Here's an interesting fact that Mr C has just discovered.
Put superglue on cut-down cotton laces to seal them and they'll start smoking and will get a bit hot.
(He told me this after he dashed outside to put his shoes a safe distance from the house...)
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Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post
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Originally posted by vetran View Post
ooh Milla Jockovich + tight leather= winner
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Another Amazing Fact (TM) is that the first Resident Evil film is 20 years old this year.
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Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
I was about to say 'and they say you're no fun at parties' and then I realised who I was talking to.
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Originally posted by northernladuk View PostI do love these facts that puts the size of stuff in perspective....but they aren't really facts are they. It's just an estimate.
There was that 'fact' years ago that the weight of all the ants in the world equals the weight of all the humans but someone took a quick look at the population growth and increase in average weight of people and it fell quite a way short of what they claimed.
Still pretty incredible but not really that accurate and certainly not a fact.
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I do love these facts that puts the size of stuff in perspective....but they aren't really facts are they. It's just an estimate.
There was that 'fact' years ago that the weight of all the ants in the world equals the weight of all the humans but someone took a quick look at the population growth and increase in average weight of people and it fell quite a way short of what they claimed.
Still pretty incredible but not really that accurate and certainly not a fact.
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Amazing facts
This is an interesting fact I've just discovered:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrmicro.2016.177
To help conceptualize the sheer number of viruses in existence, their current biomass has been estimated to equal that of 75 million blue whales (approximately 200 million tonnes) and, if placed end to end, the collective length of their virions would span 65 galaxiesTags: None
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