Simple but interesting facts.

[Bill Douglas]

A train is four times more efficient than a truck.

[Steve Carlton]

The human head weighs 8 lbs.

[lindbhr]

Water weighs about 8.3 lbs. per gallon. Gasoline weighs about 6.2 lbs.per gallon.

[Steve Carlton]

Diesel is 7.1 lbs per gallon.

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Moose hair is hollow

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Mike, the Headless Chicken, lived for 18 months without his head.

[dad911]

The area code for the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral is 321

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Charles Osborne hiccuped continuously from 1922 until 1990.

[fanaudical]

Originally Posted by lindbhr

Water weighs about 8.3 lbs. per gallon. Gasoline weighs about 6.2 lbs.per gallon.

Somewhat related - The Trieste - A deep-sea submersible designed and built to be similar in principle to a blimp but for use in seawater - Used ~25,000 gallons of gasoline for buoyancy.

[john70t]

Despite being incredibly fast breeders..Rabbits can never be commercially farmed for meat.
-They excrete round pellets during the day and then soft at night which they must eat to maintain their digestive flora. Floors become a mess. Cages don't work.
-They are incredibly violent to each other in close proximity (see: watership down) and often break their own backs during handling due to reflexive kicking.
-There is actually 'rabbit starvation disease' when made a regular part of the human diet, because the meat is so lean. Fats must be eaten to recover.

[LWJ]

A failed bank robbery lead to the establishment of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Greater_Pittsburgh_bank_robberies

[rcooled]

Originally Posted by fanaudical

...similar in principle to a blimp but for use in seawater - Used ~25,000 gallons of gasoline for buoyancy.

Diesel fuel is used to fill giant buoyancy bags for raising heavy items from the sea floor during salvage operations.

[flatbutt]

Honey may crystallize but it never spoils. I do wonder if it can spontaneously become mead?

[HobieMarty]

The anatomical juxtaposition of two orbicularis oris muscles in a state of contraction, is the scientific definition of a kiss.

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[rcooled]

Bamboo is actually a grass. There are certain species that can grow up to 36" in a single 24hr period under the right conditions. That's pretty rare, but even typical clumping varieties still can add up to 6" in a day.

Originally Posted by john70t

Despite being incredibly fast breeders..Rabbits can never be commercially farmed for meat.

Pel-Freez is the oldest and largest producer of domestic, farm-raised rabbit meat in the United States. Founded in 1911 by the Pelphrey family, the company pioneered quick-frozen rabbit meat back in the 1940s. The company still sells rabbit meat, mainly thru regional distributors, but has also diversified into animal biologicals.

[oldE]

Highest recorded tides in the world were measured in the upper reaches of the Bay of Fundy.at Burntcoat Head. 52' 6".

[LEAKYSEALS951]

You can safely eat about 4 to 10 kumquats per day.

[LEAKYSEALS951]

A pelican can eat a small dog or puppy

[pwd72s]

Stan Mott circumnavigated the globe on a go-kart. The Guinness book dropped his entry because nobody tried to break his record time.

[gregpark]

The first recipe for Apple pie was written in England