Fascinating fact of the day

[Yellow Fang]

Actually, I discovered this particularly fascinating fact several days ago while reading New Scientist: the Brontosaurus never existed. What happened was that the original paleontologists who put the Brontosaurus together put a skull from a different species on the body. Once the right skull had been put on, it was renamed Apatosaurus.

I read another stunning fact while reading a book called Alone in the Universe, which is full of interesting facts. Everyone knows the moon and sun cause tidal effects on the sea, but did you know that even solid earth changes in height by about 20 cm?

 

[jonny jeez]

Did you know that your fingernails grow faster in cold weather?

 

[mickle]

No way!

 

[jonny jeez]

[QUOTE 2060760, member: 259"]Did you know there's no proper name for the back of the knee?[/quote]
lets invent one...I'd go for "Knelbow"

 

[Typhon]

If team USA Swimming was it's own country, they would have finished 5th in the Olympic medals table at the 2012 games, despite only competing in 1 of the 29 events. The rest of team USA would have finished 2nd, one gold ahead of Britain.

 

[numbnuts]

Did you know it's raining again

 

[Keith Oates]

Did you know that the heaviest rainfall recorded in Manila was 16.7 inches in just 12 hours in September 2009!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Marshmallow_Fluff]

Did you know that you can't talk while inhaling through your nose? (try it!!!)

 

[G2EWS]

Did you know that the Aston Martin DB5 used in the new James Bond movie is a '3D printed' 1/5th scale model?

Information to follow!!

Regards

Chris

 

[ianrauk]

Actually, I discovered this particularly fascinating fact several days ago while reading New Scientist: the Brontosaurus never existed. What happened was that the original paleontologists who put the Brontosaurus together put a skull from a different species on the body. Once the right skull had been put on, it was renamed Apatosaurus.

Have you ever been to see the Crystal Palace Park Dinosaur sculptures?
All of the sculptures have innacuracies . The Victorians built them to what they thought they would have looked like rather then what they actually may have looked like. One example being the nose horns on the Iguanadons were actually thumb spikes.

 

[ianrauk]

Oh yes I forgot..

One cubic mile of fog can be compressed into a one gallon can.

 

[G2EWS]

Two page article on the Aston Martin. The magazine was about celebrating 20 years of 3D printing and we have low cost desktop 3D printers coming our way very soon!

Regards

Chris

 

[threebikesmcginty]

An Olympic swimming pool's worth of Rice Krispies can be crushed into a standard size egg cup.

 

[Yellow Fang]

An Olympic swimming pool's worth of Rice Krispies can be crushed into a standard size egg cup.

Is that a real fact or one you just made up?

 

[pally83]

An Olympic swimming pool's worth of Rice Krispies can be crushed into a standard size egg cup.

If you removed all the empty space in atoms, the population of the world could fit in a space the size of a sugar cube.