Bizarre Fact of the Day

Emp_Fab

Two thirds of the global tiger population are kept as pets in homes in the USA.

Dopesick

If you manage to balance a Yorkshire pudding on your nose while stirring toilet water with your index finger...you're a disgusting freak and should be beaten up.

quarky

Each person in America eats about 46 pizza slices a year.

notanon

Time flies more slowly the nearer you are to the Earth (or any large mass)  Physicists can actually measure the difference in the flow of time for something 1 foot off the ground compared to something on the ground.

For example, if one person spent 79 years living at an altitude 1 foot higher than another, the first person would end up approximately 90 billionths of a second older.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.livescience.com/8672-higher-faster-age.html

guitargeek62

quarky said:

Each person in America eats about 46 pizza slices a year.

Amateurs! I have roughly one pizza every 10 days, usually 8 slices a time, so that puts me at 292 slices a year!

proggy

When you clean your vacuum cleaner, you actually become a vacuum cleaner.

interstellar

no you dont you become a vacuum vacuum cleaner

Bridgehouse

interstellar said:

no you dont you become a vacuum vacuum cleaner

Wouldn't you actually become a used-to-be-vacuum-and-will-be-when-you-turn-it-back-on cleaner?

munckee

We are so far away from the sun that we cannot feel its warmth directly, the radiation it emits speeds up the particles in our atmosphere and it is the friction from the moving particles which causes the warmth which makes out planet habitable.

Bellycaster

There is an Island on this Planet that you cannot go to.





It's true, I just checked and Ryanair do not fly to there.

BigBearKris

interstellar said:

no you dont you become a vacuum vacuum cleaner

Nope. You'd become a vacuum cleaner cleaner.

Bellycaster

BigBearKris said:

interstellar said:

no you dont you become a vacuum vacuum cleaner

Nope. You'd become a vacuum cleaner cleaner.

And the Apprentice of the Vacuum Cleaner Cleaner, who happens to have the better personal hygiene of the two, he would be a Cleaner Vacuum Cleaner Cleaner.

Emp_Fab

munckee said:

We are so far away from the sun that we cannot feel its warmth directly, the radiation it emits speeds up the particles in our atmosphere and it is the friction from the moving particles which causes the warmth which makes out planet habitable.

I’m not entirely sure I believe that.  Do you have any verifiable sources ?

vale

if you wanted to make a black hole that contained the same mass as the earth you would have to compress the entire mass of the earth (approx six trillion trillion kgs) into a sphere 16 mm in diameter.

vale

for the first few hundred million years of its life following the big bang, the universe was actually a superhot (several thousand degrees) orange plasma soup, fuzzily lit up like halogen lamps light up fog.

not black & not transparent. just weird.

munckee

Emp_Fab said:

munckee said:

We are so far away from the sun that we cannot feel its warmth directly, the radiation it emits speeds up the particles in our atmosphere and it is the friction from the moving particles which causes the warmth which makes out planet habitable.

I’m not entirely sure I believe that.  Do you have any verifiable sources ?

Yes Stephen Fry said it on QI once! Doesn't get any more reliable than that : ) 

sweepy

munckee said:

Emp_Fab said:

munckee said:

We are so far away from the sun that we cannot feel its warmth directly, the radiation it emits speeds up the particles in our atmosphere and it is the friction from the moving particles which causes the warmth which makes out planet habitable.

I’m not entirely sure I believe that.  Do you have any verifiable sources ?

Yes Stephen Fry said it on QI once! Doesn't get any more reliable than that : ) 

QI have gotten things wrong on more than one occasion, I rarely take it as Gospel
https://dave.uktv.co.uk/top-10s/gallery/top-10-times-they-got-it-wrong-qi/

To name but 10

https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/2152859/inaccurate-qi-facts

Kilgore

munckee said:

We are so far away from the sun that we cannot feel its warmth directly, the radiation it emits speeds up the particles in our atmosphere and it is the friction from the moving particles which causes the warmth which makes out planet habitable.

The Moon (no atmosphere) gets up to about 100 c in daytime. 

Nitefly

Kilgore said:

munckee said:

We are so far away from the sun that we cannot feel its warmth directly, the radiation it emits speeds up the particles in our atmosphere and it is the friction from the moving particles which causes the warmth which makes out planet habitable.

The Moon (no atmosphere) gets up to about 100 c in daytime. 

That's because it's made of green cheese.