useless facts

[Jimbuna]

Christian nurses were not allowed to nurse Jewish babies.

This was declared by King Henry III in 1235. If these wet nurses were to do so, it was believed that it could weaken the faith of the infants as they grow up.

[Platapus]

The largest cuckoo clock bird weighs 149 kilograms (330 pounds) and measured 4 meters (14 feet) long. Those who wish to scare themselves with the world’s biggest cuckoo can visit the clock in Triberg, in Germany.

[Jimbuna]

The tooth of an elephant weighs around 9 pounds.

[Ostfriese]

American actor Norman Lloyd (born 8 Nov 1914, died 11 May 2021) played roles in movies in nine different decades.


He also attended a game in both the 1926 World Series and the 2017 World Series, 91 years apart.

[Jimbuna]

The Swiss are known to eat the most chocolate in the world.

[Platapus]

Balloon fetishists experience a build-up of arousal as they anticipate a balloon getting popped. They refer to themselves “looners.”




Which may be a typo. :D

[Jimbuna]

Sumo wrestlers often make babies cry for good luck.

This is based on the Japanese belief that if a sumo wrestler can make a baby cry, then that person will lead a healthy life.

[Platapus]

It takes about 540 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter.


Perhaps they should consider hiring people to make the peanut butter

[Ostfriese]

A few days ago I told you about the unit "Barn", used for a very VERY small area.

To have more fun with odd units someone multiplied a Barn with a Megaparsec to create a Barn-megaparsec. A Megaparsec is equal to about 3.26 million light years, the Andromeda Galaxy (the galaxy closest to the Milky Way) is about 0.78 megaparsec away.

A Barn-megaparsec thus is a unit of volume, and one Barn-megaparsec equals about 3 milliliters (about two thirds of your average tea spoon).

[Platapus]

Two peanut farmers have been elected president of the USA – Virginia's Thomas Jefferson and Georgia's Jimmy Carter.

[Jimbuna]

The Diana monkey takes its name from a Roman goddess.

The stripe on its head closely resembles the bow that the Roman goddess held.

[mapuc]

Theagenes of Thassos was a famous Greek athlete at the Olympic Games, said to have won 1,300 victories, and when he died, a bronze statue was raised on the island of Thassos in his honour.
However, one of his former opponents was not a fan of this, so he tried to destroy the statue. Instead, the statue broke free, fell on the man and killed him.
Since no one was above the law in ancient Greece, the statue was therefore convicted of murder and thrown into the sea as punishment. Unfortunately, the island was hit by drought soon after, and when the oracle of Delphi was sought out for advice against the drought, she told them to return Theagenes.
So the islanders pulled the statue out of the water again, and it has since been believed to have healing powers.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Only 3 mammals experience menopause.

[Platapus]

Legumes In Space!!!!!


Astronaut Alan Shepard brought a peanut with him to the moon.

[Jimbuna]

The human bone is stronger than steel.

[Jimbuna]

The human tongue has a unique print.

[Platapus]

Colin Jackson, from the UK, holds some minor records


3 World Championships and 7 European championships in such things as the hurdles and running.


But his real achievement is that he holds the record for distance throwing a peanut. on 20 Feb 08 at the at the Welsh Institute of Sport in Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, UK, Mr. Jackson threw a peanut 37.92 meters.


Yes, there are organizations that keep track of this.

[Jimbuna]

A tarantula can survive two years without food.

[Platapus]

The average European eats less than on tbsp of peanut butter a year.


:doh::doh::doh:

[Jimbuna]

You can swim through the veins of a blue whale.

[Platapus]

Its take 10 litres of milk to make 450 grams of butter


No whey!

[Jimbuna]

Your eyelids have the thinnest amount of skin on your body.

[Jimbuna]

There are 1 million ants for every person on the planet.

[Platapus]

Do you have Trichoptilosis?


(cue dramatic music)


If your hair has split ends, the bad news is that you do.

[Jimbuna]

We can detect taste faster than we can blink.

[Platapus]

On average, men will spend around five months of their lives shaving.


But it is not clear who they are shaving

[Jimbuna]

Kangaroos can't hop without their tails.

[Sean C]

Who the heck is going around cutting off the poor kangaroos' tails?! :hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

Keeping a goldfish in a dark room will cause it to go pale.

[Platapus]

Thomas Jefferson introduced French Fries to the Colonies/US

[Jimbuna]

A newborn Chinese water deer fits in the palm of the average human hand.

[Platapus]

7% of the potato crop of the US goes to McDonalds for their fries.

[Jimbuna]

Knowing how to speak Russian is a requirement to become an International astronaut.

The ISS has operations in Russian and will not provide a translator during the job. Most new astronauts claim that learning a new language is the most difficult part of the job.

[Platapus]

There's an entire museum in Bruges, Belgium, dedicated to fries. It's called the Frietmuseum

[Catfish]

There's an entire museum in Bruges, Belgium, dedicated to fries. It's called the Frietmuseum
:D
You know how to drive belgians crazy?
Lock them in a circular room and tell them the fries are in the corner.

[Jimbuna]

French fries did not come from France.

Originally they come from the country of Belgium. However, they are most popular in the United States.

[Platapus]

The Belgians are so irked by french fries' alleged misattribution that they've been fighting ever since to take credit for this world-famous fried food. Most recently, Belgium petitioned to UNESCO to claim fries and mayo as a food of their own.

[Ostfriese]

"French" in French Fries has actually nothing to do with the nation of France or the French language, and neither with Belgium.
"To french" was an English word used in the early modern ages, meaning "to cut lengthwise".

[Jimbuna]

The average human processes 100,000 pounds of food in a lifetime.

[Platapus]

In 2003, when France opposed the U.S. plan to invade Iraq, Republicans in Congress tried to take the "French" out of fries. The then-chairman of the Committee on House Administration, Bob Ney, changed the title of the menu option in Congressional cafeterias to the very patriotic "Freedom Fries." However, the new name quickly fell out of favor as support for the Iraq War did the same. Congress cafeterias put "french fries" back on the menu in 2006.

We did the same thing in WWI with "Liberty Cabbage". :D

[Jimbuna]

A dentist invented the electric chair.

[Platapus]

Sesame Street's Oscar the Grouch was originally Orange.

[Ostfriese]

The metals gallium and caesium are solid at room temperature, but have melting points below 30°C, so they melt when kept in the palm of a human hand.

[Jimbuna]

There are pink lakes in Australia.

[Platapus]

The Cookie Monster's real name is Sid

[Jimbuna]

The Russians arrived 12 days late to the 1908 Olympics.

This was mainly due to the fact that they were following the wrong calendar. After this incident, the catholic nations mandated the use of the Gregorian Calendar.

[Platapus]

In 1884, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow of Germany, developed the first mechanical television which featured an 18-line resolution. His new contraption could relay images via wires by way of a rotating metal disk. However, Nipkow never named his invention as a television, but called it an electric telescope.

[Jimbuna]

The average person eats a total of 8 pounds of grapes annually.

[Jimbuna]

Our bum crack is medically referred to as the intergluteal cleft.

[Platapus]

In 1927, the first modern electronic television system was invented by 21-year-old, Philo Taylor Fansworth, a young electronic buff. This young genius ideas proved to be lengths ahead of the mechanical television system of the day. Using his theories, Farnsworth was able to use a beam of electrons to capture moving images. His first image transmission was a line, then he famously transmitted a dollar sign via his invention. He did this after a prospective investor asked “When are we going to see some dollars in this thing, Farnsworth?”

[Jimbuna]

The smallest surviving baby weighed 8.5 oz.

[Platapus]

Just Born Candies, makes about 5.5 million peeps per day.


RIP Bob Born 1924-2023

[Jimbuna]

A snail can grow new eyes.

[Platapus]

The first television commercial was aired 1 July 1941. The company was Bulova Watch and the 20 second commercial cost $9.00

[mapuc]

The price for the Commercial during Super Bowl I(1966), had an average cost of $37,500 per 30 sec.

The price today for an average price for 30 sec Commercial during Super Bowl LVII Are going to be $7,000,000

Markus

[Jimbuna]

The manager of Elvis Presley was also selling hate merchandise for Elvis.

[Platapus]

On the TV show Breaking Bad, there was a lot of meth...


But all of it was blue rock candy. Which the cast members enjoyed chomping on during breaks.

[Jimbuna]

Most known asteroids in our solar system are located between Jupiter and Mars.

[Platapus]

The inventor of TV would not allow his children to watch it

[Jimbuna]

You need to exceed temperatures of 1000 degrees Celcius to burn a diamond.

[Platapus]

In 1969 the US government had plans to cut the public television funds; however, Mister Rodgers went to speak before the senate in Washington. Instead of cutting the funds, the budget was increased from $9 to $22 million.

[Jimbuna]

The fastest man in the world is not physically perfect.

Usain Bolt suffers from scoliosis. However, he states that as long as he continues to keep his core and back strong, it does not bother him much.

[Platapus]

Dave Thomas has appeared in more TV commercials than anyone else. Over 800 separate commercials.

[Jimbuna]

Many people residing in Iceland believe in elves.

A survey conducted at the University of Iceland found that 62% of residents believe in elves. This is mainly due to the country’s elf history which dates back to the Viking era.

[bstanko6]

All mirrors ever purchased are pre-used.

[Jimbuna]

Sunglasses were not originally designed to protect your eyes from the sun.

The original idea behind this was so that Chinese judges could hide their facial expressions in court.

[Jimbuna]

Termites and ants are roasted and eaten like popcorn in South Africa.

[Platapus]

Ranch dressing has as one of its ingredients titanium dioxide which is used to make it look whiter.


Just like mother used to make.



Titanium Dioxide is an ingredient in Sun Screen and Paint.... neither of which is advised to ingest.

[Jimbuna]

A 10-year old mattress weighs double its original weight.

[Platapus]

If you ingest nutmeg in large doses, it works like a hallucinogen due to a natural compound called myristicin.

[Jimbuna]

A dentist invented cotton candy.

[Ostfriese]

Hydrofluoric acid (HF) easily reacts with glass, making it one of the very few substances glass containers cannot hold even for a short time.



It's even used to etch glass surfaces.

[Jimbuna]

In China, seductively eating a banana during a live stream is illegal.

[Platapus]

In recognition of American Heart Month


The first open heart surgery occurred in 1893. It was performed by Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, who was one of the few black cardiologists in the United States at the time.

[Jimbuna]

The first soup ever recorded comes from a hippo.

This event dates back to 6000 BC. Soups were also believed to be the foundation of the earliest restaurants in history.

[Platapus]

The first implantable pacemaker was used in 1958. Arne Larsson, who received the pacemaker, lived longer than the surgeon who implanted it.

[Jimbuna]

The world's deepest postbox is in Japan.

It can be found in Susami Bay which is located in Wakayama, Japan. The post is 10 meters underwater and most people require a diving suit just to get to it.

[Platapus]

The youngest person to receive heart surgery was only one minute old.


Wow!

[Jimbuna]

DUI offenders in Ohio are required to use yellow license plates.

[Platapus]

The Fairy Fly, which is actually a type of wasp, has the smallest heart of any living creature

[Jimbuna]

The oldest condom ever found dates back to the 1640s.

[Platapus]

Here is a twofer


The American Pygmy Shrew is the smallest living mammal. Its has the highest heart beat rate of an average of 1,200 beats per minute

[Aktungbby]

The oldest condom ever found dates back to the 1640s. That is a damnable lie!:O: https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/field/image/Tutankhamun-condom1.jpg https://www.ancient-origins.net/weird-facts/tutankhamun-condom-0017004 When Tutankhamun’s tomb was first discovered in 1922, archaeologist Howard Carter was stunned by the astonishing array of grave goods – more than 5,000 artifacts were left for the boy king to use in his afterlife. But amongst all the gold, silver, ebony, ivory , precious jewelry, weapons, furniture, fine linen and rare perfumes, a small piece of cloth caught the eyes of the experts; it was King Tut’s condom and, apparently, it was deemed essential for him to take into eternity. Tutankhamun’s condom, which contained traces of his DNA, consisted of a sheath made of fine linen, soaked in olive oil, and attached to a string that would have tied around his waist. Dated to 1350 BC, it is the oldest known condom in existence. If the condom was used for contraceptive, rather than ritual purposes or the prevention of disease, it is unlikely to have been very effective. Indeed, the remains of two fetuses were also found in his tomb, and genetic testing revealed King Tut was the father. https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/tut-and-wife-ii.jpg

[Jimbuna]

La Paz, Bolivia is constantly at a temperature of below 50 degrees Fahrenheit.

[Platapus]

Most heart attacks happen on Mondays


To be safe, just don't do Mondays. :up:

[Jimbuna]

Majority of the Muppets are left-handed.

This is mainly because most of their puppeteers are right-handed. This implies that they operate the head with their dominant hand.

[Ostfriese]

The 1979 Boomtown Rats song is not titled "Tell me why I don't like mondays.", like many people think.


It's actually "Tell me why?" - "I don't like mondays" and is a reference to Brenda Ann Spencer, who at the age of 16 killed two people and injured nine others in the Cleveland Elementary Shooting in San Diego, CA, on January 29, 1979. When asked why she shot (and killed) the people she answered "I don't like mondays. This livens up the day."
Spencer was sentenced to 25 to life in 1980. She became eligible for parole in 1993, but has been denied parole six times. Her next opportunity for a parole hearing will be in 2025, and by then she will be 63 years old, 45 of which she will have spent imprisoned.

[Jimbuna]

Bacon was once a Middle English term used to refer to all pork.

[mapuc]

Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalyev is considered to be the last citizen of the Soviet Union.
He was in space when the Soviet Union disintegrated in December 1991, which meant that the country that sent him up no longer existed, and he was therefore stranded in space.
His launch point and also his landing point were in the new country of Kazakhstan, so his journey home was a bit more complicated than planned.
He therefore ended up staying in space twice as long as planned and landed in a completely new world situation, where his hometown Leningrad had also changed its name to Saint Petersburg.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Bulls are color blind.

[Platapus]

Christmas is the day of the year where more people have heart attacks in the USA.

[Platapus]

The iconic heart-shape as a symbol of love is thought to come from the Silphium plant (now extinct). The dried fruit was in the shape of the heart icon.

[Jimbuna]

Sneezing too hard can cause rib fractures.

[Platapus]

On average, your heart will pump about 2,000 gallons each day.

[Sean C]

^ Wow!

Maybe useless ... but interesting nonetheless.

[Jimbuna]

In England, a newborn’s head is washed in rum for good luck.

[Platapus]

The average heart is the size of a fist in an adult and weighs less than one pound

[Jimbuna]

The largest lymphatic organ in the body is the spleen.

[Platapus]

On average, a man's heart will beat about 115,000 times a day, a woman's heart, if they have one, will beat slightly faster.

[Jimbuna]

Dogs have over 1,700 taste buds.

[Platapus]

Dying from a broken heart is possible and is actually called Broken Heart Syndrome. Fortunately it is uncommon and rarely results in death by itself.

[Jimbuna]

Carrots have zero fat content.

[Jimbuna]

White chocolate isn’t chocolate.

[Jimbuna]

Giraffes do not possess vocal cords.

[Platapus]

The heart has its own electrical impulse and can continue to beat when separated from the body– as long as it’s receiving oxygen!

[Jimbuna]

Light does not always travel at the speed of light.

Research has found that the slowest recorded light moving was at the speed of 38 mph. The light can travel even slower if it is made to pass through obstacles such as water.

[Jimbuna]

A Sardinian Cheese called Casu mazu contains live maggots.

[mapuc]

A Sardinian Cheese called Casu mazu contains live maggots.

I have to post this Danish video about two famous chefs. the video is about 1 minute long and was a part of their food program. (it was broadcastet around a year ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZO30e2niAU&ab_channel=HotBot

Look at the cheese and look at the crew at the end of the video.

Markus

[Platapus]

There is only one United States Military Cemetery over which the American flag is never flown.


Which one is this?


The answer will be tomorrow's useless fact post. :D

[Platapus]

Light does not always travel at the speed of light.


Which is why the speed of light is only a theoretical constant.

[Jimbuna]

Chinese acupuncture states that there is a point in the head that can control one’s appetite.

[Platapus]

The one United States Military Cemetery where the US flag never is flown is Plot E at the Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial, an American military cemetery in northern France.


Plots A-D contain the remains of 6,012 US service members who died in that area during WWII

Plot E is physically separated from and hidden from the other plots. Plot E contains the remains of 94 US military members who were court-marshaled, dishonorably discharged and executed for crimes including murder and rape.

Plot E does not appear on any map of the cemetery and visitors are discouraged.


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Location_of_Plot_E_in_Oise-Aisne_War_Cemetery.jpg

No US flag is ever flown over Plot E and no American flag is visible from Plot E.

There are 96 markers with nothing but a number. Two members were exhumed and their remains returned to the US.

Eddie Slovik was buried there until his remains were returned to the US in 1987.

[Jimbuna]

Wisdom teeth have no purpose.

[Platapus]

Horses can't breath through their mouths

[Jimbuna]

Birds can recognize landmarks.

[Platapus]

Horses sleep about 2.5 hours a day

[Jimbuna]

Dogs and cats also have a dominant side like humans do.

[Platapus]

Horses have almost 306 degrees of vision, but they can't see the grass they are eating. They depend on their lips and whiskers

[Ostfriese]

Alcohol (ethanol)/water mixes can only be distilled up to a concentration of 96% ethanol, no matter how often it is distilled. The last 4% of water cannot be removed by distillation.

To get 100% pure ethanol you'd have to put in a substance that chemically binds water, like white copper(II)sulfate, which reacts with water to blue copper(II)sulfate. Don't do that with your spirits, though, copper(II)-compounds cause vomitting when comsumed, even if it's only a very small amount.

[Rockstar]

When it comes to alcohol all I know is don’t believe mixing bits of fruit with 190 proof grain alcohol will make the morning hangover anymore tolerable.

[Jimbuna]

There are more than 10,000 different varieties of tomatoes.

[Platapus]

When female chicks hatch out of their egg, they come into the world with a certain number of eggs inside of them, and when they turn six months oldish, they start laying them. Hens will lay several eggs a week for several years, and when all the eggs in their body are gone, they’re done laying!

[Jimbuna]

A space mission confirmed that frogs can vomit.

[Jimbuna]

Most of the air you breathe goes out from your nostrils.

[Platapus]

I bet most of you don’t know that the eggs you eat come out of something called a cloaca or vent. This opening serves not only as a chicken vagina, but urine and feces shoot out of it too.



yum!

[Jimbuna]

Research states that the loneliest creature on the planet is a whale.

[Platapus]

Chickens are the closest known descendants to the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Keeping chickens in your backyard is very much like having a bunch of tiny dinos take over your property.

[Jimbuna]

The spikes at the end of a stegasaurus' tail is called a thagomizer.

[mapuc]

The spikes at the end of a stegasaurus' tail is called a thagomizer.

More useless fact to your story

The technical term for a stegosaurus' four-spiked tail is "Thagomizer". The word originates from a satirical drawing by Gary Larson, which several palaeontologists later adopted as a professional term

Markus

[Jimbuna]

A British submarine once kept a fully grown reindeer aboard the vessel in WWII.

[mapuc]

Some useless information about this Castle Bravo

Castle Bravo's yield was 15 mega tonnes of TNT (63 PJ), 2.5 times the predicted 6 mega tonnes of TNT (25 PJ), due to unforeseen additional reactions involving lithium-7, which led to the unexpected radioactive contamination of areas to the east of Bikini Atoll.

Markus

[Eisenwurst]

From Wikipedia...."The Japanese Tree Frog.....There is an estimated 100 million of these frogs in Japan, but the accuracy is limited due to difficulty in counting."

:)

[Aktungbby]

There is an estimated 100 million of these frogs in Japan, but the accuracy is limited due to difficulty in counting."actually there's only 999,999,999 of them...1 just croaked!:dead:

[Jimbuna]

David Bowie once stated he was being stalked by a man in a pink rabbit suit.

[Platapus]

Chickens outnumber humans three to one on this planet.


I am on record as welcoming our chicken overlords when they take over. :D

[Jimbuna]

As of the beginning of 2004, the U.S. population increases by 1 every 12 seconds.

[Jimbuna]

A surgical procedure that removes fear from your brain exists.

[Platapus]

The reported last words of Pancho Villa, as he lay dying in his friends arms:


"Don't let it end this way, say that I said something".


I can relate to this. When you are dying, I imagine it is hard to come up with something notable to say.

[Aktungbby]

/\ " It's been a great ride on the mudball. I wanna come back as blue whale...but I 'spect it'll only be as an amoeba!?":o:oops::dead:

[Jimbuna]

Shaved heads were a symbol of extreme beauty in 1500 B.C Egypt.

[Platapus]

Ticks are not insects, although they are often mistaken for them. Ticks are actually classified as arachnids

[Jimbuna]

There is a species of frog that devours its prey through its eyes.

[Platapus]

ticks typically require 24-48 hours of feeding before they can successfully transmit infections like Lyme disease, so prompt removal is crucial.

[Jimbuna]

23% of all photocopier problems are caused by people sitting on them.

[Rockstar]

Neptune has only completed 1 orbit of the Sun since we discovered it back in 1846.

[Ostfriese]

23% of all photocopier problems are caused by people sitting on them.


That's a surprisingly low rate...

[Jimbuna]

That's a surprisingly low rate...

Yep :)

[Platapus]

Neptune has only completed 1 orbit of the Sun since we discovered it back in 1846.


That is cool triva:up:

[Jimbuna]

A human thumb has its own pulse.

[Platapus]

Northern Cardinals are classified as granivorous animals

[Jimbuna]

A child can ask over a hundred questions a day.

[Rockstar]

After several failed attempts to seek favors from his uncle thru blackmail. William Patrick Stuart - Houston wrote a book entitled "Why I Hate My Uncle". Then in 1939 immigrated to the United States. From there he joined the United States to Navy to help in the fight against his uncle Adolf Hitler.

[Sean C]

A child can ask over a hundred questions a day.

Some of the people I work with can ask more than that. :wah:

[Jimbuna]

Buzz Aldrin is the first man to ever urinate on the moon.

[Platapus]

The appearance of Vibrant Yellow Northern Cardinals is typically caused by a genetic plumage variation called xanthochroism.


But everyone knows that!

[Jimbuna]

Certain fruit flies are resistant to getting drunk.

[Platapus]

There are 18 species of grouse.


Grice? :06:

[Catfish]

^ Greese?

[Jimbuna]

Orange is not the only word in the English language that cannot be rhymed.
Other words include silver, purple, and month.

[Platapus]

There are no grouse/grice/grouces in the United States.


We call them prairie chicken and Kansas is the place to go to see them.

[Jimbuna]

Sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick is one of the hardest tongue twisters in the world.

[Jimbuna]

There was a month-long plague in 1518 called Dance fever.

[Platapus]

Grice/Grouses seem to have a fun time


The willow ptarmigan is the only member of the grouse family that is not polygamous.

[Jimbuna]

The shortest complete sentence in the English language consists of only two letters.

This sentence is “Go”. This word is an active verb and can also be used to interpret a mood.

[Jimbuna]

Greeks once believed that the mother’s milk originated from the uterus.

[Platapus]

Vultures are relatively silent as they lack a syrinx so they can only hiss, growl, and snarl.

[Rockstar]

The demon core was a spherical 6.2-kilogram (14 lb) subcritical mass of plutonium 89 millimeters (3.5 in) in diameter, manufactured during World War II by the United States nuclear weapon development effort, the Manhattan Project, as a fissile core for an early atomic bomb.

… The standard protocol was to use shims between the halves, as allowing them to close completely could result in the instantaneous formation of a critical mass and a lethal power excursion.

Under Slotin's own unapproved protocol, the shims were not used and the only thing preventing the closure was the blade of a standard flat-tipped screwdriver manipulated in Slotin's other hand. Slotin, who was given to bravado, became the local expert, performing the test on almost a dozen occasions, often in his trademark blue jeans and cowboy boots, in front of a roomful of observers. Enrico Fermi reportedly told Slotin and others they would be "dead within a year" if they continued performing the test in that manner. Scientists referred to this flirting with the possibility of a nuclear chain reaction as "tickling the dragon's tail", based on a remark by physicist Richard Feynman, who compared the experiments to "tickling the tail of a sleeping dragon".

On the day of the accident, Slotin's screwdriver slipped outward a fraction of an inch while he was lowering the top reflector, allowing the reflector to fall into place around the core. Instantly, there was a flash of blue light and a wave of heat across Slotin's skin; the core had become supercritical, releasing an intense burst of neutron radiation estimated to have lasted about a half second.

https://i.ibb.co/fDCY420/74-E0-B282-18-E5-4159-BE6-C-5-AE794938-A85.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core

[Jimbuna]

The village of Giethoorn has no roads.

[Jimbuna]

The word ‘testify’ comes from an ancient Roman practice.

This practice made the men swear on their testicles when in court. This would force them to speak the truth or risk having their testicles taken away.

[Platapus]

Vultures prefer their food fresh and won't eat carcasses that are older than a day or so.

[Jimbuna]

A family in Kentucky had blue skin for generations.

[Platapus]

A group of vultures is called a committee, venue or volt.



In flight, a group of vultures is a kettle and when feeding at a carcass, the group is referred to as a wake

[Jimbuna]

The word ‘pants’ was once considered to be a dirty word.

[Ostfriese]

The word ‘pants’ was once considered to be a dirty word.


The word "gay" wasn't for most of it's existence.

[Jimbuna]

1000 is the first number from 0 that uses the letter a when spelled.

[Ostfriese]

1000 is the first number from 0 that uses the letter a when spelled.


Only in English :D In German it's 8.

[Aktungbby]

The word ‘pants’ was once considered to be a dirty word.That's now Depends:O:

[Jimbuna]

A bar in London sells vaporized vodka.

[Aktungbby]

Ethereal Spirits!:yeah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_inhalation There are occupational health and safety risks of inhaling alcohol vapor and mists. Inhalation devices make it "substantially easier to overdose on alcohol" than drinking, because the alcohol bypasses the stomach and liver and goes directly into the bloodstream, and because the user does not have a reliable way of determining how much alcohol they have taken in. Inhaled alcohol cannot be purged from the body by vomiting, which is the body's main protection against alcohol poisoning. Inhaled alcohol can dry out nasal passages and make them more susceptible to infection.[10] There is also a potential increased risk of addiction.

[Ostfriese]

When whiskey is stored in warehouses to undergo aging alcohol vapors emerge from the casks. The amount of alcohol is enough to make you tipsy by just walking through the warehouse.


The Irish call the alcohol vapors "Angel's share".

[Jimbuna]

A glacier called blood falls exists.

[Platapus]

One comes around at the beginning of life.... the other comes around at the end of life....


Vultures are more closely related to storks than to any other bird of prey.

[Jimbuna]

Over 2 billion pencils are manufactured annually in the U.S.

[Platapus]

Various terms are used to refer to groups of storks, two frequently used ones being a muster of storks and a phalanx of storks.

[Aktungbby]

king Philip of Macedon occasionally used to muster his phalanx:timeout:...:hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

Your left lung is not as big as the right lung.

[Platapus]

USA is big and we do things in a big way...


World's largest Boll Weevil is in Enterprise, Alabama

[Ostfriese]

Radiation sickness is not contagious.

[Platapus]

It takes 1,836 electrons to equal the size of a proton

[Tango589]

In 2016, Mozart sold more CDs than Beyonce.

[Jimbuna]

More people are afraid of spiders than they are of death.

[Platapus]

The strong force that binds together protons and neutrons is 1,038 times more powerful than gravity,

[Jimbuna]

The human skull is formed by 29 different bones.

[Platapus]

How many quarks are in a proton?


Three

[mapuc]

How many quarks are in a proton?


Three

Yep 2 up Quarks and one down Quarks.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Humans share about 50% of our DNA with bananas.

[Tango589]

Humans share about 50% of our DNA with bananas.

I've met some people who I reckon share more than 50%.

[Aktungbby]

Humans share about 50% of our DNA with bananas. I've often shared my DNA with a big banana!:O:

[Platapus]

In the noun Pacific Ocean, all three instances of the letter C are pronounced differently.

[Tango589]

We perceive a sonic boom as sound but it isn't; its an overpressure. Air can travel at maximum speed -a speed that We have come to know as the speed of sound. The speed of sound is fixed - although its absolute value varies depending on temperature and altitude - because there's a limit to how fast air molecules can get out of the way of an object.On a standard day, at sea level static conditions, the speed of sound is around 760 mph or 1,100 feet per second.

The reason the speed of sound is referred to as a barrier is because - in a supersonic aircraft - air molecules are being compressed and they can't get out of each other's way fast enough. In the end, in effect, they form a wall. The air molecules pushed from the path of a Boeing 747 get out of each other's way with comparative ease because the aircraft is moving relatively slowly.

But when a super sonic aircraft begins to punch through the wall, something odd happens - the molecules form into a cone-shaped bow-wave. Concorde's overpressure was around 2.5 pounds
per square inch, but this, too, depended on the temperature of the air, and the speed and altitude at which the aircraft was flying.

There's another misconception about sonic booms- that they only occur when an aircraft goes through the sound barrier. In fact, the boom is sustained it's happening all the time the aircraft is going faster than Mach 1. The cone that reaches a ground observer is heard as a boom that is what those 2.5 pounds of pressure feel like to eardrum. Their intensity will depend on distance, because overpressure dissipates - just as the wake of a boat does. The further you get from the source, the more it weakens.

Concorde's, however, was considered sufficiently intense for it not to be allowed to fly over land, apart from over very, very sparsely populated areas. There was a reason for this. Concorde's capacity to crack the odd window or break a piece of china.

A second cone came off the aircraft's tail as the air decompressed.This was so close behind the first, however, that it was very often missed but it was there a force of nature; undeniable and unavoidable.

By : Mike Bannister ~ Former Concorde Chief Pilot

#SupersonicBoom 💥💥💥

[Jimbuna]

The smallest cell in a man’s body is the sperm cell.

[Rockstar]

Just before he died, Arthur Stanley Jefferson a.k.a Stan Laurel told his nurse he would like to go skiing. The nurse said, "Are you a skier, Mr. Laurel?" He replied, "I'm not, but I'd rather be doing that than having these needles stuck in me." A few minutes later he died
https://i.postimg.cc/Jhp4QDx1/B653-DED4-74-B4-4-C25-825-B-30732-B9-DBC61.jpg

[fireftr18]

When whiskey is stored in warehouses to undergo aging alcohol vapors emerge from the casks. The amount of alcohol is enough to make you tipsy by just walking through the warehouse.


The Irish call the alcohol vapors "Angel's share".

Kentuckians call it the "Angel's share" also. And, yes, you do feel the effect after walking through a warehouse. Of course the aging barns can hold thousands of barrels.

:Kaleun_Cheers:

[Jimbuna]

Originally, carrots were a purple colour.

[Tango589]

Originally, carrots were a purple colour.
The orange carrots were cultivated by the Dutch, as orange is their national colour.

[Platapus]

The smallest cell in a man’s body is the sperm cell.


And coincidentally, the largest cell in the human body is the Ovum

[Jimbuna]

The U.S. government only owns ⅓ of the land its country has.

This is around 2.27 billion acres and is approximately 33% of the total land. However, the United States is the only country whose government owns more than 25% of its land.

[Rockstar]

France’s longest border is shared with Brazil

[Platapus]

All the hadrons are composed of quarks, whereas leptons are material particles not containing quarks.



But that's just stating the obvious.

[Jimbuna]

Mars appears red to the human eye due to the iron oxide particles that suspends its atmosphere.

[Platapus]

The TV series All in the Family had 7 first and second level spinoffs.

[Jimbuna]

Oak trees cannot produce acorns if they are under 50 years of age.

[Ostfriese]

None of a sloths four extremities can support their body weight, not even combined. Sloths therefore are not considered to be four-legged animals, but four-armed.

[Platapus]

Heavy water is indeed heavier than ordinary water. How much more?


10.9%

[Eisenwurst]

Japanese Tree Frogs have been in Outer Space.

[Jimbuna]

Around 70% of virus programmers are said to allegedly work under a strict contract for crime syndicates.

[Platapus]

Bela Lugosi starred in one musical comedy movie. 1952 Vampire over London. It was released under several different names, none of which, fortunately, you have probably heard of. It was the last movie Lugosi made that went into general circulation before his death.


He was paid $5,000. He did not partake in the musical portion.



A reviewer in the Monthly Film Bulletin dismissed the film, simply declaring it "Stupid, humourless and repulsive."


Which, after watching it, I can agree with.

[Jimbuna]

Chilli peppers are not spicy.

The burning sensation in your mouth is a mental reaction and not a physical one. These peppers contain a chemical called capsaicin which naturally binds to the pain receptors in our nerves.

[Rockstar]

The former German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen was commissioned into the U.S. Navy on 5 January 1946 and decommissioned 29 August 1946.

[Eisenwurst]

Turtledoves are not related to Turtles.:hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

The human teeth are as strong as a shark’s teeth.

[Platapus]

One unanticipated benefit of the atmospheric nuclear testing in the 1950's and 1960's was a dramatic increase of Tritium in the atmosphere... which was a valuable tool for tracking hydro-logic cycle and to map ocean currents on a world wide scale.

[Jimbuna]

Potatoes can reflect your wi-fi signal.

In a 2012 experiment to test the wireless signals on new planes, potatoes were used and placed on the seats. The results found that because of the high water content of the potatoes, they can reflect and absorb radio and wireless signals. Human beings are also able to do the same thing.

[Platapus]

Brazil nuts are probably the most radioactive food you can eat; the nuts are approximately 1,000 times more radioactive than other foods.

[Jimbuna]

You can turn coal mixed in peanut butter into a diamond.

[Platapus]

A single beer contains, on average, about 390 pCi/kg of potassium-40.


So one beer won't hurt you, but more than one?????


:Kaleun_Cheers:

[Rockstar]

Fundamentally there is little difference between you and a cheese cracker. Both are made up from up & down quarks with electrons held together by gluons and photons.

[Jimbuna]

The cornea does not receive a blood supply.

This is the only part of the human body that does not have a blood vessel. The cornea receives its oxygen directly from the air.

[Jimbuna]

The Sasser worm mainly targets computers running on Microsoft OS and exploits a vulnerable network port.

This was mainly used in Microsoft XP operating systems. This worm could download a patch from Microsoft and infect the system.

[Platapus]

Cat litter is sufficiently radioactive that it can set off radiation alerts at international border checkpoints. Actually, it's not all cat litter you need to worry about — only the stuff made from clay or bentonite.

[Jimbuna]

Mixing sperm and caffeine in a test tube makes them swim better.

[Platapus]

If you multiply 6 by an even number, the answer will end with the same digit. The number in the ten's place will be half of the number in the one's place.

[Jimbuna]

Saltwater takes 10 minutes to drown a person.

[Aktungbby]

Mixing sperm and caffeine in a test tube makes them swim better.Good semenship and a 'cuppa joe' go hand in hand!:03:

[Platapus]

"How I wish I could calculate pi easily."



Just count the number of letters in each word


3 1 4 1 5 9 2 6

[Jimbuna]

The tree of life is another name for the baobab tree.

This tree can store between 1,000-120,000 liters of water in its large trunk. It can also be used to provide clothing, shelter, and food.

[Platapus]

A hundred did not always mean 100


The word "hundred" is actually derived from the Old Norse word "hundrath," which actually means 120, not 100. More specifically, "hundrath," in Old Norse, means "long hundred," which equals 120, due to the duodecimal system.

[Jimbuna]

Tulips were considered very valuable in the 1600s.

It was reported that during this time, Tulips were worth more than gold. This flower was very popular during festivals and eventually became a form of currency.

[Platapus]

Roman numerals are represented by only seven different letters: I, V, X, L, C, D, and M.

[Jimbuna]

The human skull remains conscious after decapitation.

It remains conscious for a few seconds to a minute after being separated from the body. A full brain shut down occurs after 48-96 hours.

[Platapus]

If a pizza has a radius of Z and a crust height of A, the volume of that pizza would be .... pizza.


Since the volume of a cylinder is PI, times the radius squared, times height, that would mean a pizza with radius "Z" and height "A" would have the volume of… PI * z * z * a. :D

[Jimbuna]

Onions contain sulphuric acid.

[Platapus]

Mathematically, zero is an even number

[Jimbuna]

Bull sharks can adapt to freshwater environments.

[Platapus]

There's Not Enough Room in the World to Write Out a Googolplex.

[mapuc]

There's Not Enough Room in the World to Write Out a Googolplex.


Found this interesting so I found this passages on a wiki page


A typical book can be printed with 106 zeros (around 400 pages with 50 lines per page and 50 zeros per line). Therefore, it requires 10^94 such books to print all the zeros of a googolplex (that is, printing a googol zeros). If each book had a mass of 100 grams, all of them would have a total mass of 10^93 kilograms. In comparison, Earth's mass is 5.972 × 10^24 kilograms, the mass of the Milky Way galaxy is estimated at 2.5 × 10^42 kilograms, and the total mass of all the stars in the observable universe is estimated at 2 × 10^52 kg.

To put this in perspective, the mass of all such books required to write out a googolplex would be vastly greater than the masses of the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies combined (by a factor of roughly 2.0 × 10^50), and greater than the mass of the observable universe by a factor of roughly
7 × 10^39.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

You would need about 37 gallons of water to grow a coffee bean.

More than 1,300 gallons of water are needed to produce one 12 oz. cup of coffee.

[Platapus]

In 2016, customers purchased more Mozart CDs than Beyonce's CDs.

[Jimbuna]

The oldest wine bottle can be found in Germany.

This wine dates before to AD 325 and can be found displayed in the Speyer historical museum.

[Platapus]

Rod Stewart holds the record for most attendees at a free concert at about 4.2 million in 1993 in Brazil.