Topic: Amazing facts

[Gaz123456]

Today is the anniversary of barcodes - no, not the Geordie variety

[buchigo!]

Today is the anniversary of barcodes - no, not the Geordie variety

google it?

[all_funkt_up]

White men can't jump.

It must be true, they made a film about it.

[Roady]

You are taller when you wake up in the morning than when you go to sleep at night.

did crouch score more headers in early kick offs?

[Sorted!!]

The clock above Edinburgh Waverley never shows the right time apart from one day per year. It is in fact 5 minutes fast

How is that? Someone care to explain.

Everytime I have gone through the train station to work in Edinburgh, I have never noticed that.

[Garstonite]

Toasting was first done by the Romans, who thought the chinking of their drinking cups would keep away evil spirits.

[RigBon1892]

How is that? Someone care to explain.

Everytime I have gone through the train station to work in Edinburgh, I have never noticed that.

The tour guide told us.

They have it 5 minutes fast so people don't miss their trains but at ten to midnight (by other watches I presume) on December 31st, they put it to the correct time for Hogmanay.

[Sorted!!]

That's fantastic Jeffiner, next time I go through Edinburgh, I'd have a look.

[RigBon1892]

It's the one on the outside of the station.

[exiledintheUSA]

The average North-American will eat 35,000 cookies in during their life span.

[macca888]

Every actor to play Jesus on the big screen has had a serious accident while blaspheming shooting the movie. Still, getting hit by lightning is a giggle compared to this poor bastard 

Welease Bwian

[Damo58]

The average North-American will eat 35,000 cookies in during their life span.

Blimey, 1 a day for about 90-95 years!

[exiledintheUSA]

The 29,249th digit of pi is a seven.

More bullets were fired in 'Starship Troopers' than in any other movie ever made.


The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

[Raul!]

Owing to a favourable juxtaposition of the stars, there are apparently over 60,000 weddings in Delhi today.

[buzzing]

Someone appears to be lifting data from a different source. Cycling is more energy intensive than kissing - compared to the earlier factoid, something is screwy.

[rusty-la]

The great 111 mystery...........

Add the year of your birth, '67 in my case, to your age 44, and you get 111

My son was born in 98, he's 13....111

Mrs Rusty is 45 and born in 66...111

Go figure?

[Anywhichwayicant]

Snogging for one minute burns 26 calories.

[RJH]

The great 111 mystery...........

Add the year of your birth, '67 in my case, to your age 44, and you get 111

My son was born in 98, he's 13....111

Mrs Rusty is 45 and born in 66...111

Go figure?

Not much of a mystery.

It's basically just the year you were born plus your age adding up to the current year.
e.g.
1967 + 44 = 2011

It's just that 1900's been knocked off both sides so you get 111.

For anyone who hasn't had their birthday yet this year, they'll get 110.

[Chinbits]

If you do a poo in the bath it makes your wife angry

[redplanet]

4 out of 10 men have never thrown a dart in their lives

[rusty-la]

Not much of a mystery.

It's basically just the year you were born plus your age adding up to the current year.
e.g.
1967 + 44 = 2011

It's just that 1900's been knocked off both sides so you get 111.

For anyone who hasn't had their birthday yet this year, they'll get 110.

Nobody likes a smartarse 

[Yabazza]

Pints of Guinness are €3.30 in my local; €3.40 in the kip up the street.

[CornerFlag]

All the matter that composes the human race would fit inside a sugar cube.

[rusty-la]

Every eleventh inhale you will take in a particle of Julius Ceasers dying breath

[redy]

Nobody likes a smartarse 

 

[SP]

Every eleventh inhale you will take in a particle of Julius Ceasers dying breath

Caesar. And it depends on your assumptions. I have seen calculations that claim every breath.

[adopted_scouser]

For every one person there is in Ireland, there is a thousand pubs.

[soxfan]

Where did neckties come  from?

"The neck tie is depicted in Trajan’s column in Rome, Italy. Emperor Trajan ruled the Roman Empire from 98 to 117AD. He was regarded as a military genius and was responsible for the greatest expansion of the Roman Empire. His military conquest of Dacia is commemorated in Trajan’s marble column erected around 113 AD, where thousands of soldiers are shown wearing various styles of neckwear. Some think that it was a sign of honor befitting exceptional fighters."

Then I was having a conversation with my South American drug-dealing, murdering friends tonight and learned what a "Colombian necktie" is: "A method of execution in which the victim’s throat is slashed vertically, then his tongue is pulled out through the gaping wound toward the sternum, after which the victim usually dies of asphyxiation or blood loss. It was used as a method of intimidation during La Violencia (circa 1948–1958)."

[Wallingtonian]

The great 111 mystery...........

Add the year of your birth, '67 in my case, to your age 44, and you get 111

My son was born in 98, he's 13....111

Mrs Rusty is 45 and born in 66...111

Go figure?

I'm sixty, born in '54. 60+54=114, not 111

[Wallingtonian]

Half the people who have ever lived have been killed by malaria

[jed the red]

I'm sixty, born in '54. 60+54=114, not 111

Just made the same mistake mate, check the dates of the original posts!

[rob1966]

More people have been killed this year taking selfies than have been killed by sharks.

[jason67]

More people have been killed this year taking selfies than have been killed by sharks.

Progress. 

[McrRed]

There are more Catholics in India than in Ireland

[Claire.]

There are more Catholics in India than in Ireland

As a percentage of the population? 

[Wallingtonian]

There are more Catholics in India than in Ireland

Apparently there are more Christians in India than Sikhs

[Conocinico]

Did you know that it took 66 million years (which btw is one of the largest numbers I've ever heard of, and is literally incomprehensible), for this creature



to turn into this



I think that's right anyway, it sounds right. 10 million generations, maybe less. Given how many generations that is, TEN MILLION, an incalculable number that sounds like a correct recollection of what almost certainly happened. Makes sense to me. I hope I've remembered the number and it wasn't more than that, or I've got it totally wrong and it's impossible or something.

So a quick disclaimer, if the facts in this post is actually misinformation, or is not up to date with the latest scientific evidence, then it would be wholly unintentional. The facts I've tried my damnedest to present are what I vaguely remember to be the consensus opinion of evolutionary biologists and I only wanted to share in the merriment of knowing the vast array of fun, surprising and even sometimes counterintuitive information our greatest minds have discovered for all to memorise.

Thanks.

[Conocinico]

Thinking about it, I'm pretty sure the number's correct.

Just doing cigarette packet maths... 2nd generation you could imagine maybe thumbs, 3rd generation, maybe different types of knees, 4th generation, i dunno a beard or whatever, with that rate of change amd after an such unbelievable number of iterations, millions upon millions, you would find that a shrew-like protoprimate might evolve into to a creature that tries to harness the earth's internal electromagnetic production as a never-ending supply of free energy, or whatever it was he was working on.

But obviously don't take my word for it, I'm just spitballing and I'm not an expert. I'm sure there were other things involved.