from your wrist to the inside of your elbow). This applies for most statures.

A pig cannot physically look up at the sky.

I had a list of some more somewhere on one of my computers - I'll try and dig them out.

[FraserLFA]

skene said:

If you buy a lottery ticket on a Monday for the Wednesday evening draw, you are 100 times more likely to die before its drawn than you are to win the jackpot.

Wait, I missed the interesting bit
I'll get my coat...

I'm no longer buying my ticket until Wednesday afternoon. I aint taking any chances.

[Elskeggso]

working class said:

"Crabsticks" do not actually contain any crab and from 1993 manufacturers have been legally obliged to label them "Crab flavoured sticks".