Surprising if unimportant facts you've discovered recently.

[Vocal Minority]

Best paid sportsman in history still, isn't he?

[longshot]

I can't believe they've remade Ben Hur. Is nothing sacred?

[bigandclever]

longshot said:

I can't believe they've remade Ben Hur. Is nothing sacred?

You mean you can't believe they've remade it for a second time?

[longshot]

bigandclever said:

longshot said:

I can't believe they've remade Ben Hur. Is nothing sacred?

You mean you can't believe they've remade it for a second time?

You know what I mean.

[green911]

The longest word that can be spelled using only the top line of a typewriter keyboard (qwerty) is typewriter.

[Mr-B]

Whilst channel surfing recently I caught a bit of Celebs Go Dating (E4?) there was an actor on there, Tyger Drew-Honey, who played one of the kids in the BBC sitcom Outnumbered, turns out his dad is 90's porn ledge Ben Dover

[vonuber]

A fire at the Fox film vault in the 1930s destroyed a huge quantity of silent ilms which (along with other fires) is why we do not have many examples today.
The film they used was so volatile it could burn underwater.

[xRIEx]

vonuber said:

A fire at the Fox film vault in the 1930s destroyed a huge quantity of silent ilms which (along with other fires) is why we do not have many examples today.
The film they used was so volatile it could burn underwater.

Volatility is a measure of how readily a substance (usually a liquid) evaporates. I'm fairly sure celluloid didn't evaporate.

[longshot]

Christ, this place has turned into a pedants paradise.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

green911 said:

The longest word that can be spelled using only the top line of a typewriter keyboard (qwerty) is typewriter.

The longest words that a proficient typist would type with just one hand are stewardesses with the left and lollipop with the right.

[TheChampers]

longshot said:

Christ, this place has turned into a pedants paradise.

Yeah? Sorry about this then

green911 said:

The longest word that can be spelled using only the top line of a typewriter keyboard (qwerty) is typewriter.

How about "proprietor" for a draw

I'm fairly sure that both can be beaten but I don't have the wits, time or energy to investigate....

[grumpy52]

vonuber said:

A fire at the Fox film vault in the 1930s destroyed a huge quantity of silent ilms which (along with other fires) is why we do not have many examples today.
The film they used was so volatile it could burn underwater.

They could burst into flames as the storage cans were opened .
I did security for a while at Rank Film Studios in Denham .
Everyone hated going near the old Silver Nitrate stuff .

[Johnspex]

Facetious and abstemious are the only words in English with all the vowels in the correct order.

If you add "ly" to either then you get all the vowels in order plus the consonant sometimes used as a vowel too.

[AmitG]

Astacus said:

Even more surprising is that there were only 11 years between the first powered flight and the fighter planes of WWI and less than 50 years between the Wright brothers sussing out how to do powered flight and Chuck Yeager breaking the speed of sound in level flight AND only 78 years from the wright brothers to the space shuttle. There were people alive whose life spanned no manned powered flight and man setting foot on the moon.

That is really quite mind blowing.

[Doofus]

Mr-B said:

Whilst channel surfing recently I caught a bit of Celebs Go Dating (E4?) there was an actor on there, Tyger Drew-Honey, who played one of the kids in the BBC sitcom Outnumbered, turns out his dad is 90's porn ledge Ben Dover

And his mum is other 'porn ledge' Linzi Drew

[Newc]

longshot said:

Christ, this place has turned into a pedants paradise.

pedants'

[stuttgartmetal]

Newc said:

longshot said:

Christ, this place has turned into a pedants paradise.

pedants'

LOL

[TwigtheWonderkid]

stuttgartmetal said:

Newc said:

longshot said:

Christ, this place has turned into a pedants paradise.

pedants'

LOL

Who led the pedants' revolt?

Which Tyler

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Johnspex said:

Facetious and abstemious are the only words in English with all the vowels in the correct order.

South Ealing and Mansion House are the only 2 tube stations to feature all 5 vowels.

[Amused2death]

If all the girls on our local council estate were laid end to end no-one would be surprised.