LOL The random fact of the day thread

Thats a siggy quote, and my first siggy quote!


And supposely if you throw a cat off a 15 foot building it will die, but if you throw it off and higher height its most likely to survive due to it can think quicker ( I think thats the right height and how it goes...Read it in a book once...Interest book...>_>)

 

when you drink a glass of water it allready been through the human body many billions of times GLASS OF PEE ANYONE

 

According to QI I believe its over three stories high and they can glide. There was a study in New York of injuries to cats after falling out of apartment windows and iirc if it was over three stories high the cats reached a sufficient velocity that they could out stretch their legs and glide (much like a sugar glider) using their tails as a rudder. There is also supposed to be a documented case of a cat that fell out of a light aircraft and safely glided back to earth.

I would love to see that!

 

Oh I see throw a cat from a building and everyone is interested....throw one in a bin however ..

 

It sounds painful

 

So is catching it in your zip----drive.

If you put the planet Saturn in water, it would float.

 

How big is your sink?

 

Petty Officer Third Class Bruce Mallibert, USN, holds the unpleasant distinction of being the only man in history ever to be the sole survivor of a mid-air collision.

 

The lowest note in the known universe is a Bb which is 57 octaves below middle C and has a frequency of roughly 3.17 x10^-15 Hz lol

Or 1Hz every 10 million years

 

I guess you don't really hear that so much as feel it.

 

According to 'aircrash investigation' You are more likely to be killed by your own trousers than an aircrash.

...They never did make a 'trouser death investigation' programme though, must not have the same impact.

 

Random fact:

This thread is the most interesting one on the forum in the last week

 

The fruit fly Drosophila bifurca ejaculates a single sperm which is an astonishing 5.8cm long. Bigger than the fruit fly itself.

 

Alan Ladd had his co star leading ladies stand in a hole - or he stood on a box .. (he was short) I can empathise
Women today though are a bit put off with my stand in this hole request on first dates ..

 

TDI (trouser death investigation) LAS VEGAS .... Has a certain ring to it though

 

I suppose if you've sliced through something and died of blood loss and you've got Captain johnson pierced, there wouldn't be a ring to it... +coughs+

coat... got it, taxi for one...

 

128bit CPU architecture would allow you to address approximately 340 undecillion bytes. That is 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 bytes

I want to believe that isn't true but my cat fell from a 4th floor windows about 5 times before it died.

 

So what did you do differently on the sixth attempt?

 

A DAY is longer than a YEAR on Venus.

 

Atucally, it's the 7th floor. And it's not that they can survive it easily, it's just that they're less likely to die from falling from the 7th floor than the 5th floor.

Another fact: anything smaller than about hamster-sized is unlikely to be killed from falling from a height because their terminal velocity is lower than the velocity needed to kill them.