Interesting factoids?

itchy · 27 Dec 2013 at 22:00

There is more calories in a pint of semi-skimmed milk than a pint of Guinness!!

I will drink to that.

Clarkson · 27 Dec 2013 at 22:04

Roughly 100% of facts starting with "roughly" are complete lies.

bitslice · 27 Dec 2013 at 22:09

Still not interesting, but OcUK related:

"The first recorded incorrect use of the word "literally" was in 1769"

Merlin5 · 27 Dec 2013 at 22:09

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

Creature · 27 Dec 2013 at 22:14

1 million seconds is 11 days, 1 billion is 33 years.

PapaLazaru · 27 Dec 2013 at 22:15

There is nobody on this planet who share my first and last name. :cool:

estebanrey · 27 Dec 2013 at 22:25

PapaLazaru said:
There is nobody on this planet who share my first and last name.

Then who typed that?

Merlin5 · 27 Dec 2013 at 22:42

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

estebanrey · 27 Dec 2013 at 22:52

Creature said:
1 million seconds is 11 days, 1 billion is 33 years.

Actually 1 million seconds would be 11 days, 13 hrs, 46 minutes and 40 seconds. 1 billion seconds would be 31 years, 251 days, 13 hours, 34 minutes and 54 seconds, presuming you are using the short-scale. If you're using the long scale, or old fashioned British billion then it would be 31 millennia, 688 years, 279 days, 6 hours, 31 minutes and 54 seconds.

Clarkson · 27 Dec 2013 at 22:53

The very first food eaten by a U.S astronaut in outer space was applesauce.

estebanrey · 27 Dec 2013 at 23:00

Despite having her own sitcom and the BBC desperately trying to convince us she is, Miranda Hart isn't actually funny.

Merlin5 · 27 Dec 2013 at 23:05

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

ennogs · 27 Dec 2013 at 23:19

Amazingly the human body has over 7 trillion nerve endings. What is even more amazing is women know how to get on every bloody one of them.

LOAM · 27 Dec 2013 at 23:31

Not long after the second world war France wanted a union with Great Britain with the Queen becoming their head of state, we refused.

Christmas themed thank · 27 Dec 2013 at 23:53

Water. There's lots of it.

Bennie-Mac · 28 Dec 2013 at 00:10

Merlin5 said:
Factoid: 1 person didn't check post #13.

Factoid: Merlin5 knows he has messed up but won't use the edit button to correct his mistakes. Making him a monster.

Mr Badger · 28 Dec 2013 at 00:13

Factoid: There is no such thing as 99% obese

Reaper 392 · 28 Dec 2013 at 00:20

cypto said:
Part of the 97%, although don't forget to read my factoid about polar bears.

since you seem to like polar bears, here's another polar bear fact:

The offspring of a polar bear and a grizzly bear is called a pizzly bear

Lightnix · 28 Dec 2013 at 00:26

Sure.

Some animals' sperm (including humans!) contains an organelle called the acrosome which contains digestive enzymes, used for getting through the ovum's fertilisation membrane.

In the year 2038, computer systems still using 32-bit signed integer encoding for timestamps will 'overflow' back to 1901. This is sometimes known as the Unix Apocalypse.

The most attractive complementary colour combination is teal and orange.

Gentoo is a massive ***** to set up.

I'm at least at the lower end of the BMI range.

Mr Badger · 28 Dec 2013 at 00:29

Reaper 392 said:
since you seem to like polar bears, here's another polar bear fact:

The offspring of a polar bear and a grizzly bear is called a pizzly bear

Factoid: You wouldn't call it that to its face.

Interesting factoids?

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