Utterly useless facts and information

[RyeSloan]

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I saw that exact fact on QI last night.

Google rather disputes it though....seems the origin of the phrase is less than certain.

[Jay]

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Google rather disputes it though....seems the origin of the phrase is less than certain.

You'll have to take that up with Stephen Fry then

[lord bunberry]

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You'll have to take that up with Stephen Fry then

Or the QI elves.

[danhibees1875]

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It's a Catalan word. Catalans always say "ll" like the "y" in "yam" unless there's a "." inserted, like in "paral.lel" as in the Avinguda del Paral·lel in Barcelona.

There, that was useless.

Well there you go!

[RyeSloan]

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Or the QI elves.

Ahh sheesh that’s me done for now!

[Shezza]

Catagelophobia is the fear of being ridiculed. Maybe why I don’t post much.

[Scouse Hibee]

The level used when levelling a professional full size snooker table is that accurate that placing a banknote under it will send the bubble a couple of degrees out.

[Hibrandenburg]

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The level used when levelling a professional full size snooker table is that accurate that placing a banknote under it will send the bubble a couple of degrees out.

I take it you mean another form of angle measurement than degrees, I can't imagine that a single bank note would cause a variation of even 1 degree. That would mean that 90 bank notes would cause the level to stand at a right angle to the measuring surface.

[Peevemor]

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I take it you mean another form of angle measurement than degrees, I can't imagine that a single bank note would cause a variation of even 1 degree. That would mean that 90 bank notes would cause the level to stand at a right angle to the measuring surface.

I suspect he means the equivalent of a couple of degrees on a less sensitive level.

[Scouse Hibee]

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I suspect he means the equivalent of a couple of degrees on a less sensitive level.

Yes this exactly, I should have been more clearer by degrees I mean the lines on the level, there are many more than a standard level.

[danhibees1875]

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I take it you mean another form of angle measurement than degrees, I can't imagine that a single bank note would cause a variation of even 1 degree. That would mean that 90 bank notes would cause the level to stand at a right angle to the measuring surface.

Thankfully Scouse doesn't appear to suffer from acute Catagelophobia or else you'd have ruined his Sunday with that.

[Hibrandenburg]

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Yes this exactly, I should have been more clearer by degrees I mean the lines on the level, there are many more than a standard level.

Thanks, maybe mils?

[Hibrandenburg]

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Thankfully Scouse doesn't appear to suffer from acute Catagelophobia or else you'd have ruined his Sunday with that.

I'm sure he's got a thick skin.

[Scouse Hibee]

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I'm sure he's got a thick skin.

As thick as a bank note under a snooker table level 😂

[Hibrandenburg]

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As thick as a bank note under a snooker table level 😂

That's no skin, that's armour.

[lord bunberry]

The total amount of time spent each day on social media in the world adds up to 1 million years.

[HibbyDave]

If you divide one by eighty one the answer is 0.0123456789

[Scouse Hibee]

If you point both index fingers at each other and rotate them around each other for two minutes, then try to bring them together to touch at the end of each finger they won’t touch and push away like magnets.

[Lancs Harp]

Scotland selected the required 22 man squad for the 1954 World Cup but only took 13 players.

[c31]

Mulan has the highest kill-count of any Disney character.

[Northernhibee]

If you follow the Fibonacci sequence, down the way it will convert kilometres to miles. If you follow it up the way it will convert miles to kilometres.

[Northernhibee]

It took the inventor of the Rubiks Cube one month to solve it on his first attempt.

Sonic the Hedgehog’s full name is actually Ogilvie Maurice Hedgehog.

[Future17]

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Mulan has the highest kill-count of any Disney character.

What about Pharoah in The Prince of Egypt?

[c31]

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What about Pharoah in The Prince of Egypt?

Don't think that's a Disney movie...

[Pretty Boy]

Nowhere in the nursery rhyme is Humpty Dumpty described as an egg. In reality it refers to a cannon from the English Civil War. The first depiction as an egg was in a Lewis Carroll book.

Jack and Jill is about the exectuions of Louis XVI and Marie Antoniette.

[Killiehibbie]

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Nowhere in the nursery rhyme is Humpty Dumpty described as an egg. In reality it refers to a cannon from the English Civil War. The first depiction as an egg was in a Lewis Carroll book.

Jack and Jill is about the exectuions of Louis XVI and Marie Antoniette.

Probably older than them
https://interestingliterature.com/2017/05/a-short-analysis-of-the-jack-and-jill-nursery-rhyme/

[Future17]

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Don't think that's a Disney movie...

That explains that then.

[Hibbyradge]

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Every time I hear that I find it astonishing. Experts reckon that another outbreak that could kill in similarly huge numbers is inevitable. That's why there was so much media coverage of bird flu and swine flu, even though hardly anyone died from them.

I've been enjoying myself trawling through this incredibly interesting thread and I thought I'd bump this for you all!

[Hibs Class]

The oldest sporting Olympic medal winner is a 72 year old Swede who won a medal for shooting in 1920. However the oldest Olympic medal winner is John Copley who won a silver medal in 1948, when aged 73, in the Mixed Painting, Engravings and Etchings category when the Olympics included arts events.

[lord bunberry]

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I've been enjoying myself trawling through this incredibly interesting thread and I thought I'd bump this for you all!

If only we’d known it would happen so soon.