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The world's estimated population is due to exceed 6,666,666,666 today.
So there.
Jackhammer
15-05-08, 03:48 PM
The collective name for a group of ....
Cats is a Clowder
Bears is a Sloth (how appropriate Jamie LOL)
Ferrets is a Business
Giraffes is a Tower
Hippopotamuses is a Bloat (Seriously)
Tigers is a Streak
Eagles is a Convocation
Flamingos is a Stand
Larks is an Exaltation
Toads is a Knot
Cockroaches is an Intrusion (too bloody right it is)
.... erm that will do :-)
Mousetrapper
16-05-08, 09:44 AM
Chavs is a Scrote ??
mikebrooman
16-05-08, 08:59 PM
Dimples first appeared on golf balls more than 100 years ago when golfers discovered that balls which had been scratched or roughed up traveled further than smooth balls. Dimples are what gives a golf ball lift. They create two layers of air going around the ball. The top layer is going faster than the bottom layer which creates turbulence. They also reduce the wake by keeping the boundry layer seperation to a minimum which reduces drag...so goes further.
In new zealand they make rugby ball shaped golf balls, and hit them into a big net!
Source: Aerodynamics lecturer yesterday!
missyburd
16-05-08, 09:55 PM
Dimples first appeared on golf balls more than 100 years ago when golfers discovered that balls which had been scratched or roughed up traveled further than smooth balls. Dimples are what gives a golf ball lift. They create two layers of air going around the ball. The top layer is going faster than the bottom layer which creates turbulence. They also reduce the wake by keeping the boundry layer seperation to a minimum which reduces drag...so goes further.
In new zealand they make rugby ball shaped golf balls, and hit them into a big net!
Source: Aerodynamics lecturer yesterday!
also true of birdie wings :-D source: aerodynamics lecture on flight a while ago ;)
yorkie_chris
17-05-08, 05:02 PM
Dimples first appeared on golf balls more than 100 years ago when golfers discovered that balls which had been scratched or roughed up traveled further than smooth balls. Dimples are what gives a golf ball lift. They create two layers of air going around the ball. The top layer is going faster than the bottom layer which creates turbulence. They also reduce the wake by keeping the boundry layer seperation to a minimum which reduces drag...so goes further.
In new zealand they make rugby ball shaped golf balls, and hit them into a big net!
Source: Aerodynamics lecturer yesterday!
Only if it's spinning, a ball without spin will have a symettrical wake and no lift forces.
Raki is horrible and gets you pished very fast, mugs you quicker than a load of hoodied chavs on scooters :drink:
Miss Alpinestarhero
25-05-08, 04:24 PM
The Capgras delusion (or Capgras syndrome) is a rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that an acquaintance, usually a spouse or other close family member, has been replaced by an identical looking impostor
Reference (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capgras_delusion)
Maria
gettin2dizzy
25-05-08, 05:24 PM
The Capgras delusion (or Capgras syndrome) is a rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that an acquaintance, usually a spouse or other close family member, has been replaced by an identical looking impostor
Reference (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capgras_delusion)
Maria
Wonderful :)
I love this one too:
The Fregoli delusion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fregoli_delusion) is the belief that various people that the believer meets are actually the same person in disguise
Miss Alpinestarhero
25-05-08, 07:23 PM
Ooo thats interesting.
Theres another disorder I know of which is in this book I read called "the man who mistook his wife for a hat". This particular person didn't recognise their leg and was petrified of it (to the extent that he tried to throw his leg out the bed which resulted in him falling on the floor). I can't think of what the disorder was called though..
Maria
gettin2dizzy
25-05-08, 07:25 PM
Ooo thats interesting.
Theres another disorder I know of which is in this book I read called "the man who mistook his wife for a hat". This particular person didn't recognise their leg and was petrified of it (to the extent that he tried to throw his leg out the bed which resulted in him falling on the floor). I can't think of what the disorder was called though..
Maria
Sounds like he was stoned to me!
yorkie_chris
25-05-08, 09:25 PM
liberty cap syndrome perhaps...
Miss Alpinestarhero
30-05-08, 06:58 PM
I saw a duck randomly appear and sit outside my office window. Kept me amused :D
yorkie_chris
31-05-08, 10:10 AM
The cagiva planet manual I downloaded has some pages missing. Funnily enough the ones missing are the ones I need in English.
My cat's breath smells like cat food.
Miss Alpinestarhero
31-05-08, 06:18 PM
My cat's breath smells like cat food.
Really? :smt103 I wonder why..;)
Maria
Red Herring
02-06-08, 01:11 PM
Strange, so does my dogs. Have you seen your cat lately....
Mike2165
10-06-08, 04:05 PM
It's very hot in Spain...:)
it's been very hot in leeds today!
Red Herring
11-06-08, 07:38 PM
But in Spain it will be hot tomorrow....
apparently paul mcartney once had clouds moved at a concert so that he could play good day sunshine!
it must be true it was on telly!
If you ever lick/suck an ant it tastes of Lime flavoured opal fruits.
I just did.
My cats breath *still* smells of cat food.
how do you know it wasnt just that ant?
Rhiwbina_Squirrel
11-06-08, 10:16 PM
He must've licked lots of ants.
Weird..
Alex
Alpinestarhero
11-06-08, 10:23 PM
Interesting fact....interesting fact....um......ah, ants: you can get methanoic acid from them. Could reduce that down to methanol. Stick that in your SV and....corrode all the rubber tubing :roll:
Matt
Lily Allen lived for a while with comedian Harry Enfield while her mother dated him
Red Herring
18-06-08, 11:25 AM
I'd have dated him in seconds, definitely very eighties....
more people are killed a year by arm chairs then they are by sharks
Lily Allen lived for a while with comedian Harry Enfield while her mother dated him
appalling sentence structure.
3/10
If you ever lick/suck an ant it tastes of Lime flavoured opal fruits.
I just did.
Hmmm... The 3 - 4 mm red & black variety we've got in abundance in the forest here taste more like tortilla chips with a bit of salt and lime.
I'm not even joking. I was drunk and lost a bet. They were so tasty I actually did it again stone-cold sober!!
...
Yes, they still tasted of salt and lime!! :o
In the "inmates are running the country" file...
A nine-year-old girl faces a trial for causing an accident
after she was knocked over by a car on a zebra crossing.
The youngster, not named for legal reasons, from
Schaffhausen in Switzerland was slightly injured after
she was hit by the car while crossing the road with
her mum and younger sister. The car driver claims
the young girl ran out from behind a bus and straight
into his vehicle, and was therefore a danger to him
and other motorists. She is now being hauled up in
front of the Schaffhausen youth court where she could
face a fine.
The wombat is the only animal to have an actual bone in his dinkle.
The current 'blade was designed to look like it has a human face which is why it resembles the fawn from Pan's Labyrinth. Apparently the human face registers in road users minds more than a headlight and changes road users perception of speed.
only 5 of 100,000 paperclips are ever used to clip paper (thos sure it decreases in cnetral government offices!)
northwind
02-09-08, 05:44 PM
I wonder what the scrap value of all the paperclips in my office building would be?
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants
Mr Speirs
06-09-08, 01:32 PM
but he wears a towel after a shower
If the entire population of France joined hands around the world...
... half of them would drown.
Although Northern Ireland is part of Great Britain, due to EU madness, the EU identifier on Northern Irish number plates is "NI" not "GB". The reason for this is that they didn't want to discriminate against the Irish.
If the entire population of France joined hands around the world...
... half of them would drown.
sounds like a plan;)
no matter which way you look at Mickey Mouse ...he has round ears
northwind
07-09-08, 09:59 PM
Although Northern Ireland is part of Great Britain, due to EU madness, the EU identifier on Northern Irish number plates is "NI" not "GB". The reason for this is that they didn't want to discriminate against the Irish.
Sounds like euro sensibility to me, we nearly got SCO on our plates too but there wasn't the demand for it, in NI there was.
in WW2 butchers used to inject water into sausages to make them look bigger and fatter, this had the effect of making them explode violently when cooked. this is why they are called bangers and where the practice of prícking them to let the water out and thus preventing them exploding came from
neillfergie
11-09-08, 08:44 AM
In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."
northwind
11-09-08, 05:23 PM
neillfergie wins.
neillfergie
12-09-08, 12:56 PM
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times
(not as good as the pope one admittedly)
xXBADGERXx
12-09-08, 10:07 PM
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times
(not as good as the pope one admittedly)
And this would be so that it can see Tinkers trying to steal it`s shoes ?
Beats having to install a Datatool on the Donkey "Hmmm now where does this bit plug in?"
If you choose not to decide you still would have made a choice.
The big bang thing might take five years before a big bang. So we might be drawn into a blackhole sometime in the next five years without warning?
neillfergie
13-09-08, 08:33 AM
apparently black hole have some sort of effect on time in their immediate surroundings so they would warp the space time continuum (seriously) so the five years would feel like much much longer in some places and less in others. . .
my head hurts!
hang man
14-09-08, 11:25 PM
my fact for the day is ........Gravity Sucks :shock:
grh1904
16-09-08, 01:33 PM
My brother-n-law just failed his bike test today......................
Apparently his feet were in the wrong place on the pegs, (he rode with balls of feet on the pegs).
Might also have something to do with the fact that 2 weeks ago the examiner cancelled his test 5 mins before it was due to start, (radio not working properly) and was supposed to put him in for another straight away but forgot. When bro-n-law phoned up to query when his test was they understandably had no record of his cancellation and being put in for another. Gets a phone call last Thursday, "can you make it next Tuesday??", and "by the way the examiner has been bollocked for not putting you back in straight away when it was he who cancelled your test on the day".
Turns up today and guess what, same examiner.
What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi.
Legislation passed during WWI making it illegal to say "gesundheit" to a sneezer was never repealed.
Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.
and for those with a chocolate habit
Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.
can you tell i'm bored at work
it needs to be done
Silly Putty was "discovered" as the residue left behind after the first latex condoms were produced. It's not widely publicized for obvious reasons.
wyrdness
16-09-08, 03:12 PM
Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.
Wrong. Totally and utterly wrong. Don't even try this.
Wrong. Totally and utterly wrong. Don't even try this.
I didn't say any of it was right! this is what the kids are sending me. got some really strange ones as well:smt026
hang man
17-09-08, 02:22 AM
Chickens cross the road for no apparent reason :shock:
Alpinestarhero
17-09-08, 12:54 PM
The nice man who you get into a conversation with about fuel additives will try to sell you octane boost for your low-state-of-tune SV engine.
gettin2dizzy
17-09-08, 02:46 PM
The nice man who you get into a conversation with about fuel additives will try to sell you octane boost for your low-state-of-tune SV engine.
It's not your fault you bought a carbed curvey :smt047
Can we keep this thread to genuine facts that have been read about, seen on telly or heard on the radio? It's getting a bit silly now. (Not having a dig at u Mr Topbox).
:)
neillfergie
18-09-08, 10:01 AM
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card
Paul the 6th
19-09-08, 11:29 AM
we drive on the left side of the road because, in the days of old when knights rode horses, they would approach an oncoming rider on the left, so that their right hand could draw their sword and defend if needs be.
When Napoleon became the emprorer of europe, he reversed this tradition because he was left handed and as a sign of power.
Mr Speirs
19-09-08, 03:49 PM
Giraffes have exactly the same amount of vertebrae in their spine as mice.
Following the attack on the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001, and because of the similarity between the buildings' nickname, "The Twin Towers", and the movie's title, "The Two Towers", the director and producers briefly considered renaming the second movie in the trilogy. They eventually decided against it, Peter Jackson's main reason being that, "fans would kill me".
Mr Speirs
03-10-08, 11:45 PM
Die Hard 3 was originally a Lethal Weapon screenplay. That's why there is a white guy and a black guy.
on this day, ok yesterday, in history, the first microwave was patented. it was 5ft 6" tall and weighed 750 pounds.
spooky, they happen to be the very same vital statistics scoobs holds....
there is no such animal called a panther. A panther as you might know it is actually a black leopard. Panther is greek meaning all animals
Paul the 6th
16-10-08, 07:36 AM
the saying "Let the cat out of the bag" has its origins in the days of old where commerce would take place at market. In order to stop livestock running away, traders would keep their animals (such as baby pigs or lambs) in bags. There were some unscrupulous traders who would substitute livestock for domestic pets such as cats, thus when a buyer had parted with their money and got home, they would 'let the cat out of the bag' only only to find they had been shafted by the seller.
The 'Trading Standards Institute' wasn't founded until 1956.
Paul the 6th
16-10-08, 07:40 AM
The term 'wharf' is an abbreviation of "Warehouse at the river front" - hence "Canary Wharf". Canary wharf takes its name from subsiduary company of Fred Olsen Lines which had it's main line of business in importing fruit from the canary islands (and mediteranean)...
I want to work for aqa lol... :(
northwind
16-10-08, 01:38 PM
Nah, that one's not right, the word predates the use of acronyms (they only really came into fashion in the 1600s)
Apparently it's from the old english hwearf, meaning bank or shore. My google fu is superior ;) But I did know the thing about acronyms- basically before then, written english was so approximate and phoneticised that no two people would have made the same acronym anyway ;)
Paul the 6th
16-10-08, 01:45 PM
A retired fireman told me in the pub, therefore it is a fact :razz:
You can change the colour of marmite by repeatedly and quickly slapping a dollop on a plate with the flat side of a knife.
xXBADGERXx
17-10-08, 05:43 AM
You can change the colour of marmite by repeatedly and quickly slapping a dollop on a plate with the flat side of a knife.
I`m gonna try that right now :D
Mr Speirs
17-10-08, 09:18 AM
95% of facts are made up.
I`m gonna try that right now :D
Success? I've done it and it needs a real beating.
Kate Moss
17-10-08, 01:36 PM
what colour does it go?
Kate Moss
17-10-08, 01:51 PM
no way
xXBADGERXx
17-10-08, 05:31 PM
Like cream.
It went to a Caramel colour before I missed and broke the Plate :D DOH!!!!!
Whoops! Wierd though eh?!
Fact: Weight (mass) doesn't affect the speed at which objects freefall.
neillfergie
18-10-08, 11:55 AM
9m/sec per second?
mr.anderson
18-10-08, 12:08 PM
Acceleration due to gravitational pull is 10m/s2 in a vacuum.
yorkie_chris
18-10-08, 12:27 PM
9.81m/s2 ish.
davepreston
18-10-08, 06:27 PM
the royal regiment of fusilers is the only regiment not allowed to show one of its battle honners given by the crown. the battle of the boyne, it was deemed politicly incorrect cause of the situation in northern ireland, us paddies are full of useless information.
Did you know that in the original plans for the 1st Mersey Tunnel, they where going to have a train running under the road deck in what is called Central Avenue!!
:rave:
xXBADGERXx
18-10-08, 09:16 PM
Then they realised the trains would be on bricks all the time :D and scrapped the idea
northwind
18-10-08, 09:36 PM
Fact: Weight (mass) doesn't affect the speed at which objects freefall.
Yes it does- objects with no mass don't freefall at all ;)
Yes it does- objects with no mass don't freefall at all ;)
Where do they fall to then? and wots it cost??:geek:
Yes it does- objects with no mass don't freefall at all ;)
I think teriyakimonkey meant acceleration due to gravity.
PS. Photon's have no mass, yet light can be "bent" by extremes of gravity.
How do you know photon's have no mass if you can't weigh them?:smt017
How do you know photon's have no mass if you can't weigh them?:smt017
Because photon's in a vacuum travel at the speed of light, therefore the "m" part of the equation must be zero.
NB, the mass of photon's is actually pretty heavily disputed.
Today is the 70th birthday of Xerography (The process of photocopying)
The first xerographic copy was made on October, 1938, in a makeshift laboratory behind a beauty parlor in Astoria, Queens, a borough in New York City. The copy, preserved in the Smithsonian Institution, reads “10-22-38 ASTORIA.” The inventor, Chester Carlson, was a scientist and patent attorney who was determined to find a simple way to make copies of documents.
Mr Speirs
20-11-08, 05:32 PM
Floppy Discs, CD's and DVD's were all invented at the same time by the same man.
Grant66
20-11-08, 07:21 PM
Although Northern Ireland is part of Great Britain, due to EU madness, the EU identifier on Northern Irish number plates is "NI" not "GB". The reason for this is that they didn't want to discriminate against the Irish.
Northern Ireland isn't in Great Britain, its in the United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland.
Source: Front of my passport :)
Lemmings don't commit mass suicide. Source QI
Floppy Discs, CD's and DVD's were all invented at the same time by the same man.
Um, no. The underlying principal, perhaps, but not the media or the method to read/write to said media.
I remember when they were designing the first dual layer DVDs, and my interesting fact, is that they're called "dual layer" because initially, they litterally stuck 2 DVD's together. They also had trouble with the glue seperating at high RPMs at first.
Paul the 6th
21-11-08, 08:39 AM
The Guinness Book of Records entry for the longest Monopoly game is 1,680 hours. Sad *******s. No amount of pride is worth that much time, although I once played for 7 hours and won :)
neillfergie
21-11-08, 09:33 AM
Northern Ireland isn't in Great Britain, its in the United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland.
Source: Front of my passport :)
It is part of the UK!!!
The United Kingdom is a unitary state consisting of four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
It is governed by a parliamentary system with its seat of government in London, the capital, but with three devolved national administrations in Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh, the capitals of Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland respectively.
The UK is a constitutional monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II as the head of state. The Channel Islands and the Isle of Man are Crown Dependencies and not part of the UK, but form a federacy with it.
The UK has fourteen overseas territories, all remnants of the British Empire, which at its height encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land surface, the largest empire in history. British influence can continue to be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former colonies. Queen Elizabeth II remains the head of the Commonwealth of Nations and head of state of each of the Commonwealth realms.:cool:
Bees stings are acidic and wasps are alkali.
neillfergie
21-11-08, 10:57 AM
Bees stings are acidic and wasps are alkali.
And Bees die after stinging whereas wasps can sting repeatedly. :D
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