Forum menu
african or european?
I have more than the average number of legs but less than the average number of ankles.
IPA = India Pale Ale
Berkshire != Berk - It is pronounced Barkshire so you would be a bark which you aren't
From memory, IPA was developed to be strong enough to make the journey to India before going off and it got lighter during the trip. Iso alcohol would have made drinkers blind.
Anyway, for an actual fact, how about nuclear fuel doesn't glow green, it's actually blue (or it is in water anyway).
An average of 1,679 shipping containers are lost at sea each year
That's what the insurance companies are told. I bet there's a few that go missing elsewhere.
Berkshire != Berk – It is pronounced Barkshire so you would be a bark which you aren’t
Already covered that, it's Berkley.
Besides which, pronunciation is in the mouth of the pronouncer, or something. Londoners call me a cant, I'm fairly sure that's not how its spelt.
Besides besides which, who's to say it's taken from spoken words rather than written?
Besides besides besides which, it could well have been pronounced 'bark' and corrupted over time as the etymology was largely forgotten.
If you hold a bullet in one hand and a gun horizontally in the other at the same height, drop the bullet and fire the gun simultaneously, both bullets will hit the ground at the same time
More on the Eiffel Tower.
Photos of the Eiffel Tower taken at night are subject to copyright law.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/illegal-photos-eiffel-tower-night_l_5c38bf78e4b0c469d76d9eb1
But you can fill your boots with photos of it taken during the day.
Purple is not an actual colour.
There's a Sumerian cuneiform tablet that on one side has some dull shit about a corn delivery and a credit note, and on the other a joke about a wife farting while sat on her husbands lap. Written 5000 or so years ago, it's the oldest know joke
I'd have loved to be in the room when that was translated for the first time 😀
When Stonehenge and the Pyramids were built. There were still woolly mammoths living in Alaska and Russia.
Also on a related theme, Musk Ox, are more closely related to sheep and goats than Oxen.
Liquid oxygen is a blue colour.
If you hold a bullet in one hand and a gun horizontally in the other at the same height, drop the bullet and fire the gun simultaneously, both bullets will hit the ground at the same time
Urban myth. If nothing else the curvature of the Earth means the fired bullet has further to drop.
'Nuclear war' in Samoan is 'taua faaniukilia'
The 2 atomic bombs dropped on Japan were dropped 3 days apart.
In every glass of water there will be molecules that Jesus was washed with.
This one felt unbelievable:The air within the Eifel Tower weighs as much as the steel it’s built with.
But it too is sort of correct. Apparently to be properly accurate, the statement is the mass of air contained within a cylinder large enough to contain the Eifel tower but that’s a bit wordy.
Related, the air inside the Millenium Dome weighs more than the dome itself.
https://www.ice.org.uk/what-is-civil-engineering/what-do-civil-engineers-do/millennium-dome
Mary Queen of Scots had a polo mallet made from a narwhals tusk.
She never lost a match.
If you run a rope on the ground all the way around the world (it floats in the sea dunnit) and back to the start, and then run another rope directly above it at waist height (say 1m) all the way around the world (this one just floats dunnit), the second rope is only 6 and a bit metres longer than the first. No replies about oblate spheres please.
In every glass of water there will be molecules that Jesus was washed with
Bollocks, he was just a bloke in a story.
When Stonehenge and the Pyramids were built. There were still woolly mammoths living in Alaska and Russia.
Speaking of Pyramids.
Whilst Egypt is known for "The Pyramids', Sudan has nearly twice as many. In fact there are a LOT more Pyramids around than most people think. Thousands of them, big and small have been discovered, lost, destroyed and reclaimed by nature in the last few hundred years.
The oldest Pyramid is from around 2630BC, the 'newest' probally around 900AD. The Woolly Mammoths lived from around 1.8 million years ago to about 10000BC, but indeed 2 small groups survived until about 2000BC, so for a 'short' 600 year ish period whilst some humans were fitting up early Pyramids, there were a Mammoths roaming the frozen north of Earth.
If the entirety of the internet was weighed, it would weigh approximately 2 ounces.
The human brain is the only organ to have named itself.
Every day someone unwittingly does the longest poo in the world for that day.
There are more plastic flamingos in the world than real ones.
My Kid is off with Covid, so weve been listening to a bit of cebeebies radio this afternoon.
This afternoons great fact:
The inventor of Braille, (Louis Braille) started on it when he was 12 and was finished perfecting it by the time he was 15.
if you’re elbows weren’t in the middle of your arms, you couldn’t feed yourself.
if you’re elbows weren’t in the middle of your arms, you couldn’t feed yourself
You could, just not as easily with you hands, but still not hard.
Science has proven you can change the outcome of something that has already happened.
Whilst Egypt is known for “The Pyramids’, Sudan has nearly twice as many. In fact there are a LOT more Pyramids around than most people think.
The reason there are so many pyramids in Egypt, South America and elsewhere is because they are all to heavy to carry to the British Museum.
The reason there aren't more Egyptian Mummies in museums in Egypt, the British Museum or anywhere else in the world is because between the 16th and 19th centuries is was more fashionable in Britain to eat them than put them in a museum - and we ate thousands.
We also ground them up to make paint and you'll more likely see an Egyptian mummy in an art gallery than a museum as it was a key ingredient in brown paint from the 1800s. 'Mummy Brown' was still for sale in uk art shops into 20th century - Robertsons of London was still selling it in the 1960s.
an Egyptian mummy - mmmmm - looks good enough to eat.
In every glass of water there will be molecules that Jesus was washed with
Bollocks, he was just a bloke in a story.
In every glass of water there will be molecules that Jesus washed his bollocks with.
Another pyramid one, the Great Pyramid of Giza used to be the tallest building in the world.
Lincoln cathedral took the title from it, 3,500 years later!
its impossible to measure the coastline of Britain let alone the world – the more accurately to measure the coast the longer it gets.
Fractal, innit.
the ‘B’ in ‘Benoit B Mandelbrot’ stands for ‘Benoit B Mandelbrot’ and the ‘B’ in ‘Benoit B Mandelbrot’ stands for ‘Benoit B Mandelbrot and the ‘B’ in ‘Benoit B Mandelbrot’ stands for ‘Benoit B Mandelbrot and the ‘B’ in ‘Benoit B Mandelbrot’ stands for ‘Benoit B Mandelbrot….
We should call this something.
Recursive.
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/recursive
How would we know?
Extrapolation? If you fire a gun, you might not be able to see the bullet but you could work out how far it went.
Geometry - providing you know he angle that the barrel was pointing, the trajectory is a parabola..
The explanation as I understand it is that the North facing thing is to orientate the dog to its surroundings
The origin of the word 'orientate' is that some of the first maps were made by Islamic cartographers, so they put Mecca at the top. Maps of Western Europe therefore had East at the top, hence Orient-ate.
650b and 26" are exactly the same size. Rims, forks and tyres are interchangeable. Due to strong marketing, everyone was convinced and went out to buy new stuff. Absolutely no one bothered to check.😉
The quote by John Lennon about Ringo not being a very good drummer, not even the best drummer in The Beatles is bogus. It’s actually a joke by Jasper Carrott, that’s been wrongly attributed to Lennon for years.
650b and 26″ are exactly the same size. Rims, forks and tyres are interchangeable. Due to strong marketing, everyone was convinced and went out to buy new stuff. Absolutely no one bothered to check
Yeah, right. My first grown-up bike had 27.5” rims, as did most bikes back then, it was the standard touring wheel size. It’s now referred to as 650b.
Purple is not an actual colour.
Neither is brown. It's a hue of orange.
"Urban myth. If nothing else the curvature of the Earth means the fired bullet has further to drop."
If you fired a bullet with a tiny amount of charge in the cartridge so that it only travelled about 20 feet, you could conduct that experiment indoors with a perfectly level floor.
Or you could trust Galileo, who conducted the same experiment with canon balls fired with small amounts of gunpowder 500 years ago.
It’s actually a joke by Jasper Carrott, that’s been wrongly attributed to Lennon for years.
Weirder than that: It's actually a joke on a radio sketch show called Radio Active in 1981 that was wrongly attributed to Jasper Carrot, wrongly attributed to Lennon.
If you hold a bullet in one hand and a gun horizontally in the other at the same height, drop the bullet and fire the gun simultaneously, both bullets will hit the ground at the same time
In a vacuum, yes.
In the real world, no.
Because lots of complicated reasons...
https://www.wired.com/2009/10/mythbusters-bringing-on-the-physics-bullet-drop/
The B in Benoit B Mandelbrot is short for Bennet B Mandelbot. The B in Bennet B Mandelbot is short for Benny B Mandelrot. The B in Benny B Mandelrot is short for Benji B Mandelnot...
Weirder than that: It’s actually a joke on a radio sketch show called Radio Active in 1981 that was wrongly attributed to Jasper Carrot, wrongly attributed to Lennon.
Even weirder still it was actually George Harrison's joke that was wrongly to a Radio Active sketch in 1981 that was wrongly attributed to Jasper Carrot that was wrongly attributed to Lennon. A rare bootleg recording 'Here Comes the Sun' performed live in Japan in 1992 features a long, expletive ridden tirade about the whole situation between the second verse and the chorus that left the audiences in bewildered silence - it was edited out of the official release. The fact that it was edited out made him even more angry.
Most images you associate with the Mandebrot set don't show the Mandelbrot set.
Haven't got an interesting fact but this was an awesome thread to read!
Tri-color cats are female only.
Musk Ox, are more closely related to
sheep and goatsElon than Oxen.
Fixed that for you...
Those ‘salted peanuts’ (KP etc) that are advertised as ‘roasted’ are actually deep-fried in oil.
