Really TRUE odd factoids

[Beebo]

Passports are free for people born on or before 2 September 1929.

How many 95 year olds do you think are fit to travel abroad. I bet they struggle to get insurance.

soon there won’t be anyone who this applies to.

 

[Chris S]

Passports are free for people born on or before 2 September 1929.

How many 95 year olds do you think are fit to travel abroad. I bet they struggle to get insurance.

soon there won’t be anyone who this applies to.

Is that a rolling date or fixed?

 

[Beebo]

Is that a rolling date or fixed?

It’s fixed.
It was introduced in 2004 for people over 75 as a recognition for their wartime effort. Anyone who was over 16 at the end of the war qualified.

 

[kynikos]

There are more bacterial cells in your body than human cells. The average human is around 56 per cent bacteria. As bacteria are so light, however, by weight, each person is over 99.7 per cent human.

 

[classic33]

Wearing headphones for just an hour could increase the bacteria in your ears by 700 times.

 

[classic33]

Swiss law designates guinea pigs as social creatures; under article 13 of Switzerland’s Animal Protection Ordinance (resource in German), social animals must be given adequate social contact with animals of the same species.

In short you can't have just the one Guinea Pig as a pet in Switzerland.

 

[classic33]

If you’ve ever felt like you think better in a warm shower, you’re probably right! The warm water increases the flow of dopamine and makes us more creative.

 

[Chris S]

Police in the US can force people to unlock their phones using fingerprint recognition but not by using their passwords. Passwords are protected by the Fifth Ammendment (the right not to say something that will incriminate you), fingerprints are not.