Fascinating and useful fact thread

[thunderlizard]

Most giraffes are around 4 feet tall. The giant giraffes you see on nature documentaries and in zoos do exist, but are very much the exception to the rule.

[PRC1964]

There are more moving parts in a modern photocopier than in the Apollo 11 spaceship.

[Boudica]

A top secret scientific programme in America is underway to make miniature versions of safari animals eg: elephant, hippo, giraffe, aligator etc with the idea being they are domesticated and sold as pets

[Boudica]

sasguru used to be a man

[PRC1964]

sasguru used to be a man

It spoils it if you just post rubbish.

[Wodewick]

Most giraffes are around 4 feet tall. The giant giraffes you see on nature documentaries and in zoos do exist, but are very much the exception to the rule.

A top secret scientific programme in America is underway to make miniature versions of safari animals eg: elephant, hippo, giraffe, aligator etc with the idea being they are domesticated and sold as pets

Spaniel sized Giraffes - can I have one, it beats those fu<king micro pigs!!

[EternalOptimist]

On a hard disk, it takes more energy to write a 1 than it does a zero

so if machine code had been redesigned in 1965, it would have saved energy. The amount saved is estimated to be sixteen times, by 2015, than all the CO2 produced


FACT

[thunderlizard]

While you are reading this, approximately 125,000 men worldwide currently have their foreskin trapped in a zip.

[Colour Sergeant Bourne]

US vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin is related to Margaret Thatcher by the second child of Benjamin Ebenezer Roberts who emigrated to the USA

FACT!

[TimberWolf]

A tardigrade is almost indestructible. It can be frozen, dried, irradiated and boiled and survive deep vacuum and come out laughing.