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Counter-intuitive or surprising facts (trivia)
Counter-intuitive or surprising facts (trivia)
Canada is larger than America.
I'd vouch that most Europeans don't know that!
CAN 3,855,100 Miles2
USA 3,794,100 Miles2
For people into pub quizzes and the like, CAN also has the largest water area of any country in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_by_land_area
p.s. It would be interesting to try and identify a counter-intuitive fact that approaches a pinnacle of counter-intuitiveness: Something you read and your response is 'Well THAT's bollocks!', but it turns out it's true, a kind of triumph of reality/fact over common/accepted perception.
I'd vouch that most Europeans don't know that!
CAN 3,855,100 Miles2
USA 3,794,100 Miles2
For people into pub quizzes and the like, CAN also has the largest water area of any country in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_by_land_area
p.s. It would be interesting to try and identify a counter-intuitive fact that approaches a pinnacle of counter-intuitiveness: Something you read and your response is 'Well THAT's bollocks!', but it turns out it's true, a kind of triumph of reality/fact over common/accepted perception.
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Like this? Check out other interesting maps at: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/map-o ... ze-2013-12
Edit: Replaced image with URL - image to big to fit on SEF.
http://soiledearth.com/wp-content/uploa ... Africa.jpg
Edit: Replaced image with URL - image to big to fit on SEF.
http://soiledearth.com/wp-content/uploa ... Africa.jpg
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The vibrator was invented to treat hysteria in women.QRM wrote:Kellogg's corn flakes and Graham crackers were inveted by doctors to prevent men from masturbating
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrator_(sex_toy)
"A quokka is what would happen if there was an anime about kangaroos."
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Not a fact, but plenty counter-intuitive
This will have you transfixed, mouth agape, for the duration, or your money back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8BWBn26 ... G&hl=en-GB
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8BWBn26 ... G&hl=en-GB
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Istanbul is further north than New York.
More such information here: http://www.priceoftravel.com/1063/107-w ... sing-ways/
More such information here: http://www.priceoftravel.com/1063/107-w ... sing-ways/
Countersteering - on a bike you push the bars the 'wrong way' steer left to turn right.
If you ride a bicycle you do it without realising.
If you ride a motorcylce you were probably taught it. For me it was a mind shift.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countersteering
If you ride a bicycle you do it without realising.
If you ride a motorcylce you were probably taught it. For me it was a mind shift.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countersteering
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There is less time between us (humans) and the tyrannosaurus than the tyrannosaurus and stegosaurus.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-n ... 40/?no-ist
also this listicle: http://www.emlii.com/a583540f/28-Puzzli ... ou-Stunned
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-n ... 40/?no-ist
also this listicle: http://www.emlii.com/a583540f/28-Puzzli ... ou-Stunned
"A quokka is what would happen if there was an anime about kangaroos."
Good one, counter-intuitive. I think you're educated 'just thinking' the UK is a vertically orientated island, but it's not.singapore eagle wrote:How about: Edinburgh is further west than Bristol
How about
London is further north than the USA.
or
The country with the longest coastline in the world is Norway.
Only Norway actually looks at it this way.JR8 wrote:The country with the longest coastline in the world is Norway.

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