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  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    The two things which never stop growing on a human are ears and nose.
    what about hair? I hear you ask, yes okay,
    so the  three things which never stop growing on a human are ears, nose and hair.
    what about nails? I suspect I’ll hear you ask.
    true, the four things which never stop growing on a human being are ears, nose, hair and nails.  That’s it as far as I’m concerned. ? 

    (What did the romans ever do for us?)

  • colet
    colet CP Network, Scope Member Posts: 101 Empowering
    You can get done for being drunk in charged with a powered wheelchair 
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    edited August 2020

    Kleenex tissues were originally intended for gas masks

    There was a cotton shortage during World War I so Kimberly-Clark developed a thin, flat cotton substitute for the army to use as a filter in gas masks. The war ended before the material was perfected so the company redeveloped it to be smoother and softer, and called it Kleenex facial tissue instead.

  • Cher_Alumni
    Cher_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,714 Championing
    @leeCal ooft you learn something new everyday! I'll have to remember all these random facts for the pub quiz :)
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,453 Championing
    leeCal said:
    The two things which never stop growing on a human are ears and nose.
    what about hair? I hear you ask, yes okay,
    so the  three things which never stop growing on a human are ears, nose and hair.
    what about nails? I suspect I’ll hear you ask.
    true, the four things which never stop growing on a human being are ears, nose, hair and nails.  That’s it as far as I’m concerned. ? 

    (What did the romans ever do for us?)

    All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    edited August 2020

    Blue whales eat half a million calories in one mouthful

    Thats 470,000 calories which is over 240 times the energy the whale uses to scoop the krill into its mouth, but whose counting!

    ? 

  • Ross_Alumni
    Ross_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,611 Championing
    Those greedy greedy blue whales! Although yeah like @Tori_Scope, I feel like I do that sometimes :D 

    I've absolutely loved reading all these facts, there's some gems here.

    The budgie with the largest vocabulary could speak 1,728 words. 

    That's more than me I think
  • colet
    colet CP Network, Scope Member Posts: 101 Empowering
    You lose 100 hairs in a day 
  • Ross_Alumni
    Ross_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,611 Championing
    Approximately 1 billion cards are given on Valentine's Day each year.
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing

    The man with the world’s deepest voice can make sounds humans can’t hear

    The man, Tim Storms, can’t hear the note, which is eight octaves below the lowest G - but elephants can!

  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    News today - Death Valley hits 54.4C - in what could be highest temperature ever recorded on Earth.
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing

    What is the coldest place on Earth?

    It is a high ridge in Antarctica on the East Antarctic Plateau where temperatures in several hollows can dip below minus 133.6 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 92 degrees Celsius) on a clear winter night.

  • Ross_Alumni
    Ross_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,611 Championing
    @leeCal

    Certainly wouldn't want to go there on my holidays! 

    There are no bridges across the entire width of the Amazon river 
  • Ross_Alumni
    Ross_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,611 Championing
    Australia has more camels than any other country in the world.
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,990 Championing
    I am glad this thread had a bump, I enjoyed reading all of the facts.

    A few more I can think of, but may have gotten muddled in my mind, so check them before you use them in your essays... :D 

    - The watch company Rolex is majority-owned by a charitable trust. When the founder died he left a small percentage of his company to his family but the majority was put into a charitable trust. This means when you buy a Rolex (or Tudor) watch you are actually doing some good. However the company still sell watches as a private firm and not a charity which means unfortunately you cannot get tax relief to buy a Rolex!!!

    - A bit dark this one, and it's said tongue in cheek - I'm not saying it is a good thing - it is just a fact that was on QI: Genghis Khan is possibly the single person to have done the most to slow down climate change out of any person who has ever existed. He is responsible for millions of deaths, but he did so several centuries ago, so those people have not reproduced through the generations and it means today the population is over a hundred million lower than it would have been if those people lived. People like certain WW2 leaders have not yet had the same long term impact as their actions were only committed a couple of generations ago.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,782 Connected
    edited November 2020
    Adrian_Scope said:
    Yuck. What's wrong with broccoli as it is!?
    How much time do you have? Basically there's a LOT wrong with Brocolli in general IMO.

    Interesting fact, apparently WWE Legend The Undertaker is scared of Cucumbers!


  • Ross_Alumni
    Ross_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,611 Championing
    That second one is strange but interesting @66Mustang :D 

    Thanks for sharing both of them.

    Snickers wasn't originally called Marathon, it was called Snickers, except in this country we didn't adopt that name until later and decided Marathon would be used here instead
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,453 Championing
    I read this online a while ago and haven't fact-checked, but apparently there are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way
  • Ross_Alumni
    Ross_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,611 Championing
    I nominate you to embark on an official count @Tori_Scope :) 

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