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During WW2, the Luftwaffe got good quality avation fuel for their fighter aircraft from Romanian oil, typically 130 RON.
The RAF had equally good fuel, about 125 RON.
However American crude oil was of lower quality, and thus the fuel was more like 80 or 90 RON. This led them to develop protective additives like lead to allow more tuning of higher compression engines with superchargers. Eventually they had ratings of around 150 RON.
It was commonly recognised that the Germans had more powerful engines. Why was this? Because they had direct injection systems in their engines and this allowed them to use Nitrous Oxide while dogfighting, increasing power output by 50%.
I didn't know that.
Who's next for an I.F.O.T.D?
hall13uk
28-02-06, 12:25 PM
:) everytime i learn something new, it pushes something old out of my brain :roll:
:) everytime i learn something new, it pushes something old out of my brain :roll:
Is that your interesting fact then? :lol:
Supervox
28-02-06, 12:34 PM
(a) More people are kicked to death each year by donkey's than die in airline accidents.
(b) An Albatross can fly for up to a week without flapping its wings.
The opricuity of the ecliptic is 23 degrees, 27 minutes, 8.26 seconds. So there. :?
Biker Biggles
28-02-06, 05:24 PM
An hour's rain would do more good in five minutes now than a week's would do in a month at any other time of the year. 8)
90% of people are caused by accidents.
The skin of a hippo is almost bulletproof.
A giraffe has the same number of bones in its neck as a human.
Faster than an SV, a Greyhound is capable of reaching its top speed of 45mph in only three strides.
The Bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissable in a US court.
The Pentagon has twice as many toilets as is necessary because when it was built there were still segregation laws in place required separate facilities for Blacks and Whites.
Besides humans, elephants are the only animal that can stand on thier heads.
The most impossible item to flush in a tiolet is a ping pong ball.
Apart from Elvis, Judy Garland also died on the loo - whilst King George II died after falling off the loo.
carelesschucca
28-02-06, 06:03 PM
(b) An Albatross can fly for up to a week without flapping its wings.
who checks these things??? Do they do a questionaire for birds???
Not thats the only daft one up there!!!
Is the, a penguin falls over when planes pass overhead one true???
kwak zzr
28-02-06, 07:06 PM
my old fiesta used to get to 60 in 14seconds! fact!
Longshotmojo
28-02-06, 07:20 PM
A rat can survive longer with out water than a camel. Got that off the back of a Penguin bar.
Men can breast feed babies
Sid Squid
28-02-06, 07:51 PM
It was commonly recognised that the Germans had more powerful engines. Why was this? Because they had direct injection systems in their engines and this allowed them to use Nitrous Oxide while dogfighting, increasing power output by 50%.
You don't have to have direct injection to use NOS. Don't need injection at all.
When I remove excess nasel with some tweazers, it always hurts more from the right nostril. Don't know whether thats the case for everyone or just me.
A fact never the less.
:D
The uniforms worn by the SS were designed by Hugo Boss.
On a military theme then....
Red berets and the "Pegasus" logo of British Airborne Forces was the idea of author Daphne Du Maurier, Who was the wife of Lt Gen Freddy "Boy" Browning
mysteryjimbo
28-02-06, 11:25 PM
The uniforms worn by the SS were designed by Hugo Boss.
That IS an interesting little snippet.
Like the original VW Beetle was designed for Hitler by Porsche to be the "peoples car".....
The Basket
28-02-06, 11:42 PM
Interesting bit about fuels in aircraft.
British pilots did see a marked difference in performance of their aircraft when using the American fuel over the British.
The Germans didn't know this so when they flew captured Hurricanes or Spitfires, they used thier own fuels and had false power readings...they thought our aircraft was slower than they actually were.
Boring, but true.
Nitrous could only be used in short bursts and usually when running!!!German engine development never matched what was needed and so nitro was a cheap fix.
from ww2, britains leading secret agent was a chap called wing commander Yeo Thomas...The White Rabbit.
tinpants
01-03-06, 12:17 AM
(b) An Albatross can fly for up to a week without flapping its wings.
who checks these things??? Do they do a questionaire for birds???
Not thats the only daft one up there!!!
Is the, a penguin falls over when planes pass overhead one true???
No. Although I did write a letter to my (then) girlfriend while I was on a tour of duty in the Falklands that we had to go round picking the penguins up again after a plane had gone over. Twas a joke tho'.
An "interesting" point for you:- Alfred Nobel, the instigator of the Nobel Peace Prize, invented Dynamite. :wink:
Like the original VW Beetle was designed for Hitler by Porsche to be the "peoples car".....
More VW facts. The chap who designed the Beetle was Dr Ferdinand Porsche, it was his son that started the Porsche (as we know it today) company.
Also, imediately after the war, it was the British Army that organised putting the Beetle back into production.
mysteryjimbo
01-03-06, 09:12 AM
Like the original VW Beetle was designed for Hitler by Porsche to be the "peoples car".....
More VW facts. The chap who designed the Beetle was Dr Ferdinand Porsche, it was his son that started the Porsche (as we know it today) company.
Also, imediately after the war, it was the British Army that organised putting the Beetle back into production.
I didnt think that extra bit was needed. Still cool to know :thumbsup:
Jon Pertwee served as an officer aboard HMS Hood, adn was lucky enough to be on shore leave when she was sunk by the Bismark with only three survivors.
Denholm Elliot served with the RAF and was sot down during a bommbing mssion over Denmark. He saw out the last three years of the war in a POW camp in Silesia.
Murray Walker drove a tank during WWII.
Christopher Lee served as a Flight Lieutenant, as well as with Intelligence and Special Forces in the Western Desert, Malta, Sicily, Italy and Central Europe.
fizzwheel
01-03-06, 10:22 AM
Concorde had a system of baffles on its engines to slow down the air entering the engine to sub sonic speed as the engine wouldnt run properly otherwise
Concorde had a system of baffles on its engines to slow down the air entering the engine to sub sonic speed as the engine wouldnt run properly otherwise
DID.
Such a shame they removed such a great aircrsft.
Jon Pertwee served as an officer aboard HMS Hood, adn was lucky enough to be on shore leave when she was sunk by the Bismark with only three survivors.
Denholm Elliot served with the RAF and was sot down during a bommbing mssion over Denmark. He saw out the last three years of the war in a POW camp in Silesia.
Murray Walker drove a tank during WWII.
Christopher Lee served as a Flight Lieutenant, as well as with Intelligence and Special Forces in the Western Desert, Malta, Sicily, Italy and Central Europe.
Actor Richard Todd served with 6 Para (I think) and fought at Pegasus Bridge on D-Day.
Interstingly Richard Todd plays Maj John Howard (who commanded the initial glider assult at Pegasus Bridge and heroically held the bridges afterwards) in the film "The Longest Day".
I am unsure who plays Richard Todd in the film :D
Is the, a penguin falls over when planes pass overhead one true???
saw a clip of it on tv!!! whether it was real who knows!
Flamin_Squirrel
01-03-06, 10:43 AM
Clark Gable flew with the 8th airforce on bombing missions over Germany.
Lucky to survive that one :shock:
my fact of the day
i saw a nice motorbike yesterday
that is all. carry on.
Clark Gable flew with the 8th airforce on bombing missions over Germany.
Lucky to survive that one :shock:
As did Jimmy Stewart, who reached the rank of Colonel and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross with Oak Leaf Clusters, the French Croix-de-Guerre and the Air Medal. After the war he remained in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, and reached the rank of Brigadier General.
The penguin is the only bird that walks upright.
Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down, and pigeons are the only birds that can drink water without having to raise their heads to swallow.
The most poisonous spider isn't the Black Widow - it's the Wingless Daddylonglegs, but it's fangs can't pierce human skin so it poses no threat.
Oh yeah, try this one - apparently no piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven times!
sharriso74
01-03-06, 10:56 AM
Last one is true they tried it on Brainiacs with a huge piece of paper.
mysteryjimbo
01-03-06, 11:01 AM
What about that truely awful cheap paper you can get from staples? Something like 60gsm! :lol:
Concorde had a system of baffles on its engines to slow down the air entering the engine to sub sonic speed as the engine wouldnt run properly otherwise
sorry to be an idiot poster........
but ALL supersonic aircraft have a system to 'ramp' air going into the intakes to ensure the air is not going supersonic into the engine.
:wink:
so, yeah.... your comment was quite correct!!!
But... it could be changed to "a jet engine will only work if the air entering is subsonic."
anybody know why supersonic intakes are made square?
A 2p piece weighs the same as two 1p pieces - now that is a staggering fact!! :lol:
mysteryjimbo
01-03-06, 11:14 AM
A container filled with small ball bearings has the same amount of air around them as the same container filled with larger ball bearings of the same total mass.
I remember reading that somewhere and i'm pretty sure it applies to 1 pence and 2 pence pieces too! :lol:
wyrdness
01-03-06, 11:15 AM
Jon Pertwee served as an officer aboard HMS Hood, adn was lucky enough to be on shore leave when she was sunk by the Bismark with only three survivors.
Denholm Elliot served with the RAF and was sot down during a bommbing mssion over Denmark. He saw out the last three years of the war in a POW camp in Silesia.
Murray Walker drove a tank during WWII.
Christopher Lee served as a Flight Lieutenant, as well as with Intelligence and Special Forces in the Western Desert, Malta, Sicily, Italy and Central Europe.
And Tony Hart was an officer in the Gurkhas.
anybody know why supersonic intakes are made square?
Somthing to do with shockwaves and stagnation pressure ?
Are all supersonic inlets square :-k
Does the addition of swarfega have any...bearing...on this fact? :roll: :D
Flamin_Squirrel
01-03-06, 11:19 AM
A container filled with small ball bearings has the same amount of air around them as the same container filled with larger ball bearings of the same total mass.
Well, thats a given isnt it!
Same mass, same material, same volume :wink:
A metre cubed (m x m x m) of water weights a metric ton*.
*varies slightly with temperature
Balky001
01-03-06, 11:46 AM
Chuck Norris is the only human to be able to sneeze with his eyes open
Chuck Norris is the only human to be able to sneeze with his eyes open
aaah the Chuck Norris facts! :D
there's an hilarious - btw why is it AN hilarious not A hilarious? - website with many Chuck facts. he can bring a helicopter down by staring at it i believe!
Four men in the history of boxing have been knocked out in the first eleven seconds of the first round.
Not all Golf Balls have 360 dimples. There are some as high as 420. Thereare also all different kinds of dimple patterns.
Bulgaria was the only soccer team in the 1994 World Cup in which all 11 players' last names ended with the letters "OV."
Olympic Badminton rules say that the birdie has to have exactly fourteen feathers.
At 101, Larry Lewis ran the 100 yard dash in 17.8 seconds setting a new world record for runners 100 years old or older. :shock: quicker than me :(
Filipe M.
01-03-06, 12:34 PM
Not all g*lf Balls have 360 dimples. There are some as high as 420. Thereare also all different kinds of dimple patterns.
And why are they dimpled? :D
Not all g*lf Balls have 360 dimples. There are some as high as 420. Thereare also all different kinds of dimple patterns.
And why are they dimpled? :D
aerodynamics. to stop them going too far i believe
sharriso74
01-03-06, 12:44 PM
They actaully go further with dimples than without. Amazing what you end up watching on TV when your suposed to be working from home. Got to love the Discovery channel
They actaully go further with dimples than without. Amazing what you end up watching on TV when your suposed to be working from home. Got to love the Discovery channel
they do nowadays i believe, due to the way the balls are made.
i think when dimples were first introduced it was to stop them going so far.
altho i am no where near confident on that statement, i'm looking at 48-53% confident. tops.
Most animals don't eat moss. It's hard to digest, and it has little nutritional value. But reindeer fill up with lots of moss, because the moss contains a special chemical that helps reindeer keep their body fluids warm. When the reindeer make their yearly journey across the icy Arctic region, the chemical keeps them from freezing-much as antifreeze keeps a car from freezing up in winter.
Wow... :lol:
i was born on my due date
approximately only 5% of babies are born on their exact due date.
chazzyb
01-03-06, 12:58 PM
A metre cubed (m x m x m) of water weights a metric ton*.
*varies slightly with temperature
True at 4 deg Celsius, when water is at its most dense and still liquid.
cosmiccharlie
01-03-06, 01:06 PM
Not all g*lf Balls have 360 dimples. There are some as high as 420. Thereare also all different kinds of dimple patterns.
And why are they dimpled? :D
is it so they leave a good impression if you get in the way off one ??? :lol:
TAXI is spelt the same way in English, French, German, Swedish, Spainish, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, Czech and Portugese.
Ewe and you are pronounced exactly the same yet have no letters in common.
The shortest sentence in the English language is "Go!".
The word "queuing" is the only word in the English language to have five consecutive vowels.
The word "therein" contains thirteen words spelled with consecutive letteres; the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in, therein and herein.
SWIMS is the longest word with 180 degree rotational symetry.
sharriso74
01-03-06, 01:32 PM
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is a phobia of long words
Scooby Drew
01-03-06, 01:48 PM
They actaully go further with dimples than without. Amazing what you end up watching on TV when your suposed to be working from home. Got to love the Discovery channel
Dimples, concave, like those used on a golf ball, are designed to reattach the airflow that moves around the ball as it flies through the air. These dimples allow for further flights of the ball with the same energy input as a ball without dimples.
As far as I remember, designers were looking at putting dimples on the nose of commercial jets...
Pogonophobia is a fear of beards.
Filipe M.
01-03-06, 01:51 PM
They actaully go further with dimples than without. Amazing what you end up watching on TV when your suposed to be working from home. Got to love the Discovery channel
Dimples, concave, like those used on a g*lf ball, are designed to reattach the airflow that moves around the ball as it flies through the air. These dimples allow for further flights of the ball with the same energy input as a ball without dimples.
As far as I remember, designers were looking at putting dimples on the nose of commercial jets...
Precisely! :D Who'd say that the smoothest form isn't always the more efficient aerodinamically? :?
They actaully go further with dimples than without. Amazing what you end up watching on TV when your suposed to be working from home. Got to love the Discovery channel
Dimples, concave, like those used on a g*lf ball, are designed to reattach the airflow that moves around the ball as it flies through the air. These dimples allow for further flights of the ball with the same energy input as a ball without dimples.
As far as I remember, designers were looking at putting dimples on the nose of commercial jets...
Precisely! :D Who'd say that the smoothest form isn't always the more efficient aerodinamically? :?
Car parts as well. Unfortunately, the stylists don't like it.
Scooby Drew
01-03-06, 02:15 PM
They actaully go further with dimples than without. Amazing what you end up watching on TV when your suposed to be working from home. Got to love the Discovery channel
Dimples, concave, like those used on a g*lf ball, are designed to reattach the airflow that moves around the ball as it flies through the air. These dimples allow for further flights of the ball with the same energy input as a ball without dimples.
As far as I remember, designers were looking at putting dimples on the nose of commercial jets...
Precisely! :D Who'd say that the smoothest form isn't always the more efficient aerodinamically? :?
Car parts as well. Unfortunately, the stylists don't like it.
So that's what happened to the VW Golf then- I though it looked a bit smooth
76.23% of all statistics are made up :wink:
76.23% of all statistics are made :wink:
of wood?
76.23% of all statistics are made :wink:
of wood?
Truly and amazing fact.
El Saxo
01-03-06, 02:19 PM
Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
"God Save The Queen" is the only English phrase in common use that utilises the subjunctive.
"God Save The Queen" is the only English phrase in common use that utilises the subjunctive.
i've absolutely no idea what the flip that means
i'd have an easier time of it if you presented me with an engine and said check the valve clearances. :shock:
http://www.engl.virginia.edu/OE/courses/handouts/Subjunctive.html
this should help
tinpants
01-03-06, 11:24 PM
1) Robert Oppenheimer, the guy who invented the atomic bomb and ultimately won WW2 for us, was charged with being a communist during the McCarthy era.
2) The ventilation system used in the gas chambers of Dachau, Treblinka and Auschwitz were designed and built by AEG. The same people who now make 15% of all fridges sold in Israel.
3) The entire population of the world would (theoretically) fit on the Isle of Wight.
4) The film "Full Metal Jacket " was filmed entirely in England. The director, Stanley Kubrick, didn't like flying so he spent more of the film's budget recreating Hue city in London's docklands.
1) A Cat does not have 9 lives...
2) If you see one Magpie... then WOW ... you saw one magpie, no need for sorrow...
3) Gravitey sucks..... It always drags you down.
4) Super Glue was invented to stick skin together for medical reasons...
5) There are 9,000,000 bikes in a song some where...
6) Slugs and Snails and puppy dogs tails, Sugar and Spice and all thing nice... ... I thought it was "when a mummy loves a daddy, the daddy sticks his finger in the mummys ear nine months later ......" that graffiti on thoses school toilet walls was rubbish....
The Basket
02-03-06, 12:14 AM
The phrase the whole nine yards is a military saying.
A WW1 machine gun had a nine yard ammunition belt so to give it the whole nine yards was every round fired in a single burst.
Since I was educated under the metric system, I now have to find out what a yard is...excuse me.
The phrase the whole nine yards is a military saying.
A WW1 machine gun had a nine yard ammunition belt so to give it the whole nine yards was every round fired in a single burst.
Since I was educated under the metric system, I now have to find out what a yard is...excuse me.
I like that one... that will be a future quiz question me thinks....
just found this...
It is said the .50 calibre machine gun ammunition belts in an aircraft of the period measured exactly 27 feet. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, they would say that it got “the whole nine yards”. A merit of this claim is that it would explain why the phrase only began to be recorded after the War.
The fastest currently available production car from 0-60 is the Lamborgini Murcielago, with 3.65secs.
That's the same time as our "budget motorcycle" SV650!
philipMac
02-03-06, 02:36 AM
so... humans:
http://www.ttwebsite.com/features/joeydunlop/joeypics/joeydunloppk.jpg
have basically the same number of genes as a tiny little nematode worm thing that lives in your back garden...
http://madsense5.eng.uci.edu/students/Nahui/nahui_files/image002.jpg
AND, most of the genes in this little yoke do much the same thing in Humans.
(roughly twenty something genes each...)
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6561
philipMac
02-03-06, 02:47 AM
They actaully go further with dimples than without. Amazing what you end up watching on TV when your suposed to be working from home. Got to love the Discovery channel
Dimples, concave, like those used on a g*lf ball, are designed to reattach the airflow that moves around the ball as it flies through the air. These dimples allow for further flights of the ball with the same energy input as a ball without dimples.
As far as I remember, designers were looking at putting dimples on the nose of commercial jets...
Precisely! :D Who'd say that the smoothest form isn't always the more efficient aerodinamically? :?
Car parts as well. Unfortunately, the stylists don't like it.
Some F1 cars have dimples on them AFAIK.
Same goes for hydrodynamics. A lot of the good surf kayaks have dimples along their planeing surfaces, to let the boat slide over the water easier.
Some golf balls are illegal, because they have designed the dimples so well now that they go too far... The idea is, that the dimples sort of cause a little area of turbulance around the ball, this stops "separation", which is the sort of thing that happens when a wing passes through the air. When the air doesnt separate, and tucks in neatly in behind the ball, it causes less drag. So the ball goes further.
Watching TV uses up 50% more calories than sleeping.
If Barbie were lifesize her measurements would be 39-23-33, she would be 7'2" tall and have a neck twice as long as a normal human's.
There isn't a single reference to a cat in the Bible.
The Basenji is the only dog that cannot bark.
Gram for gram, a Bumble Bee is 150 times stronger than an Elephant.
Of all the species of Mammals on the planet, almost a quarter of them are types of Bat.
A Blue Whale's tongue weighs more than an Elephant.
'In one of the bard's best thought of tragedies, our insistent hero, hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten'...
...is actually an anagram of...
... 'To be or not to be; that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune'!
'In one of the bard's best thought of tragedies, our insistent hero, hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten'...
...is actually an anagram of...
... 'To be or not to be; that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune'!
that is awesome
:notworthy:
Gram for gram, a Bumble Bee is 150 times stronger than an Elephant
According to the laws of physics a bumble bee should, in theory, not be able to fly*.
*a common misconception. Actually urban myth. Like me tazering myself.
Cloggsy
02-03-06, 11:43 AM
Gram for gram, a Bumble Bee is 150 times stronger than an Elephant
According to the laws of physics if a bumble bee was the size of an elephant, it should, in theory, not be able to fly*.
*a common misconception. Actually urban myth. Like me tazering myself.
:-k :-s :lol: :lol: :lol:
Balky001
02-03-06, 12:22 PM
Gram for gram, a Bumble Bee is 150 times stronger than an Elephant
According to the laws of physics if a bumble bee was the size of an elephant, it should, in theory, not be able to fly*.
*a common misconception. Actually urban myth. Like me tazering myself.
:-k :-s :lol: :lol: :lol:
although if an elephant was the size of a bumble bee it would be able to fly - but what would it flap?
Samurai
02-03-06, 12:40 PM
Gram for gram, a Bumble Bee is 150 times stronger than an Elephant
According to the laws of physics if a bumble bee was the size of an elephant, it should, in theory, not be able to fly*.
*a common misconception. Actually urban myth. Like me tazering myself.
:-k :-s :lol: :lol: :lol:
although if an elephant was the size of a bumble bee it would be able to fly - but what would it flap?
wether it could fly or not isn't a question, the fact it is as strong as an elephant is.
:-k
The word "queuing" is the only word in the English language to have five consecutive vowels.
Erm...u...e...u...i....hmmm, why does the number 4 spring to mind?
:-k :lol:
wyrdness
02-03-06, 01:35 PM
The word "queuing" is the only word in the English language to have five consecutive vowels.
Erm...u...e...u...i....hmmm, why does the number 4 spring to mind?
:-k :lol:
Euouae has six consecutive vowels and, yes, it is a real word.
Cloggsy
02-03-06, 01:37 PM
'Rhythms' is the only seven letter word in the English language with no vowels :!:
twosizes
02-03-06, 01:40 PM
Hi guys. My first post onto your wonderful sight. Got me test in a couple of weeks time and my silver K2 SV650S with Zorstec can is waiting for me to pick it up straight afterwards!!
As for the penguins-falling-backwards-by-watching-planes, it is indeed completely FALSE.
Did you know the Army's berets are made by Kangol and their shirts by Ben Sherman. Now there's a useful bit of info for you all!!!! :idea:
diamond
02-03-06, 01:47 PM
Did you know the Army's berets are made by Kangol and their shirts by Ben Sherman. Now there's a useful bit of info for you all!!!! :idea:
Yep and then they go and isue you with those nasty Hi-Tec silver shadow trainers, there so wrong. :roll:
mysteryjimbo
02-03-06, 01:47 PM
The word "queuing" is the only word in the English language to have five consecutive vowels.
Erm...u...e...u...i....hmmm, why does the number 4 spring to mind?
:-k :lol:
Euouae has six consecutive vowels and, yes, it is a real word.
Correct spelling of queueing.
Ultrarevolutionaries is a word in which each of the five main vowels occurs twice.
Eunoia, six letters long, is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five main vowels.
Caesious, eight letters long, is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five main vowels in alphabetical order.
More here
http://rinkworks.com/words/oddities.shtml
sharriso74
02-03-06, 01:50 PM
Fanta was originally invented by Max Keith in Germany in 1940 when World War II made it difficult to get the Coca-Cola syrup to Nazi Germany. Fanta was originally made from byproducts of cheese and jam production. The name comes from the German word for imagination (Fantasie or Phantasie), because the inventors thought that imagination was needed to taste oranges from the strange mix.
Can of cheese anyone?
vacuum is the only word in the english language to have consecutive u's
probably
The Basket
02-03-06, 02:25 PM
redivider is the longest word in the english language which is the same forwards as backwards...
Btw...if The Fonz ever wore running shoes, they would be Silver Shads 8)
55378008 typed on a calculator and then held upside down is infact incredibly amusing!
Just me then?
55378008 typed on a calculator and then held upside down is infact incredibly amusing!
Just me then?
8008L355 ?
mysteryjimbo
02-03-06, 03:26 PM
Despite being over 27 times smaller, Norway's total coastline is longer than the USA's.
Most toilets flush in E flat
[quote=K]
The word "queuing" is the only word in the English language to have five consecutive vowels.
Erm...u...e...u...i....hmmm, why does the number 4 spring to mind?
:-k :lol:
Euouae has six consecutive vowels and, yes, it is a real word.
Correct spelling of queueing.
Thankyou - see, never trust a dyslexic to type properly! :wink:
A fact is true whether you like it or not :D
philipMac
02-03-06, 04:23 PM
Most toilets flush in E flat
In the northern or southern hemisphere?
Most toilets flush in E flat
In the northern or southern hemisphere?
they have toilets in the southern hemisphere? :shock:
Carsick
02-03-06, 04:33 PM
Gram for gram, a Bumble Bee is 150 times stronger than an Elephant
According to the laws of physics a bumble bee should, in theory, not be able to fly*.
*a common misconception. Actually urban myth. Like me tazering myself.
That's true if you mean under normal aerodynamics. It's all different at the smaller scale, which is why a bumble bee could indeed fly if it was the size of an elephant.
philipMac
02-03-06, 04:47 PM
Gram for gram, a Bumble Bee is 150 times stronger than an Elephant
According to the laws of physics a bumble bee should, in theory, not be able to fly*.
*a common misconception. Actually urban myth. Like me tazering myself.
That's true if you mean under normal aerodynamics. It's all different at the smaller scale, which is why a bumble bee could indeed fly if it was the size of an elephant.
Except that it couldnt... a bumble bee couldnt even stand up if it was the size of an elephant. Its legs wouldnt even support the wieght.
As you get more massive, you need to be disproportionately stronger to deal with that extra mass. Bees do not scale up. Thats why ants and fleas have all these crazy numbers associated with them wrt strength.
Carsick
02-03-06, 04:49 PM
True.
55378008 typed on a calculator and then held upside down is infact incredibly amusing!
Just me then?
8008L355 ?
Point proved. I'm ****ing myself!
tinpants
02-03-06, 07:35 PM
redivider is the longest word in the english language which is the same forwards as backwards...
Btw...if The Fonz ever wore running shoes, they would be Silver Shads 8)
as well as "rotavator" perhaps?
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