[Closed] Uninteresting facts

Green Day's hit album, Dookie, was remixed twice prior to release.

(if that website is to be trusted) disappointingly, there is a (single) tube station with none of the letters of "shithole"

It's Bank - curiously the station where I'd expect to find the majority of shits 😉

I can believe it's not butter

Mainly because it's not butter

Being a professional cycling heretic, I run a pair of tubeless road wheels, with tubes!

I still have my first pair of after market MTB wheels.

There is one TTD scotch egg in my fridge at home.

the word 'turn' has 288 definitions in English which would be more interesting if there weren't 5 other words which have quite a lot more definitions than that

Mogrim, I read something somewhere (can't find it now) that the worlds supply of Botox is made from something daft like one gram and it costs trillions to manufacture.

May have qty's wrong but I is indeed the most expensive substance on the planet to manufacture.

If you stand at the bottom of the tower in the Palace of Westminster that holds Big Ben (Queen Elizabeth Tower, I think it's called), listening to the chimes of Big Ben on Radio 4 (which are broadcast live), you'll hear them on your radio before you hear them from the bell itself.

Not if it's a DAB radio 🙂

Yesterday i got wet riding to work and had no spare pants so I went commando all day.

Today I am wearing pants.

As a teenager I was invited to train with the British Olympic Cross Country Skiing development squad, despite barely being able to ski (they were desperate). I didn't go.

Mogrim, I read something somewhere (can't find it now) that the worlds supply of Botox is made from something daft like one gram and it costs trillions to manufacture.

May have qty's wrong but I is indeed the most expensive substance on the planet to manufacture.

Ha, now it's an interesting fact so even if correct, you lose 😀

Had a bit of a google - it's better than working - and you're correct. Loser.

There's only one number where the letters are in alphabetical order... and I'm not going to tell you which one it is 🙂

"Knightsbridge" contains the longest consonant cluster in the English language.

There are 6 toilets on the first floor of Bolagna airport.

g and h come before i in the alphabet squidlord. So it's not eight 🙂

The longest word you can type on a single row of keys on a standard QWERTY keyboard is "typewriter"

forty!!!!! I win!!!!!

<hang on best double check - phew>

Yeah, Wooooh!

There is a reflective strip of material placed on the dial face, under the needle of a gauge, to assist the reader in avoiding parallax error.

[i] franksinatra - Member
Today I am wearing pants[/i]

I can see that, you're wearing them on your head.
FACT!

Smatkins - yes, realised as soon as I saw it written down. But you were too quick for me!

My first name is an anagram of the town where i was born

Sainsburys tinned mackerel in spicy tomato sauce, is indeed spicy.

The French call paperclips "les trombones" because they look like little trombones...

molgrips - Member
I can only think of two ways to pronounce slough?

Slew (through)
Sluff (rough)
Slaw (bough)

If this is just "ways -ough is pronounced" then there's more than that.

How about:

Sloff (cough)
slow (though)

and, er, the way that "Slough" is usually pronounced, which I would personally think rhymes with "bough" - not sure who pronounces "bough" in a way that rhymes with "slaw"?

Oh, and simply, "Sluh" as in "borough"

EDIT: We used to have an English teacher called Mr Clough who's name we delighted pronouncing in all of the above ways, and probably a few more that I've since forgotten. There, now that's properly boring.

Elton John's middle name is "Hercules."

[b]They[/b] said it was going to be sunny all day,[b]they[/b] lied.

[i] ,they lied.[/i]
They always do.

Darth Vader is the OP's father!

Elton John is shit. Now [i]that [/i]is a fact.

Hercules middle name is reg dwight!,...lol

There is no such thing as a "seagull" (yawn)

The little bit on the end of a shoelace is called an aglet (double yawn)

[i] cheekyget - Member
Hercules middle name is reg dwight!,...lol[/i]

That's two names!

The opposite of disgruntled is not gruntled

There is one football team in Britain (maybe the whole world)whose name is mentioned in the bible

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, was just called "Star Wars" when it came out - they added the rest when they were making Empire Strikes Back.

George Lucas has said that he wrote this huge multi-generational story in the mid 70's but thought chapter 4 was the most complete so many the first film based on that - but he was lying.

There is one football team in Britain (maybe the whole world)whose name is mentioned in the bible

I've always though Charlton Heston was quite athletic. Do I win Five pounds?

Every place I visited (in UK) MUST serve fish and chips, otherwise it's a dump. Fact! 😆

When required to do so, I use a Rotring 800 l, 0.5mm.

There is one football team in Britain (maybe the whole world)whose name is mentioned in the bible

It's either Stoke or Dagenham & Redbridge

Ha, now it's an interesting fact so even if correct, you lose

Had a bit of a google - it's better than working - and you're correct. Loser.

It's not my fact, there's got to be a bit of win in there somewhere. 🙂

Elton John is shit.

Not shit. Just a little bit funny.

Pesto is named after its primary ingredient, pests. Mostly Greenfly, these give Pesto its rich green colour.

There are only two countries in the world whos name begins with the letter A but doesn't end in A.

Pi r squared?

Don't think so.....

Pi r round! steak bake r squared.

IGMC

Afghanistan.
Azerbaijan.

BigButSlimmerBloke - Member
There is one football team in Britain (maybe the whole world)whose name is mentioned in the bible

Hearts, Wolves, Bury, Queen of the South, Hammers, Spurs, Arsenal, Corinthians, there are more.

Pi r squared?

Don't think so.....

Pi r round! steak bake r squared.

IGMC

If you have a pizza of radius "z" and thickness "a", its volume can be calculated with the formula pi.z.z.a

The longest palindromic word in the Oxford English Dictionary is the onomatopoeic tattarrattat, coined by James Joyce in Ulysses (1922) for a knock on the door.

the 'Candle in the Wind' that Elton John released and promoted as a charity record in commemoration of Princess Di's untimely demise was actually a double A side and he took all the money for the other, generic crappy Elton John song on the AA side.