Tell Me An Interesting Fact.....

[Lady Felicia]

I'll kick off with....

The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is one of the driest places on earth, and contains river beds which haven't seen a single drop of water in 120,000 years.

The fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

 

[joeydiaz]

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

 

[king_hellfire]

I think this has to be the most mind blowing fact of all time.

52 Factorial

 

[Expat Smoggie]

Apparently you spend 2 weeks of your life stuck at traffic lights.

 

[Smoggle]

I was once told that a colony of the world’s smallest ants could live inside a space the size of the head of the world’s largest ant.

 

[Colin Warnek]

When Cook and his crew reached Hicks Point in 1770, on the Australian East Coast, it is said that the inhabitants hadn’t had contact with other peoples for 8 thousand years.

 

[Centralscrutinizer]

Rabbits can't be sick

 

[Fat_Dragon]

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.

 

[FabioPorkpie]

There is a tiny jellyfish species (dubbed ‘the Immortal Jellyfish’) that can reverse it‘s growth and go back to the beginning of its life cycle, then repeat it in a loop, re-growing old, then young, then old again etc, potentially living forever.
Unless of course, it gets eaten or mortally wounded in a jelly battle.

Immortal jellyfish: the secret to cheating death

Meet the tiny, gelatinous animal that has found a way to live forever.

www.nhm.ac.uk

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

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

Without even checking that is certainly an urban myth.

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

Rabbits can't be sick

But they can lose their heads.

 

[FlapJacks]

Rabbits can't be sick

... and rats too.

 

[Acklam_Lad]

A group of Pandas is called an embarrassment

 

[Nero]

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.

Still wouldn’t fancy my chances in a fight.

 

[joeydiaz]

Without even checking that is certainly an urban myth.

A Las Vegas helicopter pilot told me, I don’t think he’d lie mate

 

[FabioPorkpie]

A group of Pandas is called an embarrassment

Same as Makems.

 

[SmogontheMarsh]

Global GPS is provided by a mere 31 satellites monitored by 10 people. (ref: Prof Hannah Fry's TV series on modern technology)

 

[Frankie Lee]

Around 10% of the humans that have ever existed are alive today.

 

[jeff_potato]

Without even checking that is certainly an urban myth.

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.

 

[Hap]

Without even checking that is certainly an urban myth.

It is.

170,000 rooms in Vegas, 150,000 rooms in London…