Facts that shocked you
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tribbles said:
If you were to kill everyone whose IQ was less than 100, then the average IQ would still be 100.
By definition - except that you have to recalibrate the marking if you are testing a different population to the one it is calibrated for. Interesting effect;
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
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.However, he only won 54% of the points in those matches.
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.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
Blib said:
In his professional career Roger Federer won 80% of his matches.
However, he only won 54% of the points in those 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
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.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.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.![hehe](/inc/images/hehe.gif)
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.
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.
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