Astonishing Facts....

[Fastchas]

OzzyR1 said:

If you wrapped a rope around the solar system, then another 1ft further out, the difference in lengths between the two ropes would be around 6ft.

The same would apply to a football - difference would be around 6ft.

What??

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Marilyn Monroe was born in the same year as The Queen.

[J4CKO]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Stephen Lewis, who played Blakey in On The Buses, was just 46 when they made the last programme. 20 years younger than Butler (Reg Varney).

Yeah, always puzzled me how those two grizzled old perverts managed to end up shagging all those young and attractive "Clippies", see also Sid James/Barbara Windors characters in Carry On films, though they did have thing in real life.

[ICallCustard]

Fastchas said:

A pigs gestation period is guaranteed at 3 months, 3 weeks & 3 days.

What if it’s a leap year ?

[Gameface]

Someone somewhere believes yipper.

[Fastchas]

ICallCustard said:

Fastchas said:

A pigs gestation period is guaranteed at 3 months, 3 weeks & 3 days.

What if it’s a leap year ?

Then I guess Old MacDonald gets his piglets a day later!

[mattyn1]

Gameface said:

Someone somewhere believes yipper.

bks!

My Grand Tour fact is more believable!

[Mammasaid]

Fastchas said:

OzzyR1 said:

If you wrapped a rope around the solar system, then another 1ft further out, the difference in lengths between the two ropes would be around 6ft.

The same would apply to a football - difference would be around 6ft.

What??

Assuming the solar system is circular in a plane and has a diameter of D ft, then its circumference is Pi x D.

The 2nd rope would have a circumference of Pi x (D+2)

Difference between the 2 ropes is Pi x 2 = 3.14159 x 2 = 6.28319 ft (to 5dp)

Replace Solar System with football and result is the same. Relative lengths however are a tad different...

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Sycamore said:

-The CEO for the largest international relief and development organization, Food For The Poor, is named Robin Mahfood.

Edited by Sycamore on Friday 12th January 09:11

Brilliant. I laughed way more at this than I should. I had to check it was real too, which made it even better

[Sycamore]

MrBarry123 said:

Sycamore said:

-The CEO for the largest international relief and development organization, Food For The Poor, is named Robin Mahfood.

HAHAHAHAHA!

You couldn't make it up could you

Edited by Sycamore on Friday 12th January 12:12

[Robb F]

Cleopatra lived closer to the first moon landing than she did to the building of the great pyramids

Harvard University was founded before calculus existed

[Dr Doofenshmirtz]

silverfoxcc said:

DarylB90 said:

Time travelling to the future is possible.




(All we need is a spaceship that can travel 186,000 miles per SECOND)

Not quite Time travel to the past is possible


requirements
A vehicle travelling faster than light and the most powerful telescope ever thought of times a zillion!

Theory

Take off
you will then pass the light rays of your take off and then pass all the light rays from moments that occurred in the past when you left
You will only be able to witness them ,but not interact

To make it easier to understand ( i hope)

The light form some very distant stars is taking thousands of years to reach us, so what we are seeing now, happened those thousand of years ago
In fact some of the stars my have exploded and 'died' but the light of that moment is still on its way to us

sorry if it sounds stoopid but in theory, and only theory

How come light keeps on going indefinitely without fizzling out to nothing - I mean sound doesn't just keep going, if you move away from a source of noise, eventually you will no longer hear it.

[mickk]

The patent for the fire hydrant was lost in a patent office fire.

[Dr Jekyll]

Winston Churchill became an MP in Queen Victoria's reign, and finally retired from Parliament when the Beatles were in the charts.

[silverfoxcc]

OzzyR1 said:

If you wrapped a rope around the solar system, then another 1ft further out, the difference in lengths between the two ropes would be around 6ft.

The same would apply to a football - difference would be around 6ft.

100% correct, although it doesnt seem possible

And another one

If you drive twice around a half mile circular track and take one minute to do it.you cannot go fast enough in the second lap to average 60 mph for the total distance.

[StevieBee]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Stephen Lewis, who played Blakey in On The Buses, was just 46 when they made the last programme. 20 years younger than Butler (Reg Varney).

I think I'm right in saying that Clive Dunn played Corporal Jones in Dad's Army, one of the older characters was in reality, one of the youngest members of the cast.

[Halmyre]

StevieBee said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Stephen Lewis, who played Blakey in On The Buses, was just 46 when they made the last programme. 20 years younger than Butler (Reg Varney).

I think I'm right in saying that Clive Dunn played Corporal Jones in Dad's Army, one of the older characters was in reality, one of the youngest members of the cast.

Private Godfrey is supposed to have been a conscientious objector who served in the Medical Corps, but in reality he would have been too old to be called up in the first place (yes I know he's not real).

[warp9]

Has this thread been started to recruit Steve Wright in the afternoon script writers?

[julian64]

LarryUSA said:

I can verify this - very few to chose from and the 110v electricity means it takes twice as long to boil! Always make sure the absolute minimum water needed is used.

I believe this is the daftest thing written on the internet today.

[zoom star]

griffin dai said:

Dogs can’t look up

We used to use this fact, to train dogs to sit, lift their head up their arse goes down to compensate.