Fact of The Day

The opposite of a microwave is a tsunami

Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were college roommates.

Every atom in your body, heavier than helium, was once at the centre of a star.

0 - 0 = 0 + 0

Therefore: - = +

In Germany and Austria* its legal to try to escape from prison. The law regards it as natural human instinct rather than a crime, so you won't be additionally punished for it. They will try to recapture you and put you back inside.

* I think Mexico as well.

Because it's based on a Greek word, the correct plural of Octopus should be otopodes not octopi. Which is presumably why octopuses was chosen instead? 🤷‍♂️

You can pinch the skin on your elbow REALLY REALLY hard and it doesn't hurt

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The expiry date of all packets of crisps falls on Saturdays

Bonio is only 5'6" !

Are they making this fancy new venue look even bigger by booking short bands?

Dogs can’t look up.

MDF has not been banned in the USA.

It's not a confirmed fact unless it's in capitals. FACT.

Dogs can’t look up.

Fun but wrong!

New Mexico (in the U.S.) predates Mexico (the country).

Gary Oldman is younger than Gary Numan

The human heart pumps enough blood to f

A cubic metre of estuarine mud contains about the same energy as a Mars Bar*.

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ill an Olymipic sized swimming pool every year.

Giraffes can'

Fun but wrong!

Sure? Big Al says so.

Johnson and Johnson have an annual turnover higher than the combined turnover of Sport.

Sorry, these have all been posted on the same day and the thread title stipulates just one fact of the day.

Johnson and Johnson have an annual turnover higher than the combined turnover of Sport.

Does sport include darts and snooker and ballet dancing?

Bonio is only 5’6″ !

That's a big dog biscuit.

Sure? Big Al says so.

* does not apply to all dogs IME though.

Shock horror - John Williams' Luke Skywalker theme music for Star Wars was lifted from Korngold's King's Row Suite written 1942. It's true, I'm listening to it now on Radio 3.

That’s a big dog biscuit.

Likes his biscuits, does Tim Westwood.

@sharkbait is the founder of the Shaun of the Dead fan club.

The hairier a horses hooves, the less likely it is to be startled by traffic/a cyclist/a crisp packet stuck to a hedge.

When first explored, it was discovered that the swimming pool on the Titanic was still full of water.

The Ciabatta was invented in 1982

I have an above average number of legs.

…ill an Olymipic sized swimming pool every year.

I’d  love to know what happened in that hour. To be fair to @donald he’s just owned it, no explanation, no apology. As it should be.

You can manufacture mechanical devices with mechanisms so small that it's impossible to see them even under an electron microscope as their features fall below the wavelength of light.

Facts were invented in 1936 by a Swiss engineer named Gustav Fakt

Perchy's back!

"I’d love to know what happened in that hour. To be fair to @donald he’s just owned it, no explanation, no apology. As it should be."

I Needed to change the filter in my Olympic sized swimming pool

so small that it’s impossible to see them even under an electron microscope as their features fall below the wavelength of light.

An electron microscope is used to view things with details to be resolved smaller than the wavelength of light...

We don't know how big the universe is. The part we can see is only a small fraction of what's out there.

The part we can see is only a small fraction of what’s out there.

And getting smaller all the time.

And getting smaller all the time.

Well, it's getting bigger, but the part we can see is getting bigger even faster. Eventually, the visible universe will shrink to almost zero as a fraction of the total. I think. I'm not sure that "visible" will really mean anything at that point.

Well, it’s getting bigger, but the part we can see is getting bigger even faster

AFAIK It's getting bigger sufficiently fast that the bit you can see is actually shrinking in "real" terms, not only relative.

Eventually and taken to absurdity the expansion would mean that your own hand held at arms length would be beyond the distance light can travel, it would basically redshift into nothingness.
(Though even if you were still alive you wouldn't have been able to see it long before that as the light from the sun would no longer be able to traverse the distance between the sun and earth.)

There are planetary shaped and sized bodies in space that are not in orbit around anything, will never be in orbit and aren't going to become stars, they are this other class of thing that are just 'there'

An electron microscope is used to view things with details to be resolved smaller than the wavelength of light…

My mistake - I meant to write "unless under" rather than "ever under"

Its the dwellers* getting up to mischief.  they do stuff like that just to mess with us.

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.* aliens from a Banks novel for those that do not know

There are planetary shaped and sized bodies in space that are not in orbit around anything

Weirder still, they've found pairs in orion that are in orbit around each other.
Guardian link

Ejected planets make sense, ejected binary pairs, somewhat less.

Ejected planets make sense, ejected binary pairs, somewhat less.

I guess they were not ejected as pairs, but when drifting in the void, and being huge, if they came 'close' enough to each other both thier respective gravity would eventualy pull them into orbit round each other to form a binary planet?

Giraffes can't cough.

Geddy Lee speaks like an ordinary guy.

Cheetahs are the only big cat that purrs.

In 2023 Leicester city scored more premier league goals than Chelsea. And they were relegated in May… 😁

You won’t find the word ‘gullible’ in any dictionary.

You won’t find the word ‘gullible’ in any dictionary.

Wrong thread, that's more tip than fact. A time saving tip, in fact.

Geddy Lee speaks like an ordinary guy.

@10 - I know him, and he does.

Giraffes aren't really tall, they just have long necks.