Interesting factoids?

Merlin5 · 27 Dec 2013 at 18:09

Does anyone have any interesting tidbits to share? I have some.

There are over 7 billion people in the world. If you met each person for just one second, it would take you over 200 years to meet them all.

The Natural History Museum in London has 22,000 draws filled with beetles.

Iron increases in weight as it rusts.

A pigeon's feathers weigh more than its bones.

85% of the world will think this thread is crap.

Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton lookalike contest.

Disney World is bigger than the world's 5 smallest countries.

The first person and last person to reply to this topic will 99% be an obese bespectacled male virgin.

Merlin5 · 27 Dec 2013 at 18:47

Lysander said:
What's the difference between a factoid and a fact?

Is a factoid a small fact [so actually, just a daft word for a fact].

Like the difference between guesstimate and estimate. They seem exactly the same.

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

Merlin5 · 27 Dec 2013 at 18:48

AlecR said:
Crocodiles eat stones to help them balance.

Yes. Also to assist in crushing food, similar to grit in birds.

Merlin5 · 27 Dec 2013 at 18:51

Lysander said:
I kind of wanted your understanding of the term and its proper usage since you're the one employing it, rather than dropping in a Wikipedia link.

Ok, well to me, a factoid is just a one line piece of information about something that makes me go "hah, I didn't know that, pretty interesting" that I assume is basically true. Steve Wright on BBC radio has a factoid session each afternoon.

Merlin5 · 27 Dec 2013 at 19:39

Hikari Kisugi said:
Really?
Draws?
Really?

I pasted without spell checking. Shoot me.

Merlin5 · 27 Dec 2013 at 20:17

Ryan-3 said:
How many ****'s given by Lysander about the "The first person and last person to reply to this topic will 99% be an obese bespectacled male virgin." part is zero.

Lol.

Bennie-Mac said:
This is false. It has 22,000 drawers filled with beetles.

Factoid: 1 person didn't check post #13.

Merlin5 · 27 Dec 2013 at 21:36

January 1st 2013 will not happen again.

Also,

Merlin5 · 27 Dec 2013 at 22:09

Stating that facts beginning with "roughly" are lies is true. Roughly speaking.

Merlin5 · 27 Dec 2013 at 22:42

Across the world, a can of Spam is opened every 4 seconds.

Merlin5 · 27 Dec 2013 at 23:05

The average person eats 35 tons of food in a lifetime.