Facts That Make You Think !!!

[Darkwood]

Just for a bit of fun and also if we can avoid the old wifes tales, here's a thread about everyday facts that are a bit of an eye-opener..so to kick off:-

-With respect to Human fatalities per year the deadliest animal in Austrialia is the Horse.
-Mnay people will notice a distinct smell following rain, this is a bateria known as actinomycetes.
-Breastfeeding allows the baby to pass germs it has taken on and lets the mothers stronger immune system synthesize antibodies that are added to the breast milk, research now suggests mothers who don't breast feed their babies can expose them to devolopement and mental issues hence all the baby milk adverts now call it follow on milk as it is no longer recommended to totally omit breast feeding.
-Dragoflies are the most efficient natural predator we know, catching 95% of their prey.

Over to you

 

[Sintra]

“Facebook Addiction Disorder” is a mental disorder identified by psychologists.

 

[telectrix]

paranoia is a state of mind.

alcoholism is a matter of degree.

electricians frogs have 3 times the brain power of plumbers.

 

[GMES]

A single cloud can weight more than 1 million pounds.

 

[Andy78]

Mars is populated entirely by robots

 

[GMES]

A broken clock is right two times every day.
The word “gorilla” is derived from a Greek word meaning, “A tribe of hairy women.”
Earth is the only planet that is not named after a god.

 

[Wilko]

63% of people believe random statistics presented as facts on the Internet

 

[David M]

Milk rehydrates you better than water.

 

[Sintra]

Basically anything that melts can be made into glass. You just have to cool off a molten material before its molecules have time to realign into what they were before being melted.

 

[David M]

Vitamin supplements are a waste of time for a normal healthy person who follows a balanced diet. Any additional unrequired vitamins and minerals are peed out as waste produce.

 

[David M]

Even travelling at the speed of light ( approx 300,000 kilometres per second ) it would still take you over 4 years to reach the nearest star to our solar system.
It would also take you approx 100,000 years to cross our Milky Way Galaxy

 

[Darkwood]

5 out of 4 people are bad at maths

 

[Dan]

It takes the solar system 240 million years to complete one orbit of the Milky Way Galaxy.

 

[Darkwood]

Your stomach acid is strong enough to desolve a razor blade (please do not try this at home)...:mangry:

 

[Dan]

In the UK you're spinning at 600mph, and the equator over 1000mph, even while sitting down.

Because everything is spinning at the same time around you, you don't feel a thing. Thankfully!

 

[Spoon]

"Don't believe everything you read on the internet" - Abraham Lincoln.

 

[Andy78]

The amount of time elapsed between T-rex existing and humans existing is smaller than the amount of time between T-rex existing and stegosaurus existing.

Similarly, Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of the iphone than she did to the completion of the Great pyramid.

 

[telectrix]

Your stomach acid is strong enough to desolve a razor blade (please do not try this at home)...:mangry:

my stomach acid can process 6 pints of old peculier per hour. sod the razor blades.

 

[Wilko]

Another T. rex factoid

 

[telectrix]

In the UK you're spinning at 600mph, and the equator over 1000mph, even while sitting down.

Because everything is spinning at the same time around you, you don't feel a thing. Thankfully!

so why don't we fall off?