An interesting (but useless) fact......

[EINSIGN]

On August 7 , 2009

At 12hr 34 minutes and 56 seconds on the 7th of August this year, the time and date will be:

12:34:56 07/08/09

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This will never happen in your life again...

[Big Al.]

Davi said:

thanks Big Al, see, it was worth it wasn't it

Lets hope so.

[lazyitus]

A banana is not a fruit. It's a herb.

Edited by lazyitus on Thursday 30th July 22:25

[RDE]

The colour orange was invented for the fruit.

[Ayahuasca]

lazyitus said:

Ayahuasca said:

The Panama Canal, connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans, is fresh water and kept full by rainfall.

Which is where the Panama Hat got it's name as it too is full of fresh water and kept full by rainfall if simply turned upside down.

The Panama Hat is actually made in Ecuador, in the shadow of Mt Chimborazo (see interesting fact above,) and only became known as the 'Panama' Hat when a photograph of Teddy Roosevelt wearing one whilst operating a canal digger in Panama was published.

[Ayahuasca]

The Banana 'tree' is not a tree it is a kind of grass.

[Famous Graham]

Ayahuasca said:

lazyitus said:

Ayahuasca said:

The Panama Canal, connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans, is fresh water and kept full by rainfall.

Which is where the Panama Hat got it's name as it too is full of fresh water and kept full by rainfall if simply turned upside down.

The Panama Hat is actually made in Ecuador, in the shadow of Mt Chimborazo (see interesting fact above,) and only became known as the 'Panama' Hat when a photograph of Teddy Roosevelt wearing one whilst operating a canal digger in Panama was published.

I knew that one.

(Mainly cos I bought one and got told off by the shopkeeper )

[Vauxste]

The father of Joe Swift from Gardeners world is the Husband of Hyacinth Bouquet in the TV series - Note to self - must get out more

[GKP]

The phrase 'Put a Sock in it' comes from Victorian taxidermists. They used to use a pre-shaped bag (sock) containing the stuffing to speed up the process of preparing the dead animals for display. Using the phrase towards a live animal usually heralded it's imminent demise.

[Ayahuasca]

In the Guards regiments, officers' hats are made of female bearskins and other ranks' hats are made of male bearskins.

[aclivity]

lazyitus said:

A banana is not a fruit. It's a herb.

I tell my kids that carrots are a kind of fish.

[KP328]

A Champaign bottle contains the same psi pressure as a London bus tire.

[svm]

Tunnels dug years ago have corners in them. This is because horses would get freaked out if they could see the light at the end of the tunnel to far away.

[Ayahuasca]

You can work out how high something is in metres by squaring the number of seconds a pebble takes to fall the distance and multiplying this by 5.

[F355gtb2009]

The RAM required to run WordPerfect for Windows 95 is 8 times the amount needed aboard the space shuttle

[Shaw Tarse]

A Citroen 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 mile though Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas.

[schmalex]

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

[The Count]

Two small ones.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.

&

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

[rupert the dog]

The South American delving ant has a grain twice the size of its own head. True.

[Ayahuasca]

schmalex said:

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

Wack-wack-oops. Google says you are wrong, the longest word is : Aegilops



Nope, no idea what it means!