Random factoids you can't help but remember

[Petrolheadia]

Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones was nearly killed by a Nazi bombing of London as a baby, but he wasn't home at that moment.

[Partybus]

You can identify Fisher Cat scat (shit) because it has porcupine quills in it...

Fisher cats, despite the name are actually weasels, not cats.

This I know as well... I just didn't want to be greedy. LOL

[Dazchan]

The Australian Army once lost a war to emus.

[Ifreann]

The Australian Army once lost a war to emus.

Against the power of the emu, there can be no victory.

[Hiachijan]

Your bones grow thrice as faster when you sleep.

[Fartsniffage]

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

[Neanderthaland]

The Australian Army once lost a war to emus.

Against the power of the emu, there can be no victory.

And now they face mankind's oldest and greatest foe.

[The Huskar Social Union]

That whole thing about the americans being fucking morons and making special space pens which cost millions when the soviets used a pencil.

[Fartsniffage]

That whole thing about the americans being fucking morons and making special space pens which cost millions when the soviets used a pencil.

Not a fact. NASA bought the pens for about 2 bucks a piece from a guy who invented them on his own dime. The USSR also developed the pens. Bits of graphite floating around computers that control a space ship are a bad thing.

[Saint Gloria]

bananas are the most radioactive fruit.

[Fartsniffage]

bananas are the most radioactive fruit.

I disagree. I'd argue it was whatever fruit was in the Chernobyl workers lunch bags....

[Novus America]

That whole thing about the americans being fucking morons and making special space pens which cost millions when the soviets used a pencil.

Actually those pens work great, and not just for space work.
Those pens are freaking awesome, the best pens you can buy.

I always carry one of those pens. Once you start using them you do not want to go back to normal pens. And the price is reasonable.

Pencils have severe issues in space too.

[The Huskar Social Union]

That whole thing about the americans being fucking morons and making special space pens which cost millions when the soviets used a pencil.

Not a fact. NASA bought the pens for about 2 bucks a piece from a guy who invented them on his own dime. The USSR also developed the pens. Bits of graphite floating around computers that control a space ship are a bad thing.

Wait... I thought factoids were things that were not facts but people commonly thought they were?

I might.be getting it confused with another word

[Valrifell]

That whole thing about the americans being fucking morons and making special space pens which cost millions when the soviets used a pencil.

Not a fact. NASA bought the pens for about 2 bucks a piece from a guy who invented them on his own dime. The USSR also developed the pens. Bits of graphite floating around computers that control a space ship are a bad thing.

I really love how dumb some people think literal rocket scientists are.

I mean granted they have their moments but that story is a whole other level.

[Neanderthaland]

Ancient Mesopotamian scholars used to write each other jokes on the backsides of cuneiform tablets.

Most of them involve scatological humor.

[Fartsniffage]

Not a fact. NASA bought the pens for about 2 bucks a piece from a guy who invented them on his own dime. The USSR also developed the pens. Bits of graphite floating around computers that control a space ship are a bad thing.

Wait... I thought factoids were things that were not facts but people commonly thought they were?

I might.be getting it confused with another word

A factoid is either a false statement presented as a fact[1][2], or a true but brief or trivial item of news or information.

From context, I believe the OP was going for the second definition.

[Fartsniffage]

Ancient Mesopotamian scholars used to write each other jokes on the backsides of cuneiform tablets.

Most of them involve scatological humor.

https://youtu.be/mlWhswW2fEA?t=60

[Chan Island]

The terminal velocity of a cat is only 60 kilometres per hour, meaning that it can fall from any height in Earths atmosphere and survive.

Not that I would forgive someone who actually tested the theory.

[Fartsniffage]

The terminal velocity of a cat is only 60 kilometres per hour, meaning that it can fall from any height in Earths atmosphere and survive.

Not that I would forgive someone who actually tested the theory.

There is apparently an interim distance that still kills them though. Too low for them to sort out their flight but to high for them to reliably survive. It's a googleable thing.

[Chan Island]

The terminal velocity of a cat is only 60 kilometres per hour, meaning that it can fall from any height in Earths atmosphere and survive.

Not that I would forgive someone who actually tested the theory.

There is apparently an interim distance that still kills them though. Too low for them to sort out their flight but to high for them to reliably survive. It's a googleable thing.

That interim height, if memory serves me correctly, is about 7 floors.

[Novus America]

The terminal velocity of a cat is only 60 kilometres per hour, meaning that it can fall from any height in Earths atmosphere and survive.

Not that I would forgive someone who actually tested the theory.

There is apparently an interim distance that still kills them though. Too low for them to sort out their flight but to high for them to reliably survive. It's a googleable thing.

Yes, cats are basically parachutes. So they need some distance to stabilize their descent.

[Novus America]

The terminal velocity of a cat is only 60 kilometres per hour, meaning that it can fall from any height in Earths atmosphere and survive.

Not that I would forgive someone who actually tested the theory.

Yes, except high enough you would need to give them a little HALO/HAHO type oxygen mask.

[Ethel mermania]

Against the power of the emu, there can be no victory.

And now they face mankind's oldest and greatest foe.

We cats clearly need to organize, i will start the fund raising.

[Novus America]

Not a fact. NASA bought the pens for about 2 bucks a piece from a guy who invented them on his own dime. The USSR also developed the pens. Bits of graphite floating around computers that control a space ship are a bad thing.

I really love how dumb some people think literal rocket scientists are.

I mean granted they have their moments but that story is a whole other level.

Actually true is the US always used electronic ignition systems were early Soviet rockets used what were essentially giant matchsticks.
This is not to say the Soviet system was better though.

[Neanderthaland]

And now they face mankind's oldest and greatest foe.

We cats clearly need to organize, i will start the fund raising.

That sounds like herding cats.