useless facts

[Platapus]

We all know the same few handfuls of Christmas songs play at stores and on the radio in a loop all season long. But one of them has been adapted more than others. "Silent Night" earns that title, as most recorded Christmas song in history. It's had more than 733 different versions copyrighted since 1978.

[Jimbuna]

The Apollo 11 crew was prepared for the chances that they may not be able to return from their voyage. In an attempt to financially prepare their families, they signed many trinkets that their families could sell if the mission failed.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Platapus

We all know the same few handfuls of Christmas songs play at stores and on the radio in a loop all season long. But one of them has been adapted more than others. "Silent Night" earns that title, as most recorded Christmas song in history. It's had more than 733 different versions copyrighted since 1978.

There's only one version that really counts; no IMHO 'bout it!

[Platapus]

It can be hard to visualize how long the different eras when there were dinosaurs.


For instance, despite movies, a Stegosaurus could never have fought a T-Rex


They did not live anywhere close enough. How far apart were they?


Put a Stegosaurus, a T-Rex, and a Human on a time line.



The T-Rex is closer to the human than it is from the Stegosaurus.....20,000,000 years closer to the human.

[Jimbuna]

The longest recorded tennis match lasted for 11 hours.

[Platapus]

In many Eastern European countries, particularly in Ukraine, finding a spider or a spider's web in your Christmas tree is a symbol of good luck! That's because these countries have the legend of the Christmas spider, which tells that a poor widow lived in a small hut with her children. They found a pinecone in summer and cared for it diligently until it became a pretty tree! Unfortunately, they couldn't afford to decorate the tree for Christmas, but upon waking up on Christmas day, they found the tree covered in elegant cobwebs that shone gold and silver in the sunlight. And since that day, the widow and her children never lived in poverty again!

[Jimbuna]

Shakesphere's epitaph is cursed.

[Platapus]

Some might say that she has killer looks. And they would be right




Soviet sniper Lieutenant Lyudmila Pavlichneko is known to be the most successful female sniper with 309 confirmed kills, including 39 Axis snipers.

[Jimbuna]

All swans in England belong to the Queen.

[Platapus]

The name ‘sniper’ dates back to the 1770s when ‘to snipe’ meant shooting snipes which was a highly challenging game bird for hunters. In 1824, the term ‘sniper’ got attested for the first time.

[Jimbuna]

A pineapple plant can only produce one pineapple a year.

[Rockstar]

In 1971, this ferret played a key role in the construction of particle accelerators at Fermilab's Meson Laboratory. As sections of vacuum chamber were connected together, Felicia would run through them, dragging a string. After she had carried the string all the way through, researchers would use the line to run a rag doused in cleaning solution through the long, narrow tubes.

Particle physics is seldom this adorable, and Felicia became a media star — until her retirement in December of 1971 (scientists replaced her with a vacuum-chamber-cleaning robot). She died the next year of an intestinal abscess. But her memory lives on.

[Jimbuna]

Peas are the oldest vegetables.

[Rockstar]

All because it was travelling 25 MPH faster than it was supposed to be.

J002E3 is an object in space discovered on September 3, 2002, by amateur astronomer Bill Yeung. Identified as the S-IVB third stage of the Apollo 12 Saturn V rocket. The stage was intended to be injected into a permanent heliocentric orbit in November 1969 but is now believed instead to have gone into an unstable high Earth orbit which left Earth's proximity in 1971 and again in June 2003, with an approximately 40-year cycle between heliocentric and geocentric orbit.

It is thought that J002E3 left Earth orbit in June 2003, and that it may return to orbit the Earth in the mid-2040s.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

It is thought that J002E3 left Earth orbit in June 2003, and that it may return to orbit the Earth in the mid-2040s.

When civilization is scheduled for destruction...and no one will notice!

Scientists in the 1970s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) created a method to determine when the fall of society would take place.

That method indicated the fall will be some point near the middle in the 21st century around 2040,

https://thehill.com/changing-america...lapse-by-2040/