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1 in 10 of the world's population live within the Gnages watershed.
the average Asian wedding in Britain costs around 45k.
The richest 85 people have more money than the poorest 3.5 billion.
There is an 'interesting statistics' thread on STW every 58.2 days.
the gnages receives up to 1 billion litres of untreated sewage every day
it is also the most commonly misspelt of all rivers
I have more than the average number of legs
85% of statistics are made up on the spot.
One in ten Icelanders will publish a book: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24399599
All polar bears are left handed.
All ants fall to the left when intoxicated.
One in ten people understand binary.
The other half don't.......
6 out of 7 dwarves aren't Happy....
Giraffes and humans have the same number of neck vertebrae (7).
All ants fall to the left when intoxicated
I just want that to be true!
Last year over 462,000 cycles were stolen
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Icicles kill 100 people per year in Russia
Bloody iciclists, they don't pay road tax you know.
A Norwegian carpenter named Bjørklund invented and patented the cheese slicer in 1925
85% of statistics are made up on the spot.
It's 87% isn't it?
On average, in 2013, every day I passed 5.9 other cyclist heading towards Cambridge on the guided bus way cycle path.
Bloody iciclists, they don't pay road tax you know
😆
Virginia Plain _ Roxy Music, Up the junction - Squeeze and Just like heaven - the cure all have the song title used just once as the last line of the song.
There are two golf balls on the moon.
A quarter of your bones are in your feet.
You have no muscles in your fingers.
The first aeroplane was built in a bike shop.
There are currently twice as many bikes as cars.
The bicycle is the most efficient vehicle ever devised.
clipper68 - Member
One in ten people understand binary.
The other half don't.......
Ahem, don't you mean "there are 10 types of people in the world. Those that understand binary, and those that don't"?
Clipper is including himself in the half that don't 🙂
Since the war in Afghanistan started, more Americans have been murdered in Chicago than in afghanistan
Ahem, don't you mean "there are 10 types of people in the world. Those that understand binary, and those that don't"?
And those that understand ternary.
Last year the government presented data for investment in their National Infrastructure Plan using a logarithmic scale:
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as a linear scale it looks looks this:
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scaredypants - Memberthe gnages receives up to 1 billion litres of untreated sewage every day
it is also the most commonly misspelt of all rivers
Got to be the Mrs Hippy, surely?
The great wall of China is not visible from space, and it didn't work the mongols still invaded China.
1 million seconds = 11.6 days
1 billion seconds = 31.7 years
1 trillion seconds = 31,688 years
the last B52 bomber left the factory in 1962 and it will still be in service until 2044. the USAF has 3 generations of pilots from the same families flying the same planes.
http://innovation.uk.msn.com/design/the-bomber-that-will-keep-flying-until-2044
The great wall of China is not visible from space, and it didn't work the mongols still invaded China.
I thought the point of the wall was not to keep the invaders out, it was to make it harder to get their loot home again.
And also just to make a massive statement of borderness. As if that were a word.
Per person per year we get through more concrete than anything apart from water. So thats more concrete than steel, timber or food....
Per person per year we get through more concrete than anything apart from water
I blame wrightyson!
I blame wrightyson!
I think you'll find that approximately 78% of the UK's concrete use last year was due to footflaps' shed foundations.
Humans have between 0.5% and 2% neanderthal DNA, and best guess/explanation for this from scientists is that our homo erectus ancestors fooled around with some of them. 😯
[url= http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jan/29/fifth-neanderthals-genetic-code-lives-on-humans ]linky[/url]
Aye, the concrete...if it was laid properly in the first place we wouldn't need to use so much as we'd have far fewer potholes to refill!!! 😉
In a recent survey 100 men were asked if they preferred women with long legs,women with shorter legs or something in between.Three men replied they liked women with long legs,two men said they liked women with short legs and ninety five said they liked something in between.....
Despite Ronald Reagan clearly being firmly in the grip of Alzheimers disease when he left office, his approval rating with the American public was still 70%.
From [url= http://kottke.org/14/02/true-facts-that-sound-false ]this blog post[/url]:
When you get a kidney transplant, they usually just leave your original kidneys in your body and put the 3rd kidney in your pelvis.
IPv6 would allow every atom on the surface of the earth to have its own IP address, with enough spare to do Earth 100+ times.
Russia is bigger than Pluto. (Surface area of Pluto: 16.7x10^6 km^2; Surface area of Russia: 17.1x10^6 km^2)
If you melted down the Eiffel Tower, the pool of iron would be less than 3 inches deep (in a square area the same dimensions as the tower base).
John Tyler, who became US president in 1841, has 2 living grandchildren.
Mammoths were alive when the Great Pyramid was being built.
If an atom was the size of our solar system, a neutrino would be the size of a golfball, to scale.
Humans share 50% of their DNA with... bananas.
One of my back legs are the same.
You have no muscles in your fingers.
Or more accurately,you do...
DrP
The bicycle is the most efficient vehicle ever devised.
Actually (I've read that) a human on a bike is more efficient than any other propulsion in the whole animal kingdom.
What about a duck on a bike?
Surely a duck on recumbent would be even more efficient?
Duck fact:
Crispy duck is actually Shredded Wheat marinaded in Pernod.
Or more accurately,you do...DrP
I've heard this one thrown around the pub before DrP...can you clarify please?
Each finger may flex and extend, abduct and adduct, and so also circumduct. Flexion is by far the strongest movement. In humans, there are two large muscles that produce flexion of each finger, and additional muscles that augment the movement. Each finger may move independently of the others, though the muscle bulks that move each finger may be partly blended, and the tendons may be attached to each other by a net of fibrous tissue, preventing completely free movement.
Fingers do not contain muscles (other than arrector pili). The muscles that move the finger joints are in the palm and forearm. The long tendons that deliver motion from the forearm muscles may be observed to move under the skin at the wrist and on the back of the hand.
Muscles of the fingers can be subdivided into extrinsic and intrinsic muscles. The extrinsic muscles are the long flexors and extensors. They are called extrinsic because the muscle belly is located on the forearm.
Our doctor is technically correct, the best kind of correct.
Well, if you made a bike that perfectly fit a duck it might end up more efficient, because the wheels would be really small but also because the duck could point his head forward and be really aerodynamic.
I don't think this has been done though.
EDIT: nope, the internet wins again:
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And again:
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Hibs have not won the Scottish Cup since 1902.............sorry I just saw the title has "surprising" in it!
Carlisle is further East than Edinburgh.
Truro is further east than Inverness.
Double posts are possible on STW.
There are more calculated possible moves in chess than particles in the universe.
Truro is further east than Inverness.
[url= http://toolserver.org/~rhaworth/os/coor_g.php?pagename=Truro¶ms=SW825448_region%3AGB_scale%3A25000 ]Truro[/url]: 5.05 deg W
[url= http://toolserver.org/~rhaworth/os/coor_g.php?pagename=Inverness¶ms=NH666450_region%3AGB_scale%3A25000 ]Inverness[/url]: 4.22 deg W
No it isn't
The NHS is the 5th biggest employer in the world.
Drity cycling shoes in the sink is wrong, dirty running shoes in the sink is acceptable. Apparently.
More people are killed by coconuts each year than by sharks.
In American and Canadian English, tidbit is the preferred spelling of the noun referring to (1) a choice morsel or (2) a pleasing bit of something. Titbit is preferred everywhere else. Neither spelling is right or wrong. Titbit is older, but tidbit is etymologically justifiable (the first syllable likely comes from the archaic colloquialism tid, meaning tender). And tidbit is not so new itself; it was well established in American English by the early 1800s.
(tit-bit is wrong though).
Info graphic over at gcaptain
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Our testicles begin their origins in a similar position to women's ovaries..
They 'move down' something called a gubernaculum.
I like to think they behave like pacman(men?) Munching on a piece of spaghetti...
The body is awesome!
DrP
Also, we have no skeletal muscles in our fingers...
DrP
julianwilson - Member
Humans have between 0.5% and 2% neanderthal DNA, and best guess/explanation for this from scientists is that our homo erectus ancestors fooled around with some of them.linky
something thats very interesting to come out of the study is that africans also have a trace of neanderthal genes, something that wasnt at all expected
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Most birds cannot smell or taste.
Erm..
[url= http://www.nwf.org/news-and-magazines/national-wildlife/birds/archives/2013/bird-smell.aspx ]http://www.nwf.org/news-and-magazines/national-wildlife/birds/archives/2013/bird-smell.aspx[/url]
and taste...
[url= http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/birdbrain.html ]http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/birdbrain.html[/url] (At the bottom)
But of course, being the interweb...
http://www.birdsandblooms.com/birding/birding-basics/can-birds-smell-taste/
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v71/n1840/abs/071318b0.html
For the first link, the argument regarding taste falls down because birds lack the receptors for capsaicin (the stuff that makes chillies hot). Also, strictly speaking capsaicin doesn't actually have a flavor anyway. To be fair Birds do have far fewer taste buds than most other species, but they are still there.
The second link is to 1905 letter saying more research should be done. So apart from being out of date, modern research shows the initial assumptions where wrong.
One of the earliest assumptions on birds sense of smell was made testing rotting meat on vultures, by hiding it in bushes. The idea being that the birds would find the carcass if they could smell it. They failed to realise that these vultures actually prefer their meat fresh, so ignored the pungent rotting stuff. They assumed because the birds ignored it, they couldn't smell it.
Most birds cannot smell or taste.
birds can see the earth's magnetic field