Tell Me An Interesting Fact.....

[TeessideCleveland]

A year on Venus is shorter than a day there

 

[speckyget]

Yes, and 11.5 days to count to a million, which gives a sense of the difference between a million and a billion.

If you counted across the diameter of an atom in Planck lengths, each count taking a second, it would take you 10 million times the current age of the universe.

 

[Smellyhelly]

The fastest known time to run up and back down Roseberry Topping starting and finishing at the car park is 10 minutes and 20 seconds
⛰

 

[hobblewobble]

in roulette there are nine groups of four 1 ,10 ,19, 28, 1,1+0,1+9 =1+0 2+8 1+0
2, 11, 20 ,29 , 2, 1+1 2+0 2+9 =11 1+1,
3 , 12,21,30,
4,13,22,31
5,14, 23, 32,
6,15, 24 ,33,
7,16 ,25, 34
8,17, 26, 35
9, 18 27, 36

The mind boggles

 

[Frozen Horse]

The Sargasso sea has no coastline.

 

[Hap]

Edinburgh is further West, than Bristol.

 

[RotherhamBoro]

The Sargasso sea has no coastline.

I'd just came here to say this!

It's the only body of water in the world that has no coastline

 

[El Guapo]

That there is another thread on this

Share an Interesting Fact

It could be about anything.... the UK, Life, Earth, Middlesbrough, etc, etc Buckingham Palace has its own police station

fmttmboro.com

 

[Rueben]

There's more stars in the universe than grains of sand on earth...... Fact

 

[RedcarRed]

I think we'd be comparing tens of millions in Europe with probably over one hundred thousand in Las Vegas.

Anyway, my fact. No T-Rex was ever stung by a bee, as they didn't exist at the same time.

I got stung by a bee once................ Paid £80 for a jar of honey !

 

[RedcarRed]

King Henry VIII had servants called “Grooms of Stool”, who wiped him clean after he visited the toilet.

Good name for a band that

 

[Centralscrutinizer]

Giraffes can swim but nobody has seen one do it

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

A year in Sunderland feels like a lifetime.

 

[The Disciple]

Only 1 in 10 Tiger hunts result in a kill. We hear that Tigers are one of the worlds most lethal predators but with a 10% success rate, they aren't really that lethal.

Let one at at flamingo land then and watch that strike rate go right up

 

[NortonExile]

There is more hotel rooms in the city of Las Vegas than there is the whole of Europe.

I appreciate Las Vegas is big and busy but this is absolutely not true. Not even close.

 

[Rofesleg]

Yes, and 11.5 days to count to a million, which gives a sense of the difference between a million and a billion.

The difference between a million and a billion is approximately a billion.

 

[McMordie]

In the first 145 years of their history Boro had only 2 managers for whom no numbers could be spelt out from the letters in the phrase "xxxxxxxxx's Middlesbrough" (eg "Jack Charlton's Middlesbrough") but Michael Carrick is now the third such manager in a row.

 

[McMordie]

There are people on the planet today than have ever lived.

#UTB

The missing word is "fewer" - can I claim the prize?

 

[Aet290204]

In the first 145 years of their history Boro had only 2 managers for whom no numbers could be spelt out from the letters in the phrase "xxxxxxxxx's Middlesbrough" (eg "Jack Charlton's Middlesbrough") but Michael Carrick is now the third such manager in a row.

Were we not Bryan Robson’s Middlesbrough in 1994 then ??

 

[Big_Nothing]

Humans kill more animals through the farming industry every 18 months than humans have ever existed in the history of mankind.

Admittedly, I still fully intend on having bbq tonight in full knowledge of this.

Tricky one.