One of my favourite facts is

[swee'pea99]

Airliners spend 75% of their total life span in the air.

 

[bonj2]

Another car fact: the Austin Allegro was more aerodynamically efficient reversing than going forward.

related fact: not counting any possible slight aerodynamic disadvantage at the top end, (most) automatic cars can go as fast in reverse as they can forward. They can use all their gears - i.e. if you accelerate in reverse, they still change up.

 

[Abitrary]

I honestly don't know any facts. Canberra is the capital of australia, maybe.

Facts are the dots and I am a painter who joins them up.

 

[Cubist]

didn't it also have a square (ish) steering wheel?

Yes it did.

The Hyundai Starion is so named due to a phonetic mix-up in the boardroom. They wanted to give it a name which meant bigger and faster than their "Pony" model. The question was therefore asked "What's English for a big male horse?" and the mispronounced reply gave rise the the name it now has!

 

[yello]

I honestly don't know any facts.

Is that a fact?

 

[MickL]

We travel though time (4th Dimension) at the speed of light.

 

[Arch]

The axles on which the first big radio telescope at Jodrell Bank pivots are from gun turrets from decomissioned WW2 warships.

 

[dellzeqq]

Probably designed by an Italian.

Greek. Well, born in Greece.

The copper of the Statue of Liberty is only one sixteenth of an inch thick.

 

[colly]

Another car fact: the Austin Allegro was more aerodynamically efficient reversing than going forward.

Fact: I used to drive one of those.

 

[PaulB]

Putting FACT after an assertion you make gives it 56% more credibilty. FACT!

 

[Auntie Helen]

didn't it (Austin Allegro) also have a square (ish) steering wheel?

Yep, and Austin called it 'Quartic' to sound cool. Or attempt to.

 

[User482]

A slight diversion to an anti-fact.

Many people claim that glass flows appreciably, and that this is the reason that old panes of glass are thicker at the bottom than the top. However, this is completely untrue. The reason that the glass is thicker at the bottom is because old hand-made glass wasn't completely flat, so the thickest end would be installed at the bottom to keep it watertight. For glass to flow appreciably at room temperature, you would have to wait (apparently) 10,000 million million million times the age of the universe.

 

[xpc316e]

The guns on HMS Belfast could fire a shell, weighing as much as a small car, from Tower Bridge as far as Heathrow Airport.

 

[xpc316e]

Only three people have ever been awarded a bar to their Victoria Cross. One is buried in NZ, one in Liverpool, and the last in a churchyard next to the A10 near Ware.

 

[rich p]

J nob is an anagram of Bonj