Useless Fact of the day thread

The leading cause of deaths for children between the ages of 1 and 4 are motor vehicle crashes.

This is tragic, but what right thinking parent would let their toddler drive a car?

 

Besides the longest word is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Sad thing is my wife knew this by heart and could spell it.

 

The Real " Death" Star ?

Learnt about the real " Death" Star WR104 a few weeks ago at a Astronomy camp lecture by its accidental discoverer DR Peter Tuthill, apparantly their is a Star ready to go Supernova with its axis pointed right at us ready to unleash a deadly burst of Gamma and Xrays denuding the Earth of its Ozone layer and sterilising most of earths animal and plant life. In his lecture he also informed this was worst case and his best guess was when it goes off in the next second to 2 million years we have a 9 in 10 chance it will miss us completely.

After looking around the net today found out although some groups have set an accurate date predicting the blast will hit us of 21st December 2012 a more resent researching Astronomer from Hawaii Keck telescope studing it has since said it may miss us completely with its Binary star nieghbour deflecting the majority of the blast away at a 45 degree angle making this information totally useless.

Original Linky:
Is this the real Death Star? | The Daily Telegraph

 

FACT: If you plug your nose...you cant hum TRY IT

 

"learn't" No such word. It is learned.

Now you really HAVE learned something. Unless you want to make people think you are a hillbilly.

 

Both words are are correct " learnt " is used British English where as " learned " more often used in American English.

Your word " learn't " would probably be short for " Lear not " maybe a sign you'd see at a hillbilly feminists convention ?

 

some things that people post on forums..........

 

How much is that in American money?

 

Both are correct. See any verb conjugation site for particulars. No reference found for the possesive.

Several feminist hillbilly conventions are held annually in Bakersfield, CA. Unisex and nondenominational hillbilly conventions are held in Sturgis annualy.

 

Out of interest looked up " Feminist Hillbilly " in google to see if there was such a thing and it came up with ?

 

Which head?

 

All stars at the end of thier life will either collapse into a White Dwarf (if below) or develop into a Nutron Star or Black Hole (if above) the solar mass quantity known as Chandrasekhar's limit.






Told you I was into Quantum Mechanics..!

 

Tomatoes used to be thought of as poisonous because a botanist confused it with another plant. Source: Tomato History - The history of tomatoes as food.