Really TRUE odd factoids

[Chris S]

According to the Metropolitan Police a white person can be the victim of a racially motivated attack by another white person, if another white person thinks they are.

A hate incident is any incident which the victim, or anyone else, thinks is based on someone’s prejudice towards them because of their race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or because they are transgender.

https://www.met.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/hco/hate-crime/what-is-hate-crime/

 

[T4tomo]

stumbling into NACA territory here chaps. lets keep to proper True odd factoids @Chris S , not ambiguous definitions

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Albino Redwood trees exist but they cannot produce their own food so they are considered parasites because they rely on nutrients from neighbouring trees

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Honeybees and wasps can recognize human faces.

 

[Chris S]

Helen Mirren played Golda Meir in the 2023 biopic 'Golda'. She is also distantly related to her.
https://blog.myheritage.com/2023/07...g-link-to-golda-meir-uncovered-by-myheritage/

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Ant corpses release a chemical when they die. A scientist once recreated this chemical and put it on a live ant. Its ant friends kept bringing it to the graveyard no matter how much it struggled to return.

 

[Beebo]

Saturn’s rings are mainly ice with a bit of rock.
They are slowly being dragged back to the plant and will have vanished in 100 million years.
they are currently raining debris on the planet at a rate of 175,000 tons per day.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

The loudness of a howler monkey is relative to the size of its testicles. Researchers found that the smaller the testicles, the louder the monkey.



How many read this and thought "yup".

 

[Andy in Germany]

The loudness of a howler monkey is relative to the size of its testicles. Researchers found that the smaller the testicles, the louder the monkey.



How many read this and thought "yup".

The funding application for that study would have been interesting to read.

 

[matticus]

I'll be visiting family in Cornwall shortly, so I've looked at maps for possible rides.

On the far coast of Cornwall, there is a tiny hamlet called Barcelona. I was intrigued, so did some research. There isn't much there, but:

Pelynt Football Club - named after the nearby village of Pelynt - played their home matches at Barcelona and had named their ground "the New Camp", due to having the same name as FC Barcelona of Spain who play at the Camp Nou.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/B...!4d-4.502819!16s/m/04zxjg_?hl=en-US&entry=ttu

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Similarly, Falkirk FC are known as "The Bairns", which is why their fans call their stadium the Bairnebau.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Flat earth conspiracy theorists believe a conspiracy theory that the Flat Earth Society is a government controlled body to disprove flat earthers

 

[Tenkaykev]

There's an opposite of "Déjà Vu " called " Jamais Vu " where frequent repetition of writing / saying the same word over and over will make the word become nonsense in our perception.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Saturn’s rings are mainly ice with a bit of rock.
They are slowly being dragged back to the plant and will have vanished in 100 million years.
they are currently raining debris on the planet at a rate of 175,000 tons per day.

In the diary

 

[Ming the Merciless]

There's an opposite of "Déjà Vu " called " Jamais Vu " where frequent repetition of writing / saying the same word over and over will make the word become nonsense in our perception.

I was just reading about that yesterday