Facts that blow your mind

[SmallTown]

Just heard that if you remove 1 billion people from India and 1 billion people from China, they would still both be the two most populous countries in the world.

Wow

 

[xxlshirts_fit_all]

Surely the country you put them in would be or are you talking genocide

 

[SmallTown]

Surely the country you put them in would be or are you talking genocide

Yeah I should have added. I mean remove them thanks style!

 

[wilkos_perm]

Just heard that if you remove 1 billion people from India and 1 billion people from China, they would still both be the two most populous countries in the world.

Wow

I'm the opposite, I'm not surprised, just googling the population I'm more surprised it's a fairly close call

 

[FlapJacks]

To illustrate just how dense the population is in that general part of the world, google Valeriepieris circle.

 

[Rofesleg]

To illustrate just how dense the population is in that general part of the world, google Valeriepieris circle.

Seeing as you couldn't be bothered...

Valeriepieris circle - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Ingleby_Flash]

Fact that blows my mind - Neil Armstrong (first man on the moon) was 18 when Orville Wright (first man to fly) died. They were both alive together for 18 years.

 

[FlapJacks]

Seeing as you couldn't be bothered...

Valeriepieris circle - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Well done. I like to delegate the mundane stuff.

 

[bumface]

Keir Starmer is the current leader of The Labour Party. It doesn't seem possible, but it is a very unfortunate and unavoidable fact. Astonishing stuff.

 

[Brian Marwood]

Edinburgh is further north than Bristol.

 

[king_hellfire]

Edinburgh is further north than Bristol.

It’s also further west.

 

[king_hellfire]

A pack of playing cards can be sorted into so many different combinations that every time you shuffle a pack you can confidently claim that no other pack has ever had the cards land in the same sequence.

52!

52 Factorial

czep.net

 

[Pak_Doo_Ik]

Robins breasts are orange but when they were first seen in Britain there wasn’t a name for the colour orange so it was called red, as in robin red breast.

Ironically the fruit orange was also in a Britain at the time and it did have a name and it was called an orange.

Always blows my mind that

 

[HarryVegas]

These albums came out 50 years ago. I was 9 and they blew my tiny mind ...

 

[paul66]

if everyone in the world moved to texas each would have 87 square metres to live in

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

[QUOTE
Fact that blows my mind - Neil Armstrong (first man on the moon) was 18 when Orville Wright (first man to fly) died. They were both alive together for 18 years.
[/QUOTE]
And sadly, in a painfully ironic twist, Orville the duck never learnt to fly.

 

[BlindBoyGrunt]

And sadly, in a painfully ironic twist, Orville the duck never learnt to fly.

If Emu had learned to fly, Rod Hull would have landed softly and would be alive today.

 

[Smogonsea]

A fact that isn’t that grand but seemed unbelievable to me is that there are no moles in Ireland.

 

[Brian Marwood]

A fact that isn’t that grand but seemed unbelievable to me is that there are no moles in Ireland.

Is that because of Pete?

 

[LeeMiller]

To illustrate just how dense the population is in that general part of the world, google Valeriepieris circle.

Population is pretty dense in parts of Middlesbrough to be honest if local driving style is considered