[Closed] "I didn't know that" of the day:

Similarly Michael Crawford entered a Frank Spencer impersonation contest and came third.

25% of all the world's hazelnuts end up in Nutella

The company which manufactures the largest number of tyres on an annual basis is...

... Lego.

25% of all the world's hazelnuts end up in Nutella

Changed days.....when I was a kid, Cadbury's would take them and cover them in chocolate.

I posted that on another thread a few days ago. (-:

25% of all the world's hazelnuts end up in Nutella

Changed days.....when I was a kid, Cadbury's would take them and cover them in chocolate.

What has a hazelnut in every bite?

Squirrel sh*t.

What has a hazelnut in every bite?

Squirrel sh*t.

A bit of Topical humour there 😉

Roger Moore played Saxophone on Barker Street.

25% of all the world's Nutella ends up in my house.

Spider crabs will outlive me.

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You can get your RDA of vitamin C from just 11 pints of Larger.
Take that scurvy...!

Capt James T Kirk.

T = Tiberius

A bit of Topical humour there

Very good.

I rarely read the names of posters these days anyway, and it's getting to a point where I don't need to.

I think we have one or two Immortal Jellyfish on the forum.

I rarely read the names of posters these days anyway, and it's getting to a point where I don't need to.

I genuinely don't know if i should be flattered or offended by that sentence. 😕

"Hans Rey escaped the Nazis on a bike and then got the Curious George book published which he was carrying as he fled"

No way........

beanum - Member
If we're doing French then I found out this week that "filer à l’anglaise" is the French expression for dropping a shoulder or sneaking out without saying goodbye

And we (Brits) call sneaking away a French exit...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's surname was Doyle's, not Conan Doyle. Conan was his middle name.
Henry the Eighth's middle name was "the".

Capt James T Kirk.

T = Tiberius

Benoit B Mandelbrot

B= Benoit B Mandelbrot

Spider crabs will outlive me.

Looking at lifespans of Mammals - they all have approximately the same number of heartbeats in their natural lifespan - Elephants live for about 70 years, and Elephant Shrew will live for about a year and a half but they'll both have about 1 Billion heartbeats during those lifespans. So the Shrew is living living faster and thats why its dying younger.

The exception is humans who have about double the number of heartbeats in a lifespan

The exception is humans who have about double the number of heartbeats in a lifespan

This is especially true of the Pet Shop Boys and Nick Berry.

This is [s]especially[/s]unfortunately true of the Pet Shop Boys and Nick Berry

The top 10% of the richest people in England,own 90% of the red trousers

boxelder - Member
"Hans Rey escaped the Nazis on a bike and then got the Curious George book published which he was carrying as he fled"

No way...

Knowing that they must escape before the Nazis took power, [u]Hans cobbled together two bicycles out of spare parts.[/u] Early in the morning of June 14, 1940, the Reys set off on their bicycles. They brought very little with them on their predawn flight — only warm coats, a bit of food, [u]and five manuscripts, one of which was Curious George.[/u] The Nazis entered Paris just hours later, but the Reys were already on their way out. [u]They rode their makeshift bicycles for four long days until reaching the French-Spanish border, where they sold them for train fare to Lisbon.[/u] From there they made their way to Brazil and on to New York City, beginning a whole new life as children’s book authors.

About H. A. and Margret Rey

maccruiskeen - Member

Benoit B Mandelbrot

B= Benoit B Mandelbrot

That's a good one, plus it's still funny even if you don't get the actual joke, bonus points for inclusiveness.

Benoit B Mandelbrot

B= Benoit B Mandelbrot

Mandelbrot didn't actually have a middle name. He inserted the B. to sound interesting. Having it stand for Benoit... etc is speculation rather than fact, but I so want it to be true.

Viagra was actually initially developed as a treatment for low blood pressure.

But Pfizer thought there might be a stiffer market for the side effects

This is especially true of the Pet Shop Boys and Nick Berry.

But not Joe Cocker.

Poor guy.

If PI, was a nice round number, would we still need leap years ?

And we call sneaking away a Brexit.

Viagra was actually initially developed as a treatment for low blood pressure.

Well if you wanted to kill the patient then maybe. It lowers blood pressure and therefore would be a very bad thing to take should you already have low blood pressure. It was actually developed for angina. We did the launch to the Pfizer UK sales team many years ago in Vilamoura and spent a good few hours stuck at Lisbon airport with the lead researcher on the way back. I recall the lighting tech asking him what effect it had on women's nipples as they also contained erectile tissue. They hadn't actually considered it so he was going to go back and find out if any of the women on the original angina trial had reported any side effects.

If PI, was a nice round number, would we still need leap years ?

Viagra was originally designed to prevent patients from accidentally rolling out of bed.

Well if you wanted to kill the patient then maybe. It lowers blood pressure and therefore would be a very bad thing to take should you already have low blood pressure.

Fair enough avdave. It was a half remembered fact. I remember it was originally intended as another treatment altogether. I really didn't want to google Viagra while at work!

I stand corrected

richmtb - Member
Well if you wanted to kill the patient then maybe. It lowers blood pressure and therefore would be a very bad thing to take should you already have low blood pressure.
Fair enough avdave. It was a half remembered fact. I remember it was originally intended as another treatment altogether. I really didn't want to google Viagra while at work!

I stand [s]corrected[/s] proudly, in an upright manner FTFY 😉

I stand errected

When originally surveyed, Everest was calculated to be exactly 29000ft high. However, as this sounded like too much of a rounded approximation, it's height was reported as 29002ft, which sounded more precise.

It's also getting taller.

bananas are radioactive 😯

Yeah, it's now 29029ft, which is also a bit of a coincidental height.

It was a half remembered fact.

Well to be fair they are the best type, alternative facts with integrity if you like.

"bananas are radioactive"

As are Brazil nuts. Apparently if you walked into Sellafield with a pocket full of them they would set the high radiation alarms off.

Another good Brazil nut fact, in Brazil they just call them nuts.

EDIT - ignore me, I'm talking rubbish

Another good Brazil nut fact, in Brazil they just call them nuts.

I recently discovered that Hugo Boss designed the Nazi uniform