Amazing...but true!

[Cogidubnus]

They're apparently expecting a hurricane at present (if "Nestor" develops as they fear) so sadly, mobility might be more of an issue than you think...

[Abby Normal]

Maybe more 'quite interesting' than Amazing...but true, but I recently discovered that mobile homes are so called because they were originally produced by a company in the town of Mobile, Alabama, rather than the fact that they are...well, mobile.

none of the mobile homes ive seen look very mobile lol

[Purkis]

Maybe more 'quite interesting' than Amazing...but true, but I recently discovered that mobile homes are so called because they were originally produced by a company in the town of Mobile, Alabama, rather than the fact that they are...well, mobile.

[c.d.]

I told her to keep quiet about that.

Hello Harry,

I think you may have misunderstood the title of this thread. It is amazing...but true. Not amazing...and I wish to God it were true.

c.d.

[c.d.]

Total amount of beer consumed at the 2018 Oktoberfest in Munich -- a record 7.5 million Liters.

Amazing....but true.

[mpriestnall]

As a kid I managed to get myself accidently pictured in a postcard of Looe Harbour, Cornwall. Amazing but true....

Kid top left:

https://www.delcampe.net/en_GB/collectables/postcards/united-kingdom-england/other-3/east-looe-cornwall-c-1970s-john-hinde-postcard-524165618.html

I'm still waiting for my royalties...

Martyn

[Harry D]

Doctors from the Center for Marital and Sexual Studies in California have recorded the case of one woman who enjoyed — or endured, rather — 134 orgasms over the course of an hour.

I told her to keep quiet about that.

[Pcdunn]

Amazing....but true.
Black cattle painted in a zebra stripe pattern will receive fewer fly bites when pastured outside. They actually announced this recently!

[Herlock Sholmes]

Possibly his most useful contribution to the entertainment industry.


Amazing... but true.

No arguments from me on that one Sam

[Herlock Sholmes]

The last public execution in France (by guillotine) was of Eugen Weidmann, a serial murderer, in 1939. It was witnessed by a 17 year old Christopher Lee.

Amazing but true.

[Sam Flynn]

During the filming of The Shining, the gofer that had the job of polishing Jack Nicholson’s axe blade to achieve maximum cinematic effect, was none other than Simon Cowell.

Possibly his most useful contribution to the entertainment industry.


Amazing... but true.

[Yabs]

During the filming of The Shining, the gofer that had the job of polishing Jack Nicholson’s axe blade to achieve maximum cinematic effect, was none other than Simon Cowell.


Amazing.. but true.

so I’ve heard

[Abby Normal]

Atoms consist overwhelmingly of empty space. If we could remove the empty space from the atoms of every person on earth, all seven billion of us would fit into a volume about the size of a tennis ball.

Amazing... but true.

yes the world of the very small, the quantum world is very strange. Ive been able to wrap my head around most of the quantum zaniness-entanglement, wave/particle duality, the experiment with two holes, uncertainty principle, tunneling etc. but the one that I still cant is the polarization problem. If you pass a bunch of vertically polarized photons through a vertically aligned set of "blinds" 100% of the photons get through. Now place a set of blinds horizontal (90 degree angle) behind the first set of vertical blinds and none of the photons will get through both the first and second set of blinds. Now place a third set of blinds at 45 degree angel between the first and second set and send the photons through and now some(forgot the percentage) will go through all three blinds!!!

amazing …. but true.

now one from the world of relativity.

Place a clock on the surface of the earth, then placed a synchronized clock on the top of the Empire state building. The clock on the surface of the earth runs slower. Time runs slower the stronger the gravitational field.

amazing... but true!

[Herlock Sholmes]

Here's another mind-boggler from the world of physics. How old is the light of the sun by the time it reaches Earth? If you said "about 8 minutes, because that's how long it takes light to cross the distance from the Sun to our planet", award yourself a point.

However, give yourself extra points if you said "100,000 years or more". That's how long it takes the light, which originates in nuclear reactions at the core, to reach the Sun's glowing outer surface. This isn't because the Sun is particularly big, but because the photons bounce around the inner layers of our star for tens of thousands of years before they can escape.

Amazing... but true.

Those physic facts are mind blowing Sam. I read one once that was something like this. If you places two balls 30 yards apart in England which stood for the sun and the earths 93 million miles where would the next nearest star be. I think the answer was India!

[Al Bundy's Eyes]

I love the world of Quantum Physics. And Quantum Leap, that was good too.