Actually I do recall reading an article the other day about astronauts and toilets:joy_cat:
I did my degree in Physics and Astronomy. We didn’t learn about space toilets back then
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The Chinese ideogram for ‘trouble’ depicts two women living under the one roof.
Americans consume 42 tons of aspirin a day.
When Gaius Caesar was a boy, Roman soldiers affectionately nicknamed him ‘little boots’ for the boy sized military footwear he wore. He grew up and became emperor, retaining his boyhood nickname, ‘Little boots’.
‘Little boots’ in Latin is “Caligula”.
Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads the same way men do.
The Cashew is part of a fruit that grows in tropical regions called a “Cashew Apple”. After harvesting, the cashew apple keeps for only 24 hours before the soft fruit deteriorates. To harvest the nut, the ripe apple is allowed to fall to the ground where natives easily gather it. The apple and nut are separated.
How do Cashews Grow?
This bit of trivia blows my mind!
- 1 Million Seconds: ~11.5 days (less than two weeks)
- 1 Billion Seconds: ~31.7 years (most of us live less < 3 billion sec.
- 1 Trillion Seconds: ~31,709 years (eras long enough to pre-date written human history and modern civilization.
S0, I was thinkin’…
The US national debt is closing in on 40 trillion.
At $1.00 a second it would take 1,268,000 yrs (well over a million years) to pay it off…not including interest. Hmmmm, not going to worry about that.
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Billions and trillions are sure crazy numbers.
I have always wondered, which is more, a Million Billion or a Billion Million. 
Things ain’t always what they seem
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This is why the repeated acts and actions of the US government to actively grow this debt is so insane. If the interest on the various bonds and loans are a modest 2.5% (and this is understated) then the debt repayment alone is $1 trillion a year…
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Getting the feeling it’s a little late for that. Meanwhile, when it comes to teaching children about larger numbers, just add a comma and 3 zeros, and move on.
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never really have been…that’s the thing
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This is the thing
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Yep, even the thing pays to play.
Only one hundred and twenty five days until Christmas! 
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Deleted due to posting on the wrong thread! 
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I’ve done that more times than I can remember 
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I lived with my BFF for 7 years. We had no problems and never argued once. I only left when I met a nice man and we got a flat together. We’ve just had our 30th anniversary and are happily retired in gorgeous rural Dorset
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I wasn’t always popular with certain people as I always used to win. I think my head was stuffed full of trivia
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The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5,000 to 6,000 words.
The largest US city in area is Juneau, Alaska. It covers 3,108 square miles. Los Angeles covers only 458.2 square miles.
The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
97.2 percent of all the Earth’s water is saltwater. There is enough salt in the world’s oceans to cover all the continents with a layer 150 metres (492 feet) thick.
A bride stands to the grooms left at a wedding so that his sword hand would be free. Apparently Anglo-Saxon brides were often kidnapped before a wedding and brawls were common. That is also why the best man stands with the groom; the tribes best warrior was there to help th groom defend the bride.
I thought 5,000 to 6,000 looked a little low. I reflected on how many words I know and I’m pretty sure it’s more than that. I googled it and that said 25,000 to 35,000 words for a native English speaker. Out of interest I did the same search for the French language and the numbers are about the same. It also said that you need knowledge of about 3,000 to 5,000 words to speak and understand French as a second language. So I’ve a bit of work to do.
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