useless facts

[Jimbuna]

The little finger contributes 50% of our hand strength.

[Platapus]

What's the matter with class.


Or actually what matter is glass?



Scientists are not sure what kind of matter glass is. A sheet of glass is not solid even though it may appear that way. Bizarrely, it sometimes behaves like a liquid and a solid at the same time. Glass atoms are caught in the same way as a gel’s—slow-moving atoms that never get anywhere because they block each other’s way.



It also tries to act like a crystal too.



In other words, glass is neither solid nor liquid, has properties of a gel, and is something of a crystal suffering arrested development

[Jimbuna]

Flies hum in the key of F.

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Platapus

What's the matter with class.


Or actually what matter is glass?



Scientists are not sure what kind of matter glass is. A sheet of glass is not solid even though it may appear that way. Bizarrely, it sometimes behaves like a liquid and a solid at the same time. Glass atoms are caught in the same way as a gel’s—slow-moving atoms that never get anywhere because they block each other’s way.



It also tries to act like a crystal too.



In other words, glass is neither solid nor liquid, has properties of a gel, and is something of a crystal suffering arrested development

Your interesting useless facts about glass made me remember this thread

https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...d.php?t=254216

Markus

[Sean C]

99% of drivers in Virginia don't know that the left lane is the fast lane ... apparently.

[Jimbuna]

The webs of spiders were once used as bandages.

[Platapus]

In the movie Le Mans (1971), other than background sounds, the first words of dialogue do not occur until minute 36 of the movie.

[Rockstar]

Originally Posted by Sean C

99% of drivers in Virginia don't know that the left lane is the fast lane ... apparently.

Having had to drive through Norfolk on several occasions. I discovered Virginia drivers also think the hard shoulder is a passing lane.

[Ostfriese]

Most strawberry-flavoured food items do not contain strawberries. If all those items were produced with real strawberries it would require the anual worldwide strawberry harvest to be about four to five times larger than it actually is.

[Jimbuna]

Mosquitoes are unable to penetrate silk.

[Platapus]

Wild elephants live longer than elephants in zoos. Zoo-born African and Asian elephants live for only 17 and 19 years respectively. Compare that to the average 56 years enjoyed by those in the wild

[Jimbuna]

Square watermelons cost more than round ones.
A square watermelon can be bought for $85. They are mostly expensive due to the intensive labor that is put into shaping them.

[Ostfriese]

A barn is not only a large building a farmer keeps his tractors and other stuff in, but it's also a unit used in science.


In fact, a barn is the cross sectional area of a typical atomic nucleus and is defined as 100 square femtometers (10^-28 m² / 1.550003* 10^-25 square inches).

[Jimbuna]

A tomb found in London is said to be a time machine.

One of the tombs in the Brompton Cemetary has an en entryway that features a keyhole. However, the key to this chamber has been lost for years.

Local legend believes that there is a secret in this chamber due to the gold Egyptian hieroglyphs that is decorated on the door. This has lead others to believe that it may be a time machine or a time chamber of some sort.

[mapuc]

It was a taxi driver who received the first speeding ticket in the United States. It went to Jacob German, who in 1899 drove at a staggering 19 km/h in New York, where the speed limit was 13 km/h. He was therefore caught up and arrested by a police officer on a bicycle and had to spend the night in jail for his misdeed.

Markus