Amazing facts

[cojak]

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...)

[vetran]

I'll see your Milla and raise you a Claire.

Bit young for me, a decade younger is about the max.

[mattster]

This is an interesting fact I've just discovered:


https://www.nature.com/articles/nrmicro.2016.177

Although apparently you could get all of the Covid virus inside a coke can: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2...n-of-coca-cola

[NotAllThere]

ooh Milla Jockovich + tight leather= winner

I'll see your Milla and raise you a Claire.

[SueEllen]

You'll be on a register for that. And I'm not referring to the crap spelling...

She's 46 so was a proper adult then.

[Mordac]

ooh Milla Jockovich + tight leather= winner

You'll be on a register for that. And I'm not referring to the crap spelling...

[vetran]

Another Amazing Fact (TM) is that the first Resident Evil film is 20 years old this year.

ooh Milla Jockovich + tight leather= winner

[ladymuck]

Another Amazing Fact (TM) is that the first Resident Evil film is 20 years old this year.

[vetran]

Here you go....

[northernladuk]

I was about to say 'and they say you're no fun at parties' and then I realised who I was talking to.

..eh.. hang on.. what???

[AtW]

75 mln space whales

[ladymuck]

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.

I was about to say 'and they say you're no fun at parties' and then I realised who I was talking to.

[northernladuk]

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.

[BlasterBates]

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 galaxies