Share Your Interesting But Not Very Useful Facts

Share Your Interesting But Not Very Useful Facts

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CharlesdeGaulle

26,091 posts

179 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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Shut up you lot, you're making my head explode with your weird facts.

Fermit and Sexy Sarah

12,787 posts

99 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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OK, maybe I'll do better with this one. You are supposedly 13% more likely to die on your birthday, alcohol consumption maybe?

Pericoloso

44,044 posts

162 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:
OK, maybe I'll do better with this one. You are supposedly 13% more likely to die on your birthday, alcohol consumption maybe?
I didn't die ,obviously, but I wrecked my first car on my 18th ,no alcohol was involved.

I then replaced a crap mangled Cortina with an older ,even crappier Cortina.

Killer2005

19,595 posts

227 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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_Rich_ said:
Hugo Boss produced and supplied Nazi uniforms.
Fanta was also a Nazi invention.

Bomma R1

14,452 posts

124 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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If, pound for pound, giraffes could jump as high as fleas, they'd avoid an awful lot of trouble...

(Shamelessly stolen from "Derek & Clive")

Pothole

34,367 posts

281 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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Killer2005 said:
_Rich_ said:
Hugo Boss produced and supplied Nazi uniforms.
Fanta was also a Nazi invention.
Tenuous. It was invented in Germany under the Nazis. Not quite the same.

In any case, not to worry; The orange Fanta of today was produced for the first time in Italy, in Naples, in 1955, when a local bottling plant started producing it using locally sourced oranges.

So

26,271 posts

221 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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You can fold a sheet of A4 paper in half 7 times.

If you could fold it 50 times it would reach the moon.

103 times and it would be as thick as the universe.

Pothole

34,367 posts

281 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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So said:
You can fold a sheet of A4 paper in half 7 times.

If you could fold it 50 times it would reach the moon.

103 times and it would be as thick as the universe.


Only, you can only fold any sheet of paper in half 7 times.

So

26,271 posts

221 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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Pothole said:
So said:
You can fold a sheet of A4 paper in half 7 times.

If you could fold it 50 times it would reach the moon.

103 times and it would be as thick as the universe.


Only, you can only fold any sheet of paper in half 7 times.
That's not true actually. The 7 fold barrier has been broken.

Pothole

34,367 posts

281 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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Yawn

Doofus

25,732 posts

172 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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Pothole said:
Yawn
Now that, I did not know.

Pothole

34,367 posts

281 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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Doofus said:
Pothole said:
Yawn
Now that, I did not know.
HTH, it's past my bedtime.

DoubleD

22,154 posts

107 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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Pothole said:
Doofus said:
Pothole said:
Yawn
Now that, I did not know.
HTH, it's past my bedtime.
Why Yawn?

handpaper

1,290 posts

202 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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Rostfritt said:
If you drank enough Red Bull and had a big enough fuel tank, you could drive from Carland Cross Roundabout in Cornwall to a Roundabout in Langback near Glasgow without stopping.
Last June I did Broadford on Skye to Newport, South Wales. It's just under 600 miles, took just under 9 hours. At no point did the wheels stop turning.
E39 530d Touring, 43mpg average.

Randy Winkman

16,021 posts

188 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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Many land animals could beat Usain Bolt's 100m world record but no land animals could beat the men's marathon world record.

I don't actually know if it's true but I'd like it to be.

Big-Bo-Beep

884 posts

53 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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if you hang upside down for 12 hours or so your brain will adjust and stop seeing
everything upside down and start seeing things normal way up.

if you continue upside down for another 12+ hours your distended body organs will start to fail and death will shortly follow.

it's strange it's not a more common suicide method, although one would sure get bored a few hours in I suppose.

rayny

1,143 posts

200 months

Sunday 22nd March 2020
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Humans and the 7 ringed armadillo are the only species that are carriers of leprosy - I was told this fact sometime in the 20th century.

Frank7

6,619 posts

86 months

Sunday 22nd March 2020
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The city of Vicksburg MS. did not celebrate July 4th for 81 years, after Confederate forces surrendered the city to Gen U.S. Grant’s Federal Army on July 4th 1863 during the Civil War.

gregs656

10,818 posts

180 months

Sunday 22nd March 2020
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Killer whales are not whales, they’re dolphins and the name we give them is a mistranslation of the Spanish ‘whale killer’.

Sharks teeth envolved from their skin, and the jaws from their ribs.

A great white shark doesn’t have a swim bladder, it’s buoyancy comes from its liver (full of oil) which makes up about 1/3 of its body.


Cudd Wudd

1,084 posts

124 months

Sunday 22nd March 2020
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The owner of Segway died whilst riding a Segway. IIRC he tried to give way to a dog walker on a mountain pass and went over the edge.

The founder of match.com’s girlfriend left him for someone she met on the site. But he got to see that the site work.