Useless Trivial facts

[galifreyan_guy]

Re julie, we've got an 800 tonne press at work so if I can find anu flat dies I can see what 800t does to a penny. Not sure if my analog calipers are going to be an accurate measurement

 

[wrcmad]

50% of the world's population has never made or received a phone call.

 

[ego2spare]

50% of the world's population has never made or received a phone call.

Dont ever ever tell the indians that.

 

[House]

Some slightly interesting facts about China;

To train soldiers to keep their chins up, a pin is precariously hanging in the collars of their uniforms.

China's air pollution is so bad that it travels across the Pacific to San Francisco, contributing to almost a third of the city's pollution.

Some Chinese food companies were caught making tofu out of sewage and marinating meat in goat urine

1973, China proposed to give the U.S 10 million Chinese women to boost their population.

Eggs boiled in the urine of young virgin boys is a delicacy in Dongyang, China.

There are 100 million people in China that live off the equivalent of 1 U.S dollar per day.

Playstations are illegal.

In Chongqing, China, people addicted to their phones get their own lane to keep them safe while walking blindly around the city.

Chinese police increasingly use geese instead of police dogs because of their aggressiveness and superior vision.

Shanghai, China holds the record for the longest traffic jam, stretching over 62 miles and lasting 12 days.

 

[JulieW]

^^^^
Not trivial.

Really BIG!

 

[mmm....shiney!]

Pigeons do not have anuses.

Neither do lizards or frogs.

 

[mmm....shiney!]

The Fitzroy River Turtle can breathe through its bum.

 

[JulieW]

The Fitzroy River Turtle can breathe through its bum.

I know a few people who can talk through theirs.

 

[JulieW]

Source: Mother Nature

 

[Ghost Story]

Poor bugga or maybe he's lucky

 

[AngloSaxon]

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Source: Mother Nature

I'm not surprised, with the size of the big pink testicle the bee is sitting on...

 

[Acorn]

The orbital speed of the Earth around the Sun averages about 30 km/s

The Velocity Of Detonation of Det Cord (PETN) is about 8.4 km/s

Sounds like something only a Sapper would know...

 

[sammysilver]

The orbital speed of the Earth around the Sun averages about 30 km/s

The Velocity Of Detonation of Det Cord (PETN) is about 8.4 km/s

Sounds like something only a Sapper would know...

Forty odd years ago, I was a medic at UNSWR and looked after the Assault Pioneers. I did all the courses with them, and as a PMG technician, found the techniques of explosives very similar to electronics.

 

[JulieW]

Pigeons do not have anuses.

Neither do lizards or frogs.

Frogs do, but they're VERY tight, or so I've been told.

 

[renovator]

Pigeons do not have anuses.

Neither do lizards or frogs.

Frogs do, but they're VERY tight, or so I've been told.

sounds like my old boss :

 

[ego2spare]

NASA had to rename the sizes of the apparatus used for male astronauts to pee, from small, medium, and large, to large, gigantic, and humongous, because no one was willing to pick their true size.

 

[ego2spare]

After each player has moved three times in a chess match, there are 121 million possible routes that the match could follow.

 

[alor]

 

[Ag bullet]

no other word rhymes with silver, according to the underside of the lid on my yogurt at lunch today.

 

[smk762]

no other word rhymes with silver, according to the underside of the lid on my yogurt at lunch today.

Mulva?

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