Facts that shocked you

[Doofus]

Silvanus said:

Doofus said:

jdoubleu said:

Doofus said:

It doesn't. It meets the Caribbean Sea.

Hoping that's just a bad joke!

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No.

Caribbean sea is part of the Atlantic ocean, this is where the western end of the canal meets the sea. The eastern end meats the Pacific

Yes, and the North Sea is part of the Atlantic too, as is the English Channel.

Yet we don't cross the Atlantic to get to France. The Caribbean Sea is The Caribbean Sea.

[Milkyway]

1066: The population of England was 2 - 2.5 million.

[thegreenhell]

cherryowen said:

Truckosaurus said:

Puggit said:

Greenland is further North, East, South and West of Iceland.

Alaska is the US state which is the furthest North, East and West of the USA.

Edinburgh is West of Bristol.

And New York is further West than Chile's capital Santiago

Toronto, Canada is further South than Monaco.

[danashby]

NMNeil said:

Mainland Alaska is only 55 miles from mainland Russia.

USA bought Alaska in 1867, so only just over 150 years ago.

[thegreenhell]

Super Sonic said:

Cows are bigger and farther away than they look.

More people in the UK are killed by cows than by dogs.

[cuprabob]

danashby said:

NMNeil said:

Mainland Alaska is only 55 miles from mainland Russia.

USA bought Alaska in 1867, so only just over 150 years ago.

For the bargain price of $7.2m

[Puzzles]

inner london had aprx 45% more people living there 100 years ago

[straight dad]

The combined age of Elton John, his drummer, guitarist and percussionist currently playing Glastonbury is 297.

[Tom _M]

Just sat here right now you’re producing about 2 million red blood cells per second

[jdoubleu]

Doofus said:

Yes, and the North Sea is part of the Atlantic too, as is the English Channel.

Yet we don't cross the Atlantic to get to France. The Caribbean Sea is The Caribbean Sea.

I think you're being a bit selective there though. Cross normally means go over in its entirety where the channel is a tiny portion of the Atlantic. The Panama canal is designed to connect two of the world's oceans.

But yes, the Caribbean Sea is the Caribbean Sea

[Super Sonic]

thegreenhell said:

More people in the UK are killed by cows than by dogs.

Not disagreeing, but aren't they usually mobbed by the cows because they have a dog?
Cows do kill more people than sharks though!

[h0b0]

Oil doesn’t come from dinosaurs.

That was just a marketing campaign. Oil is from organic sediment from times before dinosaurs. The modern misconception comes from Sinclair oils sponsorship of a dinosaur at a worlds fair. They subsequently adopted dinosaurs and now we think they are related.

[JZZ30]

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

[Terminator X]

Milkyway said:

1066: The population of England was 2 - 2.5 million.

50 years ago the population of the world was 4bn vs now 8bn. Nowt to see there though.

TX.

[V 02]

Florence Welch is only 36.

[thebraketester]

We were closer by time to meeting a T- rex than a T-rex was to meeting a stegosaurus.

Stegosaurus and T-Rex lived nearly 85 million years apart while humans and T-Rex lived only 65 million

[anonymous-user]

A giant cetipedes venom has the same protein as a sperm cell to break down the tissue matrix so it causes more havoc.

[underwhelmist]

If you join the mid-points of the sides of an irregular quadrilateral, you’ll get a parallelogram.

[Higgs boson]

Super Sonic said:

Cows do kill more people than sharks though!

[Cockaigne]

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.