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The Fact of the Day Thread!! Post a fact that you find useful here :)

A bullet fired directly forward from a gun and a bullet dropped from your hand at exactly the same time will hit the ground together.
 
In 1979, Peter Strelzek, an East German aeroplane mechanic, built a hot air balloon in which he, his family, and another family used to cross the Inner German Border and escape into West Germany.
 
Hello peeps! here's an interesting fact for you:

Bacteria live on us in us and all around us generally invisible to the human eye, they have the ability to reproduce quickly and make its host very sick and even kill...

Bacteria put the tang in yogurt and the sour in sourdough bread, bacteria help to break down dead organic matter, bacteria make up the base of the food web in many environments.
Bacteria are of such immense importance because of their extreme flexibility, capacity for rapid growth and reproduction, and great age - the oldest fossils known, nearly 3.5 billion years old, are fossils of bacteria-like organisms

After humans die the bacteria in our stomach's usally used for digesting food start to digest dead tissue from the inside out, when bacteria are present in large numbers an accompanying unpleasent smell is noticable (body odor/feaces) human feaces contain around 70% bactiria.

Bacteria have been found and can survive in the harshest enviroments some can withstand boiling water for around ten minuets, they have been found thriving and withstanding emmense pressures at the bottom of the sea bed, in deep ice core drillings and even in the cooling water of nuclear reactors!
 
I will throw out a fact about one of my favorite bands....the Beatles of course.
The Beatles use Abby Road studios to record 191 "official" songs///ever wonder what some of the other unofficial songs sounded like?? I know I heard one called circles by Harrison but not sure where it was recorded.
 
Earlier on in this thread there was something about spiral penises, from a chicken or something? Ewww, I don't want to think that far back
A duck, actually. Ducks are one of the few birds with a penis, and thus one of the few birds known to engage in forced copulation (the behaviour that is generally termed "rape" in humans).
 
The Anglo-Zanzibar war, fought between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar on 27th August 1896, is the shortest war in history - lasting approximately 40 minutes.
 
A mouse can survive a fall from any height, as its terminal velocity is so low that it never builds enough speed to do significant damage on impact.
 
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