Facts that shocked you

[AW111]

Milkyway said:

Saw him on a Wheeler Dealers repeat, where Ant made modified one.
5000 dollars & added 25lbs of downforce... not bad for a bloke in a a garage.

Or 20 lbs of resin & bog + 5lbs of downforce?

Edited by AW111 on Monday 26th June 09:44

[Milkyway]

AW111 said:

Or 20 lbs of resin & bog + 5lbs of downforce?

A bag of sand may have been cheaper then.
(Looked good though... Fords may have been a bit lighter).

Edited by Milkyway on Monday 26th June 09:48

[TwigtheWonderkid]

JZZ30 said:

The difference between a million and a billion in the context of time.

A million seconds is about 11 days. A billion seconds is around 31 years.

[Road2Ruin]

The thing that shocks me the most is that a lot of you are 'shocked' by pretty mundane things...

[ajprice]

With the people's ages thing. Wilford Brimley was 50 when he was in Cocoon.



Paul Rudd in 2019, age 50

[otolith]

Boom78 said:

Truckosaurus said:

Edinburgh is West of Bristol.

Something I’d never have believed, just checked a map and is pretty much bang on north of Cardiff

In fact there isn't much of Scotland East of Bristol!

[john2443]

p4cks said:

Scotland is further south than Hartlepool

???

[Skeptisk]

Pitre said:

Pitre said:

Skeptisk said:

.... A multiple of six plus or minus 2 or 4 is even so can’t be prime. A multiple or six is also divisible by three so adding or subtracting 3 will also be divisible by 3 so not prime. Which only leaves plus or minus 1 or 5. But minus five is the same as the previous number divisible by six plus one. So effectively you can shorten it to just plus or minus one.

It's shocked me that you can write that before 7am. Hats off sir.

Just seen that you are in NZ. As you were.

NZ so last year. Now in Denmark.

[littleredrooster]

john2443 said:

p4cks said:

Scotland is further south than Hartlepool

???

You've chopped the bit of the map off where it's further south - have a look at the southern end of the Mull of Galloway. Google maps shows a northing of 54.63 - Hartlepool Golf club is 54.7, ergo further north.

[McGee_22]

john2443 said:

p4cks said:

{b]A bit of [/b]Scotland is further south than Hartlepool

???

FTFY

A bit of Dumfries and Galloway comes down to about 54.68 degrees North and a bit of Hartlepool goes up to 54.71 North

[otolith]

Cockaigne said:

The body produces 100w of power an hour just on tick over, metabolic processes. The body can produce 1000w a hour under strenuous exercise, think Matrix.

The original concept for the Matrix had it using human brains as processors, which makes far more sense than using them as batteries, but it was dumbed down for the screen.

[ntiz]

Carrying on from the OP I was shocked when A Chinese friend expressed why he grew up being told to hate the Japanese.

In WW2 they pretty much instigated their own Holocaust in prisoner of war camps murdering an estimated 10 million people. The majority being Chinese.

I was shocked that this is not broadly common knowledge in the West.

[Earl of Hazzard]

ntiz said:

Carrying on from the OP I was shocked when A Chinese friend expressed why he grew up being told to hate the Japanese.

In WW2 they pretty much instigated their own Holocaust in prisoner of war camps murdering an estimated 10 million people. The majority being Chinese.

I was shocked that this is not broadly common knowledge in the West.

Google search Unit 731. Grim

[DaveTheRave87]

The most northernly bit of Ireland is not in Northern Ireland.

Ottowa is further south than Paris.

[DodgyGeezer]

Copenhagen was originally in the centre of Denmark

The world's deadliest sniper was Finnish with at least 505 confirmed kills and survived being hit in the face by an explosive bullet

Genghis Khan killed so many Persians that the population of Persia didn’t return to pre-mongol numbers until the 1900s, nearly 700 years later.

[ZedLeg]

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.

[Milkyway]

London is on the same latitude as Warsaw, Kiev & Winnipeg.

[blueg33]

You can get nearly 1000 portions out of the meat from a single cow

[DodgyGeezer]

Milkyway said:

London is on the same latitude as Warsaw, Kiev & Winnipeg.

[RedAndy]

...that one about grains of rice on a chessboard: if you put one grain on the first square, then 2 on the next, then 4 on the next, then 8, then 16.... keep doubling the number of grains every square... by the time you get to the top of the board that's more rice than has ever been grown or over will be.

or something like that.