Really TRUE odd factoids

[Joey Shabadoo]

Are the fly and the train inelastic bodies? Point masses?

They're an insect and public transport - does that help?

 

[Dave7]

They're an insect and public transport - does that help?

Ahh but but but..........
1. What if the train was privately owned?
2. If you pull one leg off a fly is it still an insect ?

 

[Punkawallah]

Ahh but but but..........
1. What if the train was privately owned?
2. If you pull one leg off a fly is it still an insect ?

Only if someone is there to observe it.

 

[Beebo]

1976 is the only year that hasn’t produced a English men’s football international player.

 

[kynikos]

1976 is the only year that hasn’t produced a English men’s football international player.

1482? 2013?

No man born in 1976 has ever played...

FTFY

 

[classic33]

A fully equipped 22 SAS trooper in HALO rig (late 1970s).

 

[classic33]

For one of us to be born, it took:
2 parents
4 grandparents
8 great-grandparents
16 great-great-grandparents
32 third-great-grandparents
64 fourth-great-grandparents
128 fifth-great-grandparents
256 sixth-great-grandparents
512 seventh-great-grandparents
1,024 eighth-great-grandparents
2,048 ninth-great-grandparents

In only the last 11 generations, that’s 4,094 ancestors—roughly within the 300 years before you or I were born!


And, if you go back 33 generations, or about 1,500 years, we all have 1 billion direct ancestors, and each additional further generation doubles it