I find that occasionally, even toilet paper is a problem. I’ve got a sewer drain pipe that appears to be separating and has a sharp inner edge. Toilet paper catches on that edge, then the pipe clogs up soon thereafter. (I’m talking USA, toilets connected to septic system, so I’m pretty much on my own when it comes to drain maintenance.)
So I try to avoid putting too much TP down the toilet. If / when I ever use TP as a substitute for tissue paper or as a cleaning cloth, I put it into the trash.
You could consider the special TP designed for RVs, campers, boats…it disintegrates in seconds once it gets wet. It’s expensive but possibly an option when you have company over.
Next tidbit: the tower made for the Olympics in Montreal makes the one in Pisa look weak.
The famous Leaning Tower of Pisa is at a 5° incline. The Montreal Tower leans at a 45° angle.
http://www.itsabouttravelling.com/montreal-tower-observatory/
My plumbing had the same problem. My plumber has told me to only use Scott’s 1000, which dissolves right away but costs a lot less than specialty RV TP.
Allegedly - the only one of his hits that Barry Manilow didn’t write was “I Write the Songs”. (But he didn’t write “Mandy” either - he just changed the title from “Brandy”).
Fact 1: it isn’t just ruminants that chew the cud.
So, skipping quickly past pseudo-ruminants and the like, Fact 2: alpacas have long, thin necks; they also have valuable hair, which gets harvested by giving them a close shave once in a while. And when they have long, thin, hairless necks, you can actually watch that bolus of cud going down their neck and - wait for it - coming back up again. It’s a weirdly compelling watch.
Is it on YouTube? Of course it is:
The one I saw (IRL) was cleaner shaved and way more obvious. You couldn’t not watch.
j
“Here be Dragons” I always thought that was a fairly common thing on really old maps. But it isn’t, according to a QI book, they could find only one, and oddly it is sorta where the Komodo Dragon lives.
There are a lot of these. I went to an American Physical Society meeting many years ago where they had a film showing one of these being made (It’s not a lost art, and there are living practitioners of it).
The Wikipedia article on Magic Mirrors now includes a sentence about the one in Cincinnati
Everyone that confuses correlation with causation eventually ends up dead.
Just sayin’.
I just learned the other day that Thomas Jefferson had a vacation home. Stupid me assumed that with an estate like Monticello, you had all the land you could want. Apparently TJ liked to get out of town on occasion.
Okay, that made me laugh out loud.
Obscure and weird. In a bike race, riders wear their race number in duplicate like this. The example here is number 13 - and as 13 is unlucky, this is the only number that a rider is allowed to wear upside down. They don’t have to - some wear 13 the right way up, some have one number the right way up and the other upside down.
Also, this being bike racing, the race number bears a sponsor’s name. You’ll probably have to click the link (and scroll down) to see this, but here’s the (obscure, weird) interesting random fact. In this example 13 is upside down, but the sponsor’s name is the right way up. These numbers are pre-printed upside down by the race organisation, in order to keep the sponsor happy.
j
PS: picture is Steven Kruijskwijk from the ongoing Tour De France. Inverting the numbers did him no good at all. And in case anyone asks, they have duplicate numbers (on road stages) so that if they drop out, one number can be handed to a race commissar to register the withdrawal.
And tomatoes. Those things are loaded with dihydrogen monoxide!
It is suggested that best results will be obtained by using an experimental subject who is thoroughly familiar with and frequently uses the logic methods demonstrated herein, such as:
The dedicated moralist. Extremely plentiful in supply, and the experimenter might even obtain a bounty on each from a grateful community
The longest distance that a human (unaided by equipment, wind, etc.) has thrown an object with such object being continually in the air, is 427.2 m, 1333 ft… a boomerang (designed not to return) by David Schummy in 2005. Of course, it happened in Australia.
Well yeah, I’m the part of the world where things fall upward!
I think you’ve mixed two records. The 2005 boomerang record is the longest throw you speak of, and it is 427.2 m, which works out to… 1401.5 feet, not 1333 feet.
The previous record was set in 2003 by throwing an Aerobie 1333 feet:
Although shooting an arrow requires equipment (a bow), the record is less than 1000 feet. I would have expected it to be further than a boomerang.
That would indicate that the distance is primarily determined by the vertical acceleration rather than the horizontal velocity. The arrow would presumably have a higher horizontal velocity and a higher vertical acceleration, while the yawing winglets would have lower values.
What if you shot a boomerang from a bow?
That sounds like the record for hitting a target. So many types of archery records came up in a search I’m not sure which would apply, but several exceed 1000 feet.