Fascinating and useful fact thread

[DimPrawn]

Post here your fascinating facts.

Fact 1

Due to gravitational effects, your weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead. So plan your trips to Weight Watchers accordingly.

[Boudica]

Fact 2:

Doctors have advised Mr Prawn to spend less time on the internet as he is now having difficulty distinguishing between fascinating, useful and not.

[MaryPoppins]

Fact 3:

It's fun to write on buses.

[BlasterBates]

Another useful fact:

Mageiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cook.

[MaryPoppins]

Cacophobia: The fear of ugliness.

[EternalOptimist]

Human Beings have taste buds in their lungs

FACT

[OwlHoot]

hierarchy is actually spelled hierarchy, and not heirarchy (which looks right but isn't) or of course higherarchy

[gingerjedi]

Through efficient use of existing farmland and the cultivation of a lot more, we could easily sustain a population several times greater than what the world has now.

Apparently.

[wobbegong]

Cacophobia: The fear of ugliness.

Phobophobia; the fear of phobias.

[TimberWolf]

Post here your fascinating facts.

Fact 1

Due to gravitational effects, your weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead. So plan your trips to Weight Watchers accordingly.

You also weight less:

• at the equator due to centrifugal force (the one physics newbies delight in thinking doesn't exist)
• in humid weather due to the increased density of the atmosphere
• underwater
• when you jump in the air (from the moment you leave the floor, on both the upwards and downward paths, zero)
• when inside a uniform spherical shell of a planet
• on the surface than at 600km or so below it, because the earth is denser there