I love useless facts and information, let's hear everyone's.
I will start with a couple
Antartica is the biggest desert in the world
The day on Venus is longer than the year.
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I love useless facts and information, let's hear everyone's.
I will start with a couple
Antartica is the biggest desert in the world
The day on Venus is longer than the year.
Hitler didn't refuse to shake the hand of Jesse Owens as an explicit act of racism. He was advised by the IOC that it was against protocol to congrarulate medal winners after he had congratulated German winners the day before so didn't congratulate any winners the day Owens won his medal.
After each player makes three moves in a chess match there are over 120M possible ways the game can go.
Beam me up Scotty was never said in Star Trek.
My ***** is exactly the same length as two IKEA pencils.
I'm barred from IKEA.
Only one in every hundred people in Jamaica are Rastafarian.
The Slovakian and Slovenian embassays meet once a month to exchange incorrectly addressed mail.
The average man has less than two legs ( it only takes one one-legged man to bring the averages below two).
There are 10 types of people in this world - those who understand binary and those who don't.
For those who love these sorts of facts there is an amazing Podcsst called 'No Such Thing as a fish'. It's the researchers from QI with the useless facts they have found out that week.
Also worth a follow on twitter
For those who love these sorts of facts there is an amazing Podcsst called 'No Such Thing as a fish'. It's the researchers from QI with the useless facts they have found out that week.
Also worth a follow on twitter
If you stretch your intestines out, end to end, along a football pitch, you would die.
Before oxygen was present on the earth the oceans were green.
Tigers have stripped skin as well as stripped hair.
The reason the sky is blue is because of the angle that light is refracted through air.
The reason it can appear red in the evening and in the morning is because it's at a different angle (from our perspective).
If you live in Iceland, its apparently against the law to own a pet dog.
In Britain October is the longest month of the year.
"There's been a murder" was never actually said in Taggart.
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When Clark Gable said "Frankly my dear I don't give a damn" he had to put the emphasis on "give" because "damn" was considered a swear word.
(In Gone With the Wind btw).
The word "gullible" is not in the English Dictionary.
The Earth is closest to the sun in January.
In Iceland your last name is your fathers first name with son on the end or dottir if you're a girl.
The Republic of Ireland only introduced postcodes in 2015.
The word 'hundred' used to mean 120.
There's a gift shop at Guantanamo Bay.
In Chester, a person is permitted to shoot a Welshman with a bow and arrow, as long as he is inside the city walls after midnight.
Except on a Sunday. Obviously...
Kerry Katona doesn't actually own a cat.
Barry Norman never actually said "And why not?"
When Arthur Thomson signed for Hearts he threw away his Hibs scarf.
Andy Halliday could have won the cup but he ****ed it up.
The Cisco Kid's horse was called Diabolo
Pancho's horse was called Loco
Hopalong Cassidy's horse was called Topper
The Range Rider"'s horse was called Rawhide
Tonto's horse was called Scout
Steptoe's horse was called Hercules
13 out of every 13 jambos are cheats
Approximately 40,000 people are bitten by cats in the U.S. annually.
If you were a black widow you would pray for your wife to have a headache every night as the female black widow spider devours her mate after mating. She may be found to devour up to 20 mates in a day.
A full size snooker table has 8 legs and 5 pieces of slate. The cloth is tacked onto softwood that is screwed to the slate, with 5/8 tacks which are left with the head proud so are easy to remove.
A quarter of the worlds Hazlenut production goes into making Nutella.
They say the Romans used urine as toothpaste.
(Personally I think they're talking pi$h :wink:)
If you stick the palm your hand on top of a lit candle after rubbing marmite into your palm it won't burn.
Hampden Park was once the biggest stadium in the world.
Most stadia have their main stand on the west side of the pitch so the toffs don't get dazzled by the sun at 3 pm.
Icelanders drink more coca cola per capita than any other nation (including the USA).
The poor areas of big cities(in the northern hemisphere) tend to be found in the East end. This is due to the prevailing wind generally blowing from West to East - meaning the posh/rich people lived in the West End to avoid the chimney smoke and stench of pollution being blown their way.
The dot in a j or i is called a tittle.
Most barns were painted red because red paint was the cheapest.
The extra mortar that squeezes out when bricklaying is called a snot.
Sitting Bull didn't lead the Sioux at the Little Big Horn - it was Crazy Horse.
Sitting Bull looked after the women & children during the battle.
In bricklaying a half brick is called a half bat, cut it directly at the flug and its called a Queens closure.
The chute that kegs and barrels are used to deliver beer is called a slype.
Scaffolders use fanny clamps.
The passage ( sheep crawl ) on a dry stane dyke is called a lunky hole.
I need to get out more 😮
A brass monkey was a bracket for holding cannonballs on the deck of a ship. When it got cold the brass contracted and the cannonballs fell off.
Hence the phrase "It's f*****g freezing".
Polar bears aren't white.
Their skin is black and their hairs are clear.
God did it, so obvious now! That or comets.
Italian sailors from Genoa where were known as "Genes" by the French wore cotton workpants. These became known as 'a pair of genes' which morphed into 'jeans' in the English language.
Every second of every day an area of rainforest the size of a football pitch is destroyed (80,000 acres a day, an area the size of Scotland & Wales per year).
Many astronomers believed Venus was once inhabited and was a planet of lush vegetation until either technology or a natural disaster created a runaway greenhouse effect which destroyed the planet. No observations were possible of Venus due to the thick cloud that covered the entire planet although the Russians made a couple of lander attempts which results were largely seen as disappointing (this was very much seen as another space race between the US and Russia, the first superpower to find life on another planet). Expectations of finding signs of a previous civilisation were high as Venus fell within the "goldilocks" zone of the sun and therefore evidence of liquid water in the form of dry river systems etc were expected to be found. That is until the early 90's and NASA's Magellon probe sent back radar images of the planets surface which revealed a fairly young looking surface in geological terms (judging by impact craters, an estimated age of 800 million years old) and rivers of lava, lava plains, volcanoes. Thus it was determined life was never, and will never be possible on our closest neighbour.
The football club we know and love does not get its name from anything to do with Ireland. It actually comes from the word hibernate.
It's a well known fact our club goes to sleep in the winter and that's what went wrong last season in our bid for promotion.
Thankfully we woke up in time to win the Cup 😂
Easter Road has nothing to do with the Spring festival.
It was the Eastern Road originally. There was a Western Road which is now Broughton Road & Bonnington Road.
Reykjavik has a salmon river running right through it.
Gangkhar Puensum in Bhutan is the highest (by elevation) unclimbed mountain in the world.
Mountains above 6000M are not allowed to be climbed in Bhutan for religious and traditional reasons.
La Favorita make fresh dough every day.
Repeats of every Top of the Pops featuring The Human League won't be shown on any BBC platform as every episode they appeared on was presented by either Dave Lee Travis or Jimmy Savile.
The Everly Brothers were both left-handed but their father made them play guitar right-handed.
WalMart and McDonalds are the 3rd and 4th largest employers in the world; only the armies of the United States and China employ more people
McDonalds is the world's biggest toy distributor. (Or at least, it used to be!)
Finland drinks more coffee per head of capita than any other country in the world.
Barrs who make irn-bru were founded the same year as Hibs.
Coca-Cola is the number one-selling soft drink everywhere in the world – except in Scotland (and the Middle East) where it's irn-bru.
1 out of 10 Europeans have been conceived on an IKEA bed.
LEGO are the largest tyre manufacturer in the world.
I admit I dont know/didnt know and mine was just a guess........I am genuinely interested in this subject as to how the world changed/evolved. Having religion be the answer to how things are here most of my childhood i love to read and make sense of how things happened from a scientific perspective as apposed to the some magical being in the sky :aok:.
The first club to win the European cup in its present, big eared design was Celtic.
Liverpool are the only British club to have a real European cup in their trophy cabinet. Everyone else has replicas.
Tottenham wanted to wear their brand new, next seasons kit for the 1987 FA cup final against Coventry city. However, nobody noticed that there had been a printing mix-up until shortly before kick off, resulting in half of the players taking to the field with sponsors logos on their shirts while the other half wore blank tops. Holsten were not amused apparently...or were they amused at the publicity?
You decide. :hmmm:
Hungarian Zoltan Czibor has an unusual claim to fame. He scored in both a World Cup Final (1954) and a European Cup Final (1961) but lost both games 3-2, both games were also played in the same stadium - the ****dorf Stadium in Berne.