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.
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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.
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Most Orgasms in One Hour
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. The record holder for males? Just 16.
Honorable Mention: the official longest orgasm was recorded in 1966, when a woman had a 45-second orgasm that involved 25 individual contractions.
Amazing...but true.
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P.S. On a personal note I still remember the woman who told me I was a lousy lover. I responded how can you make a determination like that in just two minutes.Leave a comment:
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Originally posted by Herlock Sholmes View PostThis fact might be classed as more sad than true but I only found this out around two weeks ago. If you recall before the Good Friday Agreement TV stations would not use the voice of Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams. They showed him talking but his words were always read out by an actor. The actor was Paul Loughran who played Butch Dingle on TV in Emmerdale.
Apologies to non-UK posters on this one.
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This fact might be classed as more sad than true but I only found this out around two weeks ago. If you recall before the Good Friday Agreement TV stations would not use the voice of Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams. They showed him talking but his words were always read out by an actor. The actor was Paul Loughran who played Butch Dingle on TV in Emmerdale.
Apologies to non-UK posters on this one.
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The Mars bar was actually named after the man who invented it; Forrest Mars, rather than the planet Mars.
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Amazing...but true!
I read today that Lennard Pearce, who played Grandad in Only Fools met and shook hands with Adolf Hitler! Amazing...but true.
Anyone got more nuggets to share? All I ask is they be Amazing...but true.
( Note: for maximum enjoyment of this thread, it's essential to put a mental dramatic pause in Amazing... but true )
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