Fascinating Facts and Trivia

(07-12-2018 19:37 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Decided to take a backseat for a while, making too many errors and need to check things better, so keep this thread going and thanks to all contributors - ya bloods worth bottling! back very soon.

Get your arse back in this thread mate.

Here’s another one for now...

A mantis shrimp can swing its claw so fast, it boils the water around it and creates a flash of light.

I’m on a roll Greeny

The second officer of the Titanic refused to get off the ship until he had helped the others, he then got trapped underwater. He got free as a result of a boiler exploding. He went on to serve in WW2 and saved the lives of 127 men at Dunkirk.

Brown eyes are actually blue, but have a brown pigment.

The population of Bangladesh is larger than that of Russia.

Less time separates the existence of humans and the Tyrannosaurus Rex than the T-Rex and the Stegosaurus.

The average human body contains enough sulphur to kill all the fleas on the average dog, enough carbon to make 900 pencils, enough potassium to fire a toy cannon, enough fat to make seven bars of soap and enough water to fill a 50 litre barrel.

In the Mariana Trench about 35,802 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, the water pressure is 8 tons per square inch. That's the equivalent of 1 person holding up 50 jumbo jets.

Bulgaria was the only football team in the 1994 world cup in which all 11 players last names ended with the letters 'OV'.

London has seen only 10 white Christmases since 1900...

The Queen didn't deliver a Christmas message in 1969.She opted to sit it out as the royals had made enough appearances on television,referring to a documentary that had aired earlier that year.

The ribbon worm can eat up to 95% of its own body if it can't find food.

The Romans used crushed mouse brains as toothpaste.

20% of office coffee mugs contain fecal matter (University of Arizona study)