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

[Jimmy Recard]

Wacky Racer said:

The first FA cup final where players wore numbers on the back of their shirts was in 1933


Everton 3 Man City 0

You told us this in July 2009!

[davhill]

Archduke Franz Ferdinand was wearing a bullet proof vest made (partly) of silk when he was assassinated in June 1914.

The Japanese had silk armour long before this...it could deflect arrows.

Franz Ferdinand was shot in the jugular (above the vest) and died quickly. His assassination helped trigger WW1.

[227bhp]

The Moon gets 38mm further away from The Earth every year.

[Pooh]

If you lay out an average roll of toilet paper on the floor and say one end is the formation of the Earth and the other end is now, Humans have been around for a period of time equivalent to the width of the remains of the torn perforations on the end the last sheet.

[oceanview]

Its only the hairs on a gooseberry that stop it becoming a grape.

Did you realise that, in only two days time, tomorrow will be yesterday?

Edited by oceanview on Saturday 21st January 17:34

[Tango13]

227bhp said:

The Moon gets 38mm further away from The Earth every year.

I think you'll find it moves just under one and a half inches

[shirt]

KB_S1 said:

Wacky Racer said:

Dan_1981 said:

I only found out today that Puma (the clothing brand) was founded by the brother of the founder of Adidas.

Thats my interesting but useless fact.

Your turn.

Yes, they couldn't stand the sight of each other....

Adi (Dassler) and Horst.........

Adi Das, that makes sense.

Horst Dassler, hmm do Pumas dazzle horses?

Lidl and Aldi are German brothers too I think?

Given the age of thread this may already have been mentioned, but the puma founding dassler brother was called Rudi. Horst was adi's son.

[Hugo a Gogo]

Belgium is the world's 2nd biggest exporter of bananas

[227bhp]

Tango13 said:

227bhp said:

The Moon gets 38mm further away from The Earth every year.

I think you'll find it moves just under one and a half inches

And how will you be measuring that Sir?

[Tango13]

227bhp said:

Tango13 said:

227bhp said:

The Moon gets 38mm further away from The Earth every year.

I think you'll find it moves just under one and a half inches

And how will you be measuring that Sir?

Industry standard piece of knotted wet string.

[mp3manager]

There are more atoms in a glass of water, than there are glasses of water from every ocean/sea/lake on planet earth.

16°C = 61°F

Edited by mp3manager on Saturday 21st January 20:19

[TwigtheWonderkid]

mp3manager said:

There are more atoms in a glass of water, than there are glasses of water from every ocean/sea/lake on planet earth.

Edited by mp3manager on Saturday 21st January 20:19

The number of atoms in a Smartie is approx the same and the number of tubes of Smarties it would take to reach Pluto and back.

[Dr Jekyll]

mp3manager said:

There are more atoms in a glass of water, than there are glasses of water from every ocean/sea/lake on planet earth.

+1

Which means that any glass of water is statistically likely to contain atoms from Julius Caesar's last piss.

[Vizsla]

Dr Jekyll said:

mp3manager said:

There are more atoms in a glass of water, than there are glasses of water from every ocean/sea/lake on planet earth.

+1

Which means that any glass of water is statistically likely to contain atoms from Julius Caesar's last piss.

Ah, that explains the taste of Courage bitter then!

[Corpulent Tosser]

The Unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.

[glenrobbo]

A Manx cat has 3 legs and no tail.

[glenrobbo]

If all the butterflies in the world were laid end to end, we'd be inundated with caterpillars.

[Sheets Tabuer]

Finding a woman in your 40s that's not mental is impossible.

[PoleDriver]

Sheets Tabuer said:

Finding a woman in your 40s that's not mental is impossible.

True dat!

[S6PNJ]

mp3manager said:

16°C = 61°F

-40°C = -40°F