[Misc] Did You Know?

[Tokyohands]

There are 270 volcanoes in Japan, which accounts for around 10% of the worlds volcanoes.

 

[Hu_Camus]

No so ....

Venus is unusual because it spins the opposite direction of Earth and most other planets. And its rotation is very slow. It takes about 243 Earth days to spin around just once. Because it's so close to the sun, a year goes by fast. It takes 225 Earth days for Venus to go all the way around the sun. That means that a day on Venus is a little longer than a year on Venus.

So having a day off on Venus is actually a gap-year ....

.......my point exactly.

 

[father_and_son]

Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion,
size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose Noun.

So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you'll sound like a maniac. It's an odd thing that every English speaker uses that list, but almost none of us could write it out.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Your small bowel is approximately 7m long.

Maybe for normal folk but Mrs SS went under the knife again last Weds and she's closer to 5m and no large bowl now either + they stitched her anus up too as NLR
5th op in 30 years - told the surgeon after the 2nd one to put a zip in ....