Strange but interesting facts

sensibleken · 02-02-2011 05:23PM

The abalone snail has 5 assholes, making it the boyzone of phylum molusca

In gaelic ireland there was an entertainer known as a braigetoir who was a professional farter

BizzyC · 02-02-2011 05:25PM

RichieC wrote: »

I've never tried it tbf.

http://www.bunkychollox.com/docs/coins_on_a_chess_board.htm

Ah, that's not exponential though, they're just doubling it.

pow wow · 02-02-2011 05:29PM

The average office chair travels 8 miles a year.

Yakult · 02-02-2011 05:30PM

A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.

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

When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.

If you ate too many carrots, you'd turn orange.

RichieC · 02-02-2011 05:34PM

BizzyC wrote: »

Ah, that's not exponential though, they're just doubling it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_and_chessboard_problem

"This problem (or a variation of it) demonstrates the quick growth of exponential sequences."

_feedback_ · 02-02-2011 05:34PM

A child's got more bones than a grown-up's got!

A child's got more bones than a grown-up's got?

A child's got more bones than a grown-up's got!

And that's a natural law!

thebullkf · 02-02-2011 05:37PM

aftyer 6 months,half the weight of your pillow is dead skin cells...

rat bite < human bite

vibe666 · 02-02-2011 05:41PM

just about the only thing i remember from reading "a brief history of almost everything" is that if you shrunk each of all the known (afaik, i'm assuming it's an estimate) galaxies down to the size of a pea, they would completely fill the royal albert hall, floor to ceiling.

just did a quick google and they estimate that our galaxy has about 4.6 billion planets in it, so, i believe the correct scientific term for the amount of planets in the known universe is a fcuktonne!

EDIT: might have to try and dig the book out tonight to make sure its right.

swarm.of.bees · 02-02-2011 06:14PM

When André the Giant was a child, his chauffeur (who drove him to school every day) was Samuel Beckett

captainjack · 02-02-2011 06:30PM

If you imagine each single atom to be the size of a football pitch, then the nucleas would be roughly the size of an apple on the centre circle...

So if you consider that the nucleas is the only part of the atom that contains matter...

It means that everything in the the universe, including our own bodies...

are just 99.99% empty space!

bungler · 02-02-2011 06:32PM

TimeToShine wrote: »

It's impossible for a woman to touch her elbows together.

score

I just pulled a chest muscle trying that:D

Hootanany · 02-02-2011 06:36PM

If you add the age you are on your next b/day to the year you were born, the answer is always 111.

captainjack · 02-02-2011 06:40PM

Hootanany wrote: »

If you add the age you are on your next b/day to the year you were born, the answer is always 111.

I presume thats without the 1 thousand 9 hundred years leading up to the year of your birth?

I'm 23 and was born in 1988.. 23 + 1988 = 2011 duh.

23 + 88 though

LighterGuy · 02-02-2011 06:43PM

A pigs orgasm can last up to 30 mins ...

I told that to a girl on a date once. I was young and nervous. I later found out she thought I was weird. Hence the no second date. lol.

Funny when I look back at it :pac:

enda1 · 02-02-2011 06:44PM

Hootanany wrote: »

If you add the age you are on your next b/day to the year you were born, the answer is always 111.

If you are over 11 years old

BizzyC · 02-02-2011 06:59PM

Hootanany wrote: »

If you add the age you are on your next b/day to the year you were born, the answer is always 111.

Works this year, cause it's 2011, next year it'll be 112, 113 the year after and so on...

It's like saying your full year of birth plus you age this year = the current calendar year.

Hootanany · 02-02-2011 07:04PM

The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders! :cool

swarm.of.bees · 02-02-2011 08:25PM

If you laid all the school kids in the country head-to-toe across the Atlantic, 99% of them would drown

Fremen · 02-02-2011 08:35PM

1+ 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + ... = infinity

1 + (1/2)x(1/2) + (1/3)x(1/3) + (1/4)x(1/4) + ... = (pi squared)/6

EverEvolving · 02-02-2011 08:42PM

The word Gullible isn't in the dictionary

haydar · 02-02-2011 09:04PM

your right lung takes in more air than ur left

orourkeda · 02-02-2011 09:12PM

Nell McCafferty has 3 stones

cml387 · 02-02-2011 10:18PM

Radio Eireann used to close down in the afternoon
All day broadcasting only started in 1968 (but they still finished at 11pm)

ladypip · 02-02-2011 10:38PM

swarm.of.bees wrote: »

If you laid all the school kids in the country head-to-toe across the Atlantic, 99% of them would drown

Hahahaha!!! love it!!!

The longest place name in Ireland is Muckanaghederdauhaulia, in County Galway.

Pompey Magnus · 02-02-2011 10:54PM

You only breathe through one nostril at any one time. The nostrils do not both take in air together, rather the left will do the work for between 40 minutes to a few hours and then the right takes over the job.

This is why people with heavy colds often experience periods of improved air intake through their nostrils, one nostril is less blocked than the other and this more open nostril has taken over breathing duty.