Facts that shocked you

[p4cks]

ReallyReallyGood said:

p4cks said:

There are more single mothers in the UK than there are married couples.

Presumably you mean unmarried mothers?

Nope.

[944 Man]

Globes sometimes show mountain ranges, but in reality the lowest to highest point on the planet isn’t much over ten miles and to scale, the surface is smoother than a billiard ball.

[toasty]

The moon is much, much further away and far bigger than it looks.

[Monkeylegend]

Australia is wider then the moon.

It is illegal to own a single guinea pig in Switzerland.

The heart of a shrimp is in it's head.

[toasty]

It would be far more likely for someone to find a hidden grain on sand anywhere on earth than it would to have a random deck of cards repeat the same sequence as any dealt before it.

[Monkeylegend]

You can't hum if you hold your nose.

[Riley Blue]

Monkeylegend said:

Australia is wider then the moon.

It is illegal to own a single guinea pig in Switzerland.

The heart of a shrimp is in it's head.

Knowing those facts shocked you?

[Monkeylegend]

Riley Blue said:

Monkeylegend said:

Australia is wider then the moon.

It is illegal to own a single guinea pig in Switzerland.

The heart of a shrimp is in it's head.

Knowing those facts shocked you?

Yep.

[Puggit]

Greenland is further North, East, South and West of Iceland.

Alaska is the US state which is the furthest North, East and West of the USA.

[Muzzer79]

Skeptisk said:

The Holocaust. I was probably around eleven and off school sick watching daytime TV. I am not sure if it was a program for schools or perhaps an episode of The World at War. It was about the liberation of the death camps. There was footage of dead bodies piled up and the survivors in rags (just skin and bone). I knew the Germans were the “bad” guys but had had no idea of the evil they had perpetrated. I think my faith in humanity took a fatal hit that day and has never really recovered.

The Holocaust is a shocking event - humanity’s low point.

The fact that shocked me about it is that it killed over a third of the Jewish population worldwide

Two thirds of the European Jewish population. Gone.

Mind boggling.

[FredericRobinson]

p4cks said:

Nope.

The shocking thing is than someone told that would believe it

[Twig62]

Pitre said:

Clive Dunn was one of the younger members of the Dad's Army cast when he joined at 48.

I would have thought that Ian Lavenderwas younger?

[Doofus]

p4cks said:

ReallyReallyGood said:

p4cks said:

There are more single mothers in the UK than there are married couples.

Presumably you mean unmarried mothers?

Nope.

There are approximately:

3m single parent families (of which 90% are single mothers)
14m married couples.

[Truckosaurus]

Puggit said:

Greenland is further North, East, South and West of Iceland.

Alaska is the US state which is the furthest North, East and West of the USA.

Edinburgh is West of Bristol.

[Halmyre]

Puggit said:

Greenland is further North, East, South and West of Iceland.

Alaska is the US state which is the furthest North, East and West of the USA.

This is not all that shocking, but all of the UK is further north than the main body of the USA.

Edinburgh is further west than Bristol.

[Boom78]

Truckosaurus said:

Edinburgh is West of Bristol.

Something I’d never have believed, just checked a map and is pretty much bang on north of Cardiff

[944 Man]

toasty said:

The moon is much, much further away and far bigger than it looks.

Those figures are rounded and dumbed down to the point of being incorrect.

[BigBen]

Twig62 said:

Pitre said:

Clive Dunn was one of the younger members of the Dad's Army cast when he joined at 48.

I would have thought that Ian Lavenderwas younger?

Some people don't know what 'one of the younger' means

[Wacky Racer]

You have more chance being murdered in the UK than winning the lotto jackpot.

[Hub]

toasty said:

It would be far more likely for someone to find a hidden grain on sand anywhere on earth than it would to have a random deck of cards repeat the same sequence as any dealt before it.

When you say 'far more likely', what are the odds of a person finding a specific grain of sand hidden anywhere on earth then?