Really TRUE odd factoids

[Tenkaykev]

Britans longest train journey from Aberdeen in Aberdeenshire, Scotland to Penzance in Cornwall, England is approximately 6563636.363636 bananas long.

That can be shortened to 1GC*


* GigaCavendish *

 

[Tenkaykev]

Britans longest train journey from Aberdeen in Aberdeenshire, Scotland to Penzance in Cornwall, England is approximately 6563636.363636 bananas long.

For whatever reason you can't make the return journey without changing train. It's only the " down " leg tha's continuous.

 

[slow scot]

For whatever reason you can't make the return journey without changing train. It's only the " down " leg tha's continuous.

I did not know that! I have done the “down” journey, and it is a long one.

 

[Chris S]

A colony of scorpions has been living in a wall at Sheerness Dockyard, Kent, for about 200 years.

 

[Beebo]

A colony of scorpions has been living in a wall at Sheerness Dockyard, Kent, for about 200 years.

Yep. They came over on boats. And they predate the grey squirrel as an invasive species in UK.
They just haven’t made it off the Isle of Sheppey yet!

 

[classic33]

The observable universe is over 93 million light years across.
To date human has travelled more than 1.3 light seconds from earth.

We've a bit more travelling to do.