Really TRUE odd factoids

[Andy in Germany]

It didn’t feel like that last time I flew on Ryanair.

There's the irony.

 

[DaveReading]

At any given time there are over 9,700 planes in the air, carrying an estimated 1.2 million people.
Making the skies the 156 most populated place.

That's only counting commercial airliners, of course.

You could could probably double, or even triple, that number (of planes, not occupants) if you include private, military and other non-airline planes.

 

[Chris S]

70% of people in the UK will have been infected by one of the genital herpes viruses before their 25th birthday.

 

[Drago]

70% of people in the UK will have been infected by one of the genital herpes viruses before their 25th birthday.

Moral of the story - change your name to Genital Herpes and you get lot of sex.

 

[classic33]

If you type @[4:0] into the comments section of any facebook post it will automatically be "translated" to Mark Zuckerberg.

 

[Chris S]

Iron artefacts have been found in pyramids that were built a 1000 years before humans had developed the technology to smelt iron ore. Analysis has shown that it came from meteroites.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Iron artefacts have been found in pyramids that were built a 1000 years before humans had developed the technology to smelt iron ore. Analysis has shown that it came from meteroites.

Aliens?

 

[T4tomo]

At any given time there are over 9,700 planes in the air, carrying an estimated 1.2 million people.
Making "the skies" the 156 most populated place.

Or does it make them the *2nd most populated place behind "the land"

* assuming we are talking populated by humans, as the oceans & seas win big on numbers of living things

 

[Beebo]

Or does it make them the *2nd most populated place behind "the land"

* assuming we are talking populated by humans, as the oceans & seas win big on numbers of living things

I suspect there are more humans at sea than in the air.

 

[Chris S]

One of my local pubs has been converted into a mosque. They've left the Mitchells & Butlers brewery logo over one of the doors.

 

[Beebo]

One of my local pubs has been converted into a mosque. They've left the Mitchells & Butlers brewery logo over one of the doors.

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It actually stands for Mohammed and Buddha.

 

[classic33]

Walter Hunt was an American inventor best known for creating the safety pin in 1849. He designed it as a way to quickly pay off a $15 debt. The pin was made from a single piece of wire, coiled in the middle to act as a spring, with a clasp to protect the user from being pricked. Hunt patented the design but sold the rights for $400, missing out on the significant profits that followed.

 

[classic33]

The Swedish navy planted over a quarter of a million oak trees in the 1830's for future shipbuilding. However by the time the trees had matured, 150 years later, they were no longer needed as ships were being built from metal.

 

[classic33]

In a bizarre incident in 2019, a Taiwanese man named Ben Hsu accidentally swallowed an Apple AirPod while sleeping. Upon waking and unable to find the device, he used his iPhone's tracking feature, only to hear it beeping from inside his stomach.
Medics at Kaohsiung Municipal Hospital confirmed the AirPod's location via X-ray and prescribed a laxative. Remarkably, the device passed through Hsu's digestive system naturally, and he retrieved it the next day.

 

[raleighnut]

The Swedish navy planted over a quarter of a million oak trees in the 1830's for future shipbuilding. However by the time the trees had matured, 150 years later, they were no longer needed as ships were being built from metal.

So that's how IKEA started.