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Heard on the radio today that Austria’s airport have a desk for folk who got on the wrong plane and thought they were headed for Australia !

What a total Bumbder !

Any other random quirky facts ?
 
Phone numbers in american films and TV shows always start with 555 because that's the number for directory assistance. Which helps avoid prank calls to individuals and businesses
 
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins. !

Australia is wider than the moon.

If a raisin is dropped into a glass of fresh champagne, it will constantly bob up and down in the glass...
 
At their peak in September, before the shooting season starts, the biomass of pheasnts in the UK is estimated to be just over 1.5 times the biomass of all the other breeding birds in the UK combined.
 
DonCorleone said:
In Iceland, there is a dating app called Bump that basically lets you check if you're a distant relation to a potential love match.

Given the island's relative remoteness and low immigration, many are related to one and other if you skip back a few generations.
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suppose its all relative
 
DonCorleone said:
In Iceland, there is a dating app called Bump that basically lets you check if you're a distant relation to a potential love match.

Given the island's relative remoteness and low immigration, many are related to one and other if you skip back a few generations.
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We used to have a similar arrangement Over Wyre before the internet... always best to check which leg a girl limped with😉😁
 
I love space facts because the sheer size of the Universe makes them hard to believe. Here are a few


Think you're standing still? Latest estimates put the speed of the Earth 872,405 miles per hour.

Neutron stars are so dense that a teaspoon of material from one would weigh around 10 million tons.

If the earth were the size of a pea, the nearest star other than our sun would be almost 10,000 miles away

About 20 light years from Earth is a star known as BPM 37093 (a.k.a. Lucy). This is a white dwarf which is a single diamond that weighs in at 10 billion trillion trillion carats.
 
Random facts about Greece:

No spot in Greece is more than 137km from the sea.

Showing an open palm to someone is an insult in Greece.

Around 80% of Greece’s territory is mountainous. Meaning, despite the average 300 days do sunshine a year, it snows a lot more than many European countries if you head uphill!

There are still brown bears living in the wild in Greece, most European countries have exterminated their natural populations.
 
DonCorleone said:
In Iceland, there is a dating app called Bump that basically lets you check if you're a distant relation to a potential love match.

Given the island's relative remoteness and low immigration, many are related to one and other if you skip back a few generations.
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They need the Burnley Bump
 
  1. The word censorship is censored in China
  2. Only 7% of people in China class themselves as religious but more people go to church on a Sunday than in the whole of Europe
  3. Geese are sometimes used instead of dogs for police animals in China due to their aggressive nature
  4. The longest traffic jam in history which lasted 12 days and was over 62 miles long was in Shanghai
  5. Despite spanning over 5 time zones, the whole of China follows just one of them, meaning the sun doesn’t rise until 10am in some areas
  6. 35 million Chinese people still live in caves
Chinese police geese are absolutely terrifying. Used mainly for public order and traffic offences.
 
look.its.luke said:
  1. The word censorship is censored in China
  2. Only 7% of people in China class themselves as religious but more people go to church on a Sunday than in the whole of Europe
  3. Geese are sometimes used instead of dogs for police animals in China due to their aggressive nature
  4. The longest traffic jam in history which lasted 12 days and was over 62 miles long was in Shanghai
  5. Despite spanning over 5 time zones, the whole of China follows just one of them, meaning the sun doesn’t rise until 10am in some areas
  6. 35 million Chinese people still live in caves
Chinese police geese are absolutely terrifying. Used mainly for public order and traffic offences.
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Wow , all of these.

I get the geese thing. Once got a chasing from one on Stanley Park years ago, not a pleasant experience.
 
tommytwojags said:
I love space facts because the sheer size of the Universe makes them hard to believe. Here are a few


Think you're standing still? Latest estimates put the speed of the Earth 872,405 miles per hour.

Neutron stars are so dense that a teaspoon of material from one would weigh around 10 million tons.

If the earth were the size of a pea, the nearest star other than our sun would be almost 10,000 miles away

About 20 light years from Earth is a star known as BPM 37093 (a.k.a. Lucy). This is a white dwarf which is a single diamond that weighs in at 10 billion trillion trillion carats.
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So, Lucy in the Sky's a Diamond.
 
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