Share Your Interesting But Not Very Useful Facts

[nismocat]

Cotty said:

I saw one in Cornhill London

lol, even got the red police light on the roof!

Bad parking though. Need a taxi to the "sidewalk".

[Blib]

We painted our red Transit with an S&H stripe, back in the day.

[Ayahuasca]

There are enough nuclear bunkers in Switzerland for the entire population. Most apartment buildings and houses have a bomb shelter.

Come to think of it might turn out to be useful.

[Fermit]

The gesture of a smile dates back to neanderthal times. When a man was about to be attacked by another, and he knew he was beaten from the off he would smile to show his closed teeth, IE he's not going to fight/ show he's not going to bite.

[Roofless Toothless]

How the devil would anyone know that?

[CT05 Nose Cone]

The last person to be prosecuted for witchcraft in Britain was in 1944 (albeit for exposing military secrets in a seance rather than turning people into newts).

[98elise]

Ayahuasca said:

There are enough nuclear bunkers in Switzerland for the entire population. Most apartment buildings and houses have a bomb shelter.

Come to think of it might turn out to be useful.

My uncle (a Swiss national) turned his into an English Pub

The shelter was basically a two room basement with one kitted out as a utility room, and the other his pub.

[Stick Legs]

The splines on the steering column of a Jaguar XJ-S are the same as on a Mini.

You can fit an XJ-S wheel to a Mini.

The splines on an early E24 6 Series BMW are fine.
They change in about 1986 to a coarse spline which is the same as an E30 3 Series.

[Nethybridge]

19th Century French writer Honoré de Balzac died at 51,
research has indicated that a factor
in his early demise may have been
due to the large intake of strong coffee, up to 50 cups a day.

[Nethybridge]

Starting in 1840 7 consectutive US presidents elected
in a year ending in zero have died in office, the curse
ended with Ronald Reagan, who survived an
assassination attempt.

[AceRockatansky]

AN hoses are sized by the 1/16th of an inch.

So a -6 uses 6/16 which is 3/8

A -12 is 12/16 which is 3/4.

A -3 brake line is 3/16

A -4 clutch is 4/16, so a 1/4.

Easy!

Edit, I may have posted in the wrong thread

[Soloman Dodd]

The Ripon Wakemen (and women) have been blowing a horn every evening since 886, when King Alfred granted them a royal charter.
The reason is to keep watch for marauding Vikings.

[Cotty]

Ayahuasca said:

There are enough nuclear bunkers in Switzerland for the entire population. Most apartment buildings and houses have a bomb shelter.

Come to think of it might turn out to be useful.

I did a tour of the Ramsgate Tunnels a couple of years back. Aparently during the second world war no house was more than 10 minutes from an entrance, when the air raid warning sounded everyone in the twon would pile into the tunnels for safety. Some even lived down there when their houses were bombed.
https://www.ramsgatetunnels.org/ramsgate-tunnels-t...