so i was told...(and im sure there's plenty of people on here to put me right..)..there no word in welsh for brown.it exixts in english but not the welsh language.
so i was told.
Thomas Crapper did not, in fact, invent the modern bog though he did draw up the original plans for the Rover 25
[i]finbar - that can't be right, sorry. Got a source?
EDIT: The greyhound thing I mean [/i]
Funnily enough, i heard it on a Radio 4 program this very week which was entirely about useless trivia. It was on yesterday afternoon - well worth a listen.
All facts on STW are in fact true
On the STW Classifieds selling 2 items together is classed as a huge clearout
finbar - that's where my Bernard Manning fact came from 🙂
Must've missed the greyhound one - sounds like they might have stretched the truth a bit 🙂
Hugo Boss designed the uniforms for the SS.
Gullible is the only word used in the English language not to appear in the dictionary.
My dad was stationed in Spandau prison in the early 1960's, and may therefore have met Bernard Manning. He never talked about it when 'Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club' was on though.
Steam trains where invented about 30 years before pedal powered bicycles.
The fax machine was invented before the telephone was invented.
84% of respondants on this thread have watched re-runs of QI on Dave in the last week.
Steam trains where invented about 30 years before pedal powered bicycles.
A bit more than that I believe. Trevithick's locomotive 1804. The Penny Farthing 1871. No ? Or was there something before the Penny Farthing ?
I'm irresistable to women,
they just haven't realised yet!!
A bit more than that I believe. Trevithick's locomotive 1804. The Penny Farthing 1871. No ? Or was there something before the Penny Farthing ?
Kirkpatrick Macmillan invented the first pedal bike in 1839 ,so I am led to believe everytime I visit Drumlanrig.
'Kirkpatrick Macmillan invented the first pedal bike in 1839'
Is an odd fact which I learned this week.
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I actually think someone else beat Macmillan to it by a few years - but I forget who it is now, I was in the transport museum in glasgow trying to sober up.
Gullible is the only word used in the English language not to appear in the dictionary.
Theres not point telling some gullible that the word gullible isn't in the dictionary, because they won't look, they'll just take your word for it. "Skeptic" isn't in the dictionary though.
Maggie Thatcher was part of the team at Lyons that came up with 'Mr Whippy' aerated ice cream, thus selling less for more and increasing the profit margins of the evil ice cream producing bourgeoisie at the expense of the overheated working classes. 😀
It's not as good an idea as you might think at the time to try and "improve" your wireless connectivity at the same time as opening a second bottle of wine.
whyte 19 carbon races in large are hard to find
did you know 141% of all statistic's are made up!
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
A mongoose is a duck with eiderdown syndrome.
I learned this weekend that Bernie Mac, of Ocean's 11, 12, 13, his own show and numerous other vehicles, died last year. I did not know that.
I also learned (but not this week) that pistachios are classified as dangerous cargo - if you have sufficient of them together, they may spontaneously combust, and will release carbon dioxide. Very strange
elephants are the only mammal to have a prehensile penis...
According to the Kinsey Institute, the biggest erect penis on record measures 13 inches. The smallest tops off at 1 3/4 inches.
but they all had minds of their own
[i]The smallest tops off at 1 3/4 inches. [/i]
Yeah, keep that ruler away from me.
I learned this:
“practice” is the noun, “practise” the verb
I always assumed that "practise" was just another americanism creeping into everyday use.
Yes WackoAK, just like licence and license.
The only way I can remember is the frankly awful "you can't see a verb but you can C a noun"
Come Together by The Beatles was actually about the beatles themselves.
holy roller - George
ono sideboards - John
got to be good looking cos he's so hard to see - Ringo
he say i know you, you know me - Paul
Read it in a book.
A giraffe can clean out its ears with its own tongue.
I clicked once, dammit!
The smallest consecrated church in the world is just around the corner from my house
[i]The universal gravity constant G is 6.67E-11 to three significant figures. Taking this and the distance of the sun from the earth into account you are about 100g heavier at night than at midday.
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Curious Orange... I'm going to have to dig out the calculator for this tomorrow but I can't see how it could be true. Do you have a source?
All facts on STW are in fact true
only if the post claiming the fact ends with FACT.
So you're wrong - FACT
All facts on STW are in fact true
only if the post claiming the fact ends with FACT.
So you're wrong - FACT
..and posting twice isn't because I'm useless at this, it's just emphasizing my rightness and your wrongness
..FACT
"[b]you are about 100g heavier at night than at midday[/b]".Curious Orange... I'm going to have to dig out the calculator for this tomorrow but I can't see how it could be true.
I reckon it's true - I always feel a bit heavier at night.
I'm surprised it's only 100g though.
Consecrated Church...just add holy water.
To curious orange:
Sir, I owe you a grovelling apology. I've just done the maths and assuming that for a person weighing 100kg, they appear to weigh 125g less at midnight than at midday. It's a bit quick and dirty but I simply calculated the force due to gravity from the sun and doubled it.
Eee, I'm right pleased I worked that out. 🙂
pie chart predates florence knightingale by 19 years according to wiki: FACT
You can't eat a gravy ring without liking your lips. FACTOID.
Cats can get decked by birds.
Nearly got taken off my bike last night by 3 young blackbirds chasing down a cat. They were making a really odd, menacing chirping noise too. Still, that'll teach the cat to try and eat the birds.
