What the heck fun facts.

[ol-hazza]

Why do the british use the term "safe as houses" when most accidents occur inside and within a short distance of the home?

An investment term perhaps?



The Sami people of northern Finland use a measure called Poronkusema: the distance a reindeer can walk before needing to urinate.
This one is from the QI fact book

 

[Zepth]

Classic! Man, I miss George Carlin.

I as well. I'm sure he's down there now screaming up at us.*


Why do people keep using these phone apps and complain about them?

An acre is the area that can be ploughed by one ox and yoke in one working day.


*For those of you who don't get it, https://youtu.be/3PiZSFIVFiU?t=298t 5 minute mark. **** language.

 

[vanishingpint]

Al Sleet.The hippy dippy weatherman.Sunny today followed by mostly dark tonight. Not to be confused with Al Pouch the hippy dippy postman.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

"Please return the stewardess to her original, upright position."
Regards, GF.

 

[daksin]

Isn't this drunken ramblings? I can't be arsed to read the contents of this thread- too damn long if you ask me.

From post above: "Regards, GF" works on many levels. My GF would be [redacted]. Too drunk to make pun, add value to thread, or even just respond in a comprehensible manner.

 

[joshesmusica]

The only word with all the vowels and none repeated. Bonus points for you!

eutopia? facetious? subcontinental? uncomplimentary?

also apparently there's a genus of Cretaceous fossil sponges called iouea.

but most importantly, you're forgetting that according to some sources, there's six vowels in the english language.

therefore:

facetiously

 

[gratus fermentatio]

"A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y."
(Does a golf clap)

 

[Brewenstein]

eutopia? facetious? subcontinental? uncomplimentary?

also apparently there's a genus of Cretaceous fossil sponges called iouea.

but most importantly, you're forgetting that according to some sources, there's six vowels in the english language.

therefore:

facetiously

I guess you got me. I was playing Scrabble and the word "sequoia" came up. I was double checking the spelling and found out it was the shortest word with all the vowels, and none repeated. I forgot about the "shortest" part. And apparently it not, as per your fossil sponge. I stand corrected, and l learned something new today. Time to go home!

 

[joshesmusica]

I guess you got me. I was playing Scrabble and the word "sequoia" came up. I was double checking the spelling and found out it was the shortest word with all the vowels, and none repeated. I forgot about the "shortest" part. And apparently it not, as per your fossil sponge. I stand corrected, and l learned something new today. Time to go home!

 

[MaxStout]

"A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y."
(Does a golf clap)

Approves.

 

[vanishingpint]

Holy crap .That is so funny.Totally forgot that song.Maybe it should have stayed that way.:cross:

 

[Natdavis777]

Rubbing alcohol burns on a cut due to the alcohol lowering the temperature threshold of certain receptors, hence, your own body heat causing a burning sensation in the cut.

I forget when or where I learned that, but it came back to be today when I ran an alcohol swap past a cut on my finger.

 

[ubnserved]

Approves.

Great I have that song in my head now

 

[vanishingpint]

O.M.G ! I finally listened to that song for the first time in decades.That shizt is horrible . Why? Oh why!?

 

[slym2none]

A baby's laughter is one of the most beautiful sounds you will ever hear.

Unless it's 3AM.

And you're home alone.

And you don't have a baby.

 

[black_belt]

A day on Venus is longer than its year. It takes longer to spin on its own axis (243 earth days) than to orbit the sun (224.7 earth days).
Is this a fun fact? It is to me.

 

[JonM]

Al Sleet.The hippy dippy weatherman.Sunny today followed by mostly dark tonight. Not to be confused with Al Pouch the hippy dippy postman.

The guy who hosts the Saturday morning surf rock/ rockabilly show on the local college station always throws that in to his weather reports. "Tonight, cloudy, cool, 30% chance of showers, 100% chance of dark."

 

[kombat]

A day on Venus is longer than its year. It takes longer to spin on its own axis (243 earth days) than to orbit the sun (224.7 earth days).
Is this a fun fact? It is to me.

I love space facts. Did you know that Jupiter weighs more than all the other planets in the solar system combined? Jupiter is so massive that the point about which it orbits the sun (their "barycenter") is actually above the surface of the sun. That means that, in a way, the sun is actually orbiting Jupiter a little bit. Jupiter has 63 known moons.

The largest star known to man is UY Scuti, a red supergiant that is so massive that if it were sitting where our sun is, it would engulf all the inner planets of our solar system out past Jupiter.

It takes 9 minutes for the sun's light to reach the earth. There's ice on Mercury. Keep 'em coming!

 

[JonM]

Since its discovery in 1930, Pluto has completed about 1/3 of a single orbit around the sun.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

Since its discovery in 1930, Pluto has completed about 1/3 of a single orbit around the sun.

With thanks, in part, to Hubbel space telescope technology school age children today won't know WTF Pluto is.

 

[JonM]

This is completely fascinating.

http://htwins.net/scale2/

 

[Rockn_M]

This is completely fascinating.

http://htwins.net/scale2/

Very cool!

 

[Homercidal]

amazing.

 

[Homercidal]

The ending was a bit of a letdown...

 

[slym2none]

There is a group called The Procrastinator's Club Of America. They have a monthly publication called "Last Month's Newsletter."

 

[JonM]

There is a group called The Procrastinator's Club Of America. They have a monthly publication called "Last Month's Newsletter."

I should check that out! Later, though.

 

[SnakeRidge]

I should check that out! Later, though.

I was going to, but...

 

[Floored]

A day on Venus is longer than its year. It takes longer to spin on its own axis (243 earth days) than to orbit the sun (224.7 earth days).
Is this a fun fact? It is to me.

So if you found a temperate zone near Venus's equator and could travel about 100 miles per Earth day counter the planetary rotation you could live there? Or less of a distance closer to the poles if the orientation is right.

 

[SnakeRidge]

So if you found a temperate zone near Venus's equator and could travel about 100 miles per Earth day counter the planetary rotation you could live there? Or less of a distance closer to the poles if the orientation is right.

If you could deal with the pressure and the Sulfuric Acid rain. And also if by temperate you mean like 900*F.

 

[Floored]

If you could deal with the pressure and the Sulfuric Acid rain. And also if by temperate you mean like 900*F.

Guess I should have checked dark side surface temperature first. Whoops!