amusing but useless random facts, share yours here:

[IslamicRevival]

Approximate 80,000 components come together to make an F1 car. The cars have to be assembled with cent per cent accuracy. If it were assembled 99.9% correctly, it would go on the track with 80 components wrongly placed

About one kilometre of an electric cable is used to connect about 100 sensors and actuators in these racing cars. All these linked sensors and actuators are used to control and monitor the performance of the Formula One car.

When an F1 driver puts brakes on his car he experiences huge retardation or deceleration. It could be compared to a regular car driving through a brick wall at the speed of 300kmph.

On an average the driver of the F1 reduces near about 4kgs of his body weight if he goes for just 1 race. This is because of the long time exposure of the high G forces as well as the temperatures.

Probably not in line with this thread but...Amazing useless facts huh?
A F1 car is about 550kg in weight which is near about ½ of the total weight of a Mini.

In a street course race like the Monaco grand prix, the downforce provides enough suction to lift manhole covers. Before the race all of the manhole covers on the streets have to be welded down to prevent this from happening.

Every tire looses its weight during the race. It looses around 0.5 kg because of the wear.

Probably not in line with this thread but amazing useless facts huh?

 

[IAmZamzam]

The longest word in the English language is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosises" (alternate spelling "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosises"), the plural of "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis", which is a type of lung disease. There actually are longer words--the names of certain chemical compounds, one of which, consisting of over 250 roots, I was shown in high school science class, and it occupied an entire single-spaced page of computer paper--but they are not officially part of the King's English any more than any other made-up lingo by any group, whereas the names of lung diseases are the kind of things that can end up in dictionaries and "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosises" is in the Oxford. And probably at dictionary.com as well.

Writing that word out so many times, I felt like the people in that Monty Python sketch who repeatedly have to say the name Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty- spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitz-weimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönedanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm.

As far as I have ever been able to determine by searching a number of unabridged dictionaries, the first and last English words in alphabetical order, if you discount the word "a" itself, are "aardvark" (the only English word beginning with a double A) and "zymurgy", the latter of which means "the branch of applied chemistry dealing with fermentation, as in winemaking, brewing, the preparation of yeast, etc." (dictionary.com).

 

[Muezzin]

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. +o(

That's a false statistic intended to satirise the propagation of insane and untrue statistics on the Internet.

 

[جوري]

55,000 injuries a yr in the u.s from the use of trampolines ...

 

[IAmZamzam]

That's a false statistic intended to satirise the propagation of insane and untrue statistics on the Internet.

I wonder if the nonsense about duck quacks not echoing wasn't the same.

 

[IAmZamzam]

A totally nonexistent word, "dord", was published in an early version of Webster's. It was caused by a mistake involving cards. They used to put all the abbreviation definitions in the back of the dictionary, and a card containing an abbreviation's definition ended up getting misfiled with the cards containing word definitions. It read: "D or d: density", and since it was handwritten naturally they misread it as "Dord". Somehow no etymologist saw it, apparently. Nor did anyone else for years: it remained throughout three editions! You can read about it at snopes.com.

 

[Lynx]

The actor playing Superman on an old Superman radio show became sick for a period of time. To explain why Superman was away the writers of the show created 'kryptonite' and blamed it for causing superman's downtime.