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Post by ozterrier on Aug 1, 2017 13:37:47 GMT 1
I was reminded recently (I may have mentioned it on here before) of one which I find truly remarkable:
John Tyler, the 10th President of the United States - who was born 227 years ago in 1790 - has, as of 2017 two living grandchildren.
Anyone got any amazing facts?
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Post by ukumataii on Aug 2, 2017 1:46:52 GMT 1
The adblue used in diesel wagons and seen in garages up and down the country,to help diesel omissions is 32% cow piss.
I deliver it to garages and if a container of it splits it stinks your wagon out, which made me curious and I read the label.
It's down as urea so a bit more delving led me to an article (don't know how to do links) which says the urea comes from cows.
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Post by Lard Buttie on Aug 2, 2017 7:42:43 GMT 1
Harry Patch (WW1 soldier) died aged 111 years, 1 month, 1 week & 1 day old
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Post by Tinpot the Open Minded Ted Fan on Aug 2, 2017 8:43:16 GMT 1
There are twice as many pigs in Denmark as there are people.
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Post by ukumataii on Aug 2, 2017 12:09:27 GMT 1
There are twice as many pigs in Denmark as there are people. Uuuuuuummmmmmm Danish bacon🐖🐖 |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2017 12:54:35 GMT 1
The adblue used in diesel wagons and seen in garages up and down the country,to help diesel omissions is 32% cow piss. I deliver it to garages and if a container of it splits it stinks your wagon out, which made me curious and I read the label. It's down as urea so a bit more delving led me to an article (don't know how to do links) which says the urea comes from cows. Sorry, that's not fact at all. It's a myth... www.commercialfuelsolutions.co.uk/is-AdBlue-pig-urine.html |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2017 12:56:26 GMT 1
in 2008, 19% of people of working age in the UK were registered disabled. www.dlf.org.uk/content/key-factsThat's very nearly 1 in 5 of 16-65 year old's were registered to have a disability. |
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Post by Lard Buttie on Aug 2, 2017 13:19:24 GMT 1
Doesn't adblue contain urea whereby the confusion comes from?
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Post by ukumataii on Aug 2, 2017 13:56:21 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2017 14:07:54 GMT 1
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Post by ukumataii on Aug 2, 2017 14:54:16 GMT 1
You've beat me by 3 links to one but I am proud of the fact I've learnt how to post a link (thank you daughter).
My clouseau act is not that great either, I googled it after spilling some and noticing it contained urea which at the back of my mind thought it derived from urine.
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Post by hasta el pueblo on Aug 2, 2017 20:51:09 GMT 1
If you want to cross the Amazon River you will have to swim, not a single bridge over it, mind you it is 4000 miles long and at some points 250 miles wide.  |
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Aug 2, 2017 21:06:25 GMT 1
Despite the fact there a 3000 military cemeteries in France and Belgium, and Britain had 800,000 war dead, the first British soldier to die in the 1st world war and the last man to die find their graves face each other, just 8 metres apart.
This is completely random and this odd fact was only discovered about 16 years ago.
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Aug 2, 2017 21:11:03 GMT 1
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Post by El Mel on Aug 2, 2017 21:27:43 GMT 1
In France, you are allowed by law to marry a dead person.
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Post by pawsterrier on Aug 2, 2017 22:06:38 GMT 1
The good ol' Land of the Free - the United States encompasses 5 % of the world's population, but yet also 25% of the world's prison population. They have a bigger prison population than China (currently +1 billion higher in population), or Stalin's enormous gulag system at the height of the great terror in the 30's Soviet Union.
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Post by goodshot (FGS) on Aug 2, 2017 22:11:07 GMT 1
When I was a lad it was a well known schoolboy fact that you could fit all the people in the world on the Isle of Wight (standing up). With a bit of population growth since my schooldays I imagine you would now easily fit them on the Isle of Wight and the Isle of Man.
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Post by sheesh on Aug 2, 2017 22:49:08 GMT 1
When I was a lad it was a well known schoolboy fact that you could fit all the people in the world on the Isle of Wight (standing up). With a bit of population growth since my schooldays I imagine you would now easily fit them on the Isle of Wight and the Isle of Man. Presumably some on the Isle of Man and the others on the Isle of Woman? |
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Post by goodshot (FGS) on Aug 2, 2017 22:50:41 GMT 1
When I was a lad it was a well known schoolboy fact that you could fit all the people in the world on the Isle of Wight (standing up). With a bit of population growth since my schooldays I imagine you would now easily fit them on the Isle of Wight and the Isle of Man. Presumably some on the Isle of Man and the others on the Isle of Woman? Transgender on Anglesey. |
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Post by DeepSpace on Aug 3, 2017 10:00:34 GMT 1
Every drop of water we drink will contain water molecules that were once dinosaur pee.
The historical gap between Tutankhamun & Cleopatra is bigger than the gap between Cleopatra and us.
According to Bill Bryson at least, each one of us has at least a million atoms in our body that were once part of William Shakespeare.
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Post by Tinpot the Open Minded Ted Fan on Aug 3, 2017 10:25:22 GMT 1
Every drop of water we drink will contain water molecules that were once dinosaur pee. The historical gap between Tutankhamun & Cleopatra is bigger than the gap between Cleopatra and us. According to Bill Bryson at least, each one of us has at least a million atoms in our body that were once part of William Shakespeare. Tutankhamun was 1300(ish) years BC, Cleopatra was less than a century BC. The gap between the existence of Stegosaurus & Tyrannosaurus Rex is bigger than (more than double) the gap between Tyrannosaurus Rex and us though. |
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Post by DeepSpace on Aug 3, 2017 10:32:23 GMT 1
Yes I did the Egypt one without checking. I think the actual one is something like us being closer to the Norman Conquest than they were to each other. That'll teach me to post intellectual sounding crap whilst hungover :-)
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Post by space hardware (EPBS) on Aug 3, 2017 15:00:20 GMT 1
Every drop of water we drink will contain water molecules that were once dinosaur pee. The historical gap between Tutankhamun & Cleopatra is bigger than the gap between Cleopatra and us. According to Bill Bryson at least, each one of us has at least a million atoms in our body that were once part of William Shakespeare. Is that from his Short History of Nearly Everything book? That's a fantastic read, by the way. Another one from that book... A neutron star is so dense that a single teaspoon of its material would have a mass over 5,500,000,000 tonnes, that's about 900 times the mass of the Great Pyramid of Giza. |
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Post by Stewpot on Aug 3, 2017 16:13:44 GMT 1
Jimmy Carter once sent a jacket to the cleaners with the nuclear detonation codes still in the pocket.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2017 18:58:46 GMT 1
Jimmy Carter once sent a jacket to the cleaners with the nuclear detonation codes still in the pocket. Did his Generals go ballistic? |
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Post by pawsterrier on Aug 4, 2017 12:47:26 GMT 1
Loch Ness is the second largest Scottish loch by surface area at 56 km2 (22 sq mi) after Loch Lomond, but due to its great depth, it is the largest by volume in the British Isles... It contains more fresh water than all the lakes in England and Wales combined.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2017 17:53:15 GMT 1
The theme tune to 'Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'em' is actually the title in Morse code.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2017 13:58:31 GMT 1
In 2000, there was just one USD billionaire in China. Now it's claimed that there are 594 (more than in the USA).......56 of them are female.
There are something like half-a-million USD millionaires there. According to Knight Frank, 76,000 millionaires left China during the period 2003-2013, taking a lot of their wealth with them (buying property/assets in the West).
It is estimated that, over the past decade, China has lost US$3.8 trillion to capital flight......far outstripping the amount of foreign direct investment into the country. A serious situation, which has prompted the government to clamp down on overseas acquisitions by Chinese firms
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