Groucho's Fact Hunt
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The oldest brick built lighthouse in Europe I think
Alanbileysfeathercut
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Victor Meldrew was nearly played by Les Dawson.
Richard Wilson felt playing a 60 year old while in his 50s wasn't quite right.
The rest ,they say ,is history....
Richard Wilson felt playing a 60 year old while in his 50s wasn't quite right.
The rest ,they say ,is history....
I don’t believe that
Fify
NeilMorepies
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Titus Bramble
Best centre half to grace the Premier League
The planet Saturn's average density is 0.69g/cm3 which is the lowest of all the planets in the solar system. This also means, that if you could find a body of water big enough, it would float!
The largest known star is UY Scuti has a radius 1700 times larger than the sun (you could fit about 5 billion suns inside it)... see scale:
If you placed it where the sun is, it would reach out beyond the orbit of Jupiter.
I love space.
The largest known star is UY Scuti has a radius 1700 times larger than the sun (you could fit about 5 billion suns inside it)... see scale:
If you placed it where the sun is, it would reach out beyond the orbit of Jupiter.
I love space.
deipnosophist
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yes , UY Scuti has a diameter about 1700 times greater than the Sun's diameter (1.5 billion miles vs 850 thousand miles)...and 1700 cubed is over 5 billion. Earth's diameter is about 8000 miles so 6 quadrillion (6 x 10^15) Earth's fit into Scuti's volume.
Impressive numbers.
And if I fold your typical thickness piece of paper in half 80 times, it will attain a dimension that extends across the known universe (96 billion light years)...a light year being equivalent to about 10 trillion kilometres (6 trillion miles)
Impressive numbers.
And if I fold your typical thickness piece of paper in half 80 times, it will attain a dimension that extends across the known universe (96 billion light years)...a light year being equivalent to about 10 trillion kilometres (6 trillion miles)
davids
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Fedlingen
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No person, born blind, has ever been diagnosed as schizophrenic.
www.frontiersin.org
Frontiers | Cognitive and Neuroplasticity Mechanisms by Which Congenital or Early Blindness May Confer a Protective Effect Against Schizophrenia
Several authors have noted that there are no reported cases of people with schizophrenia who were born blind or who developed blindness shortly after birth, ...
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It's ~1700 times bigger but not as proportionally heavy in mass, interestingly, even though all we 'know' are estimations from the composition and the neighbours it has.
deipnosophist
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yes...our Sun's density is 'only' a quarter of Earth's: so whilst its volume can contain over 1 million Earths, its mass is 'only' 250,000 times greater than Earth's.
So much interesting factual information and about things I never knew. I'm going to bore the ass of my mates in the pub!
And about the paper and halving it apparently it's nigh impossible as a human being to actually fold and halve a piece of paper without mechanical assistance more than 4-7 times and that is dependent on the thickness and density of the paper eg. very thin paper/cardboard v toilet tissue.
I've tried the latter but my finger still goes through
And about the paper and halving it apparently it's nigh impossible as a human being to actually fold and halve a piece of paper without mechanical assistance more than 4-7 times and that is dependent on the thickness and density of the paper eg. very thin paper/cardboard v toilet tissue.
I've tried the latter but my finger still goes through
….the Liver Buildings Great George clock travelled from Leicester to Liverpool in 27 pieces before being reassembled;
