Totally useless facts ...

[sunwaiter]

the most powerful muscle of your body is among those you see the less.

 

[marval]

Women who drink more than two cups of coffee a day have a higher chance of developing osteoporosis.

 

[Corno Dolce]

It has been said that Proxima Centauri, our nearest star at 4.23 lightyears distant, has a mass that is an eigth of our Sun's mass.

 

[marval]

In the world, the Netherlands has the highest concentration of museums in the world. Just in Amsterdam alone there are 42 museums.

 

[Corno Dolce]

A recently discovered star called A1 in the cluster NGC 3603 is thought to have a mass 116 times that of the Sun and is located a mere 20,000 lightyears away. Below is the Hubble shot of it:

http://www.space.com/php/multimedia...n+weighed.+Credit:+HST/Universite+de+Montreal

 

[marval]

Wow CD, that is some mass, 116 times the sun.


If all the cars from the U.S. were taken and lined up from bumper to bumper, there would be enough cars to go to the moon from earth and back.

 

[Corno Dolce]

Aloha Dame Margaret,

Holy cow...What if all the world's road-going vehicular traffic were lined up bumper to bumper, how far then? To the Sun?

Cheerio,

CD

Ps. Its been said that there are 500 million registered cars, buses, and trucks in Europe.

 

[Corno Dolce]

Deleted!

 

[marval]

Hi CD

How far to the sun indeed.


In 1958, the United States Coast Guard off western Greenland measured the tallest known iceberg at five hundred and fifty feet.

 

[Corno Dolce]

I wonder if that measurement was of the ice above the waterline or included what was below the waterline.

 

[marval]

I don't know unfortunately, it didn't say.


The Great Comet of 1843 had a tail that was over 300 kilometres long.

 

[Tûrwethiel]

Epicentre is not the absolute core of the exact middle of the centre. It is the point on the surface above the centre of something, such as an earthquake. If Wall Street is at the epicentre of the world financial contretemps, the trouble must be occurring on the subway below.

 

[Corno Dolce]

Aloha Tûrwethiel,

Well, the subway station underneath Wall Street is an infernally hot place, what with the very close proximity to the station of all the steam lines, valves and associated machinery. If it is 35C at street-level then it will be at least 45C in the station.

Cheerio,

CD

 

[marval]

There are 253 miles (400kms) of London underground track.

 

[Corno Dolce]

It has been said that the Moscow City Subway services 8.2 million riders on an average workday.

 

[marval]

Botanically a rhubarb is a vegetable. It was changed to a fruit in 1947 by a U.S. Custom Court.

 

[Corno Dolce]

A rhubarb is now known as a fruit because of a ruling in 1947 by a court of law??? That is judicial imperialism run amok!!!

 

[marval]

HI CD

I quite agree, they should leave things alone.


Margaret

 

[Contratrombone64]

Despite its reputation for being finicky, the average cat consumes about 127,750 calories a year, nearly 28 times its own weight in food and the same amount again in liquids. In case you were wondering, cats cannot survive on a vegetarian diet

 

[Contratrombone64]

sorry, this is a little macabre

When a person dies, hearing is generally the last sense to go. The first sense lost is usually sight. Then follows taste, smell, and touch.