Facts that shocked you

[DodgyGeezer]

Monkeylegend said:

Humans eat more bananas than monkeys.

given there are more humans than monkeys, I guess it's not too surprising?

[TwigtheWonderkid]

WH16 said:

Monkeylegend said:

Humans eat more bananas than monkeys.

I eat hardly any monkeys.

What about fish and chimps?

[Doofus]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

WH16 said:

Monkeylegend said:

Humans eat more bananas than monkeys.

I eat hardly any monkeys.

What about fish and chimps?

Chimps aren't potatoes.

[Catweazle]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

WH16 said:

Monkeylegend said:

Humans eat more bananas than monkeys.

I eat hardly any monkeys.

What about fish and chimps?

Wot, no mushy bees?

[dickymint]

WH16 said:

Monkeylegend said:

Humans eat more bananas than monkeys.

I eat hardly any monkeys.

I eat their best bits with fava beans and a nice Chianti..............

[Warhavernet]

Chimps share 98% of their DNA with humans, they are our closest relatives, which explains quite a lot.

[Doofus]

Warhavernet said:

Chimps share 98% of their DNA with humans, they are our closest relatives, which explains quite a lot.

I'm pretty sure that's bananas...

[thegreenhell]

Doofus said:

Warhavernet said:

Chimps share 98% of their DNA with humans, they are our closest relatives, which explains quite a lot.

I'm pretty sure that's bananas...

No, we only share 60% of our DNA with bananas.

[Doofus]

thegreenhell said:

Doofus said:

Warhavernet said:

Chimps share 98% of their DNA with humans, they are our closest relatives, which explains quite a lot.

I'm pretty sure that's bananas...

No, we only share 60% of our DNA with bananas.

I bet those are the monkeyish bits.

[otolith]

Warhavernet said:

Chimps share 98% of their DNA with humans, they are our closest relatives, which explains quite a lot.

I wonder what percentage of bricks these have in common?





Point is that most of the machinery of life is shared. The bits of DNA coding for the proteins used to build cellular protein factories are pretty much universally conserved. The way that we metabolise energy sources, build cellular structures, transport materials in and out of our cells, divide our cells, that's all common to even the simplest forms of cellular life. The structures of multicellular animals, digestive systems, enzymes, hormones, neurons, the bony plan of vertebrates, the cardiovascular systems of mammals. There is a huge amount of "stuff" that is the same, the differences are really relatively subtle in comparison. At the end of the day, DNA is just a set of instructions for making proteins.

[Monkeylegend]

Doofus said:

thegreenhell said:

Doofus said:

Warhavernet said:

Chimps share 98% of their DNA with humans, they are our closest relatives, which explains quite a lot.

I'm pretty sure that's bananas...

No, we only share 60% of our DNA with bananas.

I bet those are the monkeyish bits.

I share my bananas with no one.

[Super Sonic]

Heard this on the radio. Before they gave Sean Connery the James Bond part, it was offered to Dick van Dyke.
"Do you expect me to talk guvnor?'

[dickymint]

If you could fold a piece of paper 50 times........................................

[Strangely Brown]

dickymint said:

If you could fold a piece of paper 50 times........................................

50? Yeah right.

[legless]

dickymint said:

If you could fold a piece of paper 50 times........................................

The universe intervenes to ensure that it can't be folded more than 7 times.

[Doofus]

The key missing element is "in half".

It's very easy to just put 10 folds in a bit of paper.

[Buzz84]

Strangely Brown said:

dickymint said:

If you could fold a piece of paper 50 times........................................

50? Yeah right.

That video doesn't actually show the folding part
https://youtu.be/65Qzc3_NtGs?si=lOqG_rlseZ4knJI_

They did have to resort to a road roller to flatten it to break the myth

[dickymint]

Doofus said:

The key missing element is "in half".

It's very easy to just put 10 folds in a bit of paper.

The shocker is if you could do it 50 times the thickness would be 2/3rds of the way to the Sun

Edited by dickymint on Saturday 22 November 12:25

[Ian Lancs]

Buzz84 said:

Strangely Brown said:

dickymint said:

If you could fold a piece of paper 50 times........................................

50? Yeah right.

That video doesn't actually show the folding part
https://youtu.be/65Qzc3_NtGs?si=lOqG_rlseZ4knJI_

They did have to resort to a road roller to flatten it to break the myth

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records...

[Huff]

Super Sonic said:

Heard this on the radio. Before they gave Sean Connery the James Bond part, it was offered to Dick van Dyke.
"Do you expect me to talk guvnor?'

That is hilarious - imagine just how that could have turned -out!

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