Fascinating Facts and Trivia

When most people have a baby, they typically wait a little while before even thinking about having another child. But that wasn't an option for one woman in Bangladesh, who unexpectedly gave birth to twins in March 2019, less than a month after having another newborn.

The highly unusual circumstance came about because the woman has two uteruses and both were able to successfully carry the three healthy children to term.

However, the mother's doctor did admit, "We were very shocked and surprised. I have never observed something like this before."

If a storm is passing and the sun starts shining, you might be lucky enough to spot a rainbow. But did you know that you can see something just as amazing at night?

While they're incredibly unusual, moonbows (or lunar rainbows) are caused by the reflection, refraction, and dispersion of light, and tend to happen most often in places with waterfalls and mist.

There also needs to be a near full moon for there to be enough light for you to see the moonbow.

In ancient Greece and Rome, doctors used spider webs to make bandages for their patients.

Spider webs supposedly have natural antiseptic and anti-fungal properties, which can help keep wounds clean and prevent infection.

It's also said that spider webs are rich in vitamin K, which helps promote clotting.

So, next time you're out of Band-Aids, just head to your attic and grab some "webicillin."

They say if it ain't broke, don't fix it—and that turned out to be the case for a very early design of the mousetrap.

In the mid-1800s, inventor Colin Pullinger unveiled his Perpetual Mousetrap and claimed that it would last a lifetime.

More than a century later, Pullinger could still make that claim.

The 155-year-old device, on display at England's Museum of English Rural Life, managed to catch a mouse that snuck into it in 2016—even without bait!

The mouse entered the trap attempting to build a nest and ended up activating its see-saw mechanism.

Sadly, the rodent didn't survive. But clearly, the perpetual mousetrap does!

(24-03-2020 21:58 )billyboy1963 Wrote:  It would only take one hour to drive to space.

If you got into your car, turned on the ignition and drove up to the sky at 60 mph, it would take just one hour to get to outer space, according to astronomer Fred Hoyle. Of course, this is purely a theoretical, but it sure is fun to think about!

The road would be called the M 7eaven

Did you know that in the UK there's a DVLA vehicle enquiry service?

http://vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk/

Enteryourregnumbernah

Try it on the most famous (and valuable) number, A1 and you'll see that it is on a currently taxed and tested black Mini Cooper S
And try it on your first ever car...Oh the nostalgia.
And what about yer neighbour, is his old banger taxed?

Black sapote has another irresistible name: the chocolate pudding fruit.

The fruit—native to Central and South America—tastes like sweet custard with a hint of chocolate.

When it's fully ripe, the flavor (and consistency) has been described as a dead ringer for chocolate pudding.

Drinking too much water can be deadly.

When guzzling a lot of liquid, you can suffer from water intoxication or hyponatremia, which occurs after an obscene amount of water is consumed, often during endurance events when participants are also losing sodium through their sweat.

There have been many notable cases, including the 2002 Boston Marathon competitor Cynthia Lucero, who died from overhydration.

The hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth was 2 billion degrees kelvin.

To give you a sense of how hot that is: The interior of our sun is only about 15 million degrees kelvin.

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories produced the record-breaking temperature in their lab using a superheated gas, equal to about 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit, which is… significantly warmer than any temperature your oven could reach.

You probably already know that tree rings can tell you how old a tree is.

But they can also show you the conditions of a given year, according to NASA.

Thinner rings appear during drought years, and thick ones mean there was significant rainfall.