According to Wiki the Victoria line as used by passengers is entirely underground, but a branch from Seven Sisters to a depot isn't underground.Quote:
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According to Wiki the Victoria line as used by passengers is entirely underground, but a branch from Seven Sisters to a depot isn't underground.Quote:
Originally Posted by AltheHibby
Thanks. That explains my confusion.Quote:
Originally Posted by nonshinyfinish
I asked the wife if she wanted her pizza cut into 6 or 8 pieces, she said 6 as she couldn't eat 8.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stubbsy90+2
The first Monday in May became a public holiday in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 1978.
Scotland, has had it on its calendars since 1871 as one of the original bank holidays!
The Maldives once arrested a coconut on suspicion of spying.
The music used in the “You wouldn’t steal a car” anti piracy adverts that appeared in DVDs was stolen and a pay out was required to the composer.
Did it turn out that it did it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
BountyQuote:
Originally Posted by Stairway 2 7
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Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
Would have been a mutiny on it
Bet it never cracked under questioning.Quote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
My mistake - it was the Maldives! Edited post.
I've been in Tenerife the past week and thought us Scots were getting a rather warm welcoming embrace.
Beside the EU flag and the Spanish flag all over the island there was the Saltire flying proudly along side.
Turns out Tenerife and Scotland share the same Patron Saint and flag.
They're still very welcoming 😀
Cs tenerifes badge is a saltire and they have had a number of saltire strips like this oneQuote:
Originally Posted by Jack
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.footyheadlines.com/8957979960510825152/
Matches were invented after the cigarette lighter was invented.
In Australia there was a popular brand of matches called “Red Heads”. Entrepreneur Dick Smith wanted a part of that market and released “Dick Head matches” which went on to be very popular.Quote:
Originally Posted by overdrive
It seems Stephen K Amos was indeed correct, there was a brand of cheddar cheese in Australia called Coon cheese which has recently been rebranded as CHEER.
It's legal in the UK to allow children as young as 5 to drink alcohol at home.
Always said my Dad is a good lad! 😆Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
In 1999, a team led by Lena Hau managed to slow light down to 38mph.
When i sat my licensee test, i'm sure they said you could serve beer or porter to 5 year olds in a pub, as long as they were eating?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
I've never seen it put to the test. :greengrin
The word SWIMS upside-down is still SWIMS.
Depends what you mean by upside down. If you just flip it vertically then you get 5MIW5.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack
We live closer in time to T-Rex than T-Rex lived to a Stegosaurus.
Been listening to a lot of podcasts recently around the cosmos and time and it really is mind blowing!
There are more than twice as many cells in any Excel tab than there are people on Earth. If you put a single character in the very bottom right cell print preview says you need to print over 38 million pages.
Yes, you're right, I need a life
Is it worse that I know without checking that it's 2^20 rows and 2^14 columns?Quote:
Originally Posted by AltheHibby
Kangaroos have three legs, and the only time they use them independently is whilst swimming.
16,384 columnsQuote:
Originally Posted by nonshinyfinish
1,048,576 rows
That's on my work PC.
Amazing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Godsahibby
What podcasts are you listening to without hijacking the thread?
Startalk with Nigel degrasse Tyson is a great listen.Quote:
Originally Posted by sleeping giant
Stolen from BBC drive time today
Sevilla FC was duly formed on 25 January 1890 while a group of young British, mainly Scots, along with other young men of Spanish origin, celebrated Burns Night in Seville.
Turning your phone round is upside down. When I do that I read SWIMS. Good enough for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by nonshinyfinish
Depends what you mean by turning round. When I turn my phone round I read the back of my phone.Quote:
Originally Posted by WeeRussell
Yes, their first game was reported in the dundee newspaper at the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Whizz
Hermit Crab is in fact, a Hibs fan.
This must be nonsenseQuote:
Originally Posted by Hermit Crab
You've taken that too far... its only facts were dealing with on this thread!Quote:
Originally Posted by Hermit Crab
:greengrin
There are more LEGO™ people/figurines on earth than Humans.
The average person living in a first world country will spend 6 months of their life waiting at traffic lights, if they are from Edinburgh it's about a year :greengrin
The cornea of the eye is the only body part that doesn't have a blood supply, it gets oxygen directly from air.
Lego is also the world's largest tyre manufacturer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oscar T Grouch
A Jerusalem Artichoke isn’t from Jerusalem and is not an artichoke.
The platforms in Waverley are infact layed out in a sensible order.
What is it then :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Colr
A variety of sunflower.Quote:
Originally Posted by HibbyAndy
:aok:Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
Learn something new every day :greengrin
Is that not like saying a strawberry is a rose or whatever family it belongs to?Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
No not really, the 'artichoke' is the root of the wild sunflower (not the ones grown for seeds and oil, wild sunflower has smaller flowers, not as tall) so it is actually part of a sunflower plant. also called a sunroot or earth apple.Quote:
Originally Posted by Killiehibbie
Interestingly enough an actual artichoke is a member of the thistle family of plants, it is essentially the bud of the flower of the cynnara (sp) thistle. The onopordum thistle is the one we know as the Scots Thistle.
It is a criminal offence in Texas to own more than six dildos but you can own unlimited guns
I should've paid more attention during botany lessons.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oscar T Grouch
Men or women?Quote:
Originally Posted by overdrive
After walking on the moon, Buzz Aldrin got a job at a Cadillac dealership as a salesman but failed to sell a single car.
Hampden used the same pair of goalposts from 1903 all the way up to 1987
Longer record than Wembley managedQuote:
Originally Posted by .Sean.
Didn't they only get changed as they were square? Round ones were installed as the laws changed?Quote:
Originally Posted by .Sean.
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Square goalposts were much better, not the best if you smashed into one mind you ☹️Quote:
Originally Posted by Kato
There is more ways to arrange a deck of cards than there is atoms on earth.
If you shuffle a deck of cards, the chances are it's the only time that combination of cards are in that order.
That's classQuote:
Originally Posted by Hibee87
Just googled that - Apparently 8 followed by 67 zeros …ways to sort a deck of cards ..incredible number thatQuote:
Originally Posted by Hibee87
A ridiculously large number. But if you times it by zero you also get the number of trophies Craig levein has won in his playing and managerial careerQuote:
Originally Posted by bigwheel
I just fact checked that one and its true.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stairway 2 7
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I really enjoy my history, and found a new channel on Youtube called Epic History TV.
Currently working through a Napoleonic Wars series, and the numbers are just horrendous.
One battle: 13,000 dead on the French side, 5,000 on the Allied side.
The Seige of Seville was 2.5 years long.
Koalas have pretty much identical fingerprints to humans and even under microscope they are indistinguishable from human prints.
So if you want to commit a burglary, get a koala as your accomplice.
Sounds great. Subscribed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jones28
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All polar bears are Irish!
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Originally Posted by Hibbyradge
Please explain (and I so want this to be true)
It's a long way from the Arctic to Tipperary, but scientists have discovered polar bears can trace their family tree to Ireland. Genetic evidence shows they are descended from Irish brown bears that lived during the last ice age.Quote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
Modern polar bears share a distinct DNA sequence, passed down the female line, with their now extinct brown ancestors. However, the same DNA fingerprint is absent from other species of brown bear alive today.
It is thought the link arose from interbreeding between prehistoric polar bears and female brown bears when their paths crossed as the Irish climate cooled.
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Conrad Logan supports this fact!Quote:
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Hampden Stadium is named after an Englishman.
The band Pulp have been active over six different decades.
Cass Eliot & Keith Moon both died in the same room 4 years apart in an apartment in London's Mayfair owned by Harry Nilsson
Diehard films are a diary of Bruce willis' hair loss
Apologies for reviving an old thread but I just learned that Toni Basil was actually 39 when "Mickey" was recorded... meaning that she is now 80 years old!
Just didn't think I could hear that and not pass it on.
I hate you now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Smartie
Heard Johnnie Walker say this the other day. At first, I thought he was havering, or that I had misheard.
The act with the most albums in the Billboard chart ever..... not Elvis, or the Stones, Dylan or even Sinatra.....
The Grateful Dead.
https://www.billboard.com/music/char...00-1235599372/
Anyone under 60 might want to ask their parents or grandparents who they were :greengrin
The Icelandic Phallological museum has sculptures of the penises of the handball team who won the silver medal in the 2008 Olympic Games on proud display.
They do well in the semi?Quote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
There is more atoms in a glass of water than same-size glasses of water in all of the oceans/seas in the world
This does appear to be indeed true.Quote:
Originally Posted by HibbyDave
Google suggests the maths are as follows:
This statement is based on the fact that a cup of water contains approximately 1024 (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) atoms, while the estimated number of cups in the ocean is around 3.5 x 1020 (350,000,000,000,000,000,000). The key factor here is the size of the atoms compared to the size of a cup. Atoms are incredibly small, with a diameter of about 0.1 nanometers, while a cup has a much larger volume. Therefore, even though there are a greater number of cups in the ocean, the number of atoms in a cup of water is much larger due to their tiny size.
Edinburgh is further west than Bristol
The Pacific side of the Panama Canal is further East than the Atlantic side.
Edinburgh is on the same line of longitude as Moscow. Latitude wise we're roughly the same line North to South as Dundee, Blackpool and Cardiff.Quote:
Originally Posted by overdrive
If you like Epic History TV you should also try “Kings & Generals” and “History Marche”. Similar channels with the same quality.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jones28
Very good 😂Quote:
Originally Posted by Stairway 2 7
It’s a superb museum though and isn’t the sort of smutty kiss me quick sort of thing you’d expect. They do however have willy shaped waffles in the cafe that are quite something though.
Latitude & longitude mixed up?Quote:
Originally Posted by Oscar T Grouch
Aye 🤦Quote:
Originally Posted by speedy_gonzales
Cheers, I’ll take a look 👍Quote:
Originally Posted by The Modfather
Jim Morrisons dad being central to the gulf of Tonkin incident that kicked off the Americans in Vietnam (might be bull****, but I like the sound of it)
Yeah, that's a myth but his dad was Admiral George Morrison who was involved in the Korean War and the Vietnam War. There was also fighting in Korea during the Vietnam war and he was the commanding officer during that, that was when the Gulf of Tonkin occured. He also took charge of the somewhat shambolic relief effort off the Vietnamese coast after the fall of Saigon in 1975.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fuzzywuzzy
The pentagon asked him to "get his son under control" during The Doors career and he said "Jim's his own man."
"father. (yes, son) I want to kill you..."
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New Mexico was called "New Mexico" before Mexico was called "Mexico"
France's longest land border, is with Brazil.
Do explain!Quote:
Originally Posted by Onceinawhile
French Guiana is a departement of France, and it borders Brazil.Quote:
Originally Posted by AltheHibby
Ah. Makes sense now.Quote:
Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
Thanks.
Which also means it’s a full member of the EU and uses the Euro. Odd but true I believe!Quote:
Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
A penny dropped from the Empire State building wont kill you, scientists determined that a penny "traveling at terminal velocity cannot penetrate concrete or asphalt." It won't cause serious damage to a person, and even at the speed of sound, will still not damage flesh. At most, it could sting a little
However, I wouldnt want to try it 🫣
And Mexico was called New Spain before it was Mexico.Quote:
Originally Posted by overdrive
As is Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean. I've been there and it's very French! You can use your phone there if you have EU roaming.Quote:
Originally Posted by RyeSloan
French Polynesia, South Pacific, is also very French. They have their own currency although they also accept the Euro but there's no EU roaming.
I'll start this story by saying it's probably untrue, the captain was apparently a bit of a story teller. Besides that equipment at the time wouldn't be accurate enough to be certain. However the scenario is entirely possible.
"The date was 30 December 1899. Know what this means? First Mate Payton broke in, we're only a few miles from the intersection of the Equator and the International Date Line.
Captain Phillips was prankish enough to take full advantage of the opportunity for achieving the navigational freak of a lifetime. He called his navigators to the bridge to check and double check the ships position. He changed course slightly so as to bear directly on his mark. Then he adjusted the engine speed. The calm weather and clear night worked in his favour. At midnight the Warrimoo lay on the Equator at exactly the point where it crossed the International Date Line!
The consequences of this bizarre position were many. The forward part of the ship was in the Southern Hemisphere and the middle of summer. The stern was in the Northern Hemisphere and in the middle of winter. The date in the aft part of the ship was 31 December 1899. Forward it was 1 January 1900.
This ship was therefore not only in two different days, two different months, two different seasons and two different years but in two different centuries-all at the same time."
The Waverley Paddle Steamer ? 😁Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack
The second part of that is absolute bs 🤣Quote:
Originally Posted by Bridge hibs
You're saying that a small, metal projectile fired at human flesh at a speed of over 750mph won't damage human flesh (but might sting a little) . Behave.
Why are you telling me to behave ffs ? I googled it, Im not one of the ****ing Scientists 🤣Quote:
Originally Posted by brianmc