Interesting but largely useless facts

[Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret]

Most people literally don't understand the meaning of the word literally.

 

[FartingGnome]

If you consider how dumb the average person is then by definition half the population is even dumber.

 

[Pak_Doo_Ik]

The breast of a robin is orange not red, but when it was first discovered the word orange wasn't used for a colour, the fruit orange however was around at the same time and was called an orange.

That just blows my mind everytime

 

[Norfolkred1]

The woodlice are related to shrimp and crabs, very fishy.

 

[Blf]

The name Wendy never existed until it was made up by J M Barrie for the book Peter Pan.

 

[Borobarmy]

Barbara Millicent Roberts is Barbies full name

 

[Johnny Vincents Motorbike]

a huge asteroid slammed into Mercury about 4 billion years ago, creating a giant crater about 960 miles (1,545 km) across. Called the Caloris Basin, the crater could fit the whole state of Texas inside it. Researchers have calculated that the asteroid that created the basin had to have been about 60 miles (100 km) wide.

 

[A]

You can track the world's population in real time, not a fact, but quite interesting nonetheless

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

 

[Johnny Vincents Motorbike]

The Human Eye has a resolution of 576 megapixels.

 

[BaronSmoggie]

Kelloggs Cornflakes were invented by its very religious founder as a bland food method of curbing masturbation in young people.

 

[FartingGnome]

Kelloggs Cornflakes were invented by its very religious founder as a bland food method of curbing masturbation in young people.

Didn't work.

 

[Funky_Chicken]

Why would you want to curb ******

Edit. Hey ****** isn’t a swear word ....... ****** ****** wankety ******

 

[Norman_Conquest]

The breast of a robin is orange not red, but when it was first discovered the word orange wasn't used for a colour, the fruit orange however was around at the same time and was called an orange.

That just blows my mind everytime

When making scotch eggs and placing the eggs in cold water to cool, add a pinch of salt it makes it easier to peel the eggs.

 

[Borobarmy]

When making scotch eggs and placing the eggs in cold water to cool, add a pinch of salt it makes it easier to peel the eggs.

re eggs - an egg trick . Shake an egg for 10 seconds before cracking open in pan as it centralises yoke .

 

[Funky_Chicken]

A greyhound can run faster than a race horse (definitely the one I back anyway)

 

[Randy]

Why would you want to curb ******

Edit. Hey ****** isn’t a swear word ....... ****** ****** wankety ******

 

[Johnny Vincents Motorbike]

The city of London covers only 1.2 square miles and has a population of around 7,500 residents. As such, the city of London is actually the smallest city in England.

 

[Reidydog]

The name Wendy never existed until it was made up by J M Barrie for the book Peter Pan.

Not true. The name is a shortened version of Gwendolyn, around since the 1700s. Barrie just made Wendy trendy in his 1904 book.

 

[HarryVegas]

There are more stars in the sky than there are grains of sand in the entire world.

 

[FatCat]

There is a town in Canada called Dildo . ( check out google earth )

Most toilets flush in E Flat

The word “radar” is an acronym. An acronym is a word formed from other words’ initials. Radar actually stands for “radio detection and ranging.” This technology was developed in the 1930s, though the word “radar” wasn’t invented until 1942.

and a palindrome!