Really TRUE odd factoids

[classic33]

The average person will spend around six months of their life waiting for the Red light, at traffic lights, to change to the green light.

 

[Tenkaykev]

The average person will spend around six months of their life waiting for the Red light, at traffic lights, to change to the green light.

Thank you, I now have R Dean Taylor's " Gotta see Jane " as an earworm...

 

[Dave7]

The average person will spend around six months of their life waiting for the Red light, at traffic lights, to change to the green light.

That's a long time to wait for lights to change.
The council needs to fix them pdq.

 

[Andy in Germany]

The average person will spend around six months of their life waiting for the Red light, at traffic lights, to change to the green light.

But remember, cars save time...

 

[classic33]

Chocolate contains Phenylethylamine(PEA), the same chemical released in the brain when you fall in love.

 

[classic33]

Apart from your brain, your body is no more than 11 months old.
Brain cells are replaced every seven years, every other cell in your body is replaced after eleven months.

 

[classic33]

 

[classic33]

Frank Hayes is the only jockey to win a race whilst dead.
The horse, a 20:1 outsider called Sweet Kiss, was owned by Miss A. M. Frayling. Hayes died in the latter part of the race and his body remained in the saddle when Sweet Kiss crossed the finish line, winning by a head, making him the first, and so far only, jockey known to have won a race after death.

 

[classic33]

 

[Beebo]

The most accurate atomic clocks are accurate to plus or minus 1 second across the lifetime of the universe.

 

[Andy in Germany]

The most accurate atomic clocks are accurate to plus or minus 1 second across the lifetime of the universe.

How do we know this?

 

[Beebo]

How do we know this?

You’re asking the wrong person!
It was on a documentary I watched.
Something to do with the virbration of a specific atom which means they can now time each second to 18 decimal places.

 

[Chromatic]

I think the problem is more how do we know what the lifetime of the universe is going to be?

 

[Punkawallah]

I think the problem is more how do we know what the lifetime of the universe is going to be?

It might be shorter than you think - when I go, it goes.

 

[classic33]

I think the problem is more how do we know what the lifetime of the universe is going to be?

Current scientific consensus of most cosmologists is that the ultimate fate of the universe depends on its overall shape, how much dark energy it contains and on the equation of state which determines how the dark energy density responds to the expansion of the universe.