Odd factoids

[Dirk]

There has never been a documented case of anyone 'drowning' in quicksand; it's a myth. Once you get up to your waist, you float.

 

[classic33]

There has never been a documented case of anyone 'drowning' in quicksand; it's a myth. Once you get up to your waist, you float.

Could fall in head first!

 

[Drago]

The average person will meet more than thirty murderers in their life time.

 

[classic33]

The average person will meet more than thirty murderers in their life time.

You'll walk past 36, but we're uncertain if it's the same ones.

 

[Dirk]

You don't 'drown' in quicksand - you suffocate.

That's why there has never been a documented case.

 

[Beebo]

If you cycle 100 miles on 700c tyres, your hubs will have covered a rotational distance of less than a mile.

 

[gaijintendo]

If you cycle 100 miles on 700c tyres, your hubs will have covered a rotational distance of less than a mile.

Oh goodness, imagine how little your feet would have done!

 

[classic33]

Oh goodness, imagine how little your feet would have done!

Would depend on crank length.

 

[classic33]

 

[Fnaar]

Would depend on crank length.

I can be very cranky

 

[Drago]

In South Korea there is an emergency number (113) to report North Korean spies.

 

[Nigeyy]

We might only know time travel backwards is not possible by assuming that if it were, there is no limit to the extent we can travel backwards in time and ultimately would be disclosed to us.

If time travel was possible, we would already know about it.

 

[rikki]

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I've been on scout camps where the sausages were older than that.

 

[Fonze]

Everyone has a different tongue print , same as finger prints ..

 

[Fonze]

Oh, and brass can disinfect itself ..