Odd factoids

[classic33]

If the need arises I'll let you demonstrate the veracity of that statement. If you don't mind.

No problem, next time you see a tiger on the loose in Leeds, let me know.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Roy Chadwick designed both the Lancaster and the Vulcan.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Siamese cats are temperature sensitive albinos - their fur is darker where the body is cooler.

 

[Seevio]

The fax machine was invented 30 years before the telephone. This means that the screeching noise you hear when you dial a fax line is in fact the default sound and any time you speak to somebody it's just an aberration.

 

[classic33]

It used to take 6 minutes to send just a single page fax in 1924 and 3 minutes in 1974. Now it takes only 1.7 seconds to send a single page of fax.

 

[Threevok]

The fax machine was originally developed to transport paper from one office to another

 

[classic33]

If you folded 0.1 millimeter-thick paper 42 times, the resulting paper would theoretically be thick enough to reach the moon. You can't actually fold the paper 42 times though.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Chaos is never wrong. Well that's my theory anyway.

 

[Drago]

It is impossible to fold a piece of paper more than 7 times.

 

[classic33]

It is impossible to fold a piece of paper more than 7 times.

The Mythbusters team did officially “bust” the seven fold limit myth. Their team of savvy scientists managed to fold their sheet of paper in half 11 times.


View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kRAEBbotuIE


Paper Fold

 

[classic33]

A standard, neatly rolled toilet roll will have about 400 yards of paper ready to use!

 

[NorthernDave]

A standard, neatly rolled toilet roll will have about 400 yards of paper ready to use!

But not for long if there are puppies in the house...

 

[classic33]

Does your dog take a long time to go to the bathroom?

Well there could be a very good reason for that. Research suggests that dogs poop in alignment with the Earth’s magnetic field.

 

[Profpointy]

Does your dog take a long time to go to the bathroom?

Well there could be a very good reason for that. Research suggests that dogs poop in alignment with the Earth’s magnetic field.

someone won an ig-nobel prize for that I believe

 

[Tim Hall]

Does your dog take a long time to go to the bathroom?

Well there could be a very good reason for that. Research suggests that dogs poop in alignment with the Earth’s magnetic field.

Bathroom? Poop?
I put it to you that dogs don't go to the bathroom, nor do they poop. They crap. They defecate. They piddle. Nearly all of which happen in the Great Outdoors, not in "the bathroom".