Facts that shocked you

[Blib]

In his professional career Roger Federer won 80% of his matches.

However, he only won 54% of the points in those matches.

[Monkeylegend]

Blib said:

In his professional career Roger Federer won 80% of his matches.

However, he only won 54% of the points in those matches.

You can win a five set match 6-4, 6-4, 0-6, 0-6, 6-4 and "win" by 18 games to 24 so not really that shocking.

[Antony Moxey]

Monkeylegend said:

Blib said:

In his professional career Roger Federer won 80% of his matches.

However, he only won 54% of the points in those matches.

You can win a five set match 6-4, 6-4, 0-6, 0-6, 6-4 and "win" by 18 games to 24 so not really that shocking.

You could also win every set on a tie break so pretty much the smallest margin of victory, but a win nonetheless.

[hammo19]

If you make the life of the universe as we know it 1 year old the Earth came into existence at 23:57 on the 31st December in that one year.

[Ken_Code]

hammo19 said:

If you make the life of the universe as we know it 1 year old the Earth came into existence at 23:57 on the 31st December in that one year.

No it didn’t, the Earth is about 1/3 the age of the universe.

[Jordie Barretts sock]

Currently Pilton Farm near Glastonbury is the the most population dense place on the planet.

[TO73074E]

ZedLeg said:

The single biggest organism on the planet is a fungus that's grown to an area of over 5 sqkm underground in the pacific northwest. The second biggest is also in the US, it's a copse of Ash trees that are all naturally cloned from 1 original tree in Utah.

This is no longer true. The single biggest organism is Ant McPartlin's forehead.

[deadtom]

Ken_Code said:

No it didn’t, the Earth is about 1/3 the age of the universe.

I'm assuming he meant the human race, which works out about right if you take the universe to be approx 14 billion years old and human species to be 100,000 (though my quick googling suggests 200,000 which would give an appearance time of 11:52:30 on 31st December of the universal year)

Still a good factoid though, and even more that human civilisation (with cities and stuff, as opposed to just human shaped animals living in caves) would have turned up very late to the party at around 11:59:50

[Antony Moxey]

Jordie Barretts sock said:

Currently Pilton Farm near Glastonbury is the the most population dense place on the planet.

You could say that about every festival, Premier League football match, rugby international etc etc.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Blib said:

In his professional career Roger Federer won 80% of his matches.

However, he only won 54% of the points in those matches.

To clarify, he won 54% of all the points he ever played as a pro, including the 20% of games he lost. In the 80% of games he won, he probably won a bit more than 54% of the points, and in the 20% of games he lost, he probably won less than 54%.

But it is possible to win more points than your opponent in a game and still lose the match, or visa versa.

I'd like to know what percentage of games and points he won starting from when he became world no1. The 80% / 54% includes his first few years as a pro, when he was obviously losing more matches

[boyse7en]

Antony Moxey said:

Jordie Barretts sock said:

Currently Pilton Farm near Glastonbury is the the most population dense place on the planet.

You could say that about every festival, Premier League football match, rugby international etc etc.

Not many people camp at football and rugby matches though

[Sigmamark7]

Given the amount of effort that the England team seem to be putting into the Euros, they might just as well set up a tent on the pitch and sit in it until the final whistle!

[Antony Moxey]

boyse7en said:

Antony Moxey said:

Jordie Barretts sock said:

Currently Pilton Farm near Glastonbury is the the most population dense place on the planet.

You could say that about every festival, Premier League football match, rugby international etc etc.

Not many people camp at football and rugby matches though

Indeed, but in that stadium at that time they're pretty packed in, so are probably in an area that's of the greatest population density at the time. Same for marches, carnivals, demonstrations and so on.

[DannyScene]

Monkeylegend said:

Apparantly 80% of hearing aids languish in bedside cabinets and are never worn.

pardon?

[eldar]

DannyScene said:

Monkeylegend said:

Apparantly 80% of hearing aids languish in bedside cabinets and are never worn.

pardon?

Friday.

[mickythefish]

Glastonbury holds the record for the most amount of pretentious middle class people in one space ever. 40 tonnes of hummus are consumed every hour.

[dandarez]

mickythefish said:

Antony Moxey said:

boyse7en said:

Antony Moxey said:

Jordie Barretts sock said:

Currently Pilton Farm near Glastonbury is the the most population dense place on the planet.

You could say that about every festival, Premier League football match, rugby international etc etc.

Not many people camp at football and rugby matches though

Indeed, but in that stadium at that time they're pretty packed in, so are probably in an area that's of the greatest population density at the time. Same for marches, carnivals, demonstrations and so on.

Glastonbury holds the record for the most amount of pretentious middle class people in one space ever. 40 tonnes of hummus are consumed every hour.

I dunno what that says (bold above) about the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival then?
Estimates up to 3/4 million (excluding bands, staff etc, just 'fans) attended. Totally eclipsing the prev year's Woodstock in the USA.
Never beaten and never will be.

Glasto has an attendance limit I believe now of just over 200k inclusive. For 360 quid a ticket!
Even allowing for inflation, the measly 3 quid it cost for Fri/Sat/Sun back in August 1970 has to be seen as some sort of bargain, especially as the preceding Wed and Thurs was free.
Still, times change. Not always for the better.

[Scarletpimpofnel]

Wacky Racer said:

GetCarter said:

Only 17,410,742 of 46,500,001 of the entire (entitled to vote) electorate voted to leave the EU, and we still got screwed.

And only 16,141,241 voted to remain.

The rest obviously couldn't care less.

It's called democracy.

FWIW - In the 2019 election only the Lib Dems manifesto included rejoining the EU... and they got 11% of the vote. Frankly most people don't see EU membership as the most important thing in their lives despite the number of people that continue to foam about it.

[418 Im a teapot]

nismocat said:

Ski-Doo was supposed to be called Ski-Dog but some graphics company made a mistake.

The brilliiant, but in its day unsuccessful Zombies album Odessey and Oracle shoud have been correctly called Oddysey and Oracle, but Terry Quirk the cover artist did not know the correct spelling.

[hammo19]

Ken_Code said:

hammo19 said:

If you make the life of the universe as we know it 1 year old the Earth came into existence at 23:57 on the 31st December in that one year.

No it didn’t, the Earth is about 1/3 the age of the universe.

There’s always one…..it’s about facts that shocked you. I was shocked the fact I read on my astronomy degree was so wrong. But thanks for the clarification.