Useless fact of the day post!!!

[millwall ken]

Hi all,
Lets get a post going on 'The most useless fact of the day.' I'll kick us off with; Polar Bears can weight in at 800kgs. The weight of 10 men. Next?

 

[MarkieSparkie]

Hi all,
Lets get a post going on 'The most useless fact of the day.' I'll kick us off with; Polar Bears can weight in at 800kgs. The weight of 10 men. Next?

Or one sumo wrestler!

 

[Sparky Ninja]

You were born with 300 bones, but at adulthood you only have 206

 

[IQ Electrical]

In 1957 a battery was discovered in Bagdad. It was made by the Parthians, who ruled Bagdad from 250 B.C.E. to 224 C.E., and was used to electroplate silver.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Are teeth bones?

 

[Sparky Ninja]

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite

 

[IQ Electrical]

Are teeth bones?

I think the cranium/skull bones fuse after birth.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

I think the cranium/skull bones fuse after birth.

94 of them?

 

[Sparky Ninja]

If you wanted to find the letter “A” by spelling out numbers you’d have to go all the way to one thousand

 

[IQ Electrical]

94 of them?

I don't know, it's outside of my particular field of expertise!

 

[Des 56]

Bulgaria had a team in the World Cup where all 11 players' last names ended with the letters OV.


The dimple effect under your nostrils are where the three head plates grew together and are unique to each person
Snout wrong with that fact

 

[Sparky Ninja]

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

 

[sparks_114]

Tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable.

 

[Des 56]

Tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable.

I'm not buying that

Any man who knows his onions will surely agree

 

[millwall ken]

I'm not buying that

Any man who knows his onions will surely agree

He's 100% correct mate.

 

[Adam W]

Tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable.

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Incidentally, a chilli pepper is also a fruit.
You wouldn't put that in a fruit salad either.

 

[Adam W]

Cows can't go down stairs.
Dogs can't look up.

 

[Phil]

Cows can't go down stairs.
Dogs can't look up.

im not sure about dogs looking up mate. I had a springer that would chase birds flying every time we were out. he could spot them from some distance

 

[SirKit Breaker]

The north pole is the only place on earth where you can travel directly south, then east, then north, and end up back where you started from.

It is impossible to lick you elbow.

90% of an Owl's head contains its eyes.

If you lean sideways against a wall with your arms by your side, you cant lift your leg out without falling over.

If you stare into the distance and bring both your forefingers together in front of your eyes, you can see a baked bean floating between them.

The entire population of world could stand on the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is also the UK's largest parliamentary constituency by area.

The international space station has a sunset and sunrise every 90 minutes.

The Space shuttle orbits the earth upside down. The only place in the world where the space shuttle can be seen by eye from the ground when it is in orbit is Ascension Island.

NASA spent $10m developing a pen to work in zero gravity, the Russians used a pencil.

Cheers............Howard

 

[Des 56]

It is impossible to lick you elbow.

i just tried,failed and am now wondering how many more idiots like me have done the same

 

[IQ Electrical]

If you parked all of the cars in the UK end to end, some bugger would still try to overtake.

 

[Adam W]

im not sure about dogs looking up mate. I had a springer that would chase birds flying every time we were out. he could spot them from some distance

I'm not 100% about it either.
In fact it may have just been a line from 'Shaun of the Dead'.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

If you parked all of the cars in the UK end to end, some bugger would still try to overtake.

Especially if they were on a motorbike.

 

[MarkieSparkie]

Purple finches are not purple. They are about the size of a sparrow. The male finch is red/crimson. The female finch is brown/grey fleck. They lay green/blue eggs with spots in brown or black. Quite why their name is so inaccurate is lost in the mists of time.

 

[MarkieSparkie]

The north pole is the only place on earth where you can travel directly south, then east, then north, and end up back where you started from.

It is impossible to lick you elbow.

90% of an Owl's head contains its eyes.

If you lean sideways against a wall with your arms by your side, you cant lift your leg out without falling over.

If you stare into the distance and bring both your forefingers together in front of your eyes, you can see a baked bean floating between them.

The entire population of world could stand on the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is also the UK's largest parliamentary constituency by area.

The international space station has a sunset and sunrise every 90 minutes.

The Space shuttle orbits the earth upside down. The only place in the world where the space shuttle can be seen by eye from the ground when it is in orbit is Ascension Island.

NASA spent $10m developing a pen to work in zero gravity, the Russians used a pencil.

Cheers............Howard

In 2008 I was listening to the Isle of Wight pop festival on the radio, one of the commentators made reference to the massed crowds there being so large, he speculated that the population of the world was assembled on the island. I've heard it said, and seen in print, the premise that 'the population of the world would fit on to Isle of Wight', often, stated as fact. Although my instinct and naturally sceptical mind thought this was unlikely, I had not considered trying to prove it one way or the other, but my interest was so aroused I just could not leave this alone.

At that moment, according to the statistics, there were 6,706,541,555 people on the planet [1], 28 per cent of whom are under the age of 15. That means 4,828,709,902 adults and 1,877,831,635 children [2]. Assuming that an average adult can stand on a rectangle of 0.2 square metres and an average child can stand on a rectangle of 0.1 square metres, we can say that adults require 965,741,980 square metres and children require 187,783,163 square metres. The total area needed is therefore 1,153,525,143 square metres or approximately 1,153 square kilometres. Sadly, the area of the Isle of Wight is only 380 square kilometres. [3] Therefore, we can conclude that it is only possible to fit approximately a third of the world's population on to the Isle of Wight.
So why do people say you can fit the world's population on to the Isle of Wight? It might have something to do with the idea that they want to scale everything down to its essence, something easier to visualize perhaps. It's also true to say that there would have been a time, in the 19th century, when it would have been only just possible, after this 'tipping-point' increasingly impossible. After all, if we ignore the land reclaimed by the sea, then the island itself is a constant; the variable is the world's population.

1. United States of America Bureau of International Statistics, Data Base, World POP Clock Projection 28/6/08.
2. United Nations Population Reference Bureau, 2007 World Population Data Sheet.
3. Wikipedia , The Isle of Wight.

 

[sparkinlee]

If you wanted to find the letter “A” by spelling out numbers you’d have to go all the way to one thousand

What about "one hundred And one"

 

[ian.settle1]

The north pole is the only place on earth where you can travel directly south, then east, then north, and end up back where you started from.

You can also go directly south then west and then north and still end up where you started

 

[roukel01]

The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.

 

[telectrix]

If you wanted to find the letter “A” by spelling out numbers you’d have to go all the way to one thousand

what about " one hundred and one"?

sorry, that'll teach me to read all posts before posting myself. DOH!

 

[AP Electrical]

Slugs have 4 noses.