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Sheep are actually just clouds with legs
Fact check you say....
The whale is an insect and it lives on bananas
...and an Arab can live for a whole year on one grain of rice.
The fear of long words is called........ Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
There's no point building nukes for planetary targets much over 50 megatons as all they do after that is loft a chunk of atmosphere even higher.
You can make any fact not a fact by adding fake news at the end. FAKE NEWS!
Aaaaaaarrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhh ! Round and round I go - won't sleep for days 🙁
Matt outandabout is actually gloss.
Most people have more than the average number of legs
Most people have the average number of legs. FTFY
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.
theotherjonv
Most people have the average number of legs. FTFY
Show your working please.
Many people use "average" imprecisely
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus
God, I hope that's true. Magnificent facting there, poah !
^ scaredypants knows what I'm talking about. Fact.
The ancient Greeks couldn't see the colour blue.
Sheep are actually just clouds with legs
a cumulus cloud weighs 500,000 kg and is traditionally served with mint sauce
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus
I have fact checked this and it is in fact true.
A day on Venus lasts 243 Earth days and a year on venus lasts 224.7 Earth days*
Cool fact.
*According to Wikipedia. So 100% guaranteed fact.
…and an Arab can live for a whole year on one grain of rice.
Good man.
I have fact checked this and it is in fact true.
A day on Venus lasts 243 Earth days and a year on venus lasts 224.7 Earth days*
Cool fact.
*According to Wikipedia. So 100% guaranteed fact.
Holy crap. Nasa even confirms this. https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/all-about-venus/en/
Venus is unusual because it spins the opposite direction of Earth and most other planets. And its rotation is very slow. It takes about 243 Earth days to spin around just once. Because it's so close to the sun, a year goes by fast. It takes 225 Earth days for Venus to go all the way around the sun. That means that a day on Venus is a little longer than a year on Venus.
Since the day and year lengths are similar, one day on Venus is not like a day on Earth. Here, the sun rises and sets once each day. But on Venus, the sun rises every 117 Earth days. That means the sun rises two times during each year on Venus, even though it is still the same day on Venus! And because Venus rotates backwards, the sun rises in the west and sets in the east.
Also, Venus has 2 sunrises and 2 sunsets per day.
The Bass Rock is white due to the world's largest Gannet population and the fact their shit is whiteish. It whiffs a wee bit too
Mammals only have two legs.
There is only one jonv. Therefore one of them is an imposter.
it's even more confusing than that. theotherjonv is the true jonv, and anyone claiming to be jonv is actually another one.
colournoise. Some people only have one leg or even none. No body has more than two. ( OK OK very very rare conjoined twins can end up with one head and more than 2 legs but thats statistically insignificant) thus the average ( or mode or median or whatever statistical mumbo jumbo you want) number of legs people have is a little under two. so most people have more than the average number of legs.
Mammals only have two legs
each? Or in total?
At each end.
@tjagain
Most people have above the the mean number of legs
Most people have the mode number of legs.
colournoise. Some people only have one leg or even none. No body has more than two. ( OK OK very very rare conjoined twins can end up with one head and more than 2 legs but thats statistically insignificant) thus the average ( or mode or median or whatever statistical mumbo jumbo you want) number of legs people have is a little under two. so most people have more than the average number of legs.
Ah but, that's where the issue is. You're talking about the mean average and you're right there.
But if I sent you away to design a pair of trousers, with the instruction to design them to match the average number of legs that each person has, and you came back with a pair of trousers with less than 2 legs you would have perfectly met the instruction by mean average, but designed a pair of trousers that would be useless for the average person (indeed, most people) **for the purposes of this let's ignore that the mean average will be vanishingly close to 2 and therefore a pair of trousers with 1.9997 legs will still be ok, this is whatiffery**
Alternatively (and again keeping numbers easy enough to calculate) You have a standard 6 sided dice, roll it 60 times and it obeys probability exactly so you get
1x10
2x10
3x10, etc
- what is the average number you rolled?
by mean = 210 / 60 = 3.5 - which is impossible to roll.
by median = arrange in order and pick the middle = either 3 or 4 (the middle is between the two but you don't pick an artificial number that isn't there)
by mode = none of them, they are all as 'average' as each other.
- which is closer to 'the truth'?
The median leg is the one in the middle. FACT.
- and from the pictures we've seen, TJ's trousers are most definitely outmoded.
Dogs can see their own farts. It's merely an assumption that these farts are brown in colour.
If I were to jump off the hill behind my house on a powered hang-glider and fly due east while maintaining the exact same height above sea-level, assuming I didn't run out of fuel, I would not crash until I got to the Ural mountains in Russia. Fact
The ancient Greeks couldn’t see the colour blue.
Well, they could, they just didn't have a word for it.
Fun Fact: The "T" at the end of Moet in the trade name Moet and Chandon, should be pronounced.
about 300,000 YA there may have been 7 human species walking the earth, and some reckon it could have been as many as 9.
If I were to jump off the hill behind my house on a powered hang-glider and fly due east while maintaining the exact same height above sea-level, assuming I didn’t run out of fuel, I would not crash until I got to the Ural mountains in Russia. Fact
Same here if you were to do the same from the parking space at the top of my drive.
Fun Fact: The “T” at the end of Moet in the trade name Moet and Chandon, should be pronounced.
Indeed. It should be pronounced as a “p”.
Not a fact.
When I was a kid he fixed it for me to milk a cow whilst blindfolded.
I really shouldn’t have laughed when I read that, but I did.
Every atom in your body heavier than hydrogen was made in a star.
So everyone of us is full of stars.
Except for Donald Trump he is full of shit
Benoit B. Mandlebrot's middle initial stands for Benoit
Every atom in your body heavier than hydrogen was made in a star.
So everyone of us is full of stars.
The atoms on Earth have been recycled so many times, that we are all made of the same atoms that made the dinosaurs.
Every one (with a space) of us is made of dinosaurs.
I, for example, am predominantly Diplodocus.
Moby considered using the alternate lyric "we are all made of dinosaurs", but decided against it.
FACT is an organisation concerned with fat copyrights.
The average cow contains more vitamin B than the average banana.
Cows never forget a face.
Cows like jazz music.
Cows like to lick their friends, but they don't like to lick unknown cows.
Cows never cry, even if you murder their family in front of them and then barbeque them and eat them.
Bananas are a unit of radioactivity.
The average daily exposure to radiation is one hundred BED. BED is the "banana equivalent dose".
Fun Fact: The “T” at the end of Moet in the trade name Moet and Chandon, should be pronounced.
True. Chandon was French, but Moet was Dutch.
Benoit B. Mandlebrot’s middle initial stands for Benoit
Not quite true. The 'B' doesn't stand for anything (known), Mandelbrot added it to his name to sound rangy and interesting. It could be short for "Benoit B. Mandlebrot" - and I really really want it to be - but the only person who knows for certain is Bernie himself.
Mandelbrot added it to his name to sound rangy and interesting
And to distinguish him from the other Benoit Mandlebrot who played Lucy in Neighbours.