Fascinating Facts and Trivia

The atoms that make up your body are mostly empty space, so despite there being so many of them, without that space you would compress into a tiny volume.

The nucleus that makes up the vast bulk of the matter in an atom is so much smaller than the whole structure that it is comparable to the size of a fly in a cathedral.

If you lost all your empty atomic space, your body would fit into a cube less than 1/500th of a centimetre on each side.

Neutron stars are made up of matter that has undergone exactly this kind of compression.

In a single cubic centimetre of neutron star material there are around 100m tons of matter.

An entire neutron star, heavier than our sun, occupies a sphere that is roughly the size across of the Isle of Wight.

Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis middle name was Aron.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

Donkeys kill more people than plane crashes.

Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.” (amongst many others)

If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

If two pieces of the same type of metal touch in space they will permanently bond.

This incredible fact is also known as cold welding and it happens because the atoms of two pieces of metal have no way of knowing they are separate.

This doesn’t happen on Earth because of the air and water found between the pieces.

Scientists at the Bayerisches Geoinstitut in Germany have discovered that since peanut butter is so rich in carbon, it's possible to turn simple Skippy into diamonds.

All you need to do is to extract the oxygen from the carbon dioxide found in the peanut spread, and then enact immense pressure on the carbon left behind.

Jaws’ most famous line was ad-libbed. First of all, the line was “You’re gonna need a bigger boat,” not “we’re,” as it’s often misquoted. The line wasn’t in the original script but was an inside joke among the Jaws crew, teasing the stingy producers for picking a support boat that was too small to hold the equipment. Actor Roy Scheider ad-libbed the line throughout filming, but the one kept in the final cut became one of the most remembered movie quotes of all time.

(24-01-2020 19:32 )billyboy1963 Wrote:  If two pieces of the same type of metal touch in space they will permanently bond.

This incredible fact is also known as cold welding and it happens because the atoms of two pieces of metal have no way of knowing they are separate.

This doesn’t happen on Earth because of the air and water found between the pieces.

That atoms reference is courtesy of Richard Feynman He's the physicist that demonstrated the problem with the seals between the sections of the solid rocket booster on the Challenger shuttle using nothing more than ice water and a g cramp.
Such was the impact of his simple demonstration that everybody else stopped making excuses.

A parasite exists that destroys the tongue of a fish and replaces its tongue with its own body.

This isopod, Cymothoa exigua, is pretty much the creepiest creature ever.

It enters a fish through its gills and attaches to its tongue.

From there it severs the blood vessels connecting to the tongue (which causes it to fall off) and attaches itself to the stub that's left, taking over the food consumption from that point forward.

You've probably consumed dinosaur waste.

Bottled water ads might promote how fresh their water is, but don't believe them: Anything you're drinking today has been around for millions of years, recycled repeatedly through precipitation and, yes, evacuation.

"This means that in every glass of water you drink, there is a lot of water which has already passed through a dinosaur and come out the other end."

Alaska is the most Western and the most Eastern state in the U.S.

It's crazy but it's true: Alaska is the most western state, with the Aleutian Islands stretching to the edge of the Western Hemisphere at the 180-degree line Longitude.

But the islands also stretch past the 180-degree line of Longitude toward the Russian Federation into the Eastern Hemisphere.

High heels were first designed for men.

Though closely identified as a female fashion staple today, high heels were first designed for men.

At the end of the 16th century, Persian-inspired style was all the rage in Europe, according to the J. Paul Getty Museum, and heels were seen as being virile and masculine—and a great way to boost your height a few inches.