Did you know.

[lassie23 16,208]

Did you know that cats spend 66% of their lives asleep.

Switzerland eats the most chocolate equating to 10 kilos per person per year

The only continent with no active volcanoes is Australia

The croissant was invented in Austria

Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine

Anyone else got any pointless nuggets of knowledge they would like to share?

[AderynCoch 1,188]

Captain James Wilson was the first European to visit the island of Mangareva in 1797.

[lassie23 16,208]

9 minutes ago, AderynCoch said:

Captain James Wilson was the first European to visit the island of Mangareva in 1797.

I did not know that.

Did you know that the average human brain contains around 78% water.

Edited December 6, 2016 by lassie23

[mike57 200]

10 hours ago, lassie23 said:

Did you know that cats spend 66% of their lives asleep.

Only 66%... Ours seems to spend more than that asleep, she wakes up and runs around if her food bowl is empty but otherwise in the winter alternates between in front of the fire and one of her bed places.

[lassie23 16,208]

9 minutes ago, mike57 said:

Only 66%... Ours seems to spend more than that asleep, she wakes up and runs around if her food bowl is empty but otherwise in the winter alternates between in front of the fire and one of her bed places.

I thought it would be more than that too.

[jethro 5,771]

Did you know, Giraffes have the highest blood pressure in the animal kingdom.

[lassie23 16,208]

lightning strikes the Earth 6,000 times every minute.

[Mapantz 12,256]

If you shuffle a deck of cards, the arrangement of those cards is likely to have never been done by anyone before, or likely to ever be repeated again. The number of possible sequences in a deck of cards is 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000 - which is more than the number of atoms in the observable universe.

[lassie23 16,208]

I had a gluten free flap jack and it was sandy.

[CreweCold 22,238]

9 minutes ago, lassie23 said:

I had a gluten free flap jack and it was sandy.

eugh

[jethro 5,771]

1 hour ago, Cloudy daze said:

The largest supermassive black hole weighs 21 billion solar masses 

Did you know....supermassive black hole is entirely responsible for me blowing not one, but two sets of cars speakers. Ooops!

[lassie23 16,208]

grapes explode when you put them in a microwave

[lassie23 16,208]

6 minutes ago, Cloudy daze said:

As do fragmentation grenades....

and gremlins

[Milocation 480]

50 minutes ago, lassie23 said:

grapes explode when you put them in a microwave

 

48 minutes ago, Cloudy daze said:

As do fragmentation grenades....

 

41 minutes ago, lassie23 said:

and gremlins

And marshmallows!!!!  

[Spikecollie 3,409]

...and eggs!

[Weather-history 16,148]

I mentioned this one in the past that the last British person who had a parent born in the 18th century died in 1970. 

[Spikecollie 3,409]

 Your salivary glands produce 0.5-1.5 litres of saliva a day. You'll never see a bottle of pop in the same way again!

[Milocation 480]

Every year, about 6,500 Americans are injured by their toilet seats.

[CreweCold 22,238]

Did you know that if you put your ear up to a stranger's leg, you can hear them say 'What the eff are you doing?!'

Also, did you know that there's a species of deer able to jump higher than the average house? This is due to its powerful rear legs and the fact that the average house cannot jump.

Did you know, the human body has 7 trillion nerves...and some people manage to get on every single one of them

Edited December 7, 2016 by CreweCold

[AderynCoch 1,188]

3 hours ago, Weather-history said:

I mentioned this one in the past that the last British person who had a parent born in the 18th century died in 1970. 

The last American Civil War widow died in 2008.

[lassie23 16,208]

Venetian blinds were invented  in Japan

[Weather-history 16,148]

Hannah Stilley was the earliest born woman to have had their photo taken. She was born in 1746!

Edited December 8, 2016 by Weather-history

[Weather-history 16,148]

Jimmy Carter's post presidentially life is the longest of any former US president, currently of 35+ years. That is about 78% of John F Kennedy's entire lifespan.

[I remember Atlantic 252 5,673]

Nokia 6310i is the best phone! I have 6 of them and no other phone, smartphones who needs one, Phones are for calls and texts!

hopefully batteries will last a few years yet, long live the 6310i

[jethro 5,771]

Did you know..... there are 35 types of snowflakes?