Really TRUE odd factoids

[T4tomo]

What theory is that? Is it loosely related to the Birthday Paradox?

exactly that Dave. if you have 26 random people in a room, there is slightly more than 50% chance that two of them share a birthday (note not date of birth). This chance increases relatively quickly as you add more people to the 26.

Teachers often test it out on their classes. With my son's class, they were sat on the same table of two and are now sharing a flat having become good mates.

*having double checked its actually 23 people, which is why is works quite well with classes of around 30 in most state schools.
Its a 99.9% chance if there are 75 people.

In my office at work there are 12 people in my team, 3 of us (incl me) share the same birthday. The other 2 who have been here donkeys years thought I was bullsh*tting them when I joined and told them mine was same day.

 

[raleighnut]

When I was a kid my next door neighbours daughter had the same birthday as me but a year younger. Obviously we still have the same birthday we're just not neighbours anymore.

 

[PeteXXX]

Alice Cooper owns the first 'O' in the HOLLYWOOD sign.

 

[PeteXXX]

Alice Cooper owns the first 'O' in the HOLLYWOOD sign.

And it's in honour of Groucho Marx.. 🤘

Steven Spielberg owns one, too, but I'm not sure which letter .. 👍

 

[kynikos]

H - Terrance Donnally
O - Giovanni Mazza
L - Les Kelley
L - Gene Autry/KTLA
Y - Hugh Hefner
W - Andy Williams
O - Warner Brothers Records
O - Alice Cooper
D - Dennis Lidtke

 

[PeteXXX]

H - Terrance Donnally
O - Giovanni Mazza
L - Les Kelley
L - Gene Autry/KTLA
Y - Hugh Hefner
W - Andy Williams
O - Warner Brothers Records
O - Alice Cooper
D - Dennis Lidtke

I heard AC say he bought the 1st O, not the last one..

 

[Dave7]

1st a photo I posted on a different thread.

The photo from some days ago shows the full moon with the planet Jupiter below it. Jupiter is actually 40 times BIGGER than the moon and you could fit over 1000 of our moon inside it.
Its just that Jupiter is so far away that it looks tiny.

 

[PeteXXX]

America lost a nuclear bomb in the Artic in1968.

On the plus side, they recovered the other three.. 👍

Maybe they want to revisit the search for it!? 🤔

🇬🇱

 

[Chris S]

'Noon' originally meant 3pm. At some time during the 12th century it came to mean mid-day.

 

[Chris S]

Bees in Ribeauvillé, France started to produce brightly coloured green and blue honey after feeding on a pile of M&Ms at a waste processing plant.

 

[Chris S]

'Zabibah and the King' was a romantic novel written anonymously by Saddam Hussein. It was a best seller in Iraq and also became a musical.