Facts that will blow your mind

[FIVESTEPS]

Russia has halve the GDP of California.

 

[crodonilson]

A toilet flushes in the key E minor

 

[Brovion]

A toilet flushes in the key E minor

You said that back in 2016. (Post #190).

Slipping Crodo, slipping!

 

[pasty]

DJ Janice Long was the winner on the first ever episode of 3-2-1

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[Surrey_Albion]

ie...."Toyota" isn`t but "a toyota" is..

The longest pallindrome in tge english language is racecar

 

[Dick Swiveller]

Courtesy of Richard Osman on Twitter. The 1922 Committee was formed in 1923.

 

[GOM]

The longest pallindrome in tge english language is racecar

detartrated

 

[The Wookiee]

The longest pallindrome in tge english language is racecar

Rotavator

 

[The Wookiee]

After we played at Highbury in 83, there was not a bigger crowd in the 20+ years afterwards before they shut the place (nb this is not a fact just a stat that i think MAY be a fact on gates I observed afterwards. Confirmation would be good! Anyone!?)

Arsenal v Manchester United, 20 February 1988 There was 54,151. Think official attendance for our semi final was given as 54,000.

May be others ?

 

[Blue3]

Nope. That was Burnell and Hewish in '67. A defining characteristic of a pulsar signal is that it, err, pulses; the wow signal didn't, instead following a bell curve.

The wow signal remains unexplained.

I thought I read it turned out to be a microwave oven

 

[Stat Brother]

The third longest pallindrome in the english language is racecar

 

[rogersix]

every packet of crisps expires on a saturday

 

[Knocky's Nose]

If you have seven queues for pie and beers at half time and have to choose one.... the one which looks favourite (and the one you join) will always contain people with massive orders and have the slowest person in the stadium serving them... And... if you dare to change lanes, the one you left will always speed up, leaving you looking at the bloke who was behind you in the first queue leaving with two pints and a smile whilst you're four from the fecking front of the one you left to join...

 

[Goldstone1976]

I thought I read it turned out to be a microwave oven

There’s been loads of possible explanations, including US or USSR satellites, spy planes, hot air balloons, weather balloons, unusual atmospheric conditions, UFOs, and, yes, microwave ovens. Some options were posited by scientists, others by less scientific folk, and some by conspiracy theorists. So you probably have read that it was a microwave oven. However, the WOW signal had a frequency of 1420 MHz (plus one of two decimal place extensions), microwaves operate at around 2450 MHz, wildly different.

The frequency of Hydrogen, which is our best guess of what an alien intelligence would use if they were intent in letting the universe know that they were there? 1420 MHz. Whaddya know.

There’s still been no generally accepted explanation of the signal. It’s definitely the most likely candidate for an extraterrestrial alien transmission. How likely? Nobody knows.

 

[TheJasperCo]

Historically, Father Christmas was dressed in green. It was only thanks to a Coca-Cola marketing campaign that he was rebranded to wear the more familiar red that we now associate with him.

 

[Megazone]

The Eiffel tower was the first man made structure to be built taller than the Egyptian pyramids.

That took a while

 

[pearl]

every packet of crisps expires on a saturday

OMG! Just checked my half eaten packet of Pop Chips ..... 5th October 2019 .... a SATURDAY!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[rogersix]

OMG! Just checked my half eaten packet of Pop Chips ..... 5th October 2019 .... a SATURDAY!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[The Clamp]

Historically, Father Christmas was dressed in green. It was only thanks to a Coca-Cola marketing campaign that he was rebranded to wear the more familiar red that we now associate with him.

A myth unfortunately. Santa has been portrayed almost exclusively in red and white since the early 19th century. Coca Cola did t start using Santa in their campaigns until 1933. His modern image, clothing, beard, rotund body etc was made popular by cartoonist Thomas Nast as early as 1837 and that was an amalgamation of existing portrayals . Sorrry!

 

[ManOfSussex]

Kevin O'Brien's maiden Test Match hundred in Ireland's inaugural Test Match against Pakistan in May was the first century scored by a batsman in a follow-on innings of a Test Match against Pakistan since Mike Gatting's 150* at The Oval in 1987.

If that doesn't blow your mind, nothing will.