Astonishing Facts....

[Halmyre]

The circumference of the rim of a typical pint glass is greater than the height of the glass.

[anonymous-user]

Kermit power said:

.....she and her former company commander announced their engagement the minute after she'd uncovered her pips....

Nice pips were they?

[anonymous-user]

4.4% of UK drinkers account for 32% of UK alcohol consumption.

[Kermit power]

Ayahuasca said:

In 'Zulu' Michael Caine never said "Don't you throw those bloody spears at me".

The Zulu war chant from 'Zulu' was used as a barbarian war chant in 'Gladiator'.

The role of Zulu king Cetshwayo in the film was played by his own grandson, Mangosuthu Buthelezi.

Also, whilst on the subject of Michael Caine films, the extras in the traffic jam scenes in The Italian Job weren't extras at all. They deliberately bought the traffic in central Turin to a halt to film it, and all the people you see shouting, waving their hands around and hitting their horns were just the citizens of Turin reacting to a traffic jam in time-honoured fashion, with no idea they were in a film at all!

[Exige77]

GreatGranny said:

McDonalds is the largest manufacturer of toys in the world.

Astonishing fact, McDonalds don’t make the toys

[Jonboy_t]

If you measured it purely in quantity of boats, Disney has the largest navy in the world.

[Kermit power]

Jonboy_t said:

If you measured it purely in quantity of boats, Disney has the largest navy in the world.

Meanwhile, the Bolivian Navy has around 5,000 personnel and 173 vessels.

Bolivia is a land-locked country!

I would assume they also win the prize for the highest navy in the world, with many of their vessels sailing on Lake Titicaca, over 3,500 metres above sea level.

[Nom de ploom]

^^^^

I learned that as a kid at school and impressed it still survives as a fact. incredible isn't it....



bees will sting you in self defence. wasps will sting by being bds. FACT.

[Halmyre]

All the golden hamsters in the world are descended from a single brother-sister pair captured in Syria. Possibly.

[Roofless Toothless]

Roman Rhodes said:

4.4% of UK drinkers account for 32% of UK alcohol consumption.

Sorry, I've been doing my best ...

[Ayahuasca]

Nom de ploom said:

^^^^


bees will sting you in self defence. wasps will sting by being bds. FACT.

If you have ever been attacked by a swarm of killer bees you will never call a wasp a bd again. Killer bees are the worst bds of them all.

[Europa1]

Kermit power said:

Meanwhile, the Bolivian Navy has around 5,000 personnel and 173 vessels.

Bolivia is a land-locked country!

I would assume they also win the prize for the highest navy in the world, with many of their vessels sailing on Lake Titicaca, over 3,500 metres above sea level.

Well, they're in Bolivia - they may well be high...

[gazzarose]

In terms of number of units produced l, Lego is the biggest producer of tyres in the world!

[anonymous-user]

Humans today are all decended from just 20k people.

[anonymous-user]

Jonboy_t said:

If you measured it purely in quantity of boats, Disney has the largest navy in the world.

During production of the 1969 film "Battle of Britain", the assembled fleet of aircraft was the 35th largest air force in the world.

[Nimby]

The Spruce goose said:

Humans today are all decended from just 20k people.

We're all descended from two people - mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal_Adam, though they never met eachother.

[StevieBee]

The Spruce goose said:

Humans today are all decended from just 20k people.

That was a period when humans really came into their own.

[Dr Jekyll]

Nimby said:

The Spruce goose said:

Humans today are all decended from just 20k people.

We're all descended from two people - mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal_Adam, though they never met eachother.

That's just the continual male and female lines. Maternal uber grandmother and paternal uber grandfather.
We are also all descended from a common ancestor who lived much more recently than that.

[anonymous-user]

There is no Adam and Eve, there was a bottleneck in genetics and it was traced to 10k breeding pairs are all human today decendents. Also the white gene was been around for about 10k, and our hairy decendents actually had fair skin.

[RizzoTheRat]

So who did those 20k decend from?

Statistically you only have to go back about 3000 years to reach the point where everyone now should be related to a common ancestor, in reality its probably a bit more complex than that but not a lot, but getting back to a genuine single individual goes bay way further.