Really TRUE odd factoids

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Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 continues its journey through deep space, now so far that radio signals take over 23 hours to reach it—and just as long to hear back.

By January 2027, Voyager 1 will reach a symbolic milestone: one light-day from the Sun (roughly 25.9 billion kilometers away), just in time to celebrate 50 years in space.
Though its power is slowly fading, it may still be active, silently drifting where no spacecraft has ever gone before.

For scale: our nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is 4.24 light-years away. At its current pace, Voyager 1 would need 74,000 years to get there.

 

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The prototype of the modern chainsaw was developed in Scotland by two doctors, as a surgical tool to help in difficult childbirths and also for bone surgery.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

The number plate on Archduke Franz Ferdinand's car when he was assassinated leading to WWI was 11-11-18, Armistice Day

 

[Gwylan]

The number plate on Archduke Franz Ferdinand's car when he was assassinated leading to WWI was 11-11-18, Armistice Day

He was Emperor, why did he need a number plate?

 

[Chris S]

He was Emperor, why did he need a number plate?

It seems to be true.

 

[Chris S]

Hawaii's white sandy beaches are actually huge piles of parrotfish excrement.

 

[Chris S]

Pope Francis was a former nightclub bouncer.

 

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Banging your head against the wall can use up to 150 calories an hour.

 

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King Henry VIII of England had servants called “Grooms of Stool”, who wiped him clean after he visited the toilet.

 

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"Bluetooth" technology was named after a 10th-century king, King Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson.
He united Denmark and Norway, just like the technology united computers and cell phones.

 

[Webbo2]

King Henry VIII of England had servants called “Grooms of Stool”, who wiped him clean after he visited the toilet.

Their descendants are probably the Duke of this and that.

 

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Voyager 1 and Voyager 2
Launched in 1977, they were designed to explore the outer planets, but ended up going much farther, becoming the first human-made objects to enter interstellar space. Each Voyager probe runs on just 69 kilobytes (KB) of memory.

To put that into perspective:
• A single modern smartphone photo is typically 2 to 5 megabytes (MB), roughly 30,000 to 70,000 times more data than Voyager’s entire memory.
• A simple email uses more memory than Voyager’s onboard computers.

 

[Beebo]

King Henry VIII of England had servants called “Grooms of Stool”, who wiped him clean after he visited the toilet.

It was a very sought after position because you had huge influence over the king in private.
It’s also very practical because wiping your bum whilst wearing robes, and without modern day paper and wipes would be very difficult.
Modern day celebrities who wear these stupid outfits on the red carpet also have people to help them.

 

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A climber airlifted from Mount Fuji last week returned a second time to retrieve his phone just four days later—only to be rescued again, authorities said Monday.
The 27-year-old Chinese student living in Japan had first been airlifted after developing symptoms of altitude sickness.
Then, he returned to the nearly 10,000-foot-high Fujinomiya trail to recover his phone and other items left behind. Another climber found him there unable to move after he apparently got sick for a second time, police said.