Groucho's Fact Hunt

[BNJ1878]

Scientists estimate that there are about 400,000 different species of plants on Earth. It's much harder to estimate how many of them are edible, but figures range from 80,000 to a whopping 300,000.

But, in all the cultures across the world combined, we eat only 200 of those edible plants. Amazingly, about 50 percent of the plant calories we do eat come from just three species: rice, wheat, and maize (corn).

 

[Tramps_mate]

On average, 120 marine vessels disappear without a trace in the Bermuda Triangle every year

Have you got a link to that information as I'm struggling to find anything like that...

 

[Philw]

Have you got a link to that information as I'm struggling to find anything like that...

On average, Kurt makes 120 facts every year...

 

[Kurt.]

Have you got a link to that information as I'm struggling to find anything like that...

No

 

[Tramps_mate]

No

Sound. It's just as well I believe you. I'm gonna tell everyone in work tomorrow!

 

[deipnosophist]

If we are using that analogy, the parasite is Jack the ripper, the mozzy is just the bus that took him to whitechapel

Jack might have been overcharged on his bus fare which so enraged him that he missed his intended destination (to visit his mum) and instead alighted in Whitecapel, in a very black mood. I guess the ultimate irony would be if Jack had scarpered to Africa (to avoid the bizzies), and died from contracting malaria.

 

[Kurt.]

Sound. It's just as well I believe you. I'm gonna tell everyone in work tomorrow!

lol

I watched a tv documentary about the triangle and this was one of the opening statements of the programme... I have given details of the programme somewhere in this thread if that helps

 

[Goat]

lol

I watched a tv documentary about the triangle and this was one of the opening statements of the programme... I have given details of the programme somewhere in this thread if that helps

Scientist ‘solves’ mystery of the Bermuda Triangle – by claiming there was no mystery in the first place

Karl Kruszelnicki says everything can be explained by human error, bad weather, and heavy air and sea traffic – not alien abduction or energy beams from the lost city of Atlantis

www.independent.co.uk

This is a fact thread.

Not a made-up bull thread.

 

[Kurt.]

Scientist ‘solves’ mystery of the Bermuda Triangle – by claiming there was no mystery in the first place

Karl Kruszelnicki says everything can be explained by human error, bad weather, and heavy air and sea traffic – not alien abduction or energy beams from the lost city of Atlantis

www.independent.co.uk

This is a fact thread.

Not a made-up bull thread.

You being an expert on deep sea swimming


It’s toooooooo easy

 

[Tramps_mate]

lol

I watched a tv documentary about the triangle and this was one of the opening statements of the programme... I have given details of the programme somewhere in this thread if that helps

I did read something a while back that the bedrock there may have large levels of iron in it and could effect the magnetism of the compass. A lot of people have reported compasses spinning wildly...

 

[JimmyJeffers]

If you had 10 children in Nazi germany, Hitler would become godfather of your 10th child and they would subsequently be called Adolf. Not sure what they’d be called if they were a lass

 

[orly]

If you had 10 children in Nazi germany, Hitler would become godfather of your 10th child and they would subsequently be called Adolf. Not sure what they’d be called if they were a lass

Should stop at nein then

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Should stop at nein then

Very good.

 

[Groucho]

 

[daza_1973]

Merseyside's gain - Antiques roadshow's loss.