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[Misc] The official “Well I never knew that” thread
- Thread starter portlock seagull
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- Apr 19, 2018
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That Tyrannosaurus Rex’s existed on earth for 20 million years and most had already been fossils for millions of years before the Triceratops even existed, despite the art of my childhood often showing them fighting each other.
For comparison the first homo sapien was at most 350,000 years ago, 66 million years after the last triceratops. The idea of even a million years is beyond my capacity to imagine.
In the same category of thinking, we’re closer in time to Boudicca than she was to the construction of Stonehenge.
For comparison the first homo sapien was at most 350,000 years ago, 66 million years after the last triceratops. The idea of even a million years is beyond my capacity to imagine.
In the same category of thinking, we’re closer in time to Boudicca than she was to the construction of Stonehenge.
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maffew
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That's cool dinosaur facts
HangletonGull
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It doesn’t matter what he was just never knew it and was with his partner since the mid 80s definitely rip used to love who’s line on c4 on a Friday nightOnly found that out today too. RIP Tony
I think you've mixed up your Dinos
T-Rexes and triceratops did indeed coexist and were both on the same landmass during the Cretaceous period so may well have had the odd scrap. However, the stegosaurus, for example, lived in the Jurassic period and was extinct for about 60 million years before the t-rex emerged.
In fact, the t-rex and triceratops lived closer to our period than they did to the stegosaurus
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vegster
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Yes indeed, you would be surprised by the amount of people who think it's the other way around.
Sorry to be a pedant but…
I believe the Triceratops lived at the same time as the T-Rex.
The dino you might be thinking of is the Stegosaurus which went extinct some 145 million years ago in the late Jurassic. This is often featured fighting with T-Rex’s in popular dino-culture.
Edit: Beaten to it by another parent with Dinosaur obsessed kids I suspect!
Iggle Piggle
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I was told this fact years ago. Jumping in my wife's new motor, it naturally had no petrol in it because my wife believes it fills itself up.
Confidentially parking it alongside the pump, I jumped out only to find this fact is bollocks and the petrol cap was actually on the other side.
vegster
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Whenever you see a film with scary giant insects such as Ants or Wasps the size of cattle, don't be afraid. Insects do not have lungs and breathe using osmosis/concentration gradient via tubes that run through their bodies. The laws of Physics mean that no insect with a body larger than about a cricket ball can physically exist.
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beorhthelm
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bit late but only this Christmas did I learn the nativity is complete invention, even using the Bible as source material. only one gospel mentions the inn and shepards, only one mentions the wisemen, the other two dont even cover the birth at all.
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Wardy's twin
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Partially formed out of another Brighton based band - Rocky Sharpe and the Razors
Also an alleged punishment to when they fought badly
Having played cricket since I was 12 I found out yesterday, thanks to Only Connect, that cricket pitches should be laid on a north / south line so that the batsmen don’t get the sun in their eyes in the evening.
I got the connection correct too, thanks to knowing that dogs poo north to south when there are normal magnetic conditions.
I have had a dog for three years and been a cricket fan for over 40.
I got the connection correct too, thanks to knowing that dogs poo north to south when there are normal magnetic conditions.
I have had a dog for three years and been a cricket fan for over 40.
Or indeed any other item being cooked.
I only discovered this recently - because I actually thought to myself for the first time (59) 'does the shiny side reflect more than the non-shiny side?'
However - to add to this, at the same time I first learnt that 'tin foil' isn't tin foil anymore. It's 'aluminium foil' nowadays, and has been by-and-large, since soon after the war!
- Apr 19, 2018
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I stand corrected by you and @Hugo Rune! Well, kind ofI think you've mixed up your Dinos
T-Rexes and triceratops did indeed coexist and we're both on the same landmass during the Cretaceous period so may well have had the odd scrap. However, the stegosaurus, for example, lived in the Jurassic period and was extinct for about 60 million years before the t-rex emerged.
In fact, the t-rex and triceratops lived closer to our period than they did to the stegosaurus
it seems t-rex lived 84-66 million years ago and only co-existed with triceratops for 2 million years of that, 68-66 million years ago, so it’s still true that a lot of t-rex would have been fossils before triceratops existed!It’s absolutely boggling though that the stegosaurus was 60 million years prior to that!