I`ve always wanted to know that.....

25 Sep 2004

Just read a really good book by Bill Bryton.. A short history of everything
full a mind boggling information.
" if the nucleus of an atom was the size of a fly then the electron shell would be the size of a cathedral" so we`re all just empty space :shock:
any one got any other mind boggling info
flick

25 Sep 2004

Like all of BB's books this one is great. When I read it I was constantly telling people bizarre facts they they really didn't want to know.
One of my favourites was that the chap who invented CFCs also put lead into Petrol

25 Sep 2004

yes... that was a shocker ha ha
flicks reading it now so we can both bore the locals in the pub lol

26 Sep 2004

That was Thomas Midgely *insertnerdsmiley*
Two that are a bit grim:
10% of all living animal tissue in the world is made up of ants,
There are 200 million bacteria on the average tongue

26 Sep 2004

This ones a doozy....
The worlds greatest monopoly used to be the YKK zip company probably not true anymore as Ive just looked round the house and cant find a single zip made by them!!!!

26 Sep 2004

Another classic....
The chances of a single strand of human DNA forming out of its constituant elemnets purley by chance is the same as picking a specific electron out of the all the electrons in the known universe (which is pretty unlikley Im sure youll agree)

26 Sep 2004

Something that will probably not suprise most people ........ your brain is 80% water.

26 Sep 2004

Quote by sussexguy
Something that will probably not suprise most people ........ your brain is 80% water.

Hmmm that only leaves 20% for whiskey then - not sure if that can be right lol

26 Sep 2004

Quote by celticq
Something that will probably not suprise most people ........ your brain is 80% water.

Hmmm that only leaves 20% for whiskey then - not sure if that can be right lol

.......... except celticq, who is 80% proof :lol:

26 Sep 2004

AAAAAAAAHHHHHH ! My kinda thread , hehehehee............
Okay here's one for ya ........
The aorta of the blue whale is so large an adult could swim down it.
P.S. great wiggle celticq
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