The Random Facts thread

A bolt of lightning contains enough energy to toast 100,000 slices of bread. ...

If you consider that each bolt of lightning contains more than 5 billion Joules of energy, then the average 1000-watt, two-slice toaster could be powered for 84,000 minutes with just one strike. That’s just enough time to toast about 100,000 slices of bread.


Your turn. lol

 

A protons mass is 1.67262x10^-27 kilograms.

 

Nearly 3% of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.

Bats always turn left when leaving a cave.

The fingerprints of a koala are so indistinguishable from humans that they have on occasion been confused at a crime scene.

 

A cow gives 200.000 glasses of milk during her life.

 

Most animals, with the exception of primates, can see in UV.

apparently!

We could too, in theory, our eyes have the UV sensors, but our brains aren't wired up for it.

 

In 2015 the rules of succession to the British crown were changed so a younger son no longer took precedence over an older daughter in the line of succession.

If this law change had occurred in the 1830s, Queen Victoria would have been succeeded on her death in January 1901 by her daughter who would have been Victoria II. She only outlived her mother by 7 months however and in August 1901 would have been succeeded by her son who would have reigned as William V, better known to history as Kaiser Wilhelm, ruler of Germany in World War 1

 

Everyone knows a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey. Here are some other random facts

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• A male mule is called a john or horse mule. A female mule is called a molly or mare.
• A female donkey is called a jennet and can be bred with a male horse to create a hinny.
• Horses have 64 chromosomes, donkeys have 62, and mules and hinnies have 63.
• Mules are 99.9 percent sterile.
• Though mules can kick in any direction, a well-treated mule is not likely to do so.
• In earlier times, mules and donkeys were so prized by Spanish nobility that royal edicts forbade their export without express permission of the ki

 

Wow that would change history

 

I never knew he was English

 

The Welsh word for “Jellyfish” is psygod wibli wobli

 

Where did you think he was from?

His moustache is ottoman empire style, by the way.

 

They have a unique language. And the town with the long name lol

Llanfairpwllgwyngyll - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

I assumed Prussia. American schools don’t teach much about that

 

Whiskey and Whiskers

 

He has nothing to do with Ottoman Emprie, does he?

 

The Earth is sometimes noted for having more than one moon, the second one being called 'Cruithne' , although I don't -think- it qualifies as a moon, rather a near-earth-object.

 

I have trouble remembering. I have always been more interested in the western front and those horrible conditions the soldiers suffered. The war to end all wars. Politicians and their lies

 

It still goes on.