Monday, 14 January 2019

Did you know No 2


Hello Monday what a nice Monday although I woke up feeling not so good it is a warm day but at the moment no need for the air con at this stage. Anyway let's move on to this weeks did you know facts.

The estimated weight of the Great Pyramid of Egypt is 6,648,000 tons, how the hell do they work that out.

There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year

During WW11 Hitler commissioned Ferdinand Porsche designer of the VW Beetle and many other cars to design the biggest, heaviest tank possible. The tank was completely watertight and it could cross a river not by floating but by driving across the floor of the river under the water. The problem with the design was that it was so heavy it literally demolished the streets and foundations of nearby buildings as it passed, due to its weight and vibration.

The female cod can lay up to ten million eggs in one birth, bloody hell

During Abraham Lincoln's campaign for the U S presidency, a democrat named Valentine Tapley from Pike County Missouri, swore that he would never shave again in Lincoln were to be elected. He kept his word and didn't shave after the November 1860 election when he died in 1910 his beard was 12ft 6” long.

5 comments:

  1. Going back to the pyramid - think of all those poor souls who had to carry the bricks and make it!

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  2. Amazing facts. How did they worked out the facts about the weight of the pyramid or the eggs of the female cod.

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  3. The tank: I'll bet that "crossing the river bottom" thing didn't work out well, either.

    Beard: I'd sure like to see Nancy Pelosi try that one...

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  4. Chatty.......Hell yeah those poor souls suffered so much

    Nancy........I know I thought that

    Chris.......I wondered how many drowned when testing the tank

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