Odd factoids

[classic33]

The illegal alien hotline demanded by President Donald Trump has been besieged with calls about suspected UFO sightings. ... Could Donald Trump reveal aliens exist now he's made it as president?

 

[Racing roadkill]

In 1895, in the state of Ohio, there were only two cars, they managed to crash into each other one day.

 

[Racing roadkill]

If his father hadn’t changed his name in 1877 Adolf Hitler would have been called Adolf Schicklgruber.

 

[Racing roadkill]

The first person to be sentenced to ‘the stocks’ in Boston, was a man named Edward Palmer, the builder of ‘the stocks’. His crime? Charging too much for building the stocks.

 

[Racing roadkill]

In 1985, a New Orleans man drowned at a party attended by 100 lifeguards, who were celebrating going the entire summer without a drowning at any of the city’s pools

 

[MiK1138]

Cameron Diaz has been cast as the Pig in the upcoming movie on the proclivities of Porcine lover David Cameron, Kevin Bacon will play Dave

Well according to Peter Cook and Dudley Moore[ the Titanic was made out of Churchill's bogies and thats why it sank, so you could be right.

Now, what was the Bismark made from?

The Kaisers toenail clippings, I believe

 

[Racing roadkill]

A pack of dogs turned up at the funeral of a Mexican woman, she had been looking after them having rescued them when they were puppies ( in a town over 830 miles away from the funeral).

 

[Racing roadkill]

Red light can not penetrate much more than 30 feet of sea water. If you cut yourself and you are any deeper than 30 ft below the surface, your blood looks green.

 

[Drago]

If you're over 30 feet beneath the surface of the water and you cut yourself, you'll drown.

 

[Threevok]

It is impossible to boil an egg on the summit of mount Everest.

There are a number reasons for this - the main one being that egg timers are not standard kit for professional mountaineers

 

[Dirk]

The most remote tree in the world, an Acacia known as the Tree of Ténéré, lived a solitary existence some 250 miles away from the next tree in the Ténéré region of the Sahara Desert.
It was killed by being knocked over by a drunken truck driver in 1973.

The Tree of Ténéré in 1961.

 

[Racing roadkill]

It is impossible to boil an egg on the summit of mount Everest.

There are a number reasons for this - the main one being that egg timers are not standard kit for professional mountaineers

The main one being that the pressure is insufficient at that altitude to get the water temperature high enough to cook the egg, before the water boils away. Water boils at 71C up there.

 

[Dirk]

The main one being that the pressure is insufficient at that altitude to get the water temperature high enough to cook the egg, before the water boils away. Water boils at 71C up there.

As egg yolks set at 70°c and whites set at 80°c, it is not necessary to have boiling water to boil an egg. Theoretically the yolk of an egg would cook properly on Everest.

 

[subaqua]

As egg yolks set at 70°c and whites set at 80°c, it is not necessary to have boiling water to boil an egg. Theoretically the yolk of an egg would cook properly on Everest.

ewwwww runny whites

 

[Tim Hall]

The main one being that the pressure is insufficient at that altitude to get the water temperature high enough to cook the egg, before the water boils away. Water boils at 71C up there.

More importantly, chickens are afraid of heights, so getting the raw materials needed is a challenge.