Really TRUE odd factoids

[Joey Shabadoo]

Why?

Lift was out of order again

 

[classic33]

Crows can hold grudges for up to 17 years.
They even teach their young to recognize and attack the same human faces, turning one bad encounter into a generational warning.

You have been warned.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Crows can hold grudges for up to 17 years.
They even teach their young to recognize and attack the same human faces, turning one bad encounter into a generational warning.

You have been warned.

Own up @classic33: what did you do 17 years ago?

 

[classic33]

In August 2010, China suffered a massive traffic jam that stretched 100 kilometers on the Beijing-Tibet Highway and lasted for nearly 10 days.

 

[Seevio]

In August 2010, China suffered a massive traffic jam that stretched 100 kilometers on the Beijing-Tibet Highway and lasted for nearly 10 days.

I'm assuming this has no connection to the previous post.

 

[classic33]

I'm assuming this has no connection to the previous post.

None I'm aware off.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Water is not a gas because of hydrogen bonds, which is jolly convenient

 

[Punkawallah]

Water is not a gas because of hydrogen bonds, which is jolly convenient

Does that not depend on temperature and atmospheric pressure?

 

[Yellow Fang]

Does that not depend on temperature and atmospheric pressure?

Yes, but at typical earth surface temperature and pressure water is a liquid. Most other molecules about the same size would be gases. If it weren't for hydrogen bonds then all our water would have escaped the planet.

 

[T4tomo]

Some French chap has cycled - well bunny hopped - up the Eiffel tower staircases all the way to the top in about 12 and half minutes.

and a different one has rode pulling a wheelie for 93 miles

again Why? - to get in the Guiness book of records its seems.

 

[raleighnut]

and a different one has rode pulling a wheelie for 93 miles

again Why? - to get in the Guiness book of records its seems.

Dougie Lampkin wheelied round the entire TT mountain circuit admittedly on his trials bike but there's a couple of hairpins.

 

[lenfield]

The red admiral butterfly was original known as the 'red admirable' The name got mispronounced and stuck.

 

[lenfield]

And while we are on the subject of butterflies they were originally known as 'flutter bys'.

 

[Beebo]

There has never been a chemical dye in swimming pools to detect urine.
It’s an urban myth and anyone who says they remember it is mistaken.

 

[classic33]

In 1909, E.M. Forster wrote the science fiction story "The Machine Stops".

About humans living in isolated rooms, communicating only through screens, ordering everything online, and experiencing the world through 'cinematophotes' (video calls). He predicted society would collapse when people forgot how to fix the machines.