A popular misconception about Vienna is that the river it was built on is the Danube. In actual fact, it was built on the river Wien, a tributary of the Danube. Wien is also the name of the city in German. The boundary of the city only reached the Danube in the nineteenth century.
Talking of the Danube...
If you're ever in Vienna and want to visit the Danube, make sure you specify which one when asking for directions, because there's (technically) three of them:
In the sixteenth century, the Danube was still quite far away from the city, so a canal was built (Donaukanal) to allow ships to offload next to the old walls. The water enters the canal unimpeded from the upstream Danube (Northwest) and rejoins it downstream (South-East), and is technically now a free flowing river in it's own right.
In the 19th century, the city of Vienna then decided to straighten the main part of the river. They built a long, straight ditch between the ends of a large curve of the river, then knocked down either end and let the river flood through. They then blocked up the original river curve, which is now a long narrow lake called the Alte Donau (Old Danube), which is much further away from the city centre... Incidentally, this was completed in 1875
Ergo, Vienna has three River Danubes.
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16-11-2020 09:28 AM #811
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16-11-2020 08:43 PM #812This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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17-11-2020 08:15 AM #813This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Ah shaddapa you face.
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17-11-2020 06:24 PM #814This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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18-11-2020 05:03 PM #816
Ketchup originated in China starting life as mixed pickled fish and spices and named in Amoy dialect as Ke -chiap meaning brine of pickled fish.
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18-11-2020 05:25 PM #817This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
For what it's worth, I was actually making reference to the song that kept Oh Vienna off the number one spot in the charts.
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18-11-2020 09:20 PM #818
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What’s a matta you? Hey!
Why u looka so sad?
It’s a nica place......
Joe DolceLast edited by HibbyDave; 18-11-2020 at 09:22 PM.
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19-11-2020 07:36 AM #820This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Aw aye, rub it in why don't you
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27-11-2020 05:39 PM #821
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Another utterly useless piece of information
I’m bored😎
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27-11-2020 08:43 PM #822
Heroin users get a really bitter taste when they inject heroin into their bloodstream. Nico of The Velvet Underground fame would add Evelyn & Crabtree rosewater to her heroin to get a taste like Turkish delight from her intravenous drug use.
Do you think your security can keep you in purity, you will not shake us off above or below. Scottish friction, Scottish fiction
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28-11-2020 06:14 PM #823
Perhaps already mentioned in this thread, but after 90+2's delight at Hearts failing to progress in the league cup and going to order a Hawaiian pizza, it reminded me of a QI fact, that the Hawaiian pizza was actually created by a Canadian, of Greek descent, at a restaurant in Ontario. Trying to mimic Chinese cooking of pairing sweet with savoury, he combined the ham with pineapple, then added to pizza.
Ironically, or maybe by design, the Hawaiian & Samoan people of Polynesia will actually marinade wild boar in pineapple before cooking, as the acidity will break down the tough meat.
Whether the Canadian restauranteur knew this, I don't know.
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28-11-2020 06:40 PM #824
An elephants teets are between its front legs. It’s the only four legged mammal that has this.
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02-12-2020 10:57 PM #826
Time travel on it's own would be next to useless. You'd have to be able to travel through time and space for it to be of use.
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It set me thinking too. That must be it.
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03-12-2020 07:30 AM #829This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
This information is utterly useless, unless you've mastered time travel and are not letting on about it.
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03-12-2020 05:09 PM #832
When actor Gerard Kelly [City Lights/Extras/Rab C Nesbitt] passed away it was revealed he left his entire £145k estate to Terry Kiely who played Karl Fletcher in Sky One's long-running soap-opera Dream Team.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entert...-kelly-1096236
Before you ask: Kelly had no connection to Kiely other than having crossed paths in an Essex pantomime. Kiely [a lifeguard] was "shocked" to learn of being bequeathed the money having only met Kelly "...a couple of times..." but saw him as a "...father figure..." who supported him for 18 years.
My husband was searching "dream team where are they now" and this popped up.
This is the most useless, bizarre and random factoid about late noughties TV I have ever heard/seen.Last edited by Max_Shah; 03-12-2020 at 05:11 PM. Reason: Formatting
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05-12-2020 07:58 AM #833
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The theme music to Mastermind is called " Approaching Menace "
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05-12-2020 08:20 AM #834This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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06-12-2020 04:20 PM #835
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The pter in helicopter has the same origin as the pter in pterodactyl. It's from a Greek word meaning wing, and helico is from a Greek word, via Latin, meaning spiral.
This blew my mind.
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06-12-2020 07:31 PM #836This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
that is such an interesting group of facts 😁
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08-12-2020 11:57 AM #837
One million seconds is 11.5 days.
One billion seconds is 31.7 years.Mon the Hibs.
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Do you think your security can keep you in purity, you will not shake us off above or below. Scottish friction, Scottish fiction
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The League Cup.
That's a thing you can't deny
Like the fact that we're the team that wouldn't die.
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