Facts that will blow your mind

[Lyndhurst 14]

What about when the person has moved but there is no 'return to sender address' on the outside of the envelope. Obviously you can't open private correspondence to find out who sent it, do you just bin it?

 

[Braggfan]

The UK has a land mass of 94,000 square miles.

The USA is approximately 40 times larger than the UK.

The USA takes up 1.87% of the Earth’s surface.

The Sun contains 99.8% of all matter in the solar system.

If the solar system was the size of a 10p piece, then the milky way galaxy would be the size of the USA.

The milky way galaxy makes up 4% of the known universe.

 

[blue-shifted]

The UK has a land mass of 94,000 square miles.

The USA is approximately 40 times larger than the UK.

The USA takes up 1.87% of the Earth’s surface.

The Sun contains 99.8% of all matter in the solar system.

If the solar system was the size of a 10p piece, then the milky way galaxy would be the size of the USA.

The milky way galaxy makes up 4% of the known universe.

We know about 2 trillion galaxies?

https://skyandtelescope.org/astrono...stimate from a,galaxies in the early universe.

 

[Eeyore]

That you’re meant to put a stamp on a letter received for someone who no longer lives at your address, not just scribble the forwarding address on it and chuck it in a postbox. Probably obvious to most, apparently not to me.

I had 21 letters for a previous occupier arrive in a single day. So the ain't happening.

 

[zefarelly]

The UK has a land mass of 94,000 square miles.

The USA is approximately 40 times larger than the UK.

The USA takes up 1.87% of the Earth’s surface.

The Sun contains 99.8% of all matter in the solar system.

If the solar system was the size of a 10p piece, then the milky way galaxy would be the size of the USA.

The milky way galaxy makes up 4% of the known universe.

Boris Johnson and Donal Trump are a right pair of galaxies who think the sun shines out one of their smaller planets

Wow, top stats

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

I had 21 letters for a previous occupier arrive in a single day. So the ain't happening.

I had something similar between lets, 15 letters from the same people, a debt collection agency - sent 'em all back. Good luck getting your debt paid from a tenant on the lam

 

[crodonilson]

What about when the person has moved but there is no 'return to sender address' on the outside of the envelope. Obviously you can't open private correspondence to find out who sent it, do you just bin it?

f you’ve received mail which has your address, but not your name, this is because we deliver to addresses rather than names. If this does happen, you can put a cross through the address and write 'Not known at this address' or 'No longer lives here' and put it back in a letterbox. Where possible, we’ll return the item to the sender hopefully allowing them to update their records.

 

[Goldstone1976]

The milky way galaxy makes up 4% of the known universe.

We know about 2 trillion galaxies?

https://skyandtelescope.org/astrono...stimate from a,galaxies in the early universe.

I think what was meant was that stars account for c4% of the mass of our galaxy, which is slightly (ie massively) different to the assertion.

For completeness, c12% of the mass of the galaxy is inter-stellar gas, and c84% is dark matter (which no one knows anything about at all).

 

[crodonilson]

Four episodes of Bargain Hunt are filmed in a single day.

 

[Soton Seagull]

If you die without making a Will in Cornwall your estate goes to Prince Charles, as he owns it!

Apparently any funds of this nature are directed to his charitable trusts etc, but still bonkers.

 

[father_and_son]

Four episodes of Bargain Hunt are filmed in a single day.

I thought this was the case for most daytime TV shows. I remember back in the day, "crosswits" would film 5 in a morning... because Tom O'Connor would get pissed at lunchtime and be incapable in the afternoon.

 

[R. Slicker]

With Peter Shilton back in the (GB) news, due to England's progression in the Euros and his Brexity opinions. Did you know that
Jason Steele saved more penalties in one game, against Newport last season than Shilton saved in his entire career.

 

[Barrow Boy]

According to Steve Coogan's character Paul Calf,

"There is no such thing as the Welsh language, they make it up as they go along just to piss the English off".

 

[Algernon]

The difference between one million and one billion.

If you were given £1 every second, it would take you 11.5 days to become a millionaire.
It would take you 31.5 years to become a billionaire!

and Jeff Bezos has almost $200bn!!!