Fascinating Facts and Trivia

A cow-bison hybrid is called a “beefalo”

You can buy its meat in at least 21 US states.

The “Windy City” name has nothing to do with Chicago weather, Chicago’s nickname was coined by 19th-century journalists who were referring to the fact that its residents were “windbags” and “full of hot air.”

Kleenex tissues were originally intended for gas masks during World War 1.

Pretty sure I put that already somewhere on here

(07-01-2019 19:27 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Pretty sure I put that already somewhere on here

Which one? The last one?

Damn I’m banning myself then...

The hottest planet in our solar system is Venus with an average surface temperature of 450c

*this ok Greeny?

A full NASA space suit costs $12 million. 70% of the cost is the backpack and control module.

(07-01-2019 20:44 )Carl_HoneyLover Wrote:  The hottest planet in our solar system is Venus with an average surface temperature of 450c

*this ok Greeny?

Yeah fine, it was the one about the Kleenex was the dubious one Carlo

The Earth’s rotation is gradually slowing.

This deceleration is happening almost imperceptibly, at approximately 17 milliseconds per hundred years, although the rate at which it occurs is not perfectly uniform. This has the effect of lengthening our days, but it happens so slowly that it could be as much as 140 million years before the length of a day will have increased to 25 hours.

Earth is mostly iron, oxygen and silicon

If you could separate the Earth out into piles of material, you’d get 32.1 % iron, 30.1% oxygen, 15.1% silicon, and 13.9% magnesium.