The "Did you know" thread..... - Page 316

**richardoe** · January 5th, 2014, 05:22 PM

The city of Vancouver is named after George Vancouver. He came from Kings Lynn in Norfolk and was on Cooks final voyage, along with a chap called William Blighe.

kennyjackson · January 5th, 2014, 05:57 PM

The matter in a neutron star is so dense that a spoonful of it would weigh as much as a mountain (billions of tons).

**DTravel** · January 6th, 2014, 02:46 AM

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Originally Posted by richardoe

The city of Vancouver is named after George Vancouver. He came from Kings Lynn in Norfolk and was on Cooks final voyage, along with a chap called William Blighe.

Which one, there are two cities named Vancouver. One in Canada and one an hour or so's drive south in Washington state.

Estreeter · January 6th, 2014, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by kennyjackson

The matter in a neutron star is so dense that a spoonful of it would weigh as much as a mountain (billions of tons).

Is there any way of relating that too the density of some human brains

**henryf** · January 6th, 2014, 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by kennyjackson

The matter in a neutron star is so dense that a spoonful of it would weigh as much as a mountain (billions of tons).

Everything you can see, touch or feel, no matter how hard or solid it may seem, is largely empty space. If you took the whole population of the earth and removed all the empty space from the atoms, the result mass would be the size of a sugar cube.

**NIN** · January 6th, 2014, 10:29 PM

If you could fold a piece of paper in half 50 times, its thickness will be 3/4 the distance from the Earth to the Sun (71 million miles).

There are more cells of bacteria in your body than there are human cells. (In fact, there are more cells of E. coli alone, than there are human cells.)

Computer hardware has fulfilled Moore's Law for 40 years and may continue to do so.

The guidance computer from the Apollo 11 mission ran at 1.024 MHz, about 1/6th of the processing power of a TI-83 calculator.

During metamorphosis, what happens in a cocoon is that most of the caterpillar gets dissolved by enzymes into a soup of undifferentiated cells and then the butterfly grows out of the same DNA.

1 sperm has the equivalent of 37.5MB of DNA information in it, that means a normal ejaculation represents a data transfer of 1587GB in about 3 seconds!

In the 200,000 years since Homo Sapiens took her first steps across the African plains, just 57 billion people have ever lived - meaning over 12% of all the people ever born are 'walking' the planet at this very moment.

**Greenman** · January 6th, 2014, 10:31 PM

American citizens own more assault rifles than the British Army. Bloody scary I'd say!

By the time they reach 17, most British children will have been driven 80,000 miles by their parents.

**NIN** · January 6th, 2014, 10:48 PM

Ota Benga, a 23 year old boy from Congo was exhibited in the Bronx Zoo, New York, in a monkey house.
The zoo encouraged the boy to shoot his bow and arrow at a target for visitors to see. As of September 8, 1906, the signboard on the exhibit read:

The African Pigmy, "Ota Benga."
Age, 23 years. Height, 4 feet 11 inches.
Weight, 103 pounds.
Brought from the Kasai River, Congo Free State, South Central Africa, by Dr. Samuel P. Verner.

He exhibited each afternoon during September

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The Pirahã tribe of North Western Brazil has 8 consonants and 3 vowels in its language. The women use one fewer consonant than the men do. They have no numbers, no fixed color terms, no perfect tense, no deep memory, no tradition of art or drawing, and no words for “all,” “each,” “every,” “most,” or “few”.
The tribe has no collective memory that extends back more than one or two generations, and no original creation myths. The world of the tribe is just what they see and just the present. When asked how things have come to be the way they are, they just reply “It has always been this way.”

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The heads at Easter Island have bodies..

**Greenman** · January 6th, 2014, 10:54 PM

Former page 3 girl Marianne Broome represented and swam for Malaysia in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics but didn't win a medal. Now I never knew that!!

**NIN** · January 6th, 2014, 10:55 PM

The cheeseburger would have been incredibly impractical to make until the twentieth century.

Further reflection reveals that it's quite impractical, nearly impossible to make a cheeseburger from scratch.
Tomatoes are in season in the late Summer.
Lettuce is in season in Spring and Autumn.
Large mammals are slaughtered in early Winter.
The process of making such a burger would take nearly a year, and would inherently involve omitting some core cheeseburger ingredients. It would be wildly expensive, requiring a trio of cows and demand many acres of land, therefore, there would be just no sense in it.
A cheeseburger cannot exist outside of a highly developed, post-agrarian society. It requires a complex interaction between vendors, in all likelihood a couple of dozen and the ability to ship ingredients vast distances while keeping them fresh.
The cheeseburger couldn't have existed until nearly a century ago

as indeed, it did not.

January 5th, 2014, 05:22 PM	#3151
richardoe Vintage Member Join Date: Jan 2013 Posts: 2,812 Thanks: 1,424 Thanked 24,133 Times in 2,726 Posts	The city of Vancouver is named after George Vancouver. He came from Kings Lynn in Norfolk and was on Cooks final voyage, along with a chap called William Blighe. __________________ Richardoe To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

January 6th, 2014, 10:29 PM	#3156
NIN Banned Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 8,823 Thanks: 200,569 Thanked 131,967 Times in 9,045 Posts	just facts & stuff If you could fold a piece of paper in half 50 times, its thickness will be 3/4 the distance from the Earth to the Sun (71 million miles). There are more cells of bacteria in your body than there are human cells. (In fact, there are more cells of E. coli alone, than there are human cells.) Computer hardware has fulfilled Moore's Law for 40 years and may continue to do so. The guidance computer from the Apollo 11 mission ran at 1.024 MHz, about 1/6th of the processing power of a TI-83 calculator. During metamorphosis, what happens in a cocoon is that most of the caterpillar gets dissolved by enzymes into a soup of undifferentiated cells and then the butterfly grows out of the same DNA. 1 sperm has the equivalent of 37.5MB of DNA information in it, that means a normal ejaculation represents a data transfer of 1587GB in about 3 seconds! In the 200,000 years since Homo Sapiens took her first steps across the African plains, just 57 billion people have ever lived - meaning over 12% of all the people ever born are 'walking' the planet at this very moment.

January 6th, 2014, 10:31 PM	#3157
Greenman Live Legend of VEF Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Underground lair somewhere in the world Posts: 20,353 Thanks: 30,936 Thanked 383,592 Times in 19,356 Posts	American citizens own more assault rifles than the British Army. Bloody scary I'd say! By the time they reach 17, most British children will have been driven 80,000 miles by their parents. __________________ There was only ONE Greenman, and you accepted no substitutes! To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. Rest in peace MaxJoker-you will be sorely missed. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. 20,000: Milestone reached!

January 6th, 2014, 10:48 PM	#3158
NIN Banned Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 8,823 Thanks: 200,569 Thanked 131,967 Times in 9,045 Posts	Anthropology Ota Benga, a 23 year old boy from Congo was exhibited in the Bronx Zoo, New York, in a monkey house. The zoo encouraged the boy to shoot his bow and arrow at a target for visitors to see. As of September 8, 1906, the signboard on the exhibit read: The African Pigmy, "Ota Benga." Age, 23 years. Height, 4 feet 11 inches. Weight, 103 pounds. Brought from the Kasai River, Congo Free State, South Central Africa, by Dr. Samuel P. Verner. He exhibited each afternoon during September .-.-.-.-.-. The Pirahã tribe of North Western Brazil has 8 consonants and 3 vowels in its language. The women use one fewer consonant than the men do. They have no numbers, no fixed color terms, no perfect tense, no deep memory, no tradition of art or drawing, and no words for “all,” “each,” “every,” “most,” or “few”. The tribe has no collective memory that extends back more than one or two generations, and no original creation myths. The world of the tribe is just what they see and just the present. When asked how things have come to be the way they are, they just reply “It has always been this way.” .-.-.-.-.-.-. The heads at Easter Island have bodies..

January 6th, 2014, 10:54 PM	#3159
Greenman Live Legend of VEF Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Underground lair somewhere in the world Posts: 20,353 Thanks: 30,936 Thanked 383,592 Times in 19,356 Posts	Former page 3 girl Marianne Broome represented and swam for Malaysia in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics but didn't win a medal. Now I never knew that!! __________________ There was only ONE Greenman, and you accepted no substitutes! To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. Rest in peace MaxJoker-you will be sorely missed. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. 20,000: Milestone reached!

January 5th, 2014, 05:57 PM	#3152
kennyjackson Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 398 Thanks: 465 Thanked 3,771 Times in 380 Posts	The matter in a neutron star is so dense that a spoonful of it would weigh as much as a mountain (billions of tons).

January 6th, 2014, 10:55 PM	#3160
NIN Banned Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 8,823 Thanks: 200,569 Thanked 131,967 Times in 9,045 Posts	Cheeseburgers are a symbol of a developed Nation!!!! The cheeseburger would have been incredibly impractical to make until the twentieth century. Further reflection reveals that it's quite impractical, nearly impossible to make a cheeseburger from scratch. Tomatoes are in season in the late Summer. Lettuce is in season in Spring and Autumn. Large mammals are slaughtered in early Winter. The process of making such a burger would take nearly a year, and would inherently involve omitting some core cheeseburger ingredients. It would be wildly expensive, requiring a trio of cows and demand many acres of land, therefore, there would be just no sense in it. A cheeseburger cannot exist outside of a highly developed, post-agrarian society. It requires a complex interaction between vendors, in all likelihood a couple of dozen and the ability to ship ingredients vast distances while keeping them fresh. The cheeseburger couldn't have existed until nearly a century ago as indeed, it did not.