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

[LLR270]

The highest possible score in ten pin bowling is 300.

[Hugo a Gogo]

what about South Sudan, it's only been there a year or so

[Sheets Tabuer]

There are no bowling alleys in south sudan

[Hugo a Gogo]

gap in the market there then...

[Mr Snrub]

Be cheap as well, just use RPG rounds for pins

[SlimRick]

Weso back in 2009 said:

My daughter can. She is really bendy and seems to have a particularly long tongue though.
BTW she's 13 so no 'pics please' or 'can I meet her?'.
Pervs.

So - about those pics.

[The Mad Monk]

SlimRick said:

Weso back in 2009 said:

My daughter can. She is really bendy and seems to have a particularly long tongue though.
BTW she's 13 so no 'pics please' or 'can I meet her?'.
Pervs.

So - about those pics.

Yeah, she is 21 now.

[Dr Jekyll]

By the end of 1912, three films had been made about the sinking of the Titanic, the first just a month after the disaster.

Not sure there's ever been a decent one though.

[Skyrat]

This has probably been posted

If you remove all the empty space within atoms and molecules, and pack them in tight, the entire human race would fit into an area about the size of a sugar cube

[Hugo a Gogo]

I think it would be much less than that

the whole earth would be that size if it was squished to black hole density

[don4l]

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?

One of the Apollo missions left a mirror on the surface of the moon. The distance is measured by firing a laser beam at it.

[davhill]

The drop calculations used by executioner Albert Pierrepoint and others were designed to apply a force of 1,100 lb/ft to the victim's neck.

[rex]

The product Nylon was so called as it was jointly developed in New York and London.

[talksthetorque]

davhill said:

The drop calculations used by executioner Albert Pierrepoint and others were designed to apply a force of 1,100 lb/ft to the victim's neck.

Wasn't there a chart or something?

[Zerotonine]

don4l said:

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?

One of the Apollo missions left a mirror on the surface of the moon. The distance is measured by firing a laser beam at it.

[davhill]

talksthetorque said:

Wasn't there a chart or something?

Yep,

It ended up as the 1913 table (link below) but Pierrpoint et al tended to add 9 inches to the figure to get the
desired result.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Table_of_Dr...

One more useless fact. Too long a drop meant a shorter coffin would do but it
all got very messy!

[anonymous-user]

Nephew showed me this.

[red_slr]

sleepera6 said:

Nephew showed me this.

OMG. Never noticed that.

[john2443]

William Batchelor discovered a way to can vegetables and formed Batchelors Foods in 1895.

He died in August 1913 whilst on holiday in Bridlington.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

rex said:

The product Nylon was so called as it was jointly developed in New York and London.

Urban myth I'm afraid.

http://www.timelessmyths.co.uk/where-does-name-nyl...