Really TRUE odd factoids

[T4tomo]

Just over a hundred days into 2023, there have already been 161 mass shootings in the USA.

 

[Jameshow]

To quote Dudley Moore.

'If 42,789,675 people died......
I'd be queen.'

Are those numbers accurate do seem a little low going by the traffic out this morning!🤣🤣

 

[T4tomo]

In Missouri (and probably other US states) you can buy a gun with no background or ID checks whatsoever.

 

[Alex321]

The first bus powered by human excrement runs on the number 2 route in Bristol.

 

[T4tomo]

The first bus powered by human excrement runs on the number 2 route in Bristol.

I imagine the service has gone down the pan by now....

 

[Andy in Germany]

The first bus powered by human excrement runs on the number 2 route in Bristol.

It should have been in Looe.

 

[classic33]

At lunchtime on the 28th February 1953 an American and a British scientist, James Watson and Francis Crick, walked into the Eagle Pub in Cambridge and announced that they had "discovered the secret of life."

 

[newfhouse]

At lunchtime on the 28th February 1953 an American and a British scientist, James Watson and Francis Crick, walked into the Eagle Pub in Cambridge and announced that they had "discovered the secret of life."

The source of their data, Rosalind Franklin, was too busy to join them in the pub, presumably.

 

[T4tomo]

At lunchtime on the 28th February 1953 an American and a British scientist, James Watson and Francis Crick, walked into the Eagle Pub in Cambridge and announced that they had "discovered the secret of life."

At a similar sort of time, JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis & other Inklings were meeting in the Eagle & Child pub in Oxford.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

At lunchtime on the 28th February 1953 an American and a British scientist, James Watson and Francis Crick, walked into the Eagle Pub in Cambridge and announced that they had "discovered the secret of life."

To which everyone else in the pub went

'Well, DUH! It's beer, the cause of and cure of all the world's problems!

... Bloody scientists, call themselves clever?' (mutter mutter)...

😆

 

[T4tomo]

To which everyone else in the pub went

'Well, DUH! It's beer, the cause of and cure of all the world's problems!

... Bloody scientists, call themselves clever?' (mutter mutter)...

😆

stuff it up your double helix!

 

[colly]

The first bus powered by human excrement runs on the number 2 route in Bristol.

I think you will find that the bus does not have conventional seating. Do I have to point out the obvious re the type of seats?

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

To which everyone else in the pub went

'Well, DUH! It's beer, the cause of and cure of all the world's problems!

... Bloody scientists, call themselves clever?' (mutter mutter)...

😆

Pretty sure it was medicinal compound. Most efficacious in every case

 

[Daleman]

Beer contains all 13 elements required to sustain life I have told be a wise person. I have also been told you can't buy happiness but you can buy beer and that's basically the same thing, and beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy (if you believe there is a god).

 

[Alex321]

I think you will find that the bus does not have conventional seating. Do I have to point out the obvious re the type of seats?

This is the TRUE factoids thread

The bus is not, of course, powered directly by human excrement, but is actually powered by methane collected by a sewage treatment works.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/people/society/britains-poo-bus-takes-over-route-number-two/
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/mar/15/uk-first-poo-bio-bus-bristol-regular-service