That was mildly interesting, thank you! The range of effects Hollywood generally depicts is quite wide.
Took the children to the science museum the other day.
I found it stimulating as well. I'm trying to keep them questioning the world around them.
Thought it would be handy to have a thread where we can post interesting or unusual facts.
First up. The air lock scene in 2001. I always thought that a human would explode if exposed to space without a suit. But apparently, Kubrick consulted the experts and there is about 12 seconds during which Dave would have time to fire himself through. Presumably quite an interesting 12 seconds.
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That was mildly interesting, thank you! The range of effects Hollywood generally depicts is quite wide.
Everyone on the planet would easily fit in loch Ness (if drained).
Humans share 55% of their DNA with bananas.
Explains a lot of my daily encounters...
Your head is older than your feet
A Labrador's sense of smell is so acute, it could smell a kipper placed on the moon......(not really, I don't think )
Dogs can't look up
Whooper Swans when migrating fly at nearly 27000 ft
Mount Everest is 29000 ft
There are more atoms in a teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean
Hiccups in humans serve no useful purpose and are directly linked to our evolution from fish and amphibians who use this mechanism to push water across their gills.
Before the term "bloopers" was coined, outtakes were called "boners"
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If you spread the surface area of your lungs over a tennis court, you’d be dead.
"little" Napoleon was actually taller than the Duke of Wellington and Admiral Nelson.
Sid James trained as a hairdresser in South Africa
32.67% of mildly interesting facts are made up.
I have a larger than average number of arms.
95% of men have one testicle that hangs lower than the other two.
50% of the humans that have ever lived were killed by mosquitoes
If you laid all the economists in the world end to end, they still wouldn’t reach a conclusion.
The observable universe is spherical and you are slap bang at the centre of it.
As the universe expands, there will become a point in time where all the galaxies and stars we can see now will be so far away from us and red-shifted so much that they will all become completely unobservable and the universe will appear to be completely empty.
You can tell the sex of an ant by dropping it in water. If it sinks, girl ant. If it floats, boy ant.
You can distinguish an Alligator from a Crocodile, by paying attention to whether the animal sees you later or in a while.
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The population of Ireland is 4.7m.
The number of Americans who claim to be Irish is 33m.
And there was I looking at their dentition.
Kishi Station in Kinokawa has a cat as stationmaster.
Al Capone business card said that he is used furniture salesman
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Now that is quite interesting!
As we know that we’re not the centre of the universe (well most of us anyway), one can only conclude that there are already parts of the universe that have become unobservable to us.
You also appear to be saying that the galaxies are not just moving away from us, they’re also expanding too?
For those that like the facts in this thread I can highly recommend "No Such Thing as a Fish" podcast. It's the researchers behind QI who do their own podcast, funny and full of facts like the above.
https://twitter.com/nosuchthing
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All the soil removed in the building of the Manchester Ship Canal could build a 3 x 6ft wall around the entire equator.
The universe is roughly 13.8 billion years old and light can only go so fast, so you might think that a distance of 13.8 billion light years from the observer is as far as anyone can ever hope to see. In fact, because the universe is expanding we can actually see about 45.7 billion light-years. The difference being made up by red-shift (relativity is weird man) and the fact that the rate of expansion is increasing. Interestingly, because every point in space has it's own observable universe, what is inside for one may well be outside for another. How big the total "outside" universe is, is any ones guess.
Affirmative.
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The peacock mantis shrimp uses club-like appendages called dactyls to 'punch' its crab or clam prey with the same velocity as a .22-caliber bullet being fired from a gun.
The force created by these clubs is so great that the water surrounding them briefly reaches the same temperature as the surface of the sun.
Ouch!
There is only one 7-letter anagram of sobbing
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