Your interesting fact of the day.

[Ming the Merciless]

Yes, my daughter sent us a photo from when she was back packing, about 15 years ago. Standing in the valley where the tragedy has occured.
Can only imagine how many unfortunate students, backpacking, came to grief

The main road from Kathmandu to Pokhara and Chitwan runs alongside the Trishuli river along there. About 13km of the road are buried in mud now. There are 45 motorable bridges gone, and I think about 32 suspension bridges that have been ripped to shreds. Proper modern thick steel cable suspension bridges just destroyed. Not the old hemp rope ones of the 90s. Only way in and out to villages on other side is helicopter and being monsoon they can’t always fly. Plus very mountainous tricky terrain.

By the way the bridge in video is 124km from the Tibet border post. The destructive force was far reaching.

 

[Yellow Fang]

I assume you are talking about its internal width and length?

I am not sure. I made that fact up.

 

[Toshiba Boy]

My first car was an Allaggro. Surprised it didnt put me off driving for life.

Same for me, 2nd hand and in that lovely brown paint job! Changed it two months later.

Shortest timeframe I've owned a car over the 45 years I have had a car.

 

[figbat]

Nepal is the only country with a triangular flag

And, along with Switzerland, have the only flags that are not oblongs.

 

[Sharky]

I had a five speed allegro, back in 1976. Must admit, I had problems, but under the bonnet, there was so much room, that I managed to replace the clutch myself. Wouldn't attempt that with modern cars .

 

[Ming the Merciless]

My first car was an Allaggro. Surprised it didnt put me off driving for life.

An Allaggro is just for Christmas, not life.

 

[Dave7]

Same for me, 2nd hand and in that lovely brown paint job! Changed it two months later.

Shortest timeframe I've owned a car over the 45 years I have had a car.

Haha mine was also that yucky brown.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

The limbs of an octopus are called arms, not tentacles. This is on account of the fact that they have suckers along their full length. Tentacles only have suckers at the end.

Although I intend to continue calling them tentacles.

So, do jellyfish have suckers then? 🤔

And, along with Switzerland, have the only flags that are not oblongs.

Vatican City too!:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Vatican_City

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Gallium, atomic number 31, symbol 'GA', has a melting point of 29.76°C, meaning it can melt in your hand, producing a liquid like mercury.
Unlike mercury though, it is not toxic and is harmless... Unless you are made of aluminium that is, as Gallium can eat through and make aluminium brittle to the touch.

It was also named after France, being discovered in Paris in 1875 and every kid who has ever read the Asterix and Oblex stories will tell you that France was called 'Gaul' (in Latin), so it is not a huge leap to see the connection between 'Gall' and 'Gaul'... Hence, Gallium.

 

[steveindenmark]

If you look at the fuel guage of any petrol diven car. There will be a small arrow pointing to where the filler cap is .

 

[geocycle]

The oxygen in every fifth breath you take has passed through an algal cell.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

The oxygen in every fifth breath you take has passed through an algal cell. Drago's Y - Fronts

FTFY

 

[geocycle]

FTFY

I think you are mixing the oxygen cycle with the methane cycle! Never mind clathrates we may have discovered the missing C sink.

 

[Drago]

I think you are mixing the oxygen cycle with the mustard gas cycle

Duly corrected!

 

[figbat]

If you look at the fuel guage of any petrol diven car. There will be a small arrow pointing to where the filler cap is .

This is common, but not universal.