Unbelievable Fun Facts

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Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
Doves are just white pigeons.
When Neil Armstrong returned from the moon, he had to go through customs.

Do you know any unbelievable fun facts?

Here is Portsmouth. Look at how it is entirely surrounded by water. Yes sometimes that water is just a river but I think that still qualifies as an island.

lol @SimonBridges nobody was arguing that aspect.

Jesser was just saying that it's not really true becuase she live 'in Portsmouth' but in fact lives on the bit at the top of the picture which is north of the river i.e. on the mainland. because she lives in a suburb which is still under the remit of Portsmouth City Council rather than actually in Portsmouth City as it were.

@LadyWarleggan that's because much as there are different types of owls, there are different types of pigeons. Most of what are know as feral pigeons/flying rats are in fact rock pigeons which hav moved from their natural habitat of cliff faces to the man made cliffs of city and town buildings.

There are also lighter grey woodpigeons, grey slimmer quite pretty pigeons called Collared Doves which we get here and then actual white doves. Just depends where you live which ones you see more of.

Ah I see.

It’s predicted that if sea levels continue to rise at current levels then by 2045 Portsmouth will no longer be on an island.

It doesn’t matter whether it’s a tunnel, tube or pipe, lots of people have admitted to being surprised that the euro tunnel was in face under the sea bed not on it and they were disappointed they couldn’t see any fish!!!

@Saggital presumably though that's because it will be completely under water rather than because it will miraculously be on the mainland?

Yes that's true Iklboo

I was making it easy.

It's absolutely fascinating though.

Get your kids onto their calculators with multiples of nines!

Get your kids onto their calculators with multiples of nines!

If you can avoid them spelling BOOBIES

It doesn’t matter whether it’s a tunnel, tube or pipe, lots of people have admitted to being surprised that the euro tunnel was in face under the sea bed not on it and they were disappointed they couldn’t see any fish!!!

Strange that. I would have thought there was a pretty good hint in the name Channel Tunnel.

When the Channel Tunnel was still not open yet, there used to be this fantastic exhibition nearby with a huge model railway of both terminals. The tunnel itself was represented by the trains running alongside a fish tank, where each fish was about the same size as one of the train carriages. Maybe that's where all the "why can't I see fish?" people got the idea.

Iklboo

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If you can avoid them spelling BOOBIES
The following calculator joke was very popular when I was at school. Type in all the numbers:

There was a girl who was 13,
her boobs were size 84,
she wanted them to be 45.
The doctor said, "Oh... (type 0), take 2 pills."

(Display should show 13844502. Now press the multiply button.)

But she took 4 (type it in), and ended up...

To see the result, press =, and turn calculator upside down. It works best on a calculator with a traditional display!

It’s predicted that by 2055, sea levels will have risen by so much that everybody who ever believed the channel tunnel was a pipe laid upon the seabed from which Dover Sole could be observed scuttling along the sand beds, will have long since accepted that by then it will most certainly be covered in natural sediment, detritus and odds and sods washed round the English Channel, from the long since flooded ria that was once Portsmouth, and that further by then sales of calculators will have fallen because kids won’t give a shit about the number 9 and homework maths problems will be solved by speaking into Alexia if required after watching the 48th series of Love Island, an island that is not or never was on the south coast of England.

It's unfortunate that we started counting to base ten, presumably because we have ten fingers.
If we had evolved with eight fingers and used base 8, that's a nice binary number 2^3, and would have made dealing with binary logic and computers much more logical.

Saggital 😂

Macaulay Culkin is now older than Catherine O'Hara was when she played his mum in Home Alone

It's predicted that if we had counted in base 8 rather than base 10, Octopuses would have reached the top of the animal kingdom before either the Byzantian, Roman or Kardashian empires, and would have kept monkey's in cages who could correctly predict the outcome of the Seaworld Cup.

There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those that don't.

I'll get my coat.

A pound of feathers weighs more than a pound of gold.

If all the girls at my old university were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised

A pound of feathers weighs more than a pound of gold

A pound is a pound. A pound of feathers would take up a lot more space than a pound of gold. But they would both weigh a pound.

milliard is French for a billion.

My favourite fact is that Alan Bennett and Barbara Taylor Bradford were at nursery together. Isn't that sweet?

that pound thing is true, as one of them (gold I think) is weighed in different pounds, avoirdupois I think.

Carrots are ripe courgettes.

Actually, I would expect a kilogram of gold to weigh slightly more than a kilogram of feathers unless you really spread the feathers out.