**OcUK FACTS Thread**

Ceryndrion said:
1) 10 % of all car thieves are left-handed. All Polar bears are left handed. If your car is stolen, and you live in the northern hemisphere, there is a 10 % chance that it was stolen by a Polar bear.
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I'm pretty sure that would depend on the ratios between polarbears and left handed people...
 
yer_averagejoe said:
I'm pretty sure that would depend on the ratios between polarbears and left handed people...
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No it wouldn't :rolleyes:

If all polar bears are left handed and 10% of car theives are left handed then it stands to reason that there's a 10% chance of it being a polar bear.

1 in ten chance of left handed thief
All polar bears left handed
Ba-da-bing. Its obvious.

If you limit it to the northern hemisphere then the percentile even goes up!

Easy.
 
Squark said:
Normally needed a few seconds longer though, naff, did I just admit to knowing that

I know how long it takes to cook almost everything in MacDonalds FACT

I only worked there for 1 1/2 years

Hippos can run at ~35mph for short periods of time FACT
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Yeah I think it's between 42 and 47 seconds.

Funnily enough the thing that takes the longest to cook is actualy the McApple Pies...
 
FincH said:
Yeah I think it's between 42 and 47 seconds.

Funnily enough the thing that takes the longest to cook is actualy the McApple Pies...
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Yeah but when they come out they're molten lava in pastry.
 
A large cat made from red plastic with minilites for eyes once woke up TV presenter Chris Evans by standing at the bottom of his garden and shouting 'Mmmmmmm, lettuce'!

The Minute Waltz is longer than one minute.

A ducks' quack does not echo.
 
Squark said:
I know how long it takes to cook almost everything in MacDonalds FACT
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When I was there, I could tell you the cooking times, temps, yields, gap settings, food cost, calibration parameters... you name it.

Several years ago now though, so I think I'd struggle with todays tests :p

Gilly said:
Yeah but when they come out they're molten lava in pastry.
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5:55 cooking @ 182'c, followed by a mandatory 10 minutes cooling. When I was there at least.
 
The frequency of a cicadas chirrups can be used to determine the ambient temperature as accurately as 1 degree centigrade FACT!

A total solar eclipse with halo occurs because, by sheer coincidence, the Sun is 200 times further away from us than the moon and 200 times larger FACT!

There is no 'I' in 'Team' FACT!
 
Gilly said:
No it wouldn't :rolleyes:

If all polar bears are left handed and 10% of car theives are left handed then it stands to reason that there's a 10% chance of it being a polar bear.

1 in ten chance of left handed thief
All polar bears left handed
Ba-da-bing. Its obvious.
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I'm trying to work out if you're actually serious about that or not (given it's a false implication).
 
I thought the duck fact that people were searching for is thus: Ducks exhibit the highest frequency of gay rape out of any animal. If their 'partner' dies whilst trying to get away the duck will rape the corpse none-the-less.

fini
 
Sic said:
You may lead a cow upstairs, but not back down
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Imagine the poor sod who found that out the hard way :(

"Ok Daisy, down ya go"


"Sorry Guv, I can't down the stairs, my joints don't moooooove that way"

"I don't care about your joints! My wife will be home in 5 minutes, get down the bloody stairs!"
 
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