Really TRUE odd factoids

[matticus]

Why do you believe that?

I do it every day!

 

[Alex321]

I do it every day!

Oh, so just a completely out of context remark, nothing to do with the subject under discussion.

 

[DaveReading]

Would the grains of rice on square 64 reach the moon if stacked?

I think a stack of eighteen quintillion, four hundred and forty-six quadrillion, seven hundred and forty-four trillion, seventy-three billion, seven hundred and nine million, five hundred and fifty-one thousand, six hundred and fifteen grains of rice would stretch a tad further ...

 

[raleighnut]

try stacking rice

 

[markemark]

try stacking rice

Easier if cooked as you can squish them. However they’d have expanded a bit.

 

[Seevio]

Would the grains of rice on square 64 reach the moon if stacked?

Assuming rice is about 1mm thick, the far end of such a stack would be somewhere in the Oort cloud.

 

[Punkawallah]

Assuming rice is about 1mm thick, the far end of such a stack would be somewhere in the Oort cloud.

Too far. I won’t bother, then.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Assuming rice is about 1mm thick, the far end of such a stack would be somewhere in the Oort cloud.

That sounds like the probable future location of Ryanair's Jupiter space port...

 

[Glyno]

You can't really travel East to West though.

Of course you can. If your destination is a greater degree of longitude than the one you left then you’ve travelled in a westerly direction.

 

[DaveReading]

Of course you can. If your destination is a greater degree of longitude than the one you left then you’ve travelled in a westerly direction.

Well that's true in half of the world ...

 

[Chris S]

Robert Maxwell wanted to buy the Celtic and Rangers football clubs and merge them.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

People hire strippers for funerals in Taiwan

 

[Dave7]

People hire strippers for funerals in Taiwan

That's one way of checking that the guy really is dead.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

If you're stung by a wasp or bitten by a mosquito, heat a spoon under a tap and press against the bite area. This "cooks" the protein that creates the itch and reaction.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

There are 3.2 million saunas and 3.2 million bicycles in Finland, pop 5.5 million.