A metre cubed (m x m x m) of water weights a metric ton*.

*varies slightly with temperature

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 :(

And why are they dimpled? :D

aerodynamics. to stop them going too far i believe

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.

True at 4 deg Celsius, when water is at its most dense and still liquid.

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.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is a phobia of long words

As far as I remember, designers were looking at putting dimples on the nose of commercial jets...

Pogonophobia is a fear of beards.

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:

of wood?

Truly and amazing fact.

Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

"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/cour...bjunctive.html

this should help

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 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!

so... humans:
http://www.ttwebsite.com/features/jo...eydunloppk.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/student...s/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

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'!

that is awesome

:notworthy:

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.

:-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

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.