Strange Facts that go against the grain completely

seantorious

Crocodiles tongues are attached to the roof of their mouths

im invisible

Dogs cant lick their elbows

Tea_Bag

both sides of the universe shouldn't be the same temperature, but they are.
Horizon problem


calculating the mass of the atmosphere above us is a fairly easy thing to do.


Entropy is a ****.

if we find the higgs boson, then gravity gets left out of the standard model, meaning it shouldn't really be there and we can't understand why.

the largest accepted number in the mathematical community (as a solution to a proof) is so large, there isn't enough atoms in the universe to write it out if you had 1 unit representing 1 atom. Graham's number

44leto

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sociallyjaded

Despite their diet, pandas' stomach are built like a typical carnivores

suicide_circus

Batsy wrote: »

Travelling on the London Underground for just 40 minutes is the equivalent of smoking two packets of cigarettes.

http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/epic-jackie-chan-template.png

--Kaiser--

These threads are the reason I like Snopes, QI and Mythbusters so much
(i.e. 90% of these 'facts' are anything but)

Wibbs

Curly Judge wrote: »

On Mars, a day is longer than a year

Nope. The martian year is nearly twice as long as ours, but it's day is only 40 minutes longer. You're thinking of Venus, maybe Mercury?

seantorious wrote: »

Crocodiles tongues are attached to the roof of their mouths

Eh no it isn't. They would have a hard time eating if it was.

A parrot can move both it's upper jaw and lower.

mconigol

Zen65 wrote: »

Do you mean that it cools quicker than colder water?

Are you simply pointing out the obvious relationship between heat flow and temperature differential?

The term "freezes" means to transform to ice, and hot water never turns to ice (at pressures observable on this planet).

Let's not turn AH into a forum where people can speak out against the laws of physics!! Down with this sort of thing!!

Z

In this forum we obey the laws of physics dammit!!

Curly Judge

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

LOL

Mars is the planet with the closest day length to our own.

Mercury would be a gas during daytime on Mercury and a solid at night.



Also the London factoids mentioned at the start of the thread are very out of date and many are no longer true.

I'm mortified!

I should instead have posted Venus as the relevant planet.
A year on Venus lasts for 225 earth days.
A "day" lasts for 243 earth days

Apologies all round.

Wibbs

Venus is also weird in that it rotates the opposite way to all the other planets. Though IIRC either Neptune or Uranus are tilted right over. South pole aimed at the sun kinda thing.

mikemac1

Howth Harbour was silting up and unsuitable before it was even finished, nobody listened to the locals.
They have useless planners in those days too

Before the North Wall was built there was ships constantly getting damaged or sinking in Dublin Bay.
King Henry VIII was getting angry over it so if a local pilot damaged a ship their eyes would be put out with a dagger.
No SIPTU in those days

There are rocks off Dalkey Island called The Muglins where they would hang pirates and leave them to rot as a warning

I haven't realy answered the thread title but I think they are interesting

Regarding the English post on page one, if you live in Chester you are allowed shoot a Welshman with a crossbow if you see them after dusk.

Wetai

AngryBollix wrote: »

The pig I shagged last weekend didnt orgasm for 30 minutes

It's probably only the females.

working fool

Robbie keane has had more boyhood dreams come true than all the Disney characters put together !

AeoNGriM

GaryIrv93 wrote: »

Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

No they don't. The skin just shrinks and makes it look like they do.

44leto

So why do we drive on the left, in medieval Britain a Knight while traveling on horseback would ride on the left, so he could draw his sword with his right hand. At that time most on the continent traveled on the left, cart tracks leaving a Roman quarry in Italy left deeper tracks on the left as the cart was loaded. So they drove on the left.

With the advent of the stage coach you sat on the coach and held the whip with your right, so on the continent they start to drive on the right. Then in the colonial era anywhere the British went they drove on the Left bar the USA and Canada because of the use of the stage coach in those vast countries. Anywhere the continental powers went they drove on the right.

In Eastern Europe they drove on the left till the wermach invaded and the Germans drove on the right and after the war those countries just left it that way. One nation changed, Sweden use to drive on the left but in 1967 they switched and joined the rest of the continent and drove on the right, cutting pedestrian accidents, it is safer to drive on the right.

CHealy

The island most of Cork city center is built on, Morrisons Island, is actually a marsh and many of Corks streets such as St.Patricks Street, Grande Parade, South Mall and many more used to be little canals, not too unlike Venice. In fact a boat docking post(where the rope is tied around) still exists on Grande Parade.

BO-JANGLES

A goldfish will turn white if left in the dark for 4 days in a row.

Heard some bloke on the radio talk about this last night......

:cool:

Reloc8

bob the bob wrote: »

Can you elaborate please?

I work in the City of London and your post doesn't correlate with what I see every day, i.e. loads of roads

Love2love wrote: »

I think he is referring to the names of streets. None have road in them. They have alley, street ect.

Sindri wrote: »

Abbey Road?

Is in the city of Westminster.

mikemac1

The traffic on the quays in Dublin city used to be the other way around, North quays took you West and South quays took you East

They were changed around on a Sunday morning, I forget the exact year.
There was moaning and complaining and people said it would never work but in the end, the changeover was completed perfectly well

Irishchick

Wibbs wrote: »

A parrot can move both it's upper jaw and lower.

1) A parrot doesn't have an upper "jaw". It has a beak called a mandible
2) It cannot move it

Sindri

A bee by all rights should not be able to fly.

It's whole body shape is completely non-aerodynamic.

So, by filming a bee in flight with a high speed camera and some smoke, they found that a bee in fact after stroking it's wings downwards, is able to disconnect their shoulder muscles from their wings and flip their wings over on the upward stroke which creates twice as much lift.


Also, bees should not be able to survive outside early in the morning. Usually you see them lethargically laying on a plant. But with the use of thermal imaging camera they found that a bee, disconnecting their shoulder muscled from their wings, start to beat those muscles ferociously as if they were flying and this heats them up sufficiently to fly and survive early in the morning.


Also we get the word piss from the Latin for bee apis. It comes from the practice of placing an image of a bee in urinals as a place for men to aim supposedly, (but there are other theories for it's etymology).

seamus

Sindri wrote: »

No it's not. It's of equal strength.

It's a bit of a misunderstood "fact". When a bone heals, the body lumps a whole pile of new bone in there which then solidifies, as it does. This leaves a kind of "bulb" of bone at the healing site. This makes the actual place where the break occured, stronger than it was before the break.
The problem with this is that it makes the bone above and below this "bulb" slightly more vulnerable to being broken (because the bone isn't equally strong along its length).
But it does mean that once your 6-8 weeks of healing is done, it's very unlikely that the bone will break in the same place again, it's more likely to break somewhere else because the original fracture site is stronger than the rest of the bone.

For the next few years after the break, the original fracture site is worn down by a process called "remodelling" where the bone returns to its original shape and strength.

--Kaiser--

Sindri wrote: »

A bee by all rights should not be able to fly.

It's whole body shape is completely non-aerodynamic.

So, by filming a bee in flight with a high speed camera and some smoke, they found that a bee in fact after stroking it's wings downwards, is able to disconnect their shoulder muscles from their wings and flip their wings over on the upward stroke which creates twice as much lift.


Also, bees should not be able to survive outside early in the morning. Usually you see them lethargically laying on a plant. But with the use of thermal imaging camera they found that a bee, disconnecting their shoulder muscled from their wings, start to beat those muscles ferociously as if they were flying and this heats them up sufficiently to fly and survive early in the morning.


Also we get the word piss from the Latin for bee apis. It comes from the practice of placing an image of a bee in urinals as a place for men to aim supposedly, (but there are other theories for it's etymology).

Rubbish

44leto

Sindri wrote: »

A bee by all rights should not be able to fly.

It's whole body shape is completely non-aerodynamic.

So, by filming a bee in flight with a high speed camera and some smoke, they found that a bee in fact after stroking it's wings downwards, is able to disconnect their shoulder muscles from their wings and flip their wings over on the upward stroke which creates twice as much lift.


Also, bees should not be able to survive outside early in the morning. Usually you see them lethargically laying on a plant. But with the use of thermal imaging camera they found that a bee, disconnecting their shoulder muscled from their wings, start to beat those muscles ferociously as if they were flying and this heats them up sufficiently to fly and survive early in the morning.


Also we get the word piss from the Latin for bee apis. It comes from the practice of placing an image of a bee in urinals as a place for men to aim supposedly, (but there are other theories for it's etymology).

I remember reading about that and it was only solved recently they actually generate vortexes at the edge of their wings.

http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/av/dn8382.avi

Sindri

seamus wrote: »

It's a bit of a misunderstood "fact". When a bone heals, the body lumps a whole pile of new bone in there which then solidifies, as it does. This leaves a kind of "bulb" of bone at the healing site. This makes the actual place where the break occured, stronger than it was before the break.
The problem with this is that it makes the bone above and below this "bulb" slightly more vulnerable to being broken (because the bone isn't equally strong along its length).
But it does mean that once your 6-8 weeks of healing is done, it's very unlikely that the bone will break in the same place again, it's more likely to break somewhere else because the original fracture site is stronger than the rest of the bone.

For the next few years after the break, the original fracture site is worn down by a process called "remodelling" where the bone returns to its original shape and strength.

Maxillo-facial doctor told me it's of equal strength.

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

Rubbish

Why?

Easy Rod

Pound for pound there's more sugar in a lemon than in a strawberry.

Mr.Biscuits

Grains have high levels of phytic acid, a substance that reduces our absorption of minerals such as calcium, iron, zinc, and magnesium.

storker

storker wrote: »

If your car could drive straight up, space would be about an hour's drive away.

Stork

If you drove your car into town when the sales are on, a space would be about an hours walk away.

Wossack

BO-JANGLES wrote: »

A goldfish will turn white if left in the dark for 4 days in a row.

Heard some bloke on the radio talk about this last night......

:cool:

but as soon as you turn on the light, they instantly go gold again

tricky bastards