Random factoids you can't help but remember

[Bluelight-R006]

He’s got to have diabetes. That’s all I can think about.

Maybe. Some people think hyperthyroidism, too, which can increase your appetite tremendously.

True, true. Hyperthyroidism is a bitch, I guess. Tarrare ate a baby.

[The Great Swedish Empire]

Crows remember every face.

[Pax Nerdvana]

Very interesting... I just hope we don’t get ahead of ourselves and recreate animals that are known to be wild beasts and killers.

...So that's why we cannot clone humans?

Or T. Rexes.

[Rezmaeristan]

Crows remember every face.

How could we use this to our advantage? Can they be tamed as messengers or something?

[Bluelight-R006]

Crows remember every face.

How could we use this to our advantage? Can they be tamed as messengers or something?

Maybe with advanced technology, we can use them to be a bystander in our homes in case there’s a robbery, then get them to explain how the robber’s face look like.

I’m just kidding, there’s already CCTVs. Though it’s an interesting concept, you gotta admit.

[Pilipinas and Malaya]

The fastest man-made object, that wasn’t propelled by a celestial body, is a manhole cover at 125,000 mph (I can’t remember kph).

[Chan Island]

The British army once nuked a tank, and when the machine survived the blast they decided to use it as training vehicle.

[Castelia]

Almost the entire town of Whittier, Alaska lives in one building.

[Ethel mermania]

And now it lives again.

Hoorah! Long live the quagga!

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Another random fact: the New York Subway has 424 stations.

476.

[Farnhamia]

Hoorah! Long live the quagga!

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Another random fact: the New York Subway has 424 stations.

476.

Does the one in your basement count?

[Ethel mermania]

476.

Does the one in your basement count?

Yes, but tbf I count them differently for example grand central terminal is three stations to me, the shuttle, the Lexington line. And the 7 line.

[Farnhamia]

Does the one in your basement count?

Yes, but tbf I count them differently for example grand central terminal is three stations to me, the shuttle, the Lexington line. And the 7 line.

Hmmm ... makes sense. If you have to walk from one set of tracks to another, like at Grand Central, that's more than one station.

[Ethel mermania]

Yes, but tbf I count them differently for example grand central terminal is three stations to me, the shuttle, the Lexington line. And the 7 line.

Hmmm ... makes sense. If you have to walk from one set of tracks to another, like at Grand Central, that's more than one station.

Seperate Fare control areas, token booths, announcement systems, etc.

[Toraia]

There are over 900 million ways to arrange six 2x4 LEGO bricks.

[The Free Joy State]

In the city of York, there are reputed to be 365 pubs and bars -- one for every day of the year.

[Las Palmeras]

Archaeology in the Olmec area is hard; jungle terrain and rain erosion aside, the acidic pH value of the soil there dissolves human remains and even otherwise sturdy materials like ceramics.

[Krishna Rashtra]

STDs (particularly Chlamydia) are wiping out koalas in Australia.

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Some people think that the "correct" way of saying Barcelona is something like "Barthelona", as that is how it is said in Spanish, but since population of Barcelona is predominantly Catalan rather than Spanish, and since the Catalans say Barcelona with a similar sound as English speakers do, the conventional way of pronouncing Barcelona is actually more correct

[The Blaatschapen]

STDs (particularly Chlamydia) are wiping out koalas in Australia.

John Oliver, known from satiric news shows, has a koala chlamydia ward named after him.

[Sycar]

Europe didn't know about the Chernobyl Accident until the Swedes told them.
Another random factoid: This is the 420th post on this thread.

[Ethel mermania]

STDs (particularly Chlamydia) are wiping out koalas in Australia.

John Oliver, known from satiric news shows, has a koala chlamydia ward named after him.

Amazing what you can buy in this day and age.

[Coccygia]

The timing for GPS satellites is so precise t5hat they have to take into account the effects of general relativity - time moves faster in their orbits than at the surface of the Earth.

[TURTLESHROOM II]

Nintendo did not start off as a video game company but instead started out as a company that made Hanafuda playing cards.

Not only that: Nintendo was founded in 1899 AD and has always made toys and playing cards. They still make cards to this day.

[TURTLESHROOM II]

A turtle's shell has two scientific names.

First is the shell itself, called the carapace. The turtle's belly and underside of the shell is called the plastron. The carapace of every turtle's shell is divided into multiple bony plates called "scutes". Almost every turtle known to science has exactly thirteen scutes.

[Cekoviu]

IKEA was founded by a Nazi.