INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY

Originally Posted by The Basket

Life Expectancy in medieval England was about 30 years old!

The Black Death (1340's)was supposed to have killed a third of the British Isles population.

The 21st Century don't seem so bad now.

At what age did you get toretire back then?

Originally Posted by Tim in Belgium

At what age did you get toretire back then?

The Life span of a man has in fact hardly changed since roman times. Over 70 years of age and a bit more. Just that not many people made it in the 1400's.

Ever wondered why in the English language "yacht" isn't spelt "yot" ?

Its cos its not really English at all but a *******ization of the Dutch word "Jacht" which means "hunt"

Light fast sailing ships (Jachts) where originally used by the Dutch Navy for pursuing Pirates.

Originally Posted by alpinestarhero

Oh, todays Fact Of The Day: Water can be used as a fuel, apparently. I dont know how. But it can.

Um

Not.

In theory, it's steam pressure, so why not? How efficient it would be to run the system from a battery, and charge the battery by the same system (ala a modern petrol engine) I'm not sure.

But looky here

Originally Posted by The Basket

The Life span of a man has in fact hardly changed since roman times. Over 70 years of age and a bit more. Just that not many people made it in the 1400's.

All that money on the NHS wasted then

[Stingo]

Something I found out today...


Farms - why is the yard etc concrete as opposed to tarmac?


Because cow dung 'rots' the tarmac!!


I was not aware of that

in Georgia............

No one may carry an ice cream cone in their back pocket if it is Sunday.

Originally Posted by hovi5

in Georgia............

No one may carry an ice cream cone in their back pocket if it is Sunday.

i couldn't carry an ice cream cone in my back pocket any day of the week, wherever i am ....my jeans are too tight

Here's something interesting I found on the new scientist website today; a microwave iiradiation "gun", developed by the US military...

http://www.newscientisttech.com/arti...n-by-2010.html

Matt

The Beach Boys, who were considered to be the "Kings of California Surfing, started a national surfing craze in the early the states in the 1960's. Four of the original members of the band knew nothing about surfing and the only one that did, drowned in 1983.