Fascinating Facts and Trivia

It can take a photon 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to earth

If you were to remove all of the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on earth, the entire world population could fit into an apple.

To know when to mate, a male giraffe will continuously headbutt the female in the bladder until she urinates.

The male then tastes the pee and that helps it determine whether the female is ovulating

The British royal family isn't allowed to play Monopoly.

Movies have to clarify that they're fiction because of a 1930s lawsuit that traces back to none other than Rasputin.

Ballard Berkeley

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Played Major Gowan in Faulty Towers and in WW2 served as a Special Constable in the Metropolitan Police
Now I'd always believed that he was also a court usher at the Nuremberg trials. I don't know where I got that from but it might have been a remark by Cleese, something about the character of his co-star.
It certainly makes sense as a Special would be the type of person that they'd want to employ for that job given who they're likely to usher.

Trouble is that Wikipedia etc doesn't mention Nuremberg so this is unsubstantiated ATM.

Abraham Lincoln probably had a medical condition called Marfans syndrome.

Some of its symptoms are extremely long bones, curved spine, an arm span that is longer than the persons height, eye problems, heart problems and very little fat.

It is a rare, inherited condition.

The width of your armspan stretched out is the length of your whole body.

During a solar eclipse, the shadows of leaves make the same crescent shape of the eclipsing sun.

The image is made by light passing through tiny holes in the leaves.

Monks in the 16th century recorded seeing a giant explosion on the side of the Moon.

It most likely was a large meteor that slammed into the Moon and left a large crater.

It was a good thing the Moon was between us and the meteor!