Useless Facts about anything

[USAndretti42]

Researchers have 12 trained pigeons to look at photos of breast tissue biopsies with ducts stained one colour and blood vessels another and indicate whethere there are cancerous tumours present.  Each pigeon has about 85% accuracy and multiple answers across the whole group had 99% accuracy.

[tim_marra]

Is the percentage accuracy a measure of how many times their shit hits a photo?

[slewthy]

Not quite "useless facts" but fun all the same is a book called    "What If?" by Randall Munroe, 2014. 

It  tries to sensibly answer lots of stupid questions like "what if everyone in the USA jumped - would there be an earthquake in China?" or "how long until Facebook has more dead people than living?"

To be fair, most of the answers are based in semi-fact/science and result in death of everyone involved (usually the human race) And this includes the first question above!! But not for the reason you might first expect.

 

Oh, and to follow on the elephant pseudo-fact, 

As you walk along a flat road, approx 3-4x your body weight is applied through each of your kneecaps at each step.  Walk downstairs and that goes up to 10x. Thats why they crunch, old guys.

However, the red kangaroo, despite its leaping and jumping prowess, lacks a bony kneecap. (although perhaps that makes sense given the above facts)

 

[Steven162]

We realised this today, if somebody told me I wouldn't believe it.

We live in Norfolk, today we took our oldest daughter back to Newcastle Upon Tyne for her second year at university.

More than a quarter of the journey was in Norfolk.

[oilmagnet477]

That maybe helps to explain why most Norfolk residents never leave Norfolk..........

[Kimbers]

10 x More people die of Diarrheal issues in the UK than of Terrorism.

[theelanman]

well thats a crap statistic......

[andydclements]

I've always maintained that lots of people are full of s***, so the diarrhoea is inevitable.

[Chillidoggy]

I only ever use about 10% of my available T-shirts.

This happens because the wife washes them and put them back on the T-shirt pile so fast, I never get to the bottom 90%.

[pete]

Alfie Boe the opera singer was an apprentice at TVR

[TAR]

 The average person has 67 different species of bacteria in their belly button.  

[mayevora]

thelotusforums would score 22 points in scrabble.

[Kimbers]

I lay my clothes out every night as I am so organised, but I don't have a chair or bedside table so lay them out on the floor. Wendy (Who gets up first) invariably kicks them into a pile as they are "In the way".....yes honey a pair of pants, joggers and trainers is blocking the 20ft bedroom. 

Should I continue to tell her off or understand that anything of mine is in the way yet all her shit is there by necessity?

[Chillidoggy]

Deffo the latter.

Bullet dodged.

[mayevora]

A Black Bears heartbeat can slow to just 8 beats a minute in Winter.

[TAR]

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets  

[Escape]

@Kimbers, I'd just get a chair, but make sure it's out of Wendys way. 😉

[pete]

On 12/11/2018 at 16:00, Kimbers said:

I lay my clothes out every night as I am so organised, but I don't have a chair or bedside table so lay them out on the floor. Wendy (Who gets up first) invariably kicks them into a pile as they are "In the way".....yes honey a pair of pants, joggers and trainers is blocking the 20ft bedroom. 

Should I continue to tell her off or understand that anything of mine is in the way yet all her shit is there by necessity?

Sleep on the other side of the bed?

[Bibs]

A chef's hat has 100 pleats as there are 100 ways to cook an egg! 

[Steven162]

My daily driver could drive around the world (~25,000 miles) using less fuel than it would take to fill my central heating oil tank

[mayevora]

Mexico

You must prove you are resident in the state you live and you are granted a driving license. There is no Driving Test.

 

(Trumps wall looks appealing after all)

[march]

Just checked with the .Gov website - Mexicans can drive in the UK on their Mexican Licence!

[Barrykearley]

As can nearly all other foreign nationals.

dont even get me started on the Polish and their insurance arrangements

[USAndretti42]

When he was a session musician, Rick Wakeman composed and performed the piano arrangement on Cat Steven's "Morning Has Broken" hit but the company did not pay him for 35 years.  His fee?  £9!

[ramjet]

On 26/11/2018 at 21:05, Bibs said:

A chef's hat has 100 pleats as there are 100 ways to cook an egg! 

Well I think I know 4 so what are the other 96?

They would be, scrambled, fried, poached and boiled.