Useless facts

[Garno]

Anybody know of any useless but interesting facts?

I will start with this one

All the batteries on Earth store just ten minutes of the world's electricity needs.

 

[billw]

There are three places called Birmingham - in the UK, the US, and on the moon.

 

[Tris]

And we know which one has the better atmosphere



Getting coat....

 

[billw]

Since I lived in Gibraltar I picked up a few useless facts: -

It's the only active runway in the world to have a road running across it.
There are twice as many miles of tunnels as public roads.
There is just under 1 registered vehicle per citizen, the 5th highest in the world.
It's one end of the world's shortest intercontinental flight, to Tangier at 43 miles.
It's the only place in Europe with a wild primate population.

 

[Terry - Somerset]

There are three places called Birmingham - in the UK, the US, and on the moon.

Interesting but incorrect. In the US there are 15 places called Birmingham including Alabama, Conneticut, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey .......

 

[billw]

Interesting but incorrect. In the US there are 15 places called Birmingham including Alabama, Conneticut, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey .......

Well consider me corrected! I only knew of the one in Alabama.

 

[Noho12C]

The oppossum is the only mammal to have an odd number of nipples

 

[Phil Pascoe]

A giraffe has the seven vertebrae in the neck ........... the same as a human.

 

[Just4Fun]

Strange as it seems, the smallest mammal
Is the shrew and not the camel.
That is all I ever knew,
Or wished to know, about the shrew.

 

[Woody2Shoes]

....
It's the only place in Europe with a wild primate population.
.....

Excluding British bank-holiday beaches....

 

[Boringgeoff]

Perth, Western Australia, is the worlds most isolated capital city.

 

[Skydivermel]

If you held the dome of St Pauls under Niagara Falls it would take 1/2 a second to fill.

 

[Noel]

You can see Wales from Dublin, 140 km away:

Pic- Niall O’Carrol

 

[billw]

Perth, Western Australia, is the worlds most isolated capital city.

Doesn’t that title now belong to Washington DC which is now about 3,000 from any civilised society.

 

[Garno]

If you held the dome of St Pauls under Niagara Falls it would take 1/2 a second to fill.

Wow that is an amazing fact thank you

 

[Garno]

You can see Wales from Dublin:

Pic- Niall O’Carrol

Beautiful picture Noel, I should of known that fact but alas had no idea.

 

[Noel]

Beautiful picture Noel, I should of known that fact but alas had no idea.

I didn't know either, 140km away.

 

[flying haggis]

If you held the dome of St Pauls under Niagara Falls it would take 1/2 a second to fill.

but only if you held it upside down...................

 

[Blister]

If you held the dome of St Pauls under Niagara Falls it would take 1/2 a second to fill.

Who would hold it ?

 

[artie]

You can see Wales from Dublin, 140 km away:

Is this a prelude to a flat Earth pitch?