Thread: Strange and Unusual Facts

The Stairway to Heaven in Honolulu, Hawaii

Before he played Drago in Rocky IV, Dolph Lundgren earned a master's degree in chemical engineering and won a Fulbright Scholarship to MIT.

Ship seen hovering off the coast of Cornwall.

Walker 'stunned' to see ship hovering high above sea off Cornwall | Science | The Guardian

The effect is an example of an optical illusion known as a superior mirage. Such illusions are reasonably common in the Arctic but can also happen in UK winters when the atmospheric conditions are right, though they are very rare. The illusion is caused by a meteorological phenomenon called a temperature inversion. Normally, the air temperature drops with increasing altitude, making mountaintops colder than the foothills. But in a temperature inversion, warm air sits on top of a band of colder air, playing havoc with our visual perception. The inversion in Cornwall was caused by chilly air lying over the relatively cold sea with warmer air above.

World's oldest known wild bird has another chick at age of 70

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56281983

These two bullets collided in the battle of Gallipoli in 1915. The chances of this happening are 1 in a billion.

Originally Posted by tomcat

The chances of this happening are 1 in a billion.

Strange, unusual and just plain made up 'facts'.

Originally Posted by tomcat

These two bullets collided in the battle of Gallipoli in 1915. The chances of this happening are 1 in a billion.

The darker coloured projectile has rifling groves on it, which I think would indicate that only it was fired from a rifle. The other projectile was probably just ammo somewhere on the battlefield that happened to be hit by the fired projectile, making it somewhat less than a 1 in a billion occurrence.

...^you've convinced me...

Woody Harrelson's dad was a hitman and died in prison while serving a life sentence for killing a Federal Judge.

^ he didn't do well against a hit man in "No country for old men", can't have picked up tips.

Originally Posted by Barty

The darker coloured projectile has rifling groves on it, which I think would indicate that only it was fired from a rifle. The other projectile was probably just ammo somewhere on the battlefield that happened to be hit by the fired projectile, making it somewhat less than a 1 in a billion occurrence.

Prove it.

Are the two collided bullets at the Battle of Gallipoli real? - Quora

I m mean prove the odds.
(also Quora is a REALLY bad source. It seems to be all Indian high school students with high opinions of themselves)

^ It wasn't posted in reply to you.

A sculpted dead tree from an unknown artist in Ghana. This 300-year-old piece of art depicts people walking on top of each other with the chief always on top.

Surely the 'art' can't be three hundred years old. The tree maybe.

OOPS TP

Originally Posted by Cujo

Surely the 'art' can't be three hundred years old.

...why not?...

Originally Posted by tomcat

...why not?...

Well I'd have thought that for a start the tree would have to have been pretty big even then for all that carving but mostly that 300 years of growth would have warped the carvings beyond recognition.

Originally Posted by Cujo

300 years of growth would have warped the carvings beyond recognition.

...unless, of course, the tree had already died before the carving began...

Originally Posted by Cujo

Well I'd have thought that for a start the tree would have to have been pretty big even then for all that carving but mostly that 300 years of growth would have warped the carvings beyond recognition.

Heres the tree, pic taken just after the carving finished.

Originally Posted by Fondles

pic taken just after the carving finished

...so, the art is recent , but the tree has been dead for 300 years?...So, somebody counted the rings then...

The carcass of an 8-meter (26-foot) humpback whale was discovered in the mangrove forests of northern Brazil...