A ‘Fact’ you’ve found interesting ?

[Bazil]

Hottest Chilli - Carolina Reaper 2,200,000 SHU

The Koh-I-Noor
Weighing in at a massive 105.6ct, the most expensive diamond in the world is oval-shaped. Steeped in mystery and legend, the stone is believed to have been mined in India in the 1300s.

The first animal to make an orbital spaceflight around the Earth was the dog Laika, aboard the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 on 3 November 1957

[Brenngun]

One revolution of a golf ball is 5.28" (134.05mm). Most golfers when asked guess it to be half of that.

[Andad]

Originally Posted by Maleg

This is an interesting fact that surprises you?

Why am I not surprised?

The surprise fun fact is that so few visitors to a Rolex forum haven’t got a spare $30.

Thanks for supporting the forum Bazil.

A camel has two rows of eyelashes and can also close their nostrils - helps to keep the sand out.

[1st amg]

Originally Posted by Andad

The surprise fun fact is that so few visitors to a Rolex forum haven’t got a spare $30.

Thanks for supporting the forum Bazil.

A camel has two rows of eyelashes and can also close their nostrils - helps to keep the sand out.

Right on Eddie! Speaking the truth!

[White Collar Boy]

Every year, Major League Baseball buys 1000 pounds of mud to rub on all the baseballs for all the games (which is about 270,000 baseballs per season). It helps pitchers control the otherwise slippery new baseballs, and makes it safer for the hitters. The mud comes from a secret location believed to be along a tributary of the Delaware River, down the Jersey Shore, and is collected by one man, Jim Bintliff (pictured). He only makes about $20,000 a year from it, but is the third and current owner of Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud.

[Bazil]

The oldest extant printed book is a work of the Diamond Sutra and dates back to 868 CE, during the Tang Dynasty

This is the cuddly Panda btw, not the dumb nickname watch type
Like domestic cats, giant panda bears have vertical slits for pupils.

The world's darkest black color is often considered to be Vantablack. Vantablack is a material developed by Surrey NanoSystems, and it is composed of vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays

[Bazil]

In the Rolex, for example, each dial is made from a solid slice of the Gibeon meteorite, which is then attached to the surface of the dial and treated with an acid-wash finish to bring out its natural crystalline pattern.

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV - Tom Cruise

The lowest natural temperature ever directly recorded at ground level on Earth is −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F; 184.0 K) at the then-Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica on 21 July 1983 by ground measurements.

[Moondoggy]

in Australia has the largest coin in the world,

1 tonne of gold 99.9percent, about US84M
$1 million Australian dollars actual currency
Collector value is priceless they have been offered a mind boggling amount of money for it.


https://www.kidsnews.com.au/money/au...ce257b39c5595d

[tobyco]

Cleopatra was born around the year 69 BCE, and died in 30 BCE, so just about 2000 years before the 1969 first Moon landing. The iconic Great Pyramid of Giza was build under Pharoah Khufu (also known in English as Cheops) whose reign is generally dated 2589–2566 BC, so five hundred years farther away in time.

[Mr Ben]

Each second, the sun produces enough energy to power our current level of global energy consumption for over 500,000 years.

Almost any numbers about the universe are mind blowing and hard to grasp therefore interesting to me.

[BETRNSX]

The number of possible permutations for a deck of 52 cards is greater than the number of atoms on Earth.

Shuffle a deck of cards, that combination has never existed in history.

[AzPaul]

A banana is a berry.

[Bazil]

No number before 1,000 contains the letter A.

There were active volcanoes on the moon when dinosaurs were alive.

Sudan has more pyramids than any country in the world.

[Dr. Robert]

Golden Gate Park is bigger than Central Park.


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[Maleg]

Originally Posted by Bazil

No number before 1,000 contains the letter A.
.

Why would numbers have any letters? They should only be numbers.

[Jimmy 2 Times]

Everglades National Park in Florida is the only place on the planet where crocodiles and alligators co-exist.

Jacksonville Florida in square miles, is the largest city in the contiguous United States.

[BETRNSX]

Originally Posted by Maleg

Why would numbers have any letters? They should only be numbers.

Assuming this means when the number is spelled out. What’s the first number with an A in it then?

[fozzyf18]

Originally Posted by brandrea

Chewey has the largest mega yacht, and private airplane and is responsible for 1% of all global warming.

He apparently annoyed a lot of members and ended up banned, but I found him to be a fun distraction and made me laugh.

I think he had several yachts and planes but didn’t want to brag about all of them or his “Rolexeseseses.”

[hambone1983]

80% of all the cells in our bodies are red blood cells. Every day we make 250 billion new red blood cells.

[Andad]

In Sweden they build an ice hotel ever year and occupy it until it melts.

[Maleg]

Originally Posted by BETRNSX

Assuming this means when the number is spelled out. What’s the first number with an A in it then?

If we are spelling out numbers (why would we), then I vote for Planck’s Constant.

A more interesting (to me) factoid is the rule of nines. If the sum of the digits in a number add up to a value divisible by nine, the number itself is divisible by nine.

[Cru Jones]

Originally Posted by bazil

no number before 1,000 contains the letter a.

101?

[brandrea]

Originally Posted by Cru Jones

101?

[brandrea]

Originally Posted by White Collar Boy

Every year, Major League Baseball buys 1000 pounds of mud to rub on all the baseballs for all the games (which is about 270,000 baseballs per season). It helps pitchers control the otherwise slippery new baseballs, and makes it safer for the hitters. The mud comes from a secret location believed to be along a tributary of the Delaware River, down the Jersey Shore, and is collected by one man, Jim Bintliff (pictured). He only makes about $20,000 a year from it, but is the third and current owner of Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud.

Really? That’s kind of cool Matt

[AzPaul]

Originally Posted by White Collar Boy

Every year, Major League Baseball buys 1000 pounds of mud to rub on all the baseballs for all the games (which is about 270,000 baseballs per season). It helps pitchers control the otherwise slippery new baseballs, and makes it safer for the hitters. The mud comes from a secret location believed to be along a tributary of the Delaware River, down the Jersey Shore, and is collected by one man, Jim Bintliff (pictured). He only makes about $20,000 a year from it, but is the third and current owner of Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud.

"So, what do you do for a living, Jim?"
"I collect rubbing mud from a secret location."
"Of course you do."

[travisb]

Peppers are fruits, not vegetables.
Bananas are classified as a berry.

[TickTockChuck]

Originally Posted by Mr Ben

Each second, the sun produces enough energy to power our current level of global energy consumption for over 500,000 years.

Almost any numbers about the universe are mind blowing and hard to grasp therefore interesting to me.

I find space pretty amazing too. As well we need to harness more of the sun's energy for a sustainable future. Cheers

[Bazil]

Originally Posted by Cru Jones

101?

- agree … but I imagine it’s the number itself not the accompanying word .. that’s how I read it …

[enjoythemusic]

Global completely made up currency 'debt' is over $300,000,000,000,000. Laughably funny when you consider it is 100% make believe. Just a ledger, mere 1's and 0's on a warm memory chip.

[hambone1983]

Originally Posted by enjoythemusic

Global completely made up currency 'debt' is over $300,000,000,000,000. Laughably funny when you consider it is 100% make believe. Just a ledger, mere 1's and 0's on a warm memory chip.

Interested to know your thought process here. I can say as a holder of some US Treasury Notes I would not be laughing if instead of the real money I used to buy them they paid me back with make believe money.