Surprising if unimportant facts you've discovered recently.

[Doofus]

popeyewhite said:

The WWF was going to re-leather the High Andes region with hares?

I knew it didn't look right when I typed it

The WWF was looking at repopulating the high Andes with hares.

[xRIEx]

Doofus said:

popeyewhite said:

Do you mean roughly exactly, or exactly exactly? I'll bet they don't.

Exactly exactly. I'll take the bet. I worked on a team with WWF (back when it was called WWF) looking at reconolising the high Andes region with hares.

To what degree of accuracy? Grams? Milligrams? Micrograms?

[anonymous-user]

Pilots of the Messerschmitt Me 262 claimed 542 Allied kills.

[Doofus]

xRIEx said:

To what degree of accuracy? Grams? Milligrams? Micrograms?

Ounces.

[littleowl]

Apparently Jeremy Corbyn is still the the leader of the Labour party.

[Doofus]

In blindfold tests, using smell only, cats can't tell the difference between bananas and cucumbers.

[CaptainSlow]

Doofus said:

In blindfold tests, using smell only, cats can't tell the difference between bananas and cucumbers.

Depending on where you shove them, nor can humans.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

popegregory said:

The hippo is the dolphins closest relative on land

I thought is was hippos and whales that were closely related.

[texaxile]

you can pick your nose, and you can pick your friends, but you can't pick your friends nose.

[wolfracesonic]

Doofus said:

xRIEx said:

To what degree of accuracy? Grams? Milligrams? Micrograms?

Ounces.

An ounce earlier.....



Also called the snow leopard or 28.3495 grams

[ClaphamGT3]

There are more plastic flamingos in the world than real ones.

Margaret Thatcher invented soft-scoop ice cream

[Randy Winkman]

Dick Van Dyke is older than Lionel Jeffries who plays his father in In Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. And Sally Thomsett is older than Jenny Agutter who plays her big sister in The Railway Children. She was actually 19 when it was filmed.

[Chunkymonkey71]

JustinF said:

Amaretto Disaronno contains no almonds or indeed nuts at all.

Are you one of those people that says Robin Reliant?

[JustinF]

Chunkymonkey71 said:

JustinF said:

Amaretto Disaronno contains no almonds or indeed nuts at all.

Are you one of those people that says Robin Reliant?

Well seeing as that's how the company referred to it until a recent re-branding to just Disaronno from Amaretto di Saronno I'd daft to call it Disaronno Amaretto as they've never called it that

http://www.disaronno.com/story/

[Chunkymonkey71]

JustinF said:

Chunkymonkey71 said:

JustinF said:

Amaretto Disaronno contains no almonds or indeed nuts at all.

Are you one of those people that says Robin Reliant?

Well seeing as that's how the company referred to it until a recent re-branding to just Disaronno from Amaretto di Saronno I'd daft to call it Disaronno Amaretto as they've never called it that

http://www.disaronno.com/story/

I've been schooled!

[Supernova190188]

cranford10 said:

At the height of his operation, Pablo Escobar was spending $2500 per month on elastic bands to keep his cash tidy

Also he had to buy a bigger plane to carry cash back from the USA as his couldn't carry the weight of the money, the amounts of cash he made is incomprehensible and believe he was also losing around $1bn a year to rats. Crazy!

[Turquoise]

popegregory said:

The hippo is the dolphins closest relative on land

No, a beached dolphin is.

[Turquoise]

Supernova190188 said:

cranford10 said:

At the height of his operation, Pablo Escobar was spending $2500 per month on elastic bands to keep his cash tidy

Also he had to buy a bigger plane to carry cash back from the USA as his couldn't carry the weight of the money, the amounts of cash he made is incomprehensible and believe he was also losing around $1bn a year to rats. Crazy!

First world problems. Should've been a PH'er.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

ClaphamGT3 said:

T

Margaret Thatcher invented soft-scoop ice cream

No she didn't. She was a research chemist who was part of a team that worked on its development.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Randy Winkman said:

Dick Van Dyke is older than Lionel Jeffries who plays his father in In Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. And Sally Thomsett is older than Jenny Agutter who plays her big sister in The Railway Children. She was actually 19 when it was filmed.

In On The Buses, Stan (Reg Varney) was 20 yrs older than Blakey (Stephen Lewis). In fact, Blakey was 36 when they filmed the last episode.